I’m not a big follower on the Sims, but I was shocked and disgusted when I recently went to my local Best Buy and saw an entire section dedicated to just the Sims 2 games.  Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against the concept of the game itself, but my god how many fucking expansions does one game need?  Here’s a current list of all possible expansions for the Sims 2:

• The Sims 2 (now known as The Sims 2 Double Deluxe) $19.99
• The Sims 2: Apartment Life – $19.99
• The Sims 2: Bon Voyage – $16.99
• The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff – $24.99
• The Sims 2: FreeTime – $14.99
• The Sims 2: Glamour Life Stuff – $17.99
• The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff – $8.50
• The Sims 2: H&M Fashion Stuff – $21.99
• The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff – $16.99
• The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff – $16.99
• The Sims 2: Mansion & Garden Stuff – $14.99
• The Sims 2: Pets Expansion Pack – $14.99
• The Sims 2: Seasons Expansion Pack – $14.99
• The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff – $19.99
• The Sims 2: University Expansion Pack – $14.99

Excluding the original game, that’s 14 fucking expansions.   These prices are from Amazon for the Windows versions of the games, and like any other store, prices are subject to change.  But with the prices listed above the total cost if you wanted to buy all of them comes to $259.36.  Can you imagine the amount of time one would have to spend just to individually install all of these?  Imagine how much hard drive space the game would need?

You would think that maybe somebody within EA or Maxis would reach a point and say “Ok enough with the expansions, we should probably start consolidating more of these expansions.”  I would think during the process of installing all these expansions, you’d run into an issue where it would ask you to install a certain expansion first before the one you want to install.  Come to think of it, I remember I had a similar problem with some other game, it may have been the Sims 1.  But regardless, in my opinion, seeing THAT many expansions for ONE GAME is just disgusting, and over-excessive.

Sims 2 Expansions... There are simply too fucking many

Frank Gilberti of Nutley NJ, tried to pay off a $56 traffic fine using 112 rolls of pennies.  Gilberti had to pay the fine at the Bloomfield Municipal Court.  The court itself has a sign saying “Cash is Accepted” and pennies are considered legal tender.

“I went to the bank and got $56 worth of rolled pennies and went down to the court house and they refused to take it.  They had to told me to bring cash.  I was under the assumption this was cash.”

Gilberti then found out there was a warrant out for his arrest.

“It’s injustice.  This is U.S. currency accepted all over the county [but] apparently not in Bloomfield, NJ” Gilberti said.

Gilberti had a court date arranged for Tuesday but no news yet on what the outcome was.

Sources:

• WCBSTV – Warrant Issued After Man Tried To Pay $56 Traffic Fine With Coins

Link's Hat

Attention Link freaks, would you like to have your very own Link Paper Hat? If you have the time and patience, you can have your own for free!

After stumbling across website: Nintendo Papercraft, you can actually download and print out and build all sorts of  interesting Nintendo origami!

Zelda origami models you can build include:

• The Happy Mask Salesman
• The dog from Clocktown in Majora’s Mask
• Gossip Stone
• Waterbomb
• Beamos
• Deku Guard
• Deku Scrub
• Miniblin (smallest & weakest of Ganon’s army)
• Princess Ruto
• Akindo Nut salesman
• Fierce Diety Link
• Ganon (transformed)
• Princess Zelda (from Wind Waker)
• Zora
• Goron
• Midna
• Poe Salesman
• Darunia (Goron Leader)
• Link (in Zora form)
• Aryll (from Wind Waker)
• Dark Link (from Ocarina of Time)
• Link & Epona (Ocarina of Time)
• Skull Kid (Majora’s Mask)
• Adult Link (Ocarina of Time)
• Tetra (Wind Waker)
• Deku Link (Majora’s Mask)
• Tingle

And that just covers the Zelda characters.. There’s other sections as well.  Check them out!

• Nintendo Papercraft

If you haven’t been living under a rock these past couple of days, you most likely heard about an incident that took place in Baghdad, Iraq on December 14, 2008.

"This is a farewell kiss, you dog!"

President Bush was at a news conference most likely in regards to something that you’d forget about in two seconds.

In Arab culture, showing the sole of your shoe is considered very insulting, it’s even worse when you throw it.

Arab journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi (pictured holding the shoe) is quoted saying (in Arabic) “This is a farewell kiss, you dog!” and then throws his first shoe, but Bush quickly dodges.  Al-Zeidi then throws his second shoe, Bush dodges again.

I do have to say it’s interesting how long it took the Secret Service to react.

Muntazer Al-Zaidi pictured throwing his shoe

You gotta give Bush some credit here, he has some damn good reflexes.  I think the best part of this whole story is what Bush said afterwards: “I don’t know what the guy said, but I saw his sole.”

Muntadar al-Zeidi was detained by Secret Service and the Prime Minister’s guards.   His arrest caused angry protestors in Sadr City holding signs saying “Go out USA” demanding his release.

Sources:

• CNN – TV station urges release of shoe-throwing journalist

Phil Hendrie, radio personality best known for the voices he does on his show.

Here is another segment from the Phil Hendrie Show that dates back at least 8-10 years ago.

Bud Dickman, an intern for the Phil Hendrie Show wanted to interview Phil Hendrie for a school project he was doing.  When Bud asked Phil what prior radio stations he worked for, the interview goes downhill from there.

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