So I haven't had much time to play lately, mostly because I'm working alot, and when I did play I had been procrastinating, mostly because I knew Gen 3's deaths were near. Well I've finally stopped procrastinating and started letting them move on and I have minor picspam to prove it.

Hullo and welcome to my entry for this week's sim_scenes for the prompt words Video Game - Exasperation - Active. Just one disclaimer before you click the cut, yes, the plumbbobs in the shot are totally intentional. Enjoy!

( Revenge is a dish best served Pixelated )

I have my game installed on a fixed computer again, and I come bearing a the first ever sim_scenes I've done with Legacy characters, staring Elise and Phoenix and extended family members as background players, for the words Sports, Agressive, Politics. All three are used, but not very obviously, still the story is clear I think, even if the use of the prompt words might not be.

( Extra-extra curricular )

So, it's that time again, for Behind the scenes of the chapter, I haven't done one of these in about 4 months I don't think, since I didn't do one for 4.13.

Aaaanyway, here's the thing, I don't have the entirety of my picspam and here's why. The picspam folder I was keeping in my files was moved to my external hardrive and I dropped my external hardrive on the floor the other day, and now it doesn't work. Hopefully it'll be able to be fixed soon because my Legacy Hood is on there too (If it can't it's not a huge deal, I haven't really done anything important in there since I switched computers and so I can just recuperate the copy from the old nearly defunct laptop). So basically what I did was go back through all the megahood slides and pluck the slides I wanted back out. However, the copy of the megahood currently on my computer isn't the latest one with all the slides because I switched back to a copy that was backed-up while shooting the party to shoot an additional scene for said party, after I had shot everything following the party and some scenes from the montage that were reshot. And all these pictures are in another copy of the megahood which is on my external harddrive. Yeah I know. Are you confused enough yet?

Moving on from the boringness, have some of the pictures that I do have and some blabbing..



( A billion million pics to be found here )

It's finished. Finally. And it's very long. Consider yourself warned. But I hope you enjoy it anyway.
I don't usually recommend listening material for chapters, but I would recommend Rascall Flatt's Version of "life is a highway" from slide 67 to slide 111, for reasons that will become obvious.






And that's all, it is now 2 a.m and I'm going to get some sleep.

Entry for this week's sim_scenes for the prompt words Repairs - Hope - Pleasure. I'm not entirely sure the use of the words themselves are as clear as I might like, but the story is straightforwards at least. This one's totally stupid but I hope you enjoy it.


( Nice Body )

Like I said, totally silly, and very easy in terms of shooting, in spite of the fact that my computer has decided to arbitrarily start switching my game to a french keyboard halfway through doing something and thus making all my Camera mode controls different keys, Grrrr. Anyway, as usual constructive Criticism always welcome.

I got my internet back up! (4 hours later) Which means I can post this. It's my entry for this week's sim_scenes for the prompt words Party - Irritation - Entertainment. I'm a little out of practice because it's been a while since I've done one of these so I might as well stretch my muscles by jumping on it. So here we go!

( Does this taste funny to you? )

So I got distracted today and this is the result of it. Baaaasically I wasn't feeling up to writing or shooting anything for the update during the day today, so I spent it sleeping and relearning Italian verbs. But I managed to muster the energy to actually open some picture folders, and I was flipping through my pictures I have this one that I'm using in the udpate of Requiem playing a Violin, which I can show to you here, because it's not really very spoilery or anything.


( More Violins and all that below the cut )

I booted up my game today for the first time in a while and actually went into the real legacy neighbourhood. Let me explain. I've been shooting all of the next update in the megahood, and I pretty much only have one scene left to shoot. However it is a big important pivotal scene and I'm having trouble shooting it without having written it first, because I can't do this without knowing exactly how my shots are going to go. I'm having a little trouble writting it though. I have a general idea of how I want it to go, but specific dialogue is turning out to be a little tougher than I thought is would be. So I'm procrastinating. Aaaaaanyway, I figured as long as I was procrastinating I might as well go and get the four or five slides I need from the main neighbourhood for the chapter opening. Which need to be shot in the legacy lot. So I played the lot through the night until sunrise and then realized that I had a problem, albeit a very minor one. The door of the house was wrong.

