The Sims 2: Open [for] Discussion

[MonkeyforaHead]

After seeing this on the SA forums, I just had to rip off try it here.

Basically, I'll make a family of 6 Sims based on forum members, use a money cheat to get them into a reasonably spacious and furnished house, and then just let the game run itself, only interacting where absolutely necessary. Then I take screenshots of interesting moments and describe each day's events. Ordinarily I would of course go ahead and nominate Zeor, Pikkul, and myself for three of the tenants, but in this case that kind of favouritism is getting old. I'd rather see people like S2K, SupSuper, and thomasp in Sim form.

So, if you want to participate, just speak up, and preferably provide either a photo, sketch or description I can work from, or if
you happen to own the game as well, make your own Sim in the Body Shop and send it over MSN. I'll also need to distribute the personality points, but I need to finish reinstalling the game and remind myself how many points there are to distribute. If you don't provide these, I'll have to work from my imagination. :p

I'm putting a cap on 6 Sims, because a lot can only hold 8 and I want to make room in case of unexpected events... plus my processor is actually just below the so-called minimum requirements, and with that many Sims the game is already going to run like hell. :p

One final detail: I was figuring we'd all just have our characters start in the adult stage, but if you want to be a teenager, child, or senior, go right ahead. Just keep in mind there needs to be at least one adult in the house or the family won't be accepted.

DETAILS SO FAR

bonz (adult)
Sim model: complete
Aspiration: Knowledge
Neat: 4
Outgoing: 5
Active: 2
Playful: 7
Nice: 7
(I want to get this show moving, so I picked the stats)

Star Worms (adult)
Sim model: received
Aspiration: Romance
Neat: 4
Outgoing: 6
Active: 4
Playful: 4
Nice: 7

Super Ultra Mystery Character (senior)
Sim model: received
Aspiration: Popularity
Neat: 6
Outgoing: 9
Active: 6
Playful: 3
Nice: 1

SupSuper (adult)
Sim model: complete
Aspiration: Fortune
Neat: 9
Outgoing: 1
Active: 3
Playful: 4
Nice: 8

thomasp (adult)
Sim model: complete
Aspiration: Family
Neat: 7
Outgoing: 3
Active: 5
Playful: 4
Nice: 6

worMatty (adult)
Sim model: complete
Aspiration: Romance
Neat: 5
Outgoing: 3
Active: 5
Playful: 5
Nice: 7

Time to rock and roll.

[bonz]

Me.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/230/bonz48fk.jpg

[Star Worms]

Add me. I'll try and send me on body shop over msn.

Neat - 4
Outgoing - 6
Active - 4
Playful - 4
Nice - 7

[Pickleworm]

So, is it a vote for who gets into the house, or is it the first six people to say "Me"?

I'll work on making myself in body shop once I get The Sims 2 running again.

[SupSuper]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/foto2.jpg

Don't have The Sims 2, so make me whatever you see fit.

[thomasp]

*imitates WormNet Ranking thread*

Me!!!

I don't have a photo on my laptop, so just do what you want. Basics: Male, short brown hair, 5'9" tall.

Neat: 9/10
Outgoing: 3/10
Active: 6/10
Playful: 5/10
Nice: 8/10

[MonkeyforaHead]

bonz is constructed, unfortunately there wasn't any option for a clown nose or green hair, and the red lipstick is automatically obscured by the costume makeup. So you've ended up looking more like a mime.

Oh well, just so long as I can tell everyone apart. :p Starting on SupSuper now.

Edit: Done. thomasp next...

[MonkeyforaHead]

Okay, the first three are set to go. Still waiting on Star Worms and Pikkul's characters, and whoever the sixth member turns out to be. I'm still kind of hoping to get S2K in on this, but who knows when he'll be online.

Meantime, we'll still need a last name for the family. I was thinking along the lines of Teamster. Any other suggestions?

Edit: I completley forgot, everyone'll need to pick an aspiration. Fortune, Knowledge, Family, Romance, Popularity. It's also good to keep in mind that having, say, one Family Sim and one Popularity Sim should mean that there'll always be one who has a habit of cleaning up and taking care of things, and one who ensures that there's always a conversation going. Without at least one Family Sim, things will probably go to crap. :p

[worMatty]

Ben's spending some time offline at the mo' to sort out his creative issues. If he isn't available, I'd like to be your sixth contestant. Sadly I've never played The Sims so I can't give you a body or stats, but I can give you a couple of pics, a description and a character profile.

http://www.wurmz.eclipse.co.uk/stuff/pics/goofymatt.gif
http://www.wurmz.eclipse.co.uk/stuff/pics/pic3.gif

I'm average height, not especially fit but there's certainly nothing wrong with me. I normally wear jeans, T-shirts and boots. Current set is black, green and black respectively. Brown curly hair and smarmy expression. I'm to the point, not afraid to talk the truth and love finding irony in things. I'm a bit bi.tchy about people behind their backs but only in fun ways. I like to listen to people and inquire about their thoughts, feelings and issues, to make them feel noticed. I'm always ready for my friends. I'm generally witty but I can be slow to respond with something amusing. Being polite costs nothing. I work in retail in an electronics chain, understand sales law, why customer service matters and how to give a good impression. I'm getting to the stage where I think some people could be 'fixed' if they got a smack in the mouth, and I'm happy to blame/credit my mum for that. I like videogaming, computery stuff, internet, comedy, wonderful places and architecture, and spiritualism. Also, if my second name was Freddy my initials would be MFAH :o

Surname sounds good :)

[MonkeyforaHead]

stuff
Whoa there, all I need is some way of getting a semi-decent lookalike of you dumped in the game. The only things I have control over (besides the blatantly obvious like gender and age) are skin tone, hair style and colour, just about every aspect of the face, and a few specific sets of clothes (everyday, PJ's, formal, etc., I don't even have control over whether you get shoes or sandals). Then for the personality, I have to choose an aspiration and distribute 25 points into the five categories Star Worms listed -- failing that, the points can be auto-distributed by choosing your astrological sign. No need for a full bio, the Sims are their own masters once I've input the basic parameters.

[worMatty]

Then the game is flawed!

Sorry, I thought you were going to make little comics and generate the stories yourself with our personalities in mind. My sun sign is Cancer. Sorry for the information overload :) Use what you need.

Another attribute of my personality is I like to talk about myself and intentionally mislead people. Trust me.

[Star Worms]

Hang on a sec...

For the personality points do they have to be 25 points out of 50?

I was under the impression the Sims only lets you use half the points when creating a charcater.

Romance aspiration for me please.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Hang on a sec...

For the personality points do they have to be 25 points out of 50?

I was under the impression the Sims only lets you use half the points when creating a charcater.
What I mean is that you can distribute 25 points in total. I never counted how many slots there are for points, but now that you mention it there probably are 50.

Edit: So, yeah, thomasp, you're going to have to give me a slightly different distribution of points. :p

Edit once more: I'll be updating the first post with details and status as I get them, just so I don't lose track of anything.

[thomasp]

OK, here goes:

Neat: 7
Outgoing: 3
Active: 5
Playful: 4
Nice: 6


And I'll be the family sim.

[SupSuper]

Neat: 9
Outgoing: 1
Active: 3
Playful: 4
Nice: 8

[Star Worms]

Neat: 9
Yay, someone to clean up all the dirty dishes!:)

[worMatty]

Aspiration: Romance
Neat: 5
Outgoing: 3
Active: 5
Playful: 5
Nice: 7

What's the auto distribution for Cancer?

[MonkeyforaHead]

Aspiration: Romance
Neat: 5
Outgoing: 3
Active: 5
Playful: 5
Nice: 7

What's the auto distribution for Cancer?
Neat: 6
Outgoing: 3
Active: 6
Playful: 4
Nice: 6

You practically fit that to a T.

[worMatty]

LOL, that's cool. Go with the auto-gen ones then.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Well, there's no sign of bonz, and Futureworm signed off immediately after giving me his character. So unless he comes on in the next short while, Pikkul's going to get his spot, and I'll just fill out bonz's personality with something sufficiently clownish.

Sup, you still haven't chosen an aspiration, either. :p

[SupSuper]

Well I don't have Sims 2 so I didn't know there were aspirations now, but worMatty has filled me in, so: Fortune :p

[MonkeyforaHead]

Okay, let's meet our contestants!

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bonz, the clown/mime with a thirst for knowledge;

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Starworms, the only character with a name constructed in such a fashion that I saw it better to shorten it to a single word (but he has a really cool shirt);

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SupSuper, Elvis impersonator at large;

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thomasp, the fellow so primp he might be mistaken for a homosexual;

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worMatty, whose curly hair has no counterpart whatsoever in the Sims universe, so instead gets a kickass 'fro...

continued in next post

[MonkeyforaHead]

And finalHOLY JUMPING JESUS

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...Akuryou, the senile gothic viking (courtesy of Pickleworm).

Let's have a look at some real estate.

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What, are you kidding me?

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Now we're getting somewhere.

[FutureWorm]

And finalHOLY JUMPING JESUS

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...Akuryou, the senile gothic viking (courtesy of Pickleworm).
This is still one of the greatest things I have ever seen.

[MonkeyforaHead]

DAY 1 (part 1)

Naturally, the first thing everyone does is survey their new domicile.

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Akuryou apparently suffers from narcolepsy.

thomasp immediately heads for the bathroom to admire the shower. Starworms also heads in and...
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...admires thomasp.

Everyone seems to have split up into groups of two; bonz and worMatty head for the kitchen, where bonz decides to launch into a lecture on smoke alarms.
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bonz is undeterred by thomasp's intrusion and Akuryou's noisy, high-res thoughts.
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Yes, we'd all certainly be lost without you, bonz.

