Some chicks find gaming geeks rather sexy, ya know.
Like I said, he’s not really a gamer, I’m the resident gaming geek in the office, but this game turns him into, well, into me. Goes completely nuts over it. Weird.
Well then, mainly because I’ve yet to do this, and it seems appropriate 
How YOU doin’?
I had an almost but not quite semi-erotic dream about X-Play’s Adam Sessler last night. Now that was strange.
I think I just threw up a little… in my mouth.
It’s what you get for staying up too late playing Silent Hill 4. I guess.
Adam Sessler… is he from TechTV (which was ZDTV when I watched it last)? If so… :eek: I mean, gaming geeks can be sexy and all, but I do have some limits
If you have Paint Shop Pro hair is actually one of the easiest things to make . If you do the following, you can have custom hair colors in less than 10 minutes:
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use bodyshop to pick the hair you want and export it. I recomend exporting blonde to edit, but you could use a darker color if you wanted. Go to PSP and open the file that contains that hair project. Use browse so you can see all 12 or 20 or whatever number image files.
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Open the first colored hair image file. (you won’t be doing anything to the gray ones unless you’re redoing the elderly hair color) and press shift-L on your keyboard. This brings up the colorize function. Pull on the hue and saturation tabs until you find a color you like. Click on the the icon on the upper right that looks like a floppy disk and give the color a name (like “grandma blue”) and save it- or if you have an older version of PSP write those numbers down. Save the hair file once the color change is made.
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Repeat #2 until you’ve done all the colored files. Use Bodyshop to import it into the game.
This of course works for most other color changes as well, but not eyes since it colors the pupil too if you try to.
Actually, to be honest, I did think of that this morning. I didn’t need to use the paintbrush function, i could just change the shading. But thank you.
I love PSP.
I’m a huge gamer and this game lost what little luster had in about three days. It is easily the most simplistic simulation game. What’s it have, 5 variables per character?
It’s just a matter of monitoring those stupid gauges and trying to fit in working out or painting once in a while. Dullsville. Plus, why miss the pure unmediated thrill of walling yourself in a room with no door and no food or toilet in real life?
While I can understand that the Sims isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, I cannot understand this. Simplistic? It has some rather amazing AI. I’m also not sure what you mean by “5 variables per character.” What variables?
I’m wondering whether he’s referring to 1 or 2. 1 could easily get repetitive after a while, but 2 is, IMHO, much, much more in-depth.
He’s probably talking about the 8 motives (hunger, bladder, energy, etc.), which is just the most visible set of variables in the simulation. (Others, of course, are available money, time, job score, skill levels, relationship scores, who’s related to whom, personality, interests, etc. etc. etc.)
And of course if you play The Sims as a game, it’s going to get boring quickly. It’s really not difficult to get the motive game down pretty quickly so that your sims are behaving efficiently, and then at that point you can get to the top of the career ladder so that money’s not an issue at all anymore.
But that’s where your imagination has to come in. There’s a reson that people were still playing the game 5 years after it came out, and it’s not just because they love watching people go to the bathroom. (At least, I hope not). It’s because it’s completely open-ended.
What I meant was, there are basically 5 needs that have to be filled and you need to keep them in balance to afford yourself time to increase skills. I’m not speaking of the personality characteristics. I just found it to be incredibly tedious and I do like other Sim games.
No…I don’t know. I’ve hardly met any girls who even LIKE videogames, let alone find gamers attractive. At best they treat it as a nuisance that is to be tolerated in their man, like golf or football watching.
Yeah well some girls are silly.
I also use the money cheat, but THIS is more fun:
Everyone starts out with $20,000 (or $10,000?). Start your house, put your family in it. Start another house nearby and put just one person in it. Give her nothing but a phone. When she starts coming over all the time, make friends with her. Eventually, ask her to move in. When she does, you get her $20,000 less whatever money you spent on her house. If you like her, let her stay. If you don’t like her, make her go swimming and take away the ladder. Let her drown. Boom, $20,000 just like that.
The harder way to do it is get someone to marry you. Moving in is a lot easier than marrying. Maybe I’m sadistic, but I like killing Sims that annoy me. And the endless (OK, 3 days long) mourning and crying is annoying in the extreme —usually after a murder, I just sell back the urn immediately and they forget about the poor departed.
All that said, I am bored with Sims and almost never play it anymore – gotta go get Sims 2.
Have you guys see the Strangerhood video intro? It’s linked on The Sims 2 main site. I’ve bookmarked The Strangerhood so I can keep up with the episodes.
You know that 2/3rds of the Sims players are females, right? Lots of us chicks dig video games. OTOH, gamers are only cute when you’re playing against them and they take it way to seriously. That tetters on the brink between adorable and annoying.