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I feel like I need one of these. Mainly so I don't have to include the list of previous updates in each new post. Links have been updated to point to DW posts instead of the deleted LJ posts.( ... )

I may be on day 7 and counting of some kind of horrible thing that started off as an incipient cold, spent a brief while as a crushing headache, and then mutated into a narcotics-defying cough and a double-ear infection, with some other fun stops along the way; but that doesn't mean I can't edit up a bunch of screenshots in Paint Shop Pro and then type a bunch of stuff into a text edit box!

Previous updates are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.
Any and all Merrick updates may be tw for fighting, infidelity, miscarriage, abductions (of the alien kind), and death.

Last time: generation six finished up college and went home (where in some cases "home" has been redefined as "the Sim Bin for possibly eternity, unless I feel like chucking them into Casa de Spare, I dunno"). Maddie met and proposed to a townie named Cyd! Jinx wasn't quite so lucky in love.

( Is it time to take my antibiotics again yet? )

I literally forgot this game existed for a couple months there... which is weird, considering how many nights I was up till like 3AM playing it not all that long ago.

Previous updates are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.
Any and all Merrick updates may be tw for fighting, infidelity, miscarriage, abductions (of the alien kind), and death.

Last time: Um. What did happen last time...? Okay, the family had five kids, Owen, Lisa, Maddie, Jinx and Keisha. ghost!jerkface Derek haunted Jinx a lot, but Jinx was fine with that because she's a Knowledge sim. The current heir, Doc Boy, and his husband Frances, became each others' arch-nemeses, because Doc Boy was a supervillain and Frances was Captain Hero. Jinx made a friend and then ghost!jerkface Derek killed the friend. All the kids went to college, except then Lisa got college pregnant like right away! YAAAY.

( Lloyd sympathized. )

Next time: Generation 7! Babies everywhere! Also ghosts! Shocking, I know.

Note: this is the spares update for, and should be read after, generation 4.

Previous entries are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.
Any and all Merrick updates may be tw for fighting, infidelity, miscarriage, abductions (of the alien kind), and death.

The heir for generation 4 was Adrian, and the spouse was the former llama cultist Kaylynn. The mainline kids were triplets -- Lyman, Doc Boy, and Arlene. This is the spares update, with Adrian's sibs and their offspring. Most of it was written as I was playing, some months ago.

( Those header images get harder to make the more spare houses I have to stick in 'em. )

So the United States federal government may be shut down because nobody can agree on what's important to pay for (although OBVIOUSLY we can't delay the ~~You Are Required To Give Money To Private Insurers Even If You Can't Afford To Act~~individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, what are you CRAZY, those golden parachutes for insurance company execs aren't gonna build themselves) -- but the Department Of Jenny Playing Sims is always open.

also gonna just say, in general, that any "wait, you disagree with MY political opinions? I thought you were a good person but obviously YOU ARE NOT and I just want you to know that I will NEVER READ YOUR LIVEJOURNAL AGAIN!!!" comments are just gonna result in my lol'ing at your flouncing away like a pouty five-year-old (seriously I've stopped reading LOTS of things because of their authors' viewpoints but it's been a long time since I felt the need to brag to them about it)

BUT ANYWAY

Previous updates are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Adrian died, which made his whole family sad and also me. Keisha became a child, and Jinx became a teenager; the older teens date some random people, although the most interesting thing that happened there was that Owen dated a llama cultist who was actually dropped off for his sister and also who I'm pretty sure has access to Time Lord technology. Then Kaylynn died, which didn't stop Doc Boy from becoming a criminal mastermind and achieving permaplat aspiration. Keisha hit teen (and rolled Grilled Cheese as her aspiration) in between Doc Boy and Frances both becoming elders; the private school headmaster gave 43 food points to a grilled cheese sandwich; and now I really want to eat grilled cheese. Dammit.

