Oh look. The Nightlife EP is being released for TS3, renamed Late Night & flaunting basically all the same content as it's 2005 version. Probably not much different to the ts1 version, though I can't say I've ever played ts1 so I wont speculate.

I'm still excited about getting Ambitions. Which is still on hold at the shop, so I'm still excited. Because I haven't broken my game installing it. Yet. =P

I'd likely be more surprised at the speed of the EP releases if they weren't just conversions.
Although, yay vampires! [evil plans]

But if you like watching the EA video clip releases, you might enjoy this one for LN. Hopefully they're still going to allow our sims to work the bar & the sound desks. Because I'm looking at this & wondering how many more Tom Cruise movies they can work in. Top Gun & Cocktail I've seen so far now.
Which worker[s] is/are obsessed? ^.^

Excuse me while I paste the contents of the txt file saved to my desktop.... Many apologies for any broken code I subject you to, I was up for a job at 3am after 30 mins sleep... & went, slight fever & all.... got home, tried to stay awake long enough to eat & then crashed & burned. With a burnt thumb from the stupid curling tongs because 6 straight haired bridesmaids & a straight haired Bride all wanted curls... but not from rollers. [sigh]
Meanwhile, I now just feel like death warmed up.

So without any further ado, here is the second installment of my pixel_trade VDSL. Which is late & I'm past worrying about deadlines. Installments will go up.... when they manage to go up =P



( Epicure! )

Credits:

Cambia Hardbottle: simmytizzy
Roid Rage: sixamsims

& with appearances by
Emmet Ryan: skittlebox


& I fixed the image codes... I hope. I think they work now....
Fingers crossed not much else is broken....

Close to my train station is a hair & beauty salon that I've been meaning to photograph for the last three years. Today I finally did.

They're called Caliente & Hair on the Highway.

Nina & Dina Caliente have a lot of conspiracy surrounding their names in Pleasantview. Perhaps more than even the residents of Pleasantacres Asylum ever managed to dream up.

Below the cut is what made me stop, back up a few paces & get my camera out on the main highway during peak traffic. I was half waiting to be stopped & questioned under some ridiculous terror law.

( Up to no good again, girls? )

[grins]

I wasn't going to post my VDSL at all. I was planning on just enjoying it quietly.
Ah well. Best laid plans of mice.
& men.
What?
& men.
What have men got to do with it?
Nevermind.




Anyway. I'm playing mine in TS3. I have more than enough challenges running in TS2 & I was looking forward to the extra challenge & strategy involved in a pixel_trade TS3 legacy... considering that the eligibles can't all be townified at the start... you have to keep adding them to the pool as you go. Furthering the strategy is the 2 sims per creator rule; which is easy in TS2 but not so easy in TS3.
Not impossible. But not easy.

( Mmmmmm Cheesy! )

After leaving all the images sitting on my server for over a week, I finally got around to finishing the captioning & actually posting them!

Previously on Foundation & Empire, we saw Laidin move into Mozzie Cove, smuggle stolen goods, live insects & reptiles (Janna the crocodile being one of those) through customs, entrap a foreign national into a marriage of her own convenience, hire a creepy babysitter.


( Earth is Room Enough )

Considering the rather low numbers of TS3 sim creators currently within the pixel_trade community, I thought it might be nice/helpful/unlikeme to upload the 2nd & 3rd generation sims from my Asimov family.

So, SPOILER ALERT!
As if it matters =P

( Counting the Eons )

Posted at the demand request of bloodflesh, bondchick_nett, simsforaranya, brilliantcat, jenji_sims & . Because it took a lot to get the hint.
I started this family to play my shiny new World Adventures & got attached. No story... just stuff they do, which is more than enough apparently o.O

( Pebble in the Sky )

I'm guessing there are a number of you on my f/list that are old enough to remember playing Duke Nukem in it's various forms. Those of you who remember the sheer awesome of moving from the platform game Duke Nukem 2 to the mind blowing Duke Nukem 3D, & remember giving the strippers cash to show & make their tassels dance....

So anyway, bloodflesh just linked me this in msn & I absolutely had to share it here.



I have no idea how old the image is, so it's very likely you've seen it before, but I figured I'd share it anyway. It's new to me XD

Obviously he's run out of bubblegum as the option isn't there to chew it as well as kick arse.
[snerk]

For those of you that have played TS3, you should know the female voice - I think the middle one. Or at least, the laugh from it. The one that sounds like the sim is just speakingAh ha ha ha ha</i> with the strained facial expression to match the forced laughter.

Last night, in a restaurant in Perth's Chinatown, I heard it. Not from someone playing on a laptop - from a real person. I think they were originally Singaporean, but she'd spent some time in Canada & her voice had that warp of clashing accents. But when she laughed, it was that forced sounding sims 3 laugh.

I gave Pete this sudden, wide eyed, roo-in-headlights panicked look & he goes, "What?! What's happened?" & has possibly thought I'd found something in my food that shouldn't be there. Now, he despises the sims. Almost as much as he hates Second Life. That said however, he is also the person that bought me the TS3 Collectors Edition for my birthday last year & the WA expansion for Christmas. It says so much more than those 3 words ever can. So I've given him this pained look & gone, "The woman at the table over there with the hellish laugh? She might just be a voice actor from ts3." He looked at me, looked at her & looked at me again before he laughed. "Are you going to message Rachel?" "She's in Wisconsin at the moment. I don't think her number will work." & I grinned, "I'll blog it when we get home." He poured me another cup of tea & shook his head, grinning.

As it was, we sat down & watched Zoolander when we got home instead. The idea behind the Derelicte show just made me wonder if Mugato's style was based off the late, great Alexander McQueen.

On a side note; the Lion dancers were spectacular.

Happy New Year!!