Last call for interview questions...

[strangetomato]

I'm going to open the floor to questions for my interview in the simstorytellers Storytellers Spotlight one last time, which I'll be posting tonight (at the eleventh hour, because I'm a deadline pusher like that). Please post your questions in the comments, or here in the announcement post. Serious, silly, or completely trivial, I will answer them all.

Cheers!

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That's a very interesting question.

[missgan.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to say that I really appreciate and admire your sticking with Maxis characters, clothes, furniture, hair, etc.
I know you do use custom content sometimes but they're always very similar to Maxis-made items and thus almost impossible to tell the difference, and I feel that all these really gives the story a good sense of realism - as real as can be felt from Sims 2, of course.

This practice really keeps the story grounded and, most importantly, believable! I'm not a fan of most custom hair and default face replacements found in most legacies that I've read, and I'm sick of all children turning out to have identical faces as their parents' as a result.
Kudos to you for letting Maxis have its genetic fun, and for giving me the slight thrill whenever I spot similar clothing/hairstyles that any of my sims (I don't use custom content) have in common with yours, because that doesn't happen very often!

So thanks for sticking with it, and I'm hoping more people will be doing the same! :D

Oh, and I've friended your journal so I can keep track of updates, etc. I'm reading Strangetown, Here We Come right from the beginning, and I'm also quite an enthusiastic commenter, so do expect a barrage of comments in your archived posts as I catch up with the story so far! :D

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this. Thank you for the kind words, and for reading the story so far. Your comments have been wonderful and very encouraging. I'm going to try to make an effort to respond to them all eventually.

There seems to be a renewed interest in Maxis-match in the community right now. Granted, it's a slightly more real version, with shaded scleras in the eyes and nose shaders, etc., but it's still fairly cartoony. I think it's great.

I completely agree about the genetics. If there are no extremes in facial features, what's the point? I love seeing how the different faces blend together.