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CloseLife is something we all do, which tends to make it dull, expensive and boring. Enter The Sims 3.
A Day in the Life is a basically a blog/very low-key Let's Play. It's partially to see if I can stand making regular updates (preparing for a future Exit Fate LP), and partially to show off how much fun The Sims 3 is. While I'm interested in eventually doing a Sims community-style Legacy LP (where you basically tell me who to mate and who to declare the true bearer of a family name for ten generations), this is just going to showcase the best pictures I take for humorous purposes.
I play with a number of major and tweaking mods; the biggest being the NRaas Supercomputer/Story Progression mods (which alter how the entire neighborhood behaves, from how much gay there is to whether or not your co-workers can throw parties) and Awesomemod, which... is awesome. Also of note is that I play with 800% higher bills, 200% harder-to-reach mood thresholds, and more difficult job promotion requirements.
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First Generation - George and Charlotte
Second Generation - Hannah/Bryant and Gerald/Stephan
March 5th - The Day Everything Broke
A Day in the Life is a basically a blog/very low-key Let's Play. It's partially to see if I can stand making regular updates (preparing for a future Exit Fate LP), and partially to show off how much fun The Sims 3 is. While I'm interested in eventually doing a Sims community-style Legacy LP (where you basically tell me who to mate and who to declare the true bearer of a family name for ten generations), this is just going to showcase the best pictures I take for humorous purposes.
I play with a number of major and tweaking mods; the biggest being the NRaas Supercomputer/Story Progression mods (which alter how the entire neighborhood behaves, from how much gay there is to whether or not your co-workers can throw parties) and Awesomemod, which... is awesome. Also of note is that I play with 800% higher bills, 200% harder-to-reach mood thresholds, and more difficult job promotion requirements.
This post brought to you by Hildegard:
Not-immediately-after-the-OP "blog" posts will be linked to right about here.
First Generation - George and Charlotte
Second Generation - Hannah/Bryant and Gerald/Stephan
March 5th - The Day Everything Broke
March 4th, 2010: The Epic Beginning Posts: Entrance to Rambling
Hey there!
This is Gerald and his mirror. Gerald is a snob, which means that he really likes Gerald and his reflection. He is kind of a twit.
Hannah, the female, is wooing Bryant the "best friend" on the left. You can't see it because they are only children, but they are going to have babies later on in life. Babies are the body, blood and soul of Sims.
George's goal in life is to become a sporty Superstar. While he achieves this, it's about thirty seconds before he goes grey (err, becomes an elder) so I made him retire before he could truly top the Athletic career ladder. Until then, he runs. A lot.
Charlotte is the mother of the family, and a bookworm. She writes for a living, occasionally taking on a part-time job but usually skipping work to garden instead. In this photo, she is doing something kinky with her husband!
Sometimes, life gives you a chair. This chair was in the way. Stupid bistro chairs, ruining a romantic image - oh yeah, that's Bryant right there. You know, Hannah's future babymaker.
Hey there!
This is Gerald and his mirror. Gerald is a snob, which means that he really likes Gerald and his reflection. He is kind of a twit.
Hannah, the female, is wooing Bryant the "best friend" on the left. You can't see it because they are only children, but they are going to have babies later on in life. Babies are the body, blood and soul of Sims.
George's goal in life is to become a sporty Superstar. While he achieves this, it's about thirty seconds before he goes grey (err, becomes an elder) so I made him retire before he could truly top the Athletic career ladder. Until then, he runs. A lot.
Charlotte is the mother of the family, and a bookworm. She writes for a living, occasionally taking on a part-time job but usually skipping work to garden instead. In this photo, she is doing something kinky with her husband!
Sometimes, life gives you a chair. This chair was in the way. Stupid bistro chairs, ruining a romantic image - oh yeah, that's Bryant right there. You know, Hannah's future babymaker.
March 4th, 2010: The Epic Beginning Post: 2: The Sequel: The Movie
...I wish I uploaded more pictures of Charlotte. I have plenty of her, but not many were silly/dramatic enough to upload. She doesn't really get out much.
