OMGYAYZ

-TD: I take it Open for Business is installed?-
And working great! :D I left in my clothes and custom objects, and they were all cool. I'm gonna get my hacks updated and see if my Time Travel Career and Major are good to go and try and add them in tomorrow.
-D: Did you have fun playing?-
Hell yes. Would you believe that my game actually looks BETTER now?! Everything has shadows, there's more detail on everything, reflections aren't blurry anymore -- it's amazing!
-TD: *grin* That does sound quite amazing, yes.-
I associated a shopping district with each neighborhood -- Strangetown got Bluewater Village, while I created custom empties for both Twin Oaks Park and Hill Valley. I didn't feel like dealing with new Sim families for Twin Oaks Park (the Uni Kids are an exception, I can use them to hold the Greek House, and they're possible marriage bait), and of course Hill Valley's a totally BTTF custom hood. I also ended up playing each neighborhood for a bit:
Strangetown
I went into Bluewater Village to get my feet wet. I picked Florence DellaRosa to be my test Sim for Open For Business -- she's a solitary Knowledge Sim running a flower shop. I had her make some flowers, set stuff for sale, then opened up the business. She did pretty darn well for her first day -- I managed to get her up to rank 2 in business with successful sales. I also saw some familiar faces -- both George McFly and Henry Hardname entered the shop. Henry actually bought some plants from her:

Running the business did give her a rather big needs hit though. Must remember that for future businessSims.
Twin Oaks Park
Naturally I went and played with Emmett Von Braun -- you can read about his day in revison_doc. He's currently working on a Robotery badge. That shouldn't be too hard, really, as he has maxed skills. So far, only one broken robot has been made.
-VD: Well, that's good.-
-VD2: Are you calling them DocBots?-
Yup. He loves his crafting station:

And before you say anything, he had a WANT to go swimming.
-D: *facepalm*-
Hill Valley
Created a new Sim for the neighborhood -- Joe Statler.

Joe will be running Statler Motors with the help of a bit of motherlode. Joe let me see some of the new stuff for guys in the clothing department. Much love for the knight stuff.
-DW: What's this plotbunny about a SimUs and SimGypsy photoshoot?-
Well, I wanted you in that knight costume, and I thought it would be cute if Gypsy dressed up a bit medievally. . . .
-D: *facepalm. Again*-
Hey, I think Gypsy would think it's romantic.
-D: It's cheesy!-
Romantic cheesy!
-VD: I hope this means an increase in productivity, now that you have your Sims back.-
*salutes* I shall do my best sir. Though I got something kinda important done -- I now have basic template Trivia pages for all of my multichapter stories that have to go up.
-OD: Hmm. That is pretty good. *tentacles chatter* But we still want fan art.-
I have an interesting little Girl Genius/Ghostbusters bunny that won't go away.
-DW: Ghostbusters AGAIN?-
Someone made a Zuul joke about Agatha! I can't help it! Better than "Girl Genius Puppet Pals" . . .
. . . Though those I might actually be able to draw.
-D: *facepalm. yet AGAIN* I swear, if you do BTTF Puppet Pals and have me do Naked Time-
-VD2: Let's not even go there.-
-Martys: *frantic nodnods*-
Back to doing some more fan fic and reading through my Prima Guide.

More OfB Exploring

Besides the revison_doc update (Holly's preggers, yayz), I also visited Malcom Landgraab IV and had him visit one of his stores, an electronics shop. Running the community lot was interesting -- Malcolm had an employee with a silver sales badge (this essentially means she's pretty good at sales), so I let her do a lot of the selling as he manned the cashier and tried to eat. Employee got me some nice sales, but also did some bad hard sells, so the business rank kept rising and dropping. I was finally able to get it steady by the time I closed up shop. Couldn't keep his needs from tanking though.
-D: Things should get interesting once you start your own stores.-
I know. There's a reason I'm building up my badges. Well, two reasons -- more and better craftables, and it's a good way to delay until the patch comes out. *muttergrumbles about this "stuck community lot" bug that can freeze a family in its tracks*
-M: . . . You bought it even with that?-
Well, it only seems to apply to cars. Taxis are cool -- I got Malcolm Landgraab there and home without a problem.
-VD: Did you reintroduce your hacks?-
Yup -- I updated the ones that needed to be updated, of course. And according to the creator of the Time Travel Career, it should be cool for the EP. Game hasn't gone splody yet.
HOWEVER -- anonymoose_au, I put in your typewriter, only to discover it completely overwrites the cheap computer (the white Moneywell)! You might want to look into that.
-M2: Huh, that's weird. Did someone's Moneywell turn into the typewriter?-
Nope, still looked like a moneywell, but it had a "coded" screen -- white with "cheap computer" written on it. And when I picked it up to delete it, it claimed it was the typewriter. Weird.
Random "My Sims Are Buying Things" shot -- Lorraine bought some stuff from Malcolm. So did Adelaide, come to think of it.


-VD2: How goes the fan fic?-
Wrote some more on "Liquid Chocolate," changed the dates on "Boy Genius" -- I pushed it up to February, so the bridge incident takes place in March; that should be early enough for early in the year -- wrote a page in "Dusky Past." Also did a bit of fan art.
-OD: *tentacle chitters at him* What? She didn't. *tentacles shows him the sketchpad* O.o She did.-
-VuM: Did what?-
-OD: A BTTF Puppet Pal.-
Heh -- looks kinda creepy at the moment. I think I need to rewatch the original Potter Puppet Pals shorts.
-M: Yeah, you do. That's Psycho Puppet Pal.-
-DW: Planning on doing the Girl Genius ones as well?-
I might, I seem to have inspired some funniness on the Yahoo Group. :D Go me.
-TD: Hopefully future entries will look less creepy.-
Like I said, I'm going to rewatch the flashes!
-D: We'll give credit where credit is due -- looks like Sims has made you a little more productive.-
:) And now one last game of Nanaca Crash before I update revison_doc.