Jan 21, 2017

The Unique Blogger Award Nomination


SIMLISH FAIR HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE UNIQUE BLOGGER AWARD

jillbg, thank you so much for nominating my blog for this honor! I'm so happy you like the stories I've written. And of course, I always enjoy reading The Grey Witches blog. You do such a wonderful job of storytelling.

RULES
  1. Share the link of the blogger who has shown love to you by nominating you.
  2. Answer the questions.
  3. In the spirit of sharing love and solidarity with our blogging family, nominate 8-13 people for the same award.
  4. Ask them three questions.

MY ANSWERS TO JILLBG'S QUESTIONS

1. What is the most annoying thing that has ever happened in your game?
Glitches. They can really break into a game's enjoyment. I don't think I could play without my tuning mods anymore, especially NRaas. The worst glitch I've had was with the first household I played. Eventually it took over two hours just to load the save. I had crashes to desktop, lagging, yadda yadda. I almost lost my family totally because of save bloating, etc. That's when I learned about using mods to deal with the game's weaknesses. Luckily, I was able to rescue all my sims from that corrupted save and place them in other worlds.
      
2. Do you play with the sound off or on? Why? 
I play with the sound on, but I've modded out music for build and buy modes, CAS, edit town, and map view. I enjoy the game's ambiance and simlish speech though. I think they add to play immersion. I used to have the sound down very low until I realized I was missing out on some of the sounds. That's when I turned the volume up and really began to listen to background sounds. Sea gulls. Sims singing. Waves crashing. Music. ... 

3. Which premade does really get on your nerves?
I don't think I have one particular townie premade who bothers me. But I've played a few premades, and of those, I'd have to say Ruby Broke has annoyed me the most. With her traits (Flirty, Party Animal, Great Kisser, Easily Impressed, Good), she is just such a bimbo! Not much else to her, IMO. In fact, I'm thinking of returning Ruby to her former townie status.

MY NOMINEES (in alphabetical order)



QUESTIONS FOR MY NOMINEES
  1. What are your favorite things to do in The Sims? (just play, challenges, build, design, write stories, create sims, other?)
  2. How long have you been playing The Sims? (Sims 1, 2, 3, 4?)
  3. Why did you start blogging for The Sims?