I remember PETA papering our campus with anti-turkey literature every time Thanksgiving rolled around.  I remember wondering if they had any idea of how many trees they'd killed, amount of chemicals in the dye (they were very brightly coloured, as well as shiny - is that a statement about college mentality, or theirs?), and how many tons of litter they'd just produced.

So, I've spent some time following threads here, reading Coconut's blog, poking about through other sites - heck, I even combed through TSR to see if they had any information other than "shiny happy people" (they didn't) - and I've come to a conclusion most of you already reached quite some time ago: EA and TSR just don't care.

They don't care about the rules, about what's right, or about any of the people who actually play the game, buy the subscriptions, and make up the community.  This doesn't surprise me about TSR; they've edited my posts in their forums (all two of them - I refuse to be active on a forum that slashes your posts and refuses to tell you why), the quality of their downloads is crap, and the few that I did like enough to dl looked nothing like the preview pictures and/or borked my game.  Once Aikea Guinea and Gelydh left, I had no reason to subscribe.  (I really wish I knew about the booty long ago!)

EA is what really surprised me.  I hadn't paid much attention when The Sims was no longer Maxis-owned.  Heck, I still called it Maxis up until a couple weeks ago.  But the things EA has been doing...  Okay, their little 'anti-piracy' program annoyed me, but it seemed on par with all the piracy overreaction that seemed to be going on everywhere.  But the setup for their games, not allowing you to install it more than a set number of times, that really ticked me off.  I said never mind to Spore.  They're getting flooded by angry customers over the paysite issue, among many other things, and they have no response to it at all (I'll change that when a person higher up than some board moderator says something).  So they ignore customers completely - getting me angrier. 

And now they (possibly - probably?) want to prevent players from making custom content for TS3?!  Don't they realise that cc is the primary reason a heck of a lot of people even play the stupid game?  I've been more and more annoyed with the borked-ness of the EPs, but I pop over to MTS2 or, more recently, WickedNouk sites, and find nifty content that I simply must have.  And then I play again, with Pescado's hacks to fix the more broken/obnoxious aspects.

I'm not buying TS3.  I've been on the fence about this for a while, but I'm just so disgusted with EA and TSR - the latter for manipulating and screwing over the community and making all this drama in the first place, and the former for ignoring the community and encouraging the money-grubbing drama whores.

All right, I'm way past tl;dr right now, so I'm just gonna /rant and make a sammich or something.  Thank you for your time.  Feel free to throw cats if necessary.  Or if bored.  I like cats...

Meeses bit my sisters once twice.

*runs away*

I don't know about you guys, but I never wear underwear when I'm working out in my transparent leotard and kindergarten rainboots matching socks.

And rig it to blow? 

Even S&M requires some creativity and enthusiasm, though.

How about: They're really into... um...

Er...

They're not really into much, are they?


This may be ancient news, but here's a lovely dress by Cashcraft.  (And now I know why that name is so apt.  I think I'll be fuming about this for a while.)



Perfect for your office Christmas party!