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LifeofaGuardian
Oct 26, 2013

Every part of every human being-even their ugly sides-is beautiful. There is no limit to beauty.

UrbicaMortis posted:

How does the skeptic trait work? Is there just one guy wandering around this university utterly convinced that all the werewolves, wizards, vampires, zombies, fairies and other magical phenomena are all part of a crazy conspiracy?

I'm pretty sure it's more "racist but with a different name", cause they call anything supernatural they see "supernatural rubbish" (which is a moodlet)

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Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
So I haven't played Sims 3 in ages, but this LP has piqued my interest again. I enjoyed the more focused gameplay in Sims Medieval more than the absolute sandbox that is Sims 3. With that in mind, is University worth twenty Simoleans? I have, uh, Supernatural and Ambitions I think, so do either of those have features (besides werewolf wizardry) that mesh well with campus life?

Dareon
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin
As long as we're on the topic of picking the game up, how does the console version compare? I saw the XBox 360 version in a used store and that seems to be the least painful method of acquisition and play for me. The PS2 version of Sims 2 suffered from horrible load times and hilarious lag in any animation that used a prop, but with luck they've optimized that a bit.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Dareon posted:

As long as we're on the topic of picking the game up, how does the console version compare? I saw the XBox 360 version in a used store and that seems to be the least painful method of acquisition and play for me. The PS2 version of Sims 2 suffered from horrible load times and hilarious lag in any animation that used a prop, but with luck they've optimized that a bit.

Man, I've got a dedicated gaming PC with whiz-bang gofast parts. I remember base Sims 3 taking multiple minutes to load last time I fired it up. I don't think platform would be the primary issue for performance. The back end of the Sims codes must just be a bottomless cascade of undocumented programming malfeasance.

sixteenjulietgreen
Sep 26, 2012

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." - George Carlin.
I think University is one of the best expansion packs for this cycle, but it does really come down to personal opinion and play style. I've never played the console version, because I haven't been big on them in the past, so I can't comment on that. But University, World Adventures, and Into the Future are among the more "guided" expansion packs available, if that's what you're looking for.

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

I came here to post about Sims 3 being on flash deal in the steam sale but I'm about 40 minutes too late to do that. Oops. But this also provides a good opportunity to tell you that now that I'm done preparing for my brothers wedding, I've got time to make an update so look for that later today!

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

Update 15 - Seriously, Everybody Hates Muscle Wizard





Its afternoon on Tuesday and Snuggles, Eevee and apples have just returned from class while our Fine Arts goons (and a very tired looking Jimmy4400) have their lecture!




Back at home, Eevee gets this want. Keep dreamin', buddy.




I'm tired of apples and Snuggles doing nothing so I send apples to do some science while she has some downtime.



Snuggles disapproves of the loss of his staring spot.




Speaking of apples though, she has enough lifetime happiness for a reward! Since the thread voted to have a party tonight, I'm grabbing Legendary Host which makes all your guests super fuckin' stoked about your parties. They will always come if invited and they'll always have a great time. Although after the failure that was the goons' last party, anything is a step up.



I'm getting super sick of Snuggles not doing anything so I bought him this! This is a martial arts dummy and since Snuggles is Disciplined he will not only learn the Martial Arts skill super quick, but he'll have a great time doing it as well. Hopefully this gives him something to do other than stare out of windows.




:downs: FUUUUUUUUUUUU-





Party's all planned! I invited Thesaya and Mindfang, as well as some other non-goons so the housemates can interact with new people. We'll see how that goes later.




I'm sorry that I haven't focused much on Eevee here but he came home from class and instantly sat down to watch TV. Snuggles is ignoring his new toy and opts to brood in the hallways instead.



:science:




In preparation for the party, I bestow a juice keg on the house. This should liven things up a little. It works to get people together almost instantly.



Rainbow! :sparkles:




Roar joins Eevee on the TV couch, and Dachshunds is the first one to enjoy the new keg. At 3:45pm.




We get this notification two hours before the party starts, but look! Jimmy 4400 has come to visit! I invite him in to join the party and help provide some much needed social interaction for our hermit goons.



