And they say Simlish is hard to understand?

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Best,
Ronnie.

Writing Assignment: People of the Outer World


3rd period
Language Arts
Ms. Crumplebottom


Things I have discovered so far about the Outer Sims.

by Ronnie.


*(I call them “Outer” Sims because they’re the ones outside Sunset Valley, Riverview and other such normal towns.)

They call themselves by all sorts of names, but have no comprehension that they are Sims.

They have hundreds of languages. Most, however, are just meaningless gibberish – two of the exceptions being Ukrainian and Tagalog.

Whereas our adults normally have five Continue reading

What that black bar over my face was about

Stop censorshipOn Month 11, Day 16 in the United States, technology companies protested the proposed “Stop Online Piracy Act” as it would allow taking down non-infringing sites, would require prior restraint and remove the safe harbor protections of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. See the letter signed by Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Mozilla, LinkedIn, Facebook and others.

I am careful in my Comic to Continue reading

A Pretty Serious Post about Animals and Humans

A Sims 3 expansion pack was released a couple of days ago, whereby people here in Sunset Valley can now have pet animals. (I will not be getting a pet any time soon – can’t really afford it, as Janet and I are uncomfortably close to eating dog food ourselves.) That same software also allows certain wild animals to roam out in our undeveloped areas. I think it will be a positive thing. Avoiding biosystem contamination from invasive non-native species is a reasonable concern, but the native fauna in Sunset Valley have already somehow been reduced to only fish and insects. Sometimes I see birds overhead, but they do not alight in the Valley. Our ecosystem has some vacant niches, I’m sure.

At just the same time that our world admitted animals, Mr. Terry Thompson of the Outer world, also under financial strain, released a lot of big, big animals that he had kept as pets — and then killed himself. Continue reading

Last chance to be Canadian?

The 6 p.m. hour has now passed off the west coast of North America. I am sad, because this rules out Sunset Valley being anywhere near Vancouver.Crossed flags of Canada and the Sim Nation Surely the End Of The World must already have been felt in Vancouver by now — yet here in Sunset Valley, we’ve gotten nary a bump all day. So we must be yet further west.

Oh, I know the city of Vancouver itself is much too expensive for young working-class Sims like us. But I had hoped to be somewhere nearby, because there is a ship leaving from Vancouver scarcely two weeks from now, upon which will be April Verch. More completely, the April Verch Band, Alasdair Continue reading