#you don't need to set up a million things in your first 3 eps if it's not going to affect anything in your fourthhhhhhhh

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well. objectively bad episode and i'm not just saying it as an irvinggirl but at least she's back

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RP meme from Scream Queens Ep 3 "Chainsaw" (Note: Offensive content, use at own discretion)

I really think I was wrong.

I don't care what you believe, okay?

You have to promise me that from now on, you're not gonna go anywhere alone

Ooh, pork rinds.

I'm freaking starving.

Can you get Some syrup to dip the ranch chips in?

You want to put syrup on chips?

We just caught a serial killer.

Let's see who you are, you sick son of a bitch.

I'll pay for 'em.

I left home without my wallet.

Ow, my nuts.

Ow! It hurts so bad!

Who is stealing all these bodies?!

Don't ask me! I'm not the killer.

I got Eiffel-towered by hot morons who are brothers.

See, it occurred to me that I don't really care

|I'd just hop to it if I were you

I will destroy you, bitch!

There's a huge stain on the floor.

In my experience,

Any time somebody asks, "oh, I wonder if that's blood," it's almost always blood. I mean, you know how many times it's, like, ketchup? Zero percent of the time.

There it is. That's blood.

It's luminol. It reacts to the iron in hemoglobin.

Now, that's suspicious

There is a psycho killing people.

The bitch is not even cute.

Go to Bel Air? I mean, just like that?

It's a bloody tragedy.

Yeah, well, it was really bloody.

It's just one of those things in life that just hits you so hard, and you just think to yourself, wow, it's gonna be weeks before I really, truly get over this.

Oh, are you okay? I mean, how are you feeling?

I'm super sad.

I want to be the one who tells you How awesome you are all the time.

I want to have sex with your corpse.

I mean, all I ask is that maybe you have sex with a smaller number of people.

Okay, why do you even care how many people I sleep with?

I always wear protection, and it's not like I love these chicks.

You love me?

You love me.

You're hot, I guess. I mean, your boobs are symmetrical, and you shave your box in a hot way.

At this point, I'm not even sure if I could have sex with you.

I got to break up with you again.

Look, just pray.

I'm just trying to make friends.

I was spying on you the other day while you were changing. Noticed you have a tattoo on the small of your back?

Who slits their own throat?

Let's tell each other how we feel about one another.

You are a disgrace.

This place is insane.

That's not even a cute picture.

I love that your dad's so rich, and I love porking you so much.

I hope we can keep on porking forever.

You're so freaking hot, and I love the amazing faces you make when I'm really taking you there.

Look, I am not gonna let some guy with a knife and some anger issues scare me away.

I will not be playing favorites.

Look, can't we just make the best of this, huh?

A lot going on in those last few frames. Vietnam, Watergate, the invention of the pill, The White Album.

Has there ever been a more perfect weapon of destruction?

Aren't we all running from the chain saws in our past?

You are amazing.

What did any of that mean?

We've all been traumatized.

Do we look inward and-and heal, or do we take that hurt and turn it into anger and take it out on the world? Which path have you chosen?

Maybe we could discuss it over a salad or something.

Something happens when you put on a costume. It changes you.

This closet is the most precious thing in my life.

It's like a second vagina to me. So you sneaking in here and rifling through my clothes is a heinous violation. You have violated my closet-vag.

I once thought about donating them to charity, but there is something so depressing about a poor person walking around in couture.

Growing up, all I wanted to be was a fashion girl.

Was there an accident?

I will totally look like someone nice.

I'm gonna need some pliers.

You're terrible at tennis.

You can't call dibs on a person.

I sort of feel like you and I are two peas in a pod, don't you?

I mean, we're both really smart, and when we talk, it's really meaningful.

Hold on. Wait. Are you a lesbian?

What I'm trying to say is, I feel like we get along really well, and I would like it if we could become friends. But, like, good friends. Like, best friends. Like, soul mates.

Do you promise me you can keep a secret?

We're, like, billionaires.

My dad is not my real dad.

But wait, if you don't want anyone to find out, why tell me?

Everyone would immediately assume the killer is me.

I need an alibi to prove it could not have been me.