Well okay then!



Wait...what?




Goddammit Dashchunds. Snuggles is having a whale of a time in the bathroom despite the fight happening less than a foot away from him. Sim fights are ridiculous so here's a gif of Dachshunds vs Muscle Wizard!






While that's happening, the party has begun! This random student brings us deep fried ice cream. Thanks dude?




That, eating only apples, is what we call negging.




This guy takes a liking to both of the girls. Playing the field, I see.



Snuggles lights a fire outside, so I guess he's going to be stinky as hell in about ten seconds.




Mindfang is serenading people on guitar so apples and Jimmy slow dance :3: while Roar tells Jimmy4400 how much he loving loves money.




While the middle school dance carries on in the hallway, Dachshunds, Snuggles and Muscle Wizard get stinky around the fire.




Roar farts out some rainbows and gives himself a lucky moodlet! What he's actually doing is casting a luck charm on himself. It drains his magic power but gives him a big mood boost and gives him more magic skill points!




Something is happening outside..





Inside, I am not regretting the purchase of the juice keg one bit! Everyone is hanging out around it and having a good time, and I even give Snuggles a poke to do something brave and silly. But suddenly, I hear shouting from outside...what's going on now...?



apples, I didn't know you had it in you!




some Dutch Courage and Snuggles (with some help from Mindfang) pulls off a pretty awesome keg stand. I tried to capture this so I could gif it but FRAPS would have none of it and decided to crash halfway through recording. I'll try to get it next time though because its pretty fun!



apples has successfully beaten the poo poo out of Muscle Wizard. This is the second fight he's lost today, he's not very strong for a guy called Muscle Wizard.




Back inside, Miles and Mindfang converse about vampirism, and Roar comes out of his shell and tries a keg stand with his good pal Jimmy. You go, Roar!




Mindfang leaves the party pretty satisfied, and Jimmy gets an early night for once







Thesaya breaks out the guitar, which interrupts Jimmy going home as he stands and watches her fumble around with the strings. Seriously, she is not good at guitar.

With that, its midnight and the party is over, having been much more successful and fun than the last attempt. Not only that but our goons aren't all stinky, hungry and tired and they're ready to face the new day relatively functional! So where's everyone at midnight?







apples is dreaming about veggies, Snuggles and Eevee are just getting into bed, Roar is grabbing a midnight snack and Dachshunds tried to go to bed but she's starving hungry so she instantly got up to join Roar in snacktown. See you tomorrow!

LifeofaGuardian
Oct 26, 2013

Every part of every human being-even their ugly sides-is beautiful. There is no limit to beauty.
The fights are breaking out relatively early I see.
Poor Muscle Wizard, I don't know why he gets picked on so much. Only thing I can assume is that Daschshunds berated his ignorance a few times, something Nerd sims do WAY too much when left alone, seriously. It's one of the most annoying things sims do autonomously, along with that Capture the Moment thing (whatever it even does) and feeding Cats a treat (to the point where they cancel the "go to work" command for it). Also Ice Cream, I'd assume, but because I never gave my sims that thanks to this lp, I never had troubles with that
The Berate Ignorance thing probably brought them low enough to open up the autonomous use of mean interactions, and from then on it went downhill.

On another note, a funny thing I noticed with Teenager Sims, when they have learned to drive, I used to send them to school a bit early, and then halfway to school or when they already were in school, they'd cancel that just to run home to catch the bus, by foot. Which of course led to them missing it and thus missing school because surprise you can't cancel it out. :downs:

Thesaya
May 17, 2011

I am a Plant.
Hey, I am so good at guitar! Only I learnt it right handed and then realised that I couldn't get up to speed, so I would have to relearn it left handed and excuses, excuses, excuses...

MarquiseMindfang
Jan 6, 2013

vriska (vriska)
This was a great episode of BBC4 Documentary University Fight Club.

The farting rainbows image had me in stitches for some reason. Can you do that to other people too?

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

You can indeed target other people with the luck charm! I'm not sure if the rainbow farts are a result of casting the charm or receiving it though. This demands testing!

