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December 29, 2005
Re-Re-Re-Re-Re-Reticulating Splines
Merry Christmas, everyone, a little bit late! We had a nice one. Not overly hectic, and my brother, Brian, was here to spend it with us, which was great. It's been 7 years since he's spent Christmas with us.
So, anyway, for those of you, in the "know", who might have understood my title, I'm now, finally the proud owner of the "Nightlife" expansion pack, for The Sims 2. That has resurrected my Sims from a rather long sabbatical in the CD shelf. They were getting lonely in there. =) Christmas is a wonderful thing!
Anyway, Nightlife is pretty fun, though I still haven't got to spend much time playing around with all the new toys and interactions. I've had a bit of a problem with the game, and I've not seen it mentioned anywhere online, but I've got it figured out to where I can play without much problem, I just have to make sure and do all of my building/buying/rearranging/etc, right when the game first loads. If not, then later in gameplay, it won't let me do that kind of stuff, for some reason, until I reboot. It doesn't affect gameplay, though, so long as my Sims have everything they need, early on. I've only been playing one Sim, so far, and she's in a pretty small house, so it's not been a problem, yet.
(Ok Jodi, you might want to cover your eyes now)....
THEY HAVE CARS NOW!
Whoo hoo! (that's my excitement, not to be confused with Sims "Woo-hoo")
The game just keeps getting better, and better! They keep coming up with such cool things, and interesting interactions, it's awesome! It's almost hard to believe how satisfied I was with the original Sims.........almost. They were pretty damn fun, but Sims 2? AWESOME!
I see the next expansion pack is going to be, "Open For Business". Per the little ad thing, in my "Nightlife" box:
The Sims 2 Open For Business Expansion Pack is coming your way early 2006. Create shops, boutiques, entertainment hot spots, home businesses, and more. Hire friendly workers and fire slackers as you strive to keep up with demand. Get ready to take your Sims from rags to riches.
Hrmmm....sounds interesting. We can make shops and such, already, but not hire and fire employees, and I'm VERY interested in this whole home business thing. I wonder if they'll have an e-bay type of business that you can have your Sims run, now that would ROCK!
Posted by Romy at 09:46 AM | Comments (1)
December 07, 2005
It's a different world than where we came from
Yesterday afternoon Stephen, and Veronica were working on their homework, and pestering each other some, in the process, as sibings are wont to do.
I was in the bathroom, at one point, and could overhear their conversation. At one point I could swear that Veronica called her brother a "maggot", but then she called him something that I couldn't quite make out. Immediately after that, though, I heard Stephen say, "Do you know what a _________ is?" I was 99% certain that I had heard what he said, correctly, and was waiting to hear the response when the conversation fizzled out. I was also 99% certain that I knew what Stephen's answer was going to be, and that's why I was so bummed that it didn't get beyond that.
So, when I come out of the bathroom, a few minutes later, I sit down, and ask Stephen, "Hey, what was that, that Veronica called you, and you asked her if she knew what it was?" He couldn't remember, and was sitting there thinking, and thinking, and thinking. Finally he had that lightbulb moment, and said, "Veronica called me a computer!", and then Veronica piped in, "Yeah, that's right, I called you a Macintosh".
I explained that, yes, it was a computer, but (and Stephen started laughing his head off at "computer butt" - just one of the many joys of having a 10 year old boy), that it was also a kind of apple. I told them that the computer company that makes the MAC is named, "Apple", and that is why they named it such. Stephen said, "oh, you mean like 'Granny Smith'?", and I said, "Yes, exactly. So you're right, it's a computer, but it was a type of apple, first".
*giggle*
Oh how the world is completely different from when I was 8 or 10 years old. I doubt I'd have even known that it was an apple, and I'd have had no idea, whatsoever, that it would someday be the name of a computer!
I really, really wish that there had been something like Napster, or Kazaa, when I was a teenager. That would have rocked.
I feel old.
Posted by Romy at 09:20 AM | Comments (1)