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Second Time Around: Rocket Reef, Part 1 Sam had to talk to Vic immediately post-Cutopia in order to keep the action-figure train rolling. Thus, the periwig. Still, now we have the time to help him out!  Domestic and Tasty, easy enough.  A nice bed to sleep in (tucked away amongst the gearbelts) and a kitchen table with lots of healthy fruit: perfect.   And he gives us our reward! That was easy.  Our reward is two sets of maintenance coveralls.   : Let's start by upgrading the outside of our laboratory. After a quick change into a pair of Vic's coveralls--because Sam's job is pretty much the definition of 'maintenance'--Sam gets to work.  A few more lights and beepy mechanical things. : Yeah, that'll survive an explosion or two. Nice work, Sam! : I think we could trade out these ones in here for some creature comforts, don't you?  Inside the lab, the first thing we do is remove everything to make way for Domestic stuff.  Sam raises most of the floor up on metal platforms so that the puddling rocket fuel won't inconvenience anyone, then makes it a nice homey place.    Having given us a present, Alexa crashes in one of the nearby beds--but what's this? We run outside.   : I have a feeling this visit from Guillermo is going to be EXTRA special! : I have a good feeling, too!   Sam's just laughin' : With pickles! : Hey! Guillermo says he has a very important message from King Roland.Guillermo chitters some more. Buddy gasps.  : Whoa! What do you think it could be?: He didn't say! Even Guillermo doesn't know!: Sam, let's get back to the castle right away! oh, and Guillermo also brought us a new Scroll, greasy from cheese  Eh, whatever the King wants probably isn't all that important. Sam goes back into the lab to connect these pipes together. Surely this will stop the flow of rocket fuel without causing anything untoward to happen.  Then he goes to try on Alexa's clothes. I think that's a miniskirt he's wearing over plaid pants, but hey, I don't judge.  Sure!  It's flange-y!  Sam then takes the new rocket into space.  This produces a veritable shower of the rare Alien Essences for our collection. How's that, Dr. F?  : Yes! That will explode with much more shrapnel! Muahahahaha!That's great, but...   Next time, we talk Science with Dr. F!
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Is getting Dr. F to fix the Toaster Oven even a good idea?
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Mehuyael posted:Is getting Dr. F to fix the Toaster Oven even a good idea? For us? Yes. For Barney .... no.
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Mehuyael posted:Is getting Dr. F to fix the Toaster Oven even a good idea? You need to remember that the alternative is no pizza bagels.
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Regardless of whether Dr. F thinks it's a good idea or not, we need to make him think it is one. ...so, like, six times more flanges or something.
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This game  Picayune posted:
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Second Time Around: Rocket Reef, Part 2 Superconductivity sounds so... not mad science.  of course we're going to implode some test monkeys   Well, yes, imploding test monkeys is destructive. To absolute zero!  Crap! Oh, well, I screwed up, let's destroy the universe and start over.  Destroying the universe makes Dr. F Sad and boots us out of the conversation. Meanwhile, Sam is missing out on campfire times, which makes him Sad too.  Sam tries again, choosing to talk about superconductivity instead. Unsurprisingly, superconductivity bores Dr. F to tears. Let's talk about fenergy to flatter him a bit.  ... INVENT A MATTER COLLAPSER wait that's what my wand is  Being reminded of my wand just makes him angry again. Oh, well. Let's do science!  Reverse the polarity!  Repair that toaster oven, doc!  Dr. F says woo hoo! and we succeed!    In addition to the glasses, Dr. F drops this figure of Battle Suit Roland.  FOR SCIENCE!!!  Might as well turn in this action figure, since we're right here and all.  : That figure was made to commemorate one of the greatest disasters of our time.Oh, do tell. : Dr. F made King Roland a robotic battle suit to help him defend the kingdom. However, it went out of control and he accidently blew up half of Capital Island! It took practically everything Marlon could do to settle down the rampant thing.Man, why didn't I get to play that game? : Weirdest part is, Roland has had a craving for cupcakes ever since... coincidence, or strange direct result of faulty Dr. F science?! No one will ever know!We collect some Simoleons to go with our excellent story, then head across the bridge to the diner.   And by 'work', he means 'paint'.  Everything is now checkers.  : Now THAT'S a bridge I can get behind. Or over, as the case may be.  Sure! Humans like checkered rockets and random metal platforms.  : Okay, Sam. I'm having a thought here. I'm seeing you, my diner's interior, your wand, some Mana. You know the drill.By now? I should drat well hope so.  Sam paints everything in shades of glass brick and tile. Also, blue. : Wow, this looks great! You even managed to paint over the grease stains! whoops spasm  ... that's sad. Of course we can!  Oooor we can reinforce those selfsame stereotypes while Lyndsay invades the fourth wall. Whatever. Let's talk about TOBOR's diner, since he seems to be proud of it.  He's been robotically fixated on sandwiches for a while...  Let's be mean to Alexa!  hmm, hmm, make notes, hmm  We should definitely mock humanity.  Sam pretends to freak out at every little thing while TOBOR giggles mechanically.  Do the robot, TOBOR! : It's true, I AM really good at that. Thanks for getting me back to my roots, Sam!  And with that, we are done with Rocket Reef! Next up: Candypalooza!