LifeofaGuardian posted:

Poor Muscle Wizard, I don't know why he gets picked on so much. Only thing I can assume is that Daschshunds berated his ignorance a few times, something Nerd sims do WAY too much when left alone, seriously.

This is almost exactly it and I found this mod that disables berating ignorance autonomously but I'm not sure if I want to use it because I did promise myself I'd be interfering as little as possible. I'll leave it up to you guys!

Quiet Python
Nov 8, 2011
I vote to cut Muscle Wizard a break and disable berating.

Also make Snuggles use the martial arts dummy once to see if he'll stick at it on his own.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Screw muscle wizard he deserves all he gets.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
Nerds regularly piss people off and get themselves beat up?

I have to laugh at that, a little.

Yapping Eevee
Nov 12, 2011

STAND TOGETHER.
FIGHT WITH HONOR.
RESTORE BALANCE.

Eevees play for free.

Faerie Fortune posted:

Keep dreamin', buddy.

:(

Eevee hasn't been the most entertaining Sim in the world, has he? Oh, how art imitates life. :v:

Still loving the LP though. Poor Muscle Wizard. :allears:

LifeofaGuardian
Oct 26, 2013

Every part of every human being-even their ugly sides-is beautiful. There is no limit to beauty.

Quiet Python posted:

I vote to cut Muscle Wizard a break and disable berating.

Yeah, do this. Poor guy hasn't done anything wrong except for making sparklies on the porch.

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

LifeofaGuardian posted:

The fights are breaking out relatively early I see.
Poor Muscle Wizard, I don't know why he gets picked on so much. Only thing I can assume is that Daschshunds berated his ignorance a few times, something Nerd sims do WAY too much when left alone, seriously. It's one of the most annoying things sims do autonomously, along with that Capture the Moment thing (whatever it even does) and feeding Cats a treat (to the point where they cancel the "go to work" command for it). Also Ice Cream, I'd assume, but because I never gave my sims that thanks to this lp, I never had troubles with that
The Berate Ignorance thing probably brought them low enough to open up the autonomous use of mean interactions, and from then on it went downhill.

On another note, a funny thing I noticed with Teenager Sims, when they have learned to drive, I used to send them to school a bit early, and then halfway to school or when they already were in school, they'd cancel that just to run home to catch the bus, by foot. Which of course led to them missing it and thus missing school because surprise you can't cancel it out. :downs:

The worst autonomous action is tied to the proper trait. "Accuse of impropriety" can come up in random conversations and has the same negative relationship hit as "accuse of cheating" and is only rivaled by witches casting love charms because they're bored.

Stephen9001
Oct 28, 2013

Glazius posted:

Nerds regularly piss people off and get themselves beat up?

I have to laugh at that, a little.

Actually, from what i can tell, whats going on here is that nerds are pissing Anoki (muscle wizard) off and then beating [b]him[b] up. presumably because he is at heart a peaceful person and doesn't like using his muscles to hurt people or something. Perhaps our to be martial arts expert can save him from this torment? ah who am I kidding, more likely he'll use martial arts to further harm Anoki (I shall call him by name even if no one else does!).

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

Yep, Muscle Wizard has never (to my knowledge) been mean to one of our housemates unless they were mean to him first. Both of the fights in the last update were started by apples and Dachshunds, not Muscle Wizard. Poor dude just wants to be a wizard in peace :(

Silegna
Aug 20, 2013

Hey, heads up. I'm about to unleash my rage.

I say cut the poor guy a break. He's just a peaceful wizard, and had no intentions of being the school punching bag.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
Maybe wizards would be happier if they had an island somewhere where they could be among their own kind. I'm not aracanist, but I think that magic-mundane segregation would be the best solution for everyone.

Double May Care
Mar 28, 2012

We need Dragon-type Pokemon to help us prepare our food before we cook it. We're not sure why!

That's okay... I-I didn't want to go to your party anyway.

Science for dinner, again.

100Dachshunds
Oct 11, 2009

GOCHARMSPRINGS
gently caress Muscle Wizard. Seriously, gently caress him. I can't stand his dumb ponytail or his stupid magic.

Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

I have to return some videotapes.