This will not stand!

We're going to play a game called cocaine or dildo.

Ooh, that sounds fun. But also kind of like hazing. And illegal in, like, what, six different ways.

I saw footprints leading away from the body.

Look, I'm really sorry that I didn't respond to your messages, and also that I thought you were a serial killer.

Oh, no, you're not dating him, are you?

He clearly sees people as objects.

Sociopathic murderers dehumanize their prey.

I did some gumshoe work.

You like me now when I got a baseball bat, bro?!

I thought this would be a lot easier.

Where you heading?

You are what us detectives call a person of extreme murderous interest.

Tell it to the judge, 'cause you goin' downtown.

What exactly do you think you found out?

Found out everything about you, little girl.

I know you thought I was on your side

And what better way to knock off the competition than murder in the first?

What if there's more than one killer?

Now, that would really throw secure enforcement solutions off the scent.

I'm gonna use the hand you forgot to handcuff and call 911.

You crazy as hell.

It regulates the colon

It doesn't scream "date."

You'll forgive me if I'm feeling a little overprotective.

I thought we promised you would never go anywhere alone.

I'm not alone.

There's, like, a million people here.

Look, please don't freak out.

I'll be fine, okay?

I'll let you know when I'm done.

Yeah, you call me when you're done.

That nightgown is amazing.

Nighttime really is the only time it's socially acceptable to dress like a 19th century homesteader, which is my favorite style of dress.

I need to sleep with a white noise machine on. I hope that's okay.

Is there any way to turn it down a bit!?

There's no volume control.

Those are whale distress calls. I find them very soothing.

Are there other noises that the machine can make?

I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep with all that noise!

I'm gonna sleep on the couch.

Get back to your room!

Didn't you hear the screaming?

I mean, yes, I heard screaming, but that's because the white noise machine was set to "slasher movie."

You're not taking another step until the police arrive.

You're the killer.

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wandavision weekly ask, featuring some complaining and off-topic ranting.

firstly, while joss whedon is unfortunately a scumbag, his characterization of ultron and vision was very distinctive and helps analyze vision's short scene this episode. instead of making ultron this unfeeling, removed robot that fulfills his goal of "peace in our time" as soon as possible, he's actually the most human character. he talks about the "poetry" of destroying humanity with a meteor the same way the dinos got destroyed. he could have just yeeted everyone using his connection to the internet. but no. he grew, changing bodies, evolving from one vessel to another, becoming more and more human. his final vessel was supposed to be vision; it's no mistake that his body is so humanlike. (scarlet witch could only read ultron's mind from vision's body because his consciousness was finally entering a humanlike brain. remember she kills Ultron by pulling out his heart, unnecessary for a robot except to emulate the human body.) ultron, despite trying to be above humans, constantly strived to become one. vision is similar. he begins his existence with philosophical musing. trying to find his identity. trying to become more and more human. the magic happened in those 2 years between civil war and infinity war. wanda needed a shoulder to cry on; vision needed someone to be open with, to copy, to fake humanity until he "made it", to learn to love. by infinity war, paul bettany says he's the "most human" out of the avengers. he's not wrong. so when i saw vision in the civil war-era flashback of this episode, i thought of all that, of him trying to understand humans in order to be human, of "what is grief if not love persevering" 😭😭😭😭😭 his logic is impeccable. the quote kinda makes no sense out of context but once i heard him say it iwaslike bruh you're right. a common criticism of robots in sci-fi is that they're often just characterized as "ace ppl on the spectrum" which is. fair. and i kinda felt that in this episode. but i felt like it worked here? (asher as an nd ace person whaddya think of this?)

