#all these satelites are being put to use: mobile

[bruised-pixels]

hi can u plz provide explanation of ur strangetown family tree I am intrigued (and saw your tag mufufu)

okay, lets go through it but under the cut bc ill probably be long winded lmaooo

We’ll start with Veronica’s side as it’s much smaller, I haven’t played them as much (and probably won’t now as the legacy now has the story progression mod so I don’t actually have to keep up with them), and we saw most of it through her teen years.

It all starts with Corey, the teenage witch, who was my catalyst as I often played in downtown when I first got Sims 2 Deluxe as a kid and ran into the Tricou ghost teens when I cheated my way into the House of Fallen Trees. The Tricou family always lived in my head since then and when I did further research on Jon Smith, I found the teens of downtown, and sparked the idea of the legacy. Obviously, Corey/Orion being the gothic teen boy in a dark trenchcoat, I had to use him to ressurect the family and reunite them. In the story, Corey ran away not to long after being adopted as he had spent years researching his real father and being the eldest of all his half siblings, he felt more “independent.” In actuality, he didn’t even know the spell to summon a spectral cat so he just adopted one. As for why the Downtown is in Strangetown... come on. I had the idea of a warlock teen reviving his vampire family, it fit perfectly into it. 

I haven’t done much with the Tricou’s themselves, just giving their house a remodel and them all a makeover. But who knows... maybe future generations will get to know their maternal extended family 🤭

But now let’s talk to what the Curious side has been up to...

Starting with daddy Vidcund, he actually had two children. You may have spotted Celeste in the back of some shots with Leo. You might actually notice too they look similar! Vidcund got lucky and got the same PT, so they are full siblings. Leo very much does like his sister and often has her over now to catch up now that she is in college. Of course though, he still calls dear old dad to catch him up on the grandkids so he doesn’t feel so alone in his observatory.

Going down the line of guests at the party, Lazlo did get married to Crystal, in a full Vegas Style wedding (if you don’t know, my downtown is based on Vegas, hence my banner image on mobile.) Honestly, I didn’t do much with them after they got married but they do live downtown just chillin’.

His other uncles though I put a bit more time into. Obviously, Tycho went with them too and eventually, they adopted one child together, Halley. Tycho and Leo are very good friends though being very close in age and growing up a good part together. Also with Tycho, I took the fire powers it said Jill has and gave it too him, which is why his hair is dyed the way it is.

Speaking of Jill, the Smiths are a bit more interesting. After Johnny went to college and Jenny aged up, life went back to peace for them. Jill aged up soon after and started seeing Buck more. Then one day, I decided to read the bio for PT9 and it said "When he is not spending time with his children, he enjoys clipping coupons and staring up at the sky." I decided since he was getting up in age, I would send him to look at the stars while everyone else in the house rested... THEN SUDDENLY TIME STARTED FAST FORWARDING AND I WAS LIKE WUT I STILL HAVE A SIM AWAKE AND GO AND CHECK PT TO FIND A SMOKING SATELITE. Poor PT never got to meet his grandkids or anything and it took me a while to get Jenny out of the red aspiration level. It took adopting a kitten that I named Petey in memory of him. Buck was bullied at the Grunt home until he ran away but I welcomed him into the Smith home and once him and Jill aged up, they had Jackie, then eventually twins Joel and Jolene.

Finally, in the last row, we have one of the biggest families I’ve ever played all by myself, the Smith-Nigmos-Grunt-Hogan’s.... I sent Ripp, Johnny, and Ophelia to college together fully intending them just to be a tri-polycule then met Tamara Hogan and made this full family. Together each couple has one child, Oliver Nigmos-Smith, Teddie Nigmos-Grunt, Xandra Hogan-Grunt, and Oryan Hogan-Smith. I spent a lot of time with this family and honestly had so much fun but they’re so much and I’m glad story progression mod will handle where they go now ❤

Honestly I could go on more about the various other families but I’m very tired so TL;DR, Buzz Grunt got fired due to chance card and Tank ended up dying due to a cold he got from work, leaving his military wife behind. And the Beakers, Circe girlbossed to close to the sun and got Mysterious Disease on the Biotech table and died in quarantine. Oh yeah, and Kristen Loste was taken to be their new test subject after Nervous escaped and then got eaten by the Cowplant only to be revived by Loki as a zombie and now she works as a DJ. OH YEAH AND THE TWINS DO EXIST.

