Um yeah so. I had some computer problems (don't ask) but they're mainly resolved now, but in the meantime I went back to retro console gaming and I'm having a good time playing Ocarina of Time and Chrono Trigger, so I'm kind of not in a sims mood right now. I'm sure I've missed a ton of crap... I'll catch up someday.

Also I had this small problem with my neighborhood exploding. I don't know what happened, but I went to open it one day and it just wouldn't. I'm pretty sure I tried every possible solution for this and nothing worked, so now I'd have to open my last backup and play through like a week and a half that I lost. This doesn't sound like too much of a problem, only here's what happened in that week and a half:

--the legacy boys grew to teen and one of them was abducted by aliens
--Lance finished 50 dates
--Lance called up 49 of those dates and broke it off
--JC spawned a plantbaby who's the perfect storm of ugly
--legacy house had a huge facelift
--I played every house in the neighborhood that had kids and aged them to teen

This was hours and hours and hours of playing. I can't recreate the abduction without cheating, which I may do anyway because, fuck it. But the plantbaby is just lost and there's no guarantee I can get one that looked the same. Also, I was so averse to having trashcan kicking funtimes that I made Lance influence every one of his dates to "cheat" with someone else so he'd be furious with them but not vice versa. Do you know how long it takes to influence 49 people to flirt with someone else? A LONG GODDAMN TIME.

So now I've spoiled what should have been a funny surprise in my next update, but whatever. My point is, I look at this pile of crap I have to deal with and now playing this game just seems like a horrible burden instead of fun. I know I will eventually cowboy up and deal with it but for now, ugh, I just want to make Link kill some monsters.

P.S. Does anyone know of an easy way to make those hearts go away with Lance's dates? I'd like him to be faithful to his wife (in his relationship panel) and at this point I think I'm not averse to cheating, because doing all that work again is just... ugh. Can the Insiminator do this? I have no experience with it and the manual is about as thick as War and Peace.

Hey, I'm not dead--just wanted to put that out there. I had some shitty technical problems and then I got busy with other things so Sims are on the back burner for now. See you all again soon, I hope.

Strangetown suddenly won't open, and I've been trying to fix it for almost two hours. If I can't make it open soon, I have to revert to my backup. Where the legacy kids are still... kids. And that means... no abduction.

*screams and kicks things*

I was SO SURE I made a new backup after the abduction BUT OF COURSE I DID NOT PLEASE KILL ME

I had this small problem a while (like a friggin' year) back, wherein I had a black-eyed alien and a brown-eyed human sim breed and they gave me two kids with human skin and "brown" eyes. Problem was, I couldn't tell whether they were supposed to really have brown eyes, or whether they were showing that way because of the glitch where alien eyes won't show up with non-alien skin. And I couldn't check their DNA with lovely non-Mac SimPE. Today I finally got off my ass and threw some default eyes into my DL folder. It worked!

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I was really hoping that simsecret would be an amusing send-up of the angsty solipsism of PostSecret, or at least that I would get to read secrets like "the simming world knows me as Candi, but in reality I am a CPA from Boise and my name is Stu Weinerburger." But it turns out it's mainly an excuse for catty bitches to anonymously bash other people in the LJ legacy community. What a revolting waste of potential!

Sooo... when did Hula Zombie become Shiva Zombie? Is this a Seasons thing? Have the hula girls discovered Hinduism, or perhaps Judaism?

New chapter is up.

http://forums.boolprop.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=21093
(link to thread on Boolprop.com)

Good lord and butter.

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One of my male sims just got ABDUCTED! omgomgomgomgomgYAYZ



"Stop squeeing and get this damn thing off my head!"

Various spoilers:

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Oh man, I was squealing at the computer like a crazy person when I saw my sims running for the telescope. I think I do want to get Free Time when it's available for Mac, and I'll definitely want to summon aliens. Still, the joy I get from the random, unforceable abductions is one of my biggest pleasures in this game.

I took Lance and JC to check in on Plant One Right Here. Also employed there, as always, are Johnson Pai and (the late?) Aaroc. So anyway, this is what I see when I open the lot.

( no! don't go in that door! )