New Banner!

Hi everyone. As you can(hopefully)tell, there's a new blog header. I made it in GIMP. I haven't used it for... 6 or 7 months? And before, I always knew what to put in the banner (Like video game character) and stuff, so it wouldn't be so empty. And I wasn't sure how Blogger's proportions would look. But oh well. I'm proud. 

And the font is Birth of a hero. The brushes? They're from... DeviantArt, I think. Well, I downloaded them a year or two ago, so it's amazing how I still managed to make an okay banner in GIMP! 

Ugh. And I'm posting this from Blogger, not Window Live Writer, so the font will look messed up. D: *crosses fingers*

EDIT: It looks fine! :D

SFDFG JDFGDFJDDF

UGH I HATE YOU EA. I PLAY YOUR GAME FOR LIKE THE WHOLE DAY AND NOTHING BIG REALLY HAPPENS AND THEN WHEN IT’S ONE OF THOSE DAYS WITH EVERYONE’S BIRTHDAY YOU DECIDE TO ACT LIKE BE A COMPLETE PIECE OF CRAP AND CRASH ON ME? HOW DARE YOU. Seriously. I play your game for recreation, and instead, I’m freaking pissed off. And then they act like ‘oh nothing went wrong :).’ and crap. Seriously. Screw you, EA. I’m annoyed at how I give you my time and money and in return, you treat me like nothing?

On top of that, my laptop charger is acting annoying, so it broke. Seriously. I saw sparks and smoke and stuff. I didn’t even do anything. o.O Thankfully, it’s not the laptop I play Sims on, but my parents are gonna act like it’s my fault, so they’re gonna be like ‘Yeah, you’ve been online a lot and you’re gonna break this laptop too, so just read or go outside or something’. In 80 degree weather, with mosquitoes? No thank you.

And in other, completely unrelated, and pleasant news…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIDKID!

I hope your day went great and drama free. :)

Blah

So, I plan on starting my summer reading today. I’ll spare you the details of what I have to do[And to be honest, I forgot if I already told you], but I’ll just warn you that it may take up the rest of the summer. I’m only going to read and junk for like 2 hours a day though, so I’ll still have time to relax and everything. I really hope it’s less than it seems to be.

And this post seems too short.  So I’ll just rant about how it takes me on an average of 40 minutes to load the Timberson’s house to play in the Sims 3. It doesn't matter if I have 8 Sims or just 2 or 3, it’ll take a long time to load. It doesn’t help that my game crashes at the most random times,and even if I’m just saving to have a backup, it’ll just quit or crash then. Then it’ll take another 40 minutes to load, and so on. This happens 2 or 3 times a day. And ugh. I get like only a couple hours of Simming done in comparison of how much time I spend online.

New Timberson Chapter

Hi everyone. There’s a new Timberson chapter out so please read it, if you’re interested in legacies, or just have time to kill.

And I downloaded GIMP on my laptop so yay for Sims screenshot editing. :P (Yes, the picture above was made in GIMP).

So, enjoy!

And as a continuation on the Lindsay Lohan post, I lost respect for her with her ‘manicure’. Seriously, Lindsay!?!

Quick update!

Hi everyone. I found an awesome legacy; the Kanes, made by Viva La Simming. The writing is humorous(To me, anyway :P), and it’s a part of Nova’s Legacy Challenge. So have fun reading it.

And I got the mini-update thing EA was offering… and the game is working better! The Sims can bathe again and change their clothes on their home lot. So that’s a start, I guess. :]

Why I still feel bad for Lindsay Lohan

“The 1998 remake of The Parent Trap is kind of depressing to watch now since it's a family movie starring the now late Natasha Richardson (who of course, recently died in a skiing accident). It also of course, stars a young Lindsay Lohan in more innocent, precocious times. Also, the whole plot centers on Dennis Quaid's twins (both played by Lindsay Lohan). In real life, Dennis Quaid's own newborn twins almost died due to an accidental overdose.” Taken from TV Tropes.

If you haven’t heard already, Lindsay Lohan is going to jail for breaking some DUI stuff. I think it’s really out of hand that she’s going to jail as a result of partying for several reasons.

1. Her parents. The only people who will benefit from her experience immediately are her parents. They rank with the Gosselins and Joe Jackson, in terms of parents that just mooching off their children’s fame. They’re going to be horrible to her and just try soaking up every second of ‘fame’ she has.
2. It’s not benefitting her. She’s going to be sharing a prison with rapists, murderers, and other people, not to mention, wasting people’s tax dollars, just because she got caught driving a car under the influence. I understand she broke the law, but can’t she just go to rehab instead, which is made to help people like her? I understand jail isn’t supposed to be helping people, but still, journalists are having a field day telling their viewers how it’s gonna help her.
3. This will delay her comeback, if she will have one. People won’t want to hire ‘the girl from jail’ for her movies, especially with new competition that the media drools over(Megan Fox, Kristen Stewart, etc.). And if people didn’t hire her when she was ‘the eating disorder girl’ or ‘the party girl’ and so on, nobody will even think about hiring her now.
4. A while back, I was reading a ‘celebrity 2010 death prediction list’, as morbid as it sounds, and Lindsay Lohan was on it. I tried finding it to have as a link, but I couldn’t find it… and instead, Google gave me many more lists with her on it. I was repulsed by it, and especially how most of them agreed she’d die in a downward spiral from drugs, drinking, and so on. What if prison pushes her over the edge? I understand she broke a law, and if it was some random 23 year old from New York City or something I’d be all ‘They broke the law. No ifs ands or buts.’ but seriously. They should’ve just make the trial as quick and painless for her as possible.

But yeah, I wish the best for her, and I respect the court’s decision. So remember kids, designated drivers really are your friends!

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I’m baaaack

My brother and I came back from camp… Sunday afternoon. But being the Internet addicts we are, we had like a million stuff to check online (Okay, so I had to catch up on the Sims-blogosphere, watch Friends, visit some websites, and Facebook, but still, that takes up a lot, for me.), and in real life, such as reading newspapers (Okay, so just the advice columns, comics, and whatever else I find interesting), and such.

And Ambitions came in the mail last week (While I was at camp… how convenient. >.<’’) and we decided to test it out and stuff. But we played with our legacy family, the Timbersons, so… hilarity ensued. Beds and showers became unusable, guests who just walk by stay in the house forever, ages got MESSED UP big time, and basically, it made me want to scream. In the Northeast, there’s already a heat wave, and I didn’t really need Ambitions not working so well to make me even more infuriated. But hey, it’s EA, what else should I expect?

And ughhhhh. I feel weird. Like one less week of summer already. And I have a junkload of summer reading to do (I’m not sure if I mentioned this already…but 1 chapter outline for 2 textbooks and reading a book of our choice [from a list'] and being tested on it for the first day of school, reading two short stories and doing another assignment based off that, and reading two books of my choice and being prepared to discuss them.) So I’m planning on starting next week, and I’m scared because last summer it took me 6 weeks to read Great Expectations(Yes, the Great Expectations) and stuff so basically, it’s like school’s starting all over again. Eh.

And I hate how the World Cup is basically almost over already. It started like on the exact weekend of pre-final assignments and stuff, so I couldn't really watch the first few games, up till June 22 or 23 (Yeah, I’m bad at keeping dates D:). Then I had like 4 or 5 days to watch games, and then… I went to camp for a week and apparently all the interesting games happened then. And now it’s almost over. :(

So, um. Good night.