Sims 2

Thanks to my Christmas gift from shining_phoenix, I have treated myself to Sims 2. I mainly blame blaze_rocket, although sophy has played Sims for years and made it sound fun too. I was up til nearly four in the morning trying to get the hang of it. It came with the "Nightlife" expansion pack free of charge, which means that not only do my Sims have a variety of places to go on dates and Just For Fun outings, but they can even be bitten by vampires. THAT is hilarious. I have no plans to buy any of the other expansion packs, however; this is not one of the hobbies that I'm willing to sink money into, unlike my craft projects or my life-threatening Harry Potter collection. ;)

It's kind of a strange game, in my estimation. Unlike other games that I love, there's nothing to kill and no puzzles to solve. (All of my favorite games have either one or the other of those, occasionally both.) I like it very much, and I can see myself playing it not infrequently, but there's much about it that I fail to understand. Still, I was doing much better by the time I went to bed than I had been at first. It took me ages to figure out how to introduce my neighboring families (yes, Pie, the Madroxes and the Winters, and yes, the kids are into each other). I've only played custom neighborhood so far; the pre-created neighborhoods confuse me. Another problem I'm having was the creation of bedrooms. I can't seem to get a married couple to sleep in the same bed; one or the other of them keeps sleeping on the sofa, and throws a fit if I try to send him/her to bed while their spouse is already sleeping there. EDIT: hezyfaerie just helped me solve that problem -- I have the bed in the corner, I didn't know it needs to be accessible from both sides. And Pie told me how to bring up the box to input a cheat code, but I can't make it work.

Still. Fun. An excellent way to pass laundry day, I should think, or to amuse myself while watching Mom's dogs or something. I don't anticipate getting hooked on it the way Pie warned me a lot of people do, but I can certainly see how it eats hours. And I fully expect to feed it a few more tonight.

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."

Stolen shamelessly from isaviel.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly (No lyric hunting! That is cheating!)

A couple of these technically start with their refrains, but that would be WAY too easy, so I skipped to the first non-refrain lines in those. Unfortunately, #8 could not be helped...

1. "We're both looking for something we've been afraid to find"
2. "It's in the rhythm of the dancer, it's in the standard flag unfurled"
3. "I was sick and tired of everything when I called you last night from Glasgow" ABBA, "Supertrooper," guessed by blaze_rocket
4. "Once I rose above the noise and confusion just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion" Kansas, "Carry On Wayward Son," guessed by clez
5. "I get such a thrill when you look in my eyes"
6. "Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking" All-American Rejects, "Move Along," guessed by hezyfaerie
7. "There you see her, sitting there across the way" The Little Mermaid OS, "Kiss the Girl," guessed by hezyfaerie
8. "One, two, princes kneel before you"
9. "Let me know that I've done wrong, when I've known this all along" All-American Rejects, "Dirty Little Secret," guessed by destinedtofly
10. "And the streets turn me inside out" Goo Goo Dolls, "Stay With You," guessed by clez
11. "I once had a dream where no one had to walk two hundred miles" Wolfstone, "Brave Foot Soldiers," correctly guessed by _revolutionary
12. "You remind me of the babe" David Bowie, "Magic Dance," guessed by blaze_rocket
13. "One day I looked up, and there you were"
14. "I want to have the same last dream again, the one where I wake up and I'm alive"
15. "All the colors of the rainbow, all the voices of the wind"
16. "Out on the borderline, somewhere between heart and mind"
17. "Is it fate, or random chance? How can I decide?"
18. "Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?" Jennifer Saunders, "Holding Out for a Hero," guessed by clez
19. "I'm afraid it's been too long to try to find the reasons why"
20. "When in the springtime of the year, when the trees are crowned with leaves" Loreena McKennitt, "The Mummers' Dance," guessed by hezyfaerie

*waves frantically* Thozy! Over here!

Saw this and thought of you when I reached the last panel.

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