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Get her some arcade cabinets, because duh, gaming room. Make every single one clash horribly in colour compared to the one next to it. Edit: vote on previous page
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 the floor is made of cheetos it won't tile correctly which could be a deal breaker but i would never forgive myself if i didnt try
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May 8, 2015 17:46
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Walls are a sickly Mountain Dew green of course.
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Poor Samantha only ever won one gaming contest, and that was for the Garfield NES game. That couch has been in storage for ages, and now it's time to dig it up. http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=372640 (Garfield Pattern, any terrible looking couch.) I tried to also fix the cheetos up so they would tile.  Seems to work decently.
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May 9, 2015 01:27
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 This would be very classy.
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SystemLogoff posted:Poor Samantha only ever won one gaming contest, and that was for the Garfield NES game. That couch has been in storage for ages, and now it's time to dig it up. A++ would tile again
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May 12, 2015 08:36
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There should be some kind of pool in there with colorful lamps. There should also be a gigantic home cinema there.
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May 12, 2015 09:44
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Indiiea posted:There should be some kind of pool in there with colorful lamps. There should also be a gigantic home cinema there. Can you put above ground pools in basements? We should do that.
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Indiiea posted:There should be some kind of pool in there with colorful lamps. There should also be a gigantic home cinema there. An outright swimming pool or a decorative fountain?
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Spookydonut posted:Can you put above ground pools in basements? We should do that.
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Theta Zero posted:An outright swimming pool or a decorative fountain? Why not both?
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Poil posted:Absolutely you can do that. It's a great place to put it for those winter months. Just add the bar and the sauna and the Jacuzzi and the pool waterfall and the tropical decoration and there you go. 
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May 12, 2015 13:46
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Also Clayton should have his own little room, not a very big one mind you, just about oh say four squares worth of space. Also if we are to be sure that Clayton will never escape, we should make sure that we keep the door to this room in the inventory at all times. EDIT: Also we should make sure all our explosives are stored safely in a room underneath Quincy's house.
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David D. Davidson posted:Also Clayton should have his own little room, not a very big one mind you, just about oh say four squares worth of space. Also if we are to be sure that Clayton will never escape, we should make sure that we keep the door to this room in the inventory at all times. I feel that we should have some sort of reminder for Clayton for just how much a giant mistake he made by being near Samara.
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David D. Davidson posted:Also Clayton should have his own little room, not a very big one mind you, just about oh say four squares worth of space. Also if we are to be sure that Clayton will never escape, we should make sure that we keep the door to this room in the inventory at all times. It could be a class cage in the game room?
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May 14, 2015 11:09
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Indiiea posted:It could be a class cage in the game room? Do this. Big plate-glass windows in the walls so Samara can always see him. Always watching 
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You know this bears disturbing similarity to my floor right now and I'm technically out of college also the walls in the Clayton room should be pictures of Samara, all hand-drawn
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I'm just here to let you know, my graphics card exploded, so it'll be a week or two while I pick the shrapnel from my body.
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The Sims 3 has a bug with V Sync. It doesn't work. High end cards will render the game at such absurdly high framerates that they overheat. My card got to 80 degrees C when I left the main menu running while I ate dinner. It turns out that rendering a 2D menu at 3000 FPS is really bad, which is probably why every other game lets you lock the framerate. You can get an fpslimiter for the sims 3, but it only works for the cd version of the game. It requires launching the game through a different .exe, and the DRM on the Origin download version blocks it. If you have an Nvidia card, the force vsync option in it's control panel apparently works for the Sims 3. I have an ATI card, and the equivalent Catalyst option had no effect. Hopefully your graphics card dying is unrelated to the Sims 3, as this is a great LP!
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I vote for a pink bowling alley FatherBlueMidget fucked around with this message at 22:45 on May 31, 2015 |
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Theta Zero posted:I'm just here to let you know, my graphics card exploded, so it'll be a week or two while I pick the shrapnel from my body. Uh-oh. SAMARA!!!!!
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 This is what I was working with earlier. Anyways, I got my new card in and you'll be able to see our new game room in a few days. I began working on it before my card blew out, so unfortunately we won't have a neon pink bowling alley. However, I managed to squeeze as many ideas in there as I could. Here's a small preview. 