( Man why doesn't this game have cyborgs? Servos don't count. )

Next time: Maddie develops a fetish! New human beings -- fully-clothed adults with dreams and aspirations and everything -- spring suddenly into life in the middle of a dorm building, and nobody cares except for thinking some of them are hot! Then the dorm building mysteriously grows in size (thankfully not with horrific results) and still nobody seems to care! Sandwiches are eaten! Hearts are broken! Then everyone graduates, and either goes back to the Merrick house as heir, or goes into the sim bin to probably be mostly ignored.

So I've been using a giant laptop as my desktop replacement for years now, and putting up with its 17" screen (which is great for a laptop, but not that great for a desktop). Did you know that the entire time, we had a 24" monitor going unused in the basement? Because we did. For years. Just about exactly twice as much screen real estate, completely unused. But eventually I remembered that this was the case and we hooked it up to my computer! And now everything looks tiny because I have a choice of exactly one resolution that fits the monitor and that resolution is "a butt-ton by an ass-load". Which is why I've decided to start making the pictures in these posts just a little bigger.

Also, my Sims game runs at a bigger window size now, which is kind of cool. It was actually always set to run at 1366x768, and I never realized it was a bit shorter and quite a bit narrower than that until just now. That doesn't kick in until next update, though.

Previous entries are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Doc Boy and Frances J. Worthington III got married! They each had a baby, but then the babies turned out to not really exist. Instead they had three babies. And eventually two more! Doc Boy's want to top the criminal career, and Frances's want to top the law enforcement career, somehow failed to spawn a wacky sitcom. The nanny was horrible and my Terminator reference wasn't much better. Maddie and twins Owen and Lisa became teenagers, and got a series of pretty crappy dates from the matchmaker; Jinx hit child and youngest Keisha became a toddler. Then I stopped playing for a while in an attempt to avoid the inevitable.

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Next time: Ghosts! Mystical powers! SCIENCE!!! Somebody gets pregnant... and somebody dies. Also, Yig Hall comes back for a repeat performance.

Wow, generating an actual entry from my plaintext writeup is WAY faster with the new flickr + custom regexp option. That's awesome. Cake-level awesome.

Previous entries are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Arlene, Lyman and Doc Boy had all the college sex ever! In some cases with the same guy! Eww. Also, I finally picked Doc Boy as the heir, and mister Frances J. Worthington III as his husband-to-be! And then they knocked each other up and made me want to kill everything ever. It was a tumultuous time, is what I'm sayin'.

( In which my not having Bon Voyage and thus not being able to send the family to vacation in Y'ha-nthlei is a lost opportunity )

Next time: death and the grim march thereto. Also, cake.

Note: this is the spares update for, and should be read after, generation 3.

Previous entries are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.

The heir for generation 3 was Michael, and there was no spouse because he was a Romance sim and could never, ever be tied down, man, it's like this bird you cannot change, you dig me? The mainline kids were Drew, Adrian, Toby, Aldo and Kurt; they all had different moms except for Toby and Kurt who managed to be full siblings. This is the spares update, with Michael's sibs and their offspring. Most of it was written as I was playing, some months ago.

( Long entry is long. )

Time to finish posting generation 5 before I finish playing generation 6!

Previous entries are here.

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Everyone got scared by ghosts about a million times! The matchmaker hooked up all three of the Merrick kids with the same goddamn pretentious beatnik-looking pedo perv, which may or may not have been even more frightening. Some random YA died upstairs for some reason? But don't worry, Doc Boy beat death and saved him. Then the kids went to college, started in on various romantic escapades, and did their best to drive me bonkers by all being attracted to the same people.

( and I dance dance dance, and I dance dance dance )

Next time: babies, some of which aren't lost to the mists of time! Incompetent nannies! Incompetent matchmakers! And Grim's next appearance draws all too near.

I've been meaning to get to this post, about which nobody will probably ever care except for me, for like six months.

Go go holiday weekend action!

Note: this is the spares update for, and should be read after, generation 2.

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4
5.1 | 5.2

General warning: sometimes I swear.

