Hold My Beer! part 3
Jul. 27th, 2012 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fuzzysporkI'm just gonna pick up where I left off last time.
When we were last here, baby Clyde was about to grow into a toddler. And despite how she looks, Jane IS pregnant again with the illegitimate offspring of their gardener, Patrick. (Not that they can afford a gardener... they can't! But it was an excuse to get him around. >_> )
When we were last here, baby Clyde was about to grow into a toddler. And despite how she looks, Jane IS pregnant again with the illegitimate offspring of their gardener, Patrick. (Not that they can afford a gardener... they can't! But it was an excuse to get him around. >_> )
Wow. That nose seems to be riding pretty high on his face. It will be fun to see how this develops. :D
Clyde has an older sister...
I was thrilled to see Dixie autonomously playing with this stray dog one day! They've got to have two dogs living with them before the next heir is an adult, so we've got to get busy befriending strays. (because they don't have enough money to adopt one yet!)
Clover the dog has been good about showing up fairly often, so I can use a command on Dixie when she gets home from school to play with her.
May I draw your attention to the airfoil shaped head wandering past the lot in the background...
This town has no lack of this hair style!
There is also no lack of perfectly obnoxious teenagers...
And male Townies with the Pao Mellon face template. e__e
Anyway! The founder of all this grandeur is Bubba Hicks here.
"Good... that porch light is still there. Not sure whatever happened to the other one, but I'm keepin' my eye on this one!"
Jane is busy staying pregnant and trying to keep the fridge stocked with barely edible tomatoes.
They are also still dirt poor!
Holy crap, thank you Dixie! I'm sure "Simerella" will never be the same.
Dixie's cash combined with Bubba's regular paycheck give them more money than I've seen in their account EVER. Now he can pay that scary pile of angry colored bills. Let's see what the damage is...
Whew! Not as bad as I thought! Of course the bills aren't very high when you practically own NOTHING.
A little later we finally get to see what genetics the gardener's baby has!
RED HAIR! He's gonna stand out like a sore thumb. :D But we love him just the same...
He gets treated just as well as the other kids.
Oh, the new baby is named Jethro. And it's a boy. Just one more pregnancy to go.
With the unprecedented amount of cash they have now, I was able to finally get the kids an activity table. I think Clyde drew that one picture then never touched it again. e___e He spent any smart milk he ever got on dancing to the stereo and "following" his parents around.
Dixie never touched it either. She has other ideas about what constitutes "fun".
She's the resident obsessive bed-maker. Despite not having all that many neat points!
She also autonomously fishes in the pond.
And unlike her dad, she actually catches fish! Dixie has been singlehandedly keeping them feed for the past several days.
She's also a Daddy's Girl and drops what she's doing to go greet him when he gets home.
Welp, here we go. Double birthday day!
CRAP JANE! Watch what you're doin'!
Clyde's nose might actually be creeping further up his face.
Let's see how Jethro turned out... I've been desperately curious to see what Jane's extreme face template and the Pao face will come up with...
What the heck, he's adorable! Well I'm not betting it won't wonk out later.
These two faces though! Love these faces. ;D
Gah. It's freakin HARD to get a stray to move in! Just as Dixie got to be good friends with Clover (the dalmatian) the danged dog stopped coming by! Dixie will be a teen soon, and I won't be able to have her adopt Clover then (as I won't be able to give Dixie any commands). So now I've got Bubba working on befriending Chester here. :P
In the meantime Bubba and Jane managed to get the fourth and last pregnancy started. Jane's not the only one with a bun in the oven!
What did you think I meant? I got the kids an Easy-Bake Oven.
This way they can take care of their own hunger when it's desperate and I'm too busy to notice. >_<
Speaking of! I got a Social Worker pop up telling me Jethro is skin and bones. I had JUST told someone to get him a bottle! So upon investigating...
o____O He's stuck. Seems he can't figure out how to get out from around that wee chair leg to get to his bottle.
I tried to tell Bubba to get up, but then he complains someone is in his way! He's stuck, too!
I'll have to use 'move objects' then...
Whew. That was so stupid. >_<
Anyway...
Bubba's been in the Slacker job for ages now, and I've had him checking on the computer every day for Culinary. He really needs to change jobs and get some promotion bonuses into their account! The computer is now broken, so he's having to use the newspaper...
YAY!
Off to work with a considerable pay cut (well, considerable when you consider he was only making $252 a day anyway and now it's $126). But the promotion money will help.
