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2009-Jun-08, Monday 07:04 am... I learned from Sims 3.
There went 2 days of my life in a flash. I had a few $10 gift cards to Best Buy (from me taking monitors from work there to get recycled, where Best Buy now requires a $10 "deposit" for each monitor), so I cashed them in and got the game. I never did play Sims1 or Sims2, but I saw online that EA got rid of the draconian anti-copying technology that they used in Spore and went back to plain old id number validation instead. (It does, however, require a game disc in drive each time you startup the game.) I figured I should reward their good corporate behavior, so I bought a copy of the Sims 3 game. :)
Big news (for me) is that Sims 3 allows marriage between any two characters. So welcome Terry and George, newlyweds! Each character gets 5 traits. I gave myself Loner, Bookworm, Green Thumb, Genius, and Computer Whiz. I gave my hypothetical husband Good Sense of Humor, Handy, Friendly, Brave, and Good. George ended up looking hispanic, although whenever popup notices appeared with his name "George Tiggun", I kept misreading it as "George Takei" instead. *laugh*
I apologize for the dark photos. Some of it is the way the progams are (mis)behaving, and part of it is because all the romantic stuff tended to happen at night, since we were both away at jobs during the daytime hours. The romance part of the story was sweet, so I'll include the photos for that. Unlike real life, I got me some WooHoo action with my own husband! ;)
( Read the list of life lessons learned... )
Although both of us ended up desiring children together, I could find no way for us to adopt a child. (And WooHooing together never got George pregnant, no matter how often we tried. *laugh*) So I think that Sims 3 same-sex couples will need to start their family life with children already in tow rather than work on their careers first with parenthood later.
There went 2 days of my life in a flash. I had a few $10 gift cards to Best Buy (from me taking monitors from work there to get recycled, where Best Buy now requires a $10 "deposit" for each monitor), so I cashed them in and got the game. I never did play Sims1 or Sims2, but I saw online that EA got rid of the draconian anti-copying technology that they used in Spore and went back to plain old id number validation instead. (It does, however, require a game disc in drive each time you startup the game.) I figured I should reward their good corporate behavior, so I bought a copy of the Sims 3 game. :)
Big news (for me) is that Sims 3 allows marriage between any two characters. So welcome Terry and George, newlyweds! Each character gets 5 traits. I gave myself Loner, Bookworm, Green Thumb, Genius, and Computer Whiz. I gave my hypothetical husband Good Sense of Humor, Handy, Friendly, Brave, and Good. George ended up looking hispanic, although whenever popup notices appeared with his name "George Tiggun", I kept misreading it as "George Takei" instead. *laugh*
I apologize for the dark photos. Some of it is the way the progams are (mis)behaving, and part of it is because all the romantic stuff tended to happen at night, since we were both away at jobs during the daytime hours. The romance part of the story was sweet, so I'll include the photos for that. Unlike real life, I got me some WooHoo action with my own husband! ;)
( Read the list of life lessons learned... )
Although both of us ended up desiring children together, I could find no way for us to adopt a child. (And WooHooing together never got George pregnant, no matter how often we tried. *laugh*) So I think that Sims 3 same-sex couples will need to start their family life with children already in tow rather than work on their careers first with parenthood later.