Well, today has been a day of heavy lifting. Hadn't realised the new TV would be so damn heavy! The old one isn't nearly as heavy, but then the old one is 23 years old so I wonder how much stuff is in the new one.

I also got my FFXII guidebook off laybuy, nice to know I have it so when I actually do get around to firing up Xemnas again I'll have it by. Love the nice closeup pics of the characters in it - I can't help of what a few people around say about Reks' outfit - a "battle bra". *Snerk*

Never got a really good look at Mataeus before so I didn't realise there's a figure in the middle of all those limbs that is tied up.


Anyway, short list of things to do now: pay the new phonebill, buy more vit D, get back payments for the christmas fund dealt with (I figure if I can get $100 in next off-week Coles pay), the Sims Celebration Stuff pack, FF3, and then maybe save up a bit of money to get Fëanor more RAM. The Sims kinda needs it.

You know that disappearing sim?

Well I got the Ignatius family (Axel's) housed and Ïethacan turned up on... probably the third day (I've shoved in some of the SimSlice electro-boards so all three members of the family can work up some skills without interuption) and I decided to temporarily get an NPC Generator cabinet (another SimSlice toy - a recoloured shower that teleports other sims into the house as visitors) so I could have Saïx over as well and weirdly enough, there's Calista on the character selection piechart for the Nathyus family.

( The disappearing, reappearing, made-over nanny )


So, I don't know what I'm going to do with this girl, maybe I'll see if I can get her to stay solidly in a house. I still feel like playing out the irony of hooking up Ïethacan and Selwyn though, but maybe I can engineer a few intervening memories and use Calista as one of my subjects for that.

At the moment, I'm going to do a bit of Body Shop work to get some of my yet-to-be-implemented sims ready to place so I may start on an idea I had in that direction - making up Edea as mother to teen sims - ones like Selphie and Irvine - so I can put the Teens into Uni.

Strangely, in this case, I am glad of this game's stubborness about surnames - it's kinda nice that I know Calista won't change names, even if I transplant her into Edea's house so I can work things around to getting her to fucking stay put.

Maybe I'll see if I can tweak the Ellone model's face into something I like better while I'm fiddling in Body Shop. Both of them I need to find clothing for because they either didn't come with custom clothing or the clothes didn't work. I at least have a dress chosen for Edea.

Actually, I'd like to download SimPE and start poking about with it - I read somewhere one can reset family relationships with it, but that sounds rather high level alterations that could potentially go wrong very easily. Meh, maybe I'm a bit too ambitious there!


Edit: Grr! Already having issues with Edea. You know those veiny-things along the sides of her face while she's the Big Bad Sorceress? Well they are part of the base skintone for her. That's what's annoying, you can't change skintones - you can't change eye colours either - once the sim is made up.
I wish whoever had made this sim had taken into account that Edea in "Matron" mode (in the flashbacks and the final scene after the Ultimecia fight, and in the camcorder FMV in the credits) didn't have those veins and had made them facial makeup, but nooooo! They're part of the skintone aren't they?
I also hate the skullcap - it looks daft, a lot dafter than the original in FF8 - which is why I am wishing the veins were makeup or eyebrows because then I could make over Edea mid-game, from "The Soreceress" to "Matron" and back again if I wished - because my experimental "Matron" is not looking very Edea-like at the moment.

Okay, I'm caving.

I'm going to reinstall Sims 1.

I expect I will neglect it once I get Sims 2 but that won't happen for at least a week.

I can't help but wonder if I'll have a siliar thing happen with The Sims as did with SimCity. I didn't mind Classic SimCity, I got to know it better during the years before I got Fëanor and all I had was a hand-me-down SNES.
I played SimCity 2000 way back before then, on Grey's computer - the first computer of any note in my household. I loved it.
I bought my own copy when we first moved to Brisbane (as an adult - not that time way back when I was 2-3) and Noddy had a computer that was parked in the spare room.
I ended up having to buy one of those sets of half-a-dozen old games to replace that disk since I took it to Tafe once and left it in one of the library computers and it obviously got taken by whoever the next person was that got on that compy.
I got SimCity 3000 at some point, tried it but ended up finding it too troublesome so I reverted back to SC2000, where I had no nonsense cheat codes, a game that I could play without the codes if I wanted, and the ability to create custom tiles and tile sets. My personal tile sets get named after stars, the first one was Epsilon (yeah, not actually a star but greek letters remind me of how stars are named), the second Sirius (must have been during my time in the HP fandom) and my current Alderbaran.

Like I said, I hope I don't have the same happen with Sims 2.

Meanwhile it's going to be fun sorting through all my skins again and shuffling them all into their proper folders again. The C&C stuff is horribly messed up, I'll have to totally clean it up because the behavioural mods are mixed in with the object mods.


I am thinking this time of making the Cloud/Seph household include Zack and Aerith instead. Squall can go live with Seifer, Irvine and Zell.

ETA: Blah, reinstalling all the extras I've downloaded over time is painful, especially when I have to extract them again and pull them out of the folders that extraction generates so I can dump them in the Downloads folder.
I need to make new recovery folders.

Got those caps I said I'd grab.

( Comparing Sephys )

( FF7 goes punk )

( An outfit I can totally see Seph wearing - even if it doesn't show the manboobies )

( For fun )

I have always had a thing for pairings between enemies, I think I always will, even in fandoms I am ( not exactly all that knowledgable in )

Okay so, thanks to what I mentioned in my last post I had to go and do something to cheer myself up.

I ended up killing some more sims.

Don't know if it helps but I can always blame Squeenix!

I think I have finally gotten through to the Other Side Of My Head (aka The Bint) on the subject of a PS2. It'll be while yet, I may not be able to get one until next year.

Don't even mention the PSP to me, that is just not happening. Besides, I want to play PS1 games and the PSP could hardly do that!

Dirge of Cerberus was what did it, I want Vinnie!

I'm also having to reread the last chapter of Why Me? A Love Story for Manic Depressives - it's been so long since I read the existing chapters that I need a refresher before hitting the new chapter (wheee! New Chapter!). I wonder if I'll get back into the Sims tonight?

Oh, and on the subject of Sims, I am officially pissed off at C&C - their site is down.

For the first time in a while I have opened my Sims1 game. The reason? I am plotting to institute my latest ship, Rude/Tifa.
This is not as easy as it seems since I am out to steal already existing sims from the families they are currently in and making them into a new household.

The plan by which to do this is that I will use a third party to seduce one of them out of their house, kill third party sim off, then have the first one to move house seduce the other out of their old family unit.

I have, while typing this, realised that I may need to redo the steps I have taken so far in this plot, I don't really wish to have Tifa and Rude slapped with the surname "Cupid" for the continuity of the game so I may have to remake Eros which in turn means I will have to at least refurnish the house I built for him. Oh well, there goes the 16 point friendship score caused by Tifa acting as the "welcome wagon" (someone turns up the first day a new sim moves in and introduces themselves. The usual culprits are Tifa and Zell or Aeris and Zack).

Now I just have to decide what name I want them to have. I had this idea of using "Lockhart" and doing a similar trick to change Barrett and Marlene's surname to Wallace since I originally named their household "Lockheart". More's the pity Rude is a one-name character (though I have seen in my reading so far that many people have that as short for "Rudolph", and the fic I commented on a couple of days ago had "Rude" as his surname).

After getting distracted with the Súlimo household I finally got around to ( correcting my ommission )

Only I not only added Jecht but also put Lenne in, having finally worked out which head was suposed to be hers.

Okay, just following up on my last post, I finished the latest residents of my Sim neighbourhood.

( Oh Eru help me... )