This weekend I saw a bunch of awesome indie horror movies at the Muvico theater in Greater Chicago Area! Seven of them were zombie films, and predictably enough, there was very little in these offerings that was even tolerant of the Differently Animated, let alone accepting. I did get to see Juan Of The Dead finally, though (it was awesome aside from all, y'know, the anti-zombie violence). And Thirsty for the fourth time. We bought slushies at the concession stand for Thirsty, because you gotta get your slushy. I really wish they would put it out on DVD already, or at least put up a trailer that gives you a better idea of how much awesomeness you're getting. I'm not even linking to the trailer because it sort of ruins some of the surprises of the film.

We also went to IKEA, but once again I was cheated and saw little in the way of oak or pine, and absolutely no Norsemen.




General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Generation three heir Michael woohooed with lots of women, and managed to get some of them pregnant! Four babies were born: Drew, to townie Jaiden Trimble; Adrian, to furry llama cultist Daisy Smith; Toby, to Maxis-made playable dormie Roxie Sharpe; and Aldo, to townie Trista Raha. Drew was left on the floor stewing in his own poop a lot. Michael decided that teaching his babies how to do things was as much or more fun than doing the thing which makes more babies, which is frankly kind of messed up for a Romance sim. There was a family reunion where 4234853892 Merricks showed up, and gen 3 spare Jeremy cried like a little baby. We finished up with all the kids as children except for Aldo, who was still a toddler.

( Even if you're not gonna drink it, you should still get it, y'know? Get the most out of life. )

Next time: Aldo becomes a teenager, and the last baby of gen 4 is born! Merrick teenagers continue to be abducted by aliens, and Merrick ghosts continue to make people pee themselves. Michael gets old, all the kids leave for college, and I finally make a new Merrick icon out of one of my favorite Merrick screenshots ever. SO EXCITINGGGGG

Whoops, so much for my plan to put up an update each weekend. Last weekend, uh... I was on... vacation. Yeah. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Next weekend I really will be on vacation. *mocking trombone*




General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: everyone amped the creep-factor up to 11! The llama mascot, who is now an evil comic-book villain because I say so, unleashed his fiendish plot to make cheerleaders pee themselves. Some dude stood behind a tree to staaaaare at college girls. Cassandra decided that being a Knowledge sim meant she should have sex with as many dudes as possible, and Jeremy and Crystal had a nice long talk about their incestuous urges. Michael dated the cow! Duncan dated a dormie named Dominic! And Cassandra got slapped around by blue hair on account of that whole SLEEPING WITH MULTIPLE DUDES IN SEQUENCE thing.

( Heehee bawk-bawk-bawk derrrrp. )

Next time: generation four! Bastards everywhere! Screaming babies! And Michael starts getting confused on just how a Romance sim should be handling the situation.

I'm listening to mecha badmouth Frank Lloyd Wright to his mom on the phone. It's pretty hilarious.




General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: the second set of triplets got into private school through the magic of bad schmoozing gaining positive schmooze points. Cassandra got abducted by aliens! But she didn't get teen alien pregnant, which made me sad. Then she almost had hot tub sex with a hot alien college boy, except Duncan interrupted her by getting abducted. Cass went off to college; the second set of triplets hit teen, and Knute was the THIRD child of the generation to want to get abducted by aliens. These last three kids all annoyed me by being pretty. Ruthie and jerkface Derek got old, I sent the older triplets to college, and Knute got abducted and then IMMEDIATELY rolled the want to do it again.

( I've rerouted this post through the primary ODN conduits using a spatula. )

Next time: things get creepy.

I actually wrote up a house tour in between 3.2 and 3.3. So here it is instead of a real update! Suckerrrrs.


General warning: sometimes I swear.

Specific warning: 25 pictures, now with moar pause lines, of the house in what I think is FINALLY its ultimate form, at least until Frieza comes back with his cousins Kenmore and Maytag and we all need to undergo power level inflation again. Spoils the number of kids in gen 3 and their names/some of their appearances but nothing else really.