( More explanation and Screencaps below the cut )

Happy Birthday swhedonberry! Hope you have a really supernatural Birthday! :)

 
So I have some good news! After a bit of struggling around with things I think I've recovered most of my files from my dearly deceased computer. I say think, because I won't be convinced of anything until I have these files opened in a working machine, I'm paranoid that way. Basically our computer guy sent me a file that I downloaded onto my brother's computer and burned onto a disk from there. Then I put the disk in the old laptop and the programme allowed my computer to boot itself up on Ubuntu instead of Windows and my files all seemed to be there on my computer and from there I just transfered them onto my external harddrive. So hopefully everything is backed up and I'll get to transfering them over to a new machine sometime this weekend. Heck this way I can probably even keep the new computer relatively clutter free, since my external hardrive is 1 TB, which is more than enough room to store all my files.

So yay! Good news :) Hopefully! I was really stressed out about losing everything there for a couple of days so thanks to everyone for your sympathy on my last post.

So yeah, I've been hijacking brother's computer as often as I can get away with it. Fortunately he has school and the US open to distract him while I borrow it occasionally. Yeah, clearly I'm a computeraholic. I think I annoyed everyone on Sunday, bouncing around the house being computerless and bored. My mom's been helping out with boredom by assigning me chores. I have to love my mom. Only with her do I get notes left that say "I need you to go into town and buy some salad. And can you find out if there are any pre revolutionary drawings in the town archives of the bas relief sculptures that used to be on the church facade?" So that's what I did this morning. Oh and I cut off about 15 centimeters of my hair because it was literally half way down my back, and that's just way too long and I was getting fed up. So yeah, I've been productive I guess.

How's all you guys?

So guess who's computer blew up on her today. Yeah. FML.

I'm not sure if it's beyond salvation or not. It's been having trouble for a while now. Getting worse and worse over the summer. This morning when I closed the lid of it the screen went scary blue and white lettered (I know what you're thinking, how do I know this if the lid was closed, I actually have my tiny laptop hooked up to a larger screen so I don't strain my eyes too much). I panicked. Then I pulled the plug and ran off to work. Oh yeah that's another thing. I got a new job that started today. Waitressing. I'm currently on a trial run. I would so much rather have my old job it's not even funny, but I'm sucking it up. (note my failed attempts at maturity these days). Anyway, after coming home after lunch I wanted nothing more than to vedge in front of my computer before I have to go back and work dinner. No such luck. My computer is giving me an error message when it starts up and none of the options it gives me "safe mode" "startup from last known start up that worked" etc. are working.

Fortunately I'm due to get a new laptop for my birthday next week so I'm not going to be computerless for too long. And I am currently stealing my brother's computer while he runs things over with cars on the Play station with his friends downstairs. Though this is a temporary solution at best. I know this because he begrudgingly closed down World of Warcraft when I asked him if he could boot up his computer for me.

Fortunately I have a semi-recent backup of the Legacy hood on my external hardrive. And a not too old copy of my downloads folder backed up there too.

 

Unfortunately what I do not have backed up is ALL the pictures I've spent the last month and a bit taking for next update (and believe me, there are alot of them) and ALL the writing I've already done for that update. (Not to mention quite a number of other things that are on my computer that I would really like to retrieve). I was also hoping I would be able to continue to use that computer for a little bit after getting the new one to play my game because I'm not entirely sure I have all the EP discs on hand to reinstall on a new machine imemdiately (I'm definitely going to have to order a new copy of OFB because I never owned that, I used someone else's copy to install it). 

My parents are coming back from London tonight and hopefully we can get our computer guy over sometime in the near future and he might be able to help me startup the computer or at least retrieve some of the information on it. But yeah, that's where I'm at, just thought I'd update you all. Just so you all know that I'm going to be living in the land of Computerlessness for the next couple of days.

I really don't need the added stress of this right now.

