What are you thinking? (Part 2)

[Springhosen]

Mmm...not entirely sure how much I appreciate the whiplash I'm getting from Revelations' time-jumps. Random much?

 

[Gar Bageman]

CT: Reeeeeeeally wish The Phantom Pain would hurry up and come out (preferably not against the new RE). Looks pretty good.

 

[ArabPikachu]

Excited about my newly acquired job at the grocery store, Giant

 

[Springhosen]

Started replaying RE3 today - definitely do not remember that game being this hard! Got me to thinking, though; it was a beautiful game for its time.

 

[La Femme Fatale]

I'm supremely peeved. For some reason, despite the fact I have an honours BA in political science and labour studies, a post-graduate certificate in public relations and numerous unpaid internships... I can't find a bloody job and I've had to take another position at a hotel.

Which sucks, but things have been looking up now I've been actually getting interviews from Queen's Park (the government of Ontario). Came super close to landing my dream job at the Ministry of Labour - had to interview once with the Chief of Staff and then second with the Minister - and because the Minister was only available on Monday I had to tell my work that I was interviewing for another job (couldn't get around it) and that I needed my shifts changed. It was all for nothing though, since I didn't get the job despite being told I interviewed the strongest and had the strongest references.

So this leaves me in a pickle at work - I have another interview at the Ministry of Finance but can't keep taking time off work. It'll leave me in an especially difficult position if I don't get the job. :/

 

[ArabPikachu]

I'm back from my first day of working at Giant and it went well

 

[Hel]

CT: I just read an article about The Sims 4 (which I chose not to buy after all) and the existence of mods that allow teen pregnancy in the game. I was just as shocked about this as the author - albeit for very different reasons. He says this is socially unacceptable, I say we're already in the fourth generation of Sims, a game that has featured gruesome deaths, alien rape, sex in public and miscarriages almost since day one, yet teen pregnancy is still an issue? Seriously? I would understand it if this was a game from Japan, where even showing yourself in public with an unfamiliar boy/girl is considered a shameful taboo if the animes I've watched are to be believed, but no, this one was made in the USA, the country with the highest rate of teen pregnancy according to statistics. I mean, come on! That's not the worst thing that can happen to a person, neither in real life nor in Sims.

 

[La Femme Fatale]

Not to mention people have gotten reality TV shows for getting knocked up at 16.

CT: I tried Wendy's Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger - made it through a third before throwing it out. It was so... overindulgent in every possible way to be overindulgent. The pretzel bun is delicious... but why in the world would they slab on a thick slice of cheddar cheese in addition to the messiest cheddar cheese sauce ever? Some burger with the cheese would be nice.

Gross.

 

[Springhosen]

I have this serious urge to play RE5 again for some reason...

 

[Hel]

CT: I've been considering to give The Evil Within a try for some time, but now that the PC system requirements have been revealed... I don't think so.

The two requirements that really triggered my WTF face:
- "High Speed Internet Connection." Yeah, my connection was advertised as being this, but ever since I made the mistake of believing that bullsh!t and switching to wireless LAN, I can jump for joy whenever I'm able to watch a YouTube video without lagging at a resolution higher than 144p. But this isn't a co-op game, so why is an internet connection necessary at all, assuming it's not only for the installation?
- "50 GB of hard drive space." This has to be a joke. Not that I don't have it, but still, it's more than a third of my currently free disc space, all just for one game? Since when do games take up so much space anyway? Not to mention I'd have to download the entire crap from Steam even if I buy a CD, so maybe this is what you need the high speed internet connection for. I remember downloading RE6, which was only about 8 GB, and that already took ages...

So yeah. The Evil Within is dead for me.

 

[ArabPikachu]

Although getting my hands on games for PC is usually not my thing, the 50 GB requirement for downloading a singular game (one example being The Evil Within) is indeed eyebrow-raising

@The Sims
Have heard about this series but am not interested in it

 

[Flipqy42]

This whole being-dependent-on-your-parents thing really sucks. I hope I can get a job soon so I don't need to rely on them for everything.

