Strangetown Extras: Ripp's LOL-worthy formalwear and a scary glitch

[strangetomato]

Okay, at the risk of scattering spoilers all over place, I decided to show you these pics. It's the sort of thing you just HAVE to share. The first thing made me pee in my pants a little from laughing (not really, but just about), and the second is a really scary looking glitch that I hope is not the first signs of Very Bad Things happening in Strangetown (well, Bluewater Village, actually, but it's essentially the same thing).

The thing about young adults is that you never see their formalwear, so imagine my surprise when I finally saw Ripp's formal attire and it looked like this...

All I can say is... LOL

That's right... he's actually Santa Claus. When he goes missing for the whole night, Johnny and Ophelia assume he's out on a serious bender, but really he's delivering toys to children all over the world.

The only reason I even saw this formalwear at all is the fact that sims who get in "the zone" switch to formalwear to perform. Ripp was visiting Florence Delarosa (ummm, don't ask me why... *wink*), and decided to play for tips... as usual. He did pretty well for himself too.




Santa takes his music very seriously.

Flo doesn't get excited easily. She has Santa playing world-class piano for her and there's a yappy little dog destroying the couch that she's taking a nap on.

Florence: In my country, this sort of thing happens every day.

(Florence has such awesome nickname potential. Flo. Floss. Flossy. Fluff. I've actually heard all of these used for Florences before.)




And now for something a lot less LOL-inducing...




These glitches are ten times scarier because the T-pose of the model has that "Christ on the cross" element to the it, and it's glowing red. Also, the head it not connected to the body. O_o Does anyone know what could be causing this? Is my game about to explode?

I was playing a home business, at level 8, so there were lots of customers, and it was snowing, so maybe there was just a graphical overload? A couple of sims showed up like that, with the red crucified body. Scary, scary stuff. Oh, and then my game actually crashed, which it has done two or three times since I installed Free Time. It only crashed maybe a handful of times before that, but it's not the first time it's happened, so I'm hoping this isn't an FT problem. *crosses fingers* (I hope I don't scare madame_ugly out of installing FT now. Like me, she's prone to worry. It's okay, Madame... really it is.)

Note to self: Play Mr. Doe and pop out that kid already. *snicker* Poor guy is perpetually pregnant.

Please avert your eyes from the spoilers. Thanks. :P

Comments

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

If Ripp was Santa, something tells me he wouldn't be bringing just presents to people's homes. ^_~

Uhm.....who is this Flo person? Even thou I have OFB, I've never looked into Bluewater village, so yeah, don't know who she is.

I've only had FT for a few days, but it hasn't crashed at all or had that red christ thingie. Course, I tend to stay on lots no bigger than 3x3, so it could be an overload of graphics type thing. The only other thing I can say is to delete the .cache files in the "The Sims 2" folder before playing. I had an issue last week with the game crashing randomly, and that seemed to do the trick. :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

This is the sort of present Ripp gives out. ;) My favourite kind.

Florence is a woman who lives alone in Bluewater Village and has a flower shop home business. I quite like her. She was the first business I ever ran when I installed OFB, and one of the only. I just got her to level 8, which was very cool (I hope I saved not too long before that crash... I think I did).

I usually play much smaller lots too, and hardly ever have winter (I might even change BW Village to have two falls instead).

Hmmm. I actually did delete those before playing this time. I'll try it again, though.

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

HA! Dick in a box, haven't seen that in awhile.

Winter does slow things down. Damn snow. So pretty, yet so laggy. So, she going to get into the story? Or were you just playing her for fun and Ripp just happened to come by?

I don't think it's an FT thing. If something like that was happening, we would have heard about it already. So, let's just hope it was a graphic overload thing. :) Did you also delete the cigen one too? Just checking.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That pretty much made my whole year when it first came out. Heheh. Dick in a box. :D

Yeah, Florence will come into the story. One of the characters has a reason for wanting to get in touch with her, which leads to her becoming a sort of mentor figure.

Yeah, I doubt it's FT. I did delete the cigen thing too. I'll do it again, just to be safe.

[zepheera.livejournal.com]

Gee, I wonder which character has a reason to get in touch with her.... :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the spoiler is sort of obvious, so I might as well just give it away... and I just did, in another post.