The icon says it all (with a smile)

[strangetomato]

Don't ask me why I was so dedicated to the task of making an icon with Ripp giving you all the finger, but once the idea popped into my head, it became a personal challenge (and you never know when something like that could come in handy, right?). Sim hands are ridiculously stumpy and lacking in detail, so it looks pretty goofy and a little like one of those foam sports hands that fans wave, but I think it came out looking okay, don't you?

The stupid grin keeps it playful, so even when used to tell someone to sit on it, it doesn't appear overly aggressive. I can easily imagine Johnny on the receiving end of this gesture, instead of, say, Tank. 

I have writer/simmer's block. Can you tell?

Comments

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I KNEW MINT WOULD SAVE THE DAY.

That's okay. As long as it;s interesting (and not TOO out there- it would be odd if Olive Specter rose from the dead to kill everyone except The Gang the I would have some problems) and awesome, I'm sure it will be excellent.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

So, blowing up half the town with one of Loki's contraptions wouldn't fly? He WAS building a nuclear reactor, you know.

I often have considered a storyline (maybe not for this story, but for something) where Loki does something like that and then the desert falls into a permanent winter, and they're buried in snow. With Seasons, it can happen.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd buy that. Loki is SO the Mad Scientist type, and Eternal Winters are always fun. (Would people die though? I can imagine numerous people would die from the blast, maybe even some important people! [Well, the gang would STILL be in college, and it depends on where the blast takes place but...]

No you've got me thinking about this. :P

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I've had that idea in the back of my head since my early sims days on the BBS of the official Sims 2 site (before I wandered onto livejournal). I devised "the disaster scenario", which involves randomly killing off half of the town in any of the premade hoods and playing out the consequences (I mentioned Loki's reactor as a possible explanation for the event). I did it in Pleasantview, and it was a lot of fun.

If you want to read about it, it's here.

And I did consider it for Strangetown, HWC too, if I needed something to stir things up, but that was an old idea. I probably wouldn't do that now. I'm too attached to the characters. Even the ones I'm not so fond of. (Yes, even Ajay! :P)

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I would NEVER do something like that, but I'm already very fond of killing characters off. (If I ever finish the Thornn Legacy chapter I started working on like six months ago you'll see.)

And random, how could you survive the BBS? I got hives from just being there. *shudders*

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm proud of myself for doing it. Why be so precious with it, right? (Says someone who is unreasonably attached to her current Strangetown - what a hypocrite.) I love Pleasantview, but I had already played with it a couple of times, and I wanted something new. I loled at some of the reactions too. "You monster!" :P

The BBS was painful, but I wasn't aware of the larger community at the time, so I tolerated it for the occasional sensible person (and they're there). Pretty funny, huh? I guess I really wasn't looking. This was all pre-cc for me too. My simming computer wasn't even connected to the internet.