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...Okay, now I think he may have missed the point.

(continued...)

[MonkeyforaHead]

Well this certainly didn't take long.

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I just missed a screengrab, but SupSuper wandered in and kissed Starworms on the lips.

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Oh God.

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OH GOD

(end part 1, I need some freaking sleep)

[Xinos]

Hehe, great thread. Make sure to post all important events.

[Star Worms]

lol, took all of 7 minutes...

Either that or you posted all the shots after 1 go on the sims.

[thomasp]

Hmmmm, I can't help but notice that my charecter is the total opposite of me :D

This is like a soap opera :)

[SupSuper]

OH GODOH MY FREAKIN' GAWD!!!

I blame the fact he's an Elvis impersonator :p

[Star Worms]

OH MY FREAKIN' GAWD!!!

I blame the fact he's an Elvis impersonator :p
To be honest, bonz looks more like me, minus the face thing.

[MonkeyforaHead]

DAY 1 (part 2)

EVERYONE has gathered in the kitchen. Akuryou, going against his decidedly grumpy nature, offers worMatty a hug, who outright refuses. Score one for good sense.

...And worMatty just offered to hug Akuryou, who in return also refused. Common sense: 1, Sims logic: 1.

And damnit, SupSuper and Starworms are still going at it.

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SupSuper finally has enough homoerotic indulgence and breaks off from the group to go explore upstairs.

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...Or maybe explore his artistic side. Whichever.

worMatty also heads upstairs.

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Yessir, that is one fine piece of equipment.

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Yep.

Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, bonz tells Starworms something that makes him stamp his foot on the floor HARD and laugh like I've never heard a Sim laugh before. Gay Darth Vader joke?

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Um, I think the general idea is to angle the scope in the general direction of "up"...

(continued in next post...)

[Star Worms]

Please delete the double beds.

[Pigbuster]

What do you expect if you make a bunch of guys live together? :p
What are Akuryou's stats, by the way? I'm curious.

[MonkeyforaHead]

What are Akuryou's stats, by the way? I'm curious.
They're back in the first post, under Super Ultra Mystery Character.

VVVVV Hypothetical situation: female Sim walks past house, one of our more outgoing family members greets her. Relationship and possible marriage follow.

I have no delusions that the family isn't going to die out entirely at some stage anyway. :p

[Star Worms]

MFAH - Can you get a woman into the house. None will have babies with 6 guys in the house.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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...but hey, what do I know about telescopes. You're obviously the expert.

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Jeesh, you guys sure are a lonely bunch.

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bonz prepares breakfast. Let's see if anyone else is hungry.

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"If you put too much mustard on that, I will CUT YOU."

(continued in next post)

[MonkeyforaHead]

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Well, at least one of you has a touch of common male instinct.

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Then again...

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OH SNAP IT'S ROSEANNE SIM

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Moving back upstairs...
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MOAR LIEK MODERN ART AMIRITE ROFFLECOPTER

Nothing else to report so far. worMatty's still using the telescope, SupSuper's still painting, and thomasp has been obsessively playing darts. The paper arrived, so I placed it indoors to perhaps nudge one of them into looking for a job, but no luck so far.

[SupSuper]

I'm painting now? That character really is the absolute opposite of me!

[MtlAngelus]

Ahahaha I can't stop laughing at akuryou and the supsuper+starworms thing :p

[MonkeyforaHead]

worMatty finally got tired of his peep-o-scope and went downstairs to have a sandwich like the rest of the gang (how come nobody's actually made a full round of sandwiches instead of just one for themselves, anyway?)

Suddenly, I get a notice that some people have arrived to welcome the Teamsters to the neighbourhood.

This dude SPRINTS inside, gives worMatty an aggressive push, and glares.
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GEE IT'S A GOOD THING HE'S HERE TO WELCOME US TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND NOT SLASH WORMATTY'S THROAT IN HIS SLEEP, HUH
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Wait a minute... doesn't he look familiar to you?

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KARMA AT ITS FINEST, FOLKS

[MtlAngelus]

LOL .



a

[SupSuper]

Lol that's what you get for making fun of people through a telescope.

[Star Worms]

Oh my god! WorMatty is sinking into the kitchen worktop!:eek:

Lol that's what you get for making fun of people through a telescope.
Actually he was looking into his house, that's what happens if you look through a telescope on the Sims in day time. The annoying thing with that is, if you create a new neighbourhood, it's always (I think) the first family who you see. So whenever I'd look through the telescope with a different character, I'd run into their house and attack them...

[MonkeyforaHead]

Old Dude In Suit hasn't had his revenge yet.
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Okay, now he has. Big meanie.

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These people sure have a unique way of welcoming you to the neighbourhood by hanging around on the sidewalk in front of your house. For an hour. Edit: Two.

Starworms heads upstairs with the intention of using the telescope, but it looks like bonz has first dibs...
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Doesn't look like he's having quite as much fun with it though.

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Okay, now maybe we'll get somewhere. lol, invisible doorbell

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Or maybe the stupid neighbours will suddenly clear off like rabbits two seconds after ringing the doorbell. I swear, the Teamsters just got ding-dong-ditched. Not like any of them were paying enough attention to hear the doorbell anyway.

[SupSuper]

I demand you make me talk with the new girls :p

[MonkeyforaHead]

Guess who.
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Nothing more to report so far. SupSuper is STILL absorbed in his painting, and nobody's bothered to look for a job or interact with the paper in any other fashion.

[Star Worms]

nobody's bothered to look for a job or interact with the paper in any other fashion.
Sounds like real life.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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MASTERPIECE

It now resides in the livingroom downstairs.

[worMatty]

Hehehehehehe, this is hilarious!

[SupSuper]

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MASTERPIECE

It now resides in the livingroom downstairs.Yep, those are truly my artistic skills. :p

[thomasp]

When do we get to see Starworms & SupSuper again?

That old guy bit was great :D


*Runs off to Amazon and orders Sims2 4 mac*

[bonz]

Hilarious stuff. Keep it going.

Do the teamsters have enough money to get a computer plus internet connection? :D

[Pigbuster]

MFAH - Can you get a woman into the house. None will have babies with 6 guys in the house.
You know, I think that everyone you put into the house is a family.
And I don't think that you can have incest on the Sims.
I could be wrong, though.

And this is, like, the best thread ever.
Geez, Munkee. You made this, AND came up with the fruit avatars. You're on a roll.

[Zero72]

*sighs* I really miss all my save stuff. Spying on Mortimer Goth was the Whatever household family past time.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Geez, Munkee. You made this, AND came up with the fruit avatars. You're on a roll.
AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK, I WILL PULL A UNICORN OUT OF MY NOSE

[MonkeyforaHead]

You know, all things considered, Akuryou is really turning out way too friendly.
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Oh well, it's past midnight and everybody's finally learning where the beds are.

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AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHHH

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Okay, one of you has yet to learn where the beds are. It'll be interesting to see if this develops into one of those quirky Sim habits.

If nobody goes for the newspaper on day 2, I'm breaking my no-interact rule and getting you some jobs. This house doesn't pay for itself. :p

Edit: thomasp just woke up at quarter to four in the morning. Had something to eat, cleaned up all the dishes left behind by the others, and scrubbed the countertop. Used the shower and cleaned it immediately afterward. He's definitely living up to his neat freak programming, but even he can't learn to wash his hands after using the toilet. :p

[FutureWorm]

If nobody goes for the newspaper on day 2, I'm breaking my no-interact rule and getting you some jobs. This house doesn't pay for itself. :p
cheat codes lol

[MonkeyforaHead]

thomasp sets a record for being the first one to serve a multiple-serving meal.
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And simultaneously being the first one to horribly mess up a meal.

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Well, at least the stove didn't catch fire. That's not altogether uncommon in the Sim world. Even with pop-tarts, for which there was a perfectly functional microwave right next to the stove. :p

[MonkeyforaHead]

Akuryou's only half an hour into his first day in the criminal career, and already he's having hard luck.
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Oh, what the hell. I've never had one of my Sims arrested before, I'd get a kick out of it. :p

bonz, worMatty and Starworms have gotten jobs in the slacker career track as golf caddies. Their carpool will be arriving at 4 a.m. Gotta be up for those early tee times, I guess.

Edit: I just noticed, one of SupSuper's current fears is to use a public toilet. lol.

[Star Worms]

Uh oh - you gave them that oven. I hope you installed a smoke alarm. I use that oven if I deliberately want to burn someone alive. Should liven things up though :D

Also, it's unlikely people will wake up in time to go to work. You could put alarm clocks in the room.

[thomasp]

Nice to see my Sim has the same cooking abilities as me in real life :D

[Zero72]

After multiple reads, this thread is no less funny.

Somewhat off-topic edit: Dead hard drive awaiting data recovery be damned, I reinstalled the game and have recreated Gordon Freeman. He's a lousy cook and dancer, but other than that, he's getting along pretty well, and of course, uses his telescope much more for spying on neighbors than stargazing. Maybe I'll make a 3rd or 4th TS2 discussion thread for him.

Edit again: This made me dig this (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=21692&highlight=Sims) topic up again... Good times.

[Star Worms]

This made me dig up The Sims 2 again. I started using a few cheats on my other (main) family and buggered some of the houses up. When someone grew up, they'd keep the number of days So if they grew up from a Toddler to a child they'd be 3/4 to being a teenager and could grow up instantly. So a baby could become an elder in 1 day.

I started a new neighbourhood, the old one was a bit overcrowded.