[knight-of-trash]

Very Specific Millenial Memories of Mine

Straight across bangs, overalls, and striped turtle necks.

The Land Before Time

Playing Mario Kart 64 with the family, and winning because you keep picking Yoshi.

Kindergarten naps on thin, red and blue mats.

Discovering Golden Eye 007 and being better than your brother to the point where he quits playing with you, because you camp, use the Golden gun, and use the unkillable character.

Spend so many hours playing with toys in the bathtub, that mom has to refill the tub with hot water twice.

(9/11) When the principal came over the intercom and announced we were all being sent home with an important letter to give to our parents, and how we all tried to read the letters, but didn't understand the words, and were scared we did something wrong. Only to learn about what happened years later.

"Smooth" by Santana ft. Rob Thomas

Gym class with the big rainbow parachute, and those roller things you always pinched your fingers with.

Colorfoul baindaids.

A bike with training wheels and colorful tassels, swing sets, and a basketball net.

Mr.Bubbles boxed bubble bath solution.

Zoobooks, Zootycoon, Zoopals plates and stealing my uncle's National Geographic tapes to watch instead of Disney movies.

Rolling down my friend's driveway on her skateboard, and slamming into trash cans for fun.

Ballet, pink leotards, runs in tights, Dum-Dum suckers, and the heavy scent of resin and rubber tumbling mats.

Every single Disney movie to come from the Florida studio, along with every unnecessary sequel, and thinking they're all spectacular!!! Especially Dinosaur.

Aladaar costume for Halloween, and a hoard of Dinosaur figures that changed if they got wet.

Now That's What I Call Music and it's shadow, Kidz Bopz, and their commercials.

Shark fins, flippers, and goggles, super soakers, hoola-hoops, and laying on a Tarzan beach towel in my backyard.

A white, two-door Olds Mobile with a blue velvet interior, where I always sat middle seat.

Tomb Raider, and it's Guide Book, that I carried to school with me for three years.

Grape scented sun screen.

Going to Blockbuster and rerenting the same three Skydancers VHSs.

The Spongebob episode Band Geeks being on every Sunday after church.

Only having two channels to choose from on the satelite: Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and then discovering the Disney Channel.

Being terrified of a Harry Potter calender because or the troll, but rewatching the Sorcerer's Stone four times in a day, because why not?

Green ketchup for the Shrek movie.

Grape flavored children's Motron chewables for fevers, and orange flavored cough syrup.

Combination TV/VCR, and turning the tv to channel 03 to play the PlayStation.

Mr.Rogers, Between the Lions, Arthur, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Cyberchase.

Galvanized swimming pools and turtle sand boxes.

Dial-up, AOL, and Neopets.

Lisa Frank fuzzy art, and just fuzzy art in general. (You know? Those posters where you color between the velvet??? Those.)

A "karaoke machine" that taught me how to pirate audio via tape recording, and use it to save my favorite songs.

Switching from a corded home phone to a cordless home phone.

Playing The Power Puff Girls at recess and fighting over who was Blossom.

Singing Bass.

Glow stars on the ceiling.

The Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, and their kickass theme song.

Malcolm in the Middle, and being suspicious that my brother was actually Reese, because they both had frosted tips and liked to rollerblade.

Large part of my childhood taking place in a roller-rink or bowling alley, where adults could smoke inside.

Chuck e Cheese hand stampings, and the Spider-Stomp game.

Pine-green walls in most of the house, wood paneling and blue shag carpet in the basement.

Sitting in my grandma's Cow kitchen and watching Forensic Files while she chain smoked and did crosswords.

Playing Aggrevation, Stratego, Rummikub, and Sorry! regularly as a family.

Getting a Gameboy Advanced SP, scratching your name into the back of it, and playing Pokémon Sapphire in the dark during every car trip.

