The Masses Of Humanity Will Always Have To Surf

Compare the cover art of Suffer, the 1988 Bad Religion album…..

To Surfer, the 2001 EP by NOFX.

 

 

How To Get A Servo In The Sims 2 (The Easy Way)

I’ve been playing The Sims 2 today, for the first time in quite a while. Since it isn’t my game, and I don’t play it that often, I only have the one Sim (a Servo), so it’s easier to maintain.

The advantages of a Servo over a regular Sim are that they never age, they don’t need food, comfort, hygiene or energy, in fact all of these are compressed into the simple need of “Power”, plus they also have maximum cooking, cleaning and mechanical skills right from word go.

Now this way of obtaining them does use the debug cheat, so its up to you whether you want to do it or not, you can get a Servo without using it, but it’ll take longer.

Okay, lets go!

1. Create a family with just one Sim and move them into a house.
2. Load up the house, and while in live mode open the cheat window (Control + Shift + C)
3. Once open type in “boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true” – without the quotes
4. Press Shift + N, then hold Shift and click on your Sim, the debug menu should appear.
5. Click the “Spawn” tab and search for “New Servo”, click “More” if you can’t find it within the first group of options.
6. Once found, click “New Servo”, and it (the Servo) should appear next to your Sim.
7. Select your Sim and then click on the Servo.
8. Click the “Initialize” option that appears, choose the sex, give it a name and your done!

The Servo will share the same surname as your Sim, so make sure its something you like, you can now move the Servo to another house if you wish.

Now, “Power” is a Servo’s most important need. You can recharge during the daytime by clicking on the Servo and selecting that option, and you can “Power Down” at night to conserve power (if its low) until you can recharge the next day.

Simple.

Music From Regions Beyond Out Today!

Its 5th June, Tiger Army’s latest album was released today. Their myspace band profile has the entire album uploaded so people can have a listen, but its for today only. I’m listening to it right now, I’ve got as far up as Lunatone, which might be my favourite so far. The album sounds similar to III, so its really more of the same, but more of the same means its damn good. Here’s the tracklisting:

01. Prelude: Signal Return
02. Hotprowl
03. Afterworld
04. Forever Fades Away
05. Ghosts of Memory
06. LunaTone
07. Pain
08. As the Cold Rain Falls
09. Hechizo de Amor
10. Spring Forward
11. Where the Moss Slowly Grows

I have no idea why they dropped the roman numerals, there doesn’t seem to be a reason to not call the album Tiger Army IV, and keep the same title, “Tiger Army IV: Music From Regions Beyond”. Perhaps they did it for an explicit reason, I don’t know, neither do I really mind.