Strangetown extras: Ophelia rocks!

[strangetomato]

Okay, so I just wanted to brag about Ophelia's achievement in obtaining her gold talent badge for flower arranging, and show a cute photo or two. This is actually the first sim of mine to reach this level of flower arranging (I haven't had OFB all that long), so I'm excited to see the snapdragon bouquets in action.

Go Ophelia! That's the big payoff above her head. Shouldn't she get more aspiration points than that? Come on! I guess she probably would if she was a fortune or knowledge sim... but she did have the want (which I locked). Oh well. Ophelia rolled the want to buy a flower arranging table back when she was a teen, quite randomly, and it worked nicely into the story. She's moved on to gardening now.

Check out Johnny and Ripp over there "helping" her while she's working. As I mentioned before, her room is the biggest and becomes the place they end up hanging out in all of the time, since the stereo is in there too. The dancing happens autonomously. Johnny, in particular, always heads up there to turn it on and then dance or just hang out on the bed. Lots of autonomous relaxing going on around here.




Aren't they cute? They're all really good dancers (by sim standards). If I recall, they all received that college scholarship for dancing. Sometimes they just break into little dance offs like this for fun. Oh, I just love them.

 

Comments

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

I put my own music in the game. The game automatically turns on the Salsa station, so I just throw in my latest mp3s and dance a bit while I play.

I need to get more teen dancing, course I don't play teens much in the first place. (I'd so get that scholarship if I was a sim!)

Ripp just wins at life, doesn't he?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to put my own music in the game for ages, but I've never gotten around to trying it. Does it show up on the salsa channel by default?

Oh, you can dance, can you? Going to bust a move on me? *grin* I like to think I can dance, but I probably dance like a sim. I have fun, anyway, and that's what matters, right?

Ripp wins at life, yet manages to lose at life in equal measure. He's nothing if not extreme.

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Each genre has it's own folder, but since the game automatically puts on salsa, I just threw everything in there, rather than separating it. You can also put you own music in for the loading screens and CAS, which can be very amusing, believe me.

And yes, I can dance. I'm Hispanic, it's in my BLOOD!!!!!

[aledstrange.livejournal.com]

rofl! that made laugh so hard, I'm Hispanic too, but I can't dance! :P

I select a few mp3 in various styles and place where they match the best, that way I can kept different types of music in different households. :)

Johnny likes dancing with Ripp! lol I remember one of the few times I ran his birthday party, he spent more time dancing with Ripp than paying attention to Ophelia. He actually wished for it!! (and that was on a bran new game, meaning I didn't altered anything or played with any of them before)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Johnny and Ripp do seem drawn to each other whenever they are together. It's easy to see why they are friends. I've seen them roll that want too, if in the middle of a party or on an outing.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

I can top that: I learned some of my dance moves from TS1 (like many things from my preteen years, I blame this on being young and stupid... well, that and figuring that it couldn't be any worse than the way I naturally dance).

Also: I heavily favour the New Wave station. I put some of my own music into TS1 - as well as putting some of the Sim music in with the rest of mine - but nowadays I find that not using real-world music helps with the sense of immersion, and if I still crave human music then I just mute the Sim music and put iTunes on (I run it in windowed mode; this is partly for convenience and partly because it crashes when run in fullscreen.).