The universe is against me playing the sims.
I have a story for anyone who's bored. Here it is then:
So the sims 3 came out. Problem is, I'm forbidden to install the sims anything on any of my dad's computers because he is under the firm belief it can cause a state of the art machine to become an instant piece of slow running garbagio. In his defense... well he's totally right.
Anyway, so no Sims 3 for me until I somehow acquire a "gigga ram" which with impending 60 grand PT school, isn't going to happen in the next oh say 4-5 years.
So I settle. We've got a desktop sitting on the floor serving as a foot rest, there's a spare monitor downstairs that's going, but not gone, I can rustle me up a mouse- basically I set up camp in the basement and hook me up a good ol' sims 2 command station. However, for whatever reason, the universe is against this plan.
1. MOUSE- the desk downstairs is glass and plastic. weird yes. sturdy... i have my doubts. So the cpu has to sit on the floor. now the plug is on the left, but the mouse must sit on the right- unless you're freaky and a lefty, which I'm not. so that means the mouse cord (yes my odds n' ends set up has a mouse with a cord)stretches across the ground. I found a mouse with the most impractically short cord imaginable so i have to operate this left-handledly. Good news everyone- I later find a mouse that has about a 75% accurate click rate, but at least it has a long cord.
2. GAME DISCS (DISKS?)- I found it. No worries, it's in with Math Blaster, Kid Pics and other computer software greats. Except no- apparently while you only need a single disk to play the sims, you need 4 to install it. My sims dreams die. Mike comes to the rescue... while doing so I find the disks in the pantry... don't ask. disks shouldn't be in the pantry, but mine are. crisis averted.
3. MONITOR- it works! fireworks and happiness! Now, the monitor that has been previously paired with the cpu has a slight flickery problem. Or it did. Now it has a crippling, obnoxious flickery problem which means that it shuts on and off enough times that I play a total of 15 minutes of game in an hour period of time. Well here's a solution- Mike's got a monitor in his bedroom (random.) so I steal that one, hook it up and throw the other one out a window (not really, but I'm hoping I can get permission to do this at a later time). Mike's monitor works a-ok, only it's blue. Like everything is tinted blue. "I can deal", I think, "at least it's not giving me Pikachu seizures"- only no, the sims is a game where you gotta kinda make your house match and stuffs. So while my whole house appears a nice matchy blue, its actually a slew of other violent colors that I just couldn't friggin see. So I find some help on the internets and it ends up to be an issue with the monitor cable, not the monitor itself, and just so happens I have a spare of those atatched to ol' blinky. Monitor problems finally solved! Commence play time!
4. RANDOM WTF TYPE GRAPHIC SOMETHING OR OTHER ERROR MESSAGE- no play time. Krista happily logs on, creates a character, buys a house- correctly colored, uninterupted, goes to paint said house and some random kind of error message pops up. It proceeds to stop my game, make my icons mega large and ugly and puts my color scheme in like 4 bits or something ridic. Then it shuts down my computer. What's one more wrench in a plan so full of wrenches it's like a friggin aco by this point? I write down the error message and google the hell outta that and turns out my graphics software is out of wack. *sigh* I download some patchy thingy something or other and can it be???????
This is a long story, but maybe you're just bored enough to have read it and you'll be excited to know that through trials and tribulations, I finally got to play my first uninterrupted hour of the sims 2 yesterday. So take that universe! I have defeated you! YATTA!!!
oh and GO REDWINGS!
oh and I have the ability to fit 3-4 giant cheeto balls in my mouth at once. Or 2 eggs. Gross, but true.
So the sims 3 came out. Problem is, I'm forbidden to install the sims anything on any of my dad's computers because he is under the firm belief it can cause a state of the art machine to become an instant piece of slow running garbagio. In his defense... well he's totally right.
Anyway, so no Sims 3 for me until I somehow acquire a "gigga ram" which with impending 60 grand PT school, isn't going to happen in the next oh say 4-5 years.
So I settle. We've got a desktop sitting on the floor serving as a foot rest, there's a spare monitor downstairs that's going, but not gone, I can rustle me up a mouse- basically I set up camp in the basement and hook me up a good ol' sims 2 command station. However, for whatever reason, the universe is against this plan.
1. MOUSE- the desk downstairs is glass and plastic. weird yes. sturdy... i have my doubts. So the cpu has to sit on the floor. now the plug is on the left, but the mouse must sit on the right- unless you're freaky and a lefty, which I'm not. so that means the mouse cord (yes my odds n' ends set up has a mouse with a cord)stretches across the ground. I found a mouse with the most impractically short cord imaginable so i have to operate this left-handledly. Good news everyone- I later find a mouse that has about a 75% accurate click rate, but at least it has a long cord.
2. GAME DISCS (DISKS?)- I found it. No worries, it's in with Math Blaster, Kid Pics and other computer software greats. Except no- apparently while you only need a single disk to play the sims, you need 4 to install it. My sims dreams die. Mike comes to the rescue... while doing so I find the disks in the pantry... don't ask. disks shouldn't be in the pantry, but mine are. crisis averted.
3. MONITOR- it works! fireworks and happiness! Now, the monitor that has been previously paired with the cpu has a slight flickery problem. Or it did. Now it has a crippling, obnoxious flickery problem which means that it shuts on and off enough times that I play a total of 15 minutes of game in an hour period of time. Well here's a solution- Mike's got a monitor in his bedroom (random.) so I steal that one, hook it up and throw the other one out a window (not really, but I'm hoping I can get permission to do this at a later time). Mike's monitor works a-ok, only it's blue. Like everything is tinted blue. "I can deal", I think, "at least it's not giving me Pikachu seizures"- only no, the sims is a game where you gotta kinda make your house match and stuffs. So while my whole house appears a nice matchy blue, its actually a slew of other violent colors that I just couldn't friggin see. So I find some help on the internets and it ends up to be an issue with the monitor cable, not the monitor itself, and just so happens I have a spare of those atatched to ol' blinky. Monitor problems finally solved! Commence play time!
4. RANDOM WTF TYPE GRAPHIC SOMETHING OR OTHER ERROR MESSAGE- no play time. Krista happily logs on, creates a character, buys a house- correctly colored, uninterupted, goes to paint said house and some random kind of error message pops up. It proceeds to stop my game, make my icons mega large and ugly and puts my color scheme in like 4 bits or something ridic. Then it shuts down my computer. What's one more wrench in a plan so full of wrenches it's like a friggin aco by this point? I write down the error message and google the hell outta that and turns out my graphics software is out of wack. *sigh* I download some patchy thingy something or other and can it be???????
This is a long story, but maybe you're just bored enough to have read it and you'll be excited to know that through trials and tribulations, I finally got to play my first uninterrupted hour of the sims 2 yesterday. So take that universe! I have defeated you! YATTA!!!
oh and GO REDWINGS!
oh and I have the ability to fit 3-4 giant cheeto balls in my mouth at once. Or 2 eggs. Gross, but true.