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Re: The Dwarf Dynasty + I'm Surrounded by Idiots Challenge in one
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2011, 08:27:40 AM »
I agree, the first one is really clear, just a little dark, whereas the second is clear, but hazy. :)
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Re: The Dwarf Dynasty + I'm Surrounded by Idiots Challenge in one
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2011, 06:56:03 PM »
Looking at the first picture, I would ask the Sim to turn on a light or something.

Looking at the second picture, my impulse would be to adjust my monitor.
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« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2011, 08:59:18 AM »
I love the theme you have going! I can't wait to see how this story plays out. :)




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Re: The Dwarf Dynasty + I'm Surrounded by Idiots Challenge in one
« Reply #18 on: March 04, 2011, 09:55:40 AM »
I'm not sure if the gamma on my monitor is set the way most people's is.  Can people please tell me which looks better on their monitor, the first or second picture?

The first picture is obviously darker, but seems more accurate to me. The 2nd has an odd effect to it — like a filter or something.

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« Reply #19 on: March 04, 2011, 09:27:38 PM »
Thanks for your feedback.  Next time I have dark pictures I won't brighten them as much as I did this time.

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« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2011, 12:06:42 AM »
Bashful Gets a Mind of His Own

Harry managed to finish leveling his photography skill up to 10.  He felt that taking pictures of some things daily was the way to do it, especially if they were around the house.  The cemetery also had at least 4 good things to take pictures of.  He used his new photography skills to take a picture of Snow White as a young adult, and will be able to take pictures of every stage of Bashful's life for the immortal museum (except baby, of course).  I made sure to get another picture of Bashful as a baby, though, right before he became a toddler.  As you can see, I'm not real big on birthday parties.



Once Bashful became a toddler, there was much more to do.  He had to learn to walk and talk and use the potty.  Snow White wanted to make sure that she took part in this process, so she taught him to talk.



When Bashful wasn't learning these skills, he was reading painting books like a good little boy.  All I had to do was put him in a room with just the book I wanted him to read and a radio, and he did it on his own.



When Harry wasn't teaching Bashful anything, he was either upgrading things in the house, or sculpting.





Soon he had everything in the house upgraded, including upgrading the stove to make tastier meals.  He had much to do in sculpting however, and would continue for a long time.  Snow White continued working in and expanding her garden.  Though she tended to her garden every day, some days were worse than others.  Look at all the weeds!  She still hasn't gotten the opportunity that will teach her to plant eggs and cheese.



Snow White even turned into an adult while working in her garden.  The only thing that changed when she aged up was her hairstyle, which still looks Snow White appropriate.



The next birthday to happen was Bashful's.  He even got a birthday party.  When he aged up he gained the perfectionist trait.



Only his parents were there to watch him blow out the candles, but lots more people came to eat cake afterwards.





Finally, we have Harry's adult birthday.  He didn't have a party, and didn't seem too happy after he aged up.





Bashful was a pretty good kid.  He wasn't very good about getting to bed on time, and would often go to school without enough sleep.  However, he did his homework and painted in his free time.  When he wasn't doing either of these things or taking care of his needs, his parents would encourage him to develop his skills and he would obediently go and start painting, while Harry sculpted in a nearby room.



Snow White now has both cooking and gardening maxed, and has started working on fishing.  We'll see what she can supermax first.  Interestingly, the game also said that she had been cheating on Harry.  I don't know when she did it, because I never told her to, and always has something queued up.  She also doesn't have any romantic interests.  She's a sneaky one.  Her and Harry have managed to reconcile their relationship, but he still has the option to badmouth her if he wants, and she still has the option to confess to cheating.  They won't be doing either of those things, unless they can act without my knowledge again.

Snow White has accomplished:
Building owned:  diner (complete, but still needs to buy a property)
Unique lifetime rewards:  super green thumb, no bills ever, bookshop bargainer (complete)
Best Friends:  Barry Tenderlove, Wayne Bumble, Odine Perry, Alexy Fresco, Harry Dwarf
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Re: The Dwarf Dynasty + I'm Surrounded by Idiots Challenge in one
« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2011, 12:17:31 AM »
Happy birthday Harry, Snow White and Bashful!



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« Reply #22 on: March 10, 2011, 12:42:56 AM »
Wow talk about a mystery paramour, even she doesn't know him!  That's funny :)
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« Reply #23 on: March 10, 2011, 05:32:19 AM »
Happy birthday everyone! I love the idea and the whole dynasty.
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« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2011, 08:24:38 PM »
Sometimes I think it would be good if there was a 'memories' tab that we could click on - at least that way you'd know just what Snow White had been up to whilst you weren't looking.  ;)

You seem to have solved the brightness problem on the pictures too. I found this update much easier to see. Did I spy a pile of death flowers on the floor in the room in which Bashful is painting?  I was also amused by Harry's birthday pose and the flipflops that he's wearing with his suit.

