Sim Acres Salute To Zombies 2013

Don't let the 2013 fool you.  This will not likely be a yearly thing.  Just doing my on version of jumping on The Walking Dead bandwagon.  I've never seen the show and really have no interest in watching it.  So yeah.

I now present the Sim Acres Salute To Zombies 2013!!!!

And for good measure The Worst Zombie Movie Ever!!!

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Random Sims Musing 10-6-13 Sim City Update Edition

I just got finished reading this article about the State of Sim City.  Now I don't own this game but I may get it eventually especially once The Sims 3 has finished it's run and I have money to spend on other things.  :)  The size of the maps has been an issue since Day 1 at least when the servers were working at the time and an offline mode.

Again not having had played it except for a beta version on a computer that couldn't handle it and just going on my experience with previous versions I think I may be okay with a smaller city size.  I usually get lost when I tried bigger cities and preferred the smaller ones.  The guy did say that did look into it and it just wouldn't work out.

Reading the comments on articles like this always makes me laugh..  Some of the commenters don't understand what goes into something this huge.  I believe I may have mentioned this in another musing but the creative teams behind this have to make something that runs for the majority of players and yeah things are going to fall on the wayside (or whatever that  phrase is).  It's nothing personal, people!

What I do think is that they took a really good game and made some really bad decisions with it.  Online only was the biggest one.  It really shouldn't been added later and optional.  But it is what it is and they have to live with those choices.  Hopefully they can come up with and offline mode.  Not that it will still satisfy everyone.

Ahh, people are just a bunch of crybabies and whiners.

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Salute to the America's Cup

Looks like America winning the America's Cup is a big thing to some people.  So here's a Sim Acres Salute to the winning team!

Yeah, I only thought of this late last night and had other things to do so this is what you get.

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Random Sims Musings 9-24-13

Just watched the two demos of the new store world Midnight Hollow.  Now while there's nothing much about the whole concept of it that makes me want it, I'm quite impressed with the detail that went into it.

I was never a fan of OFB in The Sims 2.  I found it frustrating because I could never keep up with the businesses, a little too like real work.  Not fun.  Having said that I loved building the little shops and restaurants even if I hated playing them.  I still don't understand the gushy lovey feeling that people have for that expansion or Sims 2 in general.  I never really got to play it since I got into it so late in the game.  And now I don't think I could even go back and try to appreciate it again after playing Sims 3.

So now there are finally some OFB elements in the Sims 3 and people still aren't happy.  They're pissed off because it's not the way they want it to be.  Maybe this just annoys me because I have to deal with the public for work.  And it just seems like people are pissed off for everything lately.

I'm not saying that The Sims 3 is a perfect game, of course it's not.  I haven't had most of the problems that other people had with it.  But when I did, I fixed it.  Though my pizza oven still doesn't work, when it used to and I finally had to remove the deep fryer from the grips of Cornelia Goth because she was dying of hunger while deep frying bacon.  Besides that I still find more stuff to like than to hate.

This is what I want to say to all the complainers...

• Stop taking everything so personal.  EA/Maxis and all the creators of this game are not out to piss you off.  Get over it besides there are always mods to fix your problems with this.
• There's so much that has to go into getting anything from concept to final product.  Everything has to work with just the base game to every expansion.  Older computers to high end gaming machines.
• Things aren't going to be like they were in The Sims 2 because it's not.  If you liked things that way, play with them in that environment.
• The creative teams do listen to what the fans want.  They keep saying it and look at the stuff out there.  There's lots that have come from fan suggestions.  Again just because it's not what YOU want doesn't make it wrong.

I for one can appreciate all the hard work that goes into the creations even if they aren't things I would necessarily want.  I get frustrated with just the little bit of creating I've done with this crappy blog and other projects.  I'm just so tired of the same people whining over and over about the same things.

This guy has something to complain about.

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Random Picture Sunday

Well, now that's no place to play and expect to get any tips.

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Salute to Friday The 13th

Not sure if salute is the right word but today I share some misfortunes of my dear sims.