Torrannor
Apr 27, 2013

---FAGNER---
TEAM-MATE

Silegna posted:

I say cut the poor guy a break. He's just a peaceful wizard, and had no intentions of being the school punching bag.

This. All your sims are mean to him, at least disable berating him for ignorance.

LifeofaGuardian
Oct 26, 2013

Every part of every human being-even their ugly sides-is beautiful. There is no limit to beauty.

Rather Watch Them posted:

That's okay... I-I didn't want to go to your party anyway.

Science for dinner, again.

Don't worry, if you raise your Science skill high enough, you can clone yourself enough times to have a party of your own.
And everybody will be sad because they won't be able to listen to the RatherWatch barbershop quartet.

Stephen9001
Oct 28, 2013

Torrannor posted:

This. All your sims are mean to him, at least disable berating him for ignorance.

Actually, I think Roar at least has never (or at least rarely) been mean to Anoki. But perhaps i'm just being pedantic.

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

Update 16 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Snuggles



Its midnight on Wednesday! Dachshunds and Roar are still awake and Dachshunds is not a happy camper.




...But the people who attended the party are! Legendary Host means that all of apples' parties will be kickin' rad, and everyone who is invited, or who just happened to be in the house at the time, will get this happy moodlet.




Roar attempts to consume a hot dog by shoving it up his nose, Dachshunds eats ice cream fritters with Asala. Although to be honest, it looks more like really lovely uncooked steak with some ice cream on top. Asala is eating like this because she's a werewolf and they like to eat like doggies, even when they're not transformed.




Roar has a nice chat with his wizardbro. Aww :3: For the record, I have installed a mod to disable berating ignorance autonomously since it was seriously messing with the housemates' opinions of Muscle Wizard and causing them to drop everything to go yell at the poor guy, so I decided to give him a break.




Dachshunds finally goes to bed, Roar gets this want to give Muscle Wizard a nice friendly hug :kimchi:





Some pre-bedtime TV and reading, and Roar is off to bed as well.





A few hours later, its almost class time for everyone but Jimmy. You don't need to see everyone waking up and going to class but I took these screenshots to show you the awesome effects that happen with colder weather. Its early autumn so the days are getting colder and the windows and grass outside are getting covered in frost through the night. Its a really subtle effect but I love it so much.



The housemates really haven't been interacting with people so I set them to socialise in class so they can meet people outside of their house.




Left alone to his own deviced, Jimmy makes his opinion on these gross hot dogs very clear.





He spends the two hours alone drinking beer and playing guitar. Here's a look at his skills, he's doing okay but he's far from achieving his lifetime wish.



Instead of the boring "[sim] met [sim] at work" dialog, you get these little prompts when your sim meets someone new at class. Its another little touch that gives the game and the people in it a little more character.




I spot Cathulhu outside of Eevee's class and outside Roar's there is a Fizzicist, who I did not recognise without her glasses.





d'aaw, Roar has a crush :3:




Its time for Jimmy's class so off he goes, and apples wishes for a waterslide. Not in this cold, buddy!




She drowns her sorrows at the lack of slides with some ice cream and beer.




Remember that random dude who brought us those weird ice cream steak fritters at last nights party? He's returning the favour and has invited us to his own party! Neat! Looks like apples has new plans for the night!





She celebrates by playing in the leaves like a child.



Playing in leaves has kind of the same effects as bonfires. Its fun as hell and sims loving love it but it gets them very stinky very quickly. Look at how happy she is though, would you deny her her fun?





Eevee gets that dumb podium opportunity so I send him to do that, and Snuggles meets a new friend!



Dachshunds and Roar are out of class and they're both exhausted after staying up far too late last night.



When its cold outside, Sims wear their outerwear which is supposed to represent them bundling up in the cold. Snuggles concept of bundling up needs some work, I think. Either that or he's cosplaying Muscle Wizard.






Eevee is podium-ing, apples is running to class and the sleepy art students decide to curl up on a bench outside the art building. This is actually a really really bad idea, when sims are in the cold for too long, even if they're in their outerwear, they'll get a neutral moodlet. If they have that for too long without going inside to warm up? They can freeze to death.




