Lately I've been getting 20 minutes to 2 hours of sleep each night. Naturally, my attention span is destroyed during the day and I take naps. I heard you can only go as far as 14 days without getting any sleep at all, and then death. I'm wondering how I've made it this far, but I'll do whatever it takes to at least make it to see all the good movies coming out.
Anyway, my last nap was actually pleasant. I've had three naps today and the first two were okay, as far as dreams are con-cerned...Except they only gave me three hours of extra sleep com-bined, and I was woken up by thumping and banging. Apparently I'd built this strange home in Sims 3, with a tall tower in the middle of a platform with stairs going up to the ground. And then I had to fence off the stairs because there were two zombies and a burglar on my lot.
My third dream was....pretty cool, actually. Shame it ended so soon. I was playing Sims 3 again, using the lifetime happiness cheat. (Fun fact; in real life, I used it to get to 2 million.) Except, somewhere along the line, it got mixed up with Avakin Life, and I was using the cheat to get limitless coins. I went crazy buying stuff. And then, naturally, I woke up and was disappointed. Ughh...Coins are so hard to come by in this game. Unless you have real money you can blow on it. Which I don't, sadly.
It was a good pick-me-up, because in my dream I'd read an article that Helen Mirren had died. Just sucks, how expensive everything is in this game. Oh, sure, they finally added that waitress job, so you're not getting 250 coins every 5 months, but a simple name change costs 5,000 coins. A car, which has zero function, costs up to 199,999. For my goal I need 2,696. Sometimes people don't order. Or they do, and then leave before you can bring them their item. You can earn as little as 3 coins per job. My highest has been 30. Sometimes you meet generous people who order all damn day; I finally got up to 567 coins. Near my goal? Not at all.
I'd say it's not worth it, if I had something else going on. I'm busting my ass trying to write books, and no one cares. I'm trying to be excited about how far I've gotten, but I'm not even sure if they're half-decent.
Long story short, this affordability problem is exactly why I planned a game where everything is free until you click Save. It's an awesome game. It's so modern and smooth. The character's wrists wouldn't cave in like the Sims' wrists do. You could grab the character's hair and move it around to make it curl however you want. All name changes free forever. I just want a game where you can use your imagination without worrying about fake finances! Where do all these fake coins go, anyway? I'm not putting real money into it, so how does it benefit the company? Is it like a Bitcoin deal?
There's this feature called a Build Machine. If the item has a blue box in the top right corner, you can use the Build Machine to slowly lower its price until the item is free. Very handy; I garbed my girl for Halloween and Christmas at zero cost. But you have to wait as long as a month to get a dress. And if your game is like mine, one day the dress will disappear, never to be found again even though there is no delete button. You can't sell anything you own; which sucks, because I know I won't reach my goal. Well. Maybe by next year. How sad is that? I remember a time when I completed my New Year's Resolution on the first day of January. Bought this computer. Now it's six years old.
Oh, I know, I know. No one cares. Why did you read to this point? Look at it all! It's a longer block of text than my book had been for the first 11 years of its life!
Anyway, my last nap was actually pleasant. I've had three naps today and the first two were okay, as far as dreams are con-cerned...Except they only gave me three hours of extra sleep com-bined, and I was woken up by thumping and banging. Apparently I'd built this strange home in Sims 3, with a tall tower in the middle of a platform with stairs going up to the ground. And then I had to fence off the stairs because there were two zombies and a burglar on my lot.
My third dream was....pretty cool, actually. Shame it ended so soon. I was playing Sims 3 again, using the lifetime happiness cheat. (Fun fact; in real life, I used it to get to 2 million.) Except, somewhere along the line, it got mixed up with Avakin Life, and I was using the cheat to get limitless coins. I went crazy buying stuff. And then, naturally, I woke up and was disappointed. Ughh...Coins are so hard to come by in this game. Unless you have real money you can blow on it. Which I don't, sadly.
It was a good pick-me-up, because in my dream I'd read an article that Helen Mirren had died. Just sucks, how expensive everything is in this game. Oh, sure, they finally added that waitress job, so you're not getting 250 coins every 5 months, but a simple name change costs 5,000 coins. A car, which has zero function, costs up to 199,999. For my goal I need 2,696. Sometimes people don't order. Or they do, and then leave before you can bring them their item. You can earn as little as 3 coins per job. My highest has been 30. Sometimes you meet generous people who order all damn day; I finally got up to 567 coins. Near my goal? Not at all.