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Welcome Back!   ... Huh? What's that noise?  Oh! Our diploma!  You'd think there'd be a ceremony for this sort of thing.  It's been three weeks since we last saw Samara. Since then, she's been working hard on her everything-degree. And her work finally payed off!  During those three weeks, Samara finally got a 5-star blog! What do we do now that we've climbed to the top of our internet popularity ladder?  Sell that sucker in a heartbeat, that's what.  We also maxed out our Social Networking skill. In exchange, we get the full-power relationship transmorphagrafiwhatever. It lets us change the relationship of anybody we know with anybody else we know into friends, or enemies, or even romantic partners. But because of how downright broken it is, we won't be using it at all! Hooray! Oh, we also got a Mass Effect skin for our phone as well. We got a Dragon Age skin as well, but I don't hate Mass Effect so we'll be using that instead. Now it's time to head home and...  Make our new game room!  Well, that was really easy. Everything's so fast in screenshot form.  Tah-dah! Here's our game room!  Complete with a fountain/pool, novelty chess pieces, clashing arcade cabinet colors, and various name brand inspired furniture and fixtures.  Apparently you people don't seem to understand what "I AM NOT USING PICTURES SO DON'T SEND ME THEM" means, but as a compromise we made the patterns as close to the source as possible. Or at least reasonably inspired by it.  Nonetheless, here's the console gaming section of our little game room. Complete with jacuzzi and minibar. Oh, and a TV the size of the wall.  This was also a nice learning experience, because I discovered that my attempts to resist to the brainwashing that comes with a culture filled with mindless consumerism was ultimately futile after I got thirsty trying to match the colors of a soft drink brand.  Ah, almost forgot. We also hung our college paintings of all our friends here! Wait, where'd that ninja thing come from?  There we go. Threw that thing in the trash where it belonged.  Huh? Oh, right. Our little game room is also hidden in our Dungeon of Fun via a secret door!  Which we just put in now.  Apparently it's, uh, so secret that even we can't find it.  ...We did put it HERE, right? Maybe it's a few more feet to the left or something...?  Huh. Could've sworn it wasn't always like that.  Moving on, we're finally free from the bounds of college life, so now we can change our clothes into something fitting of a well educated, successful woman.  Or just something that's actually comfortable.  Ahh, it feels good to finally be free and go out in the world and just do anything we want! Free to do things like get a successful career, marry the love of our life, or cause extensive property damage. To do ☐ Travel abroad ☐ Tragic clown to the face ☐ Adopt a magical unicorn ☐ Blame it on Quincey ☐ Time travel ☐ Become an official criminal ☐ Become a licensed everything ☐ Give something to Quincey that may or may not explode ☐ Never let Clayton escape ☐ ☐ Get a post-graduation makeover ☐ Try forming a band ☐ Make the blog to end all blogs ☐ Make a game room in the basement ☐ Stop the freak show ☐ Make friends with the genie ☐ Do some more alchemy ☐ Free that genie  Hey, wait a second.  Where's our robo-slave, Brenda?  Pfft, she probably thought she could run away.  Hey! Who squashed our squashes!? Oh well, if it wasn't somebody else, it would've been us.  Let's see how Quincey's doing. It's been months since our last visit. Can't let him get too complacent.  Quin-ceeeey! Your favorite neighbor is back in town!  Woah, hey. Nice duds! Pretty stylin', dude!  Or do they say "kickin' rad," now? We're kind of out of touch with the trends ever since selling our blog. ...Say, did you always have a tattoo?  Hey, hey, hey! What do we have here?  Is that a robo-slave? Cool! You know, we had one that looked just like that before she...  ...Before she... ... ...What were we here for again?  ... Huh? Hey! Wait a second!  Aha! You thought you could hide behind this door!? ...That you just...closed in front of us.  What's the big idea stealing OUR robo-slave? It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to...wake up and have her just standing there.  But it was probably due to a tremendous amount of luck! And you don't want to mess with with a woman who's got a PhD in EVERYTHING! You hear us? EVERYTHING! Even fake stuff, like homeopathy!  Looks like we got to blow up your house SERIOUSLY now, huh? No more just blowing it up for giggles. Cross us, and you'll learn to--  What?  Robo-slave, how DARE you yell at your master! Now be a good robo-slave and...  ...Hey, we can kill two birds with one stone here. Be a good robo-slave and attack!  Destroy! Detonate...uh, something! Go berserk on--  Oof!  That... ...You...  RUUUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!  INSANE ROBOT! IT CAN'T BE CONTROLLED! IT CAN'T BE STOPPED! HEEELP!  WHAT'S HAPPENING!? HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE WE'VE BEEN GONE!? THE WORLD IS TOO DIFFERENT! WE SHOULD'VE NEVER LEFT COLLEGE! NOTHING EVER CHANGES THERE! WHY DIDN'T WE JUST STAY THERE FOREVER!?  ...Phew. Sometimes you really just need to vent. Now then, let's see how Clayton's doing.  Clayton, baby! How about you come over and--  Wow. You're fast. How do you even do that? You know what? Forget it.  Sooo...Clayton...  It's been a while...and we've had quite some time to think about...things...  ...A lot of things... And so we thought about asking you something...  One...very special...something.  