Boy did I fucking miscalculate! When I thought I would have the money for all three items, I didn’t think about my bills. If I went on with my plan, I would’ve been fucked!
Anyway, because of that, I’ve decided to finally get my hands on TS3, but I’ll talk about that later. I got something more important to discuss.
I sent the guy that built my computer, one final email. I asked if he could make a final decision for me that would fix or delay the fixing of my lock up issue indefinitely. My options where;
1. Just replace the C Drive for now, then save up to get a new computer.
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2. Go on with my plan of getting all three when I can afford it, of him thinking that one of the three or maybe all three could be causing it.
I waited for hours for his reply. And finally it came. And his decision was Option 1. To be honest, I feel that my best course of action is also Option 1.
I need to stop beating this old horse (even though it doesn’t feel old) and get a new one. That’s the only… only thing I can think of that I will truly be FREE from this Lock Up Issue.
That’s why this is the last post I make about it. It will be a long time until I come up with the money needed to get a new computer, and I will have to do my best to deal with this issue until then.
Something snapped in my head today. I don’t know what it was. I guess it was the feeling of that my constant griping and whining isn’t fixing this thing. And the only sensible way to ‘fix’ it is just to get a new system.
Yet I question myself why did I suddenly snap when I was all “GAHHH why can’t I fix this thing?!” before. But now I’m not. And I also feel upset in ways that all of the hell I went though to fix it, went to this.
I wish I didn’t have to get a new computer. There is NOTHING wrong with this one, except this issue. Why did it have to come to this? Why was I unable to fix it? I’m sorry. I just get… emotional over things like this.
A computer is like a pet to me, and seeing I have to “put it to sleep” like this just makes me.. wanna cry.
That I’ve done all I could, and it still wasn’t good enough. And now I have to save up to get a new “pet”, that will never feel or be like the old one.
It just shows I have no life, if I get emotional over a computer.
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Alright. Now for TS3, or as it’s normally called; “The Sims 3”. My first impression with it was wow… they’ve really changed this from TS2.
The thing about the area is seamless. Meaning that you can go anywhere you want in the game world. Visit anyone you want, just by clicking, is not a lie. I’m still trying to manipulate this into my favor, but it will take time, especially the fact you cannot create new cities like you can in TS2.
But there’s a few things I’m not happy about that I can handle changes.
One is the CAS (Create-A-Sim) screen. My god I’ve spent over a half an hour JUST getting my sim to look like me in RL, when it took less than 5 minutes to do the same thing in TS2.
Also, I don’t like the new fat/fit bar. I like TS2’s. You gotta be very careful with it or you’ll look like a fucking whale.
The 2nd thing is my sim’s walking animation. When I was doing the tutorial, it wanted me to get my sim to walk over and sit down on a couch I bought for him. When I got him walking, his arms weren’t moving, but his feet where. He just seemed like he was a zombie or something.
The tutorial was bad enough. I thought I was actually playing a Demo or something. I was told that I could plant my sim on an empty lot, and there was none.
Another thing. I’m still trying to get used to the Save/Load feature. You see, when you create a sim, it makes a save of that city. You apparently can have up to 5 saves. That doesn’t mean that every sim you create requires a save.. I hope not anyway. I’m still learning this thing.
Anyway, in TS2, all you did was enter and you would see the map view, then you scroll over to your lot and click to load. With this thing, you gotta click on the save and it will take you to your house. To get into Map View, you gotta scroll out.
I’m still trying to get my sim to move to an empty lot so I can start building. But the features and design of this game have definitely changed since TS2.
In a way it makes you feel like you’re playing Spore, the fact you zoom out to the Map View.