DAMN YOU WARREN. This is Gerald again, chatting about how his father might not like that he's trying to woo a teenage boy. George is fine with homosexuality, but the age gap is even worse than Orig's obsession. Gerald is absolutely smitten with Warren, however.
Warren moved out. Warren left the neighborhood. Yes, I made a status update about this on Facebook. Yes, it was a travesty. You see, sometimes the game's "story progression" moves families in, out, makes babies, starts an affair, sets up a barbecue, etc. Warren's family left for good when Gerald become a teen, so Gerald made himself what he thought was a spectacular outfit, locked himself in a room with no food, and called his best friend Kiki while waiting for starvation to take his poor, lost soul. This is only the beginning of Gerald's suicidal streak... I was seriously going to let him die, but I grew a heart at the last minute. He still got a D in High School and grew up to be mean-spirited due to the trauma, though.
. She paints for a living when not going to school or working a part-time job as a waitress at the bistro.)
...I wish I uploaded more pictures of Charlotte. I have plenty of her, but not many were silly/dramatic enough to upload. She doesn't really get out much.
DAMN YOU WARREN. This is Gerald again, chatting about how his father might not like that he's trying to woo a teenage boy. George is fine with homosexuality, but the age gap is even worse than Orig's obsession. Gerald is absolutely smitten with Warren, however.
Warren moved out. Warren left the neighborhood. Yes, I made a status update about this on Facebook. Yes, it was a travesty. You see, sometimes the game's "story progression" moves families in, out, makes babies, starts an affair, sets up a barbecue, etc. Warren's family left for good when Gerald become a teen, so Gerald made himself what he thought was a spectacular outfit, locked himself in a room with no food, and called his best friend Kiki while waiting for starvation to take his poor, lost soul. This is only the beginning of Gerald's suicidal streak... I was seriously going to let him die, but I grew a heart at the last minute. He still got a D in High School and grew up to be mean-spirited due to the trauma, though.
March 4th, 2010: The Epic Beginning Post: 3: The End of the Trilogy: No it isn't
Because The Sims isn't fun if nothing horrible happens, George's absent-minded nature caused him to run off and do something else while cooking. Whoops. Charlotte's a coward, so she fainted at the sight of fire and remained scared all through the night.
Hannah really, really, really likes to paint, to the point where I save every point of Lifetime Happiness she earns in order to purchase the Super Creative perk for her (which makes her paintings worth more money). She paints for a living when not going to school or working a part-time job as a waitress at the bistro.
Gerald gets electrocuted by at least three different electric devices in the span of twenty-four hours while his mother does a "ssss, hot!" thing to the wall. Gerald hates life, doesn't have a job, and just hits people for the most part.
So while the rest of the family attempts to have a normal life (except Bryant, getting hit by buses and working his butt off doing overtime at the hospital), Gerald picks out a new wardrobe and works on pimping himself out to cute boys. Will Lazarus take it? Nope, because Lazarus is a nasty straight man who decides that he doesn't want Gerald in his butt. Protip: straight men usually don't like dick.
Because The Sims isn't fun if nothing horrible happens, George's absent-minded nature caused him to run off and do something else while cooking. Whoops. Charlotte's a coward, so she fainted at the sight of fire and remained scared all through the night.
Hannah really, really, really likes to paint, to the point where I save every point of Lifetime Happiness she earns in order to purchase the Super Creative perk for her (which makes her paintings worth more money). She paints for a living when not going to school or working a part-time job as a waitress at the bistro.
Gerald gets electrocuted by at least three different electric devices in the span of twenty-four hours while his mother does a "ssss, hot!" thing to the wall. Gerald hates life, doesn't have a job, and just hits people for the most part.
So while the rest of the family attempts to have a normal life (except Bryant, getting hit by buses and working his butt off doing overtime at the hospital), Gerald picks out a new wardrobe and works on pimping himself out to cute boys. Will Lazarus take it? Nope, because Lazarus is a nasty straight man who decides that he doesn't want Gerald in his butt. Protip: straight men usually don't like dick.
