Saturday, July 2, 2016

Eternal Sunshine of the Sim-less Mind: Part 1

       Yes, I know I got some 'splainin' to do, and I'll keep it short and succinct: a major family health emergency occurred a month after my last post, and the endless parades of doctor's appointments that have occurred within these past couple of months. This is the most I've touched my Mac in a few months, but I swear to all things holy I am NOT giving up on this challenge.


    Thank you all so much for your patience!


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    Any given generation of a 100 Baby Challenge certainly has its surprises of all kinds; it's, quite paradoxically, expected to occur in a challenge that deals with one woman giving birth to as many children as she can before she hits elderhood, and choosing one of her youngest daughters to carry on the torch until one hundred kids have been brought in the crazy worlds that are featured in The Sims 3

     Still, even when a child hits adulthood and moves out of their home, their story doesn't necessarily end then and there, but the rest of Angeline's kids' stories aren't quite novel length tales . . . especially the ones that occurred while Gwen was still a teenager. 


     Daniel had shown amazing enthusiasm for an athletic lifestyle. From his first toddler steps, it was clear that Danny was born to run, jump and just exercise in any way he can. Naturally, when he left the house, he joined up with the local baseball team, the Midnight Hollow Bats, planning to earn an honorary a Sims University Physical Education Degree along the way.

    Tragically, he and his girlfriend Jeanette Hauser lost their lives in a house fire. 





     Don't watch cat videos on your phone when you're cooking food, people. It hurts your house and family, as demonstrated by Emma.



     Ever since birth, Emma has always had a type of spiritual connection with other Sims, as many find her presence to be very comforting. It's even be joked she must have inherited some type of magic when powerful Genie granted her mother's wish of immense fertility.


      Emma's calming disposition helped her family come to terms with her brother's sudden death -- and she decided to use her natural talent to pursue a job in the realm of soothsaying, hoping that she'll be able to help other Sims with the fallout of the unplanned tragedies that has happened in their lives by giving them hope for a better future. Moonlight Falls was the only area that had a fortune telling cart, and she packed her bags and left home -- only to find out that cart was mainly for scammers. So, after realizing she had blown most of her cash actually travelling to Moonlight Falls, Emma ended up meeting and became roommates with a local vampiress named Maritza, who had been badly burned by the services the cart provides.

"Look, Ritzi, my plasma tastes like stu surprise. That'll get old real quick."
"Good point. I've always loved plasma that tastes like sushi and waffles the best."
  
   The two ended opened up their own home soothsaying business in order to stick it to that lying, scamming, big business loving cart.


     Fiona, unlike her sister, didn't have any talent dealing with such supernatural and paranormal phoenomenaAnything to do with the natural processes of the (Sim)Earth is her passion! Using her natural born gatherer skills, Fi loved to scavenge Midnight Hollow in the name of research for any type of rocks, flora and fauna; insects, fish, gems, etc.

     At least, I thought she'd go down that path. The game's Story Progression thought it would be far more fitting to give her a Physical Education diploma. With a B grade.

                                     

     Game. This girl can barely lift a can of soda, and you're telling me she lifts, brah. Yeah, no.




    So I sent her on her merry way with a small "sorry you wasted your time" consolation gift:


                          

   Past the loading screen, I was met with so MUCH LAGGING, holy crap. Raising nine kids in a tiny wannabe Victorian mansion in the middle of Midnight Hollow was a far smoother experience than sending one woman to a college town with no babies, toddlers and paparazzi. Even with modsWhat took Bradley about two days real time for me to play through, Fiona's session was two weeks Natually, the intense lagging led to Fi missing quite a few classes, and after all that, she got a C for all the trouble I went through. I guess the game was trying to tell me that she can't lift science.


But she got a decent enough trait, so that's cool.

   So to allievate my pain, I'll share a few moments Fiona had along the journey of getting another diploma.

  Firstly, Fiona surprised me quite a bit with her sudden attraction to, well, almost every woman she spoke to while attending her classes and in her free time. In Midnight Hollow, she and her sister, Emma, had not shown attraction to any sort of Sim that crossed their path, but once Fi stepped foot in Sims University, all bets were off. I guess living in a cramped home with a bunch of kids really kills any romantic emotions.

  And Fiona did quite a bit of experiment with this lovely lady here, Mika Moore.





    Meanwhile, Fiona found herself in the cross-hairs of a girl named Ashley DeSorrento who I swear got off on doing nothing but stalking Fiona, even though the girls didn't share any classes.




I swear to God this isn't Photoshopped.


   She often watched Fiona intently whenever Fiona visited the local cafe for her overpriced caffeine fix and even had the nerve to act like she wasn't being a creeper whenever Fi caught her staring.


I will verbally smack the next person who tells me TS3 Sims don't have any emotions.
   
    Ashley did have some hobbies, don't get me wrong. These hobbies include riding her bike to Fiona's rental home, standing around the property, and getting caught in the rain.



    Also, on her first day at school, a guy stole her toilet.



Joke's on him.
    After earning her mediocre Science and Medicine degree from Sims University, Fiona joined the Hollow's local science laboratory in hopes of finding the next great discovery of, well, any field she can get into. 

   The first field she got into was the study of Dumpedology; Whenever I tried to invite Mika Moore over for a couple of drinks and to pop the question, she say she would come over, but she would never visit. Ever. To be fair, she is a socially awkward girl with commitment issues. Fiona took the hint and sent a breakup text.

  She also took the hint when her next door neighbor, Kara Carter, sent her a WooHooty text after only six hours after their first conversation.


  So, they eloped and had a little private wedding on Bizarre Beach:


Still smiling as as they sweat like pigs in those dresses.

  A few days later, they adopted a little boy of their own, and he seems to have inherited the general mood of the Midnight Hollow community.






  While Mrs. Fiona Carter never did become a world renowned researcher, becoming a respected researcher in her hometown was reward enough in her book. But the triplets' fates have nothing on what's in store for their little sister, Gwendolyn. . . 

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