Joining the Sims craze

Sims and In the Company of Shadows characters amuse me. It all started with Peach and her Simscapades that she took some screenshots of over at the forum (http://sonnyais.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=36 or under General Chat / MY SIMS, let me show you them).

Then I ended up joining the craze.

I got a Wii (finally! YAYYY!) and when at the game store I ended up getting Sims 2: Pets for Wii. I had no idea they made Sims for Wii but there you are. Since I can't have pets at my place I thought I'd be lame and make some family so I could have one through there. The first family I made was totally random people I just made up from scratch but it was too much work dealing with 2 Sims and 2 dogs right away without knowing how to play the game with Wii. (I had Sims a looong time ago, closer to when it first came out and I'm pretty sure that shit was on floppies or something, so of course I'd forgotten pretty much everything and the game has significantly improved since then.)

So then I created Boyd and Sin and had them live alone, because I'm a nerd. It was hilarious; the first thing Boyd did in their new home was go play chess by himself, and the first thing Sin did was piss some random people off XD Anyway, it took me a bit to get used to the system and there are still things I'm confused about...it's a little annoying that it didn't come with a manual so I could at least know what the career tracks are and shit. I have Boyd in Law Enforcement now only because it paid the most and idk wtf Sin is in, he looks like he's wearing some construction shit when he leaves but I forgot what track it was. It may actually be campaign worker or something who knows.

Anyway, so I found out that you can have same sex relationships on Sims 2 Pets, you just can't have any Sims at all having sex/making babies/really making out/whatever. But they do have little romantic options that pop up. At first, Boyd did a better job wooing Sin, but then Boyd tried serenading Sin and Sin was like OH GOD MY EARS. So that lost some points XD

Then later they made up but after that, Sin tried to give Boyd a gift and to give him a friendly hug and Boyd was like WHOA THERE PARDNER BACK OFF. It even said "No thanks, I'm not interested in your gift." So Sin set it on the floor so sadface XD

Anyway, eventually I got the propose option to pop up for Sin to Boyd, but even though it was all going well, I tried leading up to it and Boyd got turned off somewhere between the backrub and friendly hug. So they lost points and the option disappeared. But the next day they were both in great moods so Boyd cornered Sin in the kitchen and talked a bit but then proposed. Sin was all happy and accepted.

After that was the most hilarious wedding thing ever. They both disappeared behind their changing curtains, then came out with tuxedos and top hats, with an angled circle of hearts around them. They did this totally ridiculous dance XD With their feet kicking up and leaning back and forward and then they kissed and it said "Congratulations! You're now coupled with Sin!"

Several parts of this amuse me greatly, including the fact that they kept being all great and then cranky toward each other (twice, Sin randomly cornered Boyd and was mean for no apparent reason) and that their big breakthrough happened in the kitchen by the fridge. Monterrey, much? XD That wasn't done on purpose at all; I didn't even think of it until now.

Anyway, yay XD Boyd and Sin are married and have a dumbass cranky cat named Claws who whines for attention but Sin ignores and who claws Boyd when Boyd tries to play XD

Sadly, I have no idea whatsoever how to get screenshots and I sort of doubt I can. So I can't show anyone the skins I have for them but that's ok since they're not that attractive up close anyway. Sims 2: Pets only has one face for men and even though you can adjust parts of it, they're still pretty ugly XD

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In other (still ICoS related) news, we're probably going to start posting new chapters on the first weekend of January. So it's coming up pretty soon!

We just finished Chapter 26 today. ~10 chapters or less until we're finished with writing this book!