Ahem...  Mr. Clayton Finch... ...Will you...  Whoops!  Heh, heh...sorry about that.  Uh...Mr. Clayton Finch...  ...Will you ma--  --ke your way into our little cage here in our Dungeon of Fun and stay there for all eternity?  Yeeeaaah, sorry. We forgot to make you a little glass cage in our game room. So you're just gonna have to make do here.  Try not to starve to death! We'll make sure to feed you our table scraps when we remember about you.  Okay, c'mon, genie. You know the drill.  Woah, hey. You really put on some weight.  ... ...You're not the same genie, are you?  Whatever. So, we want to use our third and final wish. But we want it to be a special wish. Something we KNOW you haven't granted before. We wish for...  ...For... Um...  Beauty? No, we already wished for that... Money? No...we got that already too...but we could always use more...  Oh right! We want to wish you free! But just on one condition! Tell us your name! ...'Cause weren't listening the first time.  "Carlo?" Like...Carlo the Great? Carlo the Almighty? Carlo the Unstoppable!? Carlo the Lover--  Oh, just "Carlo." Quaint. So...what do we gotta do?  Hmm... We just might be able to do that.  Hey, Quincey! We gotta--  ...  Hey, neighbor-people! We gotta use your stuff for a second!  Well, they left their door unlocked, so they probably don't mind random people coming inside.  "Breath of coldest winter," huh?  This was probably a lot harder to do before the advent of modern technology.  Probably had to, like, go to the north pole or something. ...  Alright, that's long enough. So, what's next?  Huh. Well, like we said.  Probably a lot harder before the advent of modern technology.  It'll ding when it's done, right?  Ah, screw it. It's so annoying to wait for these things to preheat.  Sounds reasonable.  Dead people like to hang around graveyards, right?  Don't know why, it's pretty boring around here.  It said to throw the thing under the earth or something. There's a mausoleum over here that goes underground. Maybe we can just chuck it down the stairs; that might physically break the lamp.  Cool.  Well, that was eas--  --EEEEEEEEE!!!  D-does that mean it worked?  O-oh...i-it's you... ...So, uh, do you feel any...free-er?    Hey! Your genie clothes disappeared! That means you're free, right?  Sweet!  So that means your free to grant as many wishes as you want now, right?  You lost your powers? Okay, well, you can be our new slave now, right? 'Cause we freed you?  ... Is a slave just SO MUCH to ask for?  Well, that was pointless. Why'd we even free that guy if he can't even grant us more wishes for it? ...Hey...  We still have the money we got from our second wish... Maybe it's time to touch up the house a bit.  Starting with a basic layout. And before you ask: no, we can't keep the bubblegum fence.  Then adding a few of the fixtures and roofing plans...  Next, we'll finish off the furniture layout and decorum. This is also when I decided to move Samara because her presence was starting to irritate me.  And lastly, finish off with some detail work!  Now we can spend the rest of our money on this fancy new car!  By the way, that was literally "the rest of our money."  Now, you may be wondering "why did you spend the entirety of our life savings on a car?" And the answer is simple.  Because we didn't work for any of that money! All we did was wish for it. There's no joy in just having everything given to you. Samara didn't get to where she is by just accepting free handouts. She's earned everything she has. ...Stealing is hard work, so she earned the stuff she stole, too.  Besides, we still got a little chunk of cash leftover anyways.  Our house isn't actually too big. It's just got a really fancy front yard now.  And the inside is composed entirely of the exterior siding and contains nothing but the furniture we already owned.  But here's and aerial view of what we've got. There's plenty of room to expand, so you're free to suggest any ideas you've got for a new room or expansion for our house!  And speaking of things we own... Let's check on Clay--  --ton... How'd you get out of our Fungeon?  ... ...Oh right, you can teleport. We keep forgetting.  Anyways, Clayton, we're poor now. And it's probably your fault. So we figured you could move in and help us with things. We're like, engaged now. We threw you into a cage and tried to lock you there forever. That's like engagement, right?  So say hello to your new home! But enough frivolities. How much money are you bringing to the table?  ... This is the same amount we had before. You literally had NO money to your name? Whatever. Let's get you out of those hobo-clothes and into something nicer.  There. At least now we won't be embarrassed to be seen in public with you. Now then. Let's just sit right here and be poor together.  Isn't this fun? To do ☐ Travel abroad ☐ Tragic clown to the face ☐ Adopt a magical unicorn ☐ Blame it on Quincey ☐ Time travel ☐ Become an official criminal ☑ Become a licensed everything ☑ Give something to Quincey that may or may not explode ☑ Never let Clayton escape ☐ ☑ Get a post-graduation makeover ☐ Try forming a band ☑ Make the blog to end all blogs ☑ Make a game room in the basement ☐ Stop the freak show ☑ Make friends with the genie ☐ Do some more alchemy ☑ Free that genie Theta Zero fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jun 7, 2015 |
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Jun 7, 2015 13:14
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Only thing to do is have a giant bachelorette party and invite only guys! That's how that works right?