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Picayune posted:Sure! Humans like checkered rockets and random metal platforms. They certainly do 
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Dr. F is really the single best part of this game. He's a completely unrepentent mad scientist whose inventions either fail hilariously or work inadvertently. That's a pretty great character concept.
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If this game weren't a children's game I'd say the F stands for Fuckingawesome, because Dr. F is loving awesome and the best.
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The F stands for science.
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"Eat your grief sandwiches" is the high point for me, still.
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Second Time Around: Candypalooza Fun fact: nobody on Candypalooza does anything during the day. In order to take these bonus quests, Sam has to wait around until night falls and the party starts jumping.  Anyway! Apparently the Nature and Tasty stuff just won't do for the afterparty. Now it's all tech, all the time.  Sam rips out all the boring old Nature stuff and powers up Candy's DJ booth to the max.  A furniture grouping to rest on and some satellites to pull in the deep-space sound, and we're pretty much good to go.  Well, okay, Sam put in a platform to highlight our fancy wiring job, too.    No surprise: Zack gives us Tripp pants from his own personal wardrobe. Nice.   This requires paint. Sam paints all the wooden things a slightly different shade of wood, which is completely invisible in the darkness. Good enough!  You keep on with your bad self, Saph.   Sapphire also drops this figure of Chef Gino for our collection!  She gave us party goggles from Zach's own personal wardrobe. Also nice.   Candy is tired of Tasty and Nature, but she wants Cute and Fun. Can do.  I CAN CUTE YOUR poo poo UP  also pirate it   Hmm...  I know this mad scientist, I can hook you up  Sam starts by talking about the event that has just ended, mentioning what worked and what didn't.  He then mentions the crabs, but is sure to remind Candy of the exodus.  yaaaay  Sam busts out his awesomest moves...  ... which happen to be Candy's own moves, Sam being no fool...  Let's go for it. Let's bring up the idea of locale.  Candy is down with it!  BELLYBUMP    That's pretty sweet. Let's roll with it for a while. Candypalooza was a pushover! Next time: the Forest of the Elves! Picayune fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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Man, I can't decide which one I like better: Tobor deciding he doesn't really mind doing the robot, or Candy's celebration dance for the concert ON THE MOON! "But Candy, there's no air in space! Our music won't reach the Earth!" "Then we'll have to rock EVEN HARDER."
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I was working at EB Games as a teenager when these games first came out and I instantly wrote them off, making fun of them any chance I got. I can see now the complete error of my ways. These games are pretty amazing.
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DariusLikewise posted:I was working at EB Games as a teenager when these games first came out and I instantly wrote them off, making fun of them any chance I got. I can see now the complete error of my ways. These games are pretty amazing. I can't blame younger you at all. They sure look like terrible children's shovelware!
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DariusLikewise posted:I was working at EB Games as a teenager when these games first came out and I instantly wrote them off, making fun of them any chance I got. I can see now the complete error of my ways. These games are pretty amazing. I built the video game collection at the library I worked for until last week. I've bought things at GameStop solely because of LPs I've read here, including Picayune's MySims LPs. (I originally passed them over too, thinking they were just crap.)
