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Sep. 16th, 2005 07:33 amBut why is the rum gone?
Sep. 16th, 2005
But why is the rum gone?
Random Morning Friendly
Sep. 16th, 2005 10:16 amI decided to spare myself a lunchtime trip and stopped at Tottenham Court Road to buy the Nightlife EP. There were good and bad things about this.
Bad: When I went onto Virgin Online and had a look at the pricings for the EP, they said that RRP was £19.99 but that they were selling it at £15.99. However, they neglected to mention that this only applied to online orders, or possibly pre-orders. Either way, I wound up paying full retail for the thing. Boo. Spending Guilt intensified.
Good: The girl at the counter when I went to pay started in on usual "far too friendly for this hour of the morning" spiel that tends to start, "Did you find everything okay?" (Virgin's taken to doing this. I have no idea why.) Anyway, I told her yes (I was in and out in about a minute and a half), and she took the disc box to ring it up. Then she looked at it kind of wistful-like and said, "Oh, I used to be so addicted to this. I had to delete it off my computer because I don't have enough storage space." My response went something along the line of "Yeah, I had that problem; then I did some upgrades on my old PC and I now have all the space I need ... God help me." She laughed and asked what my set-up was like. There was no queue, the shop was dead and I had a few more minutes to kill, so we wound up talking hard drives and the new EP features for a bit. After that, and after stamping my Virgin Addict card (another good thing -- I'm one stamp closer to my £10 off), she handed me my bag, said, "Aw. I wish I had it back now" and sent me on my way with a cheery good-bye. As I texted![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodgyhoodoo later, £4 is a small price to pay for a little honest random friendliness first thing in the morning.
Now, of course, all I want to do is go home and play the damn thing. (Okay, well, I know I have to back up all my downloads and start the install process first, but you see what I'm getting at.) I'm hoping to get the hell out of here reasonably early on the basis of, "There's nothing to do" and, if necessary, "I took an abbreviated lunch break". It was hard enough leaving the house this morning what withdodgyhoodoo, who took yesterday and today off, snuggled up in bed and looking so damn comfortable... Argh I don't want to be here! Wanna go hooooome!
But I do at least have a little bit of work to do, so I'd better get to it.
Bad: When I went onto Virgin Online and had a look at the pricings for the EP, they said that RRP was £19.99 but that they were selling it at £15.99. However, they neglected to mention that this only applied to online orders, or possibly pre-orders. Either way, I wound up paying full retail for the thing. Boo. Spending Guilt intensified.
Good: The girl at the counter when I went to pay started in on usual "far too friendly for this hour of the morning" spiel that tends to start, "Did you find everything okay?" (Virgin's taken to doing this. I have no idea why.) Anyway, I told her yes (I was in and out in about a minute and a half), and she took the disc box to ring it up. Then she looked at it kind of wistful-like and said, "Oh, I used to be so addicted to this. I had to delete it off my computer because I don't have enough storage space." My response went something along the line of "Yeah, I had that problem; then I did some upgrades on my old PC and I now have all the space I need ... God help me." She laughed and asked what my set-up was like. There was no queue, the shop was dead and I had a few more minutes to kill, so we wound up talking hard drives and the new EP features for a bit. After that, and after stamping my Virgin Addict card (another good thing -- I'm one stamp closer to my £10 off), she handed me my bag, said, "Aw. I wish I had it back now" and sent me on my way with a cheery good-bye. As I texted
dodgyhoodoo later, £4 is a small price to pay for a little honest random friendliness first thing in the morning.Now, of course, all I want to do is go home and play the damn thing. (Okay, well, I know I have to back up all my downloads and start the install process first, but you see what I'm getting at.) I'm hoping to get the hell out of here reasonably early on the basis of, "There's nothing to do" and, if necessary, "I took an abbreviated lunch break". It was hard enough leaving the house this morning what with
dodgyhoodoo, who took yesterday and today off, snuggled up in bed and looking so damn comfortable... Argh I don't want to be here! Wanna go hooooome!But I do at least have a little bit of work to do, so I'd better get to it.
If I had any work to speak of, I swear I'd be doing it. Instead, what I'm doing is browsing the Sims 2 forums, trying to make heads or tails of some of the ranting people are doing about their installs and the custom content. Have you ever tried to get reasonable, coherent information out of a bunch of rampaging fanboys? IT DOES NOT WORK.
So far, what I've been able to work out is the following:
1) Custom neighbourhoods are going to have to go. There goes Llandeilo. AGAIN. At least this time I hadn't properly developed it -- it's not like the last time when that one hack completely screwed up my game and I had to reinstall from scratch and lost everything, including the whole next generation of Fetishes and Marwoods. Honestly, it doesn't upset me that much, particularly since I have the option to package up Bokugo before I do anything. Honestly, I'm considering just not bothering.
::remembers building seven floors of utter idiocy::
On second thought, never mind. There will be packaging. At least I can let Heaven's Night go; I think the various bits of the EP will allow me a much better shot at building that thing as it should be than I had with Uni alone.
2) The few hacks I still have going seem to work perfectly fine, according to the more serene bunch of buggers on MTS2. Self-emptying potties and self-filling fridges and the like. Not a problem. So at least I don't have to worry too much about that because after the mess I had the last time, I bothered with relatively few hacks.
3) The EP does allow you to wave at it and say, "Hey! Look! Custom content! Accept this, please!" However, there are apparently procedures for this, and no one's entirely clear on how that works or if you actually need to do it at all.
So my intention is to go home, back everything up, package Bokugo properly, and then do the install of the new game, following the directions. If something goes wrong, I should apparently restart without doing anything to allow whatever changes I've made to take effect. If something else goes wrong, uninstall, delete the downloads folder, reinstall and replace the downloads folder, then start the game and see. Until that fails me too, I refuse to panic.
Hope my buyable fire still works.
So far, what I've been able to work out is the following:
1) Custom neighbourhoods are going to have to go. There goes Llandeilo. AGAIN. At least this time I hadn't properly developed it -- it's not like the last time when that one hack completely screwed up my game and I had to reinstall from scratch and lost everything, including the whole next generation of Fetishes and Marwoods. Honestly, it doesn't upset me that much, particularly since I have the option to package up Bokugo before I do anything. Honestly, I'm considering just not bothering.
::remembers building seven floors of utter idiocy::
On second thought, never mind. There will be packaging. At least I can let Heaven's Night go; I think the various bits of the EP will allow me a much better shot at building that thing as it should be than I had with Uni alone.
2) The few hacks I still have going seem to work perfectly fine, according to the more serene bunch of buggers on MTS2. Self-emptying potties and self-filling fridges and the like. Not a problem. So at least I don't have to worry too much about that because after the mess I had the last time, I bothered with relatively few hacks.
3) The EP does allow you to wave at it and say, "Hey! Look! Custom content! Accept this, please!" However, there are apparently procedures for this, and no one's entirely clear on how that works or if you actually need to do it at all.
So my intention is to go home, back everything up, package Bokugo properly, and then do the install of the new game, following the directions. If something goes wrong, I should apparently restart without doing anything to allow whatever changes I've made to take effect. If something else goes wrong, uninstall, delete the downloads folder, reinstall and replace the downloads folder, then start the game and see. Until that fails me too, I refuse to panic.
Hope my buyable fire still works.