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Online Friendship

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This afternoon I had a friend post the following:

“Over the past year or so I have seen a number of people post an image that says that in many ways your online friends are more your friends than your real friends and family. Not only do I disagree with this notion, but I find the idea that some people actually believe it severely disturbing. Your real friends and family are the ones who, when you hit rock bottom and your online friends are too distracted by the latest meme or their own lives to bother with you, are still there for you and still willing to offer their support.”

Maybe my perspective is skewed because I spend so much of my social life with online interactions due to my job, but I have to disagree with the above. I partially agree with his original assertion that your family means more than your online friends (and even then that’s subjective based on your familial relationships), but I have to say that I have many online friends who mean a lot to me and that I believe would be (and have been) there for me (and vice versa) even through hard times.

Here was my response:
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EverQuest II: Wantia Desert Homestead

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Turning a home like this…

I spend a good bit of time decorating on the Everfrost server in EQ2, but I’m much better at not completely finishing projects. My most recently published home is the first one I’ve completed in the past six months (currently I’m in-progress on 3-4 other homes). It is a remake of my Modern Wantia Abode that I published last year.

… into this is what I thrive on.

This house is called the Wantia Desert Homestead. I used the same ceiling as the abode, but completely changed the walls and swapped out the floor tiles. There are some similarities in decor (window planters, the closet, the table, etc), and a few ideas taken from another Maj’Dul home I’ve published called the Maj’Dul Chateau (the fireplace and the stacked display, namely).

Check out the pictures of this home below, over on the EQ2 Homeshow forum, or you can visit it in-game on the Everfrost server in the Small Homes category of the leaderboards! Continue reading “EverQuest II: Wantia Desert Homestead” →

Sims 3: Meet the Trallops!

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It was when I got “meh” about SimCity that I decided to finally redownload Sims 3, after years of barely playing it (despite having the CE since launch), and unearth my old neighborhood backups. I tried first playing my old families I had created and saved the neighborhoods for, but I didn’t feel any attachment to them, even though one of them was my namesake.

Then I recalled how amusing it was to play a redhead in the Sims Medieval in the attempt to make the entire village redheads. I did partially succeed in that venture; there were many redheaded kids by the time I finished that game. So I made the decision to make a family of redheads, two brothers and two sisters, who were all promiscuous in nature. The Trallop family was ‘born’.

From left to right: Candice, Ginni, Chen, and Dane

Meet the Trallops
I’m terrible at naming characters in any game. I can sit here for 30-60 minutes trying to decide on a perfect name. It must have been my inspiration to create their family, because I named them all in record time. Their last name is obviously a play on “trollop“, which I thought fit the bill nicely.

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