#*splodes into corruption*

[frindoka]

just finished demo 4. twitches. CALYPSO AAAAAUUUUUGGUHAAQGJHHHH😭😭😭😭 pls pls spill any thoughts im very interested

AUUUUUUUHHHHH. falls to the ground and falls apart (i pressed the reset button and sploded). ok yes i have so many thoughts hold on. Hold On

i’m putting them under the cut because of demo 4 spoilers, if anyone reading hasnt beat demo 4 yet don’t continue on lest you be spoiled 🙏

CALYPSO!!!!!!

oh my godddd. i am SO HAPPY we got calypso FINALLY first of all. i knew something would be up with her when that letter from kyoko was posted. ouuugghhh

fun fact i wasn’t initially expecting her introduction to be like this! well i wasn’t expecting much considering how much little information we had before, but i had a fun little theory made from nothing where calypso was a sword wielder & that’s why she disappeared. glad to know she hasn’t been a sword wielder but uh… im not sure if what happened was much better.

anyways holy fuck. i love calypso. she is lovely and i feel so bad all of that happened to her.

she’s so fucked up. trotter saved her from the brink of death and him and his crew showed her more kindness and love than she ever thought she deserved (re: “Why… WHY did you save me? Why would you save a WRETCHED girl like me? I’ve wanted to know… for so long… And now… It’s all too late, isn’t it?”, when she’s talking to the firebrand), and she cared for them very much in turn considering how without them she wouldn’t be here still. her and trotter and such were going into the temple with dreams of treasure and hopes of a stress-free life after they could get stability with the riches in there— and instead of that, calypso walked out the sole survivor of their escapade.

…that survivors guilt has got to be awful for her. she couldn’t save the crew, she couldn’t save the person who saved her life— in fact, she had a direct hand in what happened to trotter, even! she could never repay what the debt she thought she owed to them was, she never found out why her, she never found out why she got to live and she’s not going to be able to find out why she’s STILL alive now and they’re all dead. and now she can’t even get back to her family, nor kyoko, who is Still out looking for her, for that matter.

she’s the only remnant of that entire crew. she probably views herself as the least deserving to ever be that final person left. none of them had a peaceful death. and does she even know where her family, where kyoko, is? does she know how to find anyone? it’s like she’s lost all over again!

anyways yeah i love calypso. she’s been making me pace around nonstop for the past few hours.

2. the swords

oh we are so fucked aren’t we. it just keeps getting crazier. the windforce is gonna blow up the whole of bizville or some shit

anyways WOW. WOW. the firebrands get condition was like Extremely Devastating. i knew as soon as calypso pointed out the many many sacrificial glyphs that something awful would happen here but STILL. IT FLOORED ME. (also the ancient boss was DEFINITELY NOT EXPECTED AND SO COOL. A LYRICAL TRACK??!!!??!!)

watching the swords corrupt the player demo by demo is hurtingggg meeeee. even with the BADGE ICONS… what’s that smile for bro. my friend pointed out that their head was twitching when they were moving closer to the firebrand, while trotter and calypso were looking at the treasure… aoouuugghhh. we’re SOOOO FUCKED. shoutout to a recent dev interview where one of the lines was “do you deserve these swords? do you deserve this happy ending?” ☹️

also, when you cure griefer of most of the bubonic plant condition, he says something like. how when he was being corrupted by the venomshank, it’s like he could barely control himself over anything. it completely changed who he was as a person in general so like. … how much of the player going towards the firebrand do you think was Voluntary? ??? ?? they have THREE SWORDS— other characters have gotten completely fucked up by just ONE. and especially with how the ghostwalker went.

do you think player tried to stop themselves from going toward the firebrand? do you think they tried to resist that temptation of grabbing it before trotter took it and brought on his own demise? if that, though, it obviously didn’t work. it’s like being pulled along by puppet strings…

speaking of trotter fucking dying: his sacrifice bringing upon the ancients is horrifying. what the fuck were the ancients talking about. what is the metamorphosis. what is happening. I Am Very Scared And Everything Is Just Going To Get Scarier

3. my other misc thoughts

shedletsky was acting really weird in the beginning. like was that just me. why was he acting so weird