After Bubba's is at work, Dixie finally pops into an uncontrollable teen. Not too bad with the clothes!
I did take her to a mirror to fix the hair, though.
What the heck is Clyde looking at?
Are you kidding me?! A skinny little chair leg can prevent Jethro from getting to his bottle, but that two-by-four of a table leg can't?!
Later Bubba came home fuming and with a "friend" in tow. It's the paper boy! (This also started a trend that is driving me up the wall - Bubba brings the paper boy home EVERY FREAKIN DAY now!)
Well, nevertheless, there's a teen boy in the house and Dixie got randomized as straight. She's also a Pleasure sim with Romance secondary...
I can't give Dixie any commands, BUT...
"Why don't you go say hi to that nice boy your daddy brought home, sweetie!"
I had high hopes.
And they were dashed like that water balloon against Dixie's face!
This is NOT going to happen, I guess.
Well, life moves on...
Clyde and Dixie aren't well enough friends yet for her to agree to play red hands with him when he gets home from school. So I just tell Clyde to look at the "art" and then have him invite Dixie to join. This raises fun nearly as fast as red hands...
"Lady, do you know much I care about 'art'? THIS MUCH."
Six o'clock in the evening and it's time for my lighting mod to make it all dim inside and for Jethro to show us what his kid face has going for it...
He's still cute. And so freakin dapper in his kid suit!
So late that night I noticed that Dixie was already calculating pay-off gnomes she'd need for a future in the Criminal career. Then I realized there was something "odd" about her pen...
It's... a scalpel.
"...then when I finally cut the authority's pawns out of the picture, there will be nothing stopping my Bookie business from monopolizing all illegal betting in a 3 county radius. Checkmate, sheriff. Checkmate."
"Y'all excuse me, but I've got some stuff happenin' here, too, y'know!"
The fourth and final baby is another boy named Bodean. He's got brown hair and probably green eyes.
Dixie then proceeded to hold him ALL NIGHT. I was starting to wonder if she was actually glitched in place, because the hours were going by and dawn was approaching and she wasn't showing the first sign of wanting to move or go to bed or anything.
She did finally make it into bed. At 7:30 AM!
The school bus arrived 30 minutes later and I was surprised she managed to get up and out there. Good thing too, because I don't need any extra sims around that I have to keep an eye on today...
Because it's finally yard sale day!
As you can see, it's a huge array of crap Bubba and Jane dug up out of the ground. I also put the broken computer out there, but then realized the Humble computer can't be tagged "for sale" because it's a special item you can't restock like catalog stuff.
I also discovered that Jane has a silver sales badge and a bronze cashier badge! :O But since bronze is better than none, she got to run the register while Bubba helped the guests...
"Rocks?! Mister, we've got rocks out the wazoo!"
HEY! Rocks paid off! Bubba is still lacking a creativity point for a promotion (can't afford an easel yet!) so this helps a lot. Thanks random stranger who has a thing for rocks and never even bought one anyway! :D
"A crappy desk?! Mister are you in luck!"
Anyway, the sale was a moderate success. I do have a tip for all you Trailer Park Challengees: Put out the expensive stuff first! I sold 43 bones that day and no one bought the treasure chest or any of the other "nice" crap that was available! Then time ran out and I had to shut down. :(
Late that night, after coming home from work, I had Bubba bring Bodean to a cake since I had gotten the "one day to" pop up while the yard sale was still running. I'm really curious to see if Bubba and Jane will always grace us with interbred-looking kids, or if Dixie and Clyde were a fluke....
Eee! He's awesome! :D Also checkout his personality. The neatest and meanest one yet. And check out their bank balance! I've not ever seen quadruple numbers there before! What to buy first! It's like winning lottery money!
And I do believe that's it for now. More coming really soon! I've got enough photos for another update today if I get some time to sort them.
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on 2012-07-27 07:15 pm (UTC)Way to go Dixie with preventing repo man visits and for feeding the family.
All 4 kids seem so awesome. It's gonna make it hard to choose a favorite when heir poll time rolls around. But Bodean has the coolest looking face ever! And a wicked personality to go with it.
Oh wow a bronze register badge...boy does that help!
And haha the bosses cousin was at your yard sale. Best part is he put in a good word so Bubba could get a promotion. That'll be nice to get more bonus money.
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on 2012-07-28 02:30 am (UTC)I love the kids faces. I was hoping they'd get some "uniqueness" and they did.
