User:DisGraw

About me
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I've been enthralled by The Sims since the beginning. I was fascinated by the first game, I fell in love with the second game, and now the third game is capturing my imagination. I don't even have the third game, and I may not for some time to come.

Sometimes it seems as though I have even more fun simply creating and furnishing homes than I do playing the families. I have never uploaded any lots because I never considered myself particularly good at it. It has recently occurred to me, however, that while many of the lots available for download are indeed visually impressive, they're not very practical. One Sims 2 lot caused whoever was gardening to get stuck in a loop because many of the plants were inaccessible, some placed one atop another. So although the lots I build may not look stunning, they're quite functional, and I am getting better at making them look less ugly.

The Sims

 * Livin' Large
 * House Party
 * Hot Date

The Sims 2

 * University
 * Nightlife
 * Open for Business
 * Family Fun Stuff
 * Glamour Life Stuff
 * Pets
 * Happy Holiday Stuff
 * Seasons
 * Celebration! Stuff
 * H&amp;M® Fashion Stuff
 * Bon Voyage
 * Teen Style Stuff
 * FreeTime
 * Kitchen &amp; Bath Interior Design Stuff
 * IKEA® Home Stuff
 * Apartment Life
 * Mansion &amp; Garden Stuff

My game right now
I have one rather densely populated neighborhood filled with a wide array of genetics just waiting to be interbred. There's my Lobo family of fake werewolves, made with a custom wolfman skin created before Pets came out; there's my Bonaparte family, made with a custom skeleton skin; there's my Cthulhu family, made with ... well, you get the idea. I also have two different "alien" families: one blue with neon lips and hair and one pink with full-face makeup and elf ears; a brother-sister household who are vampires (made properly with Nightlife); a young widow who lives on a haunted lot with her zombie husband; and Eric Draven from The Crow.

The household I'm working on right now started with a man and a woman, whom I gave very different genetics. Then, using a cheat, I made him Alien pregnant and made her Grim Reaper pregnant. A few days later, I made her Alien pregnant and him Grim Reaper pregnant. Both Alien children are boys and both Grim Reaper children are girls. I'd been hoping to mix it up, but perhaps that's just how it works.

In a moment of "what was I thinking," I went into a different neighborhood and re-created my apartment, along with my boyfriend and me. Aside from certain ways in which the game is just going to differ from reality, the similarities are so striking as to be bizarre and often surreal. I'm honestly not sure whether to be amused or afraid.

My contributions
I'm a stickler for proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and usage. Rather than add new content, I tend to clean up articles as I find them to give them a more professional polish. It's amazing the difference re-phrasing something can make. I confess I can be a bit absent-minded and frequently hit "Save page" when I mean to hit "Preview," thus unnecessarily skyrocketing the number of edits I officially make.


 * My contributions