Missing: Tank's scar. Reward offered to anyone who can find it.

[strangetomato]

I'm not sure how I managed to do this, but Tank's scar is missing. I think it might have been deleted in a custom content purge of some sort. I did delete the entire glasses/accessories folder, due to an issue that I was having (and I just had a lot of useless junk in it), so maybe it was in there. When I opened up Worthington's lot, Tank no longer had the scar, and oddly, he was wearing the General's face paint again. I don't have time to worry about what that behavior might mean (besides the fact that Frances ought to stay away from Tank for today), because I need to find that scar. A search on MTS2 found nothing, and I was sure that was where it came from. Now I'm worried that I found it in some remote corner of the internet and I'll never find it again. If you can tell me where this might have come from, I would greatly appreciate it.

(Oh, and there are some bonus funny pics. Just 'cause.)

Any ideas? I know that I had a matching one that was for the chin too, which is also missing. They're very simple looking, as you can see here.




Ripp: Have you checked the garbage? Sometimes Nervous puts random things in the garbage for no reason. He's pretty fucking weird like that.

Me: No, Ripp, I hadn't thought of that. (I wonder why?) But it seems like you're going to check it out for me...




Me: Did you find anything?

Ripp: Yeah... looks like I found something really good.




Me: Ummm... Did you just EAT something from the garbage, Ripp?

Ripp: What?! Yeah. It was still good! What's wrong with that?!

Me: That's just nasty, Ripp.



See? I need help. These sims are just not helping me.

ETA: It has been located! Thanks ndainye!

Comments

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of like that too. :(
I wonder if they'll put in any of the maxis made characters in TS2 into the game, like they did with the Goth family. It would be interesting to see where their lives ended up after the current game. I didn't like how the Sims 2 was like 25 years in the future though. I didn't mind that the time was in the future, but I think they put it a little too far.

It would be hilarious to see some of the Strangetown characters old and crochity wouldn't it?

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

Supposedly Mortimer Goth was based on Will Wright and Cassandra Goth by his RL daughter, so odds are good that at the very least they'll have the story continue with how Maxis envision her marriage with Don Lothario did/did not turn out.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I really didn't know that. I wonder if any other families have a chance of making it to Sims 3 though.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking after the Goths it's an equal tossup between the Newbies/Brokes and the Pleasants. So likely all of Pleasantview. But surely they'll have Strangetown too.. And a dark horse contender might be the Landgraab/Laandgrab family. Maxis has had them mentioned/starring in both SimCity as well as TS1 and at least one of the Sim console games before.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I agree, especially about the Pleasants. Strangetown has a decent chance of carrying over too, since it was also included in some of the console games.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Back to the topic of console games... So recently I was sitting around in my math class extremely bored as always, until we reached the topic of Pascal's Triangle, created by the mathmatician Blaise Pascal. So that got me wondering about the origins of the other Curious brother's names. There's Ervin Laszlo, a scientific philosopher... But when it came to the name Vidcund I was kind of lost. That is, until I found this forum thread in a search via google: http://forums.sims2community.com/showthread.php?t=38797

In there it got into a discussion about how Strangetown is in the PSP game, which I had no idea how it was like until today. Seem's like the Strangetown there is a very dark place, and I have no doubt that this is the story that they will continue onto the Sims 3. :(

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's interesting about the names. I knew most of the others, but not the scientific origins of the Curious brothers names (though I would have assumed as much).

I doubt that they would continue that story in Sim 3, since as you said, it's very dark, and not at all in the spirit of the core sims games (and I hope that they realize that, and that most fans wouldn't want to see that happen). Those consoles games are more like spinoffs, I think, and that PSP game wasn't so much a simulation as an adventure game, so I think that's where the more extreme and "edgy" storyline comes from. It's interesting, though, and I would like to play it out of curiosity.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I heard about Pascal in Math class, I wasn't at all surprised that that was where the name most likely came from.

