Random Sims

I have always wanted to be ‘mod-free’ and not download anything from other sites. But to be fair: The Sims Resource has awesome free stuff to download from pretty cool artists. I downloaded the set Living Room Bruselas, mostly because I liked the curtains.But the whole set is great! I love the sofa, which comes in 4 parts. You can customise it any way you like. With pillows, or no pillows; it’s all good! Read the rest of this entry →

‘Back’ is a big word to describe going from ‘playing occasionally’ to ‘playing more regularly and updating my game again’. But I am back, in the sense that I am re-opening the blog about playing. I have been keeping a Guild Wars 2 blog for the past few months, but since we either burned out or just haven’t found the time to play it regularly, I don’t have a lot of new stuff to put there. And I do like to write about the games I play. Especially one that can give me fun images to share. Read the rest of this entry →

Well, after about 2 years, I got the urge to play The Sims 3 again. And so I started hunting down the stuff pack I didn’t buy: Townlife. I haven’t found it in the shops yet. The good news is, some of the stuff packs have come down in price. The bad news is, I am not sure how much in the ‘vanilla’ game (i.e. no mods from Twallen/Nraas) has been solved. I see that cars still get tucked away in sims inventories. I hope that doesnt clog things up.

I may install the Nraas mods sometime next week, after I have installed the stuff pack and Pets. I miss them already. So many nice shortcuts, so taken for granted, that I feel like I am playing a little bit of a clipped game. But so far, it only crashed to desktop twice. On loading. Because I forgot to disable the mods after updating.

Sims come in all shapes and sizes. I like to have a mix of sims in my game, but when reading stories and legacies I often see pictures of merely ‘pretty sims’,who bear a close resemblance in character to Mary-Sues. These sims, mostly female, are always ultra-skinny, with big heads and big eyes and big hair. And to me they all look the same. It is pure joy to find stories that stay away from cookie-cutter sims. Anyway, my point with this article is to show how great a sim can look, or how true to character, by sliding the skinny-slider more to the fat-side. Read the rest of this entry →