Amazing Ali dolls, Polly Pockets with rubber clothing, Barbie movies, and the rise of Bratz dolls.

Tech Decks!!!

Fruit shapes with gum inside them, Baby Bottle Pops, and their weird cousin that was a paint brush and paint bucket.

My brother's baseball games, playing in the dirt, ordering a Pepsi by myself from the consession stand in a foam cup with blue and purple squiggles on it.

Walking up the street to my friends house to play with her Perler beads and watch Goosebumps.

Know how to draw the S, Tarzan Monkey Man, and the "Knife in Your Back" games.

Can fold a fortune teller but can't make a paper airplane

Yellow raincoat and boots, sith a matching yellow hat.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Goosebumps, Juni B. Jones, Pony Pals, and American Girl books.

Too old for the Wiggles, but watching them at 4am on a Sunday, half-asleep, because insomnia in children is a real problem.

Myth Busters, Shark Week, and the discovery of Adult Swim, and anime.

Naruto running and falling on my face.

Going on a car trip and my friend putting in "a new CD by this new band", and hearing Welcome to the Black Parade for the first time ever and losing my goddamn mind.

Discovering Kingdom Hearts because of YouTube AMVs.

The rise of Emo culture, Zwinkie, Vampire Freaks, and the Vampire boom in pop culture.

[donatellotmnt]

Donnie it's not fair what Congress passing this net neutrality law. Now everything you search for costs! Why would they do that? And can't the law be cancelled if a lot of people vote to disband the law? It's just crazy that now we have to literally pay just to use the internet. It's kind of sad to be honest

Actually, you’ve always paid to use the internet. You pay with your data plans, your net providers, and everything. You already pay to use the sites you use through advertising. That’s why there’s so many freaking stupid ads everywhere. That’s not what this is about. 

To explain net neutrality I’m going to compare it to….cable television.

You know, Cable used to be totally ad free? It’s true! Back in the day, way way back in the 1980s, you paid for cable because you were not supposed to ever see advertisements on it. 

Ha ha, that didn’t last long, did it?

Well, now we have Netflix and the internet and that has killed off cable. Why? Because we want to see our favorite shows streaming, whenever we want, without ads. It is shown we are willing to pay a small amount for that. Cable is losing money.

Now, what does this have to do with the internet? Internet is like cable in the 80s. You have paid a small amount to provide it to your house and in return you get all the content you want for free (you know since you have those little ads that pay for it and they steal your identity as you browse) 

But that’s not enough for them. They want more. Not only that, they want total control of what you can see. 

So that means that the net wil be more like buying a cable package. Maybe Verizon owns this package for so much and you can browse all you want until you reach this cap and then if you want to watch HD videos and netflix, you have to pay extra for that.

You have family of four? Well, then you want our net mobile plan that will let you look at facebook and these sites at high speeds! But if you have your own business webpage well, you have to pay extra for that.

It’s about how things aren’t going to be neutral anymore. It isn’t going to be fair. It’s like when Geocities had a free webhosting site, was bought by yahoo, and now no one can have a free webpage ever again.

The internet is about to be controlled like they did to cable and satelite providers. It’s going to control how much bandwidth you can use and going to put caps on things to make you spend more money. A lot of companies are going to profit from this because it’s never about bringing information to the masses or about bringing people together-it’s only ever about money.

And that’s why everyone hates  cable too. 

If you look at who gains the most from this-you’ll notice that the companies that they are companies like Time Warner, Comcast, and...boom boom boom! Cable TV providers.

They are upset their pockets are not being lined with gold anymore so they are buying up internet companies so they can screw everyone over. It’s already hard to get internet and decent coverage in the rural areas-it’s about to get worse. It’s already expensive to have the internet-it’s going to get more expensive. It’s already hard to hook up to mobile data-it’s gonna be impossible.

[stxr-crxssed]

// I haven’t been on lately but it’s my birthday today

[stxr-crxssed]

I really wanna make a nice page for my OCs (currently just my canon muses are listed) but also that’s a lot of work.

I gotta find a page I like then actually fill it out?? Sounds bogus.