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« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2011, 12:00:25 PM »
Sometimes I think it would be good if there was a 'memories' tab that we could click on - at least that way you'd know just what Snow White had been up to whilst you weren't looking.  ;)

You seem to have solved the brightness problem on the pictures too. I found this update much easier to see. Did I spy a pile of death flowers on the floor in the room in which Bashful is painting?  I was also amused by Harry's birthday pose and the flipflops that he's wearing with his suit.

I tried taking as many pictures as I could during the day.  Last time I had a lot of night pictures, which I brightened before posting.  I guess they didn't look as good on most people's computers as they looked on mine. 

That is a pile of deathflowers.  I wasn't sure where else to put them, since I couldn't have them in people's inventories.  I'm thinking now that the family inventory would also work, though. 

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Re: The Dwarf Dynasty + I'm Surrounded by Idiots Challenge in one
« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2011, 12:58:05 PM »
What an original idea! It is such a wonderful concept, fairy tale, dynasty and challenge! Can't wait to see how you'll manage all that! So far it is great and story is very interesting.

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« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2011, 10:45:51 PM »
Snow White's Great Success

Shortly after my last update, Snow White got the opportunities to learn to plant eggs and cheese, and then the one to learn to plant steak and hamburgers.  That was a great relief because learning to plant these allowed her to supermax gardening.  She also reached the top of the culinary career and bought the Butterfly Esplanade.  Since she loves the outdoors, the Butterfly Esplanade was just her kind of place.  Interestingly, in order to upgrade it, she had a specific list of items that were required to be added, rather than just a numerical value.  It was inexpensive to upgrade though, and was fully upgraded by the next day.

Meanwhile, Bashful reached the end of his childhood.  He gained the trait of savvy sculptor when he aged up.



He managed to achieve level 8 painting as a child, which will greatly help him in the future.  He'll be focusing on mastering painting and doing some sculpting during his teen years.  Here he is sculpting his first sculpture, after he had painting mastered.



It was easy enough to get him to sculpt.  After removing all the painting easels, either he'd do it on his own or one of his parents would encourage him to improve his skills, causing him to go sculpt.  If he didn't finish his sculpture in one session though, he refused to go and continue sculpting, so the sculpture would have to be scrapped.  Harry also was busy sculpting during Bashful's teen years, and managed to have it supermaxed right before Snow White aged up into an elder.  Her adult ice sculpture was the first one to go into the museum.  Later that day, Snow White aged up into an elder while she was out catching bait for deathfish.



Snow White retired so that she could have more time to finish up the very last of her ambrosia requirements and catch some more deathfish before she ate ambrosia.



The day after Snow White became an elder, Bashful turned into a young adult. 





It looks like he's practicing for the kind of birthday expressions that Harry has.  He's not quite there yet, though.  His young adult birthday meant that Snow White would have to hurry up and pass on the torch, especially since now he was too old for her to encourage him to develop his skills.  It took her two or three days to finish making her best friends;  she had to make an extra one since her old boss Alexy Fresco had died.  She also planted and fertilized a bunch of life fruit plants during this time, which Harry would take over tending, and got Harry to do her elder portrait, photograph, and sculpture.  She had only caught around 30 deathfish at this point, so either she's going to have to autonomously fish for the rest (not likely), buy and abuse a food replicator, or have someone else catch some more deathfish.  While she was taking care of this, Harry had his elder birthday.  It looks like he's even less happy about this birthday than the last one.  Makes sense I guess.



Snow White finished off her ambrosia requirements, prepared some ambrosia and ate it.



After that it was time for her to go to sleep.  That was the last command I gave her before passing the torch on to Bashful.  Harry went off to the library to prepare for his new gardening responsibilities.



Snow White has accomplished:
Lifetime wish:  Five-Star Chef (complete)
Max a career:  culinary (complete)
Supermax a skill:  gardening (complete)
Building owned:  diner (complete)
Property owned and fully upgraded:  Butterfly Esplanade (complete)
Unique lifetime rewards:  No Bills Ever, Super Green Thumb, Bookshop Bargainer (complete)
Best Friends:  Harry Dwarf, Wayne Bumble, Odine Perry, Barry Tenderlove, Vladimir Schlick, Lil Bling (complete)
BlackOps:  Grape-Aid, Excellence You Can Taste!, Outstanding Tasting Ingredients, The Fruit of Life, From One Chef to Another, uncommonly good (complete)
Portraits in museum:  young adult, adult, elder (complete) 

Snow White ate ambrosia and passed the torch on to Bashful at the age of 76 days.


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« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2011, 10:53:25 PM »
Happy birthday everyone! Congrats on Immortality Snow White!

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« Reply #29 on: March 17, 2011, 01:04:27 AM »
Congrats on achieving Immortality, Snow White! Hello Bashful (hope he's not too shy!)
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