Victorian Shop Counter

Incredibly happy with that one, mainly because of the way I modelled the counter: I mostly used non-destructive modelling, by using array and curve modifiers instead of polygon modelling. It's very satisfying to see how a couple of functions turn a plane into something magical!

I didn't plan ahead enough to make it easy / practical to create more shapes with that particular counter, but now that I know how to do that, I might be able to re-use that method more efficiently next time. In the meantime... item description!

Strangetown 02.08: The Singles

We haven't seen the Singles in a while. There's only two of them left at the moment: Chloe and Erin. Lola is married to Malcolm and permanently pregnant, and Kristen is making beautiful babies with General Buzz Loste. Chloe's son, Elvis, is staying with Daddy Fabulous.

The Singles live an exciting life.

Strangetown 02.07: Lazlo Curious

Lazlo and his wife, Arianna the super-duper-good-witch -with-a-name-long-like-my-monthly-shopping-list moved out of the main Curious home while Arianna was pregnant because of a case of Too Many Rugrats.

Strangetown 02.06b: Curious and Curiouser

This is the first time since Pascal gave birth to Tycha that there's no baby or toddler in the Curious's household. There's at least one big kid, though:

My Sim personality

That would be me if I were a sim, apparently! I don't think I'm that playful, though.

Strangetown 02.06: The Curious... yes they're still around!

It feels like forever since I've last blogged about the Curious, especially as so many things have happened:

• Stezka (Vidcund's daughter) grew into a child; she's still a handful;
• Nervous and Pascal had a son, Ariu, who's now an adorable toddler;
• Lazlo moved out with his wife and daughter because I couldn't cope with the numbers anymore.

Oh, and Vidcund is having an affair with Circe Beaker. But you knew that.

Strangetown 02.05b: More Fabulous!

We're back at the Fabulous, just after Antay and Shaska's birthday. In fact, they haven't even finished the birthday cake yet!

Feeling bloated? Must be all that chocolate.

Strangetown 02.05: The Fabulous (and more)

So you may remember that Chloe Single gave birth to little Elvis, her and Yann's illegitimate son. And that Yann dropped in just to prove that, although is a lousy husband, he's a great dad.

Problem: he already has three kids at home, who need him just as much as Elvis.
Solution:

Strangetown 02.04: General Buzz... lost.

Finally, my very bad pun grand plan comes together!

We're back at the Grunt, and General Buzz is being his usual awesome self with glowing babies:

General Buzz Grunt and Midnight Loste

Strangetown 02.03: Surprise Surprise ties the knot!

Phil Jitmakusol has wanted to marry Surprise Surprise since the day they met, so I gave them an extra mini-rotation just for that. It also allowed me to catch up a bit with the Fabulous, as I want to keep them in sync.

Finally, I was curious to see the results of some new default replacements I had installed.

So that's Darren, in his new default hair, cuddling baby Svanhild. And being adorable, as usual. He's cute like that, but this haircut isn't quite him... I've found something better since.

Strangetown 02.01, take two: more eyebrows

Mary Beaker has turned into a child, and baby Azophi into a green, Loki-brow toddler. With about 400 nice points. His is going to be a tough life. Oh, and Circe was demoted.

So what do we need to spice things up?

*Pop*!

Strangetown 02.01: The Beakers

Last time we saw the Beakers, (and that was a while ago, what with all that College thing!), Loki was being a fantastic father to Mary. Who isn't his daughter, but whatever. He was also all kitted in manternity wear.

La Fiesta Tech 01.04: Graduation, finally!

So, Ocean. I cheated him out of his teenagehood. I didn't have the heart to cheat him out of his young adult years as well - so he got to play catch-up with the others, in his own, bespoke little dorm.

La Fiesta Tech 01.03: Greek house

Marsha is Tank's girlfriend, and I'm a little bit jealous of Tank. Because Marsha's got it all.

La Fiesta Tech 01.02: Buck and Jill join the gang!

It's time to tamper Ophelia's shenanigans by adding two sane students to the mix: Buck Grunt and Jill Smith. Well, not so sure about Jill, sanity-wise. At least her idea of fun is more innocent that Ophelia's.

La Fiesta Tech 01.01: Smiths and Grunts in the same dorm, oh my!

Finally, it's time for college for the oldest Strangetown teens!

I got the teens into Uni gradually - first the oldest (Tank, Johnny, Ophelia and Ripp), then Buck and Jill, and finally Ocean Smith. While this made some kind of sense, story-wise, it turned Uni into the longest I've ever played. Meaning: I certainly won't do that again!!! Uni's long enough as it is.

It also means that some parts of Uni take place roughly at the same time as events unfold in Strangetown. Confusing. (But you should be used to that by now, right?)

It also, also means that we're back to square one, picture-wise. I.e. thumbnail-sized, wall-less, ceiling-less, plumbbob-heavy pics. It won't look pretty! Except for Johnny Smith's buttocks.

Strangetown 01.12: Popular!Buck

One last Grunt post before we meet our teens at Uni. That should have probably been posted before the last Smith's update, as Jill is still a teen here. Ah well.

Tank is here, looking all serious. Ripp is here, looking all silly. And Buck, looking all sweet, is holding his little sister. Must be birthday time!

Strangetown 01.11: Pure love.

This post will be about Ripp Grunt.
Because Ripp needs some TLC. His plumbbob is so red he could apply for a job as a fire-fighter truck.

Screenshot grabbers

So after almost 10 days without my computer, I wanted to play the Singles (OK, I admit, I wanted to see more of my twisted OTP : Yann!Chloe). Unfortunately Raptr, the screenshot grabber, forced an update on me... and the new version is definitely not compatible with Sims 2. In fact, Sims 2 won't even start if Raptr is running.

After much complaining, I installed Bandicam. Seems to work flawlessly, and is actually a lot less intrusive than Raptr (with all its social stuff I don't care about).

Chloe approves

YAY!!!!!!!

Strangetwon 01.10: The Smith family

Last time we saw the Smiths, they adopted a cat and a boy. Johnny went off to Uni, and Jill stopped jumping on the bed long enough to turn into a teenager.

I don't think I've mentioned it... but I've given PT#9 a secondary aspiration. Apparently I chose well. At this point I think he could talk to Jenny about glow-in-the-dark cockroaches, and she'd approve.