Some Random Newbury Stuff...
Sep. 24th, 2009 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillonmystringFirst of all, a few weeks back, I got in an uber-organizational mood and decided that I was going to attempt to completely re-organize all of my Sims downloads... and we're talking completely re-organize, as in they were barely organized at all to begin with, just hundreds of files dumped into vague folders like "clothing" and "hair". Not to mention, most of the file names were completely cryptic as to what exactly they were or where they came from. Somehow, though, I managed to figure out what almost everything was (and the stuff that didn't have any clues in the names and I had no idea what the fuck they were in image previews I figured were better off deleted anyway) and now every last piece of custom content is organized into sub-folders with their creator and title so that I will never not know what they are again. It was terribly frustrating at times but I feel good about it now.
But no, that wasn't quite enough for me. Then I decided, "Oh, what the hell?!? I've already done this, might as well do everything else I've been too lazy to attempt now as well!" So over the past few days I've been trying to impose some sort of quality control on my clothing, most of all, because I had (and still do, really) way too much and I've also managed to townify and correctly bin it. Then I moved on to the hair and deleted all of the ages that certain ones didn't work on. After many boring, repetitive hours and a few panic situations (One: after townifying all my teen boy clothes, their skin suddenly turned white with every full outfit; after much painstaking taking out, putting in, restarting Bodyshop ad naseum I narrowed it down to a few random outerwears. Two: Bodyshop randomly crashing on one hair, only in the toddler stage, that it had never had troubles with before - also resolved through much trial and error.) I think the transformation is complete. These are the results, all Sims generated by rolling the die in Bodyshop, with absolutely no altering done by me, and I am very happy with them:
OM NOM NOM!!!
Finally! I can have townies with decent fashion taste! Previously fashion-forward Sims will no longer transition into disgusting outfits on their birthdays! Hopefully, once I actually start seeing the results in game, I'll think it was all worth it. (It's scary how much I care about these things but my tolerance for images that are not pleasing to the eye is very low.)
Onto the actual Newbury part of this post, with all of the deleting of content, a lot of their clothes, hair, and make-up got messed up so I've been having to go into the spare houses to make sure everybody stays looking good - just because I'm not playing them doesn't mean I shouldn't be keeping them well-groomed for potential walkby situations! And here are a couple amusing things I happened in on while doing so...
Ophelia decided to go into aspiration failure... twice. I believe the first time was after Sasha died and the second time must've been after - SPOILER ALERT! - Blake died; damn those "death of a family member" fears! I'm not even sure she ever properly met Blake!
"DURRRRRR..."
Charlotte decided to set the house on fire. Gee, you're supposed to be in your twenties about, wouldn't you say (forgetting that the whole Sim suspended time thing is not at all realistic)?... Shouldn't you know how to use a stove by now, dear?
And Ariel goes to work in this beauty of an outfit - and because I left the spare lot once after he had been picked up by his carpool, he decided to drop by town to play pool in it while I was at the main house. Major LULZ were to be had.
And, this, you lowlifes, is why none of you were chosen to be heir - because you are all very stupid and/or very crazy.
Meanwhile, because Bodyshop is retarded and doesn't let you give a Sim new hair if their old one happens to be deleted, I had to recreate Onyx and Xander in a different neighborhood so that I could fix them up and export them all nice and shiny.
It was very surreal to see two Sims who have long been dead resurrected completely new - especially since I never even got to see adult Xander in game.
Despite the fact that he should be wiped clean of all memories of his past life, Xander still seems to be angry with me for his premature demise. Don't pull that face on me, boy! I already feel guilty enough about offing you as it is.
Onyx: "Wait... it's all coming back to me! I was chosen as heir, the superior child going on to produce even more superior children of my own..."
Xander: "I KNOW, YOU BASTARD! I died, remember? AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!11!!!!"
Stepping out of the Twilight Zone and into the real Newbury world, over at Penny and her fiance, Morgan's apartment, I had forgotten that the last time I was there she had already managed to get knocked up.
So, being the lover of the passing down of genetics that I am, I just had to keep playing them until she gave birth.
It was a baby boy! Red-headed like his dad! And the name Jaime was bestowed upon him.