[MonkeyforaHead]

I have four words to say:

I WANT THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*is glad Aspyr are porting it to mac*
*is not glad that he'll have to get a new mac to run the game*
*is probably going to get a new mac after the A-level results come out in August*

*Runs off to Amazon and orders Sims2 4 mac*
It's been a while, huh?

Oh, and updates will probably be much more sporadic from here on out. I do still have a job to attend to, I'd just been taking a couple days off sick previously.

[thomasp]

lol - it's been out for ages, and I totally forgot about it :D

However, £32.99 - how the hell is a student supposed to afford that???


And yes, my PowerBook will easily run The Sims2.

[SupSuper]

Edit: I just noticed, one of SupSuper's current fears is to use a public toilet. lol.Wow, the realism! :p

[Star Worms]

I thought I'd try this with a few randomly made people. Nothing happened - the odd kiss but none ever had a crush on anyone, and no-one was ever in love. Also they were constantly outside stamping the beetles because of all the rubbish. I had to call in the exterminator and the maid because they constantly had flu. Even then, it took the maid several days to get the house clean. How did you get around these? They seriously won't fall in love with one another on their own.

[MonkeyforaHead]

How did you get around these? They seriously won't fall in love with one another on their own.
Actually, in the thread on SA, the Hitler lookalike fell in love with and even proposed to some other sim, all on his own. Don't know why or how. :p

[Star Worms]

What is SA?

[FutureWorm]

What is SA?
Something Awful (http://forums.somethingawful.com).

[Zero72]

We want more! :p

[MonkeyforaHead]

hate job

hate you

ararjsdlkrads;lfkjr

[FutureWorm]

bonz, worMatty and Starworms have gotten jobs in the slacker career track as golf caddies. Their carpool will be arriving at 4 a.m. Gotta be up for those early tee times, I guess.
Yes, golfing in the morning is good for the soul.

[Zero72]

hate job

hate you

ararjsdlkrads;lfkjr
Maybe you already are, but if I were you, I'd still be looking for other work.

[MonkeyforaHead]

I can't just hop out of McDeath after two and a half weeks of working there. That would look exceptionally poor on any resume. I need something like a minimum of 4 months before I set my sights for greener pastures. Like even EB or something. I am slowly getting accustomed to things, but by God it leaves me drained and sore at the end of the day. I've also just noticed someone of the female persuasion working there who seems really nice, but it seems like she rarely comes in during my shifts. First chance I get, I'm gonna ask if she uses any web messengers. Innocent enough way of getting my foot in the door, I think.

I just hope she doesn't smoke. It seems like pretty much everyone I'm working with there smokes, I just wasn't aware of it at first because they only do so outside, and on their break, so they don't typically reek of it.

ANYWAY. Took today off sick to let my back heal, and we all know what that means...

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Yeah, this is more what I was expecting of Akuryou. Though he's still getting along amazingly well with everyone on average.

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This has been the first and only use of that bookcase in the livingroom so far -- worMatty suddenly decides to write in his diary. I missed the screencap of the appropriate thought bubble, but it seems he was writing about his old teddy bear.

Time passes and night falls pretty well without incident. Four a.m. arrives and the slackermobile rolls by. Starworms and worMatty awake and promptly pile in. bonz, on the other hand...
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...is too much of a slacker to even head off to his slacker job. New record.

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YOU HAVE SEVEN DAYS.

It's ringing off the hook for about 47 minutes before SupSuper finally decides to answer. He calls for bonz, who picks up.

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"I don't care what you're selling, it's quarter to six in the morning and I'm not-- oh, hi Boss."

[MonkeyforaHead]

A pretty uneventful day passes. Starworms and worMatty get back from their first day of work. Starworms actually grabs the paper, goes inside and reads it, then takes a quick nap in the reclining chair. Yep, looks like napping in that thing's turned into a habit for this household. And despite there being a perfectly functional radio, it's only been used once -- while there's almost always somebody using the dart board.

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Case in point.

Somewhere along the line, Akuryou is also napping in the chair downstairs -- when suddenly he wakes up with a start, and SPRINTS to the bathroom upstairs.
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I've never seen a chubby gothic viking move so fast. Why he didn't just use the downstairs bathroom, I have no idea.

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This is also the first time I've seen a Sim wear such an expression on the crapper.

Night falls once more, and Starworms discovers the telescope.
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Like, whoa, dude... I can totally see the universe, man.

[MonkeyforaHead]

SW is really digging on that telescope.

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And this continues on into the wee hours of the morning. Four a.m., to be precise. Time for work.

Surprisingly, everyone makes it to the car in time, including bonz. Time passes. They return, and worMatty is promoted to gas station attendant; meaning he'll be working the graveyard shift now. bonz also steps out in good condition. Starworms emerges, takes a great big yawn, and...
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...he's out for the count. worMatty waves to him as he passes out. Also note the trail of stink lines.

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what

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"IS HE GOING TO BE ALRIGHT"
"OH GOD I JUST DON'T KNOW"

bonz couldn't care less and heads indoors.

[worMatty]

If your resume says you got out of McD's after two weeks had passed you'd be seen as very sensible and extremely lucky.

And good show on keeping this up :) It's really entertaining.

[SupSuper]

Oh god, I'm laughing so much it hurts...

Also, what does my character do all day? He doesn't seem to be on the working bunch, and I haven't seen him in ages.

[worMatty]

He's probably got Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and spends all his time cleaning.

[MonkeyforaHead]

He's probably got Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and spends all his time cleaning.
Actually, he spends most of his time playing darts. thomasp is the obsessive-compulsive cleaner.

In other news, I suddenly remembered that I had neglected to reinstall the patch after the main game. So I do so, and upon reentering the game I remembered that when you install a patch or expansion, it causes everyone to be standing perfectly upright with their needs pretty much completely satisfied. So, Starworms magically recovered from his coma, and thomasp, whose aspiration meter was dropping into the negatives, is now perfectly fine.

I'm such an idiot.

Edit: To make up for this, Akuryou gave himself food poisoning by eating a spoiled sandwich. Then the game crashed, and naturally I hadn't saved. URGE TO KILL RISING.

[bonz]

Hehe!
A distortion in the space-time-continuum.

If you have to start over, try to make everything the same as before and let's see if someone develops differently.

[thomasp]

Just out of interest, do I even have a job?

[Zero72]

In other news, I suddenly remembered that I had neglected to reinstall the patch after the main game.
Whoop, thanks for that reminder. I hope it doesn't reset Gordon's aspiration though... He's been Platinum pretty consistently for a good while.

Yeah, speaking of which, Gordon is an incredibly successful sim so far. He's one rung off the top of the Science career ladder, as a Theorist, earning over 1500 Simoleons a day. And stuff.

I'm really thinking I'm gonna go ahead and post another TS2 general discussion thread.

[worMatty]

About Gordon Freeman? That might get old quick.

[MonkeyforaHead]

About Gordon Freeman? That might get old quick.
General discussion. Not another story thread. :p

[worMatty]

Whoops.

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[MonkeyforaHead]

And now, for a bit of a side story. I've drummed up Sim versions of myself and Zeor as separate families, with the intention of moving them in together later. So what I had to do was get them to meet, which would be easiest in a community lot. Tried the park first. No dice, but what have we here?
27578

I couldn't resist. I got Zeor to introduce himself briefly. When Akuryou started bragging however, things kind of broke up for the night.

In an unrelated twisted web of events, both Zeor and myself have fallen in love with Dina Caliente, which has been fun to observe from a distance. Anyway, we've moved in together now (inviting Dina on a regular basis to watch as the fur flies), when Akuryou suddenly just invites himself into the house. Munkee Sim decides pretty quickly that he doesn't like him.
27580
"Haha, what a LOSER."
27581
Apparently he doesn't take rejection very well.

27582
Schadenfreude, makin' me feel glad that I'm not you o/¯

[MonkeyforaHead]

Push comes to shove, and before long...
27583
Ahh, spectator sports.

But here's the real kicker: Akuryou wins. TWICE. I honestly don't know how. His aspiration meter must already be in the red from all the arguments we had, mine was in the gold, and my mood was near perfect. Still he managed to hand me my ass twice. Well, I wasn't about to stand for that.
27584
It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight o/¯

Apparently I'm an utter weakling; I've noticed that I have much less success with the exercise machine off the bat than Zeor did. About half as much. But that also means that I gain the first two "body" levels in practically no time at all.

27587
Yes, one day soon you shall have your revenge, Munkee Sim...

Hold on, what's Aku doi--
27586
Oh, it is ON now, assface.
27588

[MonkeyforaHead]

27589
Munkee and Akuryou go at it while Meadow looks on, and Random Neighbourhood Jogger Lady helps herself to the household newspaper outside. You're next, biatch.

27590
AND MUNKEE HAS AKURYOU IN THE DREADED BACKHANDED TONGUE LOCK

27591
VICTOLY

Well now I feel better. Oh, and we're officially enemies now. I'll have to invite him to a big house party and then attack him in front of everyone.

[Pigbuster]

Wait, he didn't whizz into your plant, did he?

[FutureWorm]

No, he took some simoleons off of the money tree.

[Zero72]

Rock ON. :D

You should've posted this in my general discussion thread to put a little life into it, though. :p

Edit: I mean besides the Bob Ross educational segment.

[MonkeyforaHead]

You should've posted this in my general discussion thread to put a little life into it, though. :p
Well, it did involve Akuryou. :p I'll see if any of the other shots I have saved up would fit into there.

[Paul.Power]

That was hilarious. Good job, and keep it up :).

