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Posted in What's Your Favorite Book Series? Posted 5 years ago
The ones I've followed most closely (more than 2 books) are Kendare Blake's "Three Dark Crowns" series and Richelle Mead's "Vampire Academy." The final volume of Three Dark Crowns comes out this September. I'm super excited but also sad! I have all of Vampire Academy but only read the first two books. lol I actually loved them a lot, but when a new volume of a series comes out, I always like to go back to the beginning and read from start to finish, so I remember everything going on. And that series got long fast. I still don't have all the spin-off volumes but it's a series I love so I really want to get back into it.
Posted in The Void Posted 5 years ago
Last year I took my vacation time around Thanksgiving so I could get that holiday out of the way and start cleaning and decorating for Christmas. But I also intended to spend a lot of time doing enjoyable things online, like gaming and chatting with long-distance friends.

Well, our power got knocked out. And while it came back on within 24 hours, our internet line got damaged. We called to let the company know, and they just wanted to go through their troubleshooting checklist, even though we told them we could literally see the problem and it was external. So the rep decided to be a total dick and not only did he run through the checklist very slowly--twice--but when he finally acknowledged the line was the problem, he set our service date out for the farthest possible time. We found out because after 5 days of no internet, we called and they said it would be another 5 and that their end showed that was the date we requested.

After that they handed us over to a supervisor to file a complaint against that employee. We didn't ask to, they just offered. And the super took down a lot of details and wanted that guy's name. Hope he got fired. LOL! When the repairman finally showed up, he gave us his personal cell number and said to just call him directly from now on.

Anyway...we ended up without internet for 9 days. Ruined my plans for my staycation entirely. I was so bent out of shape and disappointed and angry that I did no cleaning or Christmas prep, no writing or anything fun. I pretty much sulked the whole time. I never realized how dependent on the internet I'd become until I had none!
Posted in Sims 4 Posted 5 years ago
The weather was crappy today and I wasn't feeling great, so I literally played this game all day long. I have regrets cause my desk is not comfortable, but on the bright side my sims have a beautifully decorated home and everyone has a significant other now. lol

I've been playing The Sims since the original game came out. Someone told me, "You can set people on fire!" and I was sold.

My all-time favorite sims series is The Sims 2, because the expansions just worked so well. The one where you could become a business owner? They have never been able to make another business pack that runs so smoothly or gives you so many options. I loved seeing customers line up in my store, and having my sim's cash register skills level up. I liked how critics could rate me, and make or break my reputation. Restaurant dates were so fun then, too. You could propose marriage at the dinner table at a fancy restaurant! And apartments were way better than in The Sims 4. Sims 4 gives you specific apartment lots and you can't make your own. You can't even delete some of the traits on those lots. I miss being able to build my own apartment buildings. And the last Sims 2 expansion with the hobbies? SO GOOD. I really miss having my sims being able to build their own muscle cars. It's just a darn shame.

Yet...Sims 4 is a close second. Why? The inclusivity is unbeatable. Not only can you make trans sims without mods, but they even gave us Pride stuff this year: pride clothing, a pride flags, and unisex bathroom doors. THANK YOU! Also, the graphics are really beautiful. Sims 2 had better gardening, but it's still pretty good in 4. I like all the different recipes and cooking styles. I miss how Sims 2 had more TV stations if you got a satellite dish, but now we have video gaming and we can watch full-length sim-movies. lol So many cool festivals. Seasons has so much more to do than ever before.

I still miss things from the original Sims, though. That game had the best music by far. I burned Makin' Magic's "soundtrack" onto CD even. lol I miss how you had to trim hedges, water your plants, and feed your fish and clean their tanks. I miss how your stalker would leave you a black rose on your doorstep. I miss how with every career level gain, the kind of car you drove got nicer. Most of all, I miss how easy it was to murder sims. LOL!! I mean, that's what I signed up for! XD

Sims 3. Sims 3 is my least favorite. I thought the sims were so, so ugly. They looked cartoony and they always had double chins. There were honestly too many color/pattern options; it took real-world hours just to decorate a room or dress your sim (if you're into that kinda thing). It would take them all day to drive to work or whatever location you picked. Now, I did love how you could place any lot of any size just about anywhere, and I hate how limiting S4 is in that. Some of the expansions were incredible. I loved the way they did University. I loved World Adventures a lot, for all the crypt-crawling you get to do. So while this was my least favorite Sims game, I still really enjoyed it and have yet to uninstall it.