Yeah I really hope you're right about that. It does sound interesting though.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I really hope I'm right about that too, but I'd really be surprised if I was wrong. Very few Strangetown fans would enjoy the plot where Vidcund betrays Pascal and turns over his alien child (I can't remember to who - the military?), and Buzz Grunt has Jenny and Johnny Smith held captive in a bunker. Yikes. It's a bit much to be the "official story", if they have any heart. (I laughed at Tank's continued abuse of Ripp into adulthood, though. But c'mon... even I think that they'd grow out of that eventually. *snicker*)

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah I know! When I heard that I was like "Wow, he is a loser but I don't think he'd be that much of a loser to put up with Tank's shit for that long!" I would have moved out of Strangetown if my brother still kicked my ass. ...That way I would have been able to conquer more ladies in the other towns to explore. (Pleasant twins, here I come! Lol.)

Speaking of Ripp... I'm taking a break from my Prosperity challenge and am going to post something else sim-related that will surely entertain you. ;)

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really. If Tank was still kicking his ass, he'd buy a bus ticket. I know that there is obviously more than one way he could be interpreted, but I have a hard time translating his 8 nice points into someone who is a willing victim of Tank's abuse (I also find that interpretation of Tank to be pretty asinine, but that's another story). It seems pretty obvious from Ripp's design (long hair, casual clothes, romance aspiration, etc.) that he's intended to be the family rebel, so I'd expect him to just get out of there.

(*snicker* Pleasant times ahead.)

Oooh, if it involves Ripp, I'm there. ;) I'd love to see what you come up with. It's always fun to see what other people do with the Maxis sims.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It would be fun to see them old, but I'm just nervous that they'll give them a story that seems way off to me. I just love how it's not a set story right now, and we all play them differently, and develop the characters in our own way. The chances of me being satisfied with the "offical" story that Sims 3 might present for Strangetown is very slim. Yes, it would be interesting to see what EA/Maxis thinks would happen, but I'll bet it won't be half as interesting as most of the things I've seen players do (and not nearly as strange). I fear it because I don't want to be the sore loser who is left whining, "But they just don't LOVE them the way I do!" If it happens, I'll just have to accept it (and then maybe re-create my own version of how things happened).

If they did include a future Strangetown in Sims 3, I really wonder if they would dare to include things like Nervous Subject and Pascal Curious as a couple, since it seems so implied by the game, and the VAST majority of players seem to pair them off. Do they actually have to balls to include a gay couple that is more than just implied? I wonder about these things...

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

That's one thing I hope doesn't happen either, so you won't be the only sore loser. And I doubt that Pascal and Nervous would become a couple... It's a game that is supposed to appeal to the masses, after all. :(

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I agree. I know it will never happen, but that doesn't mean I can't dream. *imagines a world that is less riddled with heterosexism and smiles* I can, and will, continue to dream.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

As will I! The world would be a lot more happy and peaceful place if everybody would just accept everybody else no matter their sexual preference.

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

One day, I would love it to be a non-issue. And to just see more mention of differences in sexualities in everyday conversation (and in the media). I resent the default assumption that everyone is hetero, and you see it everywhere. Why should we talk like it doesn't even exist?

And yes, I do spend some time "correcting" these errors when I see them. I probably bug the hell out of people, but sometimes I can't even watch commercials without pointing this stuff out.

For the game, I know that they have to consider points of view that are opposed to the idea of homosexuality, since they want to sell to everyone, but it still seems like a weak excuse to me. Acknowledging the existence of gay sims (and thus simulating life) is different from promoting the lifestyle. I know that some people would argue with that, but do they believe that gay people don't really exist, despite the evidence? (Well, I know that one opposing point of view is that it is entirely a choice, so I guess it comes back to that, as wrong as that assumption may be.)

I think they could do it. They've included other things that are considered offensive to some groups. I know it's a fine line, and I should be happy that they included the ability to do it at all, but there's always that dream...

*steps off soapbox*