March 4th, 2010: The Epic Beginning Post: 4: IT KEEPS ON GOING
Gerald wants to join the military, and George likes to train people, and George is the only person in the town that likes Gerald. Gogogo, training session!
The family's about to move out of their one-bathroom house! This is how absolutely cluttered the house now is. They sell it all except the easel and books and then move out to a bigger house with much lower-quality furnishings. Bleh, MONEY/BILLS/nsalkgdnaslg.
Today I learned that Sims can make fun of snobs.
This is basically the only time that the entire family is sitting down to a meal together, so I took this picture. From left to right: Gerald, Bryant, Hannah, Charlotte, George. They're eating cheesesteak subs, George's favorite meal.
Gerald wants to join the military, and George likes to train people, and George is the only person in the town that likes Gerald. Gogogo, training session!
The family's about to move out of their one-bathroom house! This is how absolutely cluttered the house now is. They sell it all except the easel and books and then move out to a bigger house with much lower-quality furnishings. Bleh, MONEY/BILLS/nsalkgdnaslg.
Today I learned that Sims can make fun of snobs.
This is basically the only time that the entire family is sitting down to a meal together, so I took this picture. From left to right: Gerald, Bryant, Hannah, Charlotte, George. They're eating cheesesteak subs, George's favorite meal.
March 4th, 2010: The Epic Beginning Post: 5: People I Dislike: Darken
Gerald is cute, and scoping out married men. He finds one and breaks him (I may or may not have cheated a tiny little bit to make the man go bi).
I lied when I said that George was the only person who liked Gerald; Kiki is his best friend and the person he was calling the first time he tried to commit suicide. Gerald ran into her while at a public pool.
Charlotte is old and making some decent cash from her book royalties, George is now a Superstar and thirty seconds away from going grey himself, and they like to garden together like all cute old couples should.
EL FIN DE HOY:
A tasteful picture of Hannah in the bath. "Tasteful." Notice how her nose exploded into a pointy mess when she got a little older.
Gerald is cute, and scoping out married men. He finds one and breaks him (I may or may not have cheated a tiny little bit to make the man go bi).
I lied when I said that George was the only person who liked Gerald; Kiki is his best friend and the person he was calling the first time he tried to commit suicide. Gerald ran into her while at a public pool.
Charlotte is old and making some decent cash from her book royalties, George is now a Superstar and thirty seconds away from going grey himself, and they like to garden together like all cute old couples should.
EL FIN DE HOY:
A tasteful picture of Hannah in the bath. "Tasteful." Notice how her nose exploded into a pointy mess when she got a little older.
post=126842post=126804why is this unsurprising
Obligatory Half-naked Doll Image
What's surprising is that the shoes on the very right belong to a man who had no pants/shirt because I accidentally deleted some of my custom content or something!
tardis: Do you get hit by a bus every day!?
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Craze you actually make The Sims look fun. Maybe it's the way you present it. Maybe I just don't have the imagination required to make my own fun in it like you do. Maybe I should kill myself.
fake edit: Maybe I'm already dead.
fake edit: Maybe I'm already dead.
Black: Not everything here is in the base game (which is still $50 iirc); I also have World Adventures and the super-sexy High-End Loft Stuff pack, as well as stuff that I may or may not have acquired from the Sims 3 Store (which is incredibly overpriced, so please never actually buy anything from there, PM me and I can hook you up with some custom content).
One of the coolest things about The Sims is that the modding/meshing/storytelling communities are probably the biggest out of any game ever. If you guys want, I'll share which mods I use, some CC I enjoy (I don't use much because I'm a picky bastard, though) and my favorite user-made stories. Also, I'm willing to go into more detail about my actual sims during the updates if you're interested in mechanics.
uh: The Sims 3 really helps your imagination, since each Sim has up to five traits that define his or her personality; they help as a guide in how to apply a personality. In fact, I barely have to add fun quirks to my characters - almost all of the screenshots I took just sort of happened as Sims did their own thing. The best part of TS3 above its predecessors is that you can focus on the Sim you want - the rest of the family won't thrive++, but they'll take care of themselves quite well. This is good because I am running five adults at the minute!
