Strangetown Extras: Jaxy Rai's sexy pinup calendar + the man without a chin

[strangetomato]

This is mostly for madame_ugly, who demanded a closeup of Jaxy's calendar (boy, are you ever demanding *snicker*).

Those short shorts are pretty hot. I like that the chick seems to be tinkering with that that old piece of junk (or at least pretending to), instead of just posing on the hood of a car.

Jaxy is autonomously viewing the calendar in this shot, which she does frequently. Each time, she claps her hands in approval. I find it so weird when sims do things like that to stay in character.

The calendar is part of the Days of the Week - Calendar Pack by Fantasyrogue on MTS2. Other themes include cute toddlers, sim pets, cars, and nature. The text is in simlish too, which is a bonus. My only complaint is that the colours are a little bright. The white of this calendar is nearly blinding, and it sticks out from its surroundings a little.

 I also mentioned making a Gunnar icon. I took a photo to showcase his handsome profile. What do you think?




Nice. He really does have NO CHIN.

I should feel bad for picking on poor Gunnar, but I don't, really.

Gunnar did move out, because he graduated, making him the first LFT student to move out of that campus where time stands still, or close to it. I know you want to know what you transitioned into, so here it is...




*cue laugher*

Oh, Kitchen and Bath, how you have enriched my game.

He's the one who is painting all the Grilled Cheese paintings, by the way. I gave him that as a secondary aspiration, in an attempt to make him more appealing to play, and the paintings were a novelty, so it sort of worked.

I was hoping to post part 3 tonight, but I'm not quite happy with all of the pics, and I'm dead tired. I'll catch up on my comments and post the final section of chapter 24 tomorrow evening.

Comments

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

AHHH! I have never played LFT, so I didn't know who Gunnar was. Wow, YAY for graduating. Will The infamous trio graduate anytime soon? ;)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Do you play with another campus more often, or just not play uni at all? I've played with Sim State a little too. I put Dirk and Lilith through college.

No, the trio will never graduate. *snicker* Or maybe it just feels that way at the pace the story moves. They're actually in their final year right now in the story, so expect it to happen before too long. I'm still debating if I should do the play, or just drop that plot thread and pretend it happened "off screen".

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I play only with SSU, but I removed all of the character files when I started my legacy and allowed the game to generate new ones, so I'm pretty much in the dark about all three of the Main Universities. :)

Whatever you choose to do, I'm sure it will be awesome. (Though the play would be really cool.)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

So, you have a completely empty SSU, with newly generated dormies? That's cool. I just wish that the newly generated sims were combinations of the various face template, instead of the same faces over and over. The colouring and hair makes them look different, but I wish there was more genetic variety.

Yeah, I'm leaning towards doing the play, since I had a couple of plot developments that I wanted to tie into it (a number of which will be changed or made obsolete by the events of the current chapter - I got ahead of myself on a number of things). It will be good for a laugh too, and it can lead up to the big finale of their college years.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

Yes. You can always download Default Face Replacements, so when your game generates new townies they have different faces. I don't use them though, the changes are way too extreme, or all of the new faces look exactly the same.

Too extreme: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=106077

Too alike: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=250376

These seem to be two of the more popular ones, but like I said I don't like either.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I've never really bothered to read up on those very much. So, you can just place the default in there, and the new townies will use it? That's easy. I think I have every possible form of "no townie respawn" hack from MATY now, so I probably won't be seeing too many newly generated sims anyway, but that's an interesting option.

I'm with you... none of the replacement sets really do it for me. The Maxis templates can be pretty ugly, but I'd rather have variety than everyone looking the same. Besides, the really ugly faces are just funny.