[MonkeyforaHead]

I have actually gone through another day and have the screenshots waiting, but I need time to crop and resize all of them and then deal with the 5-images-per-post limit on here, which I really won't feel up to doing until I have a couple days off from work to focus on it.

[worMatty]

I'll do the image work if you like, and post them for you if you type out your hilarious commentary. Just IM me, brotha.

[MonkeyforaHead]

I'll do the image work if you like, and post them for you if you type out your hilarious commentary. Just IM me, brotha.
Sending you the images would be just as much work as cropping and resizing them myself. I prefer to have control over exactly how they're edited anyway.

[worMatty]

That's cool :)
The work would be the same but it would be me who would be doing it.

[MonkeyforaHead]

What I meant is, in the amount of time it would take me to find the picture in the hodge-podge that is the screenshots folder (screw whoever designed the auto-naming system), and send it to you, I could edit it myself.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Day... X opens with some bonding.

27622
Starworms: "Hey do I have something in my teeth?"

Starworms then actually picks up one of the old newspapers lying about and takes it to the trash, at which point it morphs into a garbage bag.
27623
Insert "paper bag" joke here.

27624
Akuryou attempts to hug Starworms, but he's having none of that creepy old guy crap.

27626
Akuryou then proceeds to brag to him repeatedly, which fails to go well at all. Starworms annoys and grosses him out. Their relationship, such as it is, goes to crap in a matter of minutes.

27625
"ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO KISS ME, GET IN LINE AND THINK SEXY THOUGHTS"

[bonz]

27625
"ALL THOSE WHO WANT TO KISS ME, GET IN LINE AND THINK SEXY THOUGHTS"
*eek*
Where's the red cross on my thought bubble?
And where's my paunch? Can you get me up to 95 kilogrammes?

[MonkeyforaHead]

Meanwhile, there's a TV dinner that's been sitting in the microwave for a couple hours, and all attempts to get at it have failed due to the congregation directly in front of it.
27627
Foreshadowing?

27628
Nope. That stuff sits there until 2 in the morning and all it does is go bad.

27629
thomasp, meanwhile, is starting to wig out a bit due to not fulfilling any aspirations for quite a stretch of time.

27630
A couple of you have autonomously gone to collect the bills from the mailbox as they accumulate, but nobody has paid them. Maybe when you get half your livingroom repossessed, one of you will learn.

[MonkeyforaHead]

27631
thomasp hops outside for some impromptu midnight gardening, and COMPLETELY ignores the pile of bills sitting behind him.

27632
YOU
FREAKING
IGNORAMUSES

27633
That toilet's been clogged for most of the day now, but Akuryou (strangely enough) is determined to keep the surrounding area clean.

27634
"HEY, WORMATTY, GREAT TO SEE YOU--
27635
OH GOD I'M HUNGRY"

[MonkeyforaHead]

27636
NO SUPSUPER, WORMATTY IS NOT FOOD

27637
I SAID NO

27638
A couple of you have turned in for the night, anyway. Everyone else is still wide awake. If you look closely, I'm apparently on thomasp's mind.

27639
Akuryou: "GOD, KEROSENE SMELLS AWFUL"
SupSuper: "Wait, so that's not you I'm smelling?"

27640
Akuryou seems to take offense at this remark, and goes downstairs to sit at the table and stare off into infinity. For hours.

[MonkeyforaHead]

27641
SupSuper, meanwhile, apparently too dense to make himself something to eat, is unable to sleep because of his hunger level. If he wants to to kill himself due to a basic lack of survival instincts, fine by me. His constant complaining further solidifies my resolve of non-intervention.

27642
He seems to think that attempting to sleep in another bed may help. It doesn't. He hops between the three available beds for some hours. It's getting to be morning already, if you'll notice the window.

27643
Oh for chrissakes.

[MonkeyforaHead]

27644
27645
27646
lol, synchronized starving.

27647
"HEY LET'S PLAY PUNCH-YOU-PUNCH-ME"
"OKAY"

[MonkeyforaHead]

27648
Right about this point, Starworms gets back from work, with an energy bar completely bottomed out due to not having gotten any sleep the night previous. Somehow, he keeps awake and immediately heads for bed. Looks like he's gonna make it this time.

27649
So close.

27650
WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

At this point, Zeor suggested that maybe the household's fridge had run empty and required restocking. Now, when this happens and a Sim's hunger level gets critical, they're supposed to eat out of the trash can on the sidewalk. I guess the lot of you would either prefer death to eating out of trash cans, or you just lack basic survival instincts of any kind. I'm leaning towards the latter.

Since, for some odd reason, ordering replacement groceries is one of the few things a Sim absolutely cannot do autonomously, I got one of the few of you awake to call for a delivery.

27651
"HERETH YOUR GROTHERIETH, THIR" *chipmunk noises*

27652
"SWEET JESUS, THANK YOU"

[MonkeyforaHead]

27653
worMatty quickly "stuffs his face" (actual description of action), while SupSuper prepares a round of sandwiches, and passes out on the floor from exhaustion. Nobody else could get to the sandwiches because of his corpse. After another hour or so, he'd recovered enough energy for me to wake him up, but then a minor glitch took effect and I couldn't interact with the half-prepared sandwiches. (I'd decided by this point that I didn't want anyone to die from hunger in quite such a fashion.) Fortunately, worMatty took over of his own accord.

27654
Everyone who isn't asleep or still full joins in, and a great time is had by all. Akuryou, at some point, got out of bed and is just sitting at one end of the table again, perhaps meditating.

27655
SupSuper: "Dude, are you alright?"

27656
Who knows.

[Pigbuster]

I certainly hope none of them dies of hunger or exhaustion.
They don't seem to do too well at avoiding that, though.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Well, if one of them dies of hunger, we at least get a ghost who raids the fridge. That'd be cool.

[MtlAngelus]

Ahahaha this is too awesome. Love the syncronized starving :p

[Zero72]

Man, you and I are way better at this than the Goons. :p Hilarious.

[Star Worms]

Ah that happened with me when I tried this too. They ran out of food and got hungry and never paid the bills.

[thomasp]

I asked this before, and I'll ask it again...

do I even have a job???

[MonkeyforaHead]

I asked this before, and I'll ask it again...

do I even have a job???
Nope. You and... er, someone else are just the stay-at-home people. Four of you with jobs is enough to cover the costs of the place and still make a little spare cash. I am considering intervening in the way of your skill building, otherwise nobody's ever going to get promoted beyond the second career level.

[worMatty]

Heh, that was great :) I too liked the synchronised starving.

[SupSuper]

Awesome work. And synchronized starving for the win! :D

[Paul.Power]

Impromptu midnight gardening :D.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_9253fabd.jpg

You didn't think I'd given up on this, did you? ...You did? Well I didn't.

Not sure of the exact position I left off in, having made another update to the game, so everyone
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_9253fad4.jpg
is
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standing
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_7253fafd.jpg
creepily
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_3253fb59.jpg
erewtf

Note the beds in that third shot -- the sheets are poofed up as though SupSuper and thomasp were still under them. In addition to this, everyone's energy meter is at absolute maximum, though their other stats are at varying levels, so it seems energy was the only one modified.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_b253fc01.jpg

It seems I left off at almost exactly 21:00, right as Starworms and worMatty's shared ride to work pulls up.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_f253fc74.jpg

Not much else to report.

Edit: Hey, I just noticed, all those pesky bills have vaporized. You win this time, Gadget.

Edit edit: Akuryou now aspires to see my ghost. Bugger wants me dead after our encounter, I guess. Well, you've got a good number of years on me already, pal.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_f254059b.jpg

Akuryou attempts to tell SupSuper about Hallowe'en by booing and then trembling. SupSuper laughs. Akuryou and SupSuper play a game of darts. SupSuper plays a lousy game. Akuryou points and laughs.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_d25406ce.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_52540711.jpg

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_525407fb.jpg

SupSuper's aspiration meter is now far into the red, and he breaks down and starts sobbing uncontrollably in the bathroom right as bonz comes off the crapper. bonz attempts to cheer him up by--
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_b2540b54.jpg
AUGH

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_32540bf7.jpg

Either this is the most ****ed up love triangle in the history of forever, or he's just waiting up for worMatty. I'd believe either.

Edit:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_b2540ea5.jpg

thomasp creates his masterpiece, start to finish, in one ridiculously long sitting, gaining 3 creativity points in the process, then heads downstairs for something to eat before he starves to death.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_d2540f0e.jpg

worMatty arrives home from work and occupies himself with the paper while Akuryou makes many, many repeated attempts to strike up conversation with essentially a brick wall.

[Paul.Power]

They're baaaaaaaack

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_d25410db.jpg

Starworms does everyone a favour and serves up an entire batch of cereal. Akuryou and SupSuper become conjoined at the feet.

thomasp goes to use the shower, but
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_125412d8.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_925412fa.jpg
SWEET JESUS IT'S ALREADY OCCUPIED OH MY GOD

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_f2541412.jpg

Akuryou plays Punch-U-Punch-Me and gets a little carried away, as always.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snapshot_115fe428_32541479.jpg

And our finisher for tonight, the three of you stand around congratulating each other for several hours straight, each time the speech bubble being related to either best friends, or a house.

"You know, you have the most awesomest friends."
"Yeah well, you've got an awesome house."
"So have you."
"Hey, you both have awesome friends, you know?"
"Yeah, but your house is the most kick-ass house in this neighbourhood."
"Oh, do go on."

[MtlAngelus]

LOL. bonz and supsuper :O

[SupSuper]

I think I'm gonna be sick for weeks...

