Night of the Living Sims
Jan. 11th, 2006 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianWhat. A. Disaster. The notes I have from the editor for all the stuff I have to do today? Unutterably fucked. List of referees for papers? Single spaced, no spaces between names, misspelled names ... if less than half of the e-mail addresses he had to give me are unusable due to typos, I will be greatly surprised. Looking at a paper for which we simply cannot get a referee, he asks me "Do you remember this chap we suggested? My secretary would have sent his e-mail address to you", which of course his secretary has not done. And yet, somehow, things get done. I don't know how they get done, but they get done.
I want to go home. I want to bulldoze my Sims 2 beach resort hotel to the ground and build a new thing. Not that I don't like my beach resort hotel, but it's all nice and packaged in case I want to install it again. The problem is that it's kind of ... well, huge. It slows the game considerably, at least on my poor humble computer. I swear, I have more fun with the architecture part of Sims than I do with the actual gameplay. But since it started as an architecture simulator thing in the first place, I suppose that's not such a bad thing. I think my next project will be a shopping mall, complete with all the amenities. Or a country house hotel. Possibly a water park. Or a house of horrors -- I have the meshes for it, so why not?
Hmm. Well, as I have the hacks for this, I'm thinking of starting a whole new neighbourhood, complete with shops and a shopping mall and restaurants and parks and suchlike. I'll create a whole bunch of new Sims, move them into the neighbourhood, then spend a happy few days killing off the vast majority of them in new and interesting ways. For instance, I will lock one in a room with nothing but a bookshelf, a small fridge, some counter space, a chair and a stove; they won't starve to death, but they will wind up being unable to take out the trash, will wind up wetting themselves and have repeated visits from the Social Bunny before they die of disease, which is one I haven't seen yet. In every household, though, I will leave one Sim alive, and have them call up the Reaper to resurrect the others, ensuring that they come back as zombies rather than being fully resurrected. Land of the Dead! Whee! ...Okay, I take far too much enjoyment from the idea of a community of zombiefied Sims. But then again, if that works out, I recently got a hack that lets your Sim become a vampire without having to go through all the trouble of befriending one of the leeches first. So I'll have a community of zombies and a community of vampires ... and when I get bored with that, I'll combine the two factors and throw them all into a Silent Hill sort of neighbourhood. I needed a proper theme for that one anyway.
So yeah, I want to go home. But that's not going to happen anytime soon, more's the pity.
I want to go home. I want to bulldoze my Sims 2 beach resort hotel to the ground and build a new thing. Not that I don't like my beach resort hotel, but it's all nice and packaged in case I want to install it again. The problem is that it's kind of ... well, huge. It slows the game considerably, at least on my poor humble computer. I swear, I have more fun with the architecture part of Sims than I do with the actual gameplay. But since it started as an architecture simulator thing in the first place, I suppose that's not such a bad thing. I think my next project will be a shopping mall, complete with all the amenities. Or a country house hotel. Possibly a water park. Or a house of horrors -- I have the meshes for it, so why not?
Hmm. Well, as I have the hacks for this, I'm thinking of starting a whole new neighbourhood, complete with shops and a shopping mall and restaurants and parks and suchlike. I'll create a whole bunch of new Sims, move them into the neighbourhood, then spend a happy few days killing off the vast majority of them in new and interesting ways. For instance, I will lock one in a room with nothing but a bookshelf, a small fridge, some counter space, a chair and a stove; they won't starve to death, but they will wind up being unable to take out the trash, will wind up wetting themselves and have repeated visits from the Social Bunny before they die of disease, which is one I haven't seen yet. In every household, though, I will leave one Sim alive, and have them call up the Reaper to resurrect the others, ensuring that they come back as zombies rather than being fully resurrected. Land of the Dead! Whee! ...Okay, I take far too much enjoyment from the idea of a community of zombiefied Sims. But then again, if that works out, I recently got a hack that lets your Sim become a vampire without having to go through all the trouble of befriending one of the leeches first. So I'll have a community of zombies and a community of vampires ... and when I get bored with that, I'll combine the two factors and throw them all into a Silent Hill sort of neighbourhood. I needed a proper theme for that one anyway.
So yeah, I want to go home. But that's not going to happen anytime soon, more's the pity.