Tuesday = Cough Day

[crossover_chick]

My turn to hack up stuff and constantly blow my nose. >.< I'm not entirely sure if taking Mucinex this morning made things better or worse on that front. Erugh. What's said is that my brain's feeling pretty much clear, so I'd say I'm ready for tags -- except I keep picturing the coughing breaking up my flow, especially since I've had some pretty nasty fits. Spirit is willing, flesh is weak. *headdesk* I want to get back to something resembling productive work, damn it! Maybe if I just buckle down tomorrow morning and get at it first thing. . .

Hasn't been all bad today, though. Helloween had another amusing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. set up, and Linkara's second episode on "The Culling" was quite good. It's always nice to see him in prime ranting form. My parents also left me to have dinner by myself (they're feeling better, and it's Mom's first real day off since she GOT sick, so basically they spent every second they could at various beaches), so I went ahead and watched Corpse Bride. Hey, if I'm not answering tags, I might as well canon-review for my most-used set of muses. And it's kind of a tradition for me to watch either CB or Hot Fuzz when I'm sick, so. . . Good to see the movie again -- and I have to say, Victor has some very amusing facial expressions. My regular beta-reviewer (as I have just decided to call her) said in a review to another story that Victor's not really the sarcastic type -- maybe not openly, but he's got some great eyerolls and "oh great" looks. XD Time for more forgotten_vows icons, perhaps. (Maybe that's how I should get myself back into doing tags -- work up into it via icons tonight.)

Other thing of note today: Sims 4 news! Yes, this is a thing -- they have milked Sims 3 for all its worth, it appears, so time to move onto the next edition of their favorite cash cow franchise! And -- I am in fact kind of intrigued. I actually don't mind this new more "cartoony" look for the Sims -- in fact, I'm one of those weirdos who actually PREFERS it. Sims 3 Sims to me always looked too -- Uncanny Valley-ish. This is more fun-looking. And the brief gameplay demo they do in this video is rather interesting. Apparently Sims are getting more emotional and smarter (I'll believe THAT when I see it -- one of the staples of the series is that Sims are morons), but what really got me was Create-A-Sim. You can make Sims as fat or as skinny as you like now, it seems. Which means you can make big-and-beautiful -- or noodle people.

Sims 4, if you can give me a Victor Van Dort Sim that has the ACTUAL CORRECT PHYSIQUE of Victor, you may just win me over.

As it is, though, even if I decide I do want to get this, I'll probably wait until it's been out for a while and gotten the first of any necessary patches. Hell, it would probably be wise to wait until it had an expansion pack or two out, to see if I could grab a bundle deal. It's not slated to come out until 2014, so hopefully by that time I'll a) be employed and b) be ready to get a better computer. We'll see.

For now, I may act on that icon impulse -- and maybe do a little late-night Sims 2ing. Because why the hell not, I've been thinking of the game enough.

Comments

[anonymoose_au]

A www snap...That does look good! The Sims 4 that is. Although 3 does have at least one more expansion pack left. A time travelling one! Only to the future it seem, but seriously, it sounds awesome!

Waiting is probably a good idea because then there's more custom content out there too!

As for your cold, ick! I hope it clears up soon!

[crossover_chick]

Doesn't it? I'm half-hoping they release a demo version of that new CAS to play with, like they apparently did with Sims 3 Pets. Would be interesting to see how it works hands-on. And yes, of course they're going to be getting as much as they can out of their previous entry. :P Although a time-traveling one? Does sound neat, although didn't one of the previous packs come with a time machine? (Then again, I understand that's some sort of rabbit hole -- I hope Sims 4 isn't littered with the damn things. I understand work as a rabbit hole, we've never followed them directly to the job unless they're self-employed, but when I heard RESTAURANTS were rabbit holes in 3, well. . . let's just say I felt even LESS inclination to upgrade, and said inclination was nearly nil anyway.)

Ah yes, the good old modding community! We'll have to see what comes of that too. :)

Me too -- though I'm feeling better this morning! Still somewhat stuffed up, but not as bad as I was yesterday.