I was at a house one time and I remember we were all talking about how little sleep were were getting because of Sims Online. One skirt then wrote "Sleep is for the weak" and we all howled. I even made a groovy Tshirt with that on it at Cafe Press! But I cant show it to you since it violates Maxis TOS since I used their logos and is for personal use only. Speaking of TOS (terms of service)..once again, things like the naked patch violate Maxis TOS. Use them at your own risk. I personally think Maxis is most concerned about third party cheating scripts that max skillls or exploit a cash bug. There is also fear that such hack scripts could come loaded with a trojan which could capture credit card data or worse. More on sleep in a moment ;)
Casinos
I predict that when the roulette and slots hit the cities, there are going to be 10 casinos for every sim LOL. There are a lot of casinos in the works. What does this all mean? It means, if you have a casino, you better have a way to differentiate yourself from the others. You better have a very cool property or be open all hours or have "loose" slots. I just thought of a new idea that might make a property popular or you could use it in your advertising. Do you remember when Dominio's used to be 30 minutes or free? We all used to order their 24/7 and I bet everyone won a free pizza or two. One of the things I hate when I am at a property is "running out of food". I think the one property that ruled at food serving was MECH aholics aGNOMEymous. They had food down. Here is something you might consider in your casino...if anyone yells "There is no food" because the food ran out or got flies...they get $1000. OR everyone in the damn room gets $1000. This means that you will NEVER run out of food or you will pay LOL. I think that might be a fine marketing angle. Here is another idea sort of along those lines "if you ever find any item that needs repair, you win $1000". Simple and added fun for finding a broken item. Now Gidget was preparing for her casino opening last night. Christina called me up for some mech repairs and it was cool since I had not seen two sims haggling before. These two were tough hagglers and both were being extra kind to the other so it was fun watching them trying to make a deal. Gidget has so much stuff, I was certain she was opening one of the new stores. I got to repair my stove model, the Old Thyme. Twiddler used his proprietary hug pricing system and Gidget was very kind and gave him a tip!
Mazing With Jayde'
I was working on my double chocolate Devil's Food Cake at some cooking joint, skill topping, when I got chatting with a sexy blonde skirt named Jayde'. Her profile had several interesting items in it and so I quized her. I remember one quote was something like "men are stinky and women are smelly" ..ok.. it didn't say exactly that ;) but something like that and so we started to babble. It turns out that Jayde' was an ex-Alphaville keener. I am telling you, there are no keener sims than the ones in Alpha =) You know who you are. They all want the most balloons, most cash, most popular property, and longest penis. If you don't have 4 skills in alpha, you have to hang your head in shame. If you don't have $250,000 in the bank in AV, you are like below the poverty line. LOL. Well Jayde' had made $1,000,000 from playing maze in Alpha. Now that is a hella large amount of maze play! Jayde' had the money, fame, and boytoys, but her life was missing something. I think Jayde' yearned for the hottubs of Jollypines. In Jolly, it is very important that you hottub almost as long as you skill. You should be in your swimsuit 20% of the time ;) Jayde made the hop to JP. We decided to play some maze are her current house called CASH aMAZEment. You may recall that when I play maze with a new partner, that is a sure sign that I am going to crack under pressure and blow every maze up. Grizzly babe Cytra and I have that wierd maze mental bond thing going on, but with anyone else I lose it. With hottie Jade at her old "Rock City Charisma Mall", I cracked in 35.4 seconds and we made about $800 in one green sessions. With Hula Babe and a Half, I cracked in 57.6 seconds and we might of made $804.37 in one green sessions. I prepared Jayde' for the worst. I was extra scared because she was a rare million dollar mazer. She plays more maze in a week than I have in a year! We start out and I quickly begin to fall apart...ROFL. I issue the "sorry" command. Jayde' quickly whips me into shape "don't say sorry! I'll tan your ass if you say sorry one more time. This was great since it calmed me down. Have you ever played Hacky Sack? We used to have a great rule playing hacky sack...if you say sorry, the person with the sack gets to drill it at your nuts. This quickly stops you from ever saying sorry. Jayde and I ended up playing two great rounds of maze and earning right around $10,000. If Twiddler didn't know better, he might think Jayde' was chatting him up! Words like "sim celebrity" "popular sim editor" and more, had Twid's head so big, Jayde literally had to install a second door so he could get out of the room. Hee hee hee. It was great fun mazing with Jayde'.
My 3 Favorite Maze Errors
No.1
Type into hyper space - have you ever typed 20 moves in a row and then got ready to hit enter and there are not instructons to be found? They were typed into a blackhole and are now magically gone. Flames shoot out my nose when I do that one :P
No.2
Type into bubble - This is another favorite. Here I am catching myself doing that last night with a s w>
No.3
Type a huge string but drop one direction - This is a favorite of mine. I'l type a 20 move string and then the 11th instruction with be missing the direction 3w 2n 1w 3n 1e 1 1s 1w 1s 3w and I have no idea what it was. LOL That is usually cause for a celebration of four letter swear words. :)
Sleep is for the weak
I was talking with Jayde and Mary and some of the other sims and found out there are a lot of sims that work the graveyard shift and sleep 5 hours or less. LOL I am guilty of this as well. During the week I hit the hay at 4am and get up around 9am because Candy the dog wants a walk. I'd swear that I can feel my heart pumping all day when I sleep this little and hear ringing in my ears. Well check this out...there are some new studies that show that people who sleep 5 hours or less are 82% more likely to have heart attacks. Oh My! LOL