Comments on: Diary of a Newbie #5: wallswallswallswalls…

By: Mista Mann

Mista Mann — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 04:10:41 +0000

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me but when you never use capitalization should you really rail someone else on bad spelling?

By: Mr-President

Mr-President — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:36:37 +0000

Montserrat Tovar,

That was my favorite comment I’ve ever read.

By: oos-onagocag-naaji

oos-onagocag-naaji — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:54:43 +0000

I’ve never really gotten into the Sims offline, beyond sporadic periods of playing up to the point of having to get X amount of friends–where I then give up in frustration. It’d always been a temporary amusement, and that’s all I’ve asked from it. If others enjoyed the thing, then more power to ‘em. When I first heard about TSO, I figured there would be a massive number of people involved, but decided (after reading a few reviews) that it wasn’t the game for me. Months later–last month, actually–I found The Alphaville Herald during some random searching for things. It gave me an idea of what TSO was probably like, and re-enforced the idea that I would probably never play it. I skim the election stuff, read a little more of the technical news, despair of noob scamming… and read Montserrat’s posts whenever I find them. A lot of the philosophical view goes over my head but I grasp enough of it to get a feel for TSO, and after playing a handful of other online games I don’t feel she’s far from the truth.
I’m glad she’s chosen to run this series of articles, and I hope she chooses to continue after this wall debacle. (Hang in there!)
And since I’ll probably never post again, a quick thanks to Urizenus for TAH.

By: m. tovar

m. tovar — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:59:53 +0000

ok. i’m done.

listen to me, you marvelous group of gelatin brained insects, the information that maxis
is handing out in its so-called help information is wrong. can you say wrong, boys and girls?

the maxis help information does not mention that the control button and left mouse button should be lifted sequentially. lifting the buttons sequentially is important to actually being able to delete a wall. lift the buttons in the wrong sequence and you may add another wall instead of deleting the one you were trying to get rid of.

i am really tired of the whole paternalistic
voice-of-the-universe tone of most of the comments i read here. you guys write like you see yourselves as fonts of received wisdom and i say unto you that the burning bush appeared to somebody else. not you. at the sound of the trumpets the heavens awoke, but the heavens did not awake for you.

and as for you, urizenus, cold horrible dear urizenus, if i am clueless, these guys are in deep shit. i was tossed into this crayon colored low res allegedly streaming world, a world without beauty or vision, a world of cute little creatures where cute includes the idea of repulsion apparently created primarily by the shrieks, despair, and frustrated sexual fantasies of what must be a bunch of down-sized 20 year programmer wannabes who demonstrate no higher knowledge of interface design principles than my labrador retriever and you tell me i am a little clueless. urizenus i have not been three years old for a very long time.

i did not get fleeced.
i did not end up working for evangeline auditioning for triple xxx live action show me your p or get banned movies.

i did good.

thank you very much.

oh and jessica honey you cretin you have to learn to spell “diagnol”, ok? when we write in english we spell “diagnol” d-i-a-g-o-n-a-l. i’m sure they taught this in school when you were there but maybe you were just spending too much time having catfights in the girls’ bathrooms to notice? that’s ok honey. they have books called “dictionaries”. you can use those to look up words whenever you want to know what they mean or how to spell them. it’s ok.

By: urizenus

urizenus — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:48:24 +0000

lol, yes poor Montserrat is a bit clue impaired, but the most pathetic newbie ever? I hardly think so. People who come to tso from offline sims probably don’t recognize how frustrating the interface is. You have to remember that while there are 80K or so people who find tso a snap to use, there are the 920,000 projected subscribers who aren’t here and the question is, why aren’t they here? Well some of them came, saw, and ran away. Those of us who came and stayed forget what being a newbie was like.

By: Jessica McPherson

Jessica McPherson — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:32:06 +0000

“at this point i needed to green and found out that i had to pay to eat in a house where i was a roomie. i was surprised by this because when i go visiting out in alphaville i see that everyone eats and apparently no one pays for anything.”

Holy crap! Did you not read anything in the damn manual for TSO?! You are the most pathetic newbie ever!

By: Jessica McPherson

Jessica McPherson — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:30:23 +0000

This was the most pointless story I have ever read. Who really cares about walls? It makes the story boring. No one is going to scream in horror if they see a diagnol wall after reading this story. And I’ve been playing offline version of the sims for a long time and when you delete a wall it doesn’t freaking build a new one, or delete the wrong one. You just are terrible at building. Don’t blame Maxis for your lame mistakes.