Sims 3: Random pics of randomness

[madame_ugly]

My home machine does have internet access but no anti-virus software (oh, the drama that's causing right now).  Now I wasn't going to bother using and flash drive to move pics BUT. . .some fun stuff happened when I was playing last night so I just had to take a few snaps and then (of course) I had to share them

Comments

[laridian]

I wonder why it's only elderly aliens? I've had both an old man and old lady alien so far.

Gary's a cute snake!

The rain is... yeah. Monsoons. Rainy seasons nonstop. My tropical island has so much rain I'm amazed the water levels haven't risen and drowned the beaches. It's very frustrating because sims can get sick (unless you buy immunity for them) or soaked (negative moodlet for hours). Johnny Pandemic likes to go search the junkyard for scrap and he can hardly do that in a monsoon. And who wants to go to the festivals in the pouring rain?

That was weird too, sims dying on other lots. But it's more appropriate, I guess, since the whole town ages, not just the playables.

Lucky you, you had an alien abduction! That hasn't happened in my game yet. Anything special Sadie was doing?

This is what's so fun about Sims 3 - there's so many new things to discover.

[madame_ugly]

Ooh, an old lady alien? I'm adding that to the list of things I want to see. I've only had that one home visitor

[laridian]

Yeah, the weather effects are crazy. Too much of rain or snow. In Sims 2 there was at least variation - sometimes there were long winters that began in fall and stretched into spring (snowing nonstop) and other times the winters were mild. Or there'd be a rainless summer. I haven't seen those yet in my games, just nonstop rain.

I'll definitely check out the omni plant! I've heard of those but didn't know where to get one. I do have a moving gnome. It's so hilarious and I don't even know how it got to the house. Mine is dressed in a pink bunny suit and it's creepy as *(&^%^ when you see him spying on the people in the house from the flowers, or parked next to the coffee table in the living room. They don't move while you watch, they just roam around the lot when you're not looking. I love it.

[gheez]

Ah, cuteness in Hypnotoad begging from the alien and the snake, I think, the more I look at it the more scaly it seems. Perhaps not quite as cuddly as the kitty

[madame_ugly]

No problem. I love long comments

[gheez]

I didn't realise that the game suggests that male parent is incubator rather than genetic donor. Wonder if the little alien babies take any characteristics from the male at all

[psitticism]

I totally missed this! Never knew you got the game installed. So great to see you playing! You're making me seriously want Seasons now. Even if you hate the rain. I want aliens! And Bob Ross face painting!

Now that they've announced TS4, it seems a bit silly for me to buy more EPs. It's a waste, right? And yet...I want to. Conundrum.

[madame_ugly]

For me it comes down to this. Can I afford to piss away $20 on an EP. Personally, I won't pay more than that, so if I see them on sale and I feel I'm due a treat, I go for it. I'm tempted to grab up Ambitions the next time I see it on sale but I'm making myself wait until I play more and start to get bored. OR, if you have a birthday/gift holiday, get it as a gift. It's an easy thing for someone to buy for you

[psitticism]

Yeah, I always buy the EPs on sale. The problem is I kind of want ALL of them. I have everything up to and including Pets now. Still want the rest. But then TS4 will come out and I'll cry. I agree, though, that nothing clicks the way TS2 did. I think you're right. It's not that TS2 was necessarily a better game, it was just the right game at the right time. For my interests, for my lifestyle, and for the community here at that time. I don't feel any particular desire to play TS2 again, but I do really miss the community. And I do not understand Tumblr. I feel like such an old person. I just don't get it. I feel like I will have to get behind it eventually, though. But I want to shake my cane at the Tumblr crowd and tell them how we did things back in my day. That's where I am right now.

[madame_ugly]

That's it, we are the same person.

I'm the same way. I have no desire to go back to sims2. But if I could find that same sense of community with sims3, I bet I'd get more into sims3.

Tumblr not only makes me FEEL old, I sound old when I talk about it. "I don't get that there tumblr. They can't even spell the name properly. And it moves so galdurn fast, with the liking and re-whatevering. What are you kids up to? I'M CONFUSED. GRIDLOCK!!!"

I'm currently trying out tumblr but so far I'm not impressed (sims3 or in general). It's like pinterest and twitter had an A.D.D. baby. And to be quite frank, I'm not a fan of twitchy attention span deficient infants that speak gibberish.

(and don't even get me started on facebook--I don't want to be into any online community where my MOTHER hangs out, just saying)