What did I just do?

Well, now that NaNo is over, I've had time to play The Sims 2 again. So what did I just do? Did I make all my NaNo characters into Sims and build them their own custom district? Yesidid.

If you're curious, here's Izzy:

(If you're wondering about the sparkles, they were caused by witches. I am one hundred percent serious.)

And here's Magda (red hair will be along shortly).

The fact that she's in her underwear studying cooking in the middle of the day is not what bothers me about this picture. Instead, what gets to me is the chef. He waltzed into their flat, walked up to her, and started ranting about Sue's Secret Kitchen. And what is she doing? Looking at his crotch and thinking about twinkies! D:<

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Magda's club has to have a band. So, meet The Band family.


Singer of the Band.

I am uncomfortably attracted to her hair. She is, unsurprisingly, the most photogenic of the group, and as a result there are eight thousand screenshots of her at The Band's album.


Drummer of the Band.

Yes. Nothing screams "I am a douchebag" like those shades.


Bassist and Guitarist of the Band, respectively.
Do I sense a little puppy love from the goth for his cougar counterpart? (And isn't he too young for a nipple ring?)

Er, no. Apparently not. (on both counts.)


Definitely not.


Magda gave them all an interview which consisted of sitting on the sidewalk in front of their house and talking, blocking traffic and being barked at by itinerant dogs. How long did it take? Three days. It rained, hell, it hailed, and there were wolves, and still they sat there and chatted.


In case you were wondering, staring at that for three days of game time is boring. So I surfed the web instead.

You have been warned. And I strongly encourage you to head over and check out the entire album. Really.

Pictures don't count.

I can't help it. They're too sparkly not to share! D:

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Click through for more witchy piccies! (Warning: high sparkly content!)

That's it. I quit!

I just watched the WrenSim buy a stripper pole from a vampire.

My latest project.

I am working on a neighborhood of pixiepeople. If you click the link, you'll go to a slideshow of screenshots of the NPCs. That's right. I made custom NPCs. It's a from-scratch neighborhood, and once I am completely done revamping the auto-generated NPCs there will not be a single human in it.

I'm making a lot of custom content for it, too. Special walls, flooring, pillars (the houses are treehouses, so the bottom story is open-air, generally surrounding a tree-trunk.) I'm also working on a new bath set that is made of mossy stone--bathtub, sink, mirror, and possibly toilet.

My favorite part, though, is the singing plant. Pixies should not dance in front of stereos. Rather, I figure they'd be able to listen to the sounds of the forest and boogie away like that. Hopefully, I will be able to add musical notes to it, too.

Don't even get me started on the pixie television. You don't want to know.

So anyway, that's what I have been doing. Once I am done with the neighborhood, I get to upload the entire thing to MTS2 and prosper.

A Minor Disagreement

Please, Please, PLEASE click through for the large.

(AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA>)

The Sims 2 has officially driven me to the brink of insanity.

There are more things wrong with that situation than I can adequately explain. (Just FYI, the dancing man is a vampire.)

Wren!Sim 2.1-- make that final~

Click for slideshow of amazingness.

If this one goes insane, I am quitting life.

For reference, the old Wren!Sim is here.

THIS. IS. NOT. HOMEWORK!

[/Leonidas]

Well, I got bored and hopped onto the tutorial section of Mod the Sims 2. I am now creating a custom career that revolves around zookeeping, and I have another one in the works for my Mafia families. I'll post the text when I am done.

Someone put me out of my misery with a sedative, please.

They REALLY need to stop doing this to me.

When things like that happen at 5AM, Wren gets a little terrified.

Aaand version 3

I'd recommend heading over to Flickr and seeing how everything updated. I'm learning how to mesh so I can fix her glasses and hair, so expect something totally, originally mine soon. XD

I have gone insane.

I really need to stop creating custom characters on Sims II. (Then again, I am a little bit manic, and there are worse ways to spend my time.) Here's my most recent work in progress-- Agatha Clay, the heroine of Girl Genius.



Click the photo to head over to Flickr and see the entire set. I have the basic creation process outlined over there already.

Ah, now that's out of my head, maybe I can sleep and then focus on homework.

