This took me a while to get through, because I had to go back and forth and ogle all the details in the settings and the posings; the art, the view from the windows, the buffet table for the crew, Tiffany holding her cup of tea - not to mention how you manage to make Maxis template faces into original looking people (and real people at that), like the crew on the set. You know I love your attention to detail. :) Also I love all the clues to things that might be going on under the surface, even if I probably miss at least the half of it - the same goes for the references BTW. Reading you updates mostly makes me feel puzzled and entertained at the same time (and often has me googling for information on things I think I've picked up on). Since I never played The Sims, I had to google the Mashugas. Am I right in thinking that you're using Kalisa's Sims 2 versions? What a couple! And so right for the movie business. What I know about that, is of course what I've learned from movies (but meta is a theme here anyway), but to me your set-up
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And here I thought this one was so much less busy than some of the other posts since it all happens in one location and there are no time jumps, except for that one big leap backwards to start. I do hope it was more entertaining than puzzling
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I went to have a (short) look at your Tumblr account yesterday, and realized that I have missed out on a lot. I will have to go back and read up on it. My work related problems have just let me spend four weeks of vacation in utter fatigue - and now I’m back at work again. I hope to find an out soon - because this is my life going down the drain. Sorry, for that outburst - but that is the reason to why I can’t find the energy to actually follow the few people I’m still in contact with in the sims community. Not for lack of interest. I am always tired
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I'm so sorry to hear that your work situation still has not improved. I hope that you can find a good out soon and feel replenished instead of drained. Stress is unavoidable but I'm sure we could all do with less of it in our lives.
For me that means trying to make more time in my life for fun, and simming is definitely part of that, but sometimes - often - that's easier said than done.
I use tumblr mostly for the extras and outtakes that I accumulate from my confirmed habit of going overboard. There are a few more from this scene that I still want to post. And despite being completely irrelevant to everything that was going on, Goopy managed to make his way among them. He and Frankie are enemies in game (they used to be friends) so he stalked the lot the entire time!
The outtakes and extras provide a lot of interesting info (ah- there are Gordon and Remington too) so I really must go back and read more throughly. I'm at work now, so I really should go back to eh.. well, working. Thanks for the kind words. Sorry for bringing the whole theme up again, I just felt the need to explain why I'm so bad at keeping up. And things actually are going in the right direction here, but I certainly had more energy at 30 than at 50. I used to bounce up and down, there is not much bouncing going on anywhere now, he he. On the other hand I don't hurt or get confused the way I used to, experience has a lot of advantages. One can easily understand the "Youth is wasted on the young" quote though. If one only were able to combine the neverending energy (I kind of had too much) with the experience, that really would be something. :D I spend far too much time on playing The Sims of course, also for the same reasons: Escapism as medicine. I'd like to make time for more constructive activities, but in my free time, "
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Ah yes, “si jeunesse savait, si vieillese pouvait” although I never had much in the way of youthful vigour myself so even the ideal merger of the best of both might not give me all that much of a boost, lol.
Having fun and forgetting about life's troubles sounds like a pretty good priority. I ought to try it more often, maybe it'd stop these impertinent grey hairs from multiplying! And playing The Sims might be escapism but not always. Just like pretty much anything else - books, films, sports - we can use it to opt into a certain kind of experience as well as for opting out of dealing with whatever it is we don't feel like dealing with. Playing out a story, whether it gets written up or not, or developing a world, (whether it gets to a fully playable state or not, sounds like constructive activity to me.
You really have the gift of saying things that are kind and memorable at the same time and give fuel to hope and positive thinking, so thank you - once again. As for "youthful vigour", in my case it is more a matter of a VERY intense personality that has had me acting like a cat on a hot tin roof more often than not. It's quite a relief (both to myself and others probably) that it has mellowed out with time. ;-)
It's very kind of you to say so! So sorry for the super long delay in response - I had to go away unexpectedly - but even though I've surely missed the window I still wanted to acknowledge that I've seen and appreciate your comment.
And while I'm going to have to reread this thing to jump start work on the next part your 'cat on a hot tin roof' analogy brings me right back to it because it touches on one of those tiny little details I never expected anyone to notice. That's Elizabeth Taylor in the book open in front of Val, at least I think so, it looks blurry to me now but that's the assumption I was going off of when I wrote it and that's the basis for his musing about chewing 'em up and spitting 'em out (that's definitely Gregory Peck on the next page but Val wouldn't know anything about that even if he'd noticed). And there is a cat, of sorts, who has yet to make an appearance...(and who, in the course of this little sequence will show no signs of mellowing out with time) :-D
Ha ha! I guess Val would be indifferent to Gregory, me on the other hand not so much. ;-) And I thought that looked like Elizabeth - my choice of metaphor was completely unintended though. But I my thoughts went briefly to Ms Taylor when using it, that is unavoidable.
;-) Definitely me not so much either. (What a sentence, not a verb to be found, I love it. And I love Gregory Peck!)
Also, hooray for happy coincidences! Especially because I'd started a little side project soon after posting this (yep, another one) and I was going to pick up with that first as it's fresher and can be finished quicker (relatively) but now I'm remembering all the other story stuff that might not pay off if I put off the follow up for too long. So, guess I'll get back to the picture sorting.
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For me that means trying to make more time in my life for fun, and simming is definitely part of that, but sometimes - often - that's easier said than done.
I use tumblr mostly for the extras and outtakes that I accumulate from my confirmed habit of going overboard. There are a few more from this scene that I still want to post. And despite being completely irrelevant to everything that was going on, Goopy managed to make his way among them. He and Frankie are enemies in game (they used to be friends) so he stalked the lot the entire time!
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Having fun and forgetting about life's troubles sounds like a pretty good priority. I ought to try it more often, maybe it'd stop these impertinent grey hairs from multiplying! And playing The Sims might be escapism but not always. Just like pretty much anything else - books, films, sports - we can use it to opt into a certain kind of experience as well as for opting out of dealing with whatever it is we don't feel like dealing with. Playing out a story, whether it gets written up or not, or developing a world, (whether it gets to a fully playable state or not, sounds like constructive activity to me.
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And while I'm going to have to reread this thing to jump start work on the next part your 'cat on a hot tin roof' analogy brings me right back to it because it touches on one of those tiny little details I never expected anyone to notice. That's Elizabeth Taylor in the book open in front of Val, at least I think so, it looks blurry to me now but that's the assumption I was going off of when I wrote it and that's the basis for his musing about chewing 'em up and spitting 'em out (that's definitely Gregory Peck on the next page but Val wouldn't know anything about that even if he'd noticed). And there is a cat, of sorts, who has yet to make an appearance...(and who, in the course of this little sequence will show no signs of mellowing out with time) :-D
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Also, hooray for happy coincidences! Especially because I'd started a little side project soon after posting this (yep, another one) and I was going to pick up with that first as it's fresher and can be finished quicker (relatively) but now I'm remembering all the other story stuff that might not pay off if I put off the follow up for too long. So, guess I'll get back to the picture sorting.
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