It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Well, as bondchick_nett coyly suggested, we had a challenge in the works….. & here it is! Dragancaor's Simsperiments; a challenge of genetic strengths are back!!

As always, the aim of this challenge is to see whose genes hold true & how good/bad/heinous/amazing the children may or may not be.

This month our victims willing participants are pixel_trade founder submissions!! Mwahahaha!

( On to the simsperiments! )

Oh my gods. You guys, if you can handle a movie with a heap of wretchedly gory special effects makeup & some seriously hard core action sequences from the get go, you need to watch Gamer. Like a physical need to watch.

As sim|gods, you understand taking on a person & telling them to do day to day routines.... you probably have some godsdamned awful outfits in there that you may or may not admit to or show anyone but you have because you wish you could wear them but just couldn't bring yourself to for whatever reason. Imagine your sim is a real person you can control within the Zone, courtesy of Nanex technology & a game known as Societies. They are payed to be 'actors' & you pay to play them.

For those of us sim|gods who also play First Person Shooter games, like Battlefield, Modern Warfare & Counter-Strike, you'd probably really like Ken Castle's other nanex release - Slayers. Prisoners on Death Row are given the option to be played in this FPS war game, with the end bonus of if they survive 30 rounds they are pardoned. Good luck to them surviving one. Gore-fest. Seriously, I'm watching it drooling over the amazing makeup job & wishing I could get the chance to work on a movie with that much to do!!

Under the cut are a couple of images & the official trailer. ( Who will you wear today? )

Thank you so much to the people that have offered help in various ways regarding Gilbert!!

javabean_dreams had a great idea - "If I made him have a child with himself via the InSiminator, then made her have a child with herself, the resulting boy kid would probably look exactly like him and not be borked. Would you want me to try that?"

But it turned out that Gilbert Jnr looked absolutely nothing like his grandfather. It's possible that the family genetics he is hardcoded with are coming into play, or it could be the same broken code that prevents his successful export.

So to recap: We now know that not only does he not export, he can't be bred with himself (via insim) to create baby clones. Well he can, but they aren't clones.

Yesterday however, javabean_dreams screenshot the Gilbert in her game (front & profile) for me so that I could try to recreate him in bodyshop. So I kind of worked on him while I was on Skype with my D&D game (I've got some contagious cold thing & it meant we could still play). I've basically gotten him finished.... there are a few places I need to tweak still that I can see, but I thought I'd show you where I'm up to with it (2 images under the cut).

( Sword of the Spirits )

When I reinstalled my game, I put in clean templates for everything except Strangetown. So tonight, when I went to start screen-capturing the images for this chapter, I realised that I don't have Gilbert Jacquet - from Bluewater Village.
[headdesk] Thinking ahead; I do it well.

I've tried to export him before & he's gone strange. Is that the case for everyone? Has anyone successfully exported/cloned/remade him that would possibly share him with me?

If not, I'll just attempt to remake him in bodyshop. In which case, I'll make sure to share him so that anyone who wants his evil little self in their game can have him with or without Bluewater.

I officially finished college on Thursday. My final exams were the three theory sections of my internationals. I get my results in late January, early February.

So I've been working on typing out my scribbled version of ASLDT's chapter 13. I'm ten pages into it so far, with a couple more to go. Then I'll sit down to shoot the scenes, & then I can post it.

But today I was telling someone that I was working on it & they wanted a short summary of the chapter to understand why I was saying it was 'heavy'. Hidden behind the cut is my very short sum up.

Warning: contains story spoilers, though no names are mentioned.

( red, rancid & spoiled )

Hopefully it wont be too long, but there's a lot marked down on our calendar between going away & having friends arrive from interstate over the next 3 weeks so I'm not sure how much time I'm going to have for working on this.

No idea if any of you have seen this, but I just did & thought I would share just incase. A friend linked it into my forum, so it's technically cross-posted.


"There is no conceivable way of getting past this fence....."

College Humour

Woah.... last post was in July. Sorry guys, I guess I've been busier than I expected.

Needless to say, I haven't had the time to play my game... but I've not given up on my ongoing storylines.

The Tohno family is undergoing a slight change as generation 3 hits puberty. Nyuu finds herself in the middle of something big. Very, very big. The sort of big that has proportions fulfilling the epic description. Not being able to play due to endless assignments & photography work is actually quite hellish.

A Strange Little Desert Town has been in a bit of luck. I've managed to break my writers block & have been scribbling out more of chapter 13 while on the train in the mornings. Obviously this is easier on the days that I manage to score a seat, but I'm getting much neater as I practice my standing while writing in an A6 notebook. [grins]
Unfortunately, it is still going to be a very heavy chapter. Consider yourselves warned.

I'd give you a preview picture, but the chapter's words are not as yet complete... which means that the images are still only existing as an in the pipeline thing. Soon though. As soon as I can, without failing my exams from lack of study or late assignments.

If you're interested in my non-sims stuff, which is still pretty staggered but not quite as ignored as this journal has been during this semester, you're welcome to go look at my personal journal; draganin. It's mostly photos & the occasional rant.... plus a few bits & pieces from my college work.

Okay... so going back into full time study kicks your previous time management in the proverbial. Gah. However, I'm having a metric f***ton of fun both studying & getting to do a photo documentary on the class/semester at the same time. Not to mention the networking.... picked up a couple of new models, possibly gotten a job photographing for a modelling agency & also getting to do a shoot for the college next week =)

So why am I writing this in this journal? Because one of the girls in class did special occasion / glamour makeup on my face today & I managed to get the shots all up to date online from class.... & a friend messaged me to tell me that I looked like Carrie Stripe (generation 5).

( While she looks so sad in photographs, I absolutely love her when she smiles )