Hobbies Speak Louder Than Words
Leaving aside my ... shall we say 'issues' with Sims 3 and this SecuROM thing, I still have my moments of enjoyment with Sims 2, and will probably continue to. We'll have to see if EA wises up about this crippling SRM they seem to be putting on Sims 3, and that's not for another year, so I'll just keep an eye on that and see how it goes.
I woke up earlier than is entirely reasonable for a weekend today - partly due to being so exhausted yesterday that I actually went to bed around midnight, and partly because when I woke up, I couldn't get back to sleep thanks to yon snorebeast. I therefore settled in to check on my little Ikariam city (damn you, courtcat79, and your hubby too, for getting me hooked on yet another online waste of time) and Sims 2 downloads.
Hence the reason for this post. Awhile ago, I pointed courtcat79 at some of my favourite download sites and she's been downloading ever since. And it occurred to me that it's really interesting to compare and contrast what we each get particularly enthusiastic about as per downloads, and what that may or may not say about us.
For instance, courtcat79 gets most enthused over Harry Potter stuff, pretty realistic skin tones and pointy ears. Also was on the hunt for Victorian houses for awhile. Which, you know, I can relate to, particularly if you want to make a Sidhe household or neighbourhood. And I can certainly relate to the search for good Victorian houses as designed in Sims 2. Thing is ... my reasons for wanting Victorian houses are very, very different to hers. She likes them because she wants the pretty grandeur of the Victorian design for Sidhe-like households.
...I want to turn them into rundown haunted horrors with various Lovecraft-inspired furniture sets.
Seriously - courtcat79 gets enthused about the pretty, whereas I get most excited about anything that would really fit well in a Silent Hill neighbourhood. I like the pretty as well, more or less, but there's just something about designing creepshow houses etc that just appeals to me. So I download Lovecraft-themed sets and the 'Sleep Like The Dead Morgue Bedroom Collection' and decrepit walls and things of that nature, and then I design neighbourhoods that, if I could add things like fog, could be Silent Hill. Or Innsmouth. Or any other haunted little decrepit abandoned town crawling with supernatural horror.
I'm sure this says something about my personality. I really am. I'm not sure what, mind you, but I am positive it says something about me. Probably a worrisome something. But then again, given that I glee over "Deadly Doses: a Writer's Guide to Poisons", a very high percentage of my book collection is horror of one stripe or another and I've been a WoD devotee for the last few years (not to mention the small but reasonably comprehensive horror movie collection, including the freaky Japanese and Korean stuff, and the fact that while I don't play Silent Hill, I love to watch dodgyhoodoo doing so) ... well, we already knew I was disturbed.
And on that note, back to downloading.
I woke up earlier than is entirely reasonable for a weekend today - partly due to being so exhausted yesterday that I actually went to bed around midnight, and partly because when I woke up, I couldn't get back to sleep thanks to yon snorebeast. I therefore settled in to check on my little Ikariam city (damn you, courtcat79, and your hubby too, for getting me hooked on yet another online waste of time) and Sims 2 downloads.
Hence the reason for this post. Awhile ago, I pointed courtcat79 at some of my favourite download sites and she's been downloading ever since. And it occurred to me that it's really interesting to compare and contrast what we each get particularly enthusiastic about as per downloads, and what that may or may not say about us.
For instance, courtcat79 gets most enthused over Harry Potter stuff, pretty realistic skin tones and pointy ears. Also was on the hunt for Victorian houses for awhile. Which, you know, I can relate to, particularly if you want to make a Sidhe household or neighbourhood. And I can certainly relate to the search for good Victorian houses as designed in Sims 2. Thing is ... my reasons for wanting Victorian houses are very, very different to hers. She likes them because she wants the pretty grandeur of the Victorian design for Sidhe-like households.
...I want to turn them into rundown haunted horrors with various Lovecraft-inspired furniture sets.
Seriously - courtcat79 gets enthused about the pretty, whereas I get most excited about anything that would really fit well in a Silent Hill neighbourhood. I like the pretty as well, more or less, but there's just something about designing creepshow houses etc that just appeals to me. So I download Lovecraft-themed sets and the 'Sleep Like The Dead Morgue Bedroom Collection' and decrepit walls and things of that nature, and then I design neighbourhoods that, if I could add things like fog, could be Silent Hill. Or Innsmouth. Or any other haunted little decrepit abandoned town crawling with supernatural horror.
I'm sure this says something about my personality. I really am. I'm not sure what, mind you, but I am positive it says something about me. Probably a worrisome something. But then again, given that I glee over "Deadly Doses: a Writer's Guide to Poisons", a very high percentage of my book collection is horror of one stripe or another and I've been a WoD devotee for the last few years (not to mention the small but reasonably comprehensive horror movie collection, including the freaky Japanese and Korean stuff, and the fact that while I don't play Silent Hill, I love to watch dodgyhoodoo doing so) ... well, we already knew I was disturbed.
And on that note, back to downloading.