Friday, March 15, 2019

The Chikamori Selfacy - A Confusing Tangle of Branches

I told y'all that the Chikamori family tree was a complete and utter mess.

So once upon a time, Yasunobu and Mayumi Chikamori had a son...named Haruo... and roughly about the same time, Fiona and Caeden McIrish had a daughter named River. Well, Caeden dropped out of sight and Fiona had to raise River herself. While she was at that task, she got lonely and met Dougal (didn't marry him but cohabitated) and well she got in the family way...again and had Caitlin, who well, went with her father when he decided to up and do a disappearing act.

Well from there...Haruo and River met, fell in love and married...and in short order produced four off-spring, and Mayumi (being evil, meanspirited and narcissistic) electrocuted herself while trying to fix a broken hot-tub; good riddance. After an appropriate amount of time of grieving, (two weeks); Yasunobu (Haruo's Dad) went ahead and married Susan who had divorced her husband, Boyd, who was later sent into the void by a hitman because he hacked into something he shouldn't have, and they didn't have any kids so Haruo didn't get a step-brother. Blair married Christopher Steel and produced four off-spring, Tawana, Jaime, Sonja, and Martin...who just aged up to young adult.

Thus Yasunobu became step-father to Blair and step-grandfather to Tawana, Jaime, Sonja and Martin and Haruo and River became step-cousins once removed. Thus ends the Wainright side of the family, at least until they get married.

Toshiyuki came over from Japan and met Fiona and they thus fell in love and Fiona married Toshiyuki...of which union there came no children.

Of course Fiona got a lot of brothers-in-law: three to be exactly. Yasunobu (the dad of her daughter's husband), Satoshi, and Fumioki who well, was deceased)

Satoshi fell in love with Molly, Fiona's friend, and eventually married her and Molly and Satoshi went on to have a son named Aidan.

...who married a cute Irish girl by the name of Mara McRaney...thus begetting the McRaney-Chikamori family...and going on to have a single daughter by the name of Tania.

Molly's daughter Sandi went on to snag another Chikamori, a blacksheep of the family by the name of Kaneoshi...and they went on to have a daughter by the name of Corrie.

Kaneoshi was the brother of Masatoshi McIrish Chikamori who married Caitlin Chikamori, the daughter of Dougal and Fiona McIrish Chikamori. Caitlin and Masatoshi went on to have three kids, Jerad, Simone and Kai, who are still in High School

Haruo and River were particularly prolific in their children: having Allan, Braden, Brianna and Alanna, in that order... all of whom went on to marry and thus begetting children of their own.

Allan married Fumiko Miyazaki, forming the Miyazaki-Chikamoris and having two children: Sadie and Emmanuel; Braden who married Greta thus becoming the Johansson-Chikamoris and having Karina and Colin; Brianna who married Tatsuyoshi Miyamoto thus becoming part of the Chikamori-Miyamotos and had two kids herself: Katrina and Nicholas and well, Alanna who pretty much copied her parents and had four evenly split down the middle in gender...2 girls 2 boys, The boys being Tatsuo and Yoshitake and the girls being Tricia and Toni; Tricia's going to be a handful because she has the evil trait...thus bringing the family total of grandchildren to ten.

Confused yet...because I know I am...and I'm the one that came up with this...

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Last Shot - 03-14-2019

NRAAS Cupcake Really Works...

Rarely Go Into the TS4 Section of the Forums

The Glitterturd Aficionados just irritate the fuck out of me.


We had a great open world in TS3, even though it was poorly executed and coded to the point where freezing and crashes were constant.  Whether it was time allotted by EA, I have no idea, but unfortunately, it got to the point where those who didn't have the patience to keep the game running kept slagging the game and of course, when anyone with influence states an opinion even if it comes out of their ass, the whole herd will keep jumping on that.  Even when NRAAS came out the slag-mites kept at it.  We've heard the gamut of excuses: oh, it's too hard to keep running.  It keeps freezing on me, I don't like the crashes...blah blah blah...  No...it just means that you're too fucking lazy to do what it takes to keep playing the game. 


Then, of course, they slag the esthetics of the game with the "Sims 3 sims are ugly" or its asinine corollary, "You can't make unique sims with Sims 3". Well...folks...that's what the sliders are there for.  If you can't be bothered to learn to use the sliders to its fullest extent, then don't bother complaining.  

The upshot of all this is that they're happy with lazy game packs (toss us a bone once in a blue moon and we'll be happy), shoddy programming of expansion packs - every time that they get one it's a matter of time before something breaks something else in the game; and the gratuitous pats on the developers back for being fucking lazy and just doing everything half-ass.  