I'm making myself want to play more, but it's bedtime! Thanks for reading my late-night sleepy rambles. I will be back for this thread cause I love sims so much!
Posted in What is the last game that you beat? Posted 5 years ago
The Resident Evil 2 remake, Claire's story A. Love the game. They really did it justice and then some. I'm playing through Leon's B now and it really confused me that it started off in a different place and there are zombies where zombies should not be, and Tyrant is after me from the get-go. I HATE THAT GUY! I would enjoy it so much more without him. But, hey, I paid $5 and got my precious submachine with infinite ammo, so that's something.
Posted in This is over! Posted 5 years ago
Pee:
a pedophile is a pedophile whether theyre currently having sex with the minor or not. dating a minor is what you call grooming a child and its classic pedophile behavior. zero grey area there. and its not the teens fault for being in a situation theyre not equipped to consent to, its the adults fault. it is an adults responsibility not to put themselves or a child in that situation. there is no accident or excuse, an adult should not date a minor.

Took the words right out of my mouth. I can't believe the majority of people were defending the 30-year old. That sounds like a community I would want to avoid. Ick.
Well, let me preface this by saying I have been a lifelong avid reader.

I had this one history class in high school where the teacher made us read out loud. We took turns, each person in every row reading one paragraph out loud.

Well, these people I was in class with...they were absolutely illiterate. I mean the entire class. They read like they were in first grade and just picking up their first books. I was seriously shocked and disturbed. And it just isn't possible for me to read as slow as a first grader trying to sound out their ABCs. So I'd just read ahead, silently to myself, or otherwise I just could not follow along. It was so sad and messed up.

One day I got too far ahead and when it was my turn, I had trouble finding the place where the class was reading, so this girl I really did not like leaned over my desk to show me the place and I absolutely exploded on her. LOL! I was always the shyest, quietest kid in class, that nerd who always had a book in hand. But this girl rubbed me the wrong way and I took it as a personal insult that she wanted to "help" me read in class.

So that was embarrassing for me, because I had never shown my temper to anyone at school before, and I was also humiliated to not have "kept up" with everyone else in front of one of my favorite teachers.
Posted in What would you do with $10,000 dollars? Posted 5 years ago
I actually recently came into some money, and $10,000 of it went towards paying off my credit cards. Woohoo!
Posted in How often do you use your library? Posted 5 years ago
I go to the library at least once a month. I travel a lot, so I go and check out audiobooks to take on the road.

In addition to books, newspapers, music, movies, internet access, and video games, our library offers literacy teaching. I've been there before and overheard adults being taught how to read. It's heartening and sad at the same time. They post flyers about events all the time. They do arts and crafts and yoga classes and all kinds of non-book related stuff. I don't know why, other than it's a community service. They did a class once on how to self-publish on Amazon, taught by a successful Amazon self-published author. I'm not publishing my work that way but it was still very interesting.
Posted in For everyone who loves dollar tree Posted 5 years ago
I really don't go there but it's kind of neat. They sell books for only $1 so on rare occasions I'll pick up a few. But I really only go there on holidays to look at the decorations and glassware. But I hardly ever buy anything.

Hopefully orangey will be out of office in just a year and a half. If he's not I might need to move to Canada for my sanity.
I work a regular 8-5 office job. It's stressful and exhausting.
Posted in If you could change ONE thing.... Posted 5 years ago
What kind of workbook? Like a therapy thing or for school? Just wondering.

1. About your body - nothing
2. About your past circumstances - nothing
3. About your future circumstances - maybe a more enjoyable job
4. About someone close to you - nothing

I don't really feel comfortable wishing for big changes in my life. You know how those movies always turn out... lol Wishing for one thing just makes you want another. Change one thing and it's a domino effect. Overall I'm pretty satisfied with my life. My job's no fun but it sure pays well enough.
Posted in Albion Online Posted 5 years ago
Is it Albion from Fable? I've dabbled in each of the Fable games. They aren't bad, but for some reason I can't stick with them.
Posted in You favorite things from E32019? Posted 5 years ago
Cyberpunk 2077 looks really sweet. I preordered immediately. Who doesn't love Keanu Reeves?
Posted in For those of you who Roleplay... Posted 5 years ago
I takes me less than five minutes to write a post, unless it's more than two large paragraphs. I type very fast and stories just feel like they write themselves. When another character speaks to mine, I feel more like I'm taking dictation as mine responds, rather than spending minutes or hours or days deciding what to "write" in reply.

If you're not having fun roleplaying and it takes you so long to think of what to write, maybe it's just not the right story for you and you need either a fresh RP or a new RP partner. For me, it's very jarring when the other person takes all night to respond. It really kills the mood and breaks up the scene so it doesn't flow naturally. Maybe that's just me.