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Strange Tomato ([personal profile] strangetomato) wrote2008-05-24 10:32 pm
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Strangetown Extras: Ripp's LOL-worthy formalwear and a scary glitch

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 [personal profile] 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






[identity profile] xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com 2008-05-25 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
When I read the title of this, I was expecting his formalwear to be the santa suit! :P

Actually, when I was playing Pheeschsecks in their college days I was planning everyday clothes for one of the members, and I found out that SOMEBODY had the santa suit as their formal wear. I was really hoping it was Ripp because that IS hilarious, but turns out it was Abhijeet. *snicker*

Hmm... You checking out formal wear, Ripp in a flower shop?
Is somebody getting married? That's all I can think of what the spoiler can be! :D
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-05-25 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... anyone who has that Holiday SP or the special edition (I got it for cheaper than the base game, on special after Xmas), would expect to see this awesome formalwear. Why it is considered formal I'll never know. It's Santa's WORK uniform, people. :P

Nah. No weddings, at least not in the immediate future. I didn't intentionally check out the formalwear. Ripp did that all on his own. The flower shop thing will make sense if you think about it for a minute, probably.

[identity profile] xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com 2008-05-25 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Okay okay... Now I'm thinking it has something to do with Ophelia and her flowers.
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-05-25 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
You got it. ;) I don't mind blurting out the spoiler. I'm about to just post some more pics anyway, spoiler or not. They're too good. (And who really cares if I give away the fact that Ophelia is going to sell her flowers. That seems pretty obvious, anyway.)