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]]></content:encoded><description>Hello Everyone,
I expect to overhaul this site in the future. Please check back</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/08/22/upcoming-changes/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Sims 3 S’s&amp;G’s - Priest life</title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/06/23/sims3-ssgs-priest-life/</link><category>games</category><category>sims 3</category><category>sims3</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:43:52 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://robot-candy.com/?p=224</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>I decided to try playing a sandbox lifestyle, one that didn&#8217;t follow a direct career path or lifetime goal. I created a priest. Instead of just having a sim live in a church, and call it a done deal, I set up some goals:</p>
<h3>Goals</h3>
<ul>
<li>Brighten people&#8217;s days.</li>
<li>Master Charisma, and all it&#8217;s special titles. Be the friendliest sim ever.</li>
<li>Self sustained: Grow enough fruit, catch enough fish, find enough rocks, to stay out of employment and pay the bills. This is amazingly easy after skills are mastered.</li>
</ul>
<p>Also some ground rules to guide him:</p>
<h3>Rules</h3>
<ul>
<li>Absolutely no romantic relationships. Flirting is also not okay (if another sim flirts with the priest, it&#8217;s alright as long as he doesn&#8217;t flirt back)</li>
<li>Watch your flock: Always pick up the phone! Even if it&#8217;s 3am, and all bars are red. If someone asks him to make a house call (invites him over), do it. If there are periods of spare time, use it to make phone calls.</li>
<li>Live as meekly as possible. Only buy better appliances and furniture if it&#8217;s in your budget.</li>
<li>Fix and upgrade things by himself. Clean his own stuff (no maids)</li>
<li>Produce own food whenever possible. Always cook (no quick meals) unless it&#8217;s an emergency.</li>
<li>No career. This sim already has a full-time job!</li>
<li>No enemies. Maybe one or two evil people if it absolutely cannot be helped.</li>
<li>Attend community events whenever possible. Take challenges whenever possible.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Note:</h3>
<p>I had story-mode and aging turned off. But this should work (and is probably be more fun) with them turned on. I just couldn&#8217;t bare to see him age, or have bad things happen to my other sims, so I turned both off.</p>
<h3>My Priest</h3>
<p>Father John of Canterbury<br />
<img src="http://i41.tinypic.com/34rdum8.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<h3>Traits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Good</li>
<li>Charismatic</li>
<li>Friendly</li>
<li> Loves the Outdoors</li>
<li>Green Thumb</li>
</ul>
<p>(I could have used unflirty/relationship issues&#8230; but they are wasteful traits, since I can just keep him out of romance).</p>
<h3>Father John&#8217;s Church</h3>
<p>I used <a href="http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=154213" target="_blank"></a>.  I also added a garden and graveyard to the original.<br />
<img style="width: 550px;" src="http://i42.tinypic.com/ok1xms.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<h3>Results</h3>
<p>A moderate success.</p>
<p>In the beginning it was a bit of a struggle to balance church maintenance, self-sustainment, and a good social life. Father John was good at making acquaintances but keeping friends was another story. It wasn&#8217;t until he recieved charisma titles and lifetime rewards that multiple friendships became maintainable.</p>
<p>This particular church was expensive to pay for. Weekly bills were 1-2k which is very hard to manage starting out. If I did this again, I&#8217;d probably start with a small church and work my way up.</p>
<p>Upkeep was time consuming. I didn&#8217;t plan on it, but mastering handiness just came naturally to the job. A lot of stuff can break in a church.<br />
<img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/a3jnm1.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Father John got robbed A LOT! What a low thief, robbing the church!(lol). Thankfully the alarm always went off, and the police officer always caught the thief. I don&#8217;t know why he was targeted so much. All my other sims barely get robbed. Perhaps because he lives alone in a big house?</p>
<p>As far as fitting the role. It ended pretty well. Father John gets 3-4 phone calls a day, and a house call every now and then. He makes a big profit selling produce.</p>
<p><img src="http://i39.tinypic.com/5zo4lt.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://i41.tinypic.com/21lobb6.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<h3>Possible Improvements</h3>
<p>The biggest problem is getting other sims to go to his church without being invited. Also mass is a little tricky. He can throw parties but that&#8217;s not quite the same thing.</p>
<p>A possible fix to this is to put the church in a community lot, where people can visit whenever they like, and put the priest in an adjacent residential lot that still looks like it&#8217;s part of the church. Only issue is, he would have no control over the actual church.</p>
<p>Okay &#8212; that&#8217;s it, hope you enjoyed! It&#8217;s a pretty fun way to go. Also I&#8217;m not religious or anything, I just wanted to try this. I hope I didn&#8217;t offend anyone.</p>
]]></content:encoded><description>I decided to try playing a sandbox lifestyle, one that didn&amp;#8217;t follow a direct career path or lifetime goal. I created a priest. Instead of just having a sim live in a church, and call it a done deal, I set up some goals:
Goals

Brighten people&amp;#8217;s days.
