For your reading pleasure, I present the first day of the BC! Enjoy!

Boolprop Thread

On SlideShare for minimum headache, even! I really like the format so far, so I'll be using it again (and even if the Exchange comes back, I think, since I don't want to bother converting things over and over and over). Contains the answers to several things you always wanted to know, or something like that. Enjoy!

Oh yeah, and I'm disabling comments here because I'd prefer you comment at Boolprop, if that's okay.

I hope everybody had a great 4th of July (those that celebrate it, and hey, even if you don't). Mine was quiet, for the most part. The parentals went to the Rose Bowl to see fireworks with my aunt's family, but I didn't go because spending most of the day in the car is not how I want to spend my Independence Day, thank you very much. We had our Special Dinner (tri-tip, mmm) Friday night instead, and I got to help plan it and it was very tasty.

My Biology course is finally done, so I've been turning my attention fully towards an update. I only have one scene to do, but to film it I have to play Azula through her first year and get as much of her lifetime want done as possible, and then play a party at another college house (there will be several parties this generation because the Spring Class is pretty fond of them) so I can introduce her to her future spouse and reveal who he is. I really can't sit on it any longer than that (and have been doing so pretty sloppily up to this point, if you've been reading certain posts of mine at sim_spiration) since we won't be getting back to Zuzu until Episode 19, which will be a little while.

Anyway, um, my point is the update will be out soon (and I may even try wrestling with powerpoint to avoid the splitting-the-post issue, since that means I can work on it at work and possibly get it out faster) and I'm hoping to get it up before I have to give my attention to moving out of my room and back in with my sister. The computer I Sim on will be moving upstairs to a new desk until I get a new laptop (remember when I busted the monitor in November? Yeah, still saving for a new one) and knowing my parents, it might take them a couple of days to get on the ball and help me with that.

I've been playing pretty heavily since Thursday and thus have some picspam of the last two houses I played (the Pitts house and the Vetinari house) as well as some college lols. First order of business: I added YA pics to the generation 5 post for the whole Spring Class since they're all there now. Once everyone's in college, I'm also going to put in group pics of each house and add pictures of supporting characters that show up there.

( And now for the picspam (+45) )

And that's all <3 Hopefully I'll see you guys in a few days with an update.

After being on the go pretty much for a week straight, I finally got to do some heavy-duty playing sessions Friday night and Saturday. No pictures (a lot of it pertains to the update) but here's what I managed to get done:

- Business #2 (TWO FOR FIVE YEAH)

- Five teens teened (two left to go that will have their birthdays in summer)

- At least half of spring in almost every house of the rotation

Now that the second business is done, I can play through the rest of spring in the main house and pack Azula off to college once I've got all the pictures I need. I really hope I won't have to go back to the flower shop to get some of them. Once I've finished the spring rotation and all of the spring class is in college, I'll need to play freshman year at least for Azula and Mikey, get Azula (hopefully) mostly done with her LTW and introduced to her future spouse, and then I can update. Fingers crossed that that will be next week at the latest, so I can move on to some other things.

So! Some observations about wholesale businesses... ( behind the cut to save flist space )

Other news: Isaac passed away during winter at the Holms' house, but Ashley and the Vetinari elders are still kicking and I don't expect any of them to go until summer. The Pitts kids are getting a grandparent vacation next time I play their house; I may do one for the Vetinaris as well before Robin goes to college. I feel kind of bad that the Fitzhugh kids never got one and they've got saddled with all the businesses instead, but...meh. I'll make it up to them later.

After Episode 17 I'm taking a break to write a side project I've already played (and now wish I hadn't, because OMG SO CUTE but I can't talk about it yet) and that's what I'm going to use to experiment with SlideShare. People have been saying it's easy to use, and I really hope it is. I really wish the Exchange would just go back up, though, since the in-game storyteller is mostly hassle-free now that BV lets you leave the + tab open Episode 18 is going to be the next interlude and will focus on spares/Simself kids (remember the Brit/Nero drama? Yeah, I can actually resolve that now that I have a better idea of who Nero is, thanks Ben).