I'd say it's not worth it, if I had something else going on. I'm busting my ass trying to write books, and no one cares. I'm trying to be excited about how far I've gotten, but I'm not even sure if they're half-decent.
Long story short, this affordability problem is exactly why I planned a game where everything is free until you click Save. It's an awesome game. It's so modern and smooth. The character's wrists wouldn't cave in like the Sims' wrists do. You could grab the character's hair and move it around to make it curl however you want. All name changes free forever. I just want a game where you can use your imagination without worrying about fake finances! Where do all these fake coins go, anyway? I'm not putting real money into it, so how does it benefit the company? Is it like a Bitcoin deal?
There's this feature called a Build Machine. If the item has a blue box in the top right corner, you can use the Build Machine to slowly lower its price until the item is free. Very handy; I garbed my girl for Halloween and Christmas at zero cost. But you have to wait as long as a month to get a dress. And if your game is like mine, one day the dress will disappear, never to be found again even though there is no delete button. You can't sell anything you own; which sucks, because I know I won't reach my goal. Well. Maybe by next year. How sad is that? I remember a time when I completed my New Year's Resolution on the first day of January. Bought this computer. Now it's six years old.
Oh, I know, I know. No one cares. Why did you read to this point? Look at it all! It's a longer block of text than my book had been for the first 11 years of its life!
I don't think virtual currency spent in-game benefits the game's developers/creators; I think it's just to make the game more challenging and realistic.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you can go a lot longer than fourteen days without sleep; I've gone months without sleeping - sometimes I just don't feel the need :p Of course, at that point I started worrying something was wrong with me and I got some pills to boost me into sleep ... I took maybe two altogether and as soon as I had gotten some sleep, I stopped taking them; my natural need to sleep had come back :p
Good, glad to hear it. I'm thinking maybe I'll take a sleeping pill tonight, too.
DeleteBe careful with those; some are very powerful (or so I hear - not sure I'd be brave enough to take one). I've only used Melatonin, and only because it's something that the body produces naturally - I figure my body just stops making it sometimes, especially in the winter; that's usually when I have insomnia :p
DeleteI've taken sleeping pills a few times. Sometimes they help, and sometimes they actually give me energy. Sure is frustrating when that happens.
DeleteUnfortunately epileptics can't take Melatonin...
I have trouble believing that, since Melatonin is something the body produces naturally - without it, you'd never sleep. But better safe than sorry, I guess :p
DeleteAll this time I never thought of it that way. I suppose I should ask a doctor.
DeleteFor sure! I hope you can try it and that it (or whatever else you try) works for you - it sucks to not be able to sleep ... I'm finally catching up on mine now :p
DeleteAwesome!
DeleteVicks used to work well. Especially if I put Aqua Velva on my face, too. Knocked me out for all the 12 hours I need; but lately that doesn't work either. I just lie there. I haven't taken a sleeping pill since last year...Being nocturnal kind of just works for me, seeing as how the loud guy on the other side of my paper-thin wall is also noc-turnal.
lol, it can suck to have to coordinate your sleep schedule with your noisy neighbours' ... but if they at least shut up or go away sometimes, it's better than nothing :p
DeleteI'd prefer to hear nothing. Like if Mom or Lorne turn up the heater and he doesn't like how high it is, he bangs and yells. Ugh. Could open a window or something, but sure, do that. We also have street screamers and of course, the fire hall.
DeleteIs it quiet there? Any complaints?
Very quiet - aside from the occasional kids shouting or dogs barking, we hear next to nothing ... it's amazing :)
DeleteThat sounds nice. Seems every emergency vehicle takes this street; sometimes all the fire trucks are called out. Happens a lot in the middle of the night.
DeleteThat must be annoying ... we have a police-and-fire station nearby, but we only hear sirens a few times a year, and usually from quite a distance; they don't seem to use the sirens where people live :p
DeleteThat's got to be nice. Sometimes the drivers wait until the truck is a ways off before turning the siren on, but most of the time they turn it on before leaving the station.
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