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Jun 7, 2015 14:11
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What do you do with an Everything Degree? Every job. Do every occupation in the game up to the point Samara gets bored, then move to the next.
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Lost Generation posted:The Sims 3 has a bug with V Sync. It doesn't work. High end cards will render the game at such absurdly high framerates that they overheat. Wait this is actually a thing?!
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Quincey has grown insolent in Samara's absence. Remind Quincey why he does not stand up to Samara. Probably by blowing up some more of his cherished possessions. Further, take back your robot slave, or destroy it. You brought it into this world (kinda), you can take it out. Also reconnect with Genghis, let's see how he's been doing.
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EclecticTastes posted:Quincey has grown insolent in Samara's absence. Remind Quincey why he does not stand up to Samara. Probably by blowing up some more of his cherished possessions. Further, take back your robot slave, or destroy it. You brought it into this world (kinda), you can take it out. Also reconnect with Genghis, let's see how he's been doing. This, also I think it's time we began our life of crime Make the town fear The Hotdog.
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Fix Brenda's attitude with a robot-lobotomy. Replace whatever circuit that caused her to rebel with spare parts from a toaster or something.
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Use your many degrees to take over the neighborhood. Starting with making sure Quincey knows his place.
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We hear that Quincy has been looking for love while we've been gone. Use your phone to make him romantically involved with as many people as possible.
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So Brenda and Quincy are dating now, good for them! Also: I say you get serious about hunting down a unicorn to be your friend/slave.
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Start a lucrative side business selling unicorn horn* on the black market... but first find out where the local black market even is. They must have some sweet stuff! *fake of course, let's be humane
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We haven't sated Samara's unquenchable bloodlust in a bit. Find the fanciest thing that doesn't belong to you that you don't want and blow it up. If Samara don't want it don't nobody need it.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Wait this is actually a thing?! When the game was first released it didn't have a v-sync option at all, which was why the fps limiter mod was made. They've since added a vsync option to the game, but for some people, including me, it simply doesn't work, leading to the 3000 fps menu. After reading into it further I've found that the in game option does work for most people, and no one has any idea why for some people it doesn't. I think Theta Zero should definitely check their framerate though, to make sure the game isn't the cause of their last graphics card meltdown. There's a console command to check fps in game. Press CTRL + SHIFT + C to open the console, then type "fps on" without the quotes. It shows the fps in the top right. If the fps is too high, it will cause problems. You don't really need a triple digit fps for the Sims, so if it's well above 60 try and get one of the alternate frame limit methods to work. Or just turn on vsync, if you haven't. With regards to the LP, Samara needs to make a new robot and tell it to teach her old robot a lesson!
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Lost Generation posted:I think Theta Zero should definitely check their framerate though, to make sure the game isn't the cause of their last graphics card meltdown. The game capped itself out at 120 for me, at least on the old card. It's still rather high but my older card managed. I've turned on vsync after people told me that the game doesn't cap out the fps. I use the Steam version of the game, which is how I get some of the screenshots of the HUD and how I usually check peoples' requests. As a side note, using Steam also reveals some of the shortcuts the devs took for some the lighting effects. For instance, during a full moon the entire game world gets a blueish tinge, and through some bizarre programming, it also turns the Steam overlay blue.  My older card was just slowly dying over time, and did incredibly weird things, like whirring loudly as I turned the computer on unless I shook it gently, crashing for exactly three seconds whenever I would first load a media player after turning on the computer, and slowing down entirely if I exited a game that had v-sync turned on until I reset the computer; all of which began happening gradually over time. In other words, it was just a trashy card.
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Lost Generation posted:With regards to the LP, Samara needs to make a new robot and tell it to teach her old robot a lesson! Do it with the bot-building skill this time!
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Install an elevator. It speaks of class when your house is so tall/deep that you can't take the stairs, as long as it's not because of girth of course.Theta Zero posted:I use the Steam version of the game, which is how I get some of the screenshots of the HUD and how I usually check peoples' requests. As a side note, using Steam also reveals some of the shortcuts the devs took for some the lighting effects. For instance, during a full moon the entire game world gets a blueish tinge, and through some bizarre programming, it also turns the Steam overlay blue.
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Get really fat again. You have a dungeon in your house and you're collecting robot slaves. You're basically Jabba the Hutt at this point.
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deadly_pudding posted:Get really fat again. You have a dungeon in your house and you're collecting robot slaves. You're basically Jabba the Hutt at this point.
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