( HOWSE )

Next time: aliens! Birthdays! Disappointingly attractive children! Old people! More aliens! And a fine sprinkling of blasphemy to top things off. (For real this time.)

I'm beginning to think it's a rule that I have to reference or link to Hyperbole And A Half in at least 75% of all Merrick posts.




General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: jerkface Derek joined the Merrick gen 2 kids in uni, in his capacity as spouse-elect to the gen 3 heir, Ruthie. Eula got uni pregnant! Edda got uni pregnant! Edda miscarried. Then she got uni pregnant again! Also, I proved to my satisfaction that the gypsy hated Edda, based on a series of blind dates with gay or bi guys who were more attracted to Mark. For his part, Mark broke a Family sim's heart by not seeing their one date together as the beginning of a lifetime commitment. Everyone graduated, Ruthie went back to the legacy house, she and Derek got married, and gen 3 became imminent.

( babiesssss )

Next time: Generation one fades officially into the past, and there are MORE CHILDREN YES BECAUSE WE NEED THOSE

I really need to finish posting gen 2 before I've finished playing gen 3. At least gen 2 is only going to be 5 parts after all.




General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Hayden got old, and Ruthie became a teenager! Eula got a crush on... I'm not sure, an air molecule or something. The kids each had a date or three, and Ruthie found herself attracted to jerkface Derek the paperboy. I made the Merrick house really awesome, and Titania felt that the thing that best summed up her reaching her LTW was the hot tub that they didn't actually own. Hayden's own LTW-reaching apparently didn't involve fantasy hot tubs. There was a fire! Many feathers were sacrificed on the altar of awesome fun times! And I realized the lot was full of gremlinsinvisible date reward objects.

( College ahead! Also, pixel sex. )

I'm still, a generation later, debating whether to download a no-censor-blur hack. On the one hand, the blur can block faces and such from some angles, which messes up picture-taking; on the other, I think some of my downloaded skins aren't barbie, and I really really don't want a faceful of pixelbits. First world problems, my friends.

I just finished playing 3.2, so I should probably post 2.2. It's just that making a post takes like an hour and a half -- cropping/resizing/jpging the screenshots, and then uploading them and sticking them in the right bits of the post and blaaah. So boring. UNLIKE THIS UPDATE AMIRITE



Last time: the lot broke, twice! There was a burglar and a ghostly-but-not-actually-a-ghost grocery delivery woman. Somewhere in there Titania gave birth to three children, Edda, Mark and Eula. Then she threw up.

( Love is in the air... or is that the plumbing again? )

Preamble:
This is a Sims 2 legacy using a founder I created, and all Maxis townie spouses -- basically, I've got all ten billion Pleasantview Sims in my custom neighborhood, but no desire to just kill them outright. (Yes, I know I could've started with a blank template. Would you like to re-do all the Sim-creating I did before realizing my mistake? Because I wouldn't.) Some of them get makeovers to not be Maxis-y, and get used elsewhere in the 'hood; but some will be cleverly knocked out of the townie pool by marrying them into the Merricks. No rules on spouses besides Maxisity.

I reserve the right to cheat mildly... no motherlode-ing, but I'll kaching if I think events warrant (example: expensive furniture glitches and needs to be burninated and then replaced), and I've got various pieces of the Insimenator in place to change clothes and suchlike. I also have ACR, the downloadable crystal ball, and Pescado's noeatcrap. (And a ton of other mods, but I can't think of any that are really worth mentioning.)

My default replacement skins are bits of pooklet's My Poor Lover. My default replacement eyes are Bruno's Kylie eyes. Although I don't hugely like them, and will probably switch eventually.

SO EXCITING.

( Stuff am here. )

Just short this time, since gen 1 is kind of boring. It looks like updates are averaging around 70 pictures per throughout gen 2, and I think the same is going to be true for gen 3. Not that said updates exist on the Intertubes, you understand; I just write it in notepad++ as I go.