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thessalianThe question this morning was, "Do I blow £12 on the new Rob Zombie album in HMV, or do I blow either £15 or £25 on a new iTunes music card and buy the new Rob Zombie album on iTunes, where it will likely only cost £8, then buy bunches of other stuff?" The answer, of course, was "That depends on whether or not the iTunes Music Store is even selling it", as occasionally the iTunes Music Store is really fucking annoying about what it actually stocks. I checked the iTunes Music Store on my silly work eMac, and lo and behold, when I searched for Rob Zombie, up came Educating Horses, the new album, at £7.90. And I had a yen for one of the newer Static-X albums anyway...
Now the question becomes, "Do I go to the Apple Store at lunchtime and buy my iTunes music card then, or do I wait until after work?" The problem with doing this over lunch is that it leaves very little time to, y'know, eat. Plus at some point today I must go to Neal's Yard to purchase bath and shower gel, as I noticed yesterday that they had restocked it but couldn't afford the larger bottle I wanted. Or I could send![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodgyhoodoo, I suppose. But it is open 'til 7pm, so either way.
Best news of all is that Ham-Fisted Editor is on holiday! He's incommunicado all week! Yes, yes, YES! A reprieve from the incompetence! Sometimes life is good!
Now, apart from my iTunes card and possibly bath and shower gel, tonight's tasks will involve Sims 2 hotels; either furnishing the Lakeview Hotel or building the Dockside Palace, the large hotel in which the Mage cabal has holed up after the Molly-rescue mission. I have a very specific image in mind of what it looks like so I may as well actually design it for my World of Darkness 'neighbourhood'. Incidentally, the building of Silent Hill went as well as can be expected, given that you're not allowed to have diagonal roads in Sims 2 neighbourhoods. Maybe they'll fix that in upcoming expansion packs, if I'm lucky. The game designers really do seem to have their fans and users in mind when they design this sort of thing; a big-deal thing prior to Open for Business was trying to build split-level houses, which didn't work without a lot of boolprop hacks. When OfB came out, they included a specific sort of foundation that was designed for use inside buildings so that you could have a split level house without any of the faff. And with the success of sites like Mod the Sims 2, Sims Resource, Parsimonious and all the other custom content sites I peruse on a regular basis (my personal favourites being MTS2, XM Sims and Rose Sims, the latter two having the best hair meshes on the web), the discs of nothing but new furniture, clothing and accessories (Sims 2 Holiday Edition and Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff, coming on 13th April) are probably pretty popular as well. After all, the people who do get them will be able to use the meshes to do neat recolours, which other people won't be able to get without buying the discs as well... Way to exploit the community spirit. At least we get something out of it.
(NB: they have pyjamas with monster-feet slippers attached in the Family Fun Stuff EP. Helloooo, Lucille...)
It comes to me that I don't actually use Sims 2 as a game anymore, really. I haven't played with my Sims in ages, despite having designed the entire Osborne family (all five females, matriarch to littlest in-law) for my Llandeilo shopping district. I use it more as a very advanced doll builder and architectual design tool than as a PC game. Maybe I ought to buy Lemmings or Worms or something; a PC game I actually play. I suppose my games are all roleplay these days, not that I was ever a huge video gamer in the first place. Incidentally, still no word from the Hollow City, but I will nag if I don't hear by Thursday.
Now the question becomes, "Do I go to the Apple Store at lunchtime and buy my iTunes music card then, or do I wait until after work?" The problem with doing this over lunch is that it leaves very little time to, y'know, eat. Plus at some point today I must go to Neal's Yard to purchase bath and shower gel, as I noticed yesterday that they had restocked it but couldn't afford the larger bottle I wanted. Or I could send
dodgyhoodoo, I suppose. But it is open 'til 7pm, so either way.Best news of all is that Ham-Fisted Editor is on holiday! He's incommunicado all week! Yes, yes, YES! A reprieve from the incompetence! Sometimes life is good!
Now, apart from my iTunes card and possibly bath and shower gel, tonight's tasks will involve Sims 2 hotels; either furnishing the Lakeview Hotel or building the Dockside Palace, the large hotel in which the Mage cabal has holed up after the Molly-rescue mission. I have a very specific image in mind of what it looks like so I may as well actually design it for my World of Darkness 'neighbourhood'. Incidentally, the building of Silent Hill went as well as can be expected, given that you're not allowed to have diagonal roads in Sims 2 neighbourhoods. Maybe they'll fix that in upcoming expansion packs, if I'm lucky. The game designers really do seem to have their fans and users in mind when they design this sort of thing; a big-deal thing prior to Open for Business was trying to build split-level houses, which didn't work without a lot of boolprop hacks. When OfB came out, they included a specific sort of foundation that was designed for use inside buildings so that you could have a split level house without any of the faff. And with the success of sites like Mod the Sims 2, Sims Resource, Parsimonious and all the other custom content sites I peruse on a regular basis (my personal favourites being MTS2, XM Sims and Rose Sims, the latter two having the best hair meshes on the web), the discs of nothing but new furniture, clothing and accessories (Sims 2 Holiday Edition and Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff, coming on 13th April) are probably pretty popular as well. After all, the people who do get them will be able to use the meshes to do neat recolours, which other people won't be able to get without buying the discs as well... Way to exploit the community spirit. At least we get something out of it.
(NB: they have pyjamas with monster-feet slippers attached in the Family Fun Stuff EP. Helloooo, Lucille...)
It comes to me that I don't actually use Sims 2 as a game anymore, really. I haven't played with my Sims in ages, despite having designed the entire Osborne family (all five females, matriarch to littlest in-law) for my Llandeilo shopping district. I use it more as a very advanced doll builder and architectual design tool than as a PC game. Maybe I ought to buy Lemmings or Worms or something; a PC game I actually play. I suppose my games are all roleplay these days, not that I was ever a huge video gamer in the first place. Incidentally, still no word from the Hollow City, but I will nag if I don't hear by Thursday.
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