AUUUGGHHH THE DIALOGUE OF KYOKO AT THE DOCKS KILLED ME. her acting surprised if you tell her you’re here to see her, like she isn’t expecting herself to be remembered or cared for!! her withdrawing into herself for a moment where she mentions her family!! her fear when you tell her you’re going to the desert, only relaxing a bit when you tell her you promise to stay safe!!!! AHHHH KYOKOOOO IM SO SORRY GIRL IM NEVER GONNA LET YOU LOSE ANYONE EVER AGAIN

also kyoko mention in One line of dialogue from thaniyel when he mentions who he wants to invite to the festival. hehe. makes me wonder what’d happen if she did come though, cause then she’d see griefer again, and he’s all Plants…

squeaking of griefer he is so cute i need to throw him into a pit of burning spikes

the swing in vermillion village has a line that says “Do you deserve to ride the swing?” before switching to “Maybe later” every other time you interact with it. i SCREAMED……dream world reference……. player you’re fucked up. player you have to let the swords go dude

beyond The Torment this demo was REALLY fun. i had a fun time solving the puzzles. i spun around calypso for a whole minute when she was following in my party bc i <3 her. the enemies were very fun even if the vultures dismemberment attack wanted to make me start crying and screaming every time it hit. good demo!

red and blue staring at a grave in the preprologue……….PLEASE don’t break my HEART. PLEASE TELL ME NOOBADOR DID NOT KICK THE BUCKET.

firebrands battle effects are fucking crazy. good lird

anyways that’s all my thoughts. i need to draw so many things soon. first of all i really want to make a calypso design…ive been waiting for her for FIVE HUNDRED YEARS

[bones4thecats]

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[blu3cl0v3rs]

I Can't Explain Ninjago

Season 3: Rebooting Rebooted

So, apparently the world goes on after possessed Satan becomes a DILF, and "The Ninja" apparently went to college or are teaching without a license. But not Trauma Child, he's busy being paraded around Ninjago! Anyways, Spiky, Freezy, Coal, Bluejay, and Meow all become teachers.

Meanwhile, newly named New Ninjago City becomes super duper techy and all of the vehicles fly. The teachers go on a field trip to the tower of the guy who invented all of the new technology: Anxious Tony Stark, who will be called Cyborg. Cyborg has a robot daughter named Pixie Dust, who gets Freezy's heart, metaphorically. Cyborg summons "the Ninja" (obv not including Trauma Child, he's busy fucking around with god's gold powers that he got by sort of taking the other "Ninja's" elemental power last season) and gives them a statue of himself.

These assholes break the statue, but it's okay because it was built to break. It has some funky Hacker Sticks and ninja outfits inside. Now, they're being chased by evil robots because, surprise, the Evil Liquid Cat didn't actually die; he's now a computer virus! So, he's trying to kill them again 👍 The fuckwads run away and put on the outfits that somehow fit them. Also Meow takes a buzzfeed quiz which tells her that she should date Coal, and Gandalf gets kidnapped by Evil Liquid Cat.

The six scamper off to Sensei DILF's house, and Trauma Child gets his ass whooped by running into a pole. They then get jumped by the Evil Roombas, and Freezy makes Pixie Dust turn Normal TM. Trauma Child and Sensei DILF steal a car from the Big Fighter Mech base, and they drive off into the sunset while actively being hunted down. The others go shut down the power, and then Pixie Dust now literally gets Freezy's heart. Or, well, half of it. So, she lives.

Trauma Child wants to use the god's gold powers to travel, but Sensei DILF tells him to shut up and stop, because Evil Liquid Cat can slurp up the remnants to become solid. Trauma Child also kidnaps a baby bird, and the bird's dad almost kills Sensei DILF. But, everything works out. Y'know, until Sensei DILF's chucked into the ocean and Trauma Child is kidnapped.

Meanwhile, Bluejay is mad at Coal because Bluejay wasn't the result of Meow's buzzfeed quiz and they fight, the others got their asses whooped by evil Gandalf because Evil Liquid Cat corrupted him, they learned that the evil robots are now being powered by electric eels, and they figure out that the Evil Liquid Cat was stolen by porple snek, who kidnapped Trauma Child.

"The Ninja" then decide to play the VR game that Evil Liquid Cat is trapped in, and [insert freddy fnaf at five bears reference here]. Anygays they holy grailed the motherfucker out of the game, but surprise surprise! After slurping almost all of Trauma Child's gold power from god, he gains a mostly corporeal form!!!! yayyyyyy 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 so the parkour pisschickens go to space and almost die. again. wooooo.

