They've changed the style of cut-tags.

Finally got around to putting the damn thing in - icon is of my Sims 3 version of my Mimi sim. Hair is a custom style, and the game finally has decent fat, not like S2 whose fat sims are what I think of as still being fairly thin (hey, I'm fat, really fat, so fat I'm having surgery in two days to help with weight loss, so I know what is really fat and what is just a bit over "thin" and therefore irritating when girls who are like that complain about being "fat").

Also: I have World Adventures. And Riverview.

After a couple of false starts (the first one was a real irrit, since it was a whole night's play I lost), I tried downloading the game patches and got them through and loaded. I went to the Sims 3 site and tried downloading one of the free items and got it through, so I did something ridiculously ambitious, I started a download of a 95 MB file.

Riverview is a whole new town, downloadable on the website, presumably after one registers their copy of the base game. It also has at least one familiar character from S2 - Don Lothario. It's his house my Riverview savegame is set in, but I haven't done much because I was having a little problem with my mods not working.

Meanwhile I have started a new Sunset Valley game, starting out with settling in agiftedmind's pair of sisters (she remade her self-sim while over, doing some sewing, adding a sim of one of her pet OCs as the self-sim's sister). I want to use those two to check out the tourist areas.

Another remnant of Final Fantasy gone in favour of Transformers.

I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY!!!

Put through my LJ order to update my journal, but I didn't realise I didn't have enough until after I'd checked out the "shopping cart". That means I can't cancel it, but I can't pay it either.

And I can't do anything either - I can't add anything to the order here on LJ because it's been checked out. Maybe something can be done on PayPal, but I don't want to beg for help on it. I'll just have to wait until tomorrow, after I've been to the hospital again, so I can put more money in Mum's account.

I could always hope the AUD goes back up a couple of points and bring the price back down, but that is a long shot.


ETA: I'm gonna go play DOOM.

I am doing a major friends cut.

The main reason is that there are a number of people on my personal journal filter that I simply don't read anymore. Either they have wandered off into something other than what I'd find of any interest, or I have.

Not that it makes much difference for anyone reading my journal, I keep mostly everything public anyway.

I'm also clearing out some of the communities I have listed - I have a lot of comms that I just don't read anymore so I am pulling out of a lot of the fandom fic ones. Like I said, interests have wandered off into the big and metallic.

My anonymous donor filled up my icons! Thankye Mousie!

With this, I may be able to delay paying my journal a week so I can do something about my chair - it'll probably only be a temporary solution (such as buying another cheap one from Ikea) but that would be better than what I have at the moment.

I'll have to see how my money scrapes up next week.



Oh, and pointless FFIII commentary: I am rather happy to know that ( Spoiler spoiler spoiler )

Why is it that plot goes by real fast? It's like I just got my pre-Dragon Mountain levelling done, a turn around twice (or to be exact, climbed the mountain, visited the Gnomes and the Vikings, got a ship and got into the inner sea and visited the accessible spots) and now I have to level again so I can buy better armour for my team (I also have access to gis - monk clothing - so I can consider training everyone up as monks.

Currently I have everyone trained up to at least Job Level 10 in Freelancer, Red Mage and Warrior with selective training per person in Black and White Mages - I'm currently working up Ingus's White Mage level, I didn't level him up in that before Dragon Mt. and since I found a gi I'm starting with Monk training, on Arc.

This time I'll push everyone up to 30 - because Luneth got up to 26 in Freelancer just in all the stuff before the first lot of job classes were made available, and the last time I looked at his level in Red Mage he was 16 and he's added another level or two since then and Ingus is a level or two behind him.

We have a serial adder folks! 0mghi2fatotaku - and their only post is insulting "fat" otaku.

I recognized a couple of people in their flist, ____ero__sennin, __fantine, alba_aulbath, cup_ramen_chaos, cygna_hime, darknessdivine, darknessneko, gay_vampire, i_got_spunk, jenova_synth, leikomgwtfbbq, lulu_nobody, luna_hoshino, midnight12181, misskalloway, powercorrupts, serinance and sixverstein - to pick out those I know from around the various comms.


I have to wonder if they're talking out of their ass - which wouldn't surpise me with a troll - but really, how many of the people they've added are fat? I mean the label fits for me, but I don't see why I should pretend any different anyway - hell, my Mimi sim is fat (not that I consider the figure fat sims have as really fat anyway)!


Anyway, on a different matter, got my games laybuy off a day early and went to watch Transformers again. It fun (in the sarcastic way) negotiating public holiday bus timetables, what with the Ekka being on (a fair run every year here in Brisbane). The games I got off laybuy are Phoenix Wright and Final Fantasy III.

Just went over and took a look around the flist on my other journal... wow, reminder of old fandom stuff eh?

I don't think I'm ready to go back and read LotR stuff again (I have found that after some time away I am willing to go visit an old fandom - if only briefly), or at least not morgana_avalon's writing. Hell, if Orchyd Constyne was still writing LotR I don't think I'd go back at the moment for even her writing!

On the other hand, I may go poke around stubenfliege's journal and see what her latest fic is about. I know it's an Apocalyptica RPS and I am marginally interested. Took me half a second to remember who "Ansta" was though.

In things closer to home: I have to thank lazzchan for a new pairing-threesome-whateversome, post-KH2 Riku/Sora/Roxas, specifically with Sora and Roxas sharing the one body and implied Riku/Roxas from the pre-KH2 period.
It's like Riku gets two boyfriends in one. XD


Also, found another fandom that, at those point, will probably only rate as a minor one to distract me in times of low ficcage in FF - Homestar Runner. I have, after a couple of recent visits to the website, developed a fondness for Homsar. He's cute and he talks weird, and once he turned into a moderately hot girl in an imaginary senario. XDD


I also want shota. Someone write some FFXII creepy shota incest? Two guess who I want to see in it. *poings at icon*

With the phonebill paid in full as of yesterday I have taken the liberty of using most of the rest of this week's pay to pre-emptively deal with my journal. I have not only paid it up for a full year but I now have 108 icons! (I think the 8 are loyalty rewards - ones I get for maintaining a paid account.)

I won't do much at the moment in the way of uploads because I need a nap but I'm sure I'll be busy, once I'm home from work, going through my icon collection and picking out what I want to post.


Random thought: This icon makes me think of Zexion going lingerie shopping for Lexaeus. (And that is totally an allusion to another icon - one I'll post later!)

Just had a bit of a rethink on one part of the hybrid mutant plotbunny I posted a few days ago... ( just what would someone get for deprevation of liberty? )

Meanwhile, random note: My journal layout is playing silly buggers. Seems to be acting normal again.