THE SIMS

It is Wednesday and I have been playing the sims way too much. The sims is a delightful little game where you can create simulated people and then build them a house, furnish it, and then get your sims jobs to make money to buy better stuff, or buy things that they can use to get better skills to get job promotions to make more money. It is a pretty big waste of time actually, but still fun none the less.
I started out with just the prefab sims, that is, (Michael Bachelor)(Mortimer, Bela, and Cassandra Goth) and(Betty and Bob Newbie). I ran through the tutorial, which involves moving Bob and Betty about, and soon moved on to Running Michael Bachelors life. I got him a job on the music track, and had him wine and dine Bela until she was in the mood to leave the Goth household and become a Bachelor herself (bachelor is thier last name, or rather, their house name. Michael soon was promoted into better jobs, but hit a ceiling when he needed more than 5 family friends for a new job. This led me to the creation of my first all new Sims, The Singles. Three ladies were dropped into the Singles house, Cokie, Mio, and Roxanne. Cokie was the classy one, she got a job with the psychic friends network and was on her way to tarot card reader in no time. Roxanne, the vamp of the neighborhood, began to work nights as a security guard, and Mio, the immigrant, started out in the mailroom on a business track. The singles house was a close cousin to a house I designed that was supposed to be incorporated into affordable track housing in farmersville, anyhow, the Singles advanced for some time until the next house was created. This was the Youngs-Vanrees household, and it housed three guys, Lucas, Ben, and Nick. They were loosely based on myself, my roommate, and my friend who set up a bed in my dining room for about a month. Jobs were selected based on our current jobs/fields. Lucas started out as a subway musician, Ben, a waiter, and Nick, a tour guide or something, (it was the extremem job field). The three of us, real life us, would gather around the computer and laugh about the similarities and differences our computer counterparts had with one another...also we designed their house to be a close replica of the one that we live in, so it was pretty funny. My roommate was addicted for a good week, he would stay up well into the night, trying to buy things that were more similar to what we had in the house.
For some reason or another, because I was bored with the Singles, and didn't want to screw up my roommates game with the YVR's, I invented the Van Jorgenson family. Sven and Denise were the parents, Ollie, Danielle and Daniel were the children, and uncle Bob was included just for some extra income. Now unfortunately, sims have no skills when they start out, this means that they constantly break stuff, but even worse, they start fires when they use the range. This happened to Sven when he was trying to cook dinner, luckily Denise was a quick thinker and hurried in with an extinguisher to put out the flame, unfortunately she was also a complete Tard and somehow lit herself on fire in the process. At this point I had not yet learned about fire alarms and burgalar alarms, so unfortunately, poor Denise burned to death. Her ashes were in the living room for some time, the family mourned for a few days, this got tiring so I moved her ashes into the yard, where they automatically turned into a gravestone, so that the family wouldn't constantly be reminded of her untimely agonizing death, well, they still wandered out back for a while to mourn, but I think I must have stapped them from mourning too early becasue Denise started haunting her family. She would literally scare the pee out of them, and that was a pain to clean up. I got tired of her haunting the place so I sold her Urn for ten bucks and she stopped coming around.
Sim children are mostly useless, just like real children. They watch TV, they can't cook for themselves, they leave messes all over the house, they can't take a shower without flooding the whole freakin bathroom, they don't bring in any income whatsoever, unless you count the 100 dollars their grandparents send them every once in a while for good grades, and they just get in the way generally. I was tempted to corral them in a fenced in area, or take off the door to their rooms while they were sleeping and let them starve to death. But then I relaized that the children are excellent to use for making friends. I can keep them up well into the night, since they don't have jobs that they have to be in a good mood for, I can send them off to school hungry and miserable, and it really won't affect the rest of the family. I mostly used the Jorgenson children for slave labor, that is, I make them clean up everything to save money on the maid, and for making frinds.
After I had moved the YVR family to better digs, and had both Betty and Bob movie in with the singles, I knocked over the Newbie house and built the Hawk House. Brian and elanor moved in with thier 20 something twin daughters Hallie and Holly along with Brians parents, Brians brother Hobart and his wife Gertha. Note the lack of children. This house was made to bring in the money, everyone, except for gandma and grandpa went to work, Grandma stayed home and did all the cooking, while grandpa stayed home to fix anything that got broke, and to make out with grandma, as well as to make friends with the neighbors. The thing about Grandpa is that he is kind of grumpy. Pretty much anytime grandma, or anyone else for that matter, initates converstaion with him, his reaction is negative, and he prefers to do stuff by himself...but he is quick about fixing stuff. The Hawk's brought in a lot of money quickly and were able to buy nicer things and soon amassed enough wealth to move into the big house on the hill. The jorgensons decided to move out of their house...since a glitch in the game was making the neighbors gather at the corner and pee themselves until they passed on..and moved into the old Hawk house. The roomies (another prefab family) moved into a rectangular shaped house and didn't progress much. and the singles continues to amass their wealth. Somehow Michael Bachelor got Hallie to move in with him and his wife, while the Goth family pretty made pretty much very little progress.