Still no sign of land. How long is it?

I didn't really do any editing for TD over the weekend like I thought, although I did get some more S&S college played. Some folks are graduated. Some have a bit longer to go. Should be able to do it fairly quickly next time I load up the game.

Skipped Simming yesterday because I felt a little burned out on the concept of college, and because, honestly, I've been dithering about something in the script for TD#5. It's a scene that would be much easier to convey in a real anime, where I could have sound effects and stuff, and I'm worried it's going to come out a bit confusing. I might throw in some description about it to help. Also, I just edited the pics and text for the the first scene and ended up almost completely rewriting the narration in it, hopefully to better effect than what was in the script.

I also tweaked a couple of the standard slides. The title screen didn't look right to me so I redesigned it with the flow from logo to title in mind; the preview page frame got a layer effect to make the frame stand out better; the pre- and post-commercial shots had their colours tweaked. There's going to be a second set of those in the second half but I'm keeping these for now. Also I already put together the commercial, and actually am pretty pleased with it. I think the legacy writer in question will like it, but I'm never sure.

The next two scenes have some heavy graphics editing to do so I'm taking a break, but I am going to try to get some more done today. I don't know if I'll finish, though if not I think I will tomorrow.

An Open Letter to Frank Gibeau

As cited on a gaming blog I sometimes read:

EA Games president and God of Mountebanks Frank Gibeau recently said:

"We assumed that consumers understand piracy is a huge problem - and that if games that take 1-4 years to develop are effectively stolen the day they launch, developers and publishers will simply stop investing in PC games."

glitches and other things

Today is apparently the day for weird friggin' glitches.

Okay, let's try this again...

This week, I hope to get done what I didn't get done last week.

I didn't make zero progress, but right after posting that last post, I started feeling ill. Ran a fever for a couple days, and generally have been foggy (and not sleeping well, either). Today I'm pretty foggy as well... I've been physically awake for about an hour but I feel like I'm still asleep. So I don't know how much (if anything) I'll do today, honestly, but we'll see.

Last week, I did get a set of shots for Twilight Dreams, though just one. I had to throw in a new lot and do some off-screen setup for a couple minor characters, which took a while, and then it took me forever to figure out how to pose a couple things, but at least that part's done, and most of the rest are straight-forward except one or two things. Ultimately it was a good 5 or 6 hours of work for what will be... half a dozen slides in the story? Something like that.

And S&S, college is still colleging, but the eldest kids will graduate on this rotation and then I'm consolidating houses and so it should be fairly quick to get the rest done as well. Then I can get people started on scary babies. (And hopefully in some people's cases, less scary ones.)

Plus there's several updates I want to read and comment on, which I'll get to in the next couple days I hope.

This week...

...I intend on getting Twilight Dreams #5 done. I've got a complete shot list and just took a last look at the script. Then I took a look at 6 through 9 (yeah, I got 9 done), and did about half of 10. I know what goes in the other half, I just need to break it down into shots and dialogue/voiceover. So today or tomorrow I'll work on shooting the shots.

See, I'm still doing a legacy!

Saints & Sinners, Generation A, Chapter 4 is finally up!

When ACR timers go wrong...

Today's lesson: if you queue up someone to do something in a room with a couch, but they haven't gotten there yet, and then the two people who are in the room have their ACR timer go off, there is great potential for lulz.

bleah

I'm not going to bore you with the details of why I've not posted anything, blog or otherwise, except to mention "8 days of migraine symptoms", and now I'm done.

State of the Simming

Okay, I actually have been doing stuff, albeit still slowly.

Dr. Horrible Lives, and So do I

Okay, first, the non-Simmy stuff: they put Dr. Horrible back up as a hulu stream, which I found out about yesterday, so I've now gotten to see the whole thing. I think I'm kinda a little in love with Neil Patrick Harris. Not quite "OMG I want to make babies" with him—though granted I don't want kids anyhow and besides, he's, y'know, gay—but definitely I'd love to see him do more stuff like this. Also, I hunted around for news about whether or not they were doing a soundtrack (they are) because I absolutely need a copy of "Brand New Day" (or whatever they end up calling it) so I can listen to it 138904832 times in a row nao plz. As it is, I rewound the video half a dozen times to listen to it. Also I tried to take some screencaps though they kept ending up blurry, so I guess doing any icons out of it will have to wait til I own an actual copy, which will happen. Cuz, $6 at iTunes? I think I can squeeze $6 into our budget in the near future.