marvel has a reeeally wide audience. they have to cater to the lowest common denominator and go totally unsubtle with like, everything. that seems more present in the show's "mcu-wide" episodes than in the "sitcom-era" episodes. this ep i think the writers should have just let wanda's memories speak for themselves, but instead agatha just gives tons of sometimes informative but mostly unnecessary commentary. hayward too: his entire character is so on-the-nose. we're told every second what we're supposed to think of him ("hayward's a d--"), what he's planning ("he wants to make vision's body into a weapon"), and how he thinks of vision ("3 billion dollars of vibranium") with no subtlety whatsoever. i wasn't expecting much different but still. :(

speaking of hayward. he wanted vision online so bad. unlike her, he knew she had the power to bring him back ("you have the power to bring him 'online'" — how did he know? secretly mephisto?) then staged a disgusting desecration of his corpse to provoke her, told the soldiers to stand down so she could revive him, and when she couldn't, instead making a hex to regen him, he lied, said she had his corpse denying vision's last testament, and tried to take his new body outside the hex. unfortunately he realized when vision tried escaping that he couldn't make it out — he's part of the hex but only he knows that — so he made white vision to replace him and take out wanda (the only possible whistleblower). in conclusion, hayward can go screw a cactus (yes i read that phrase in the comments of a fanfic and i wont stop using it to describe ppl i hate)

i get super upset when people talk in english when their first language isn't english for like,,,no reason. so when the maximoffs spoke in english specifically to practice their english i found that refreshing.

agatha backstory why. and what. i suspect she's a scarlet witch too. i think the reason her magic starts out as purple is because she pushes back her coven's blue magic with her red magic. watch the clip again and you can see how she glows red, not purple, right before she pushes back against the witches. red scarlet witch magic + blue coven witch magic = purple agatha magic.

thanks erik voss from new rockstars for pointing this out: coven mother in the beginning of the episode gets a glowing blue crown right before she gets yeeted. the figure wanda sees in the golden glow of the mind stone is a silouhette of herself with the crown. erik says this is the crown of the dominant witch. but whatever the case it think the crown of agatha's "mother" is a hint to the origin of scarlet witch's comic book headdress.

i don't like what theyre doing with agatha's hair. something about it doesn't vibe with me.

im getting more and more convinced that the "mystery actor" paul bettany keeps talking about was himself. white vision vs westview vision battle royale.

speaking of him, paul needs to go to therapy. his constant self-deprecation in interviews started out charming but after a while it gives me the vibe of someone who has no self-esteem and therefore constantly downplays himself and his own accomplishments. (me projecting? what makes you think that? /s) but yeah. parasocial relationship with paul bettany go brrrrr

we need answers about fietro

and finally (before i remember the million things i forgot to say) the latin. sucks ass. like i know like 2 words in latin but the spells were probably written by someone's dummy thicc ass cheeks on a keyboard and setting the autocorrect to latin. the spell agatha does before going into wanda's memory-door is "memente memoria" which means "remember memory" like seriously marvel you could have spent 2 more brain cells on writing spells

1. I completely agree with you and I hate how I learn news on Tumblr (Why are the only celebrities that turn out to be assholes the ones that I slightly care about).

2. Marvel definitely needed to be at least a tad more subtle. I know that this is one of the last episodes of what has been the most confusing thing they have ever made but Agatha’s commentary was a bit too much.

3. Agreed this account is a Hayward hate zone.

4. I 100% agree with you, I always found Black Panther really weird because they were speaking in English even when Martin Freeman’s character wasn’t around (and I know why that was but I still hate it) so I’m glad that this episode actually made sense.

5. At this point I don’t have a clue what’s going on with Agatha and honestly at this point I think I’m just gonna hope they clear that up in the next episode.

6. That’s interesting. That’s another thing that I’m not smart enough to have a clue what the heck is happening, but that’s still really cool.

7. I have to disagree with you I think her hair is great.

8. If it’s literally just Paul Bettany that’s gonna be really anticlimactic and I’m going to be very upset (I want Magneto damn it).

9. I didn’t watch a lot of interviews for WandaVision for some reason so I’m just gonna take your word for it and agree with you.

10. I’m assuming we’re getting them in the next episode (I saw a theory that he might be Loki in disguise and that’s looking pretty much impossible but fuck it I’m gonna get my hopes up anyway)

11. I don’t know shit about Latin so this is another one where I’m gonna have to take your word for it.

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I never liked TS3, but your recent gameplay pics makes it seem so fun. How many packs do you have? Do you play with any mods? This is unrelated, but I was wondering what are your opinions on Sims 4? I am asking because I love sims, but don't enjoy anything beyond sims 2 and it is becoming increasingly difficult to play the game on modern computers. My playstyle seems to match yours, so I would like to know your thoughts.

