Happy Halloween!

I was going to embed a Sims Thriller music video, but that backfired. :(

But I’ll link them here.

Short Thriller Video. 

Longer Thriller Video.

They’re both pretty good.

Have a safe and fun Halloween! Remember not to eat any unwrapped candy. :P

Trick or trEAt: EA Edition

I’ve been avoiding the Fast Lane Patch, because I didn’t find anything in there worth getting. ArmenianTwin95 and I decided to get the new patch for Late Night, though, because we liked those features. But sadly, it wasn’t as easy as just pressing the “Update Now” Button. At first, we got messages that said we didn’t have the “qtcore4.dll" thing. After reinstalling the EADM for the qtcore4.dll, though the problem wasn’t solved. Typical EA. The update came, but the game didn’t work, coming with this message:

So it’s telling me that I need to update my game, even if it says that “Your game is up to date,” I have version 4.5., the “Update Now button’s grayed out, and the bottom left corner has Late Night’s and Fast Lane’s icon things? Major Fail.

Now, we can’t get into the game, at all.

Any help at all?

Why I Like Roseanne

So recently, after having nothing else to watch on a Friday night, I decided to watch Roseanne. Before you head to the comment box and say “WHY?” remember this is the person who finds The Nanny, Mel & Joe, and Disney and Nick Kidcoms tolerable, so… yeah. But yeah, the show soon grew on to me for a couple of reasons:

• The theme song’s catchy.
• Roseanne doesn’t care about what others think. She doesn’t change herself for other people.
• The show makes me laugh. Like actually laugh. The jokes are somewhat sarcastic, but it also relies on other types of humor. “Springtime for David” made me laugh out loud a lot, seeing that it was kind of making fun of Six Flags and Disney World.
• The finale was interesting. Yeah sure, it was a complete disappointment to long time fans, but the last part was somewhat insightful. And I got sad just by watching the finale on Youtube without knowing much about the series.
• It’s from the nineties. That gives the show like ten more points in my book. :D

I avoided the show like the plague bad CC trolls when it was on nick@nite, partially because I thought it would be bad fat jokes, and because I was 9, and, well, I wouldn’t get how it was funny.

I also like How I Met Your Mother now.

My Problem with Total Drama

As I’ve been watching Total Drama, I’ve noticed one thing in general: How the show seems to revolve around one love polygon, and Owen. I’ve illustrated this below.

Seriously, the characters on the bottom have less air time. On the three seasons of Total Drama, 3 of those contestants have only competed once, six of them have only competed twice, and none of them have won. (Okay, so one of them won in an alternate ending, but yeah).

Owen (AKA ‘farts a lot’) makes it pretty far each season, more so because without him, toilet humor couldn’t be used. He seems to be is the show’s resident comic relief, even though they could still fill that place in.

But yeah, for the most part, Total Drama always focuses on the same handful of characters, leaving a lot flat.

Ugh –_-

Thanks to trolls, every blog has become less interesting. Seriously, now every blog has to disable comments/delete posts/shut down completely because of trolls. Or they’ve had less interesting posts. I’m not referring to anyone specifically, but I miss the ‘old’ blogosphere. Like a couple months back.

And today, at my school, people dressed up for Halloween. Trolls were walking around unmasked. I’d talk about it, but it’s a long story and I’d rather remain anonymous. Let’s just say ‘popular people who befriend others for the lulz’ were being, well, themselves.

In other news, Snooki seemed to take over my school today, which is weird because people wear “Jersey Shore” sweatshirts on a daily basis.

Reborn or Repasted?

As good as this hair is, why does it look so much like a wig? It looks like the Sim-models are bald and they’re just wearing this as a wig. It looks unnatural. Even for Newsea.

And could someone tell me if their Sims are that pale without CAS? Seriously, why can’t Newsea pick more natural skintones? Or at least anything other than this usual one.

Child Stars

Recently, Miley Cyrus has added another item to her list of controversies- a video in which she’s wearing close to nothing, while writhing on her bed. The Parent’s Television Council is pissed off at her for being a bad role model, especially since Hannah Montana’s still airing on Disney. And by the way, Miley’s dad’s on the PTC, and he supports Miley’s behavior, so… yeah.

I don’t really care that she’s doing this, I mean, girls her age in high school dress the same (but with more affordable clothes), and some of them do worse. And besides, Jamie Lynn Spears, another child star, actually got pregnant, so Miley’s acts still aren’t that bad. And personally, I think that girls in her Hannah Montana target age probably get influenced by the high schoolers they see at the mall just as much as they get influenced by Hannah Montana. And at this point, who really likes Miley, as her or her alter ego?

