Friday, June 8, 2012

a few things

Firstly, the content of this video is so sufficiently weird that neither I nor anyone in the comment section seems to have noticed that the woman in the grey cardigan is wearing a see-through skirt. Seriously. Go to 3.27 and have a look. It's not like it's even subtle or anything. Her knickers are probably visible through it from low earth orbit. I know now, of course, but it's pretty embarrassing how many times I saw the video before I noticed it.

Second, I'm in the middle of 'Twelfth Night'. It's taking ages because I have to read slowly and carefully around all the archaic language. But this one thing keeps happening over and over again throughout that I don't understand and isn't even something I remember popping up in any other play. And it's that people keep giving Feste the Fool money. I don't know if they're tipping him or what, but I kind of want to go through and count how many times people pay him. Clearly I am in the wrong business here.

Third: nudity glitches in the Sims are fucking hilarious. Especially when the player has the nudity mod that gets rid of the pixel-censor and just makes the Sims naked. It's not really as fun and cool as it sounded a way back when I first heard about it when the game was released--it sounded so illicit and awesome back then but naked Sims have no genitals or anything, like Barbies. Then again, at the time I was a sexually insecure hormone bomb of a twelve-year-old without access to porn OR the internet. And also happened to be up to my eyeballs in heavy doses of psychiatric medications that all came with disconcertingly long lists of sexual side-effects. So even featureless naked Sims were appealing to me. Nudity glitches aren't the most common glitches, but they're one of the funniest because of the often totally inappropriate situations. Most of the time it involves a Sim glitching after a shower and not putting their clothes back on, and they go about their daily activities in the nude. Sometimes the command to change clothes (for work or a special occasion) fixes it, but just as often they just stay naked until they're good and ready and will go to work and on dates and shit naked. And then there's the random naked people who turn up at weddings and parties and funerals and really ridiculous places like protests and campaign fundraisers. It's always a bit funnier when they're not totally naked. Like in this picture, in which a young couple shares a tender prom kiss while a stranger is jogging pantsless through the frame:


Somehow the presence of a top and shoes alongside the naked butt crack is fucking hilarious.

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