Then, once he aged into a toddler, I was kind of forced to move them into their own house because there wasn't even a room for him and - guess what? - Penny got preggers again and I just knew it would be twins because I stupidly gave her the "super fertility bonus". So, yeah, they were living in far too small of a space to raise three little hellions in. And when I got them into a house, I kind of went crazy with the decorating, even though I knew I would barely touch them again. I think it was just because I had downloaded a bunch of new furniture (which is something I rarely download) and I wanted to test it out. It felt like a bit of a waste so I took some pictures for good riddance:
Not terribly impressive but it is for me because I'm usually super lazy/untasteful when it comes to decorating. (Speaking of, I built another house for the main clan to move into - I get tired of one after a couple generations and start to notice all its flaws/limitations that I didn't before - and I am going to try to decorate it well and hopefully very differently from their old house... so that shall be coming, but not for at least two updates, because I still have a shit-ton of old pictures to get through.)
Anyway, because I didn't feel like raising three toddlers who weren't in the heir competition and I wanted to see how they would grow up RIGHT NAO, I exported them and snuck a peek at their futures. Here's Jaime:
He's alright but just kind of... blah. He looks a lot like his dad, apart from that signature Newbury lower half of his face.
The twins, though, they turned out freaking adorable and I ended up moving them onto that random lot with Onyx and Xander... not just because I thought they were cute though; apparently bald babies do not transition into a magically awesome head of hair in Bodyshop either. But anyway...
Meet Louisa, who is not usually this angry:
And her brother, Stephen:
They look pretty typically Newbury as well but I don't know... there's just something I lurve about them. If they had been part of the heir race, I would've totally chosen one of them but, alas, they were long after their cousin Blake's death.
Have some more pictures of them though!
Stephen: "Hey, does that guy look somehow familiar to you? I just feel like I've seen him before... GAH, THIS IS GOING TO WRACK MY BRAIN FOREVER!" (Hint: look in the mirror, honey.)
"Oh my gosh, sis, did I just hit you???"
"YES, YOU FUCKER, YOU DID!"
"Hehe... oops! Sorry! No hard feelings, 'kay?"
Alrighty. Anyway, I spent far too much time on this. Bye now.
P.S. I totally forgot this one! Here's Nico, Miranda's second-to-last child, all grown up and non-fat (Is it just me or does the male fat body look more like they're pregnant?!? The female one is kinda cute but the male is just gross.) since we never got to see him again after he was exiled in the college bin.
He still looks kind of permanently stoned. Which is kind of awesome.
But no, that wasn't quite enough for me. Then I decided, "Oh, what the hell?!? I've already done this, might as well do everything else I've been too lazy to attempt now as well!" So over the past few days I've been trying to impose some sort of quality control on my clothing, most of all, because I had (and still do, really) way too much and I've also managed to townify and correctly bin it. Then I moved on to the hair and deleted all of the ages that certain ones didn't work on. After many boring, repetitive hours and a few panic situations (One: after townifying all my teen boy clothes, their skin suddenly turned white with every full outfit; after much painstaking taking out, putting in, restarting Bodyshop ad naseum I narrowed it down to a few random outerwears. Two: Bodyshop randomly crashing on one hair, only in the toddler stage, that it had never had troubles with before - also resolved through much trial and error.) I think the transformation is complete. These are the results, all Sims generated by rolling the die in Bodyshop, with absolutely no altering done by me, and I am very happy with them:
OM NOM NOM!!!
Finally! I can have townies with decent fashion taste! Previously fashion-forward Sims will no longer transition into disgusting outfits on their birthdays! Hopefully, once I actually start seeing the results in game, I'll think it was all worth it. (It's scary how much I care about these things but my tolerance for images that are not pleasing to the eye is very low.)
Onto the actual Newbury part of this post, with all of the deleting of content, a lot of their clothes, hair, and make-up got messed up so I've been having to go into the spare houses to make sure everybody stays looking good - just because I'm not playing them doesn't mean I shouldn't be keeping them well-groomed for potential walkby situations! And here are a couple amusing things I happened in on while doing so...
Ophelia decided to go into aspiration failure... twice. I believe the first time was after Sasha died and the second time must've been after - SPOILER ALERT! - Blake died; damn those "death of a family member" fears! I'm not even sure she ever properly met Blake!
