Guess what? I got a new computer! YAY me! The difference is like night and day really. I can almost walk properly! Bottom line: you can run SL on a less-than-gaming level pc, but you will not be having the same experience as someone with a high level gaming pc that they are selling a kidney to pay for. And not just because they weigh 5 ounces less than you. When I first got hired by Dream Models, I practiced walking every day - to no avail. My then-boyfriend f00 even tried to give me tips and help me. We set up a little practice runway. He could strut it like nobody's business (which raised some concern at the time....). Well, being a programmer, he had a very high end pc. He could never understand why walking in a straight line eluded me. I now know why: the good folks over at Playskool ® who manufactured my old PC did not give me that ability. But now??? OMG - amazing. How amazing? Well, organ selling amazing, of course. Unfortunately for me, the new pc doesn't improve my typing. I can only type badly faster, now.
OK - I also have to show you two model units I decorated for my boyfriend who will offer prospective tenants a few furnished flats in his new apartment building. My job was to come up with a couple of furniture arrangements that they might choose from.
Living room #1 weighs in at 32 prims.
I decorated the two main areas - a bedroom and a living room - for a total of 50 prims per apartment. The tenants will have space and additional prims to form other areas, like a dining room, or add their own furniture and decorations if they wish to. I may ask (read: beg) to decorate one more unit or design a few more rooms that tenants can see pictures of and choose a style. It always amazes me that a room will look completely undone until you add a 1 prim rug or put a picture on a wall, and suddenly everything just comes together. (Hmmm...and now that I am looking at it, I may add a couple of pictures to the wall in living room 2.)
Living room #2 is 29 prims.
I was truly embarrassed when I spread everything I had on my lawn to see what I could use to decorate. I probably have several houses worth of furniture and accessories because if I see something cute that I might use someday, I tend to buy it. I also had a few freebie furniture pieces that I kept because they were so pretty. But the free pieces do not balance out what I have spent. I do realize that I have a serious problem. :-/
And that problem is that I only own one house.
5 comments:
Getting a new PC is like getting a new car...vroom! Congrats, Tym!! Diggit!
Ok, I completely laughed at the Playskool line. :) My very first computer was by a brand that now makes toys. Looking back, I think they were making toys then too. Just really expensive ones!
And I love your furniture arrangements!! I have a ton of furniture and household accessories, too. You just never know when you're going to need SOMETHING. I figure it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it - which is why my inventory is stupidly huge.
Garrett - it is like getting a new car...only it doesn't smell as good!!
Alicia - exactly! the instant I get rid of something, I need it. It never fails. I even have these (theoretically) very helpful inventory storage tools. But I never seem to have time to sit and organize my inventory enough to put them into the tools! So the tools just add to my inventory total!
My love I am so glad you can walk better now. It was always odd when I went to hug you and you would miss me and walk into the wall ;-) Oh, my favorite is still SLingerie.. but it looks to have minimal coverage.. I mean votes :-) Hmm, now two of us typing badly faster, well as long as we know what we are saying LOL. I just love what you did in the apartments! I am prepared to turn you loose in the other 4 units, after proper begging in person ;-) You took the 50 prim challenge and ran with it! Wow, you dumped your inventory on the lawn. No wonder neighbors said sim performance was so bad the other day - lol. I too am way over do with reckoning my inv (s). You know honey, if our current house is not big enough.... I have a couple dozen larger ones in my inventory, I think ....
Hee! I just love saying OUR house, Jerremy!
/me jumps up and down. Yay! I get to decorate more!!
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