[bonz]

What evil hack have you installed there? :eek:
Where the f*ck are the girls?

[worMatty]

Hehehheh! Ohhh yes! Nice one.

[MrBunsy]

Hahhaha, marvelous. And twisted.

And what on earth did you do to Akuryou? A fat businessman with a viking hat? :confused:

[Pigbuster]

That's what he looks like, you know.
People gave him photos for this.

And now Zero just has to start up the Gmod game again and there will be 4 forumers-in-games going on. (This, Gmod, Dwarf Fortress, X-Com)

[worMatty]

Gmod's a massive project and what happens 'in-game' is up to the 'players', so if you have someone unimaginative like me dictating their character's actions the whole thing looks poorly-directed. You need randomness from someone like Zeor or Mfahhh to make it interesting 'cause then it's unexpected and in better control of someone who knows what makes teh funny.

[Error404]

God, reading through all this crap just made my day... :D

Aku's character is just priceless! :p

Big cheers for the idea...

[Paul.Power]

That's what he looks like, you know.
People gave him photos for this.

And now Zero just has to start up the Gmod game again and there will be 4 forumers-in-games going on. (This, Gmod, Dwarf Fortress, X-Com)I wonder if I can edit names in Michael Vaughan's Cricket Manager...

[MonkeyforaHead]

It's a new year and I've got a new computer, cheeseballs. We've got an epic update in store tonight, provided I can get it all uploaded before conking out.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/snoozing1.jpg
The children were nestled all snug in their beds

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/uplate1.jpg
Except for worMatty and Starworms who have apparently been up all night being incredibly productive.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/mirror.jpg
A moment of awe as we witness the improved graphics capabilities. MIRRORS!!

Akuryou's ride to work shows up and honks impatiently, but Aku is fast asleep.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/akujob.jpg
Seems he's a pretty light sleeper though.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/uptoolate.jpg
Starworms is having a hard time keeping his eyes open after the 10-hour Oprah marathon.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/dirtycar.jpg
My new graphics capabilities also allow me to appreciate how handsomely filthy that rustbucket really is.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/starwormsstealsabed.jpg
Starworms promptly steals the free bed.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/bunking.jpg
worMatty is left with the option of bunking with thomasp or sleeping standing up, and chooses the former.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/subconsciouslovetriangle1.jpg
Wheee.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/subconsciouslovetriangle2.jpg
Not touching that one.

[MonkeyforaHead]

The day passes pretty uneventfully as the others snooze and Akuryou eventually returns from work. I decide, in celabration of things in general, it's time for one little intervention. Starworms calls a taxi for everyone on the lot, and they begin to pile in.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/taxi1.jpg
All the others are in hot pursuit.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/taxi2.jpg
All the others, that is, except for thomasp, who has a brief fit of pathfinding amnesia at the top of the steps and opts to stay at home and rest. I tried forcing him to come, but once the action of joining in the party had been canceled, it refused to be reinstated. Akuryou I let off the hook because he was next to collapsing from exhaustion after his grueling 4-hour shift for a payoff of $50.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/taxi3.jpg
Jeez you guys, it's getting like a clown car here.

The taxi remains in place honking for a good 20 minutes after everyone has boarded. I start to get confused.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/taxi4wtf.jpg
Suddenly, Akuryou dashes outside still in his underwear to join in the party.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/taxi5.jpg
The Clownmobile 9000 arrives at the scene of the crime.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/petbrowsing1.jpg
SupSuper, showing the only hint of initiative, heads inside and begins browsing.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/taxiwtf.jpg
Akuryou finally... emerges.. from the taxi...? wtf

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/akuryousnemesis.jpg
BUT WHAT HO, AKURYOU SPIES HIS OLD NEMESIS

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/dundundunnn.jpg
DUN DUN DUNNNN

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/shootingthebreeze.jpg
"You said HOW big?!!"

[MonkeyforaHead]

From the instant Akuryou sets eyes on me, his current action sets itself to "Attack". I'm not kidding. I think he may have set himself to Attack before he even saw me. Who knew Akuryou had ESP?
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/comebackhereandletmeattackyou.jpg
I, however, have more pressing matters to attend to than throwing the beat down with the neighbourhood senile viking.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/sidestory.jpg
I'm not quite sure who I'm talking to here, but things don't seem to be going too well. I think maybe I lent him fifty bucks last week.

Say, why don't we check in on SupSuper's progress...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/sidetracked.jpg
...no, SupSuper, I don't think you're going to find any pets in there. At least I hope to God not.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/productivechatting.jpg
Anyway, something's come of this outing.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/showdown1.jpg
ROUND 1

FIGHT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHnQmQriq1w) <--(click)

Even this computer sucks at video recording. And I'm not entirely sure who was blowing all those raspberries during the fight.

[MonkeyforaHead]

And where's SupSuper during all this excitement?

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/occupied1.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/occupied2.jpg

Serving aperitifs for the audience. Not that they appear to be all that interested, having gotten wrapped up in other things already.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/rubbingitin.jpg
"Hey man, how's it feel to have your BUTT KICKED by an old dude in a viking helmet for the third time?!"

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/collars1.jpg
"Red, blue, black, blue, oh God I just don't know which to pick."

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/dudewhoareyou.jpg
"Hey dude, I think I know you from somewhere... don't you owe me fifty bucks?"

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/bonzpicksoneout.jpg
"Okay, I'll take one of these."

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/POOF.jpg
Fairy Godmother: YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND

OH THE SPINE-TINGLING BONE-CRUNCHING TOFFEE-SMASHING SUSPENSE, TUNE IN.... NOW, FOR THE ENTHRALLING CONTINUATION

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/canigetarefund.jpg
"Uhhh, can I get a refund"

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/elsomething1.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/bonzwtf.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/dogwtf.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/elsomething2.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/akuryoudoesnotapprove.jpg

[MonkeyforaHead]

Right now I don't even remember what I named the thing. It was El Mango or El Mangrove or something. Anyways, who really cares about the name when you've just had the rush of your first sin against nature?

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/elsomethingsfirstaction.jpg
El Manglor's first action.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/collarsagain.jpg
"Blue, green, red, blue, black, OH GOD WHY MUST THERE BE SO MANY CHOICES"

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/wormattyhasit.jpg
"Aha, I think I have it."

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/wormattyglee.jpg
Is it just me or does worMatty suddenly seem to have made some sort of transition to causal supervillain? Captain Afro, Ruler of All Pet Products?

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/wormattypurchase.jpg
"I WOULD LIKE TO REGISTER A TRANSACTION WITH YOUR ESTABLISHMENT"

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/howmayitakeyourmoney.jpg
"CERTAINLY SIR, YOUR MONEY-- ER, BUSINESS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US"

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/bonzcollars.jpg
A bit late there, bonz.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/backhome.jpg
Back to the Clownmobile, and homeward bound. Nobody collapsed, nobody soiled themselves, and Akuryou got to kick my ass. Oh yeah, and we adopted the lovechild of a demon, Sephiroth, and a hairy Christmas fruitcake.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/doggrowth.jpg
Hey worMatty, you seem to have some sort of hairy growth on your legs, you might wanna get that looked at.

And that's all for tonight. Tune in next time, for when Zeor eats a cantaloupe whole and Akuryou blasts off for the moon via Menthos-powered xylophone.

[Zero72]

I laughed so hard I got a headache.

[FutureWorm]

That was pretty great. I can't believe how ugly that dog is.

[SupSuper]

That was so awesome. The fight between Munkee and Akuryou (mind you, video recordings always tend to suck unless you have a super computer or use really lousy compression which throws the audio offsync anyways) and the butt-ugly-dog-nothing-like-showcased cracked me up. :D

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/petbrowsing1.jpg
SupSuper, showing the only hint of initiative, heads inside and begins browsing.Oddly enough, that is the sort of pet I'd get in real life.

[Pickleworm]

Way to let BONZ pick the dog :rolleyes:

Hey, do you suppose the dog came out like that BECAUSE someone wearing clown paint picked out the dog?

[Pigbuster]

Oh my god... that dog... :D

I just realized that I can save web archives.
So even when this forum goes down, I'll still be able to remember this thread, and the Poke Zeor game. Happy days.

[Slick]

Lol, that was great.

[Pickleworm]

the Poke Zeor game

Hey, what HAPPENED to that? If Zero finds the time he really needs to start that up again.

[Zero72]

I've just got way too much other stuff to do. :p Don't worry, it's not completely dead. I'll get back to it eventually. I always do.

[Star Worms]

Wait - how do you get the pet cages? I have the Pets expansion but couldn't find how to actually sell pets from community lots.

[Paul.Power]

Scooby dooby doo... where are you...

Bloody brilliant, great to see this thread revived.

[Zero72]

Wait - how do you get the pet cages? I have the Pets expansion but couldn't find how to actually sell pets from community lots.There's a Pets subsection in the Miscellaneous category of Buy Mode which contains just about everything you should need, if I recall.

[MonkeyforaHead]

The programs normally scheduled for this time will not be shown, instead we bring you...

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/rrrraku1.jpg
MUNKEE
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/rrrraku2.jpg
FREAKING HATES AKURYOU

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/visitor1.jpg
Then again, maybe we can make this work after all.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/fetch1.jpg
Pikkul takes the initiative to greet Starworms and El Mancho (that's his actual name, as I discovered - ed.) and have some fun with the first dog he's met since that werewolf came calling one night.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/fetch2.jpg
We've all been here, don't try to deny it.