"DURRRRRR..."
Charlotte decided to set the house on fire. Gee, you're supposed to be in your twenties about, wouldn't you say (forgetting that the whole Sim suspended time thing is not at all realistic)?... Shouldn't you know how to use a stove by now, dear?
And Ariel goes to work in this beauty of an outfit - and because I left the spare lot once after he had been picked up by his carpool, he decided to drop by town to play pool in it while I was at the main house. Major LULZ were to be had.
And, this, you lowlifes, is why none of you were chosen to be heir - because you are all very stupid and/or very crazy.
Meanwhile, because Bodyshop is retarded and doesn't let you give a Sim new hair if their old one happens to be deleted, I had to recreate Onyx and Xander in a different neighborhood so that I could fix them up and export them all nice and shiny.
It was very surreal to see two Sims who have long been dead resurrected completely new - especially since I never even got to see adult Xander in game.
Despite the fact that he should be wiped clean of all memories of his past life, Xander still seems to be angry with me for his premature demise. Don't pull that face on me, boy! I already feel guilty enough about offing you as it is.
Onyx: "Wait... it's all coming back to me! I was chosen as heir, the superior child going on to produce even more superior children of my own..."
Xander: "I KNOW, YOU BASTARD! I died, remember? AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!11!!!!"
Stepping out of the Twilight Zone and into the real Newbury world, over at Penny and her fiance, Morgan's apartment, I had forgotten that the last time I was there she had already managed to get knocked up.
So, being the lover of the passing down of genetics that I am, I just had to keep playing them until she gave birth.
It was a baby boy! Red-headed like his dad! And the name Jaime was bestowed upon him.
Then, once he aged into a toddler, I was kind of forced to move them into their own house because there wasn't even a room for him and - guess what? - Penny got preggers again and I just knew it would be twins because I stupidly gave her the "super fertility bonus". So, yeah, they were living in far too small of a space to raise three little hellions in. And when I got them into a house, I kind of went crazy with the decorating, even though I knew I would barely touch them again. I think it was just because I had downloaded a bunch of new furniture (which is something I rarely download) and I wanted to test it out. It felt like a bit of a waste so I took some pictures for good riddance:
Not terribly impressive but it is for me because I'm usually super lazy/untasteful when it comes to decorating. (Speaking of, I built another house for the main clan to move into - I get tired of one after a couple generations and start to notice all its flaws/limitations that I didn't before - and I am going to try to decorate it well and hopefully very differently from their old house... so that shall be coming, but not for at least two updates, because I still have a shit-ton of old pictures to get through.)
Anyway, because I didn't feel like raising three toddlers who weren't in the heir competition and I wanted to see how they would grow up RIGHT NAO, I exported them and snuck a peek at their futures. Here's Jaime:
He's alright but just kind of... blah. He looks a lot like his dad, apart from that signature Newbury lower half of his face.
The twins, though, they turned out freaking adorable and I ended up moving them onto that random lot with Onyx and Xander... not just because I thought they were cute though; apparently bald babies do not transition into a magically awesome head of hair in Bodyshop either. But anyway...
Meet Louisa, who is not usually this angry:
And her brother, Stephen:
They look pretty typically Newbury as well but I don't know... there's just something I lurve about them. If they had been part of the heir race, I would've totally chosen one of them but, alas, they were long after their cousin Blake's death.
Have some more pictures of them though!
Stephen: "Hey, does that guy look somehow familiar to you? I just feel like I've seen him before... GAH, THIS IS GOING TO WRACK MY BRAIN FOREVER!" (Hint: look in the mirror, honey.)
"Oh my gosh, sis, did I just hit you???"
"YES, YOU FUCKER, YOU DID!"
"Hehe... oops! Sorry! No hard feelings, 'kay?"
Alrighty. Anyway, I spent far too much time on this. Bye now.
P.S. I totally forgot this one! Here's Nico, Miranda's second-to-last child, all grown up and non-fat (Is it just me or does the male fat body look more like they're pregnant?!? The female one is kinda cute but the male is just gross.) since we never got to see him again after he was exiled in the college bin.
He still looks kind of permanently stoned. Which is kind of awesome.