Master Charisma, and all it&amp;#8217;s special titles. Be the friendliest [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/06/23/sims3-ssgs-priest-life/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Sims3</title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/06/17/sims3/</link><category>games</category><category>sims3</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:31:20 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://robot-candy.com/?p=221</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>The out-of-the-box face editor is very indepth, and I think the devs made something wonderful.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thesims3.com/mypage/strawheart/mystudio">Click here to download stuff from my Sims3 studio.</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll post screenshots later <img src='http://robot-candy.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
]]></content:encoded><description>The out-of-the-box face editor is very indepth, and I think the devs made something wonderful.
Click here to download stuff from my Sims3 studio.
I&amp;#8217;ll post screenshots later</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/06/17/sims3/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Pacing</title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/04/06/pacing/</link><category>art</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:01:05 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://robot-candy.com/2009/04/06/pacing/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><img style="display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;" alt="image" height="240" width="320" src="http://robot-candy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wpid-1239040762611.jpg"/></p>
<p>Pacing in your historical fiction: how do prefer it?</p>
]]></content:encoded><description>Pacing in your historical fiction: how do prefer it?</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/04/06/pacing/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Batman cake</title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/04/02/batman-cake/</link><category>irl</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:27:22 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://robot-candy.com/2009/04/02/batman-cake/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://robot-candy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wpid-1238707552776.jpg"><img src="http://robot-candy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wpid-1238707552776-300x265.jpg" alt="wpid-1238707552776.jpg" title="wpid-1238707552776.jpg" width="300" height="265" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-216" /></a></p>
<p>For someone&#8217;s birthday. Kind of fail. Tasted good.</p>
]]></content:encoded><description>For someone&amp;#8217;s birthday. Kind of fail. Tasted good.</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/04/02/batman-cake/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Sketch</title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/31/sketch-3/</link><category>art</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:49:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/31/sketch-3/</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><img style="display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;" alt="image" height="320" width="240" src="http://robot-candy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wpid-1238521635891.jpg"/></p>
<p>2priest + scholar</p>
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<p>Hurr</p>
]]></content:encoded><description>Hurr</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/26/hair/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title></title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/25/206/</link><category>games</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:30:43 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://robot-candy.com/?p=206</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/27/final-fantasy-iv-the-after-years-coming-to-wii/" style="font-size: 60px;">BRIX SHAT!1</a></p>
]]></content:encoded><description>BRIX SHAT!1</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/25/206/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Cafe Trieste Saturday</title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/21/cafe-trieste-saturday/</link><category>art</category><category>irl</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:38:38 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://robot-candy.com/?p=203</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p>Drawing day was fun <img src='http://robot-candy.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Karen Luk, Leigh Dragoon, and Lisa Jonte drew me boobies. The shota priests are an unrelated(?) sketch.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-204" title="boobies" src="http://robot-candy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/boobies.jpg" alt="boobies" width="400" height="533" /></p>
]]></content:encoded><description>Drawing day was fun  
Karen Luk, Leigh Dragoon, and Lisa Jonte drew me boobies. The shota priests are an unrelated(?) sketch.</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/21/cafe-trieste-saturday/feed/</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Read it</title><link>http://robot-candy.com/2009/03/17/read-it/</link><category>Uncategorized</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">admin</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:25:30 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://robot-candy.com/?p=198</guid><content:encoded xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://robot-candy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/thisweekend.jpg" alt="thisweekend" title="thisweekend" width="300" height="420" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-199" /></p>
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