It really looks like this is what they were listening to. D:

I don't listen to Sims music when I play anymore, so imagine my surprise when I saw them dancing to Loose Ends. Nabbed a vid because I am learning how to use their video capture function, posted it here because I was bored.

And weirded out. I mean look at them! o.o

This was long overdue.

I have been holding off making a Sims post here because I know so few of you play. However, I believe the recent hijinks are weird enough to keep you all entertained-- and quite possibly wondering why I play the game at all.

I don't know how many of you remember my attempts to make a WrenSim last summer. I did end up making one, and put her into play. I haven't played her much, however, because in all honesty I find it slightly creepy to watch myself live. Go figure. But, I do see her around a lot, as she is friends with many of my Sims, and also has taken an unusual liking to a local park. Par for the course, right? Well, I certainly hope not!

Because I never play her, I have no idea why this happened, but I can say with absolute certainty that the WrenSim has gone insane. As in, collapsed on the floor of a store, giggling madly and rocking back and forth insane. As in, little men in white coats coming to take her away insane. That's right. I watched myself go crazy. (Needless to say, I will be remaking the WrenSim.)

Then again, there may be something in the water of this neighborhood. For example, I give to you the hijinks that ensued between the Hikari and the Thane families. The Hikari family had a couple of children that I wanted to become teenagers, so I left the game running while I was packing the house up. I leave them alone for about 30 minutes, and come back to find that the Hikari wife has started an affair with the Thane husband. Alright, fine. Until I realize that they're having sex in a car outside of a bowling alley. Not so fine.

It gets better. The Hikari wife becomes pregnant with the Thane husband's child. I happen to like the Hikari husband, so I don't want her random adultery to come to light. Unfortunately, the Hikari family is quite Japanese, while the Thane family is quite Anglo-Saxon. It's not going to be that easy to hide a half-Japanese child.

Luckily, the Hikari husband is an idiot. The dark-haired, pale-skinned, green-eyed, freckled child is born, and he loves him. Never catches on. Everyone else knows, but oh no. "Daddy" is oblivious. Meanwhile, mommy keeps having nightmares about getting caught.

Now that I think about it, it may just be the Thane family that's insane. Most of the hijinks I have to pass on deal with them in one way or another. Take their eldest legitimate daughter for example. She refuses to do her homework, does horribly in school, and becomes a quite maladjusted adult. (There was nothing I could do about it, I swear!) I decided she should marry the town founder, who is both old and rich. After all, she seems slated for the role of trophy wife. Unfortunately, she decides to leave him at the altar, which sends him into the fiery depths of fury. He keeps asking me to see her ghost, so I finally oblige and have her starve to death in the second story of their house (we are not discussing that). The day after she dies, he marries his maid.

...

There is nothing I can say to add to that story. It is both funny enough and horrible enough on its own. Buh.

Flash forward to tonight. The Thane wife gets caught cheating on the Thane husband in their own bedroom. He kicks her on the street, and she promptly moves in with another man whom she works with (my doing). The Hikari wife decides to take this chance to take her half-Japanese son and move in with the Thane husband (also my doing).

Oddly enough, I think everyone is happy now. Except the youngest legitimate Thane daughter, who has no nose. I'm not kidding. And I'm definitely not letting her breed with any other Sims. She clearly has some sort of flesh-eating disease that she will pass on to the next generation if I'm not careful.

I am so many kinds of awesome

I finally found a Sim that will work for me. I still need to tweak her mouth a little, and the hair is a bit long, but I present to you the almost-complete Wrensim anyway!


This is mostly just to show you the eyes and the freckles. Cheeks are too plump at this point, and I abandoned that hairstyle in favor of one where the hair is down.





Full body. I think I did pretty damned good on my profile. I had no idea what my profile even LOOKED like before I started this. I may be, you know, ME, but I discovered that I had spent very little time actually paying attention to what I look like. Maddo and Sarah I did from memory, but me? Had to use just about every damned picture of me I own. (And that's a lot of pictures.)


Action shot one. Pensive Wren?

...I am SO putting grommets on that belt.


Action shot two. Could that possibly be a SMILE? >>

And then for a formal outfit, I decided that nothing but a femtux would do. Again, ignore the old hairstyle. (Though it doesn't look bad with the tophat!)