[MonkeyforaHead]

El Mancho has enough playing and makes a beeline for the cat's food bowl and freaking CHOWS DOWN
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/EEEEEEEEEEAT.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/jobhunt1.jpg
Pikkul, meanwhile, owing to a suggestion by zeor, has quit his job in the food service and started looking for employment in the criminal career track. Ideally, he could bring Akuryou home from work one day and start off a tremendous dramabomb -- but more than that, the peak of Zero's career in law is Superhero, and the peak of the criminal's is Supervillain. And the peak of mine is Mad Scientist. Best. family. EVER.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/cassie1.jpg
I happen to bring Cassandra Goth (my fiancee) home from work. She steps out of the car and without a moment's notice,
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/cassieuhoh.jpg
SWOONS over Starworms. This could turn out more epic than the battle between me and Fat Viking Boy.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/hightraffic.jpg
Busy day.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/rrrraku3.jpg
ARGH GOD DAMNIT I HATE YOU _SO MUCH_

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/musiccritic.jpg
I have got to stop playing those Best of Dog Whistling records.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/swoon2.jpg
Stop being so alluring there, buddy, or I'll rearrange your face.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/mcgrawisdeadagain.jpg
I pan upstairs to find Feathers McGraw II dead. I fed the bast not five hours ago. I officially give up on birds. (Zeor at least got some aspiration points from cleaning the corpse out of the cage, though)

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/IclaimthisspaceinthenameofZOD.jpg
I claim this space in the name of ZOD.

[MonkeyforaHead]

I ran out of seats, so I brought in a table and chair from out back... although it didn't seem to do much good at first.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/howdoIatefud.jpg
Aahahaha

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/howdoIatefud2.jpg
Ahem.

As it turns out, not only were the chairs I was using out back not the kind you could slide in to a table, the tables were of a kind that food can't be placed on for some reason. No wonder my barbecue efforts were being moved indoors.

Following this enlightening discovery, I quickly make my replacements of both the tables and chairs. As soon as he's finished eating, Pikkul decides to get up and check out the new chair outside.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/awwIhatethischair.jpg
"Awww, I wanted the vibrating one with the cupholder."

As soon as I finish eating, my current command autonomously sets itself to "sit".
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/sit.jpg
That's some good sit.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/siamesetwin.jpg
I TAKE OFFENSE TO YOUR COMMENT ABOUT MY SIAMESE TWIN, MY GOOD SIR

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/duelingtextbooks.jpg
Dueling textbooks.

It's at about this time that I discover Pikkul managed to earn the Chocolate-making machineamagiggit before quitting his culinary career. I immediately set it up in his room and decide to let him have a go at it.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/choco1.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/choco2.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/choco3.jpg

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/choco4.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/choco5.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/choco6.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/choco7.jpg
Ready... steady...

GO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjLad9H2nKo)

Willy Wonka he ain't.

[Zero72]

Meanwhile, in a parallel, old fart universe...

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1482/snapshotf1966ff1d2acbadro5.jpg

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread by someone else.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/yangandyin.jpg
Yang and Yin, off to work. (Later that day, Pikkul conned an elderly couple out of $8,000 of their retirement fund and gained a creativity skill point from it.)

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/policecarwtf.jpg
They both go to work via policecar today... :confused:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/turkey1.jpg
I bake a turkey dinner in celebration of Zero's promotion to Police Chief...

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/scold1.jpg
Pikkul breaks the shower and is sternly reprimanded for it by myself (and fixes it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5QTb_eJTs))...

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/pupy1.jpg
I make a new friend...

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/pupy2.jpg
Reginald McWaffles makes a new enemy...

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo1.jpg
After yet another expansion onto the house, Pikkul has a new workshop to fulfill his new Mechanical skill requirements (guess his job involves sabotaging a lot of cars)

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/pikkulzen.jpg
A Pikkul Zen moment.

A typical Pikkul moment. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4SWiGSRff8) (The noise partway through was Zeor clogging the toilet for the fifth time this week)

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo1done.jpg
Tah-dah.

Lookit the funny widdle robot. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqyH9XeDUg)

[MonkeyforaHead]

BONUS CONTENT

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/dive1.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/dive2.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/dive3.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/ohgodcat1.jpg
"OH GOD THEY CANCELED INVADER ZIM, WHY GOD WHY"

[MonkeyforaHead]

BREAKING UPDATE

After all this time, I finally achieved my lifetime aspiration of becoming a mad scientist.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/cathug1.jpg
It is a wonderful time to be alive!

And what would a mad scientist be without loyal robot minions?

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo2.jpg
Hail, robotic minion! Join me in my quest for ultimate MAD knowledge!

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo3.jpg
"Breep breep. FvvVTX#$33"

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo4.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo5.jpg

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo6.jpg
aaaaaA
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo7.jpg
AAAAAA
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo8.jpg
AAAAUUUGGG
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo9.jpg
GETITOFFMEGETITOFF
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo10.jpg
GET IT OFF

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/gentlemenatoast.jpg
Gentlemen, a toast.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/TOEVIL.jpg
TO EVIL

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/cheers.jpg
Cheers.

[SupSuper]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo6.jpg
aaaaaA
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo7.jpg
AAAAAA
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo8.jpg[/]
AAAAUUUGGG
[url]http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo9.jpg
GETITOFFMEGETITOFF
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/robo10.jpg
GET IT OFFROFLMAO that was awesome! :D

[worMatty]

Nice ones, Munkee

[Paul.Power]

What the heck was that robot trying to do to you? :D

[bonz]

Has my character died?

[MonkeyforaHead]

Has my character died?

I've actually yet to see a single Sim perish in-game, not just counting your house.

[FutureWorm]

Meanwhile, in a parallel, old fart universe...

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1482/snapshotf1966ff1d2acbadro5.jpg

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread by someone else.

This is incredible.

[MonkeyforaHead]

This is incredible.

You should see my room. :p

Mind you, I'm not Parallel Old Fart Munkee, so some of the humor value is lost.

Anyway, what would Mad Scientists be without the ability to SPONTANEOUSLY MANIFEST APPROPRIATELY RIDICULOUS FACIAL HAIR
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/madscientist1.jpg
I tried giving myself really shaggy hair but then I looked too much like Starworms.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/rollover1.jpg
"See, the earth doesn't actually just rotate sideways, it spins on this invisible axis..."

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/THECLAW.jpg
Time for work and oh man I have a ROBOTIC HAND HOW FREAKING COOL IS THAT

[Zero72]

DAMMIT I WANT A ROBOTIC HAND q

[worMatty]

"Don't be ridiculous. Even if a resonance cascade scenario was possible I doubt I'd ever see one in my lifetime."

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2327362306890687814&q=star+trek Oh Christ, I have GOT to get that character pack.

(No updates yet due to secret yet not entirely interesting but still beneficial ingame project.)

[worMatty]

Wow, that's really cool. The music was like old school '80s house mixed with a bit of Amiga stuff. I liked the way it broke down to New Order half way through. Well-coreographed, too.

Captain... Jean-Luc-Picard of the U-S-S... Enterprise

[Zero72]

The characters are great, but that song has been around forever and that video is a horrible, horrible way to use it.

[worMatty]

I don't think it is. I've never heard the song before, it's fresh for me, I enjoyed it. The video's quite similar to the style of music video tracks like that in the '80s had. In the UK at least, I don't know what went on over in the US in that time.

[SupSuper]

I much prefer the Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Tm5tQltTQ

[worMatty]

A collection of NG clips strung together?

[SupSuper]

Well most of them match the song.

[Squirminator2k]

This is the single greatest thread in the world. I've attempted to do something similar using friends of mine, but it's not going quite as amusingly.

[Pickleworm]

If Munkee doesn't resume updating this I am going to write him a letter in a very annoyed tone.

[FutureWorm]

This is the single greatest thread in the world.
I dunno about that.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2014838

[Zero72]

http://www.soldatforums.com/index.php?topic=4737.0 Not sure if you can view it without a membership, but my thread on the Soldat Forums inspired him to do this, if I recall, along with the multiple Awful Forums ones. A lot of it crashed and burned with the old forums, but...

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://www.soldatforums.com/index.php?topic=4737.0 Not sure if you can view it without a membership, but my thread on the Soldat Forums inspired him to do this, if I recall, along with the multiple Awful Forums ones. A lot of it crashed and burned with the old forums, but...

I was just inspired by the Something Awful ones, I don't honestly remember if yours came before, after, or simultaneously.

[Zero72]

Definitely before.

[bonz]

Monkey, a good idea would be to only post (medium-sized) thumbnails in here which link to the full-size image hosted somewhere.
Imageshack can do that, if Photobucket can't.

It'd reduce loading times for pages and stop the annoying jumping of the page when the full height of an image has loaded.
The images will then also fit the text area for people that use the purple retro skin.

[Squirminator2k]

We need a SECOND HOUSE with MORE PEOPLE.


...


I say purely because I want to be involved :(

[Paul.Power]

We need a SECOND HOUSE with MORE PEOPLE.


...


I say purely because I want to be involved :(Indeed. Share the insanity!

...

And ditto :( :(

[Pigbuster]

Tritto. :( :( :(

[FutureWorm]

Quatro

lol, spanish pun

[SupSuper]

Sadly, it's this kind of thing that starts making forum games that much burdening for the host.

Speaking of which, I gotta get my X-Com game in gear.

[FutureWorm]

Sadly, it's this kind of thing that starts making forum games that much burdening for the host.

I was mostly joking so I could make the witty pun

[Pigbuster]

Yeah... I actually don't care if I get in. I'd rather he just have one house, and actually does it instead of trying to include everyone and falling short.
When Zero starts the poke zeor game up again, I'll get myself killed in an amusing way just to take some of the burden off.

