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Nov. 26th, 2017 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyThere's an old couple who live across the road from us, and last night an emergency ambulance was parked over there, and then a car pulled up and people ran out of it into the house, and then the paramedics got back into their ambulance much more calmly than before and with no-one in the back, and then the police showed up and the ambulance left, and then a car that looked like a people-carrier with the back obviously cleared out pulled up onto their driveway. So I'm going to assume one of them died. They were very old though, so I guess it's part of life. But it is still a quick reminder that other people have things going on apart from you.
I have mostly been playing The Sims 4 lately. There was a sale on the expansion packs and they were dirt cheap so I loaded up, even though I shouldn't have as a true gamer because EA are evil and stuff. But I did. And I made Lex and Clark from the DC films live together. And then, one of the expansion packs lets you give someone a career as a mad scientist, so that's what I made Lex, obviously. And as just part of a random day's work they make you make a satellite dish and contact aliens. But if you do that, that character gets abducted by aliens and when Lex came back it became clear he was pregnant, and now he's had an alien baby. And it isn't even Clark's. And I was not ready for them to have a baby yet. Is Lex going to quit work? Is Clark never going to become a journalist? No. On top of that, there was some weird stuff about Lex not being able to drink scientific serums he made at work, and I'm guessing he couldn't have drunk alcohol either if I'd tried, because 'by doctor's orders' pregnant Sims aren't allowed to do that, even though he clearly didn't know he was pregnant. I'm thinking of sending the baby back to it's home planet, which is a thing you can do. But then I just imagine Lex being sort of quietly sad about it forever more, because I can't stop with the angst and depressing storylines. I don't know. It was a weird thing for the game to drop on me.
The DC films apparently aren't doing well, either, or at least Justice League isn't hitting it's ticket projections. Which makes me sad. I know Marvel vs DC is ridiculous, and superhero films are kind of whatever anyway, but I really like the way DC are doing things compared to the Marvel films. It feels more optimistic? Like the characters actually care about saving people, instead of just thinking about themselves and whether they live up to some random standard they've set for themselves, or think other people are setting for them. And I still don't really understand the way people seem to look down on some of the previous DC films, like I will admit they were messy, but none of them made me feel like I wanted to die, like Iron Man 2 did. Or felt kind of boring and disappointing, given the potential, like Deadpool did. But whatever. Although there are some people who loved the previous DC films who hate Justice League, because of the way Joss Whedon apparently ruined it - including taking out a massive storyline for the films only black character, who was originally supposed to be like the centre of the film. So that's great. He's getting to do Batgirl next, ugh. So idk. I guess I will just keep enjoying the DC films as long as they're willing to make them. Or until they try to start making them just like the Marvel films to get some of their kind of money. Whichever. I hated Thor: Ragnarok. I'm sorry if any of you liked it.
I have mostly been playing The Sims 4 lately. There was a sale on the expansion packs and they were dirt cheap so I loaded up, even though I shouldn't have as a true gamer because EA are evil and stuff. But I did. And I made Lex and Clark from the DC films live together. And then, one of the expansion packs lets you give someone a career as a mad scientist, so that's what I made Lex, obviously. And as just part of a random day's work they make you make a satellite dish and contact aliens. But if you do that, that character gets abducted by aliens and when Lex came back it became clear he was pregnant, and now he's had an alien baby. And it isn't even Clark's. And I was not ready for them to have a baby yet. Is Lex going to quit work? Is Clark never going to become a journalist? No. On top of that, there was some weird stuff about Lex not being able to drink scientific serums he made at work, and I'm guessing he couldn't have drunk alcohol either if I'd tried, because 'by doctor's orders' pregnant Sims aren't allowed to do that, even though he clearly didn't know he was pregnant. I'm thinking of sending the baby back to it's home planet, which is a thing you can do. But then I just imagine Lex being sort of quietly sad about it forever more, because I can't stop with the angst and depressing storylines. I don't know. It was a weird thing for the game to drop on me.
The DC films apparently aren't doing well, either, or at least Justice League isn't hitting it's ticket projections. Which makes me sad. I know Marvel vs DC is ridiculous, and superhero films are kind of whatever anyway, but I really like the way DC are doing things compared to the Marvel films. It feels more optimistic? Like the characters actually care about saving people, instead of just thinking about themselves and whether they live up to some random standard they've set for themselves, or think other people are setting for them. And I still don't really understand the way people seem to look down on some of the previous DC films, like I will admit they were messy, but none of them made me feel like I wanted to die, like Iron Man 2 did. Or felt kind of boring and disappointing, given the potential, like Deadpool did. But whatever. Although there are some people who loved the previous DC films who hate Justice League, because of the way Joss Whedon apparently ruined it - including taking out a massive storyline for the films only black character, who was originally supposed to be like the centre of the film. So that's great. He's getting to do Batgirl next, ugh. So idk. I guess I will just keep enjoying the DC films as long as they're willing to make them. Or until they try to start making them just like the Marvel films to get some of their kind of money. Whichever. I hated Thor: Ragnarok. I'm sorry if any of you liked it.
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Date: 2017-11-26 05:08 pm (UTC)~I've never played one of The Sims games before, but they seem like fun! XD
~Ahh, I do think it is sad that Justice League hasn't done as well ticket-wise as they were expecting. While I can't say I've loved a lot of the DC films (and I guess my personal preference is slightly more towards the Marvel films thanks to my younger years when I was really into the X-Men comics
although I don't like the X-Men films), I rather enjoyed Wonder Woman and plan on seeing JL sometime. I'm personally a really big fan of the DC TV shows that are on the CW here (more than either the DC or Marvel movies...blasphemy, I know!), so I've never really gotten the Marvel vs. DC thing either. I think they're all awesome characters that can exist in their own universes really well.