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The icon says it all (with a smile)

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?

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Whoa! How did you manage to make him do that! I'd never seen a sim do that before. Yup, it is definitely a playful, even friendly finger, if there's such a thing!

I also have writers block :S.

He didn't do it himself (though that would be REALLY funny). I had to edit out his other fingers in Photoshop. Here's the original screencap:

It was a frame from the hula dance. I was going to add a finger to a closed fist, but removing fingers ended up being easier. It still looks a little off, but I blame that (partly) on the hand. Sim hands are weird.

The only times I ever give anyone the finger is in a joking context. It makes a good response to a wisecrack.

Writer's block is no fun. I hope you work through it. I think I'm going to try to go in and do some of the images for the next update, since I do have some of the writing ready.

It looks awesome. Such a Ripp thing to do. :P

Now I feel guilty for being on such a creative roll! I wish I could give it to you, I'd much rather see your story. :D

*gasp* Ripp would never do such a thing. Take it back!

Heehee.

You have that New Project Energy. It's a great thing, so don't feel guilty at all. Get it moving! Maybe your updates will start an avalanche of other updates.

I hit a bit of a wall with my story, and how I'm ever going to get through all the big gaps in the plot to the parts I want to write. But I'm just going to try to drag it all along, and if you don't like it, Ripp will give you the finger. :P

It looks a little odd, but sim-like enough to make me laugh when it landed in my inbox at work :P

I love Ripp, and it's definitely a friendly finger. Hopefully the bit of creative drive that made you make this will inspire you further soon!

PLOT HOLES? In S, HWC? LIES, I TELL YOU! The story is delicious no matter what. You could have Mint save the day using her awesome powers of randomness and I would still love it.

Well, that's reassuring, because that's exactly what happens.

Just kidding, of course, but it's set to be a bumpy ride in places. The Strangetown experts are going to find lots of stuff in their fine-tooth combs, if they go looking, but I'm okay with that. Who needs it to make perfect sense, right? It's a sim story!

Yeah, it's odd, but probably no odder than if there really was an animation for it, right? (Just nod yes. *snicker* Humour me.)

Heheh. Friendly finger. I need to stop before I say anything more on that topic.

I hope so too. It sucks when you have free time to work on things but you're not getting anywhere with it. It's such a waste. Hopefully, things will get moving soon.

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.

"that's exactly what happens." OH AWESOME. I LOVE MINT!
And it doesn't need to make sense. You write well enough that we'll be distracted...

I do like Mint, and she'll probably be coming into her own as a character soon. It gets distracting to have so many characters, and it's impossible to feature them all equally and still have some sort of focus to the story (if that's possible at all), but I like to have all the supporting cast pop in from time to time.

Yeah, I'll polish that turd so well, you'll never even know there was absolutely no content. :P

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.

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

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)

I always get inspired when I have a million things to do, and by the time I can sit down and write, I've forgotten what I wanted to write about. Or else I forget my hilarious punchline.

*giggles at possiblities of that finger*
It looks like it would be an animation. I'd probably get Sims 3 if we can make custom animations, but the number of sex animations we'd probably end up with would drown out all the useful ones...

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*

I have difficulties focussing where I want my plot to go too (although my story is nowhere near as developed as yours). There are just so many sims!

Ooh, shiny turds! Just what the doctor ordered!

(Also, the explosion sounds like an awesome idea. I don't want to post hundreds of comments on the same entry though... Eternal Winter, and Johnny would have escaped because of the aliens. Ripp and Phi would assume he'd died though, and then VALI takes over the world!)

HI ELMBER

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.

I love the icon. You make Ripp absolutely hilarious. Whenever someone e-messes with you can be like "PSHAH *FLIPS THE BIRD*"~

Ummm, what? *scratches forehead*

I don't get it.

You miss me, don't you? :P

Haha, sorry I was just saying hi to showercapfrog. :x

~I call her elmber sometimes~

Yes. :'(

It's my capslock nickname...

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