Convenience Forever, Freshness Never!
I've been spending too much time playing The Sims 3 recently. I guess it's not all that damaging to my life, since I still go to work and fulfill other obligations, but it's kind of a weird feeling when you've been playing for a long time and your eyes are tired of looking at the screen, yet you still don't particularly want to stop. Does that happen to anyone else, or do I have some kind of problem? Anyway, the pre-made neighbors who started out as adults are now dropping like flies, making me wonder why so many of them were created to be pretty much the exact same age. It makes the game pretty morbid, I must say. Are there going to be new people generated to populate the neighborhood, or will any new Sims I make be living in a nearly empty town? I could create my own Sims to fill the gaps, but when I create a character, I usually want to play them. And one thing that this game makes more difficult than the first two is switching between households.
Aside from that, I've started reading The Royal Explorers of Oz, and I have Outsiders from Oz on order. I've actually read rough drafts of both, but not the finished versions with illustrations and all that. I really should try to get one of my own Oz manuscripts published, shouldn't I? I'm just not sure how to go about it.
The most recent Simpsons episode felt really disorganized. Better than last week's, certainly, but with less of a plot. I guess since Bart's affinity for graffiti was established quite early on, they pretty much had to do something with the more modern idea of graffiti as art and social commentary, but no one seemed to be able to make an actual story out of it. Instead, it kept switching back and forth from that to other ideas that could potentially have made decent plots if they'd bothered to develop them, like the opening of Swapper Jack's. And Marge's new bunny was a waste as well, being used for just the one plot point and then a few jokes with the cage. I liked some of the jokes, but the whole thing was a mess overall.
Aside from that, I've started reading The Royal Explorers of Oz, and I have Outsiders from Oz on order. I've actually read rough drafts of both, but not the finished versions with illustrations and all that. I really should try to get one of my own Oz manuscripts published, shouldn't I? I'm just not sure how to go about it.
The most recent Simpsons episode felt really disorganized. Better than last week's, certainly, but with less of a plot. I guess since Bart's affinity for graffiti was established quite early on, they pretty much had to do something with the more modern idea of graffiti as art and social commentary, but no one seemed to be able to make an actual story out of it. Instead, it kept switching back and forth from that to other ideas that could potentially have made decent plots if they'd bothered to develop them, like the opening of Swapper Jack's. And Marge's new bunny was a waste as well, being used for just the one plot point and then a few jokes with the cage. I liked some of the jokes, but the whole thing was a mess overall.