Oh hey also the Evil Liquid Cat finds the Big Gold-Stick Thing + god's gold weapons from the past and makes it into a portable lava lamp stand for himself. "The Ninja" fight him again, and porple snek shrinks and gets eaten by a robot bird.

They're fighting, it's really intense, all has failed and Ssomething needs to happen Now, and Freezy hopscotches his way over to the Evil Lava Lamp Cat, andddddddd.......

Freezy explodes.

Yep, he sploded 😔

Sorry, he's (supposedly) dead.

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sorry this took so long, school's been dragging me to my living room (aka hell) and i've been fighting through a writing slump-

Tournament of Smellements will come..... eventually? i'll try my best idk 😭

[sburbian-mechanics]

SBURB Info: Prototyping

Picture this: You're trying to enter The Game and you pop open that weird machine your friend just deployed. A timer starts its countdown, while a strange colored light floats out and starts making noises.

What do you do?

If you are in this situation right now- don’t read the whole guide. You’re on a timelimit, and all you need to know is that you need to get the light to absorb at least one object, though it can go up to two. It prefers things of sentient form, so either images or dead things. It also likes things you are attached to deeply, or represent some sort of failure or fault in your life. Go get something that fits some of that criteria, and chuck it at it!

Still here? Great. That means you aren’t in any danger. Let’s talk about PROTOTYPING. We all know what prototyping is, kind of. It’s how the game makes your tutorial guide, and outfits the enemy’s with powers and thematics. That’s why it prioritizes something with sentience and or sapience, so you can talk to your guide. That’s also why it likes things you’re attached to- plus it makes for good thematics. And the failure/fault thing ties into fighting enemies themed off of that pretty easily. It has more Heart Energy in it than normal, meaning that it can be manipulated by high-level Heart players, but only in the late game.

But we are not here to talk about the simple stuff. (I mean technically I am but I like game theory for a reason goddammit!) Let’s get into some of the Mechanics!

First of all- how does prototyping sapient things work? If it's only one person, It's mostly fine. They will take on slight tendencies of the other thing prototyped, but it's fine. It's when you get two sapients in one sprite that things get Weird. You see, souls kinda hate being mixed together. Individuality is kind of Hearts whole thing, so the base unit of Heart is not going to tolerate being mixed with another unit unless one soul totally dominates. And that is kinda the antithesis of prototyping. So instead, SBURB does a tricky little thing, and uses Corruption states. Now, Corruption sounds bad, but the term comes from computer programing. What it really means is unintended changes to data, which in this case is the soul. So the soul is being changed in a odd way not accounted for by the rules of reality. Still pretty bad, but it is not necessarily negative. So what basically happens is that SBURB causes the sapients to undergo The Ultimate Self. (This is a stupid name btw, but for the layman's sake, I'll use it. Just know that Possilapse is way better!) This is important because it causes the souls to merge with other versions of itself, which is much easier than forcing them together. Once the two have completed the process, merging the two is much easier, because they have already tolerated being merged with near-infinite variations of itself, and thus individual will and survival instinct matters less. So the end result is a merge of two sapients, that have the Ultimate Self of two people, as well as the perspective of the other sapient on each other. It's similar to a mechanic from an Earth show called Fusion, in the show Steven Universe. Just with near-infinite knowledge. The resulting sprite is called a sprite squared, and cannot be further prototyped because even doing it once is risking it. It can still refuse and sprite-splode if they are too incompatable, leading to no sprite for you! However, these types of sprites are by far the most useful in any run of the game, so setting them up is worth it. They can even resist the Call of the Battlefield and hang out with you in your new universe!

Additionaly, how exactly does Prototyping affect the Royals? Turns out, It is actually the Ring/Scepter that they carry that gives them the prototyping. If stolen, it would give the wearer (as long as their Caripacian of course,) equivalent final boss powers and physical changes. This often leads to the phenomenon known as Urspers, which is when a Carapacian, often Jack Noir or one of his cohorts, (but not always!) becomes the new final/bonus boss due to having the Scepter/Ring. This can be really dangerous, due to them not having the proper ability to hold back their power, or the same programing that keeps them on the Battlefield or the Moon. This can easily lead to Session-wide haywire, and is actually the most encountered glitch in the game! However, it is typically not game-breaking, persay, and the Game Breakers have used it for some pretty knarly game-skips and glitches. Set-up is pretty easy too- if one of your prototypes is a frog, the Black Queen will refuse to wear her ring and it will be really open for interference. This is known as the Frog's Opening, and one of many openings and gambits in the Moon Political Game.

