Posts Tagged ‘family’
Sims Home Building
My brother recently moved into his new and first home! He’s been busy fixing it up and doing everything the right way, so to celebrate, I created a replica of his home on Sims 2, because I love making homes in Sims.
The hardest part was building the modular stairs because the stairs that come with the game are the straight kind. You have to do some mod work to get around it and it took some research and patience. It’s not perfect, there are floors that can’t be built on, as you can see on the top floor, but….oh well. There are loft areas in the house now! hah.
This took me about…6 hours total. Time flies @_@.
Here are some, and you can see more if you click.
The front
The side
The family and dining room. Or was it living…I get those two messed up. What’s the difference anyway? I gave my brother a nice mahjong table, a bookcase because he likes to read, a piano, a silly violin in the corner (in case, you know, you want to smash something), and I actually like the couch. The dining table is long with a long runner rug because he said he was looking for a rug at Ikea.
The kitchen, viewed from the living room. I’ve always liked pots hanging from the ceiling. The wood is the darkest Sims had without being black. The closets on the left are supposed to be large cabinets but they don’t really have big cabinets in Sims so I improvised. The TV has plants in the back because that’s how he said he wanted to do it @_@. Make more room for a bigger tv.
This is the top floor, the master is on the right. Just a couple design ideas. The umbrella is the focus on my design. And the disco light ball. Also got him a big plasma tv on the wall. The closet has clothing strewn around the floor. The kids rooms have appropriate beds, like the coffin bed at the top left.
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Weekend NorCal Visit. Hella hecka yeah!
Last weekend I went to northern California to visit my dear brother. Well, actually I’m not entirely sure why I went and I skipped some work to go, but my mom convinced me that I had to go. Originally I think it was for some other reason that seemed more important, but then it was just assumed I would go anyway? Anyhow, it was a “Let’s just go” trip.
On the way, I saw a real life starcraft! I suppose this would be…..terran. Must be a new model. StarCraft 3 secretz right here guys.
During the time I was there, I mostly spent time with my little cousin. He is so smart and a good thinker! He was talking to me about pokemon during an early lunch we had (yummy Dim Sum), and he was naming Pokemon that I had never heard of. He said something like “I wish I had Magic Star” and I was like “….what…?” I thought maybe I was out of it, but I’ve been playing the latest Pokemon Pearl for awhile and I’m on my way to victory road…
Later on, I found out why I seemed so out of it. Here is a look at some of his cards:
Insect Arma? Positive Charge Mouse? Thousand year old Tail? Accent Dragon? Hooligan Crab? Shark Beast? Seafish?
And weird stats, and numbers at the bottom. No original artist name… This is a fake! And a very bad one because it doesn’t even try to be real. No wonder my cousin was giving me all these weird names. I told my aunt, wondering if she knew she spent money on fakes, and she said she did. Well, makes sense then.
My cousin did really well on his Chinese school test, so his dad rewarded him with a Tamiya model!! And I ended up making it! ^_^. My cousin helped me though, handed me parts. It was generally a little too hard for him anyway, tons of small screws that he would have gotten lost, and wires that could be easily broken. He put the battery in the case while the wires weren’t connected and handed it to me. I was like “……oookay…let’s take the battery out for now alright??”
I’ve never actually made a model like this with a motor and wires. It’s reeeally fun! This particular model is special because it avoids obstacles like a wall. The head sways side to side and when it hits something, the body automatically turns as the head waves in the opposite direction.