Eevee's plan for world peace: Cute bunnies. He learns the Charisma skill though which will make it much easier for him to make friends!




Snuggles relaxes with a beer at home and I take this artistic shot of the campus at twilight. I cannot say this enough but the weather effects in this game are awesome and add so much more atmosphere. Again, the little touches make this game pretty pretty sometimes.





Roar get this want which is easily taken care of. Then he and Dachshunds wake up. Roar looks scared because he doesn't know where the gently caress he is, Dachshunds looks like she's about to go on a killing spree. I feel like these pictures are a perfect visual representation of their personalities.



:toot: a grade boost for Eevee!





Back at home, Snuggles plays some video games, Dachshunds makes some salad. At the student union, Eevee is super pleased with himself after pooping. You go buddy!





Some of you in the thread were curious about whether Snuggles would use the martial arts dummy autonomously after he'd gained the skill so let's do an experiment. The dummy is brought inside to stop the poor guy freezing to death in the -1 temperatures outside. Exercise might counteract the effects of the cold but I'm not sure if they put that much thought into it and I don't really want to risk it so off he goes with his training!



:toot:




apples is super fuckin' excited about being reminded about this party so I send her off there to meet and greet!




Dachshunds stares at Eevee while he eats and Roar heads to an actual bed instead of a bench in the freezing cold.




Jimmy is making friends outside of his class (Hi AcesHigh!) and apples appears to have been kidnapped by this lady on her way to the party and is now playing frisbee outside of the art building. She's making friends either way I guess!



Dachshunds thinks about one of the few things that make her happy - being clean.



Snuggles is...not good at this




but he perseveres and now has a nice new outfit to show off! Good job, Snuggles!




Eevee heads to bed and the game tells us something that we already knew. Thanks, game!




Meanwhile, Snuggles has gone outside to chat with Muscle Wizard about the cold. Its actually really nice that nobody has been mean to him today, it gives me something else to talk about.



Here's a fun thing! Werewolves interacting with each other! Asala here has given the werewolf curse to Miles, who was actually at our party yesterday. Werewolves interact a lot like dogs do, sniffing each other and whatnot but they can also fight, which these two did pretty much immediately. Instead of being a negative interaction though, for werewolves its quite positive! Neat!

With that though, we're at midnight! What are our goons doing?





Everyone else is in bed, science is happening, apples is cooking, and Snuggles is drinking beer in his martial arts gear. Fantastic!

Tomorrow is Thursday and the last day before final exams. Since we'll actually be getting our grades for both terms this week, its time to start making your predictions! Who do you think is doomed to failure?

Yapping Eevee
Nov 12, 2011

STAND TOGETHER.
FIGHT WITH HONOR.
RESTORE BALANCE.

Eevees play for free.
Hey, looks like a pretty good day all around! :) I'm hoping Eevee will pass his exams this time around.

Faerie Fortune posted:

Eevee's plan for world peace: Cute bunnies.
Ever feel like you might be getting type-cast?

bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008
THE HATE CRIME DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Yapping Eevee posted:

Hey, looks like a pretty good day all around! :) I'm hoping Eevee will pass his exams this time around.

Ever feel like you might be getting type-cast?

Yes, give me control of the world and I will bring "peace"

EDIT: BTW, are you still accepting background goons? I can't find the submisison rules.

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

I am indeed, but because I've just been grabbing NPCs and changing them with master controller, its a crapshoot as to whether they'll appear or not. So yes, PM or email me with your stuff and I will definitely put you in the game but I can't guarantee you'll appear in the screenshots unfortunately

Aces High
Mar 26, 2010

Nah! A little chocolate will do




wait, which social group do I belong to? Even better question, what's the colour code for each social group?

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

Short answer, you're a Rebel!

Long answer, based on sims in this update:
Purple is Rebel and that's where SimAces is
Green is Nerd and that's where Fizzicist is
Orange is Jock and that's what Cathulhu is!

bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008
THE HATE CRIME DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Faerie Fortune posted:

I am indeed, but because I've just been grabbing NPCs and changing them with master controller, its a crapshoot as to whether they'll appear or not. So yes, PM or email me with your stuff and I will definitely put you in the game but I can't guarantee you'll appear in the screenshots unfortunately

What stuff? Just name, height, weight, major?

