Uncreativity

So in my Sims 3 game, Excel is a Henchman. This just happened:

"The Boss was entertaining another powerful crime lord and was showing him how powerful he was. He pulled a lever and a trap door opened under Excel that would've dropped her into a pit of lobsters! Luckily, Excel was Athletic enough to jump away before falling. The Boss was impressed with Excel's skills and gave hr a raise."

With my Sims 3 game properly modded for non-random-babby-forming purposes, I have been playing A WHOLE FUCKING LOT. I made an ACROSS house, as I do every Sims game (for this one, rather than giving them all the last name "ACROSS" I named them what they would ICly respond to a question of their last name... so Excel is "Excel SECRET!!!!" and Hyatt is "Hyatt Oh My" and Elgala is "Elgala I," get it, like I, Elgala, and... yeah. I love my damn Sims.)

Il Palazzo has the Insane trait, so he has options like "talk madness" and "talk about conspiracies" in his dialogue options, and even better, he can "Talk to Self" at any point. IT'S HILARIOUS. Also, Excel has been to prison twice already. I CALL THIS SUCCESS.

Speaking of Sims, this Alice and Kev blog, which is chronicling the lives of two homeless sims (basically, all they have on their lot is two park benches). I think it's supposed to be like... touching and emotional or something, but I find it mostly hilarious. EITHER WAY, it's an entertaining read. I'm tempted to download them and stick them in my crappy neighborhood - basically I have one neighborhood that's mostly fictional characters, where they all live fun and productive lives, and one that's all OCs, where I breed them all, torture them, kill them, and otherwise make them suffer in every way possible.

Speaking of my crappy neighborhood, I made a Sim version of myself just to see what she would do. Thus far, she sleeps, eats, goes to work, comes home, and watches TV (she doesn't have enough money to buy a computer yet). So basically, accurate to real life, but totally boring. I'm not sure what I was expecting from my terrible self-deprecating self-Sim, but it wasn't boringness, that's for certain.

ETA: WAIT A SECOND, IT JUST GAVE SIM-ME THE OPTION TO MOVE IN WITH A BOY. No longer boring or accurate to real life!! :ooo

ETA 2: Also he lives with his family in a house worth 188k. This is like the exact opposite of real life.

ETA 3: AND THEN THE GAME CRASHED lololololo

I've been playing a lot of Sims 3. There are some seriously cool additions to it. I made a Lina and Gourry house - actually, I originally made them two separate houses, but then one day Gourry went over to Lina's and she HAD ADOPTED A BABY. I knew that time passes in the entire neighborhood in this version, but THEY CAN OBTAIN BABBY ON THEIR OWN? So I had Gourry pick up the baby and insult its face to Lina. "Inappropriate" is maybe the best personality trait ever - it also allows him such actions as "make inappropriate forum post" and "imply Lina's mother is a llama." But calling the baby ugly was really the only enjoyable part of the "WHY THE FUCK DOES LINA HAVE BABBY!?!?!?!?" saga, and there aren't any cheats out yet that would allow me to delete the damn thing, so I deleted her household, made a new one, and moved her in with Gourry, so I could control them both at the same time.

There are a lot of neat gameplay improvements over Sims 2, and the updated character creation system is FANTASTIC, but I'm essentially going to have to make a new neighborhood for every house I want to play, which is very nearly enough to make me want to go back to Sims 2 on its own.

...well, I'm sure someone will come up with a "NO BABBY WITHOUT PERMISSION" patch sooner or later, and I bet turning off aging would at least help a little. It'd also stone-kill that second bird of how much more difficult it is to prolong aging in this game. But until then, it's one household per neighborhood. Annoyyiinnngggg.