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on 2012-07-27 07:46 pm (UTC)I'm really impressed that Dixie is feeding the family, keeping an eye on the baby, and resisting temptation in the form of the neighbourhood paperboy. You're probably not looking for these attributes in a Trailer Park heir, but I'm really rooting for Dixie to inherit the torch!
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on 2012-07-28 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-07-27 10:10 pm (UTC)I'm guessing we have to go to Woolies and buy all of their clothes? No using the hacked coat rack to buy them flannel? Because I'm looking at that toddler suit, hope I get overalls!
My stray dogs are never that exciting looking. I adopt stays (mostly cats) all the time. Secret is line up different actions and cancel them quickly. So line up something under play then love then play again etc. Let them start the action and then cancel it immediately.
Dixie as my dad would say "has blood worth bottling" I'll put up another hand for her as heir.
Okay another rule clarification, we can tell toddlers and kids to do anything that raises fun? So you could have told them to play at the table?
My gosh bun in the oven, for a mili of a second I thought we might have a baby fuzz running around. :O
I love Clyde "I don't care about art face" too funny.
I hadn't even thought about stuff not selling, guess because I only had about 12 items to sell. Still looks like you made a tidy sum. :D
Oh also teenage paper boy from work is a fixable glitch. I know i have a hack in for that anyway.
Quick question: What happens when we break a rule due to not having enough money? Some kind of point deduction? *worries about getting shot*
P.S You're on simsecret now and some idiot dropped the term racist. Always someone around to stir the pot.
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on 2012-07-28 02:41 am (UTC)Yes, you can tell toddlers and kids to do anything that raises fun. But I just tend to let them do what they want anyway. They always surprise me with what they will pick to do and it let's me sort of construct their personality from how they behave. I just find it kinda boring when they are all sitting quietly coloring together. lol
Yeah, I know the paperboy is a glitch. :P I've never had it before. I swear I think Riverblossom is the glitchiest of all the 'hoods!
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on 2012-07-28 02:49 am (UTC)I think I edited with my question as you were posting. I was asking about not being able to meet the rules due to running out of money. I adopted a dog and once I had placed a dish with food I didn't have enough for the pet bed until the next day.
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on 2012-07-28 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-07-28 02:51 am (UTC)If you break a rule I will come to your house and give you a pinch. Hah, no, don't sweat it! There will be points, I just have to get them worked out. D: What rule did you break?
Also, yeah, saw that. I don't know how race got into it. This isn't about race. o_O It's just making ends meet when you don't have a lot of money! I got tired of always playing sims who end up rolling in cash. :P
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on 2012-07-28 03:11 am (UTC)That rule of yours of only selling at a yard sale is a really good one. I play a lot of poor sims but I'm used to them making and selling the pot holders and things right then and there.
I think some of the anons try and make some secret be about race every week. *rolls eyes*
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on 2012-07-27 11:00 pm (UTC)Too bad about the dog, but maybe now you've got four digits in that bank account, they can go get a mutt from the pound?
Dixie is far too functional to be heir -- she's the kind of girl who would maybe even end up in a house that doesn't have wheels under it.
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on 2012-07-28 02:46 am (UTC)Haha, agreed about Dixie. ;D
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on 2012-07-28 12:25 am (UTC)I seriously want to try this, but I know it will be a while before I get to The Sims 2 and all of its expansion packs, but I will be putting this on my list of things to get to eventually, provided the computer still runs the game.
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on 2012-07-28 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-07-28 02:12 am (UTC)1. Can sims write novels and earn money. My gen one spouse wants to sell one but I wasn't sure if that was allowed.
2. So the Fruit Bunch bowl didn't run out by the end of my wedding party. Is it okay to hold it in inventory and sell it during the annual yard sale?
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on 2012-07-28 02:18 am (UTC)1. I keep forgetting to put this in the rules, but no, sorry, novels aren't allowed. D: I might add something later about this... maybe there should be a prerequisite. But for now, no novel writing.
2. Just have them keep it around and sip from it until it's empty. It doesn't hold very much, really, so it will run out soon enough!
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on 2012-07-28 07:18 am (UTC)Also the money earned was used to junk up the lawn...not used to buy useful items. So I ended up buying a driveway and 2 junk cars. I figured since it wasn't helping me in any way that it would be okay.
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on 2012-07-28 04:23 am (UTC)Yeah, this is a challenge where the kids' school money is a GOOD thing rather than something that doesn't particularly matter one way or the other.
Jethro = adorable indeed. And ouch on Clyde's nose.