Ohhhh yeah.

Shakespeare just got to get paid, son.

Sarahsim is complete as scheduled. Next I am going to start work on Daryl, because Matt should be the easiest, and I CANNOT MAKE A SIM THAT LOOKS LIKE ME. Look. LOOK.


..Okay, ignore what she's doing, because that's actually pretty accurate.

Needs more bondage belt. And more glasses. I require librarian glasses.

But Sarahsim turned out quite well once I finally found hair that would work. She comes in two colors: blonde and black.



Some of the humor comes from the clothing names. Her bottom set is "Dark Jeans with All-Weather Black Sandals." If you know Sarah, you get it instantly. >>

I'm still trying to find her a black jacket. If I can figure out how to do some more hardcore editing, I'll be able to make her one.

I'm headed out of town until the 1st or so, so I won't be online much, but I'll be reachable by phone, e-mail, and blog. Sim project is on hiatus until I get back; Squeaker doesn't have Sims on it, and I'm leaving Papoose at work for the boys since we're terribly short next week and most of them will be stuck dispatching for eight hours or more. Putting a patrolperson behind a desk is a cruel crime.

And, before I go, a tale of three hundred cheerleaders and one old pervert. (I am so glad I get paid what I do. This and the cobweb+eye thing happened less than 24 hours apart. I have to GET A NEW CONTACT LENS.)

Ew.

Last night I was doing housing checks at 11PM and got a cobweb in my eye. Yeah, let's just combine my two phobias into one lovely package! I was so distracted when this happened that I ended up walking through a bush. Yes, through. I was on the phone with Mike. He can testify.

My probation ended today, so I am now officially UPS Security. I was told they liked me because I was reliable and am willing to help cover other people's shifts...and that I patrol with Partnerman too much. That's not my fault; I've told him it's an issue, and he will meet up with me anyway. But, summer is almost over, and I'll end up with new people in the fall, most likely, so I'm not too worried about this.

I have to finalize the Maddosim (she still needs an athletic outfit, and I want to tweak her eye color) and the Sarahsim (which I tested briefly before work) before I catch my plane tomorrow. I am still having a hard time getting my sim right. I guess I just need to break down and make a Read shirt and throw on some cargos and call it a day.

I heard you were dead (redux)

Nope, just recreating Comic House again. I cancelled my WoW account and bought The Sims 2, and have since been modding and skinning the game like crazy. My own character is proving very difficult to get right due to a lack of decent glasses templates, so last night I gave up and decided to work on Maddo.

Here is the real deal:


And here is the Maddosim:


There are a couple of differences, of course. The glasses are the wrong shape (but I did change the color to make them work better,) and real Maddo isn't wearing lipstick or smiling in her picture. XP*

I also made Maddosim an outfit that reminds me of two pieces of clothing I really associate with her. The shirt is her "The Protean Self" band shirt- hence the drama masks, and the pants are...red plaid pants. The original pants I used were gothic, had huge flares, and there were skulls and grommets everywhere. They were also guy's pants. So look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.



I'm going to try to tweak the belt to work better with the cut of the pants, and give her close-toed slippers instead of those sandals. The hair is a style I found online that I recolored to match her bleached red hair that she loved (and misses muchly.)

I made a Superman pj/underwear set for her, too, but the sim looks so much like her that I don't feel comfortable posting the screencap online. >.<; (The same goes for her swimsuit.) I'll probably make a Spiderman set, too, but the S logo was a lot easier to edit on than the webbing would be. (Daryl is totally getting Spidey boxers, tho.)

But, I will show you the formal dress I edited for her. It reminds me of a lot of her more formal clothes, among them the silk pants set she wore to Typhoon during that weekend in Seattle.



And that's it. That is why I am sitting here at work and am incredibly tired and headachy. Luckily this is my only 12-hour shift this go-round.

I'm going to start work on Sarah as soon as I can find a hairstyle that works. Why does no one make long hair tucked behind the ears? COME ON PEOPLE. That and standalone cartilage piercings seem to be impossible to locate.

Ohwait. I've just had an apostrophe. Now I just need to get back home to my editing program and try it out.