Out to Lunch

Whew! Well I’ve decided to resume writing, and I did promise myself that I wouldn’t even touch part 7 of Raindrops until I’d wrapped up Lana’s story. I mean, I’ve already written the first draft, all I gotta do is add the pics and tidy up the text. Shouldn’t be too difficult, should it?

Well, my game had other ideas. First blue-screen of the year, guys! I only took two pictures, the game was very slow to process them, I knew it was getting ready to throw a temper tantrum and it did. Pic #3 resulted in a blue-screen of death. Boo hiss!!!!

I decided that probably the reason was too many polys. After all, Fort Ra-Ra is a pretty big lot, so I emptied out all the rooms I’d finished shooting, and the game seemed much happier. I’ve shot up to page 41 now, and so I have 40 more, plus maybe a few pics to reshoot.

So why didn’t I just shoot the whole caboodle? Because… the game didn’t let me. I’ve sort of seen the back of blue-screens, but now I keep having to deal with the ‘The application has now crashed. The application will now terminate’ message (gee, thanks for telling me, I’d never have noticed).

I get them quite a lot these days. Ever since I installed Uni, really. The base game, Uni and NL have all been patched, so I’m guessing that either a bit of CC or a hack might be responsible. Two items that always ALWAYS give me problems: the Moroccan door - I can’t even select this, let alone place it, without an immediate crash. I haven’t a clue why. Second, the guitar. Any guitar, whether a Maxis one or a custom one. I removed Atavera’s guitar hack, didn’t make any difference (all that happens now is basses randomly get stuck to other instruments. In the last case, a gifted piano had a bass stuck to the chair, couldn’t remove it, had to sell the whole piano with moveobjects on). I’m quite peed off by this, the instruments were the things I was most looking forward to in Uni.

I think the only way to fix it is to remove all the hacks, then test them all individually. But do you think I can really bother my a*se to do that? No, I cannot. So I guess I’ll have to put up with a few more applications terminating.

… the torrents will stay up until T$R free-releases their work, but isn’t it strange, they’ve both decided to call it a day at the same time…


Sorry about the blurry pics, this danged theme is so frickin’ narrow. Now could they… could they really be one and the same person?!
Or perhaps they’re going to set up a free site together elsewhere… One can only hope…

Edit: It seems they are! From PMBD:

Fixed meshes from Aikea and Geyldh - hosting at their request while they get all of their content on their new site. Find these items under TSR/z-retiredartists/aikea/fixed_meshes_from_aikea and TSR/z-retiredartists/geyldh/fixed_meshes_from_geyldh.

Nice though, more departures from TSR - I bet Thoma$$ is weeping into his hanky. I’ve already removed two torrents, Juttaponath and Cloisonne, because they have both gone free! Gelydh and Aikea will make two more.

Says it all, doesn’t it?

Fun with the Pastel family

Oh poor thing, why’s she crying?

Made a magic sim the other day, Roberto Magik

Oh no, the cockatiel died

Having fun with the nectar press… I know. You don’t have to tell me. They look so wrong don’t they?

The baker’s oven. Well, that was a waste of time. It set on fire and all my ingredients were lost

What super happy fun goodness! I’m bored of it already

I’m quite bored of Sims 1 now. And I’ve only been playing it for 3 days!

So near and yet so far

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 is the lamest game I have ever played. It’s not by the same people as Zoo Tycoon. Zoo Tycoon was fun. Rollercoaster Tycoon is not. It’s a shoddy and boring and makes-no-sense-at-all version of Theme Park.

In fact, I’m going to have a go at installing Theme Park again. I don’t know if it works on XP. Probably not, but maybe it’ll work okay with DOSBox.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is the Plague Year of computer games. I tried my best, but I really can’t be bothered with either of them.

Coming soon to Leah’s Corner

Meh, I finally did it. I installed TS1 and I’m not even joking, it took a whole hour just to install. Anyway, gameplay was kinda confusing at the beginning, because I’m used to TS2 gameplay, but I’ve got the hang of it now (kinda). The thing is because I installed all 7 EPs, before even playing the base game, there was so much to learn in one go. So right now I’ve decided to ignore most of the stuff and concentrate on just the Unleashed pack and the Superstar pack (which is the one I was mostly interested in anyway).

Two things that are annoying: the rotate/zoom! Argh! You can’t even zoom in that much and the rotate thing is so annoying I don’t even bother unless I really need it. The other thing, making friends seems so much harder than in TS2. Or is it just my imagination? So far my poor little Simmie has only made one friend.

Anyway, here are a few piccies. This is the only sim I’ve played so far, Catherine Star. She currently has a fame rating of 3. Tee hee hee.

Just like real life, Avril hasn’t time for the little people

Relaxing at the Oxygen Bar

Catherine and her dog, Billy

Catherine performing and gaining some star credentials

The Obsessed Fan. Please just leave me alone!

What the..? So FreeTime wasn’t the last after all. Apartment life, eh? Sounds weird. I thought the ability to live in flats is something that should have been present in the base game. That and terraced houses. I mean, come on, not that many people can afford to live in plush suburban detached houses. Ah well.

Looks like more and more people are seeing the light… I found this little gem today VitaSims torrent (it wasn’t me!!). I wonder who did it? Wouldn’t it be great to have every single pay artist’s work on the torrents? Here’s hoping we see a few more torrent queens (and kings!) emerging.

Huzzah!

I am so bored of Sims 2. There’s only so much you can do before you feel you’ve seen it all. So, umm, I’m actually feeling quite tempted now to install Sims 1, since I have the entire collection - which I’ve never even installed, let alone played.

Now, the only questions are, will I ever get that desperately bored? And can I actually summon the energy to install it?