Yapping Eevee
Nov 12, 2011

STAND TOGETHER.
FIGHT WITH HONOR.
RESTORE BALANCE.

Eevees play for free.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Yes, give me control of the world and I will bring "peace"

In the form of alcoholic drinks. (I miss the Battlepod thread. Also, I still need to find a chance to try that mocktail.)

Also, might want to throw in a photo for the Sim submission if you want Faerie to do their best in making your Sim-self.

bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008
THE HATE CRIME DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Yapping Eevee posted:

In the form of alcoholic drinks. (I miss the Battlepod thread. Also, I still need to find a chance to try that mocktail.)

Also, might want to throw in a photo for the Sim submission if you want Faerie to do their best in making your Sim-self.

That reminds me, I need to read that archived version to remember what that mocktail was.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
So, uh... can you learn the Juiced-Up Fist or whatever the safe Sim equivalent is?

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Glazius posted:

So, uh... can you learn the Juiced-Up Fist or whatever the safe Sim equivalent is?

No, but with supernatuals your sim can drink its way to mastery. :guinness:

curiousTerminal
Sep 2, 2011

what a humorous anecdote.

Ardeem posted:

No, but with supernatuals your sim can drink its way to mastery. :guinness:

That's my favorite part about Supernatural, especially in conjunction with other expansions. You can use alchemical potions and ancient spells unknown to mortals...to help you bring an android to sentience so that he can garden your magical life-extending fruits and rake your leaves while you vacation in France to give makeovers.

Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

Update 17 - gently caress Werewolves




Its just past midnight on Thursday and apples and Snuggles are the only goons awake. Snuggles is having a late night beer in his martial arts gear and apples is making hot dogs. They swan around for a little bit until it reaches 1am and then inexplicably..





...Jimmy and Roar wake up for no real reason, eat some hot dogs and discover their attraction to eating only apples.




Miles, the guy who Asala gave the werewolf curse to in the last update, is still hanging around and Snuggles chats to him about comics. He also gets this want to spar with someone which would normally be an awesome idea! Its a great way to meet people and level up your skill but unfortunately you require at least one rank in martial arts to be able to spar with someone, and I can guarantee that Snuggles is the only person on campus right now with any points in it. We'll have to try and fix that sometime!





apples heads to bed and Roar and Eevee both go out in 0 degree weather, in their jammies, to play in some leaves. Wierdos.



5:30am and everyone is back in bed. Eevee gets a grand total of half an hours sleep before 6am hits and the game forces him to wake up for his lecture at 8am



Despite me modding out the "berate ignorance" interaction, Dashchunds still finds time (and cause) to yell at Muscle Wizard. gently caress fortune cookies! :angry:




Eevee looks far too happy for a man who has had maybe four and a half hours sleep, who is walking to class at 6:50am, in the rain. Jimmy is...Jimmy, and decides to practice pool in his underpants.




Back in academia, apples has her class activity which consists of her pointing at a skeleton and making thinking noises while she thinks about science-y things. Snuggles and Eevee are at their lecture, where Snuggles takes the opportunity to catch up on his missed sleep.




Back at home with the artgoons, nothing much happens! Dachshunds is showering, Roar is watching TV and Jimmy is still playing pool but at least he put some pants on.



I see how it is, Fizzicist :colbert:



Class activities for the artgoons started about 20 minutes ago but Dachshunds' AI seems to have gotten confused and she just stands and stares at the wall for a while, making her a tad late. Not sure what happened there.




Now time for a gripe! apples here is soaked, because she just spent the past two hours outside in the rain doing class activities. This could be easily solved by not having the class activities outside but EA didn't think of that because they don't really think about how expansions will work together when they're coding them. If you just had University on its own, it wouldn't be a problem but when you add Seasons, then you end up with your sims getting sad every time they have a class activity outside in spring, autumn or winter. EA is not good at making expansion packs work together at all, which is depressing to me.




