Everybody Jump Now

Meanwhile, Benny and Vi were still very much in love – they both rolled up wishes to kiss and woohoo all the time. At one point I thought Benny might have a crush on one of his co-workers, but he didn’t pursue it (he wanted to ask Sofia Carlton if she was single, but I didn’t lock in the wish. I’m mean that way).

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Vi kept doing her thang at the easel and started selling her paintings at the consignment shop. I bought her the Suave Seller lifetime reward, so her paintings ended up selling for twice the normal value (so about §6000 for a large masterpiece). She was rakin’ in the dough!

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She also worked on sculpting stuff, starting out with lumpy clay figures and working her way up to…wooden toilets?

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Ouch, imagine the slivers you’d get from that thing. I didn’t have my Sims test it out, but apparently the furniture you make in the sculpting station is perfectly usable. I can’t seem to figure out how to sell it at the consignment store, though. I can only take it off of the station in buy mode – I can’t drag it to the backpack. So she just sold this stuff on her own.

Eventually she graduated to ice sculptures, which were more aesthetically pleasing:

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She received an Opportunity to make an ice sculpture of a Sim, one Gwayne Bayless, who commissioned Vi’s work even though Vi had no idea who she was. She had to venture down into the swampy part of town in order to meet Gwayne, who posed for her enthusiastically:

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That was actually one of the camera poses; Vi had to invite Gwayne over to the Shanley home in order to get her to pose for the ice sculpture. It didn’t quite work out, though:

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Although there is a slight resemblance, isn’t there? Hrm…better luck next time, Vi.

As for Georgia, the spare heir, she had her birthday and became a lovely – if a bit generic-looking – teenager. Seriously, she looks like she has Face Template #1 or something.

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She was already an Athletic Genius who Loves the Outdoors, so I gave her Disciplined hoping it would help roll up a martial arts LTW. It didn’t, however, and as Gibby was nearing adulthood, I eventually had to buy the Change Lifetime Wish reward just so I could pick something for her. I chose Perfect Body, Perfect Mind – thank goodness it was there because the other four options were all career-related, and she wouldn’t have time to complete those before Gibby moved out.

I whipped into strict taskmaster mode, making poor Georgia work out whenever she wasn’t sleeping, schooling, or doing homework.

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She spent a good deal of time at the local gym, where she rubbed elbows with some of Twinbrook’s weirder denizens, including my vote for the Ugliest Sim That Ever Lived, crazy inventor Juan Darer:

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And apparently no one told this lady that there’s an opacity adjuster for the make-up in CAS now:

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She could be so cute if she just went for a less garish look! Ah well. Maybe I should have made Gibby a stylist so he could have given the whole town a makeover.

Speaking of Gibby, I haven’t forgotten my little Gen 4 heir…

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14 thoughts on “Everybody Jump Now

  1. I absolutely loved your makeover of Benni! Your sims always exude so much personality. The pictures and captions, as always, are perfect!

  2. That young lady with high-opacity makeup and crazy clothes is a stylist. I forgot her name, as I always do, but I’ve already changed her makeup and clothes and she looks far better now. I tried to keep her crazy style though.

    I forgot to take a picture of her before the makeover, though. Would you mind if I used yours on my blog later? With credit, of course. :)

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    Someday, I’m going to have to start doing “Title Images” like you do, jenba. Coming to your blogs, I always get ideas to do stuffs. *high five* And the fact that you are a pro at building/remodeling sim homes and stuffs is a bonus! :O))

    *blinks* Baking stand?? What is this baking stand of which you speak?? And for some reason, I feel like I’ve missed an episode(?). I will have to go back and check. :O)

    “If you buy it, they will jump” – *ROFLMAO*

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    I find it funny that Benny made that face while getting his tattoo. When my sim-self got one, she behaved just like I did when I got my first tattoo – watched with fascination. She got booed though after it was all done. *blinks* No clue as to why. :O) That tattoo artist’s back tattoo is PRETTY!!

    “You caught me red-handed” – *ROTFLMAO*

    While his neck down makeover is pretty cool, I LOVE what you did from the neck up! He TOTALLY looks the part now! :O) And he’s handsome, too.

    Wow … a lone sim lives in that great big house?! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!! O__o *blinks* How the hell did they get a window on the side of the pool?!?!?! But wow … DeAndre drinks … a LOT! o__O

    Loving Benny’s face in that last shot. *LOL*

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    Why is it that when sims paint using the large, medium, large option (as opposed to paint still life or paint portrait), the paintings ROCK! As soon as they try still life … meh. Although, I guess my sim-self painted a good one. But the PORTRAITS!! Ugh … =__=

    Maybe furniture can’t be consigned? I dunno. I haven’t explored the sculpting side of things yet.

    That ice sculpture … *ROTFLMAO*

    Georgia is GORGEOUS!

