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Sims 3

It’s actually too hot to blog, even about the Sims.

boomsim.jpgThe Sims went BOOM. Again.

You may remember, that when I first got the game, I suffered some major crashes resulting in a complete loss of households. Well, it happened again, but I’ll get to that in a moment.

The Sims 3 is a different paradigm from the Sims 2. (-5 points from me for using a word so highly regarded in corporate buzzspeak.) Sims 2 was all about the neighborhood. Create as many families as you want, they will wait for you while you play in another household. I spent 4 years creating a custom neighborhood with multiple families and generations.

With the Sims 3, the world is open and dynamic. If you so choose, everyone in the neighborhood changes, evolves and ages right along with you, as you play your default household. You can add as many custom characters as you want, but idea seems to be that you focus on one household. And maybe because of that, you now can create separate “games.” Each game is a different world, unrelated to the other world.

I’ve had several issues with the game. Guitar boy, aforementioned crashes and an inability to update my game despite the fact I had installed no mods. (the forum kept telling me to uninstall my mods and then update.) What I did was deleted everything and reinstall. This meant I lost my family, which included guitar boy, but I was ok with that because something crazy happened to the triplets. Three girls, triplets, and when they aged from teenager to young adult, their faces stretched and they looked like a characture drawing of Dick Van Dyke.

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It was unsettling to look at. I guess I like my sims pretty. So I created Poppy, a green thumbed natural cook and workaholic. This was the sim I was working with, collecting screen shots to tell you stories, she was going to be a Executive Chef, and was actually only two levels away from it, when the sims went BOOM. Again.

The Stepdot is visiting, and I set her up to play the sims yesterday. Once again, it is unusually hot here and the game crashed several times. She lost her household during one of those crashes, and when she went to save the new one, it gave her save over prompt/warning. I told her to go ahead, because I thought it was going to save over her last crashed game. But no. Apparently it was going to save over ALL GAMES.

No more Poppy.

I think the computer (a closed MacBook Pro hooked up to cinema display) was overheating again. Once she was playing without the cinema display, she quit crashing. Today I bought a desk fan to blow on my computer.

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The sun is trying to kill me

I hate summer. Maybe hate is too strong a word. I will tell you this, I like summer more when I have air conditioning. However, for the last 21 years I have lived in a part of the world that just does not commonly put air conditioning in homes. Because it just doesn’t get “that hot” that often.

Bullshit I say!

I don’t do well with heat. And it’s sunny and hot today. It was sunny and hot yesterday. It’s going to be sunny and hot for days. Other places in the country(ies) might not consider 80 that hot*. But they have air conditioning in their homes. I’d fork over the few hundreds to get a portable a/c unit, but we are kind of poor right now. And I just spent nearly a thousand dollars on having more teeth removed from Pru’s gum diseased mouth. (get your pet’s teeth cleaned. trust me, it’s cheaper in the long run.)

Other people might consider today to be a beautiful day. While they marvel over the appearance of the sun here in the PacNoWest, they seem to be completely unaware that the sun IS TRYING TO GIVE THEM CANCER!!

I’m the only one who understands. The sun is trying to kill us.

*I bet they consider 80 degrees to be hot in Canada because they use Celsius and 80 degrees C must be a BILLION degrees F.

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