You live at home with your mom.
Jan. 24th, 2003 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raybearI'm very tired, probably from only getting five and a half hours sleep. More on that later.
Today on the train I listened to a mixtape that had Dionne's Heartbreaker, Kenny's Lady, Melissa Manchester, and other quality gems. I felt like I was in a time warp, listening to the radio on a morning communte in 1983. Sometimes I wonder if people only knew what I was mouthing along too on the train, they would probably die laughing. But instead, keeping it secret just makes me happy.
So I fooled around with The Sims game some as soon as I got home. I thought "yeah, this is okay. I'm having a hard time getting the hang of it though." So I pushed myself away to go make eggplant cutlets with pasta and marinara sauce with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
limenal, then after eating she retired to the bedroom for studying and I valiently picked up the controller again, vowing to get Johnny Savage out of his mother's house and out from under her domineering thumb. This happened around 8:15 pm. I remember thinking "this game is so weird and sometimes tiresome, how do people get so addicted?" Then I looked at my watch and it was 1 am. Oh, that's how.
Let me explain this game is a bit different from the PC version. There are two modes: Get A Life and Neighborhood. Neighborhood is more of the free-floating sandbox form that people are used to. Get-A-Life mode starts off slow and as you complete goals, your sim (and you) learn more and earn access to further levels and products to buy. You have to complete the first set of goals in Get-A-Life before the Neighborhood mode is even opened.
First, I did get Johnny Savage into a place of his own. That Johnny, he's one lucky bastard. His uncle left him money, then his mom hooks him up with a house that has no rent because it's been trashed. I cleaned up most of the rooms and fixed the espresso machine, television, and computer. That was a bit much for young Johnny who spends his day at work as a daredevil -- it pays better than subway musician and I couldn't put him on the military track. Don't ask, don't tell. Did I mention Johnny's gay? Of course he is, have you seen what he's wearing? A tight electric blue sleeveless shirt and black leather pants. Plus those black trendy glasses and the soul patch were hints. But the dead giveaway is how he dances. No straight man dances like that.
Johnny's kitchen currently doesn't have a back wall. Apparently it got trashed during the party, though I don't know how. So his kitchen is sort of like a carport. Now that I know how to build walls after constructing Spike's house from scratch, I'll go back and fix that little problem.
Enter Sunnydale. I've only started on populating it, beginning with the Summers family (adult Joyce, adult Buffy, child Dawn), the Harris household (Xander and Anya), and bachelor house (Spike). Don't worry, more will come. There's also this strange rich family in town names the Goths which I kept because their preprogrammed name was so appropriate and because they're currently the only family rich enough to live in the big house on the corner. As soon as another family starts raking it in, I plan on evicting them.
First off, creating all the Buffy show sims just reminded me of how fcking white this show is. C'mon now, it's southern California right? Can't we get some latinos up in this bish? Thanks. I might bring back Giles's girlfriend from England, but she might interfere with the seduction of Giles. Unless I have her start an affair with someone else as a distraction. Maybe I should bring back Kendra from second season, the strange southern hemisphere slayer with the Miss Cleo accent. Damn, that was an embarassing moment.
So far Spike and Joyce have hit it off really well. It's sort of hot. Well, maybe I'm making it hot by encouraging it. I have Spike talk and flirt with her, inviting her in for food. Unfortunately she left because she was tired of standing. So I went over to the Summers house and had her call Spike up to invite him over for dinner (forget for a moment that there's only one double bed and a couch in a three-person household and virtually no where to get it on). He came, but before Joyce could put any moves on him she collapsed from exhaustion and fell asleep on the patio and also in the hallway on the way to the bedroom. Guess I should have paid attention to the energy bar.
Spike goes home and it's late and he's not tired -- he's a vampire after all, plus he has no job to get up for. He also only has $150 left after building and furnishing his spacious pad, but will he listen to me when I tell him to find a job in athe classifieds? No, he says he's too depressed to look for a job. Maybe he's depressed because Buffy won't talk to him, though he won't approach her either. They were both standing in his yard, three feet away with arms crossed and backs turned. I commanded him to "greet" five times but he disobeyed. Guess that's what happens when you have two Scorpios.
So Spike is watching television and I have him call Joyce to talk and invite her over. She doesn't like this, and I lose a few points on the relationship scale. Guess he'll have to woo her back tomorrow. Unless Xander comes by for a visit again.
At 1 am, I realized how late it was and Sophie needed to go out quite badly. I left the game running, because you can. Spike is fairly smart and self-sufficient, so I trusted him to not start fires or flood the bathroom. I go outside (in real-life) then come back and see Spike standing outside chatting it up with Xander. And they are going at it -- blab blab blab, lots of plus signs over both of their heads indicating they like each other. A lot. Prior to this, Xander has been geting along well with Anya and he's pretty aloof with everyone else.
Spike is stinky so he waves at me to help him out. I oblige by pointing him to the shower, reluctant to end the Xander lovefest. Xander tags along inside. All the way into the bathroom. They start talking again. Spike goes over to the shower and Xander doesn't leave the room, but Spike takes off his clothes anyway. Hot! Unfortunately there's a box blurring out certain private regions of the sims, so I can't tell if he was also, um, excited about Xander's presence. Xander stands there for awhile watching him shower, than leaves to go to the kitchen -- I guess he got hungry. Spike is done cleaning up, and immediately calls out to Xander who comes back into the bathroom where they continue chatting. I really wanted one of them to give the other a backrub, but I guess they weren't quite ready for that next step. Xander left because it was late, though he doesn't have a job yet either, so I don't know what his problem is. I guess he does have a wife at home.
Today: it's move-in day for the Willow-Tara household! This game is like Buffy heaven -- none of the characters are really dead.
I might have to start a separate SIMS journal.
