meetme2theriver

I use Photobucket to upload my pictures. Since I'm not willing to pay, and I'm not willing to compromise the quality of my pictures, I quickly run out of bandwidth. For that reason I'm juggling four(!) accounts.

I thought it might be useful for you all to know when each of my accounts have their bandwidth reset, in case my pictures are down and you'd like to know when they'll be back up. So:

1. (uziwa) - Resets the 2nd.
2. (sarcasmbeast) - Resets the 14th.
3. (tarliachan) - Resets the 21st.
4. (meetme2theriver) - Resets the 27th.

Regan never wanted to be part of the great ~family drama~ of the rest of the Capps. She wants to make her own way in life. She lives in a tiny house by the Veronaville Canal, with her husband Cornwall and her black sheep brother, Kent.



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I'm still not sure how I feel about Tumblr (it's so hard to leave and track proper comments...), but I'm giving it a shot, and posted some pictures from my new just-for-fun uberhood. I don't know how much I'll update, whenever I feel like sharing something I guess. I want to just relax more with both posting and playing this one. So makeovers will be done when I feel like doing them, houses played in whatever order I want to play them, etc.

Okay, so, round 6 was when I introduced Veronaville as a subhood to my Riverblossom Hills. In retrospect, I kind of wish I hadn't, since it made the rounds considerably longer a bit too soon. Nevertheless... Have some makeovers of the main Capp house, which I also moved Goneril and her family into.



I moved the front door... and demolished and rebuilt all of the insides. Also, apologies for the lighting, the lot was at sunset when I entered it.

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When you're trying to merge together a new uberhood, and realize that you just added Pleasantview to Pleasantview.

Let's try that again...

Today is bandwidth reset day for one of my Fotobukkit accounts, and you know what that means? Some pictures!



Dawn Sunrise at Académie Le Tour... Delilah has started her sophomore year.

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Has anyone else seen this? It's a series of a well made Strangetown Machinima story, still in progress and last updated less than a month ago. I quite like it.

Meh... I'm struggling to figure out what, exactly, I want to do with my game at the moment. I don't really feel like playing RBH (I'm like 6 months behind on updating it here, anyway), and I've started fiddling around with organizing my downloads again, because I have some sort of Sims OCD... and ADHD.

I kind of want to start a new uberhood still, but I'm not sure what angle to take on it. I feel like doing makeovers, but I want to play too... Or maybe I should be doing something else for a while, like finishing Skyrim. I dunno. :P

I was wondering, what sort of aging hacks - if any - do you guys use for TS2? I've been playing with my own for a while, which modifies most of the ages just slightly (toddler 3->4, child 7->8, teen 14->10, adult 28->34), and I even changed ACR around to fit those changes. It's not really a bad configuration. My main problem is what to do with college. I've used Cyjon's hack that reduces all of college to 4 semesters and only 8 days in total, which mostly fits the timeline of the rest of the neighbourhood, but it feels just a bit too brief sometimes... There's not quite enough time.

But 8 semesters of 1 day each would just be terrible, and 8 semesters of 2 days each is a bit too long and totally messes up the sync with the rest of the 'hood. Unless, of course, I make a hack where 4 days = 1 year, in which case everything would be perfect (even the length of pregnancies!)... except that such an aging mod would make a sim life WAY TOO LONG. Say a sim on average lives until they're 75 "years" old... That would be 300 sim days. D:

So yeah, just curious about how y'all deal with the whole timeline thing. Or maybe it's me who needs to relax and just play the damn game without micromanaging every little detail. :P

Edit: Oooh... follow-up question. What about NOT sending sims to college? I always send everyone to college, otherwise their ages get out of sync, but of course, that's not really especially realistic. I mean, it would be interesting to have sims that don't get to go, to mix it up a bit. I wish there was a hack that added x amount of days to a sim's lifespan if they don't go to/drop out of college.

I uploaded new versions of the clean Riverblossom Hills & Riverblossom Hills subhood, redownload from here if you care. The only change is fixing Morty Roth's memories so he no longer remembers Sarah Teatherton (Alexandra's mum) teaching him toddler skills. Now they correctly point to his own mother, Sara Roth. I must've missed this particular EAxis gem of failure when cleaning RBH.

So, I thought it would be neat to convert the Life Stories 'hoods to TS2, using this little tutorial. Simple enough, right? Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I dunno if that's because SaraMK didn't test her stuff enough, or because I have many more EPs than this was tested with back in 2007, or what.

Either way, no matter what I try (unplayed/played story, extracting the lots, whatever), some of the lots and some of the families crash the game. (This is all in Riley's Hood/Four Corners, I don't even really want to try Vincent's right now).

So I'm a little disappointed. I'm sure I could do some convoluted terrain surgery/extracting & rebuilding lots/recreating extracted sims... thing, but I don't know if I can be bothered, at least not right now.

I learned some interesting things along the way though, like that the Free Play 'hood is a slightly modified version of Riley's Story 'hood, with minor fixes and alterations to some of the houses (all but two of these work when extracted, btw), and two community lots combined into one, and some sims are missing... Also, very bizarrely, a little community lot in the Story 'hood that's used for a wedding starts out as a residential lot before the story is played... but at the end of the story, it's a community lot. There's some strange wizardry going on with these scripted stories.

Also, Mickey Smith/Harlow makes ugly kids with eyes that look like they're trying to escape their sockets.

So... Anyone have Any Game Starter and feel like testing a 'hood with only Uni, NL and OFB for me?

Finally, Jules has arrived at college, and David is happy to see her. It was getting a bit lonely being the only student in the dorm.

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New power supply has arrived, and the computer is up and running, no harm done. :D

Now I have so many sims-related things I want to do I don't even know where to start...

Maybe I'll play the Ottomi...

I think my main computer heard my threats to start a new uberhood and committed seppuku. I was starting TS2 (for non-uberhood related purposes, mind), turned around to pick up something, and when I turned back... screen was black. The computer doesn't respond. At all.

I think it's the power supply that's gone. That, or the motherboard, but it's most likely the power supply. The good news is that it's definitely not the hard drive, so all my stuff should still be okay. The bad news is that I have to order some new parts and wait a few days to get everything delivered, replaced, and working again.

In the meantime, I have my laptop, so no worries. Just no sims... or sim pictures, for a while, as all of that is on my main machine. :(

I have this sudden urge to make myself a new uberhood and makeover all of it. :/

(I wouldn't drop my RBH, though!)

Things aren't going well for Trent and Trisha Traveller's marriage. Trent is very upset about Trisha's unfaithfulness, while Trisha can no longer keep all her frustrations to herself, and lets Trent know exactly how she feels about all his irresponsible travelling, which is the reason they are stranded on this island in the first place.

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