I'm not sure kids can actually get pets to move in. I know teens can, but I'm not sure it's possible for kids at all.
Dixie = pretty cute, I think.
Bubba bringing home the paper boy is an FT hobby friends glitch. There's a fix for it somewhere out there but I forget where. Aha! It's here: http://www.simbology.com/mods/index.php?dir=al%2F You want BringHobbyFriendFromWorkFix.
Ugh, uncontrollable sims and babies. *shudders* Elders are just as bad when they're uncontrollable, FYI.
...Wow at Bodean's face.
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on 2012-07-29 01:19 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've never had a reason to pay attention to -or even CARE- when the kids earned some money at school. Now it's a huge deal. lol
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on 2012-07-28 05:09 am (UTC)I grew up in a trailer park, and I've never been tempted in anyway to create a sim 'hood like the one I grew up in... until now... the possiblities are endless!
And omg I love these kids faces! Just awesomeness. Especially Bodean's, and that personality... XD I'll definitely have to come back to see how the kids turn out :)
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on 2012-07-28 11:40 am (UTC)Most of the funnest and happiest people I know live in trailers because they don't have a lot of money. So the idea of seeing how Sims get along in the same money-less situation kinda sparked the whole idea behind this challenge. I'm actually basing many of the rules on how my own in-laws behave! lol
I'm anxious to see how Bodean's face gets on as he ages. ;D
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on 2012-07-28 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-07-28 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-07-28 06:26 am (UTC)I stopped trying to understand Sims physics years ago...
Bodean for president!...I mean heir :)*snicker* what a face. Dixie just doesn't seem boganey/red-necky enough to be heir.
People didn't wanna buy the chest full of coins and stuff, but they wanted to buy rocks? That's so stupid.
This was a hoot Fuzz!
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on 2012-07-29 01:05 pm (UTC)I hope your computer can haz sims soon! :(
The yard sale customers seem to want to go for the cheapest stuff first! So I guess the key to success is to keep all those bones and rocks in inventory until after the good stuff is gone. lol
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on 2012-07-28 11:29 am (UTC)Clyde reminds me of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. I think it's the nose.
Successful yard sale, 43 bones sold!! What will you buy them with all the money? :)
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on 2012-07-29 01:08 pm (UTC)lol All the yard sale money was gone pretty soon after they got it.
Thanks for the comments, Amy. :)
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on 2012-07-28 06:49 pm (UTC)DAT FACE <3 <3 <3
I wonder what everyone plans to do with the bones and rocks they bought at the garage sale. Either there are a lot of desperate dogs in the neighborhood or someone is planning a peasant uprising. Next time stock pitchforks and torches too!
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on 2012-07-29 01:10 pm (UTC)Lordy, I have no idea what the attraction to the bones and rocks was! I think because they were the cheapest things in the sale. And I had way too many of them out at once. e__e I'll know better next time. The treasure chest goes on sale FIRST, then the rest of the crap!
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on 2012-07-29 05:22 am (UTC)Wow! Clyde looks like he has extreme features as a toddler, but I think he looks fine as a child.
Aww!!! Jethro does look adorable, especially with the suit! And Bodean does look awesome. :D
That was quite shocking to see that Jethro got stuck on a chair, but can't get stuck on a table leg. Thank goodness he turned out okay in the end.
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on 2012-07-29 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2012-07-29 12:45 pm (UTC)Keep up the great work and I can't wait to see more updates!
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on 2012-07-29 01:17 pm (UTC)I think this could translate to TS3 easily enough. With a few tweaks to keep the money making to a minimum. I've not played TS3 in a couple of years, so I have no idea what all the little nuances of money earning are anymore. The whole reason behind creating this challenge is that I realized one day how bored I get when my sims become rich so quickly. Life's too easy for them! So I had to come up with a way to make it more of a struggle. ;D So far it's lots of fun. Still play-testing.
Thanks for the comment! :)
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on 2012-07-29 01:35 pm (UTC)There's no yard sale type feature or seasons in Sims 3, though, so that part is a bit harder to translate. The consignment store with Ambitions is really the only in-game way to sell things like a yard sale, but you can't do things like the broken appliances that way.
My sim married someone who came with a kid already (technically, he had 2, but the oldest aged up right before they got married - good timing!) so I get to test the "don't control the teens" feature on the stepdaughter when she ages up, since the first born of the founder is still a baby. I've never played it that hands off before.
Oh! I forgot to mention, in your story, the whole drama with the gardener was really funny... and Bubba's comment about the porch light was priceless.