Random Weirdness...er, Awesomeness. Awesomeweirdness.
Which, really, could be the title of ANY of my journal entries, minus the "awesome" part sometimes. ANYWAY. I got my package from Magrat/Robin (I used my Megavolt icon here in her honour) and it is AWESOME!! Thank you! :) I haven't yet tried to use the batteries for their intended purpose, but the TARDIS is awesome as it is. I have it turned around properly so the sign is in front, and Sculpey-Three-and-Liz posed in front of it. Awww. This has made me have to move my sonic screwdriver down to the same shelf as my Harry-Potter-style "magic" wand*, and...yeah: "The difference would be...what, exactly?" :P
In other news, I have written a Sims 2 challenge of my own...and I WOULD play it except my poor unfortunate lab ra--er, test subject's lot keeps crashing. I am not sure if this is a new problem with my whole game or just something about her lot, specifically--I keep removing custom things from it that I haven't used before, but, thing is, it was crashing even when it had practically NO furniture. I don't know. I just don't know.
I used this FUCKING AWESOME name generator to pick her name, which is not only for Harry Potter-esque names--it's also got Star Trek and DISCWORLD! (happy dork dance!) names in it, as I found out for certain after "Dibbler" and "Weatherwax" got me suspicious, but then "Angua" as a female first name PROVED it. I also recognised at least one thing from Narnia...in fact, it's from the same Narnia thingie that has Tom Baker in it.
(In case anybody is wondering, I will stop describing things as "fucking awesome" when they stop BEING fucking awesome.)
I love a LOT of the names generated by this thing, so to narrow it down a bit, I decided I needed a couple of rules:
The last name had to be a Hogwarts STAFF member. Past or present (and "staff" for these purposes includes anybody who works there, not just teachers). Not just any last name I immediately recognised from the books.
Then the first name would be the first female one that was OBVIOUSLY a crossover.
So, my poor test subject already has strikes against her, as she ended up with the unlikely name of JADZIA LOCKHART. (falls over laughing) Oh lord. Let us just hope she gets the intelligence from the science-officer side of her "heritage"...or perhaps she's actually related to Tifa Lockheart of Final Fantasy 7 fame, and there was a typo involved. Heh.
(The really frightening thing? That...actually doesn't sound that bad as a name. You know? It's got a nice...flow. Sounds kinda elegant.)
And I'm pleased to report that my game's "telepathic module" still seems to be in PERFECT working order, as when I went to make up a random dog for her? I was picturing some little splotchy, cock-eared shorthair puppy. Instead, the dog the game randomly threw at me was THE FREAKING GRIM. I kid you not--this huge, gorgeous dog DROWNING in jet black fur, with wolflike features, a plume tail...and human-grey-coloured eyes, instead of a more traditionally doggish colour. Obviously the original name I had in mind ("Sparky") would no longer be appropriate. (Amusing, but not appropriate).
Should I mention that said dog GETS ALONG with the local werewolf? Dude.
Oh--Miss Lockhart (who is adorable, by the way (and whose appearance was randomly generated by the game)) also picked out this INSANELY fancy golden medieval gown for her formal wear. I guess the flamboyant is genetic...
And then, as an experiment, I decided to make Tonks in my game, since she never got a chance at my Hogwarts lot...and not only does the game randomly generate her with SPIKY PINK HAIR on the very first try, but what she "chose" as her outerwear outfit? was the one called "Warm and Punked Up". I downloaded this outfit for Ace, originally. ACE, for crying out sake!
See, I recently "townified" a lot of my downloaded custom clothes...which gives my Sims a TON more (autonomous) fashion choices than before. So, since she now has nearly my entire catalog (which is HUGE--I don't know where to _stop_, when it comes to custom clothes) at her disposal, the odds are really high against picking any one particular thing. And yet, she "chose" the only punky outerwear outfit I even HAVE!
The telepathic module, ladies and gentlemen. The telepathic module. I don't know what expansion pack added that, but my Sims 2 game has been READING MY MIND for years. A character named after a Hogwarts professor gets "Padfoot" as her dog. Tonks is a punk all on her own. Three and Liz play chess together without my directing them to. Peri gets kidnapped and bred with by aliens...on her MOVING-IN DAY. Six is autonomously vegetarian. Lupin is not only a wizard (capable of "teaching" others magic, even) who gets fluffy every now and then, but is also painfully sweet and shy, and rocks out to big-band music on his phonograph. The Doctor (in general) and the Master are constantly alternating between having a civilised conversation over a nice cuppa...and then YELLING IN EACH OTHER'S FACES!! Kim Possible is an overachieving teen without my even trying. Doc Brown's kid wants to be a mad scientist.
And most--if not ALL--of this, I cannot program in deliberately. It just happens.
GOD DAMN, game. Just...god damn.
Oh, and I recently got THIS result on this silly little quiz. Eat your heart out, Magrat. ;)
(One day, I shall do a journal entry that is NOT a multi-page epic.
That day is obviously not today.)
EDIT: Okay, at first I edited this damn thing because I found typos or decided I could word certain parts better. These last few edits have been because Livejournal keeps taking out my line-breaks on its own!
...Notorious
*It's 10" alder wood with a nothing in it, and...SHUT UP, it was a gift. :P