Moving Violations

[vovat]

bethje's new job starts on Monday, so I'm kind of in a tizzy now about moving and all that. We don't even know where we'll be staying tomorrow night, because the landlady is out of town and apparently not returning calls or e-mails. And I can't say how we're going to move the heavy objects, since we don't have much physical strength between us. For transport, should we rent a truck, or what? We haven't even done any packing, and while it's not a huge deal because it's close enough that we can come back for stuff we forgot, we're certainly not going to want to move the heavy things more than once. Since we don't have access to the apartment yet, though, we probably won't be bringing that much up this week anyway. I have to admit that, from my own shallow point of view, I'm bothered that I won't be able to use my computer for at least a few days. Not that I won't have other things to do, just that I don't like being out of the loop. I have my phone for Twitter, Facebook, and e-mail; and might be able to make some posts from a library or other public computer. Come to think of it, ARE there any places other than libraries where you can come off the street and use the Internet? Are cyber-cafés still a thing? And would I be able to use the library computers without a card? I don't know! I know Camden County gives visitor passes, but I couldn't say whether that's also true of Hudson County. Also, I wouldn't be able to use Tumblr or play Sims 3 at a public computer, but I've probably been wasting too much time with those things as of late anyway.

Speaking of Sims 3, there are some weird options in there. I had a family with three kids, and one of the teenage children had the option to tell her mom to break up with her dad. I tried it out to see what would happen, and she actually broke up with him. THAT came out of nowhere! I guess I could have gone back to my last save, but I ended up keeping them apart. Oh, and I also figured out how to access the epic lifespan. Too bad so many Sims died before that, but most of them were ready-made, and game-made Sims are a simoleon a dozen. One thing I can't figure out is why one household that I merged with an already existing one is now apparently unplayable. Is it a bug, or did I do something wrong? My original plan was to move a Sim I had just created into a household that had money, move them into the house I wanted her to live in, then move out the rest of the household. Not sure if I can't do that or what. It does kind of seem like cheating, but if ready-made Sims can move into houses that cost more than the pitiful amount they give you to start out with, why shouldn't my created Sims be able to do the same? The ability to split up and merge households (which also existed in Sims 2, by the way) is certainly a huge improvement over the original Sims, in which you pretty much had to play a family for a long time before being able to even access the more expensive properties. And really, most Sim-made households, even the pricier ones, are very cramped. I haven't yet built a house from the ground up in Sims 3, although I've expanded some of the premade ones.

Finally, I have to ask whether anyone reading this thinks I was crossing a line with this Tumblr post. (Don't worry, there's no nudity.) I figured my sarcasm would be pretty obvious, but I guess not.

Comments

[onesto-hotel.livejournal.com]

I don't think you were crossing any sort of line, really; the people complaining about it were the sort of reactionary PC nutcases that are part of why everybody mocks tumblr users (and livejournal users, for that matter) for being offended by literally everything. If any of the people who had rushed to attack you had taken a second to look at any other comments or posts you had made, they would've realized you were being sarcastic and was mocking Geraldo instead of insulting random Mexicans, but they were too busy being offended to even think about any other explanation. There's a lot of sort of circlejerk chains of people who claim to be "social justice" bloggers on tumblr, but who mostly just seem interested in attacking strangers online...it seems massively counterproductive.

[onesto-hotel.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, just ignore my grammar in that post, but hopefully the message is still understandable. I've been awake for a very long time....

[vovat.livejournal.com]

No, I know what you mean. Thanks.

[jenhime.livejournal.com]

As a whole... on the internet, no-one "gets" sarcasm. :(

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Which is weird, because the Internet is full of nerds, and nerds are stereotypically sarcastic. Strange how that works out.