Lack of grace

Anyone else would have had the decency to have their little joke and then walk away.

I had MY little joke a while back in this very same blog, when I decided to teach Venus a jolly good lesson! This was in response to opening one of my lots and finding it littered with angry Venus statues after a rather too zealous clearout of my downloads folder.

In my total lack of grace towards this more-gracious-than-me sculpture, I haven't walked away from my little joke at all. No, I'm making it worse by parading her in front of everybody. She's being uploaded for everyone to snigger at. Point and laugh at her mid-August or thereabouts.


I STILL maintain that she was asking for it!

Signs of things to come...

That wasn't the original title of this entry, but I just thought of it and it humoured me - so now you all have to suffer yet another bad title.

Anyways, I'm working on these, right now. Yes, a new addition for Urban Renewal butting its way into my Construction run! They'll be out mid-August. Two Hoardings and two poster sizes: all sharing a single set of easy-recolour designs...

Contrite - and a bite!

That - that HOUND in my avatar... He dealt my elbow a nip today. This followed on from a whole succession of his toys being dropped at my feet one after the other. Being the callous owner that I am, I had ignored him and his persistent requests for playtime, so he resorted to teeth warfare. Meet Bullet: sight-hound (otherwise known as 'not very obedient') lurcher - who won't take 'go away' for an answer, apparently.

Bullet was being ignored due to the fact I was repairing various creations already scheduled in my calendar. You see: I forgot to take any notice of discussion about base-game compatibility over at MTS2 (some might say I ignored the advice completely - just as long as they don't say it in MY earshot!). Failing to heed this guidance has meant that some (okay, MOST) of my creations since "Open For Business" was released won't work in the base game (that is, the original Sims without any expansion packs installed).

So, dear readers, if any of you don't own any expansion packs at all and therefore find that some of my creations don't appear, then send me a personal message and I'll see if I can fix the object for you.

I continue to heap many apologies upon you!

Check your calendar (or mine)

If you've been noting down any of my release dates, I thought I'd best warn you that I've tightened up and squeezed out some air-gaps in my release calendar - and so everything has moved forward by a week or two weeks.

That was all. You can go now.

Palm-Reading for Basic Games

Okay, so it's a rubbish title, but I'm sulking because it is THAT time again and I have NO patience to think up clever little titles to make everyone all cheerful!!! Hmph!

Yes, it's time for me to make my all-too-regular apology...

If (a) you downloaded my Palm Tree Column and (b) you only have the BASE game (no expansion packs), you need to download it again.

Palm Tree Support Column
Revision 2
This is because the creator of the aforementioned palm tree column is a total amateur - STILL!

You can therefore heap gratuitous thanks in the direction of Windkeeper who gave me the prod. And I will heap apologies with genuine remorse upon anyone who has downloaded the palm and then ended up hating their game because the palm tree did not appear! Sorry! (heaped - in good measure, upon you).

And if I catch ANYONE pointing and laughing...!

Piped Fences...

If you've seen my release schedule, you've already been shocked into realising what a boring time you'll be in for in August. Everything is for the SAME series! But you can quit that moaning and complaining. I can HEAR you, you know! Being the completely insensitive person that I am, I will nevertheless press on by adding even more to this uber-series. Pipes! This here is a fence (well, two types of fence to be precise - one with pipe pieces that descend to the ground). As you would expect of me, there will be all sorts of bright and cheery colour options... ...like rust and corroded metal, for instance.

Don't believe everything you read!

In response to my last musings (re Cyclonesue Partner and evidence of Not-So-Niceness), there was THIS comment...

Jul 8, 2006 | Posted by: Cyclonesue Partner
Dear Cyclone-Some-Facts-Withheld-Sue, your grim Urban Renewal lot was modernised and redecorated in a very light, airy, trendy style, and, as for the Lizard family, when they moved out of Strangetown Swamp, the new purchasers landscaped the grounds and built a smart split-level home with wonderful views. Very nice. Actually!

I'm sure the aforementioned 'new purchasers' have NO idea over how many hundreds of graves of innocent NPCs they sleep!

I'll leave it to your better judgement, dear ASTUTE AND DISCERNING readers. For that is what you are, isn't it?

Actually!!! (by Cyclone-LastWord-Sue...)

Actually...

(that was repeated for effect)

...that last post, about 'Cyclonesue Partner' - I want to point out to you a transgression. You see: I happen to KNOW (from inside knowledge) that Cyclonesue Partner does indeed have some BAD houses and BAD neighbourhoods.

Oh yes. I've seen them!

Firstly, I know that one of my grim Urban Renewal lots has appeared in Cyclonesue Partner's neighbourhoods. Secondly, there was a very BAD family in one of those 'nice' neighbourhoods: the Lizard family. The Lizard family dispatched with NPCs with the speed you or I might dispatch with donuts.

So, how's THAT for 'nice'?

I'll leave that to your better judgement whilst I sit back with a smug "there!" smile on my face.

Well!

I just saw THIS at TSR today...

http://www.thesimsresource.com/profiles/view.php?mid=1447099 (opens in new window)

Yes, it's true - my partner. But that's not what I wish to draw your discerning attention towards. No, it's the comment about NICE neighbourhoods, NICE houses...

MEANING?!!!!

All I can say is DO note who has the most handsome dog.

A brief update on floors and flora...

Two things...

The spiteful weed at the end of my garden is NOT Shepherd's Purse. I first mentioned this poignant specimen of flora in my blog whinge about hayfever. Therefore, I sincerely apologise to any fans of Shepherd's Purse out there who are currently putting together libel cases against the author of the aforementioned defamatory blog entry (me, that is).

The Create Transparent Floor Tiles tutorial is back up! Thanks to SWW, Kath and Per who wrestled it into submission and forced it to appear NICELY (against its will) on the TSR home page. Show your appreciation by making amazing transparent floor tiles and cluttering TSR with them all. It might have been a little easier for them to fix the tutorial had I not have meddled with it and lost it completely!