Sims 3: Random pics of randomness

[madame_ugly]

My home machine does have internet access but no anti-virus software (oh, the drama that's causing right now).  Now I wasn't going to bother using and flash drive to move pics BUT. . .some fun stuff happened when I was playing last night so I just had to take a few snaps and then (of course) I had to share them

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[madame_ugly]

For me it comes down to this. Can I afford to piss away $20 on an EP. Personally, I won't pay more than that, so if I see them on sale and I feel I'm due a treat, I go for it. I'm tempted to grab up Ambitions the next time I see it on sale but I'm making myself wait until I play more and start to get bored. OR, if you have a birthday/gift holiday, get it as a gift. It's an easy thing for someone to buy for you.

I will say I really like seasons. It has a lot of fun stuff in it (beyond the aliens, which was the huge selling point for me). The seasonal holidays are cute and it will take a while before I get bored of them. Yes, the weather is annoying but I play in debug mode so I just change the weather as I see fit.

I haven't heard anything about sims4, so it doesn't influence how I feel about spending on the "outdated" sims3. I can say I don't think any future sims games will click with me the same way sims2 did. Sims2 was just the right game for me at the right time. Things are different now (the games themselves, the online communities, etc) and I don't expect lightning to strike twice.

(side bar: Tumblr just doesn't compare to LJ when it comes to socializing with fellow simmers--for me at least. It's so hollow on tumblr, with folks just posting so many "photoshoot" style pics that are BORING)

[psitticism]

Yeah, I always buy the EPs on sale. The problem is I kind of want ALL of them. I have everything up to and including Pets now. Still want the rest. But then TS4 will come out and I'll cry. I agree, though, that nothing clicks the way TS2 did. I think you're right. It's not that TS2 was necessarily a better game, it was just the right game at the right time. For my interests, for my lifestyle, and for the community here at that time. I don't feel any particular desire to play TS2 again, but I do really miss the community. And I do not understand Tumblr. I feel like such an old person. I just don't get it. I feel like I will have to get behind it eventually, though. But I want to shake my cane at the Tumblr crowd and tell them how we did things back in my day. That's where I am right now.

[madame_ugly]

That's it, we are the same person.

I'm the same way. I have no desire to go back to sims2. But if I could find that same sense of community with sims3, I bet I'd get more into sims3.

Tumblr not only makes me FEEL old, I sound old when I talk about it. "I don't get that there tumblr. They can't even spell the name properly. And it moves so galdurn fast, with the liking and re-whatevering. What are you kids up to? I'M CONFUSED. GRIDLOCK!!!"

I'm currently trying out tumblr but so far I'm not impressed (sims3 or in general). It's like pinterest and twitter had an A.D.D. baby. And to be quite frank, I'm not a fan of twitchy attention span deficient infants that speak gibberish.

(and don't even get me started on facebook--I don't want to be into any online community where my MOTHER hangs out, just saying)

[psitticism]

I honestly just don't understand how to use tumblr. Do people just post random pics? How are you supposed to follow a story? Or do people just not do stories anymore? I feel moronic, but I totally do not get it. I do have an account there, because one of my favorite Simmers moved over there (which means I have one lj friend left, ha!), but I seriously can't figure out what to do with it. She loves it there, though.

I have Pinterest, but I find it a bit obnoxious. It's all my 16-year-old cousins posting baby nursery inspiration boards (OMGWTF so wrong! Why does everyone do that?), my teacher friends posting amazingly beautiful teaching tools (pretty, but often with minimal education value), and my perfect mom friends posting all their perfect mom stuff about how they make their own food coloring out of berries they grow in the garden or something. It's creepy there. I have a twitter account, which I have used on occasion to follow developing news stories. That's how lame I am. I've never posted anything, and I have no friends on twitter. Admittedly, I do use facebook. It is how I keep in touch with pretty much everyone. But yeah, it has changed, and it's weird now. I joined when it was only open to a few Boston-area colleges. Now that it's open to the whole world, and my mom and my aunts are my biggest commenters, I don't post as much, because I obviously cannot speak freely.

I kind of want to be involved the the Sims community, but I don't know how much work I'm willing to put into it. I'll give tumblr a try, but I really don't get it.

[madame_ugly]

You're not alone. It took me a bit to "get" tumblr. It is a LOT of photo posts but you can make long test posts (journal style). To follow a story you'd have to follow that tumblr account (or you could follow a tag, but I'm not sure if you can do that or how).

Part of what I hate is how it is visually. It scrolls newest on top which is backward if you want to read a chronological story (for example). There may be a way to change that setting, though (never bothered to look). There's just no way I could follow a story if I had to scroll backward. (and to be brutally honest, once I started writing my own sim stories I stopped enjoying reading them for the most part)

It is super easy to post pics there, you don't need something like photobucket. Just grab them right from your computer. THAT I do like. And I do enjoy photos of cats doing dumb shit and silly crap like that.

Pinterest is full of. . .ok, I'll just say it. Crazy mommy bloggers who really don't have anything else to do all day but use the internet to compete with other bored mommies (I swear, they post all those "perfect" pics just to fuck with each other--very disturbing). And have you noticed how many of them are Mormon (nothing against mormons, mind you, just an observation--I guess a lot of them don't work outside the home and they do have, on average, a lot of kids so it makes sense). I follow a lot of sewing/craft blogs so I get to stand on the shores of Blogger Mommy Survivor Island and watch the wtf-ery.

As for facebook, I at least can see a use for it (to keep track of friends/family if you're into that sort of thing) but it ceased to be "cool" when the local shitty dry cleaner (and every other grubby local small business) started hanging "Like Us On Facebook" thumbs-up signs in their crusty windows. And I knew it was totally O-V-E-R when I saw the "follow us on facebook" in the signature line of one of the irksome researcher groups I (in a round about way) work with. Who the ever loving hell wants to follow a medical research team? Give me a fucking break.

The only thing I still use facebook/pinterest/twitter (etc) for is when I enter online drawings. There are a ton of giveaways on the crafty blogs I follow and you can get an extra entry if you follow their (fill in the blank). Hey, I like to try and win free fabric.

[psitticism]

I guess I'll play around with tumblr a bit more and see what I can do with it. But you know as soon as I figure it out, everybody will move on to the next thing, anyway.

Yeah, I do some crochet and such and I like to cook, so I see a lot of the mommy wars with some of the blogs I follow, too. And I actually do want kids in the near future (I think this is the part where we might not be the same person, right?), so I really don't mind posts about parenting, gadgets that make parents' lives easier, etc. I just don't get all the people who brag about things like making Swedish Fish from scratch. I mean, why would you make Swedish Fish from scratch? Who are these people? Don't they have kids to go parent?