How it affects imps is pretty facsinating too. Did you know that the Prototyping powers are not hardcoded into the game? The powers the enemies actually recieve are entirely based on how your subconcious thinks your Prototyping would give out powers. This is why they can be refrences, or not directly the logical result of the object you leave in. It can even lead to certain memories tied to the object being renacted! That's not entirely a good thing though. I mean, it is representative of your mistakes.

Attempts to find the "ideal prototyping" has so far been unsucessful. The Unborn Sprite will refuse any forced prototyping such as a used tissue, and memory manipulation can also lead to giving the object more subconcious importance, and thus more in-game power, than necessary. There are, however, unideal prototypings found, which are mostly common sense stuff like bombs or weapons. Theoretically, the most unideal prototyping would be a First Guardian, but in this point of subjective time, no one has had a strong enough connection or acess to one to actually prototype it. Thank Frog for that!

And that's pretty much that, I suppose. Prototyping is really complicated, but poorly understood. We know way more about Sprites than we do about Prototyping, and attempts to crack it have so far been unsuccessful, for the most part. However, there is testing going on using Heart players, which looks promising! I'll tell you if any interesting happens on that front. Next time, we will be talking about Sprites! Don't be afraid to ask questions in the meantime- my ask box is currently empty. That's all for now! GG out!

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Hmm...I could probably help a lot if I signed up for those experiments. But do I waaaannt to? I have a literal immortal life to fill. And the Game Breakers are a little annoying to keep up with. I could join in a century or two. It's not like I'm a part of them anyway! Yeah, I think I'll hang back for this one.

...Talking to Old Gods is scary.

[misfits-of-zaun]

“You sorta just…lost your head a little. Happens to the best of us.”

Ekko pulled a confused face, but his reaction was sluggish, distant. He was watching her thumb trail across his skin.

"...Doesn't usually happen to me," He muttered distractedly, vaguely chagrined by the implication that they'd all been inconvenienced this much because he'd been briefly off his game.

“Eh, a few scuffed knees, but nothing the old crew can’t handle.”

At least, by the sounds of it, no one else had been badly hurt. Ekko visibly relaxed a bit.

"...Good. That's... that's good."

In an ideal scenario, none of them would have been hurt at all, but he'd take what he could get.

“In an old life.”

Something about the way Jinx was looking at him now felt off; her likeness swam before his eyes, merged again with the monstrous nightmare, making his hairs stand on end. But her voice remained soft and soothing, and her fingers remained interlocked with his. Grounding. Familiar. Real.

“Calm down, you’ve only got one rule breaker in your midst.”

Relief suffused his veins. So Scar was... okay? He hadn't relapsed? Only Jinx had taken shimmer? That was... still deeply messed up, actually. Just marginally less bad than he'd initially feared.

Ekko grimaced and winced a little at the pat to his cheek - not so great a sensation when his entire head was throbbing - but instinctively, he leaned his face into her palm anyway, seeking the comfort that contact usually brought. If he closed his eyes, he felt a bit less dizzy and nauseous. If he closed his eyes, he didn't have to deal with the awful lurch in his stomach at the sight of those blackened, corrupted vein marks on someone he loved.

"...Don't." It was still hard to speak, to enunciate in a clear and coherent way. It took enormous effort. But this was important.

"Don't - break the rule again. Please."

They'd been through so much; he couldn’t lose her again. Not to that. Not to another form of Silco's poison.

“Why don’t you tell me what you remember, and I’ll fill in the blanks.” 

Ekko frowned against her palm. What did he remember? That was a good question. He fumbled through his mental cataolog of recent events for several awkward seconds, trying to find a starting point that was actually relevant.

"...Job," He mumbled out, after a long pause.

"Hit shimmer prodic- duc- shit." Fuck, words were stupidly hard. Production plant just had too many syllables and hard consonants to deal with. He tried again. What was that other word for production plant? It was an easy word. There were loads of them in the manufacturing industry. Why the fuck couldn't he remember such an easy word?

