sogoshable

I finished the first scene for the next upcoming Higgs chapter. I even had a photobomber try sneaking into a few shots. Nice try there, buddy.

( one more )

This was my project for the weekend. There's one dilemma I face every time I reinstall my game - I use my own version of the Kim family, but need their house. Now, the logical thing would have been to simply plunk it down somewhere and bin it without the family, but that would've made entirely too much sense. Nonono, I was determined to rebuild it myself from an empty lot. I had two small pictures to use for reference, and the rest I had to try to do from memory, so there may be a few inconsistencies. It was a fun challenge though, and now I have the house, should I need it again in the future.


The Nuclear Nest - rebuilt

( Two more behind the cut... )

Sorry for my absence, my cat became very sick around Christmas, lost his eyesight, and has been unable to care for himself, requiring around the clock care, which hasn't left me with much time for sims. Any pocket of time is now reserved for sleeping, vet visits, and grocery trips. They think he may have cancer, and the protocol to treat this has been long and exhausting. I'd like to thank everyone for the nice comments on allthingsimlish over the holidays though, it was really unexpected and helped cheer me up during this difficult time. Some were left for you too. :)

I've made a few lame attempts at playing in between caring for my cat, but the game went idle each time before I could actually play, giving me that blocky screen that I posted about before. I sucessfully managed to go into it yesterday, and found that it was just as glitched as I had left it. *sigh* So... I downloaded everything I'll need to install the clean templates and start over. Now that I've settled into my new routine more, my desire to play and write has returned. Hopefully my next update will be a more positive one.

Please excuse the bad quality, old-school style screencaps, I didn’t have Fraps loaded,
so I used my camera to take a few pictures of the monitor.


( Hello LCD Monitor )

[ETA] It's because my computer fell asleep while the game was loading, nothing detrimental. I'm a little concerned though, because I haven't had anything like this happen in years, and I needed a new graphics card then. Hey, if that's the case, they should at least be on sale this time of year. :P

Does anyone know if it's ok to package/bin/upload a lot with the breakdancer mat included? My Googlefu doesn't seem to be working at the moment, and I'm a little worried.

I've been playing my families in rotation, thoroughly checking all the lots as I go. Something I neglected to do with the last install. It's funny how many commonly used items are missing, when I had a pretty sizable amount of cc backed up. A few late night downloading frenzies perhaps. Ridable chickens? Not quite sure what I was planning to do with those. :p

I've also been organizing my downloads, and removed hundreds of duplicate files, and who knows how many orphans. After I relocate a few items, I'm going to backup the entire game before progressing any further... and before I break something!!!

I reinstalled TS2 last night. All went pretty smoothly until I got to the Holiday pack, then I got a popup saying that it might not have installed correctly. I hit "retry" and it went through, so I hope that worked, or is just a wacky Win 7 thing. I certainly hope I don't have to redo that all over again. *crossing fingers*

I saved anything that was pertinent to my story, however, I did NOT save the game files. The machine was running so poorly, that it estimated a time of over two hours for the backup, and the computer prior to this got hit with a virus; all my long played games are dust. I'm always leery of saving existing bugs and glitches anyway. Now, I get to put my hood back together as it once was, and play like mad to get everyone caught up to their correct life stages, as well as any life changing events. Oh, and SimPE their genetics so they're not homogeneous. After all that's been taken care of, I can finally sit back and play. I'm really looking forward to this part!

I also have several male sims with the dreaded "RSL-browcombed_puregreenm.package" attached. Does anyone know of a fix for this? I previously deselected it with Clean Installer on my last game, but my hood was already so borked, that I honestly couldn't tell if it had worked or not. It never reappered in my downloads though.

Are you afraid of the dark? I sure am. ;)

I tried making a Simblr account. I know some of you are active on Tumblr, so I thought I'd share: http://sogoshable.tumblr.com/

There's nothing on it as of yet. I made it as an extension of my personal account, so I don't think I can "follow" anyone. On second thought, maybe a separate account would have been better.

To all the mothers out there...