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!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Ais' thoughts from this side of the hiatus
I've been totally digging this hiatus. It gives me a chance to breathe, to chill out... to actually be able to have a Saturday to fuck around or have fun instead of being consumed with the logistics and background work of posting the story.
Although when we first started the series, I didn't mind the extra responsibilities that came with the story (coding, putting on the website, releasing announcements, etc), by now we have so much going on that I really need to revamp how we do this because it takes way longer than it should. (boo on PHP, still need to redo the site with that. I'm almost thinking I should just pay someone at this point since it'd get done way faster than me dragging my sorry ass along the way...)
Some scenes have, with time, become more complicated to write. And others are as easy and fun as the first scene like that. Sonny and I have both determined that there are scenes with certain characters that we both look forward to writing. It's hard to really explain the difference, and I could try but it would involve spoiler central so I'm not going to even start, but suffice it to say there are some chapters that take us awhile to finish because neither of us are as enthused and others are written and finished in no time. We're actually working on one of the mostly fun chapters now.
It's so weird to me how this has all happened. First of all, it doesn't seem like over a year (or wait, is it closer to two now?) that we've been working on icos. I never would have thought I'd be writing something this long and involved without having conceived of it far ahead of time. I still have the fantasy novel I've been kicking around in my head since I was like 12 so it's so odd that there's this random story that I had nothing invested in and was just writing with a friend for the hell of it, that's become something this long and involved. I really like it, though.
Even though we take these breaks now and then, I just want people to know that they don't need to worry about us no longer writing. I know we said we may not have come back from hiatus without reviews but we mostly meant there was no point in putting the effort into editing, coding, posting, releasing alerts, etc, if no one was interested in reading it. We would have continued writing the story regardless. Even if we stopped posting from now on, we'd still be writing the story in the background because it's truly fun for us overall. Because we know where the story is going and there are scenes I want to get to.
It's almost a detriment because I keep being interested in scenes in the future so sometimes I put less effort into the present scene because I just want to get it over with. That's what editing's for, though.
Point being, we're still writing. And I do want to say we really, really, really appreciate all of you who read, even if you don't review, but we appreciate +++++++ times more those of you who do give feedback. It's not because we're trying to be punks and forcing people to say shit if they don't mean it. It's because hearing from readers that the story is fun, interesting, inspiring, etc, to them is a really good way of recharging the battery, so to speak.
I very rarely continue putting effort into shit when it's just for me. But when I know that others are involved, I get more interested. It's probably because if it's just for me, it feels like it can wait-- which is probably why I don't have that fantasy novel any closer to being finished than when I was 16.
But icos is out there in cyberspace now and that changes things, it makes me more inspired to keep working. Because, while we write it for us, we share it for you.
At any rate, as a quick update... I'm still trying to finish that damn Owen side story and I've started a Viv/Ced one set in 1998. We're currently working on Afterimage Chapter 26. So far it looks like we may start posting the beginning of 2009 but I don't know yet for sure. (It shouldn't be later than the first week of January as far as I'm guessing but I don't know yet whether it'll happen before. There are still some editing issues that need to be resolved in chapter 7.)
Although when we first started the series, I didn't mind the extra responsibilities that came with the story (coding, putting on the website, releasing announcements, etc), by now we have so much going on that I really need to revamp how we do this because it takes way longer than it should. (boo on PHP, still need to redo the site with that. I'm almost thinking I should just pay someone at this point since it'd get done way faster than me dragging my sorry ass along the way...)
Some scenes have, with time, become more complicated to write. And others are as easy and fun as the first scene like that. Sonny and I have both determined that there are scenes with certain characters that we both look forward to writing. It's hard to really explain the difference, and I could try but it would involve spoiler central so I'm not going to even start, but suffice it to say there are some chapters that take us awhile to finish because neither of us are as enthused and others are written and finished in no time. We're actually working on one of the mostly fun chapters now.
It's so weird to me how this has all happened. First of all, it doesn't seem like over a year (or wait, is it closer to two now?) that we've been working on icos. I never would have thought I'd be writing something this long and involved without having conceived of it far ahead of time. I still have the fantasy novel I've been kicking around in my head since I was like 12 so it's so odd that there's this random story that I had nothing invested in and was just writing with a friend for the hell of it, that's become something this long and involved. I really like it, though.
Even though we take these breaks now and then, I just want people to know that they don't need to worry about us no longer writing. I know we said we may not have come back from hiatus without reviews but we mostly meant there was no point in putting the effort into editing, coding, posting, releasing alerts, etc, if no one was interested in reading it. We would have continued writing the story regardless. Even if we stopped posting from now on, we'd still be writing the story in the background because it's truly fun for us overall. Because we know where the story is going and there are scenes I want to get to.
It's almost a detriment because I keep being interested in scenes in the future so sometimes I put less effort into the present scene because I just want to get it over with. That's what editing's for, though.
Point being, we're still writing. And I do want to say we really, really, really appreciate all of you who read, even if you don't review, but we appreciate +++++++ times more those of you who do give feedback. It's not because we're trying to be punks and forcing people to say shit if they don't mean it. It's because hearing from readers that the story is fun, interesting, inspiring, etc, to them is a really good way of recharging the battery, so to speak.
I very rarely continue putting effort into shit when it's just for me. But when I know that others are involved, I get more interested. It's probably because if it's just for me, it feels like it can wait-- which is probably why I don't have that fantasy novel any closer to being finished than when I was 16.
But icos is out there in cyberspace now and that changes things, it makes me more inspired to keep working. Because, while we write it for us, we share it for you.
At any rate, as a quick update... I'm still trying to finish that damn Owen side story and I've started a Viv/Ced one set in 1998. We're currently working on Afterimage Chapter 26. So far it looks like we may start posting the beginning of 2009 but I don't know yet for sure. (It shouldn't be later than the first week of January as far as I'm guessing but I don't know yet whether it'll happen before. There are still some editing issues that need to be resolved in chapter 7.)
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