Aug. 16th, 2007

dolari: (Abaddon)
I have a copy of the Sims 2. I really dig it...I like helping these little guys through their days, trying to fulfill their wishes and make 'em happy and successful.

A lot of times, personally, though, I feel I give them too much. Make it too easy. Sometimes, I feel like I'm one of those Sims and the player on the other end of my screen is just purposely hitting all my "fears" and keeping me from my "wants" on purpose.

I decided to try that with a Sim. I was feeling angry, and I wanted to just lay into someone like I'd often feel like I was laid into. I made her sweet and nice and outgoing, but denied her everything she wanted and her needs were only fulfilled once they became emergencies.

It lasted all of a half day. While she made tons of friends, she lived alone in a cheap house with a card table and spent most of her time staring out windows and eating. After the evening...I couldn't do it anymore. It hit too close to home. I guess I'm not cut out to be an evil god.
dolari: (Abaddon)
I have a copy of the Sims 2. I really dig it...I like helping these little guys through their days, trying to fulfill their wishes and make 'em happy and successful.

A lot of times, personally, though, I feel I give them too much. Make it too easy. Sometimes, I feel like I'm one of those Sims and the player on the other end of my screen is just purposely hitting all my "fears" and keeping me from my "wants" on purpose.

I decided to try that with a Sim. I was feeling angry, and I wanted to just lay into someone like I'd often feel like I was laid into. I made her sweet and nice and outgoing, but denied her everything she wanted and her needs were only fulfilled once they became emergencies.

It lasted all of a half day. While she made tons of friends, she lived alone in a cheap house with a card table and spent most of her time staring out windows and eating. After the evening...I couldn't do it anymore. It hit too close to home. I guess I'm not cut out to be an evil god.
dolari: (Default)
Re: "I am the monster that screams."

There's a stray cat that hangs around the loading bay at work that everyone's been taking care of. I'd never seen him, but last night, while examining what sounded like a delivery coming in late night, I saw the cat.

I bent down to say Hi, and offered him my hand, and he seemed genuinely interested in it.

Then the train parked directly behind the building blared its horn so loud it shook the dock. Now the kitty is afraid of me because I'm the monster that screams.

Why is it that every relationship I have with a cat starts off on the wrong foot? No wonder they don't like me. ;)
dolari: (Default)
Re: "I am the monster that screams."

There's a stray cat that hangs around the loading bay at work that everyone's been taking care of. I'd never seen him, but last night, while examining what sounded like a delivery coming in late night, I saw the cat.

I bent down to say Hi, and offered him my hand, and he seemed genuinely interested in it.

Then the train parked directly behind the building blared its horn so loud it shook the dock. Now the kitty is afraid of me because I'm the monster that screams.

Why is it that every relationship I have with a cat starts off on the wrong foot? No wonder they don't like me. ;)
dolari: (Hanna)
Wow...I lost a ton of journal readers in the last week. Was it something I said?
dolari: (Hanna)
Wow...I lost a ton of journal readers in the last week. Was it something I said?
dolari: (Default)
One of my coworkers was on the CBS Morning Show this morning. Check it out, it's good stuff:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3174065n
dolari: (Default)
One of my coworkers was on the CBS Morning Show this morning. Check it out, it's good stuff:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3174065n
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