And I guess that I wouldn't want my sim to fall in love with Squirminator or anything. :p

[Paul.Power]

Yeah... I actually don't care if I get in. I'd rather he just have one house, and actually does it instead of trying to include everyone and falling short.
When Zero starts the poke zeor game up again, I'll get myself killed in an amusing way just to take some of the burden off.

And I guess that I wouldn't want my sim to fall in love with Squirminator or anything. :p

Yeah, fair enough I guess.

I'm trying to think what I could do that would make an interesting Forum Game.

Best I can think of is a Civ 4 empire with each city named after a Forumite.

"And it looks like Zeor now has a library..."

[Zero72]

A library containing only Calvin and Hobbes! :D

Paul would make a pretty cool Sim. I'm not sure if he'd be allowed to perpetually wear a lab coat, though...

[Paul.Power]

I'd have to build an awful lot of Settlers, mind...

[Squirminator2k]

Meh. I might make a house full of the rest of us. That'd be something for another thread though - I don't want to impose on Munkee's thread.

[SupSuper]

I'd have to build an awful lot of Settlers, mind...

Either that or play with an awful lot of Civilizations in hotseat.

"Zeor captured Pikkul's city with catapults!"

[Squirminator2k]

Yeah, I [started one of my own (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=31500)]. I hope Munkee doesn't mind.

[bonz]

Munkee, is my Sim avatar still alive? If he's dead, I might respawn at S2K's house.
Can Sim's actually die (unnaturally)?

[Star Worms]

They can die but it's very rare - they're unlikely to die until they are elders.

However adults can die by drowning, by flies, burning, starvation. However - if they die from starvation I've heard that the ghost will take food from the fridge. If they drown the ghost drops water around the place. There are other ways too that I cannot remember.

[Zero72]

You omitted electrocution, scared by a ghost, and falling satellite (probably the rarest, but I don't really know about the swarm of flies.)

Speaking of death, parallel Old Man Munkee finally just kicked the bucket of old age (actually a fairly cute/amusing way to go in TS2), meaning I only have a few days left myself. :-/ We were actually the same age, but I was always a happier Sim, which looks like it'll give me an extra 4-5 days.

We got another kitty after Munkee died, so it's all good. :)

Everybody else in the house aspires to a kitten all of a sudden, so...

[Star Worms]

Death by flies is very rare. It occasionally happens in a VERY dirty room ie plates with flies and lots of them. Although I've never seen it happen.

[SupSuper]

I hate drowning. My mom once drowned my whole family because her Sim fell asleep on the pool exit and she stubbornly decided that hitting Save would only affect her Sims, not mine. Sad day that was. :(

[Zero72]

Drowning ghosts would probably suck to have around the house, too.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Drowning ghosts would probably suck to have around the house, too.

Not with one of my handy dandy homemade MESSBUSTER 9000Xes.

Anyway, I've played a couple more rounds of the Teamster household since the last update, but the sad truth of it is that you guys are just being incredibly downright boring now. Meanwhile, all sorts of cool stuff is going on over in my main house and I was wondering if everyone would prefer I switch to mainly posting updates about them instead of the Teamsters, or just let the thread stagnate even more than it has to.

I can pretty well guarantee through recent events that Akuryou will be showing up eventually regardless.

[Squirminator2k]

Post events from either house, so long as they're entertaining. Use both, if need be.

Which reminds me, I should get back to my house at some point. I've been caught up in Warlords.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Before we continue, a belated response:

Monkey, a good idea would be to only post (medium-sized) thumbnails in here which link to the full-size image hosted somewhere.
Imageshack can do that, if Photobucket can't.

It'd reduce loading times for pages and stop the annoying jumping of the page when the full height of an image has loaded.
The images will then also fit the text area for people that use the purple retro skin.

Screw Imageshack, their accounts system freaking sucks and they don't have a convenient multiple-upload option. I apologize to 56k users, but if you can't take the sand don't go to the beach. As for the purple retro skin, I'm using it and have no issue with the pictures stretching beyond the text area and thereby incurring those annoying framed scroll arrows. So if it isn't broken on my end, as far as I'm concerned, you're the one who's broken. :p

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/akusmiles.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/possess1.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/possess2.jpg

OH GOD SOMEONE HELP AKURYOU IS POSSESSING EL MANCHO CALL AN EXORCIST

[MonkeyforaHead]

Right, where were we. First, I replicated our house from scratch on a larger lot, since we were just completely out of room on the one we had. That was tedious. I honestly wish they'd added an option to transplant constructions onto a different lot.

I took up meditation to pass the time, since once you reach the top of your career ladder you find yourself actually having spare time in which you don't feel obligated to cap your skills. I learned teleportation, but I honestly can't see it being used as a shortcut even on the largest lots, since you have to meditate for about 45 minutes solid every time you want to start levitating and make teleportation possible again.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/heor.jpg
Zero finally got the promotion to Captain Hero after exposing a money laundering scam in the police department.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/cleanbot1.jpg
Pikkul's still pursuing his degree in robotics (although he may still be a ways off (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYGrWgQAZRA)).

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/kneecaps.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/superpikkul.jpg
Pikkul is officially more fit than me (gotta be in good shape for those bank heists).

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/HELLOSIRIQUIT.jpg
Pikkul quits his job to pursue robotics more closely.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/duelingscrewdrivers.jpg
Pikkul's All-Purpose Robot Emporium & Eatery starts taking form.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/pillowpummel.jpg
Zero meets up with an old friend from work.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/no.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/alarmhate.jpg
We don't get off on the best foot.

We expand the second floor a bit and form a band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Llq9tL0UA).

That about brings us back up to speed.

[SupSuper]

You seem to have a thing for making Sims hate you.

Maybe it's the moustache.


And Photobucket can make thumbnails, it's in the "Generate HTML and IMG code", though I agree, I prefer the full-size pics, and they work fine on Fluid skins.

[Squirminator2k]

It only doesn't fit if you used the fixed width forum skins.

[Pigbuster]

Screw Imageshack, their accounts system freaking sucks and they don't have a convenient multiple-upload option. I apologize to 56k users, but if you can't take the sand don't go to the beach. As for the purple retro skin, I'm using it and have no issue with the pictures stretching beyond the text area and thereby incurring those annoying framed scroll arrows. So if it isn't broken on my end, as far as I'm concerned, you're the one who's broken. :p

Indeed. They also have a lot of advertising... probably because everyone always posts links to the direct images and wastes their bandwidth. (Guilty. :p )

That said, I don't like photobucket very much either. I've seen very many broken photobucket links, and I'm not sure if it's the site or what.

And meanwhile...

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1656/fumbidaldrb8.jpg

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7829/garbortonvq1.jpg

This makes me feel dirty. :eek:
I wonder how Maxis wasn't able to find the "Make people as freakish as you want" glitch. It's really easy to do.

[MtlAngelus]

I wonder how Maxis wasn't able to find the "Make people as freakish as you want" glitch. It's really easy to do.
They probably left it there in purpose, it's one of the funniest things in the game.

[SupSuper]

Yes, remember those old sport games where you could make your own player? Those usually had similar possibilities.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7829/garbortonvq1.jpg
Holy CRAP.

[Pigbuster]

Unfortunately I think as you make their head bigger, moving the slider all the way up becomes less and less effective.
Though I bet that If I spent an hour at it, I could create a sim that simply stuffs the thinking cap INTO their head.

[MonkeyforaHead]

We've got one heck of a doozy in store tonight, so grab some popcorn or something.

I probably forgot to mention anywhere that I had proposed to Cassandra quite some time ago, only afterwards remembering that when someone moves in, they no longer count as a family friend. As I was barely riding the edge of number of family friends needed for Zeor's final promotion, I simply decided to wait a while for the actual wedding. Then I decided to wait until Pikkul hit the top of his career, but since he's turned to home robotics and I had the day (night) off from work, I decided this was the time.

MUNKEE'S WEDDING DAY, PART 1, START

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/settingup.jpg
Zeor gets up early and prepares.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/pikkullformal.jpg
Here's where I realize I never did buy the proper formal outfits I wanted for everyone.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/zeorformal.jpg
Not nearly as dapper as the red-tinted one I seem to remember, but at least nobody looks hideous.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/guestsarrive.jpg
The cast starts lining up for auditions guests start piling in.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/akugoodmood.jpg
Akuryou seems to be in a particularly good mood.

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/akupiano1.jpg
In fact, for some reason, while everyone else outside waits to be admitted like good civilized folk, he invites himself in and starts plucking away inexpertly on the piano. At least nobody's around to hear.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/mortimer1.jpg
Zeor welcomes Mortimer and

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/badnewspaper1.jpg
MAN YOU KNOW WHAT, SCREW NEWSPAPERS

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/zeoryeahright.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/mortimerRRR.jpg
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR YOU DURN KIDS

[MonkeyforaHead]

Well hello there Cass-
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/badnewspaper2.jpg
**** NEWSPAPERS

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THEY DO TOO SUCK

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MAN, DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THOSE GODDAMN NEWSPAPERS, I TELL YOU IT'S AWFUL

[MonkeyforaHead]

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:) >:( :(

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HEY LET'S GANG UP ON ZEOR AND BREAK HIS LEGS

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MY DEAR FELLOWS, I HAVE THE SOLUTION FOR ALL THIS WRETCHED KERFUFFLE

--[[SCENE MISSING]]--

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AND THERE YOU HAVE IT

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And thus did Cassandra fall out of love with me because of sucky newspapers. And immediately swoon over Starworms.