You know, I didn’t like TS3 for years. I think it was because I really wanted it to be TS2, only better. Like, the same exact game only with better graphics, more freedom with the open world, etc. When I tried to play TS3, I was spending so much time comparing it with 2 that I couldn’t appreciate it on its own merits, as a completely different creature. Which it definitely is…

And I babbled a lot (What a surprise!), so I’ll cut the rest. I just woke up, so pardon my incoherent rambling. :)

Once I finally accepted that TS3 isn’t TS2, I started to enjoy 3 a lot more, and then I started to discover its own unique strengths. Because it does have strengths over TS2 – gardening and its tight integration with cooking, for one, plus the adventure-vacations and, oh yeah, HORSES and the other pets that, annoying routing aside, are just better than TS2’s – although there are many things that I like better in TS2, of course. Primarily building. I love building neighborhoods from the ground up in TS2. Doing that is why I got the game in the first place. In TS3? I HATE BUILDING WITH THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS. (So I’m really thankful for the people who enjoy making custom worlds! :D ) I just want to open up a fully-built, ready-to-go, but unpopulated world -- and if it’s populated I just nuke everyone with Master Controller -- and play TS3 because its gameplay is actually really fun, IMO, once you stop expecting it to be TS2. Now, to be fair, I haven’t gotten tired of TS3’s gameplay probably because I haven’t been playing the game for a solid decade, so I haven’t done all the stuff a million times yet. But in TS2, I’m starting to find the gameplay really tiresome, even with all the mods to make it more interesting. So, I break up the tedium with building, while my “playing batteries” recharge. I can see me coming to a point where I’ll stop wanting to play it, though, and just want to build in it and make stuff needed for what I build. But I still have fun playing TS3, so...yeah.

Anyway, I have all the TS3 EPs, and I kind of consider all of them essential because they all add bits (or large chunks!) of gameplay that I like. I only have one of the stuff packs – High End Loft Stuff or something? – because the base game I bought had that bundled with it. I have also *ahem* acquired *ahem* all of the store worlds and the interesting-to-me store items. (Like the canning station and the gardening/greenhouse/farm stuff and the glass-blowing/jewelry-making and the bakery set and the OFB-like stuff and…Well, you get the idea. :) )

And I have many, many mods. I have more mods than anything else, when it comes to third-party content for the game. I have pretty much all of the NRAAS mods, some of which – like Master Controller, Error Trap, and Overwatch – are essential for keeping the game running smoothly, and some of which add fun stuff. Like Traveler, which makes it so that you can have Sims living in multiple worlds in a single save (sort of like a neighborhood + subhoods in TS2), and you can bounce between them. It’s probably my favorite mod of them all. Other non-NRAAS faves involve gardening/cooking, whole packs of new plants for growing new ingredients that are needed for new recipes for the game, including cuisines for different cultures. (Greek, Indian, Mexican, etc.) Still others add more abilities and interactions for children, toddlers, and babies. 

And then there’s the “adult” mod, “Kinky World,” which adds realistic animated sex and various sorts of stuff for grown-ups. I have much of it disabled because I’m not interested in having things like rape and incest and bestiality in my game, but I’m OK with drug use and sex work and especially the customizable menstrual cycle that makes baby-making far more realistic, in addition to various services added to the hospital rabbithole (sterilization procedures for both sexes as well as some sex reassignment procedures), and…Well, I confess that the flashers amuse the hell out of me, specifically different Sims’s reactions to them. *laugh* The “Kinky World” mod certainly isn’t for everyone and it does throw errors and such and the admins on the NRAAS forum really poo-poo its shoddy coding, so you probably shouldn’t use it in a save that you really care about keeping around long-term, but if you’re into that sort of stuff and you’re just screwing around (pun intended :) ), it has some interesting features. I wish I could have the menstrual cycle from it all by itself because that’s mostly why I use it.