Today on the train I listened to a mixtape that had Dionne's Heartbreaker, Kenny's Lady, Melissa Manchester, and other quality gems. I felt like I was in a time warp, listening to the radio on a morning communte in 1983. Sometimes I wonder if people only knew what I was mouthing along too on the train, they would probably die laughing. But instead, keeping it secret just makes me happy.
So I fooled around with The Sims game some as soon as I got home. I thought "yeah, this is okay. I'm having a hard time getting the hang of it though." So I pushed myself away to go make eggplant cutlets with pasta and marinara sauce with
limenal, then after eating she retired to the bedroom for studying and I valiently picked up the controller again, vowing to get Johnny Savage out of his mother's house and out from under her domineering thumb. This happened around 8:15 pm. I remember thinking "this game is so weird and sometimes tiresome, how do people get so addicted?" Then I looked at my watch and it was 1 am. Oh, that's how.Let me explain this game is a bit different from the PC version. There are two modes: Get A Life and Neighborhood. Neighborhood is more of the free-floating sandbox form that people are used to. Get-A-Life mode starts off slow and as you complete goals, your sim (and you) learn more and earn access to further levels and products to buy. You have to complete the first set of goals in Get-A-Life before the Neighborhood mode is even opened.
First, I did get Johnny Savage into a place of his own. That Johnny, he's one lucky bastard. His uncle left him money, then his mom hooks him up with a house that has no rent because it's been trashed. I cleaned up most of the rooms and fixed the espresso machine, television, and computer. That was a bit much for young Johnny who spends his day at work as a daredevil -- it pays better than subway musician and I couldn't put him on the military track. Don't ask, don't tell. Did I mention Johnny's gay? Of course he is, have you seen what he's wearing? A tight electric blue sleeveless shirt and black leather pants. Plus those black trendy glasses and the soul patch were hints. But the dead giveaway is how he dances. No straight man dances like that.
Johnny's kitchen currently doesn't have a back wall. Apparently it got trashed during the party, though I don't know how. So his kitchen is sort of like a carport. Now that I know how to build walls after constructing Spike's house from scratch, I'll go back and fix that little problem.
Enter Sunnydale. I've only started on populating it, beginning with the Summers family (adult Joyce, adult Buffy, child Dawn), the Harris household (Xander and Anya), and bachelor house (Spike). Don't worry, more will come. There's also this strange rich family in town names the Goths which I kept because their preprogrammed name was so appropriate and because they're currently the only family rich enough to live in the big house on the corner. As soon as another family starts raking it in, I plan on evicting them.
First off, creating all the Buffy show sims just reminded me of how fcking white this show is. C'mon now, it's southern California right? Can't we get some latinos up in this bish? Thanks. I might bring back Giles's girlfriend from England, but she might interfere with the seduction of Giles. Unless I have her start an affair with someone else as a distraction. Maybe I should bring back Kendra from second season, the strange southern hemisphere slayer with the Miss Cleo accent. Damn, that was an embarassing moment.
So far Spike and Joyce have hit it off really well. It's sort of hot. Well, maybe I'm making it hot by encouraging it. I have Spike talk and flirt with her, inviting her in for food. Unfortunately she left because she was tired of standing. So I went over to the Summers house and had her call Spike up to invite him over for dinner (forget for a moment that there's only one double bed and a couch in a three-person household and virtually no where to get it on). He came, but before Joyce could put any moves on him she collapsed from exhaustion and fell asleep on the patio and also in the hallway on the way to the bedroom. Guess I should have paid attention to the energy bar.
Spike goes home and it's late and he's not tired -- he's a vampire after all, plus he has no job to get up for. He also only has $150 left after building and furnishing his spacious pad, but will he listen to me when I tell him to find a job in athe classifieds? No, he says he's too depressed to look for a job. Maybe he's depressed because Buffy won't talk to him, though he won't approach her either. They were both standing in his yard, three feet away with arms crossed and backs turned. I commanded him to "greet" five times but he disobeyed. Guess that's what happens when you have two Scorpios.
So Spike is watching television and I have him call Joyce to talk and invite her over. She doesn't like this, and I lose a few points on the relationship scale. Guess he'll have to woo her back tomorrow. Unless Xander comes by for a visit again.
At 1 am, I realized how late it was and Sophie needed to go out quite badly. I left the game running, because you can. Spike is fairly smart and self-sufficient, so I trusted him to not start fires or flood the bathroom. I go outside (in real-life) then come back and see Spike standing outside chatting it up with Xander. And they are going at it -- blab blab blab, lots of plus signs over both of their heads indicating they like each other. A lot. Prior to this, Xander has been geting along well with Anya and he's pretty aloof with everyone else.
Spike is stinky so he waves at me to help him out. I oblige by pointing him to the shower, reluctant to end the Xander lovefest. Xander tags along inside. All the way into the bathroom. They start talking again. Spike goes over to the shower and Xander doesn't leave the room, but Spike takes off his clothes anyway. Hot! Unfortunately there's a box blurring out certain private regions of the sims, so I can't tell if he was also, um, excited about Xander's presence. Xander stands there for awhile watching him shower, than leaves to go to the kitchen -- I guess he got hungry. Spike is done cleaning up, and immediately calls out to Xander who comes back into the bathroom where they continue chatting. I really wanted one of them to give the other a backrub, but I guess they weren't quite ready for that next step. Xander left because it was late, though he doesn't have a job yet either, so I don't know what his problem is. I guess he does have a wife at home.
Today: it's move-in day for the Willow-Tara household! This game is like Buffy heaven -- none of the characters are really dead.
I might have to start a separate SIMS journal.
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:03 am (UTC)they could get on their computer and go to lj! ;)
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:08 am (UTC)oh my, this is too much.
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:09 am (UTC)