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Happy New Year!
I hope that everyone (even if you've just stumbled upon this journal randomly) had a relaxing and fun holiday season.
I finally got The Sims 2 for my Mac. How I lasted this long without my favorite computer game is a mystery. It's the exact same game as the PC version (well, duh), except for the fact that my Mac's graphic card kicks all sorts of computer graphic ass. On the laptop, I had to have the lowest resolution and no frilly, fun things (like shadows), now I can have everything, and no, there is no reason to have shadows or reflections in ponds, but it's fun.
The one thing I don't like about the game is the very beginning. Making the sims is fun, coming up with names is fun, having all the adult males look exactly like my dream man is fun. The first few 'sim days' are not. Just getting their skills is a battle, because they have to inspect everything in the house. I've had, no joke, a sim walk up to a wall and go "What's This?" A first it's funny, kinda like watching my AI teammates on Star Wars Battlefront II continually running into a wall or shooting the wall or crouching near the wall, but after that it's time consuming and boring. The sims also seem to get amazingly hungry amazingly fast at first. It's takes some attentive watching to make sure nobody cooks anything unless they have a cooking skill point on them. If not, something, be it the TV dinner, the oven, the sim, the kitchen, or the whole house, is going up in flames. My sims also seem to be terrible house hosts, they walk up greet everyone, and then walk away. After the first few days it's more fun, which is good, 'cause it would be stupid to play a game that's no fun.
On a totally unrelated note: I have 6 days worth of music on my iPod.
Another totally unrelated note: LOST is straight up television crack. My mom and I rented the DVDs, watched three episodes in one sitting, and the night ended with me yelling "NO, You tell me who whacked Sayid up side the head, normal TV shows assume the viewer is denser than a pile a bricks and bombards us with important plot points until we scream 'Uncle!' and WHY IN THE HELL IS SAWYER SUCH A DICK? GOD!... Let's watch another one."
More substantial posts to come when I have more substantial things occur.
Quote du Jour: 'It’s a very sad thing, an un-calibrated centrifuge. It makes me cry too.'
I hope that everyone (even if you've just stumbled upon this journal randomly) had a relaxing and fun holiday season.
I finally got The Sims 2 for my Mac. How I lasted this long without my favorite computer game is a mystery. It's the exact same game as the PC version (well, duh), except for the fact that my Mac's graphic card kicks all sorts of computer graphic ass. On the laptop, I had to have the lowest resolution and no frilly, fun things (like shadows), now I can have everything, and no, there is no reason to have shadows or reflections in ponds, but it's fun.
The one thing I don't like about the game is the very beginning. Making the sims is fun, coming up with names is fun, having all the adult males look exactly like my dream man is fun. The first few 'sim days' are not. Just getting their skills is a battle, because they have to inspect everything in the house. I've had, no joke, a sim walk up to a wall and go "What's This?" A first it's funny, kinda like watching my AI teammates on Star Wars Battlefront II continually running into a wall or shooting the wall or crouching near the wall, but after that it's time consuming and boring. The sims also seem to get amazingly hungry amazingly fast at first. It's takes some attentive watching to make sure nobody cooks anything unless they have a cooking skill point on them. If not, something, be it the TV dinner, the oven, the sim, the kitchen, or the whole house, is going up in flames. My sims also seem to be terrible house hosts, they walk up greet everyone, and then walk away. After the first few days it's more fun, which is good, 'cause it would be stupid to play a game that's no fun.
On a totally unrelated note: I have 6 days worth of music on my iPod.
Another totally unrelated note: LOST is straight up television crack. My mom and I rented the DVDs, watched three episodes in one sitting, and the night ended with me yelling "NO, You tell me who whacked Sayid up side the head, normal TV shows assume the viewer is denser than a pile a bricks and bombards us with important plot points until we scream 'Uncle!' and WHY IN THE HELL IS SAWYER SUCH A DICK? GOD!... Let's watch another one."
More substantial posts to come when I have more substantial things occur.
Quote du Jour: 'It’s a very sad thing, an un-calibrated centrifuge. It makes me cry too.'