Overall, when it comes to TS3, I think you sort of have to find your bliss with it. Go into it with an open mind, explore the game unmodded for a while, try out various aspects of its gameplay, and then decide what you don’t like and look into how to fiddle with it with mods and CC and such. Like, I thought I’d hate the whole Story Progression thing – and I would hate it, in a TS2 context – but in TS3 I actually enjoy losing (some) control over my playables when I’m not playing them. It adds randomness, sort of like things like ACR does in TS2. That said, EA’s story progression sucks in various ways. Get NRAAS’s Story Progression. It’s huge and has a scary-looking learning curve but also has extensive documentation on the NRAAS site as to what everything does, and once you get used to it, it’s really cool. You can basically decide, on a very detailed level, which things you’re OK with the game deciding as opposed to you deciding, so you can get rid of the annoying things about EA’s progression while still keeping the general idea of it.

So…yeah. Play the game with an open mind, with a “I’m just testing” sort of mindset. Find out what you do and don’t like about it, on its own merits, and don’t just assume that the things you like in 3 will be the same as the things you like in 2 because they very well might not be. Then spend time exploring mods and CC (and prepare to be enraged by Adfly and such! :P ) to change how the game works and what it looks like and stuff like that.

I did a lot of experimenting over the course of various stabs at the game over the years, trying to find something to like. I quickly discovered that the “build-a-city-esque” way I generally play in TS2 was out because I hate building in TS3, but I also discovered that, like in TS2, I’ll get bored if I only play one household all the time. So, I do still like a rotational set-up. Happily, it is pretty simple, with NRAAS’s Story Progression’s “caste” system, to do rotational play in TS3. (There’s a “how to set this up” tutorial of sorts here.) This is what I found that I like best; I’m still in the process of fiddling with the Story Progression settings for non-active playable households, to determine what level of control over them I really want. (Turns out, it’s less control than I thought I’d want, but there are still some things that I don’t want to happen without my consent.) Anyway, the point I’m trying to make is to, at first, play some “throwaway” saves in the game that you just experiment with stuff, to find worlds you like (I highly recommend My Sim Realty’s worlds because they’re CC and store-content free as well as well-constructed – no lag – and attractive) and to find out what you like in terms of gameplay. For you, it might turn out that you like nothing…or you may find that you like a lot of things. And, yes, TS3 still runs well (when modded to fix some of its inherent flaws) on modern machines. I mean, EA still sells it, after all, so it kinda has to. :)

And finally, speaking of inherent flaws… I think TS3 is the proverbial red-haired stepchild of the franchise mostly because of two things:

One, while it has grand ideas – i.e., the fully open world – it’s just not executed well. For instance, there are many construction errors in the EA worlds that cause Sims to get stuck, and when a bunch of Sims are stuck but the game still tries to make them do things, it gums up the whole works, resulting in lag, lag, lag. There are fixed EA worlds out there, though, so if you try out the game and want to play an EA world, I highly recommend finding a fixed version, so you don’t get frustrated by the world’s EA-created issues. They’re all a bit screwy in this regard, but the worst offenders are Bridgeport from Late Night and Isla Paradiso from Island Paradise. Basically, EA tried to do it all and so did most of it half-assedly. The game pretty much requires fixed worlds (if you use the EA worlds) and the error-fixing NRAAS mods in order to run smoothly. IME, custom worlds tend to run better. Not always, because some creators are just better/more experienced than others, but generally speaking. It’s probably because world creators are crafting labors of love rather than operating under pressure and a strict time-deficient production schedule. :)

Two, people were like me: They wanted TS3 to be TS2, only better, but it's not that at all. It’s a completely different game in many respects, and it seems to me that many people just couldn’t accept that. I’ve never played TS4 (so I have no opinions about it, I’m afraid), but from what I’ve seen it seems a little more 2-like, and it’s more cartoon-like (whereas TS3 was going more for realism, the pudding-Sims aside) in a way that’s more reminiscent of a “Maxis-match” TS2 game. And it’s also not the resource hog that playing a huge world in TS3 can be. So, I can see why a lot of people play TS2 and TS4 but skip TS3. I always have a tendency to zig when everyone else zags, though, and I kinda really like TS3. Go figure. *shrug*