Category Archives: Fangirlism and Snark

I either fangirl the heck out of it or I snark the heck out of it

Sims 2 Seasons

W000o0o0ho0ho000o0o00000! You know Seasons is the one EP I really wanted. Uni I wanted for the Hang Out interaction for my stories, NL for the cars (although it also seemed the funnest out of the ones my poor XP box could handle) and OFB for no other reason than that I wanted the Magisplay tray for my screenies, which is kind of ironic, since I only bought it recently, long after I retired from Sim storytelling. But Seasons was the one I really wanted.

So despite my super-slow processor, the amazingly great graphics card (compared to the CCLOCIC) means I can actually play it! So I bought a copy second-hand (didn't I say no more of my money is going to be used to pay SHERRIE DANDAN'S wages?). I eagerly opened the box, then thought: Oh wait, this is EA we're talking about. Checked the back of the disc and ZOMGNOWAIZ! "Sony DADC"! Gaaaaah!

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Sims Paysite Free Custom Content

Update: this page hasn't been updated in a long time, since I stopped bothering with paysite drama years ago. The links may become out of date any time. Click at your own risk. Also note I don't run any of these sites. If a link no longer works or has changed, try the Wayback Machine and comment below. Feel free to recommend other anti-paysite links.

Since I seem to be getting quite a lot of hits for this, here's where you can get paysite custom content for free (including peggy, rose, thesimsresource aka TSR, etc):

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Graphics Card!

Who'd have thunk it? My netbook, despite its slowness, does actually have a pretty good graphics card on board. ATI Radeon 6250 apparently. Whatever that means, it's utterly better than the CCLOCIC (crappy crap load of crap Intel chipset). I'm surprised by how smoothly TS2 is playing on here, even with the addition of another expansion pack.

Better still, anti-aliasing also seems to be enabled on here. Have a look (click for big):

Old PC vs new PC:
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New PC:
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Eh, anyway, it looks a LOT better, and plays a lot more smoothly (when I say "play", I haven't actually put any Sims into it yet. I'm only using it for props.)

YaY for the Radeon chipset!

Bridge to the Logic Fail

I've been replaying the Phoenix Wright trilogy recently, but there are just so many things in there that bug me. It seems court-records.net beat me to most of them, but having just finished Bridge to the Turnabout, there is one massive logic fail, I wonder how no one noticed it?

I understand that for the sake of storyline, sometimes you have to have some degree of logic-fail, but this is just monumentally stupid! The following contains spoilers!

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Gyakuten Translator

This is really crazy! As you might know, I am still in the process of translating my Gyakuten Saiban fanbook. I'm still working on it, and there are a few bits (mostly colloquial dialogue that the text books don't think anyone needs to know). So I've been using the Bing Translator to help with these bits, and I was surprised to find...

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Heh heh. Phoenix Wright. I wonder who compiles the databases for this.

New… Kid… Icarus… Game… *gasp*

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Mhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Ggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!! KDOSEIRMCVMSFIEWORASAFJASAS!!!!!!!!!!111111111111

*Rabid fangirl has temporarily lost the ability to speak coherently or indeed at all*


*Rabid fangirl realises she just bought a DSi XL and probably can't afford the 3DS even if she saved up all her wages till then, and therefore regains the ability to whine*

Oh. My. Gosh. That looks like frickin' Wii graphics; just how powerful can a handheld be?!?!

*Temporarily loses the ability to speak again*

Ohmygoshsquee!!!!!!!

It's the same Pit we know and love (and rabidly fangirl!). Squeet baby Pitto!! Awesome job, Project Sora! I give you A+. Tell those wusses at Fail Factor 5 who's boss!!

He still has awful voice, though 🙁 Don't you think he sounds too much like Sonic? Cool for Sonic, but not cool for a cute little boy 🙁

2021 update: I have the game, but I still don't have a 3DS.

Comments from old blog

Holy crap I was excited when this game was released... Until I heard that TERRIBLE voice! I swear, it still haunts me. He sounds like a MAN and he still looks like a KID. D:
— Tracey~ 20/12/10

Paint Packages, Adopted Brothers and MOAR Anime!

I've decided — I am not going to bother finishing Twilight Princess. As I said before, action games are not really to my taste, and anyway — I can haz new game!!! The game I am playing right now is called Faia Emburemu - Radiant Dawn. It's full of yummies!!

But seriously, it combines two of my favourite game genres ie RPG and strategy (my other fave is platformers - Commander Keen and Kid Icarus, yeah!). I'm playing on easy level since I've not played any previous titles, and I'm not doing too badly. I'm playing Ike's mercenaries at the moment (Oscar!! love Geoffrey! love And all the others! love). I've already killed Ike's sister twice.

What I am saying is, it's an awesome game.

The only thing that's spoiling it is something I read on a character profiles site, ie that Micaiah is going to marry Sothe who PS is her adopted brother. That's just... wrong.

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TSR Sinks to an All-Time Low…

The depths Thoma$ will sink to... Buggybooz @ MTS2, who PS is one of my fave CC artists, recently had her stuff ripped off by Shakeshaft, one of T$R's Featured Arti$ts. Obviously, Buggy was very upset and kicked up a fuss.

Then Buggy's MTS2 account got hacked, and her stuff all pulled. Her policy was changed to 'do whatever you like with my content'. Coincidence? I think not. An IP check reveals a match with Thoma$$...

From MTS2's Delphy:

I think it's clear here one of the following things happened:


- Either Thomas himself removed Buggy's stuff, or
- Thomas gave the password to his account to somebody else at TSR and they removed it

In addition to the above, they must have gotten buggy's password from somewhere, which indicates one of two things:

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More TSR <3 EA Fun

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How cosy!

You remember Neptune "Why Not Make All FA Content Subscriber-only" Suzy?

Here is an interesting bit of gossip from Calalily at PMBD:

She was canned by TSR as an FA, and to save face begged Thomass to be allowed to stay on as FA for free. Thomass being the cheap b*****d he is, agreed (all for Silus, all for Silus). So Neptune Suzy's downloads are pay, but she doesn't get a single cent for them - serves her bloody right.
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Ike vs Link vs Pit

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It's strange because I was just thinking about what would happen if Pit, Link and Ike brawled on the Skyworld level, who would be the winner. And I decided it would probably go to Sudden Death and then Pit would take out Link, and Ike would take out Pit. So it would be 1. Ike, 2. Pit, 3.Link.

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Aight, so I put them all under CPU control at level 9 (how is it that CPUs play so badly at level 9 even yet they still kick my butt?) and you'll never guess, but it did actually in fact go to Sudden Death, at 0 all. Pit was playing absolutely hopelessly I must say, only he did get the Final Smash which is what saved him from utterly losing. But the strangest thing was, in sudden death, Pit did actually take Link out straight away, just like I imagined, and he nearly took out Ike but Ike did actually get him in the end.

It is absolutely strange the way it worked out completely exactly the way I imagined it would.

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