[MonkeyforaHead]

The crowd breaks up, so I suppose that's the last of-
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DUDE ZEOR SUCKS SO MUCH, THE GUY ACTUALLY LIKES NEWSPAPERS DID YOU KNOW THAT I MEAN COME ON WHO LIKES NEWSPAPERS THEY'RE EVIL AND THEY'RE MADE FROM _TREES_ AND I'M PRETTY SURE THEY KILLED A GUY AT SOME POINT

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HAVE AT YOU

Trailing away from the warzone, I find Mortimer eyeing the table of goodies.
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Did I mention Akuryou's piano skills are awful?

[MonkeyforaHead]

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WAAAAAHHHH WHY DOES THE WHOLE WORLD HATE ME

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And suddenly they get to talking about the fall of the Soviet Republic and get along just fine.

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Meanwhile, I just BARELY catch Zeor trying to leave for work. He was less than half a step from the curb. Then I decide, why not have him stay in his superhero outfit for the wedding?

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I work on winning back Cassie's affection.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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Might be overdoing it a tad, though.

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Definitely just a bit.

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Alice's sixth sense kicks in and detects the alien DNA present within Starworms' genome and prepares to chase the intruder off the property.

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She doesn't even get the chance. Starworms takes off like a rocket, leaving the lot and never coming back.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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"Damn, that is one big-ass TV."

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Suddenly I notice that the bunch of balloons stationed next to the buffet table have been popped. The only person who was back there so far was Mortimer, so I blame him, but I lack decisive evidence.

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Pikkul autonomously toasts to me. I feel honoured.

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Pikkul then toasts to everyone else, including some lady who just happened to be walking by outside.

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Crowd's growing.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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"TO DAVID"
"TO DAVID"
"TO DAVID"
"TO AKURYOU uhh wait who's getting married again"

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Suddenly, Zeor and Abhijeet's arms burst through their chest in their best Alien imitation, but nobody gets hurt.

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Now, I may be out of touch with tradition, but isn't it supposed to be the person making the toast who clangs their knife on the side of the glass to get everyone's attention? Does it really work when every person present taps their glasses in unison for fifteen minutes?

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Seems I'm getting points back with Cassandra. SupSuper acts repulsed.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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MAN, SCREW PLATES, I'LL EAT OFF A LANDFILL SOONER THAN TOUCHING ONE OF THOSE SATAN'S DEVICES

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Posting this only because it's the sole one I managed to get head-on without a bunch of parts from the other person clipping into view and I demand Pikkul use it as an avatar or display pic.

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I cut apart the wedding cake. I don't remember if this is traditionally done before or after the actual wedding, but who cares about semantics.

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Okay, THIS tradition I'm familiar with, but I do a hilariously awful job of it.

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HA HA HA, NOW YOU'RE CHOKING, OH MY BUT I AM AMUSED

[MonkeyforaHead]

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RRRGRRGRR NOW I STAB THROUGH YOUR BRAIN WITH MY HAND

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Note to self: if ANY seating for eating is available anywhere on the lot, the crowd will move there.

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Mortimer, Akuryou, and SupSuper leave early because they're too damn retarded to find the washrooms. I was hoping Mortimer would stay because it's his daughter's wedding, and I was hoping Akuryou would stay so I could attack him after the festivities. No such luck.

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Talk about the stocks of the robot industry on your own time, guys. >:(

[MonkeyforaHead]

And now we engage in the most traditional post-wedding celebration ever:
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PILLOW FIIIIIGHT

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Okay, that shot's actually kinda creepy.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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Then suddenly we dash off without notice,

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TO THE BATMOBILE err I mean honeymoon limo

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...To arrive back home 2 hours later. But hey, our moods are both absolutely maxed out.

Also, both Zeor and myself somehow caught colds during the wedding, less than 10 minutes apart. Guess we're not used to all that outdoorsiness.

[Pigbuster]

Every single shot of Pikkul is priceless.
As is the entire thing with the newspaper.

[MonkeyforaHead]

Yeah, I guess I should clarify that -- there was actually a day-old newspaper still sitting out on the sidewalk, which for some reason was the very first thing absolutely everybody saw and flew into an explosive rage about. You can actually see Zeor finally trashing the thing in this shot:

http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/th_serenade1.jpg (http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/serenade1.jpg)

Also I forgot to mention that everybody kept making toasts to each other and themselves and the newlyweds and oh god it never ended until I had Zeor dispose of the bottle.

[Squirminator2k]

Munkee - maybe I should package and send you the house I've been working on. I've not done anything with it for the past two weeks, probably because whenever I get onto the PC with some "free time" I am dragged into a game of Civilization.

[SupSuper]

Seems I'm getting points back with Cassandra. SupSuper acts repulsed.REALISM!
HEY LET'S GANG UP ON ZEOR AND BREAK HIS LEGSI crack me up.

The whole newspaper thing and the really exaggerated expressions were sheer awesome, too. Keep up the hilarious work. :D

Munkee - maybe I should package and send you the house I've been working on. I've not done anything with it for the past two weeks, probably because whenever I get onto the PC with some "free time" I am dragged into a game of Civilization.MWAHAHAHAHA!

[worMatty]

Sheer class, as usual. Keep it up.

[MonkeyforaHead]

It's been a while, namely because I lost a good chunk of progress one night that put me off the game for a while, and the whole memory leak thing is still mighty prevalent. In brief: the game doesn't like me. Time for some catching up.

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Jaws: Mustache Edition

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Pikkul's All-Purpose Robot Emporium & Eatery opens for business

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Really ****ing annoying glitch that seems to crop up every other time I start the game now. No, that is not bonz, it is Zeor. A similar thing happens to Pikkul when he puts on his work outfit, except it's his glasses disappearing.

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New member of the household, and Pikkul is the most responsible nanny ever

[MonkeyforaHead]

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SecuriBot RetCon-1 goes on a rampage

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Pikkul makes more funny faces

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I find a ponytail in University's selection of new hairstyles, and neither Sim Zeor nor Real Zeor approve in the least.

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E.T. PHONE HOME

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Harold is slowly growing up and he's a regular freak

[MonkeyforaHead]

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Alice is not amused

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This kid could slice through rock with his cheeks.

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I finally push things too hard and pass out two feet from a potential sleep spot, only to be woken up again by the radio -- a few times in a row.

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Seasons is kind of fun I guess

[MonkeyforaHead]

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On an unrelated note, one of our random customers was some lady who looks unnervingly like my mother did when she was younger.

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I pretend to take an interest in Harold's development but OH GOD THIS KID'S MUSICAL SKILLS SUCK HE WILL NEVER BE THE NEXT MOZART NOW

Harold's birthday finally comes around, and I am not unprepared.

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Hello there old frien[WHOOMPO]

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wtf you're not invited how'd you get in

[MonkeyforaHead]

Suddenly, Pikkul's efforts in robotics finally pay off:

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SERVO COMPLETED

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I have to say, Akuryou looks surprisingly dapper in that jacket.

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"Yes dear that is a viking, always eat your veggies or you'll turn out like him"

[MonkeyforaHead]

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/akuhatesmunkee.jpg
HEY NOBODY TOLD ME NUMBNUTS OVER THERE WOULD BE ATTENDING HIS OWN SON'S BIRTHDAY I MEAN JEEZ HASN'T THE GUY BEEN KNOWN TO EAT BABIES ANYWAY BLAH BLAH BLAH I USED TO STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEARTS OF PEASANTS EVERYWHERE BUT NOOO YOU KIDS DON'T RESPECT YOUR ELDERS AT ALL TODAY I THINK I'LL GO SACRIFICE A GOAT

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As this is all going on, I'm slowly learning about Servos. They start off inactive and all crouched up, just as another item in the household, and can still be sold. Once you approach it to turn it on, you have to select a name and gender, at which point it springs up and gets its own icon in the sidebar as though it were a regular Sim of the household. I joked briefly about giving Pikkul a gay relationship with a robot, but ultimately I don't quite feel like stomping on his character quite so much.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h121/Glombus79/SAL1.jpg

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Say hello to SAL. hhHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[MonkeyforaHead]

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Why hello Akuryou

Pikkul influences SAL to "irritate" Akuryou.

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DESTROY ALL HUMANS
A little overboard, maybe, but I think she got the idea.

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Pikkul is an utter pansy and runs to hide in the corner of the hallway upon the start of the fight. Attempting to get him to go back and watch results in a repeat of this behaviour.

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Zeor is a traitor to the cause. >: (

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Attention world: Akuryou had his butt kicked by a two-minute-old girly robot.

[MonkeyforaHead]

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The festivities begin. Aku is irate about something again and I'm all "dunno"

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Party twirlers are go. Even Aku seems to be enjoying himself now. I mean that literally. Look at him, he's enjoying being in his own damn presence.

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Harold blows out the candles, annnd...

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Oh holy Christ my kid's a born hippie

SAL begins serving gelatin, when
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Akuryou just doesn't know when to quit. Also he's badmouthing my kid >: (
AND STOP SUPPORTING THE ENEMY, PIKKUL, JEEZ

[MonkeyforaHead]

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WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN

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Scarred for life.

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"DUDE ZEOR SUCKS"
"Your opinions intrigue me and I wish to know more"

[MonkeyforaHead]

And now, sit back and enjoy this series of events that NEVER HAPPENED BECAUSE HAROLD FROZE SOLID AFTER 30 MINUTES OUTSIDE AND THE SOCIAL WORKER CAME AND TOOK HIM AWAY AND I WASN'T ABOUT TO STAND FOR THAT SO I RELOADED

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