Oh yeah, and I guess I have just one picture to share. Something that tickled my fancy happened at Jon's house on Friday: ( DON'T THROW THINGS IN THE HOUSE )

Uh, it's entirely possible I did a VBT (though I have no idea how) and now my neighborhood is slowly headed toward meltdown, and I need to be talked out of my tree now.

What makes me think this is that I entered the game today and Edie, Barbara, and Jon's twins all had a LTW, and they were all still kids. I haven't checked at the main lot yet but I have the feeling Billy will be showing one too when I go to play there in a bit. I'm hoping this is a side effect of ltwvariety, which I use, but I have the feeling this isn't good for my neighborhood. Thing is, I have no idea what I could have done to trigger this, and I haven't noticed anything else major, just the kids having LTWs when they shouldn't. No jump bugs or other weird things like that. Help?

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In other less potentially scary news, Edie, Barbara, Riku, and the twins have all been added to the Generation 5 post, which leaves me with just Billy and Woody to get to teen. Yay!

Also, I have built business #2 and in a bit, after I finish backing up the game and restarting the computer, I'm going to go play it, so hopefully it'll be done by the end of the day.

Firstly, I apologize for not being around too terribly much this week (and last week, even). My class this session takes up a full half of my day (Genetics = class + lab), and on top of that I seem to have developed a social life all the sudden, so I've been out a lot. But Episode 17 is ever on my thoughts, so in light of that I wanted to ask y'all a question.

The Exchange is still down and all, so I'm going to be posting the next update on LJ as well. (I do plan to convert to SlideShare, but not until July when I'm out of class and have more brain space to mess around with the format.) I had a comment from Ori saying that she would have preferred not having the update broken down into such small parts, so I thought I would ask...what do you guys think? If it ends up being more than 100 pictures, I AM going to break it down in two parts, but would you guys rather have two big parts, or four smaller ones like I did last time? Which is easier for everyone to read? Whatever the majority says is what I'll do.

ETA: Okay, looks like most people prefer I do this in larger portions so that's what I'll go with. If it's under 100 slides it'll be all one part. If it goes over that, I'll break it in two.

Thanks for your help everyone!

So, like I posted early this morning, I'm 1/5 of the way done with Mya's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad LTW. I played the entire first business in one go yesterday afternoon and evening and got it to level 10 at about quarter to one in the morning. :D I'm so stoked about it I want to share some pics of how the whole thing went down (not many, as quite a few will be in the update) as well as some extra pics of how the winter rotation went.

( This is the way we get level 10, early in the morning (+25) )

So the plan from here...well, I have to go back and play the Holms through winter (I was a bad girl and decided I couldn't wait any longer to start the businesses) and then I'm going to go back and play all the houses through spring before I finish spring at the main house. Then, the spring class plus Saffron Bohemian are going to college. I'll play them through their first year, and at that point I will probably have enough material to update. I hope this will be inside the next couple of weeks and that the Exchange will be back up by the time it's ready.

Then after that, I'm going to be writing my next interlude (featuring the zombie plot, among other things) and working on a side project. I really want to have all of that done this summer, which is very likely since I only have one more month of summer school.

Right now, though, I'm going to go watch some nice cleansing Firefly and detox from this weekend of Simming ^_^ I hope you all had a good weekend!

P.S. - Expect an update for Four Seasons tomorrow. I sorted the pictures this afternoon, so it shouldn't take long to get it up.

That is all. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

P.S. Phil and Ellie have been added to the Generation 5 post back yonder. Ellie is turning out so damn cute, I can't even *burbles for a little while with glee*

Would anybody who knows how to recolor be willing to do me a favor? I really like this top and this top and would like to use them as warm and cold weather outfits for adult Elle, but neither one comes in yellow, the color I associate with her. If someone could do them both in a light yellow, I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance!