"...Ugh. Y'know. Drug kitchen?" Yeah, that was basically the same thing, right? That worked, right? Whatever. Jinx would get it.

"We, uh... got in. Took out guards. Went to set 'splosives..." Him and Jinx each. The only ones trusted to handle the sensitive demolitions side. To know the key pieces of manufacturing equipment to target for sabotage, and the key areas of infrastructure to avoid for minimal worker casualties.

A frisson of fear. He peered up at those horrifyingly unJinxlike pink eyes, clasped tightly at her hand.

"...Did. Did they 'splode too soon? Did I mess up?"

@f1shbonez

❛ promise me you’ll still be here when i wake up. ❜

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. 

Everything felt like a series of closing doors. The busted job. The shimmer. Ekko. Everything that could have gone wrong was going wrong and the entire pack of Firelights was reeling in the aftermath. Suddenly it felt like Jinx’s days were numbered. The dream was over, wasn’t it? Dreams never lasted. It was time to wake up. 

Ekko’s room felt tiny with all the Firelights that came and went. Jinx knew Scar well enough to see that he hadn’t been happy about her pitching up camp, but he’d known better than to push the matter. Not right now. Not when they were all worrying in their own ways. Not when she had enough shimmer in her system to tear him to pieces. 

Since when was staying put such a foreign concept to these guys? The other Firelights that came and went had other people. If the job had gone off without a hitch she’d have been with Ekko right now, anyway. Scar had Z and Ahri, Eve had Ray… Everyone had someone else to slink off to. They had someone to listen and offer some kind of assurance in the aftermath of everything.

Besides, Jinx hadn’t made any move to stop the bugs from coming in and tending to their gravely wounded leader. They moved differently around her now, as though a wolf had seated itself in a field of lambs. Jinx ignored the way it stung. The discomfort paled in comparison to the desperate caged fear she felt seeing Ekko on his bunk, unconscious and scuffed up to hell. The way they were looking at her distorted with every subtle movement. Was it blame, disgust, fear, or plain sadness? Jinx couldn’t tell.  

Was breaking a cardinal rule okay if it meant Ekko survived? So far, it seemed like nobody wanted to tell her. Perhaps her recklessness deserved their disdain, or the ugly feeling attached to their fear. Someone had to make her feel bad about it in Ekko’s absence, she supposed. 

Jinx’s presence was deadly silent as the others did their checks, only melting back to something more human once the door was closed and they were alone. 

You were supposed to talk to people when they were unconscious. Jinx was certain of it. It was supposed to help them wake up. It was supposed to tether them a little closer to the land of the living. All the other bugs had been so busy talking to each other, none of them had even bothered to ask unconscious Ekko what he thought.

“-And that’s when I found out that if it’s oil-based you’re kindaaaa screwed.” Jinx recounted, resting her cheek in the crook of her arm from where she lounged with a deceptively steady demeanour.

“‘Course I never told him that at the time- It was kind of a fake-it-’til-ya-make-it phase I was going through. Turns out that’s not just a me thing, but I was in too deep by that point. And once you’re committed, well…that’s kinda just the way things have gotta go.” 

Shimmer-laced eyes lifted to Ekko’s face, as though expecting some form of response. Ignoring the plummeting feeling in her chest, Jinx redirected her focus to the workbench at the other side of the room. It was just a silly bump on the head, that was all. They just didn’t have magic strong enough to patch him up faster. No shimmer, either. Sure, Z had come to take a look, but Jinx hadn’t liked the concern riddling the lines on her face. Not one bit. 

The memory of the bullet tearing through Ekko’s skull ripped back into Jinx’s mind again. The sound. The sudden weight of him collapsing in her arms. The stomach-churning dread as they began to plummet together.   

No. It wasn’t real. 

It wasn’t.

She’d managed to make it stop. She’d helped…hadn’t she? Unable to shake the feeling of guilt, Jinx pulled herself to her feet and drifted closer to Ekko. Sure, she’d circumvented the bullet with his name on it, but had she just found a slower, more painful way to kill him? 

The ferocious rush of shimmer through her veins sharpened everything. But there was nothing left to fight now. The only danger left was one that she couldn’t tear apart. It was something delicate. Precarious. She’d never been good with that.

But she wanted to try. 