The heir for generation 2 was Ruthie, the spouse was jerkface Derek, and the mainline kids were Cassandra; triplets Jeremy, Michael, and Duncan; and triplets Tiffany, Crystal, and Knute. This is the spares update, with Ruthie's siblings and their offspring. Most of it was written as I was playing, some months ago.

( Long entry is long. )

Next time: I don't know! Maybe the generation 3 spare update, which is also pretty ridiculously long.

If I can't get around to posting a Merrick update during a four-day weekend, then when *can* I?

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4
5.1

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Adrian returned home to start generation five of the Merrick family. He married his college flame Kaylynn, they ran off to their honeymoon, and three days later she popped out three kids. Then I went quietly mad trying to keep people moving up their career tracks without the babies starving. But they didn't starve! Kaylynn had strong opinions about ghosts, and I had strong opinions about two of the kids -- Arlene and Doc Boy -- both having the exact same faces. (The third baby, Lyman, inherited the opposite version of almost every facial feature from his sibs.) Arlene made friends with grandpa Michael, who then died; Adrian got fired from his job the very next day, because apparently bereavement leave doesn't exist in this world. Then the kids hit teen and all turned gay!

( o hai LJ-cut )

Next time: romance! Drama! Unprotected sex! I pick an heir finally!

Huh. Maybe I should finally get this post up before I spend the weekend playing the copy of Saints Row 2 that someone at work so kindly lent me. Murderous rampages :D :D :D

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Generation 4 of the Merrick family enjoyed college, with all its books and naked people. I made them all go on dates, and Aldo annoyed me by having a fresh combo of personality points, dark skin, AND a three-bolt sweetie with S4 skin and an interesting face... but incredibly boring facial features. It was pretty early on that I decided that the delightfully derpy Adrian would become heir. Meanwhile, Toby talked to invisible people, Kurt got stalked by dormies, Drew was... uh... kind of boring, apparently... and everyone wound up proposing to someone they wuved. Also Kurt and Toby got knocked up. Then Adrian came back to the ancestral manse to start the next generation!

( Bloop bloop bloop. )

Next time: once again, possibly the gen 2 spares update, if I can ever get around to webifying the pictures. Or more gen 5. I have another update played already. With the heir STILL completely undecided.

Two months since the last Merrick post WHAT

The apparently-book I'm writing is in a slow spot now -- I know the basics of what's about to happen, but I need to let it turn over in my head before I start putting words on not-paper -- so now I'm actually playing Sims again. Or, in this case, posting the update that I played months ago.

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: One last gen 4 kid was born, a boy named Kurt, who sadly was a faceclone of his mother. Aldo was abducted by aliens, and Toby caused two different kitchen fires! Michael got haunted by 43724973343 ghosts, then got old at a sexy party with a baker's dozen of his college girlfriends. Toby joined her siblings in the I Done Gots Abducted By Aliens Club; Kurt grew up mysteriously fast into a teenager LOOK I WAS BORED OKAY, and then also took a trip to the saucer in the sky. Also he figured out how to set macaroni and cheese on fire. And then all the kids left for college!

( EHRMAHGERD! SERMS! )

Next time: possibly the gen 2 spares update, since all I really have left to do is fight with the gimp long enough to get a good animation out of it (the way the gimp does animations is really stupid you guys). Either that or the start of generation 5. Yes I am way behind on spares updates.

Spoiler from the first update of gen 5: ohmygod babiesssss D:

I should probably actually get around to posting stuff, huh.

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1 | 4.2

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Ruthie died and I was sad. This was also perhaps not the best thing for the kids, as it left them with no "responsible" "adults" watching over them except the evil supervillain with the doomsday device, and the crazed womanizing Romance sim who kept rolling wants to marry half the town. Drew became a teenager with a gigantic chin; jerkface Derek died; Aldo and Toby became teens with more normal-sized chins. Michael re-impregnated Toby's mom Roxie, and Adrian was abducted by aliens! They gave him back, though.