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Second Time Around: The Forest Of The Elves, Part 1 We set off for the Forest of the Elves. : I know this one! 'Boat'!: Nope.: Huh? How could it not be boat? 'Ocean' and 'sky' don't start with 'B'!: It's 'Buddy', silly!: Oh... I don't think you really understand this game, Lyndsay.He might be right. Anyway! Let's help some people dressed like frogs.  He also might be right.  Hopper really only wants paint. It seems like the forest temple would be better served by wooden columns anyway.   Hands up if you're surprised!  Yup. Anyway, the elves are being unforthcoming about their quests for some reason, so we can go look around--  --oh dear.   We can do this.   Welp. Let's try the input '0111000', or '8'.  Proto-Makoto nods and beeps sadly along, a single pixellated tear appearing on her face.  Guess not! 00100001, which the internet assures me is '!'?  Her reaction is exactly the same, but her mood is now 'jk'. Our choices are 'e' or 't'. Long story short, 'e' makes her malfunction again. The proper response to 'jk' is 't'. Just so you know.  Her current mood defies pretty much all the binary translators I tried. One claims it's 'M,', the other gave me an unreadable splat. Apparently our choices are '!' and 'r'. The correct answer is '!'.  You get the idea. We have to sort randomly through her binary code until we hit on something that works. Finally:  Woo!   WHONK slurp  This is how all robots are reprogrammed, you see. You slam a comically oversized computer chip directly into their face and they suck it in. This makes them happy.     She also drops this T.O.B.O.R. F.I.G.U.R.I.N.E.. Hmmm. Anyway! We can talk to her now!    That's nice.  One can never have too many pairs of goggles. Anyway! Next time we'll see if we can get those snooty elves to talk to us!
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You can't even talk to Leaf? I thought he was different. 
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Is there a costume with goggles hanging on the neck?
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Sam has become a double Digimon protagonist.
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Picayune posted:
...but then again, we wouldn't still be around if he really did suggest it. 
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While putting together the next update, I discovered that I'd forgotten to show you something--namely, that Sapphire also drops this figure of Chef Gino for our collection: I'll go edit this into the proper update. Whoops, my bad!
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I do love the Sim approach to programming. Have a power crunch, robot!
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Second Time Around: The Forest Of The Elves, Part 2 So, funny story. Earlier, when I was trying to figure out why the elves were freaking out about there being no door in their frog-berry patch, I put down a door. Sure enough, there was going to be a house built on this lot later, as you can see by Leaf's request above.  DEATH TO FROGBERRIES Anyway, when I came back to the island to do these requests, I deleted the door so that the island would look the same for this footage. However, Leaf was inside the house at the time.  Gonna have to remove the hot tub, too. Sorry, Leaf. We'll put one inside for you. Since Leaf was inside the house, and could no longer leave it, he was nowhere to be found on the island. Petal also would not give Sam any quests, probably out of grief or solidarity or something.  Rock stars have big houses, right? In other words, Sam literally stranded Leaf in the cold, dark void of non-existence with a mere wave of his wand. And then brought him back. Our power is infinite. Just kind of goofy.  Elves like wood, I seem to recall.  I guess he likes it!   : Oh yeah, and don't forget to keep power going to my guitar. Can't rock out without the juice, you know! Leaf wants the stage painted, but there's not really much here to paint.  There. Stacks of steel cubes. It's metal.  You are the awesomest, Leaf. In fact...   Having sized us up as a fan, Leaf puts on his jaded-rock-star attitude.  We try to discuss his wood usage, but it just grumps him off.  Hot tubs, duh.  Leaf nods, allowing himself to become slightly interested. So, hey, dude, unicorns.  Leaf is receptive to unicorns, if still somewhat reserved. Talking about rocking interests him a little... what if we talk about his concert?  I think we've broken through his reserve!  Seriously, man, great concert!  Encore!!  Leaf rocks out for us again. Aww.   Oooh?  Awesome!! We gotta wear it, just to watch Petal be uncomfortable with Sam's manly chest.  or she could just give us a task, that's okay too  hey bruh  Petal wants Nature and a little Tasty. Not surprising.  This house is so precious that I may barf.   Ooh, hats!  Anyway, let's pop back to Rocket Reef right quick and turn in our new action figures.  Vic gives us Rockets.  : Well, I guess the poor guy does deserve something for being blown up so many times...And we deserve Simoleons, apparently. Next up, the Royal Academy!
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I wish you could wear the frog costume and the rasta hat at the same time.
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You forgot to install the hot tub inside.
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Pyroi posted:You forgot to install the hot tub inside.  Leaf is totally going to tear down that house to build a new hot tub.
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Huh. That's a pretty odd effect, with the door and the optional house there.
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Angela Christine posted:
... awww, poo poo.  Maybe if I hurry back after helping out at the Academy--!