 

[Romero]

[snip]

You rule! I think you're the next Hillary Clinton.

CT: I just read an article about The Sims 4 (which I chose not to buy after all) and the existence of mods that allow teen pregnancy in the game. I was just as shocked about this as the author - albeit for very different reasons. He says this is socially unacceptable, I say we're already in the fourth generation of Sims, a game that has featured gruesome deaths, alien rape, sex in public and miscarriages almost since day one, yet teen pregnancy is still an issue? Seriously? I would understand it if this was a game from Japan, where even showing yourself in public with an unfamiliar boy/girl is considered a shameful taboo if the animes I've watched are to be believed, but no, this one was made in the USA, the country with the highest rate of teen pregnancy according to statistics. I mean, come on! That's not the worst thing that can happen to a person, neither in real life nor in Sims.

That's the strange thing with Americans. Individually their morale is not so different from the morale in other Western countries, but there are double standards: Teen pregnancy, the odd naked boob and a lot of other things we hardly notice, are a big issue if it makes it to television or games. If it is as acceptable there as it obviously is, then why does it become a taboo on screen?

I don't think the Japanese would make an issue about teen pregnancy, but I don't know.

But how young teens are we talking about? A 13 year old is a child, a 19 year old is an adult.

 

[Hel]

But how young teens are we talking about? A 13 year old is a child, a 19 year old is an adult.

Right in the middle, I'd say. Sims who turn into teenagers immediately know how to drive a car, so they have to be 16 at least. See for yourself, here are some of my teenagers.

I think 16 is old enough to make your own decisions in that regard. If you end up with a child or a sexually transmitted disease - your problem, since you were old enough to know the risks.

Anyway, the mod to allow teenagers to have sex and children exists for Sims 2 as well and I have it installed, so technically my teenagers can get pregnant too. The reason they don't is that I usually don't play with couples, especially not straight ones.

 

[Romero]

The reason they don't is that I usually don't play with couples, especially not straight ones.

LOL!! That too is birth control, sort of.

 

[Hel]

Well, if you knew how seriously annoying sim babies and toddlers are (and more often than not also very ugly), you would agree that the best way to deal with small sims is not to have any at all. Children are quite useless too, I only start to enjoy playing with them when they finally turn into teenagers, but including the pregnancy (which lasts for three days and is also annoying as f*ck), 18 sim days pass between conception and the teenager state. In other words: 18 days in hell.

 

[Romero]

but including the pregnancy (which lasts for three days and is also annoying as f*ck), 18 sim days pass between conception and the teenager state. In other words: 18 days in hell.

Oh dear. You don't look forward planning for nine months + 16 years, do you? Me neither. At least not the nine-months-bit.

 

[Hel]

If you're asking me whether or not I want to have children in my human form... No, definitely not. I tried that once over 1,000 years ago and it was horrible!

But I have already thought of a compromise, should my husband ever come up with the idea: We just adopt a teenager! Yeah yeah, I know what everybody is going to say: "That's when they're at their worst." But I don't think so. It's just like in The Sims: Teenagers can make food, help in the household, they don't need diapers and you don't have to wipe their asses clean, soon they'll turn 18 so you no longer have to take them everywhere anymore (I can't anyway, since I never bothered to get a driver licence, and I doubt that my ability to drive my war chariot in Helheim will be acknowledged in the world of the living), they're not around as much as smaller children, so I can just let them go to a party and have my peace. And if our teenager happens to call in the middle of the night to be picked up from somewhere because it's too drunk to drive, or it is brought home by the police because it has done something stupid, or if it's totally desperate because it's about to suffer the conesquences of straight sex... I'll just smile at my husband and say: "YOU wanted a child, now YOU go and take care of it."

So we can have a child without me having to worry about it, and we both get what we want. Problem solved, isn't it?

 

[ArabPikachu]

@Flipqy42 Have you applied for a job yet?

 

[Flipqy42]

@Flipqy42 Have you applied for a job yet?

Yeah, I've been applying, but I doubt I'll find one soon due to my very limited experience. But I'll keep at it.