I’m more annoyed by her impatience than her lack of morals. Couldn’t she just wait to release this album once Hannah Montana ended in March? Couldn’t she just practice singing until then, so she could, oh I don’t know, have some talent?

And while it’s somewhat good to see Miley defending herself over these controversies instead of relying on the Mouse House to defend her, I think that it’s annoying to see her go like “I do it for the art. My true fans will understand,” for like everything.

But yeah, the PTC is acting like she’s so influential, even though two or three years from now she’ll be forgotten about, or the next Lindsay Lohan. Only time will tell.

And speaking of child stars graduating the Mouse House Academy of Stardom, Selena Gomez is working on her last season for Wizards of Waverly Place. She also has a music career, which is going kind of better because she doesn’t have a controversy for each single she releases. Plus, I actually hear her music on the radio.

So once these two leave the Mouse House for good, who’ll take their place as the “Tween Star It Girl(s)”? I doubt Demi Lovato or Bridgette Mendler will be a good replacement, seeing as Demi’s hated for her smile and Camp Rock, and Bridgette hasn’t been that popular. Maybe it will be the new Shake it Up! tweens, who look scarily skinny, and too young. And Debby Ryan probably won’t be one, because she plays a smart character on SLOD, which won’t get her that far. And Brenda Song’s too old.

It looks like Nickelodeon’s trying to replace Miley/Selena with Miranda Cosgrove and/or Victoria Justice. Miranda’s been getting a lot of attention on her singing, and they even included it in an iCarly episode. Plus, TPTB at Nickelodeon are dressing her up more and more each season of iCarly.

Victoria Justice, well her whole Nick career is more or less Nick overpromoting her. She began with a ‘normal’ career on Zoey 101 in 2005 to 2008, and by 2009, she was in a Nickelodeon TV movie, appeared in The Naked Brothers Band (Yes, that really was a name of a show), iCarly, and True Jackson VP. By 2010, her ‘fame’ grew even more, seeing as she got her own cash cow franchise show, Victorious, and guest starred on The Troop, and lent her voice to an episode of The Penguins of Madagascar. She also will have her show crossover with iCarly, and will have another Nick TV movie tonight.

Dan Schneider has to stop trying so hard to make the next “Tween Star It Girl”. His (Or Nick’s) are blatantly obvious. Especially since iCarly will soon become the “Look how pretty/smart/funny/awesome/perfect Carly is! Look at what Spencer’s gonna do next!” if he keeps on going this.

At the end of the day, though, they’re all child stars, who’ll either suffer from their current fame, or shine with their talent. And all that matters to the Mouse House and the Spongebob company is how much merchandise these girls will sell.

Nothing to Blog About

There hasn't been much to really blog about in the past week, which is why I haven't blogged about anything (obviously). I've had too much homework to blog about random stuff, too.

The only interesting thing that happened this week is probably just The View/Bill O'Rielly(sp?) spat. I'm not going to talk about it, though, because I don't really like debating politics on the Internet.

Fran Drescher is getting a talk show, called "The Fran Drescher Tawk Show" or something like that. It's going to start Black Friday, aka the day after Thanksgiving/ materialism at its worst. I'm kind of glad for her. Even if people find her voice annoying, she's a nice person. The talk show will be on for a three week trial run, so good luck to her. It'll be on Fox.

And Jarsie9's been banned from the forums! Looks like her "Bribe the mods" fund finally became empty.

The Golden Question

Sidenote: My thoughts on EA’s latest shenanigans/atrocities are indifferent from most Simmer’s, so I’m not going to bother making a blog post about it, since I’d just restate the same thing. All I could really say is, at least I’m saving my money boycotting them, because I won’t want to buy Late Night or The Sims 3 Console. And is Late Night really coming out in a couple of weeks? Gah, too fast. It feels like Sims 4 will be coming out next year or something. .-. Okay, so this was still a lot, but whatever.

Tomorrow is Columbus Day, and depending on what school you go to (In America), you either have a half day, full day, or no school. There are also plenty of good deals on mattresses, cars, clothes, vacuums, and other stuff. But why? I know it’s a cheap marketing ploy, but what are the stores’ excuses? “We’re remembering Columbus discovering America by giving you a good mattress”? Ugh, it baffles me.