The steady rise and fall of Ekko’s chest soothed the monstrous fear within Jinx. An unspoken weight of grief and tenderness lingered in unnaturally pink eyes. Did he know she was still here, could he feel it? Pale fingers feathered a reverent path towards his cheek. Gentle. She could be gentle. 

“Promise me you’ll still be here when I wake up.” 

The words he’d spoken hours ago swam through her mind. 

Silly Ekko asking silly questions. She’d loathed the weakness in his voice. Hearing him speak was supposed to make her feel better, so why had the handful of stupid words he managed to croak make her feel even worse?!

“Where else would I be?” She’d murmured back, wondering if he’d been awake long enough to hear her. 

Ekko had been so out of it that he hadn’t looked at her differently like the others. Was that because he saw her through the shimmer, or because he was so out of it he hadn’t noticed? From how Z was talking, it sounded like the more he slept, the worse it could be. He’d been sleeping a lot. 

If Ekko pulled through, what was he going to say? Would he be upset, or would he understand? She’d done what none of the others could have done. The Firelights had needed a weapon. If Jinx could be anything, she could be that. 

None of them knew that the closeness between their leader and his old flame was a little …closer these days. Things had been good. Too good. Good enough to lose yourself in the haze before it all came crashing down. It was like the universe’s sickest joke to offer a taste of something better- for Jinx to become more of a skeleton in a closet than a daily appearance. She’d learned what it was like to fix things- to be a part of something. To heal. To love.

“...You’re gonna hafta wake up soon.” A steady stream of morning light was trickling through the window. From the foot of the bed, Jinx’s words rose with an air of steadiness she didn’t remotely feel. She couldn’t crumble now. She couldn’t. Ekko needed her to be strong. 

“‘Cause I told you all the gossip and stories I can think of–and I know we got interrupted halfway through the swimming one, but there’s no chance I’m risking a re-telling when breakfast could appear.”

[girlucifer]

obsessed with noelle & susie's relationship. with simeon & lucifer, i always wanted them to be like [hates each other viscerally except for those moments alone while the two stand idly on the balcony and look up at the stars that twinkle far above their heads and the world almost stops when the two meet gazes and their hearts thump in their chests and they aren't sure what to think anymore, all that they know is each other's names that fit so perfectly on their lips, almost like a wave of nostalgia that washes over them where the two are thrown back into time when they were the best of friends, best of lovers] OR maybe lucifer -> super obvious with his little crush on the angel vs simeon -> why is he staring at me like that. whatever. what's mc doing i wonder? ❤

[dramallamadingdang]

Finally got the “new” computer sorted and TS2 all loaded up and restored...

...and I’m at a point in GilsCarburg where I need to furnish an apartment building to play more...AND I DON’T WANNA! I’m playing the neighborhood’s iteration of Academie Le Tour, and I need to move Steven, son of Goopy and Sandy, out of his dorm so that he can marry the chick he’s been boinking and likely make with the babies and stuff. (Yay Goopy/Sandy grandspawn!) BUT! The place has no non-dorm housing yet because I demo’d all the Maxis buildings because they’re oogly and stupid. (I can forgive one or the other...but not both.) So, I had built an apartment lot before everything went kablooey on the old machine, because I wanted to check out playing apartments on a Uni campus, but I hadn’t yet furnished it before the ‘sploding happened. And now I wanna play because I haven’t been able to for a month and I have the weekend off. I don’t wanna spend the time furnishing a big damn apartment lot. :P  Sooooooo, I might just plunk down an old plasticbox house and call it done so I can play and then wait on finishing the apartment until Steven’s sister needs it... :)

But, in the meantime, I decided to load up...Longhollow. Just to see how it would play with a new OS (Hey, Windows 7 is new for me! I’ve been playing on Vista!) that works with the CFF Explorer thing to make the game use more than 2GB of RAM, because I never saw any difference with Vista even though the version I had was 64-bit. And so far? After playing for about an hour across a few households when it used to crash almost immediately? No crashing. Even when making a phone call, which was pretty much guaranteed to make it crash before. Hmpf. I mean, I KNOW the neighborhood is corrupted, but perhaps that wasn’t why it was crashing. Perhaps it was just too big for its britches... 

ANYWAY! I do wanna play in GoopyLand, so I will probably stop this now and go plunk down that plasticbox house...