Dongs Household, Day 2

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As we last left the Sims, all but 3 people had stayed up the entire night and were having to go to work shortly. The goal for today is to get enough beds for everyone to be able to sleep in a bed every night.

I didn't manage to visit any of the new neighbors yet, and they haven't come to visit either, but soon, I will get around to it!

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As you can see, Abe is still trying to get the “be mean to SuperCalvin” goal out of the way, unfortunately SuperCalvin is hopping into the car to get to work. Abe will have to wait until later to slap him.



At least Abe can be mean to other people. I am not totally sure how Tiim didn't notice Abe sneaking into the bathroom, but luckily for Abe, Tiim was standing there staring at a wall for long enough for him to be able to.


Once safely behind Tiim without being noticed, it is time to scare him! This seems to be a common action for sims with the mean-spirited trait.



Alderaan's job doesn't start until 3 pm and everyone else is off by 9:30 or so, so I get to spend hours watching Alderaan do exciting things like eat jam and toast.



The job system has been changed a bit. Now you get opportunities, and if you satisfy them, your work performance goes up significantly, allowing you to get a promotion sooner. Tiim is in business, and for his job, he needs to learn how to serve coffee better.



SuperCalvin, on the other hand has to read some book on getting out of a pit. That is some great homework Army has given him.



In other news, Alderaan now spends a few hours sitting on the bed relaxing and daydreaming of money.



The job system allows you to work in a number of different ways, I let the thing choose it automatically for everyone, but each one has different advantages and disadvantages. You can meet co-workers which can make friends, but you don't get as much work done. You can work hard, which improves your work performance, but you get stressed out and need to be able to unwind when you get home or you will be in a bad mood. I don't like to play with anything that they choose though, so I let Zach suck up all he wants.



That nets me enough money to buy the beds I was wanting, I believe. The jobs everyone has is the ones that the characters wanted. Business, Journalism, and Military if you couldn't figure it out. You may also notice that despite Tanga and SuperCalvin working the same job with the same hours, Tanga gets paid $1 less than SuperCalvin. I am not totally sure how fair that is, I am pretty sure that women are supposed to earn 78 cents on the dollar or something like that. It has been a while since I looked up pay disparity between the sexes, but I am glad that the Sims keeps some of it around even though they have minimized it as much as possible.



I tossed in 3 more beds, but this didn't work in this configuration, everything was too close on the left side there, so I had to do some more moving around of the furniture to get it to fit.



This is the configuration I settled upon. I had to move the dresser out into the hallway just outside, but I am sure no one minds getting dressed in a public area instead of a bedroom. Sleeping space for up to 7 now!



With the bed in the other room changed to two singles, I don't have to worry about everyone being good enough friends to be able to sleep in a double bed together anymore. I did want to keep the one double bed in the other room though, because I believe you can only have sex in a double bed. I don't really know yet though.



Abe is a criminal, and apparently they need some extra muscle. If I can get him rested up well enough to help out before that time expires, we may be able to afford some items for entertainment.



Alderaan's opportunity is very easy to do. All she has to do is stay late. I accept.



When Abe gets home, I use his day's pay to buy an easel. Soon the artistic ones among the group might be able to start painting some true masterpieces.



I find Abe and Zach talking, and Abe isn't just making fun of Zach, he wants to show him something!



Ok, you find a chunk of dirt and grime on the floor. Cool, what will you do with it?



Zach is shocked and appalled at this display of complete disregard for personal health and safety.



I then got a popup telling me that Abe is evil. We knew that, already. Yesterday he showed that he only takes evil showers, after all.



Everyone has been asleep after they got home from work, except Abe who had to show off his dirt-eating skills before he was ready to hit the hay. Now the only one awake, Zach shows his talent for the arts and begins painting.



Here is everyone having their night's sleep. Alderaan just got home as well, she and Zach are downstairs. Not a lot seems to be going on right now though.



Zach finishes his first painting. What beauty! I shall have to display this in a prominent place of the house!



Ah, Zach's masterpiece is the sole piece of decoration in this otherwise barren house, so I hang it prominently in the living room next to the fireplace. I wanted it over the fireplace but I was not allowed.



Hungry from expending his creative juices, Zach cooks something. It is cheese-based but what could it possibly be?



No easy-mac for Zach, he makes his mac and cheese from scratch.



Gale wakes up and brushes his teeth. He is suffering a bit from poor hygiene. I think I need another shower in the house.



Tanga, likewise is getting a bit rank.



Tiim sat down on the couch, and Alderaan immediately started cuddling him. It was just after 2 when I first noticed them.



SuperCalvin starts working on achieving that opportunity.



JRB shows what class he has by talking about Tiim's family not 5 feet from Tiim. Tiim and Alderaan's cuddle-party continues.



When JRB is done insulting Tiim's family, SuperCalvin gets pretty angry at himself and starts pointing fingers and yelling.