And then there’s the whole debate/controversy on whether this day should even be celebrated, but I’m not going to get into that.

But really, why should we get household appliances for less because an explorer found America? The two stuff are completely unrelated.

Old McDonald had a Farmville…

Is McDonald’s even allowed to do this? Advertising fast food on a video game? How low can you go?

I mean, yeah sure, I eat McDonald’s once in a while, but still, this disgusts me. Especially how they have the ® there, too

If it’s functioning properly, then DON’T TRY TO FIX IT

Warning: The following blog post will be in an angry tone. Remember, this has both the Rantdom and bad mood tags, so it’s going to be, well, angry. If you dislike complaining, close this tab now.

So I have a desktop computer which my parents got for the entire family in 2004. The desktop became slow in 2007ish thanks to plenty of computer games, but still functional. Last year, it became irritably slow(As in, 20ish minutes to open the Internet, 1 minute to respond to simple clicks), but I didn’t really use it that much. This year, it became worse. As in, “Mozilla Firefox is not responding, End Now” every hour or so. Again, I don’t really use it that much, and if it wasn’t the only computer that could access the printer, it’d be forgotten about.

My dad got this new desktop last year, and he only uses it for internet searching. He’s highly overprotective of it, and if something goes wrong on it, my brother and/or I will be the first blamed.

Last week, my dad asked me how the desktop was going. I told him “Slow, barely functional”. Guess how he responded? “If you’re going to always be online, you better know how to fix computers. I’m sick of you complaining about it if you can’t fix it.”

I guess this first sentence was true, but definitely not the second part. Usually, I open the computer an hour or so before I need to use it, and I do my other homework while I wait for it to load.

Tuesday, my dad invited my cousin over to fix the computer. And by fix, I mean install the meaningless crappy updates. Yesterday, I had to print something out, and guess what?

The computer’s lag didn’t improve. Every window still had the “End Now” messages, and to add insult to injury, now the printer didn’t even work. (My brother pretty much summed up everything about the printer’s problems here). When I told my dad about it, he just said “It’s your computer, you fix it”.

WARNING: ANGER PART OF POST WILL HAPPEN NOW.

REALLY? THAT’S your ADVICE?!? YOU WERE THE ONE WHO DECIDED TO UPDATE IT, YOU FIX IT.

Seriously, I had no problem waiting for it to load while doing other things.

And now I have to print something out. Lucky me.

And for the most part, we’ve tried uninstalling things that we don’t use, but the computer’s telling us that “It wasn’t installed properly. Reinstall it, then uninstall it.” But we’ve lost the computer game discs, so… yeah.

More Mel & Joe News

So, when did this blog become the Mel & Joe blog? Sometime last week, apparently. :P Matthew Lawrence, of Boy Meets World fame, is going to star on Mel & Joe on November 2 allegedly. He’s Joe Lawrence’s younger brother.

And today’s episode was better than last week’s Dancing with the Stars special. Yeah, sure, the Lennox subplot was kind of controversial(Well, for Robert Pattinson’s standards, not ABC Family’s, anyway), but it kind of made me laugh. And she had the most ‘depth’ in today’s episode. Next week’s episode looks like it’s going to be about her. Specifically, “Mel and Joe team up to invade Lennox’s privacy, and find out she’s dating some leather wearing motorcyclist or a football player.” But still, I’ll probably watch.

Some Simming Stuff

This weekend, two interesting things happened on the Sim-blogosphere:

TS3's Creative Community: This is a blog ran by xXAngelicEvilXx/ AE. If you haven't checked it out before, it's a a troll-less version of MySims3Blog. It's for people who want constructive criticism, not just anonymous people bashing their work.


HarmonySims's 100 Baby Challenge: This was a challenge in where HarmonySims' Sim, Cadence Sierra, wants to raise 100 babies. Recently, she hit the milestone. So congratulations to her!

Congratulations, Mel & Joe?

Recently, ABC Family has ordered new episodes of Mel & Joe, their latest attempt at a comedy. I guess this is good, because the show could maybe improve with these 10-12 episodes.

ABC Family’s attempts at keeping this show interesting are somewhat completely obvious/blatant. This week’s episode was, “Dancing with the Stars of Toledo” was supposed to air last week, but they (probably) changed it last minute so it could air this week, versus Glee’s episode of “Britney/Brittany”. I guess they thought Dancing with the Stars guest stars could compete (and win) against Britney Spears.

And they’re only eight episodes in, and they’ve already begun romantic angst between the titular characters.