So here's my problem, and believe me in the last couple of hours I've tried just about everything I can think of and I am now deeply ensconced in a bad mood, so if anyone has any help to give on this I'd really appreciate it.
( Aggravating material below the cut )

Not a new chapter, this is just me finally getting around to finishing up putting last chapter, 4.13 into slideshare and uploading it. Hopefully I'm going to be doing it in both formats at the same time for now on and slowly catching up old chapters into this format. At least that's the plan, but I at very least wanted to get this one uploaded before I next update. So here it is. Also, if any of you guys have any notes about things that you don't like in the way I've been putting things into slideshare for the last two chapters, on formatting, size of text, how the pictures look, etc. now would be a really good time to let me know, since I'm going to be uploading next chapter with slideshare whenever it gets finished, and I'm always glad to have advice on how to improve something. So, let me know.

Also, another quick question while I'm at it. One of several reasons I'm uploading on slideshare is that I am waaaaaay over the 126 slide limit for next chapter. Looking at what I have right now, I'm currently at 186 slides and am likely to be around 200 when I'm finally finished. So my question is, do you guys prefer me to split this update in slideshare as well and have a Part 1 and Part 2, even though it will still be uploaded simultaneously and be part of the same narrative but that may somehow be more easily digestible if it's in two parts. Or do you really not care if it's uploaded as one extra large chapter, or do you prefer that. If I did split it on slideshare it would be around slide 132 which would mean part 1 would most likely be longer than part 2, even if part 2 looks like it would be denser. Also that would still be over the exchange limit, and when I did ultimately get around to uploading it on the exchange I would have to split it a bit earlier...aaaaand I'm rambling. One way or another it will all be the same chapter, which is why instinctively I would just upload it as one big chapter, but I do understand that 200 slides to read can be a little dense and overwhealming. So let me know your thoughts on this if you have a preference, or even if you don't :)

Edit: So this is my current weirdness, for some reason pictures that are looking perfectly fine to me in powerpoint are uploading all blurry on authorstream. Anyone know what I should do about this?

Happy Birthday dicreasy , hope you have a lovely day! Best wishes from a pack of little Bohemians who have donned corsets and other appropriately Victorian threads in honour of the day. Even Dee has managed to be less scandalously naked for the occasion! Hope you have a good one :)

So since my last post on here was August 9th and it is now...August 26th, I figured it was high time to check in and just say Hi! So Hi! Yeah I know I've been a bit absent lately. I've been particularly terrible about commenting, on everything. Updates, LJ posts, and everything else. So sorry about that. I don't know what's up with that, If I'm just gripped with a deep apathy or what. I will be taking steps towards sorting my lame self out in the next few days I swear. Basically I've been working (real life job, which I have just finished, but also potentially found a new one this afternoon) and working on my next update, which has somehow gone and gotten more wildly out of control every time I turn around.

I'm shooting for the roadtrip in the Megahood. And have therefore cloned all my little Bohemians over there. Luckily they're still very much themselves, even as cloned versions.

( 5 pics bellow the cut )


Anyway, hope you're all well :) And hopefully at some point this century the update will see the light of day!

So I need some information (what else is new? ;) ). I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but before I'd only ever seen it on one sim and in the last couple of days it's showed up on two more when they teened into pop sims. Basically I have this LTW that I've been seeing pop up on Popularity sims, specifically those of the Megahood and I have no idea if it's a glitch or what. Basically is looks like this:



Now the only LTW hack I have is the one that allows sims to roll up Uni careers as LTWs, which is how Requiem has cult leader as her LTW and how Phoenix has Icon. Now I keep wanting to think that the LTW above is the latter, but topping Showbiz looks like this right?




So is this a visual glitch and the career isn't showing up correctly? Is it a glitched LTW that I should just reroll? I have a couple of people who have rolled it up naturally in the Megahood, and one who got it as I was rolling through with the batbox and trying to get him to land on politics because that's the career he's already in. All of them Pop sims.

Thoughts? Advice? Anyone seen this before? My instinct is to just reroll with the batbox, but if I'm still curious about what it might be/what might be done to fix it.

Thanks in advance if anyone can tell me anything about this :)

Hiya, there will be a slideshare version of this coming soon, and perhaps sometime in the future when I am more organized exchange updates and slideshare updates might come simultaneously. But for now I link you to exchange version of chapter 4.13 :)

http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=269866

Enjoy!