Snuggles is on his way back from his lecture, and already he wants to hit the keg and strike a sassy pose.






The artgoons are at their class activity for today! Dachshunds finally stopped staring at the wall and decided to go to class, so she's not here yet. apples has a drink and Snuggles and Eevee take a nap, leaving apples the only goon not in a class or sleeping.





So I make some :science: happen! Even Kloro is getting in on the fun!




There's a goonsim update and one of these things! There are herb plants all over campus that don't grow anywhere else in the game since they're university exclusive plants. You can eat these straight off the bush, put them in food, throw them into a fire, or use the science machine to turn them into scientific samples. In a past update we made some samples out of some lavender so let's do an experiment!



Here's what apples' inventory looks like right now, we have some fruits and veggies, some Super Spice that we made in an earlier update, a rock and a bunch of scientific samples. We can sell these at a science centre but we're not exactly poor right now and apples could use the grade and skill boost from doing some science so let's do the thing!



Wait...what?



Goddammit you dumb werewolf



Dachshunds, lord of fire does not make an appearance since she's at class but luckily, Asala is a badass in her stead and puts out the fire with very little effort. Fire count for this house is now at three.





Insurance once again barely gives us enough to cover the cost of replacing our burnt out appliances, Kloro is still learning things, and an exhausted apples gets a coffee.



The fire truck arrives and the firefighter yells at us for falsely calling emergency services. But...there was a fire. It was just there! Its not my fault that our house is full of badass fire lords!




Dachshunds, Roar, apples and Muscle Wizard are congregating in the garden, chatting about magic while Dachshunds plays with leaves in the background.




:sigh:




Jimmy cheers up our wizard friend by showing off about his mad gamer skillz, and Eevee makes some mac and cheese. These nerds are boring.



Let's go bowling!



We came at a good time!




I replaced the old lovely bar on the first floor with a proper, professional bar. Jimmy chooses to go upstairs to the old, lovely bar up there to get a drink instead.




Everyone socialises in the entrance while Dachshunds and Roar bowl together :3:



...and then she quickly abandons the game to go pee :smith: while Roar's model stretches and contorts to make it look like his jacket has a face on it.





The bar seems popular, and both apples and this random goonsim who I think is AcesHigh (I forgot to note down the name, sorry!) grab some bar food. That pizza looks really good.



Snuggles decides to try to impress Mindfang by talking about fire. You were barely even there, Snuggles.



:o oh my! Miles is coming up a lot in these past couple of updates, and asks our Dachshunds on a date! I accept because why not?




Snuggles talks about the smoke alarm to Mindfang and Jimmy eats currywurst while this poor lady looks extremely uncomfortable.



I don't know what's happening here but I feel like I'm interupting some kind of secret council meeting.



Roar really depresses me sometimes. He just refuses to socialise. Don't be scared, buddy!



Hooray!

Its now midnight on Friday and final exams are in a few short hours. So how are our goons doing?



Dachshunds wishes she was in bed right now.



Jimmy is still hanging out with Uncomfortable Looking Lady.



apples has gone home and passed out dramatically on the floor in exhaustion.



Snuggles has changed into his Muscle Wizard cosplay.



Roar continues to be a wallflower.




Eevee is looking super pleased with himself, despite being starving hungry and seconds away from passing out with exhaustion.

See you tomorrow for exam day!

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Faerie Fortune
Nov 14, 2004

I actually have the next update already screenshotted which means that in my game, our sims are actually already home for their break! So I'm going to set my plan for the break in motion.

See, during this LP I was gifted Into The Future and being at University, the goonhouse (and by extension, you the viewers) haven't experienced much of that content. Well, what better place to go during your winter break than into the motherfuckin' future?

So we're going to send one lucky student into the future! Each poster gets two votes. You can either vote for two sims, or put both of your votes towards one sim.

If you really want your favourite housemate to win, then you can get an extra vote by entertaining the thread with a short story, comic or anything you like, depicting what you think that sim will get up to in futureland!

Whoever has the most votes by next Tuesday (that's the 22nd July) gets to go to the future! See you then!

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