( Last week at work I started sharing an office with someone. This week she started keeping a sword by the door. I have concerns. )

Next time: probably the gen 2 spares update, since I've got it almost finished. And then, for the main line here, college! I don't know exactly what will happen because I haven't actually played much more yet. I do know that I'm trying to figure out my favorite for heir, and having a hard time picking between delightfully derpy Adrian and neat-point-having, darker-skinned, founder's-mouth-inheriting, otherwise-boring Aldo.

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.

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour
4.1

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

Wait, it's been HOW long since I bothered to post? (Part of the problem is ARGH ENDLESS WAR ROOM AT WORK TO FIX CUSTOMER ISSUE I HAVE TO BE UP AT 7 EVERY MORNING WHYYYYY, and part is that I wanted to post the gen 2 spares update before I started gen 4 main... but that ain't happening for a while yet.)

I also got around to responding to a couple of comments on previous posts finally.

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | House tour

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Cassandra got engaged to dormie Jonathan who had a mutual loathing of dormie Cooper who was lusted after by Duncan who slept with dormie Dominic who is in the furry llama cult which Michael got kidnapped into. Knute banged the gardener who was also banging Jeremy who obviously wanted to bang his sister who got knocked up by dormie Forrest.

It really is like a soap opera sometimes.

( Click this link to get rainbow swirl ice cream! Honest! )

Next time: Michael loses his tiny Romance-y mind! Birth, death, and alien obsessions occur! All the bastards get to talk to their moms, in some cases for the first time ever! All in all, a happy time in this loving, well-adjusted household.

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*

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | House tour

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.

Thursday morning I got a chicken pox vaccination, and now the back of my arm is swollen and itchy. :( :( :(

I remain, however, staunchly pro-vaccine. Millions of people -- a large number of them children -- dead each year from stupid preventable diseases, or MAYBE autism if you believe one study by some quack which has been retracted and debunked, and ignore the fact that autism rates have continued to rise even as immunizations go down? Oh man, you're right, put away those needles! MOAR DED KIDS PLZ.

I'm not an actress, though, so I obviously don't know what I'm talking about. Moving on!

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | House tour

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: gen 3 went to college! Crystal peed herself, and Tiffany got herself knocked up IN THE FIRST SEMESTER OF FRESHMAN YEAR and thus dropped out. The boys didn't fare too much better in the smarts department, though, since Knute made "friends" with the telescope-spyee. Duncan met the very intense Dominic, Knute had a commendation put in with Starfleet Command, and Crystal and Jeremy started spending a lot of time sitting together talking about makeouts. There was a disturbing amount of sex, that modifier mainly coming from the fact that everyone is ignoring my ACR acceptance threshholds. :( :(

( This Saturday night, Furious Kitten opening for Outrageous Flavor. Doors open at 8. )

Next time: romance is in the air! Also fistfights. Also furries! Also someone else gets college pregnant LIKE A COMPLETE MORON. Oh, and a little something called THE END OF GEN 3 YAY. All that and Cassandra continuing to suck at Knowledge simming, whenever I get to posting it!

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

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | House tour

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.

Gasp! It has been nearly a week since the last Merrick post. That is plainly the worst thing ever.

Previous entries:
Preamble + 1.1
2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.1 | 3.2 | House tour

General warning: sometimes I swear.

Last time: Titania died, and I went on a tangent about The Price Is Right. Ruthie had a SECOND set of triplets -- Crystal, Tiffany, and Knute. The nanny was stupid. Cassandra and the FIRST set of triplets ARGH RUTHIE WHY became teenagers, and Cass and Duncan both decided they wanted aliens in their butts. The second set of triplets RUTHIIIEEEEE became children, and Tiffany garnered heir points by reading a story to her grandfather's ghost. Jerkface Derek achieved his LTW by becoming a Criminal Mastermind, and began pioneering the fashion trend of supervillain spiky armor + baseball cap.

( The truth is out there... sitting in the hot tub... wearing neon-green shorts )

Next time: college! Featuring sex, public urination, and the nerdiest date in the history of sim dating. And if you're wondering how I manage to play seven kids through college... well, it isn't seven for long.

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