They could have created an even better open world, with sims that didn't look like the latest incarnation of the Fisher-Price catalog if they'd put some effort into the production of the game, but it's all about the "less time that we put in on coding and effort in bringing out a viable product" the more time we have to goof the fuck off.  And the TS4 zombies are giving them a viable excuse to keep continuing to be lazy, while they give the finger to those of us who expect quality in a game that we outlay cash for.  "Oh please, give us some more half-baked deco items and shitty quality, we'll happily pay good money for it." Sorry, but that doesn't wash with me.  I expect quality from any game that I outlay my hard-earned cash for and if the game esthetics do not mesh with what I want, then I stay away from the game. 

And of course the stockholders are the ones that are greedy for more and more profits while the quality of the game goes into the shitter.  Well, you reap what you sow.  And I wonder if this is the end of the Sims franchise because it'll be a cold day in hell before I lay out money for Sims 4.   And no amount of hand-wringing by the developers or threats of "There won't be a Sims 5 if you don't buy Sims 4" is going to make me back down from my position.  You made your bed, devs, now sleep in it. 


EA had a good thing with TS3 and should have continued to build upon it with better 64 bit coding; refined the game with new content and to build upon the sandbox legacy of the preceding games that came before it.  Instead they put profits before quality and pretty much tossed the whole franchise into the toilet. 

Game Update Rotation (Let's See How Long This Lasts)


Game Update Rotation Setup to get a Regular Schedule:

  1. The Chikamori Selfacy
  2. The Way of Life (Apocalypse fic)
  3. The Mushroom Cloud Chronicles (Reboot 2)
  4. JAG-Insanity – ISBI
  5. JAG-The Best Laid Plans o’ Mice and Men
  6. YVR – Survive at All Costs
  7. SV- Haruo & River (post – Wedding Video)
  8. (Tumblr Fic) – IndIsland – Surviving the Cataclysm
  9. Evil Haruo – Puppet Master

If I have any other games…that I’m doing that aren’t on hiatus.  They’ll be inserted into the rotation

Chikamori Selfacy - Mainline Family Tree

The Heir's Family: Immediate Family: 1. Braden Chikamori (the heir)
2. His Spouse (Wife) Greta Johansson-Chikamori
3. Eldest Daughter Karina Johansson-Chikamori - High School
4. Son: Colin Johansson-Chikamori - High School
5. Braden's Adoptive Sister: Marisa Chikamori - High School
Boarders: 6. Martin O'Reilly: A strapping young lad on an international high-school exchange from Rinn Fada, Ireland. Has started dating Marisa.
7. Masao Yoshimura: A young man from Kyoto, Japan, also on an international High School Exchange and evidently he and Karina are good friends.
Hired Help: 6. Kyla McRennie: She's the maid or what one calls "domestic helper" - She does the cooking, cleaning and the laundry.
7. Alfredo Morales: He's the gardener and grounds-keeper. He's also security for the building.
Of course the favorite offspring of Haruo and River was Brianna.

Brianna Chikamori-Miyamoto, 3rd child of River and Haruo
I guess she got fed up with the eyebrows and had them shaped. :smirk: Her husband Tatsuyoshi-Miyamoto
...and her daughter: Katrina Chikamori-Miyamoto
...and her young son: Nicholas Chikamori-Miyamoto

Winter in Cape Garner

Friday, March 8, 2019

Yeah...the Criminals are crying in their Cups

Especially when Haruo comes knocking on their door with an Abrams M1A1.

"Knock knock..."...
"Who's there?"
"Open..."
"Open Who?"
"OPEN UP OR I'M GONNA BLOW A HOLE RIGHT THROUGH YOUR SECURITY DOOR"...

Emperor of Evil (peering out from inside the closet): "Is he gone yet???"

Minions: "I don't know...I'm too afraid to look out..."

Gotta love det-packs.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Sims 3 Version of the 1000 yard stare

Nobody knows the horrors I've seen. First I was nearly a Giganotosaurus' meal, then I nearly ended up trampled by a herd of angry stegosaurs, because I happened to sneeze at the wrong time. Then I ended up nearly skewered by a gang of Australopithecus with spears. Don't ever ask me to go to the past again...

ah...the joys of time-travel; reminds me of a poem I once heard...

My granddad, viewing earth's worn cogs,
Said things were going to the dogs;
His granddad in his house of logs,
Said things were going to the dogs;
His granddad in the Flemish bogs.
Said things were going to the dogs;
His granddad in his old skin togs,
Said things were going to the dogs;
There's one thing that I have to state –
The dogs have had a good long wait.
~Anon.

"Everythings going to shit...in a handbasket..."

So does having a Dog and a Cat count as Cheating?

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