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The subject of this entry is the new game I play -- reinstalling the Sims.
I've reinstalled completely and cleanly twice in the last few days. Last night I tried it the slow way: one pack at a time, then you build a house, then another pack. I've gotten through Deluxe, House Party, and Hot Date. That's only four disks, but: 3 disk changes for each, and an extra one for Hote Date -- 10 disk changes. I believe there are three for Vacation, Unleashed, and Superstar too, though there may only be the one for Vacation.
I may spend more time, overall, fixing the game than playing it. What peeves me is losing cool things like the lovely Community Center I made with (I'm not making this up) Bunny Wuffles' Architectural Salvage items. But when my game goes south, I can't trust the houses. So I have to trash them.
You should see this, by the way:
Bunny Wuffles' Architectural Supplies for the Sims
Isn't that cool? I adore stuff like this.
(note to Emma: so I know you've been reading this, and you know how much I brag about you. For your punishment, you will have to plow through paragraphs and paragraphs of boring writing neepery).
I thought it would be hard to write this part, because I'm squeamish. But I seem to have taken the easy way out, at least for the first third of the chapter: my guy is _telling_ and not _showing_ the torture he gets at the hands of the nasty guy.
I know I can't go on forever like this, but I don't need to. He's remembering things, and thinking about things -- for an artificial construct, he's awfully contemplative, at least by the time that he is recounting the events that are in the book.
So the rest of the chapter is like this.
Carleen is trying to take over a small country. Really. It's finicky. Our guy has to spend a lot of time on it, moving information and money around. Jerrod is trying to work out how to use the conduit as transportation (he can't). Ian, besides torturing our guy, is trying to get a multinational corporation. I don't know how to expres this -- these guys think they are scientists, but they are the opposite of scientists. I mean, they aren't interested in knowing things, in exploring things for their own sake, or even for learning things to make a profit: they want all the marbles and they want it the easy way. The other two -- they're just goons.
So. Events pertaining to each of these projects. The one with Ian including, I'm sorry to say, a more graphic depiction of what he does.
And punctuating these, first despair because the watchers don't do anything for days, and then the growingf certainty that they are doing something, they are coming. Now this _could_ be out of the frying pan and into the fire, if he didn't get away again in the chaos of their arrival, but he doesn't know and he hates Ian so much he doesn't really care.
Than, finally, the invasion of the watchers: and our guy's sense of relief, as well as "here we go again." And his surprise at being able to get away a third time.
End of chapter.
I have figured out a more detailed outline for the later two-thirds of the book. It's a relief. Some of those chapters look a little skimpy to me, but when I gang them up they look crowded, so I think I'll go with this.
Chapter 12: on the road again. Hitchhiking.
Chapter 13: Soup kitchen. Learns about odd jobs.
Chapter 14: Labor Ready. 2 days: 1, it works okay.
Chapter 15: Labor Ready 2: it's a big job and it ends up like the tomato field.Chapter 16: Getting a job at the parking lot."The Courts" (converted motel). Another wish for Candelario. Araceli shows up.
Chapter 17: meets Candelario. .
Chapter 18: Candelario's truck.
Chapter 19: Gardening with Candelario.
Chapter 20: Araceli.
Chapter 21:Candelario wishes again.
Chapter 22: Our guy is about to leave: Candelario confronts him about wishes, promises not to wish
Chapter 23: Candelario marries Araceli
Chapter 24: Araceli reads fairy tales to our guy
Chapter 25: Araceli teaches our guy to read
Chapter 26: Araceli's pregnancy -- yikes yikes yikes
Chapter 27: Candelario wishes for Araceli
Chapter 28: the watchers arrive midchapter -- chaos and struggle the rest of the chapter
Chapter 29: Candelario tries to protect our guy with garden implements. end of chapter: Araceli's wish
Chapter 30: some time afterwards -- the baby wishes
I've reinstalled completely and cleanly twice in the last few days. Last night I tried it the slow way: one pack at a time, then you build a house, then another pack. I've gotten through Deluxe, House Party, and Hot Date. That's only four disks, but: 3 disk changes for each, and an extra one for Hote Date -- 10 disk changes. I believe there are three for Vacation, Unleashed, and Superstar too, though there may only be the one for Vacation.
I may spend more time, overall, fixing the game than playing it. What peeves me is losing cool things like the lovely Community Center I made with (I'm not making this up) Bunny Wuffles' Architectural Salvage items. But when my game goes south, I can't trust the houses. So I have to trash them.
You should see this, by the way:
Bunny Wuffles' Architectural Supplies for the Sims
Isn't that cool? I adore stuff like this.
(note to Emma: so I know you've been reading this, and you know how much I brag about you. For your punishment, you will have to plow through paragraphs and paragraphs of boring writing neepery).
I thought it would be hard to write this part, because I'm squeamish. But I seem to have taken the easy way out, at least for the first third of the chapter: my guy is _telling_ and not _showing_ the torture he gets at the hands of the nasty guy.
I know I can't go on forever like this, but I don't need to. He's remembering things, and thinking about things -- for an artificial construct, he's awfully contemplative, at least by the time that he is recounting the events that are in the book.
So the rest of the chapter is like this.
Carleen is trying to take over a small country. Really. It's finicky. Our guy has to spend a lot of time on it, moving information and money around. Jerrod is trying to work out how to use the conduit as transportation (he can't). Ian, besides torturing our guy, is trying to get a multinational corporation. I don't know how to expres this -- these guys think they are scientists, but they are the opposite of scientists. I mean, they aren't interested in knowing things, in exploring things for their own sake, or even for learning things to make a profit: they want all the marbles and they want it the easy way. The other two -- they're just goons.
So. Events pertaining to each of these projects. The one with Ian including, I'm sorry to say, a more graphic depiction of what he does.
And punctuating these, first despair because the watchers don't do anything for days, and then the growingf certainty that they are doing something, they are coming. Now this _could_ be out of the frying pan and into the fire, if he didn't get away again in the chaos of their arrival, but he doesn't know and he hates Ian so much he doesn't really care.
Than, finally, the invasion of the watchers: and our guy's sense of relief, as well as "here we go again." And his surprise at being able to get away a third time.
End of chapter.
I have figured out a more detailed outline for the later two-thirds of the book. It's a relief. Some of those chapters look a little skimpy to me, but when I gang them up they look crowded, so I think I'll go with this.
Chapter 12: on the road again. Hitchhiking.
Chapter 13: Soup kitchen. Learns about odd jobs.
Chapter 14: Labor Ready. 2 days: 1, it works okay.
Chapter 15: Labor Ready 2: it's a big job and it ends up like the tomato field.Chapter 16: Getting a job at the parking lot."The Courts" (converted motel). Another wish for Candelario. Araceli shows up.
Chapter 17: meets Candelario. .
Chapter 18: Candelario's truck.
Chapter 19: Gardening with Candelario.
Chapter 20: Araceli.
Chapter 21:Candelario wishes again.
Chapter 22: Our guy is about to leave: Candelario confronts him about wishes, promises not to wish
Chapter 23: Candelario marries Araceli
Chapter 24: Araceli reads fairy tales to our guy
Chapter 25: Araceli teaches our guy to read
Chapter 26: Araceli's pregnancy -- yikes yikes yikes
Chapter 27: Candelario wishes for Araceli
Chapter 28: the watchers arrive midchapter -- chaos and struggle the rest of the chapter
Chapter 29: Candelario tries to protect our guy with garden implements. end of chapter: Araceli's wish
Chapter 30: some time afterwards -- the baby wishes