This marks my 700th blog post here.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
«Headless Evil»
The Grim Reaper in my Sims 3 legacy is not without a few glitches. I don't think it was ever planned to be able to have the Grim Reaper in your family like I do.
First off, he has no head when in some work outfits! For example, here's Grim in his work outfit as the Emperor of Evil.
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Yikes! Though I guess it suits the job.
Another glitch that is quite beneficial is the Grim Reaper does not age (as I mentioned earlier). Right now he is "younger" than his granddaughter. This allows him to accomplish things that a regular sim wouldn't be able to in their lifetime.
The last major glitch I've noticed is rather annoying. He can't call or invite anyone over. Despite the fact that he's good friends with half the neighborhood, the game says he doesn't know anyone well enough to call them.
Oh well. I'll take the bad with the good. The immortal lifespan is well worth it!
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
«Caturday: Floating Bucket Conductor»
I like the ones where the cat "sees" the text.
Friday, November 6, 2009
«Hover Over the House Thumbnails»
On my Sims 3 Zenge family page, I added more images of the legacy house. I wanted to show the inside of each level. In order to do that, I have 6 small thumbnail images over the larger screenshot of the house.
If you hover your mouse over one of the small thumbnail images, the larger one will now switch to it (assuming you have javascript enabled). I also made it so it switches if you click them. At first, this seems redundant. After all, how can you click something without first hovering your mouse over it? Answer: the iPhone.
With the iPhone, you don't have a cursor, so you can't "hover" over something. I've ran into this problem on a different site. They had that blacked out spoiler text, where you have to hover your cursor over it to reveal it. On the iPhone, I couldn't reveal the text. I made sure that the little house thumbnails would still work for the iPhone and touch pads, where you can't hover over them.
I've found myself "stroking" the little thumbnail images. I run my mouse back and forth over them and watch the floors of the house go up and down...
Thursday, November 5, 2009
«It's Those Tides Again»
Similar to when we had the 19 foot tide on December 14th, 2008, yesterday we had an 18 foot tide. Only difference is we had a storm surge on top of it yesterday. 60 mph gusts and such. Click an image to view full.
The water level is a little higher than it was with the 19 foot tide on a calm day.
Yeah, I think if that car owner were a little more mindful of the tides they wouldn't have left it there. Salt water wreaks havoc on break pads.
Good thing the sea through here stays relatively calm...
That building is new. Before it was built there, I've seen that lot flood with tidewater during a storm. I don't think they put in that much extra fill, either.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
«Vernell the Thief»
Vernell (from my Sims 3 legacy) is well on her way. She has a beautiful set of traits, and I am taking full advantage of them.
I've always wanted a Grim Reaper statue in my family's backyard graveyard. However, the statue can only be bought on community lots (not household lots). There is a way to get it though... You need a Kleptomaniac sim, and it just so happens that Vernell is one. I sent her to the town graveyard and after stealing some random guy's remains, she stole the Grim Reaper statue in the graveyard. Then you can go back home and into buy mode, where you copy the statue with the eyedropper tool. You can then return the original.
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Vernell married some hot-headed jackass named Buck. He doesn't really have any redeeming traits. Buck is the type of guy that would come home drunk and beat his wife. There weren't many options for a mate. My neighborhood is dying, they're mostly all old people now. I have the game patch to thank for that. The patch fixed the problem of random children appearing in single parent households. However, I think those random children were needed to maintain the neighborhood's population.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
«Innocence of a Child»
As a grade-school assignment, one little girl drew this when asked to draw a picture of what she wanted to be when she grew up. Dear Mrs. Severson,
The teacher sent a note home with the student asking about the odd drawing and a note accompanied the child the following day explaining the drawing's meaning:
Moral of the story: Don't forget to check your child's homework!
I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer.
I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot.
From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Anita Sampson
Yes, this story is all over the internet. So what? Now it's here, too. I'm sure it's new to some of you.
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