A sufficiently desperate amalgamated waffle sorter

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:39:31 GMT

I swear, it's a superpower.

It's been years since I tried for a username and found it already taken.

For "me" stuff, that's because I use my callsign, but even for character journals... littleboyof5 and spockambassador (the latter never used) on Livejournal were the only second-choice usernames I remember ever having to use. Meanwhile I've had venusadept_2 and jeanluc_1701 and baron_dragoon and needs_fern and seriallylucky and dalzoon and obstnatearth and lepata and magnetic_hair and even sunshine_celerystalks... I remember once registering nx_74205_a at Runescape...

And I've looked at a number of others without actually making the accounts; ican_fixit (Fix-It Felix Jr.), imgonna_wreckit (Wreck-It Ralph), and directive_classified (EVE) come to mind at the moment, though I know there have been others.

It's just... weird. But I'm willing to use it for good; if you want me to help you pick out a username, and I know the canon, feel free to ask me and I'll tell you the first thing that comes to mind. It should be available.

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Legacy Sims 2: Artistic Alex

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:58:27 GMT

Welcome back, faithful viewers, to another exciting episode of... Legacy Sims! Tonight: Finance! Robbery! Both ends of the Aspiration Scale! And... Vegetables!

( For all these and more, stay with us! )

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Golden Sims the Sixth: I have no clever subtitle

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:20:37 GMT

This week was not my best, I think. The Jerras are tough. No money, no fun, no comfort... but I think they're going to get better.

Anyway! Let's see what kind of kid the ( Vales have now! )

I don't feel like sorting through all the pictures I took of the Jerras, so mostly I'll just ( sum up. )

I think I'll wait a few days before coming back to that family.

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Legacy Sims: Hey Look They're Not All Golden

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:58:48 GMT

So like I said last week, I've begun a Legacy Variant Challenge.

And I thought, why not let my readers-who-don't-say-anything (do they just stay home and lie around?) see it happen?

So ( here we go! )

All right, first try didn't go so well. Pull her out, bulldoze the lot, replace with a slightly less superhuge lot (5x5 instead of 5x6). Let's try that again.

( Take 2! )

So that's Alex so far! Hope you enjoyed, please tip your servers.

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Golden Sims 5: The Formal Frontier

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:49:23 GMT

When last we saw him, Felix had just headed off to college.

So let's see how he's settling in, ( shall we? )

...But I'm sure that Jenna and the other 'Zoons have crossed your mind;
How had college hit the family Felix left behind?

( Not that great, but not bad, apparently. )

You know who we haven't seen for a while?

( The Hammets )

( More baby adventures! )

( Sometimes the Jerras are weird. )

And then, having confirmed that vampires are present in my copy of the game, I did ( one more thing... )

And then I did some more with the Jerras, including aging Kay up, but the game locked up and I couldn't save. Rrr.

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Golden Sims: It's Soon!

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:58:13 GMT

My current plan is to put these reports up pretty regularly, probably on Saturdays. We'll see how well that sticks.

So. Where to start, where to start... Aha!

( Piers Picard and the Freshman Year )

At long last, we have some pictures of ( the Jerras! )

But what about the ( Dalzoons? )

To Be Continued...

In point of fact, I do have more pictures. But that seems like a good place to stop.

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Golden Sims: Diliculum discipulum

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:14:10 GMT

(That should mean something like "studious dawn". I wanted the alliteration, and the concept of dawn, from GS:DD, and I've been taking a little Latin, but unfortunately I'm only a few weeks into the class.)

If you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that there's been a bit more time between this Golden Sims post - the third - and the second than between the first two. This is not, as you may have suspected, because I'm a flake. I am, but that's not why this took longer. No, it's because I got a new expansion. Yes, I now have Sims 2: University, and I wanted to make sure I understood how certain aspects of it worked before putting my Adepts through it. Also I was trying to build a custom college campus, Wey U, and having to figure out a few more things along the way. But that's done, and I can mess with my Weyardians again!

When last we left our heroes, Jenna had just had a birthday and was now a teen! Yeah, Jenna!

( The next morning... )

( The Jovian woes )

( Piers Picard, or, dance party photodump! )

And, last but certainly not least, ( the Vales in Mission: Adorable. )

So, on that note, I finish. But only for now; tune in again soon!

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Golden Sims: The Lost Age

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:30:13 GMT

When last we left our gallant heroes, we only had about half of them. Felix's family, Jenna and Faran, and Mia were all in the neighborhood, and Isaac's family had been created but not placed. This time... we change some of that. Also, in here I learned to take larger pictures, so be aware of that.

Let's get back to ( the Vales. )

Then we had the ( Jerra Trials. )

Next up... ( the Hammets! )

And, finally, some ( Dalzoon adventures! )

So that's that! We still need a Piers, but that'll have to wait until I find hair that seems right for him. I wouldn't mind suggestions for what types of community lot various canonical places might be - so far we've got Kalay as a recreation center, Hermes Pool, and Venus Park (right next to the Lighthouse). And soon, we can start Jenna's romance adventures.

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Golden Sims (Part 1)

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:18:03 GMT

As those of you who read my last post may be aware, I've been fiddling with Golden Sun characters in The Sims 2. I'm aware that someone else has done such a thing, but I think my attempts are sufficiently different.

So without further ado, I present...( the Jupiters! )

Next up are ( the Dalzoons. )

One possibility for that is... ( Miss Mercury. )

And, finally, ( the Vales. )

So that's what I have so far. I still intend to make Garet's family (the Jerras, thanks to a mistaken translation of someone's name), Piers (probably surnamed Lemuria), and Ivan (with Hammet and Layana; possibly the Kalays?). I thought I had downloaded some hair for Garet, but it doesn't appear to be showing up.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:51:08 GMT

Le sigh.

So. Pursuant to this DE a month or so ago, I have acquired a copy of The Sims 2. And so far, I am enjoying it. Even though I managed to not get the toddler in the first family I made toilet-trained before she aged up, and her demands to be let out of the crib absolutely wrecked her parents' sleep patterns.

But. One of the reasons I got it was to try running Golden Sun characters. And it's there I've encountered the problem.

First, some of them are not easily replicable in-game. Particularly the ones with blue hair. But that's okay, TS2 is very open to modifications, and plenty of people have made custom hairs and so on. Plenty. But then there's the second problem.

Naturally, one of the characters I want to make is Felix. And it would be silly to not concurrently make Jenna, given that she's both a fellow party member and his sister. The problem arises with the Family Tree requirement: every Sim in a given family must be related to, or be, at least one adult (or possibly elder; I haven't tried a family with elders but no adults). But Jenna, moreso than her agemates Isaac and Garet, strikes me as a teen Sim. So I go in, make an adult Felix and a teen Jenna... and it turns out there's no option to set an adult and a teen as siblings. Nor is there an option to set one adult as the child of another adult, so I can't just roll up a couple of parents and have them both be their kids.

So. The options, as I see them: 1) make Felix on his own; possibly make Jenna separately at a later time. 2) age Jenna to adult, and set them as siblings. 3) de-age Felix, and possibly Jenna, so that they're both juveniles; make parents, who may be able to be killed off when Felix is an adult. 4) just set Jenna as Felix's daughter, and live with it; what could possibly go wrong?

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