hello friends

Everyone at work got two locally-made truffles today! Free chocolate is the best chocolate.

Also, sims. Yessss made it to posting 3.2 while still playing gen 3. It's way more fun to play than to post, but then I want to look back over previous adventures and realize I can't.




General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: gen 3 was born, in the form of Cassandra! Hayden died, and jerkface Derek and Titania tried to bathe the hula zombies. Triplet boys were born -- Jeremy, Michael, and Duncan. Michael secured a spot in my heart early on by first puking on jerkface Derek, and then turning out to have zero nice points. Hayden's ghost roamed the halls, scaring everyone except the Knowledge sim who would have enjoyed it. With Titania's lifebar growing perilously full, I threw her a family reunion so she could spend some time with all her various descendants.

( Grimmy is sort of like a Bizarroverse Santa Claus. He has to be potentially everywhere in the world at 6PM every day. )

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

The end of generation 2! Gen 3 is going to be either six or seven parts. I don't know because I'm not quite done playing it. (Finish posting 2 before finishing playing 3 win!)

Also I decided I didn't like the rate at which I was using up my LJ storage space, so I'm throwing everything on photobucket for this post. We'll see whether that causes the heat-death of the entire universe or anything like that. (It does turn out to cause extreme irritation when I discover that if you edit a picture, keep the same filename, and then re-upload, then what actually winds up in your photobucket album is the old version, even if you save to and upload from a new folder! GOOD JOB PHOTOBUCKET GUYS)




General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Eula was possessed by an eldritch thing from beyond Yuggoth~went all the way~ with her college-age girlfriend, then left for college herself. Ruthie went steady with jerkface Derek the paperboy, then followed everyone else to young-adult-hood! I moved the kids into the Yig Hall dorms, which I picspam'd because I could. Classes were attended, majors were declared, and the lot got half-filled with invisible date reward objects before I put a stop to the madness. Edda had a matchmaker date with a bi dude who was more attracted to her brother than to her (this will be important later). Ruthie and jerkface Derek ~took the next step in their relationship~ (in bed). Eula proposed to her girlfriend Brandi. Edda wrote in her diary about writing in her diary.

( Finally, a little bit of drama! Also a llama. )

Next time: generation 3!

...and how did this post and last post get set as being made in March? I never touched the month dropdown on this post, and on the last post I accidentally changed it to January and then explicitly set it back to February...

I think this is the first Merrick entry where I start adding animations! I do this even though creating animated gifs in the gimp is stupidly complicated. FOR YOUUUUU. I DO IT FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUU~~~




Last time: the lot stopped breaking! Edda dated a dude old enough to be her grandpa, then had her first kiss with a random teen. Eula became a child, and Ruthie, the last child of gen 2, was born. The grocery lady took a bed, which made me sad. Mark became a teen and rolled Romance, delighting me with the sexy walk. I hated the nanny a lot. Ruthie hit toddler, then child; Eula hit teen and stymied my attempts to not make her look like a drag queen; Titania became an elder in adorable hair that made me sad again because I don't actually have it in gray. Titania then got promoted to party DJ, because I know I don't find it a good party till my grandma is the one spinnin' the tunes.

( It's a celebration. Observe me celebrating. )

Mmmyep.

Last time: Titania Merrick existed. She met a bunch of dudes, and married one of them. They lived together in a crappy little house.

Generation 2 wound up being 6 parts. That is just heck of ridiculous! But here's part 1.

( wibble )

Boop boop beep! That there is a post.

2.2 will come as soon as I feel like cropping/resizing/jpgificating another 70ish screenshots, uploading them all to LJ, and obsessively proofreading the post only to then realize ten seconds after publishing it that I missed a typo or a malformatted HTML tag or something.

So basically all I do with my free time these days is play Sims 2! Because I loves it. And I have begun to play a legacy, because that's something I've wanted to do ever since I read about it years ago, but it's impossible in Sims 1 because genetics basically don't exist.

Nobody who is likely to read this will particularly care about my hastily-scribbled descriptions of the events in a half-decade-old game. I DON'T CARE. I'munna keep going until I get bored.

So here is my founder:

Her name is Titania, I made her in CAS, and she is going to have, like, a billion descendants.

MORE TO FOLLOW YO.