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As always, I check my to-read list for the year and take a careful look at all the books I've read during the year.

( The list. )

Yes, it's another Sims 2 storyline! A combination of personal life, computer issues and other random stuff (too many to list, really) have led to me discarding my other projects shortly before they began, for which I apologize. I think this is my first attempt at posting anything I've played in this laptop, and I hope this one will take off.

I'm taking a different approach here, as I'm going to focus on a playing style I've been toying with ever since the days of Percy Prettyface. It's sort of like a BACC, but without the many rules and money requirements, and you'll already have the subhoods and townies from the beginning. I'll see if I can work on posting a proper set of rules in the near future, but all you need to know for now is the following:

• Your main hood is a nearly empty and isolated place, though it's a taxi journey away from the nearest shopping distric and downtown. Those who live in those more prosperous places will look down on the sims that moved into the main hood, as they're living in the "middle of nowhere" (though the shopping district can be almost as empty as the main hood, if you so wish).


• You can start with a couple of community lots in the main hood, but they need to fit in with the aforementioned theme and/or backstory.


• Other community lots can be added whenever a playable family achieves a certain milestone. For example, a cemetery can be added when the first playable dies, a gym can be added when a playable maximizes their body skill, etc.

In the case of Weirdville, the context is that it's a small area close to penig's hoods (Widespot, Bigg City and Land Grant University), which has attracted the attention of certain otherworldly investigators, who have become even more curious now that a human sim has decided to move in. We'll have to wait and see if others will follow.

Anyway, let's get down to business to defeat the Huns... errrrrr and begin our little adventure.

( Dare to be stupid. Click on this link. )

This is the list of books I am planning to read this year. As with the previous lists, I'll add books to it whenever I manage to get my hands on something new, and I'll strike a book once I finish it.

( The list. )

Last time, I posted three updates of this legacy in a week, and promised I'd try to get a fourth one. Instead, it took me over a month to follow up on this, of which I apologize.
The explanation is very simple: I got sick. Because of this, not only was I too whoozy to sit in front of the computer, but I was also unable to get back to school for a week - and, as I've mentioned in the past, I'm taking a very intensive course on Java, and the intensity is such that missing a week of classes resulted in a snowball effect that made catching up increasingly difficult. I'm still struggling, but for the sake of my mental health I decided to take a break and play a bit of sims before my nose returns to the grindstone.
And wouldn't you know it, this particular session of sim-playing became very intense, as so much happened in the Gieke household. Brace yourselves.

( Birthdays. So many birthdays. )

Aaaand here's a new attempt at a legacy challenge! This is going to be a light attempt, just for a few laughs and for me to unwind when I return home for the weekend as I'm currently taking an intensive Java course in another town during the week. I'm focusing it around a premade Maxis sim, with other Maxis sims (namely the Pleasantview townies and Bluewater Village sims, all fixed and cleaned up by meetmetotheriver), penig's subhoods and their sims, some others generated in game that use my extensive folder of default and non-default face templates, and a handful of other people's creations I have some fondness for and which as a result I have turned into townies and downtownies. All will be credited whenever they show up, of course.

And for the record: when I decided to populate this neighbourhood, I went for different facial expressions in order to have unexpected and interesting results for Chester Gieke's descendants. It's not an uglacy or a prettacy - if I have to describe it in one word, it would probably be an "interestingacy". And yes, that's a real word, at least in this journal. Because Stone Cold I say so.

Anyway, on to the post.

( Click here for Part 1. )

This is the list of books I am planning to read this year. As with the previous lists, I'll add books to it whenever I manage to get my hands on something new, and I'll strike a book once I finish it.

( The list. )

This is the list of books I am planning to read this year. As with the previous lists, I'll add books to it whenever I manage to get my hands on something new, and I'll strike a book once I finish it.

( The list. )

This is the list of books I am planning to read this year. As with the previous lists, I'll add books to it whenever I manage to get my hands on something new, and I'll strike a book once I finish it.

( The list. )