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Ep. 71: She's Got No Class Off we go! Sam put the hoodie back on, the better to connect with today's youth. : I hear they have a wonderful cartography program. Have you ever thought about furthering your education, Buddy?: Oh, sure, but who has the time? That's why I learned to speak pigeon through a correspondence course, pal. It's a valuable job skill!: How do you say 'you're weird' in pigeon?Some collection of chirps and chitters, probably. Anyway! Shortly thereafter, we arrive at the Royal Academy docks.  Fancy! You can always tell a good school by the brickwork, stone lions, and panicking staff.   : What's the matter, ma'am? : My students! They're all late! And the bell! I can't... oooooh!!!: Hey, it's okay! We're here to help! Sam here is a Wandolier.  The headmistress dusts herself off, putting herself back to rights.  : For some reason the school bell never rang this morning, so none of the students showed up for class.: No problem, Ms. Marshall, we can round up your students. : ... I want to make a good impression!: Well, sure, I--  Sam goes over and calms down the now-entirely-flustered Rosalyn. : Sorry... guess I get a little excited.: Maybe you should try thinking less.: Thanks. We have four students here at the Academy. Could you please find them and tell them to come to class? Leaving Lyndsay and Buddy to keep Rosalyn grounded, Sam heads around behind the school. Anybody here?  ... Oh. Good. It's Chaz McFreely.   : Oh, Roz wants me to come to school? Guess sabotaging the bell didn't work. Huh. Oh well.Chaz heads out.  Two more students behind the dorm building...   : Guess I'll have to show her after class, though. Thanks!Travis leaves.  ... uh oh  : Ooh, was that out loud?! Um, I-I better get to class!Off she goes. Sam follows her back out into the main area.  The final student is over here in... I'm going to call it the 'gym'.  Summer takes off. Now that we're all together, we head into the main school building.   Rosalyn runs forward.  We all hurry in to survey the wreckage.   ... that's nice, Summer : Travis, what do you think happened?: Well, I'm no detective...   : Although, as it turns out, you're right. This IS my fault.: You're so smart, Travis.: Chaz! What happened?!: I'm so sorry, Ms. Marshall, please allow me to explain.   : Of course I needed room to show off all of my RAD, so I shoved all the desks and stuff out of the way. And the school's decorations didn't really fit the ChazStyle, so I put them all in a big pile on the pier by the ocean.: And what happened? : Oh no! Oh no, oh no, oh no!!! : Chaz, don't get Ms. Marshall all worked up. You know it's bad for her blood pressure!  : Hey, quit calling Travis a chump!: Thanks, Lib.: Kids!  Sam has to calm Rosalyn down again. : Thank you.Rosalyn brightens up. : I keep forgetting we have a royal Wandolier with us. Do you think you could help us rebuild the school?Sam nods. : Thank goodness. Try to give it an atmosphere conducive to learning. We'll need four desks and a chalkboard. Oh! And I'll need you to build me a podium, too. Right! First, we straighten things up. Then we can redecorate. --- Next time on MySims Kingdom: Sam has truly found the place where he belongs! Maybe.
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Hey, Sam's rad hairdo can also connect with the students since he looks like their mascot! ... Sam's going to need to dress as the school mascot at some point, won't he.
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Summer's doofy grin has immediately endeared me to her.
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Wait a second, something is fishy here. Travis had an entire conversation without mentioning his phone even once. Is Chaz secretly some kind of phone?
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I was going to mention that it's odd for an Academy to only have four students, but given how rambuctious they are, I'm surprised that Rosalyn manages to handle that many.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I was going to mention that it's odd for an Academy to only have four students, but given how rambuctious they are, I'm surprised that Rosalyn manages to handle that many. 5 people is quite the population on The Islands. But more importantly, where do the students come from? Where are their parents? Where is everybody's parents (except for Prince Daniel and Princess Butter's)? Is there a hidden Retirement Island somewhere?
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Mehuyael posted:Where is everybody's parents (except for Prince Daniel and Princess Butter's)? Is there a hidden Retirement Island somewhere? You have the same chance as everyone else. Carousel.
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So is it time for Bacon desks? ... You know, thinking about it, Sam does use a lot of bacon paint to decorate. Revenge?
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So when in doubt, blame Chaz? I think it's worked so far.
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Glazius posted:So when in doubt, blame Chaz? I think it's worked so far. It's what I always do, yes. Fun fact: Chaz McFreely is reputedly heavily based on Chandra Nair, who was at the time the editor of Official Nintendo Magazine!
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