JRB seems to be in his underwear whenever he is not at work, for some reason. Gale, Tanga, and SuperCalvin are talking about shooting stars or perhaps the “The More You Know” spots on what is it, NBC? Also of note, it has been shown in the last one, but conversations are no longer restricted to 2 people. The largest I've seen has been 3-person conversations, but it is PROGRESS. Who ever said that The Sims series is just about pumping out meaningless expansions and sequels that do very little except take the cash from fans who will buy anything with The Sims name on it?



Dawn again, and Abe wishes to finish that “be mean to SuperCalvin” want. Unfortunately he is too late as SuperCalvin is once again heading off to work. Perhaps next time.



The scene as dawn is breaking. Abe alone in the kitchen, Tanga and SuperCalvin head to work, JRB and Gale have a friendly conversation, and Alderaan and Tiim continue cuddling. They have been cuddling for about 4 hours so far. Is romance in the air?



NEXT TIME ON THE FERMUN EXPERIENCE:
I may actually get around to having people visit the neighbors!
How long will Alderaan continue to cuddle with Tiim?
Will JRB finish that painting he started?
Will I manage to install a second shower in the house?

Only time will tell.
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I believe I have everyone who has requested a Sim now.

We have six more people simmed up now. So come on inside and meet the MacDongles

In alphabetical order they are:

Bruce Analingus
Traits: Flirty, good sense of humor, lucky, charismatic, genius


Demha ChupaPene
Traits: artistic, couch potato, frugal, good, virtuoso


Gudamor Ballsniffer
Traits: kleptomaniac, mooch, hot-headed, loser, unlucky


Plustax Duckfucker
Traits: loves the outdoors, commitment issues, charismatic, absent minded


Ripper MacDongle
Traits: clumsy, daredevil, hot-headed, kleptomaniac, mooch


Sev_Squad Cocks
traits: coward, loser, mooch, unlucky, vegetarian
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Meet the Remongtons

I have set up the first house of neighbors. Here they are:

More pictures inside as well as what traits these people have. I didn't bother writing down their favorite food, music, and colors though.


Now let's take a closer look at them. In alphabetical order they are:


Bakudai Bakuson
Traits: childish, computer whiz, hates the outdoors, inappropriate, natural cook



Bettytron Doombringer
Traits: absent-minded artistic good sense of humor neurotic hydrophobic



Funk Messiah Fattykins
Traits: party animal, evil, genius, heavy sleeper, hates the outdoors



Illiterati Dickbutt
Traits: Friendly Easily-excitable Absent minded Slob Frugal



Lee Remongton
Traits: Computer whiz, sense of humor, inappropriate, never nude, absent-minded



Omnilingua VonDudesex
Traits: insane, neurotic, kleptomaniac, slob, heavy sleeper



Shenanigans O'Felatio
Traits: Evil, Excitable, Grumpy, Insane, Mean-Spirited


Snakeface CakeFarter
Traits: I forgot to write them down, I will do this later. He is a male, by the way, I just did all I could to make him look female.


I have 6/8 signed up for my next house, I may choose to go ahead and start making them anyways and just move the last 2 into the house with them, but that will have to wait as it is late.
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Dongs Household, Day 1

Sims 3 came out yesterday, and after a long download that got stopped a couple times, I finally managed to get it down and installed. It really makes you mad that legally getting a game from an online source is so much slower than just pirating it would be, but it is installed now, and I have created the family and played their first day. I also evicted every single other person from their houses, so I hopefully won't have to see their ugly faces around.

With that exciting introduction out of the way, check out the first in-game day of Sims 3 and meet the sims that represent you and the other internet people.



I apologize for the first 2 screenshots being so dark, I started with Zscreen because of the ability to take cropped screenshots, but it took them very dark. Luckily I checked to see how they looked before too long, but I did miss out the first 2 pictures being visible. Also, I am still trying to figure out how to make large pictures show up right, so they will all be thumbnailed. If a picture is too small to see, click it!

On the top row, from left to right is: JohnnyRoast Beef (JRB hereafter), Zach Dongs, Tiim Dongs (no relation to Zach), Alderaan Deathstar'd (it is a Star Wars joke, you see!), HonestAbe Butts, Tanga Boner. On the lower row, the fat beardy ginger is of course MrGale Dicklick, and the one who looks like a gnome with progeria is SuperCalvin Sucksadick.


Get ready for an information dump, as I am going to tell you more about each of these lovely people!

JRB- An absent minded, easily impressed, friendly man who is often inappropriate and has a good sense of humor. His favorite music is indie rock, he loves the color orange, his favorite food is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and he has ambitions to be the leader of the free world.

Zach- An artistic bookworm, he loves the outdoors, and is a schmoozer. He also seems to share with one Tobias Funke (of Arrested Development, if you didn't get that reference right away, go to Hulu right now) the unfortunate disorder of being a never-nude. Zach loves the color violet, his favorite food is parfait, and when he listens to music, it is children's music.

Tiim- An ambitious bookworm, he is also a coward and a snob, and his disdain for all things water-related makes him quite the hydrophobic. His favorite food is lobster thermidor, his favorite music is classical, and his favorite color is white.

Alderaan- An ambitious, excitable woman, she is also a great kisser, hopeless romantic, and she has trouble staying asleep, waking at the slightest noise.

