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Juni 2009
My Legacy Family Begins
GEPLAATST OP
24-06-2009
A few days ago I began my Legacy family. I chose a female to start with and named her Seraphina Legacina. She met Christopher Steel at a protest outside of city hall. They hit it off right away. They had a whirlwind love affair and before long the two were married and living on Seraphina\'s lawn since she was too poor to build a house. \r\n\r\nChristopher moved in and brought with him around $5500. They used his money to build a foundation and set up a few walls. Their dream home\'s construction had begun. They had to live in a little trailer on the corner of the lot for a while as their funds kept running out quickly on the house construction.\r\n\r\nThey now have a little home and two children. Their oldest, Angelina, will carry on the Legacina family name on this lot. Their youngest, Christopher... well we\'ll have to see what becomes of young Christopher. \r\n\r\nAngelina just transitioned to a child and, apparently, suffered a bit from the hard times of her upbringing and I wasn\'t able to choose the trait for this transition. Sadly, she picked up the Mooch trait. Probably a good thing since I doubt I could give a sim of mine that trait on purpose. It will be fun to see how that affects her. Her other traits so far are Brave and Friendly. So now she\'s a Brave, Friendly Mooch =)\r\n\r\nSo far Christopher is an Athletic Genius. But I\'m sure I can screw him up a bit as I begin shifting my focus to Angelina and prepping her to find a mate in town to carry on the name.
Macbook taking one last vacation
GEPLAATST OP
18-06-2009
I am tracking my new Macbook via FedEx and apparently my computer is taking a short vacation before reaching me. First it spent a couple of days kicking around Shanghai, China and currently is spending the night in Anchorage, Alaska. My laptop is seeing places I want to see =)
New Computer Take Two
GEPLAATST OP
15-06-2009
I gave up on the Dell and after that whole XPS 630i fiasco was determined to not do business with a company that ships its support function overseas. That pretty much eliminated Dell, HP, and Sony so I looked at Apple.
I had been contemplating making the switch for a couple of years now and finally just bit the bullet. I ordered a new Macbook Pro 15\" with a 2.8GHz processor and 4GB of RAM with NVIDA GeForce 9400M and 9400M GT with 512MB. Can\'t wait for it to arrive in a few days and begin my learning curve as I officially switch from PC to Mac =)
I had been contemplating making the switch for a couple of years now and finally just bit the bullet. I ordered a new Macbook Pro 15\" with a 2.8GHz processor and 4GB of RAM with NVIDA GeForce 9400M and 9400M GT with 512MB. Can\'t wait for it to arrive in a few days and begin my learning curve as I officially switch from PC to Mac =)
New Dell was a BuSt
GEPLAATST OP
13-06-2009
Well my brand new Dell XPS 630i arrived and right out of the box it wouldn\'t load the operating system correctly. I finally got over that hurdle only to discover that this brand new, shiny, 52 lbs. of computer parts wouldn\'t let me play TS3 :shock:
It loaded the game fine and then when I launched it the video card went into cardiac arrest. A GeForce9800GT SLi setup with 512MB of onboard memory wouldn\'t play the game!!! I figured maybe it was a driver issue and sure enough, even though this computer was not more than 3 hrs out of the box, the video drivers were out of date so I went and updated those. HUGE MISTAKE!
Now the computer wouldn\'t even boot up to the login screen and no matter what I pressed I could not get into the BIOS setup to even change the boot order to slap the restore disk in and start over or roll it back to \"Last Known Good Configuration\". I spent over four hours on the phone with Dell tech support and discovered I should have studied the Indian language instead of Spanish :sigh:
Less than 24 hrs in my possession I decided this brand new $1750 computer wasn\'t worth the hassle right out of the box so I packed it back up and opted to simply return the machine and get my money back.
I am now looking at making the leap to a Mac and have been checking into the new Mac Book Pro line.
It loaded the game fine and then when I launched it the video card went into cardiac arrest. A GeForce9800GT SLi setup with 512MB of onboard memory wouldn\'t play the game!!! I figured maybe it was a driver issue and sure enough, even though this computer was not more than 3 hrs out of the box, the video drivers were out of date so I went and updated those. HUGE MISTAKE!
Now the computer wouldn\'t even boot up to the login screen and no matter what I pressed I could not get into the BIOS setup to even change the boot order to slap the restore disk in and start over or roll it back to \"Last Known Good Configuration\". I spent over four hours on the phone with Dell tech support and discovered I should have studied the Indian language instead of Spanish :sigh:
Less than 24 hrs in my possession I decided this brand new $1750 computer wasn\'t worth the hassle right out of the box so I packed it back up and opted to simply return the machine and get my money back.
I am now looking at making the leap to a Mac and have been checking into the new Mac Book Pro line.
Obviously I have the game by now...
GEPLAATST OP
09-06-2009
I have been spending too much time in the CAS area and not enough time out exploring the neighborhood, but I\'m loving how much customization I can do to any outfit. I also like that I can just click on the furniture and change the patterns. I need to stop customizing everything and start actually playing the game =) LOL
Still waiting...
GEPLAATST OP
02-06-2009
Well I checked the GameStop page and my order has been shipped! *stalks the mail delivery person* I can\'t wait to get my hands on the game and start abusing.... err I mean exploring the new town with my new sim (that I haven\'t yet created but can\'t wait to!). I hope everyone that has the game is enjoying it.
Waiting...
GEPLAATST OP
02-06-2009
I\'m jealous today of all the lucky people that got their game and are already exploring the Sims3 world. I\'m still waiting...
