Random Silly Pictures

I might not show it, but I'm a nervous mess right now. In just... 36 hours I'll have the BIG interview at the US Embassy, the final step I must take in order to win a scholarship to study my master's degree in the United States. I'm trying hard to stay calm, but it's at night when I get really nervous.

In just three days I'll start my summer vacations. For one month and a half I'll be "free" to do whatever I want with my time. Notice I put the "free" in quotations because I'll actually be a bit busy setting up my office, but at least I'll have time to go back to the many, many books I have to read (for pleasure, and I'm not counting Eclipse... I must finish "digesting" Bella's idiocy at New Moon before tackling yet another volume depicting her "adventures").

Anyway...

I didn't have work these last two days (the school closed for "official matters"), so I had time to rescue my legacy lot from yet another bug issue. I was lucky, so I didn't have to re-start the neighborhood (Thank goodness!), but I still lost my lovely house. So, I downloaded a new lot and spent last night (I'm dealing with insomnia because of my nerves) decorating it. It came out awesome (to me, at least), but I'm afraid I'll make my graphics card suffer if I play with it as it is, so I packed it (for posterity, or for when I get a better computer... perhaps this summer :P) and took out a lot of decorations. I don't have lag, but the graphics are still a bit blurry, so I took a few pics and edited them with Photoshop to see how they'd come out.

So, could you please tell me if they are good enough for a story update? I really like my lot, but I'm aware that it's huge size (5 x 5) is too much for my graphics card (at least if I want to keep the high settings).

BTW, these pics also feature yet another change in default skintones. I downloaded the new Phasmaxian Skintones (inclusing zombie, vampire and alien defaults, so yeah, I'll now have "minty green" aliens!) and they look great with the Lyran eyes. The best part is that they don't have the odd nipple issue + too girly facial features of the Lyran skins (both are reasons why I ended up ditching them). I have cartoony sims again! :D

( Six pics of my sims modeling their new skins )

Finally, I wanted to post a very funny picture I had in my "random" folder. I've decided I'll wait until I reach Gen 6 before I post my notes and "behind the scenes" pictures, but this one is too good to wait that long.





You might remember that in the last update there was a short "flashback" to the Grunt's "tender years". I was lazy, so instead of creating clones of the Grunts in another neighborhood, I decided to just age them back with the help of the testing cheats (the Insiminator was not updated yet).

Of course, that brought a lot of silly issues, like kid!Ripp and toddler!Buck wearing wedding rings and the Social Worker showing up to take Tank away (thank Goodness I didn't save that mess!). But nothing can compare to the laugh I had when I watched the make-over the General Buzz had when I aged him back into an adult:

( General Buzz Grunt's EXTREME makeover: Just one silly picture! )

I hope I'll have the next update ready this weekend!
- See you next time!