HonestAbe- Not a very nice man at all. He is a daredevil, evil, grumpy, and mean-spirited. The only things that bring joy to his black black soul are being mean, and fishing. His favorite food is salmon, his favorite color is hot pink, and of course Abe is well known for his love of electronica. All day Abe talks about how much he loves electronica. Abe's lifetime ambition is to be a criminal mastermind.

Tanga- She is a heavy sleeper who dislikes children, loves the outdoors, and is also a flirt and a great kisser. Her favorite food is Philly cheesesteaks, her favorite color is grey, and her favorite kind of music is latin music. I think that means salsa, but it well could be what the Romans rocked out to 2000 years ago. Her lifetime ambition is to be a heart-breaker, the girlfriend of 10 different people at once.

MrGale- Those of you in the know may notice that the usually skinny blond that is MrGale has turned into a fat, beardy ginger. He has become what he hated most of all. Anyhow, he is a flirty, charismatic, great kisser. He is also a schmoozer and he is mean-spirited. His favorite music is pop, his favorite food is cookies, and his favorite color is pink. His ambition, like Tanga is to be a heartbreaker.

SuperCalvin- a clumsy daredevil, he is charismatic and a party animal. Also, he is insane. He enjoys key lime pie, classical music, and the color lime. His ambition is to be super popular.


We move into the largest house we can afford, and I buy it fully furnished so that I don't have to mess around too much.



The downstairs. You'll notice there is no TV or computer, or even a bookshelf. The only thing that the household will have to entertain themselves for a while will be each other.



And the upstairs. We have room for 3 people to sleep right now, but I do some remodeling and get that up to room for 4 people, as well as getting the space to add in another couple beds soon.



unpausing, the first thing SuperCalvin did was make a face, disgusted with some lamp in the house. What a whiner.



Abe's first action is to insult Zach. Abe just is not a nice person.



Once inside, Abe insults Zach some more. In the background, Tiim and Gale get acquanted.


The job search system is a lot easier with this version. Every single career track is open from just the newspaper, you don't have to check the newspaper every single day to find something anymore. Anyhow, I get everyone a job in the track they want. The first priority will be to get enough money to get them beds.



I look upstairs and found Gale sneaking around.



He is quite the sneaky man.



JRB is apparently easily scared. Though really, if that big fat man snuck up on me and shouted, I might startle as well.



The chat system has also been improved, you can see what people are talking about, how good of friends they are, and what the other person thinks of the conversation right then. It is a pretty nice feature. Tiim thinks Zach is okay.



Abe is very angry with everyone, this is not news.



I caught Abe taking a shower fully clothed.



What important business do you have that needs to be done so quickly, Abe? Oh, you need to criticize Zach's family. Really though, they are pretty terrible, they made Zach.



Abe then insults bookworms, which if you can remember from about 5 minutes ago, Zach is. Abe really seems to like picking on Zach.



Tiim tries to use the bathroom, but as always in the sims, there is someone in there doing something that has nothing to do with the intended uses of a bathroom.



Abe insults Zach some more.



The wants system has also been changed, I will go into it more later, but Abe's want right now is to imply that someone's mother is a llama. That is harsh.



IT IS EXTREME RELAXING TIME!



JRB and Tiim gossip about Gale. Probably about how I have made him a fat beardy ginger, but if not, what rumors can they possibly be talking about?



A terrible guilty secret? Tell me more!



That is quite the terrible guilty secret.



With only one sink to wash dishes and for some reason all of them wanting to wash their own plate, we get lots of pathing errors. Gale is also sneaking up to scare JRB again.



Alderaan is the first to go to bed. Don't worry, she only makes it about halfway into the night because everyone chooses that bedroom as the place to talk.



An hour after Alderaan goes to sleep, Zach calls it a night as well.



Tiim decides to sleep on the couch downstairs, and everyone else stands around all night because no one is good enough friends with anyone to share the remaining 2 spots on the 2 double beds.



Soon JRB strips down to his boxers for some reason.



What is making Abe so fiendishly happy?



NO ABE! DON'T CRITICIZE A PUERTO RICAN'S FAMILY!



Abe also has the want to be mean to SuperCalvin. Hasn't fate already delivered him a bad enough hand?



Abe also wants to take an EVIL shower.



But he cant because it is the Sims, so everyone is hanging out in the bathroom. Eventually everyone clears out and he takes his evil shower, it looked like a regular shower to me, but if Abe says it was evil, it must have been.



With dawn, the carpool for 2 of the sims comes and I call it quits for day one.




Next time on The Fermun Experience:

-Meet the neighbors! (it is more internet people, as all the default neighbors have been evicted)
-Watch in excitement as I use the first day's income to purchase more beds!

AND MORE! (probably not)
edit: the second house will be: Lee, Bakudai, bettytron, illiterati, omnilingua, DrShenanigans, Funk Messiah, and Snake Face

the third house is still filling up, but so far it is Broose, Ripper, Demha and Sev_Squad. Comment with what you want to look like and I will throw you in on this.

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