It's also cute because Sims have situational and conditional Wishes. Bryant is a Good Sim, so whenever one of his friends gets married he rolls up the Wish to congratulate them on it.
One of the coolest things about The Sims is that the modding/meshing/storytelling communities are probably the biggest out of any game ever. If you guys want, I'll share which mods I use, some CC I enjoy (I don't use much because I'm a picky bastard, though) and my favorite user-made stories. Also, I'm willing to go into more detail about my actual sims during the updates if you're interested in mechanics.
uh: The Sims 3 really helps your imagination, since each Sim has up to five traits that define his or her personality; they help as a guide in how to apply a personality. In fact, I barely have to add fun quirks to my characters - almost all of the screenshots I took just sort of happened as Sims did their own thing. The best part of TS3 above its predecessors is that you can focus on the Sim you want - the rest of the family won't thrive++, but they'll take care of themselves quite well. This is good because I am running five adults at the minute!
It's also cute because Sims have situational and conditional Wishes. Bryant is a Good Sim, so whenever one of his friends gets married he rolls up the Wish to congratulate them on it.
uh
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Well Craze I'm starting to realize that my thing with The Sims 3 is that I have mainly watched people do a terrible job of playing it, either just having a hard time with the simulation itself (probably due to a poor grasp of how real life works much like someone who has never flown before crashing repeatedly during a flight sim) or doing dumb things like making tons of almost-naked old people who run around with 500lbs of rotten fish and dairy in their pockets screaming at children and stealing their parents' flatware for hours, sometimes days after it has gotten old. The Sims (1) actually helped me kill a lot of time during those slow nights at my high school job and I thoroughly liked the concept, although I really wished it had more depth. Your particular Sims 3 setup sounds like exactly what I wanted in that regard. So yeah, u hav opend my eyes more pics pls.
I saw the high end loft pack at GameStop when I was going to buy an Xbox three sixty controller (only to find that you can't assign keys to buttons for PC play.).And is the stuff you've shown so far custom content and basic stuff alone or is there some World Adventures stuff?
When I say I use little CC, I mean I use very little CC. I think I have some paintings, a clock, and some plants. Maybe a counter or chair or something. Everything you see in those screenshots is virtually always going to be base game, World Adventures, or HELS. Mostly HELS when I can afford it because it is sexy.
Quoting this image for explanation:
The desktop PC, exercise machine, and stereo are from HELS. Some of the paintings and I think the rocks are from WA. The rest is base game material or from the online store (like the sofa and dining room chairs; ultra lounge and hewnsman, respectively).
Hannah's entire (awesome) outfit (see the dinner table picture) is from World Adventures, btw.
Quoting this image for explanation:
The desktop PC, exercise machine, and stereo are from HELS. Some of the paintings and I think the rocks are from WA. The rest is base game material or from the online store (like the sofa and dining room chairs; ultra lounge and hewnsman, respectively).
Hannah's entire (awesome) outfit (see the dinner table picture) is from World Adventures, btw.
March 5th, 2010: The Day When Everything Broke
GANGS OF SUNSET VALLEY
This starts almost immediately after the previous/first update. I am trying to add a bit more spice/story, so bear with me. Tell me if you want me to focus on random silliness, the current style, more story, whatever.
George has developed a fondness for crops now that he isn't an MVP. He and Charlotte work them almost every day before settling in to read/write/cook away. George also has a few other things he does...
...because Bryant has decided that the best way to work on his career is to run around breaking everything.
Well, that's what old men are for!
CHARLOTTE STOP BREAKING THE SHOWER
GANGS OF SUNSET VALLEY
This starts almost immediately after the previous/first update. I am trying to add a bit more spice/story, so bear with me. Tell me if you want me to focus on random silliness, the current style, more story, whatever.
George has developed a fondness for crops now that he isn't an MVP. He and Charlotte work them almost every day before settling in to read/write/cook away. George also has a few other things he does...
...because Bryant has decided that the best way to work on his career is to run around breaking everything.
Well, that's what old men are for!
CHARLOTTE STOP BREAKING THE SHOWER