So I finally had both the time and the inspiration to put something together for sim_scenes. This week's prompt words were Haunting - Acceptance - Money. Keeping to the ten picture limit was a little difficult, but not terrible, and I hope the pictures do a good enough job of speaking for themselves. (The fact that Photobucket now has a blur tool helps a bit ^_^)

( Haunting - Acceptance - Money (+10) )

Smoothie Sims, Inc. proudly presents...

A Villainous Apocalypse - Episode 16, "Easier in Theory"

( Accepting things gracefully is easier in theory than in actual practice. )

First things first: I got a Dreamwidth thanks to the lovely De who graciously shared one of her invite codes with me. If you've got one, feel free to friend me. If you want one, I just got two invite codes and can share one of them (the other has already been previously claimed). I'm not sure what I'll do with my account yet but I've been thinking about posting my prose there. We shall see once I get my life organized.

So my update is almost done and you WILL see it sometime this week. If the Exchange hasn't started behaving by the weekend I'll look into converting it to another medium. Meanwhile, I thought I would share one of the scenes I've finished as a teaser/sneak peek, since I feel bad about taking two and a half months to update.

( Playdates, Apocalypse style (+15) )

So...update is coming. Slowly. I'm not in a rush at this point because the Exchange is still messed up (as far as I know, I was just in-game for two-and-a-half hours) and I have time to play right now so dammit I actually want to play. So I went ahead and played winter at Jon's house and started winter at Jaeger's. It's been interesting.

You know how I said, when Barbara Morgan was born, that that was it for the generation? Yeah... ( Thirteen is an unlucky number )

I am done with my fall rotation--mostly. Since it's been two months since I updated, I figured I'd bypass the Vetinari household for the moment and then play both their fall and winter once I'd gotten Episode 16 out. So I went ahead and played the Fitzhughs through winter and now have everything I need to update.

And of course, naturally, the Exchange is down.

So this weekend I guess I'm just going to start writing and hopefully by the time I'm done it'll be back up again. Meanwhile, I have a small picspam for you all ^_^

( Extreme Home Makeover, Apocalypse style! (+14) )

Tonight I finished playing the Pitts house through fall and added Calandra and Delaney Pitts to the Class of Generation 5 Post back yonder.

So, the twins. They are my Sim grandbabies, so I can't say anything bad about them, but the geneticist in me is screaming "OMG AWKWARD." Comparison shot:



Actually, they're both surprisingly attractive from coming from two parents whose faces are so fundamentally different (Bella's pure Maxis features, Andrew is all modified features), it's just that they have a little too much chin and their faces are scrunched in the middle, much the way Bella's has always been. And that high brow they got from Andrew (who in turn got it from my Simself) is not helping. I think they'll be very attractive as YAs.




And here's Edie as a child. She's Callie's clone facially but has a very different personality (Gemini, 2/9/9/6/1) and she's the exact opposite of the twins in temperament--the twins are obviously very girly girls and life is one giant game of dress-up to them, whereas Edie is the tomboy of the family.

I only have Gordon and Jaeger to play from here so hopefully the rotation will be done well before the end of the week. Cross your fingers for me.

I'm baaaaaaaaaack!

Finals are done and over wish and I have a nice long stretch of summer to get my bearings, so I'm hoping to have Episode 16 out for everyone soon. I haven't been able to play for a month (well, except for the fact that I did last night and this morning, whee!) so I still only have half the material for it, but I'm working on it. That last Four Seasons installment ought to be done soon too.

Meanwhile, a short interlude.

Lark and I were talking a month ago about her OWBC founder Yakko and the possibility of his meeting Spencer's daughter Morgan and what would happen. Yakko has no nice points. Morgan only has one. We concluded that they would either be besties or hate each other, and today I finally CAS'd up Yakko to test this theory. Once I'd put him in the neighborhood, I townified him and then summoned both him and Morgan to De's lot and left them on free will. Hilarity ensued.

( The path of fun and games, plus bonus toddler (+25) )