    Aside from the uni-brow, I don’t think Juan is all that bad. His face has character! Hell, that could be Don Lothario in his golden years, right? *LOL*

    Heh. I’ve seen that over-makeup’d woman before as well. I was like “WTFBBQ!!” *LOL*

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    I really love Gibby’s (heh … Gibby) nose – it’s so aquiline! :O)

    Wow … Chase is … uhh … yeah. But I’m sure if you gave he a nice makeover, it would “soften” things up a bit … especially around the eyes, right? :O)

    Aww … when Gibby became a YA, he lost that hair I like so much. Love that shot of him blowing shit up though. *LOL* I love how you describe him though – sounds like a great personal ad. *LOL*

    You are such a task-mistress, jenba. :O))

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    Nice save trying to get the spare her LTW before the 3 days is up by sending them to France. *LOL* Brilliant! Love that look on her face though when she’s looking into the camera while sitting at the chess table. The caption is 100% accurate. :O)

    *LOL* at Vi singing outdoors … Julie Andrews moment … *snicker*

    *blinks* They REALLY had him running around finding dates??? *blinks* Interesting! I love that one shot of him where he’s talking to the brunette, an the sun is setting. I love his expression. He’s one handsome sim, jenba.

    Llamas and feather dusters? KINKY!!

    Congrats to Georgia on getting that one last logic skill point! Way to go!

    Your score sheet is shaping up quite nicely!! Great update as usual!

    • Woot, long comment! Enjoyable as always, thanks, Ange! Re: the baking stand, you’re right, it was kind of random — I didn’t do a proper lead-in to that. It’s just a new object in Ambitions that I wanted to try out for fun. Georgia’s actually a terrible cook and would have much rather been jumping on the trampoline. ;) Re: tattoos, I forgot to mention Vi got one, too (she rolled up a wish for it), but it’s on her lower back, so it’s not noticeable. Anyway, she reacted just like your sim-self did — she just watched the tattoo artist at work. Heh. I like that Sims react differently based on their personalities.

      I agree that still lifes and portraits don’t turn out very well. It’s too bad. And Juan’s face DOES have a lot of character, but…yikes! How can you compare him to the Don?? Don’s so much cuter! Heh.

  4. most excellent make over, most excellent heir, most excellent job well done and ya that last one was lame.
    Really though you did a fab job getting everything accomplished. I look forward to seeing what lil Giddy Gibby will be up to next!

  5. Glad to see you’re messing with Twinbrook. It’s a bit of a weird neighborhood, but that swamp makes for some beautiful pictures.

    Once again I’m tempted to start making my way through the lifetime wishes like you’re doing. I started it right before Ambitions came out but only made it about halfway through. Plus, things would keep getting buggy, so I would have to start a new neighborhood and a new family every time. Oh, and then there’s the fact that the adventures don’t reset, so attempting to have someone do the Seasoned Traveler wish after a few Sims before him have gone on random vacations – it makes it difficult to get all those visa points when all you can do is run back and forth giving messages to people instead of getting the big points from completing tombs.

    I’ve been having issues with the consignment store as well. Have you tried putting the objects in the family inventory from the buy/build screen? I haven’t tried that yet, but I don’t think that works either. I salvaged a few items from the junkyard, which then popped into my family inventory, and those wouldn’t show up on my “Consign” screen, so I imagine sculpted objects are the same. Apparently only things that can be moved to the backpack can be consigned. I find it silly that furniture can’t be moved into there, anyway, but now that there’s this whole salvage aspect to the game, it makes even less sense that those items can’t be sold there. NOTE: If you see the globe sculpture in the junkyard, don’t salvage it. It will just get stuck in your backpack with no way to ditch it (unless you do like I did and use the SuperComputer to transfer it to some poor unsuspecting sim in the neighborhood).

    Something else that you probably have or will notice – selling paintings or inventions through the consignment store…doesn’t advance your self-employed career. Dumb.

  6. Penny Pincher was giving him money for his services. That is seriously messed up.

    And seriously hilarious. I about died laughing. XD

    And Gwayne looks.. at first, I couldn’t tell if it was a male or female sim (the ice scuplture was fantastic, though, lol!).

    Georgia is adorable as both a kid and a teen. My sim kids always look like hideous piles of mushy playdoh. :|

    Juan Darer definitely wins awards for fugly. Holy cow. D:

    And is that FOG in that last picture? It looks awesome!

  7. I’ve always been a bit of a lurker.. love your stories by the way, I’ve been following them since Maude =] .. but that picture of Chase Bayless had me laughing SO hard I just had to comment, you had me rotfl!!

  8. Okay… Juan Darer is more horrifying than I anticipated, OMG! How did I miss him?? My eyes!!

    And how crazy is that muffin stand? I found it on Monday, my child sim rolled up a wish and I was like, ‘what is that?’ So strange and so completely useless. I haven’t found a purpose for it yet aside from making some cheap money off child labor, LOL! It’s a “cute idea”, though, I guess. ;)

  9. Ha, that Juan looks a bit like a caricature I saw once of the MAD artist Sergio Aragones! And what’s with Chase? Did Someone Up There give her an extra twist before popping her out into the world? Erky! Great update!

  10. Love the ice sculpture of Gwayne! Sorta looks like a WoW toon. Did anyone else think of “Wayne’s World” in the shot with her posing?

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