Dutch designer and artist. I love my sweetheart Wouter and our son Seth. Interests: photography, art, design, games, music, beauty, cooking and travel. I have lipedema.
For my design work, please visit Miss Design. For my handmade items, go to Retro Hugs. And for my game reviews and downloads, go to SNW. Looking for my brainchild Junior? He's at Juniorwood!
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I'm still working on the new website. Most of the posts (including artworks, blog posts and 365 posts from 2009, 2010 and 2011) are missing. These posts will return eventually. Thanks for your patience! 
Unpacked most of my Sims on PC/Mac games collection. Seems there isn't any room to expand it further though. Not enough space!
I have used this particular picture on the December Bloggers page on Facebook, but not everyone is on Facebook and I still want to show this to everyone! So here it is. A Sims 2 Christmas bauble.
I used to buy my games in The Netherlands. And I would go to the store myself to buy them, as I didn't want to have any shipping added to the price. But for the past few years I noticed out country is very expensive, and games are not an exception. As you may know, I'm a true Sims games collector. I have over 100 Sims games myself, so that's without the games ChEeTaH has! If you play Sims games, and you have all expansion packs, then you know this will eat your paycheck (or allowance). So when I see a chance to save money on games, I definitely will!
Jud from Simprograms was talking about the The Sims 2 Best of Business Collection on Facebook yesterday. And that reminded me of the The Sims 2 University Life Collection. I still needed to buy both games. So I went to see online how much they will cost in The Netherlands. It will cost €30 per game. So two games will be about €60. That's without shipping. Right now, €60 is more than $88!
Now let's see how much the games cost at GameStop (the only one that had both of these collections). GameStop sells these games at $19.99 per game. Let's say 20, so both games are $40. The shipping is also 20, because it has to be shipped from the US to The Netherlands. $60 total. That's a little more than €40. A difference of €20. That money I saved is money I can spend on other things. More games, or books.
As for the fact that these games I ordered are English only, that's okay. I play all my games in English anyway. Usually the Dutch translation is so bad I'm annoyed while playing. And I'm not the only one. Most of my team members and friends play the games in English because of this.
So that was my story why I buy my games in the US or the UK, simply because it's cheaper there. It of course depends on the game also. Some games are so expensive, I have to pay extra money to import them to my country. It then ends up being more expensive than when I buy them here. So it really just depends, but in general I tend to look at games in other countries.
Sometimes you discover those crazy things, that you really didn't expect. Like yesterday, I had a fun thing with Nightlife. I like to fiddle, in my game too. Changing the CAS scene (where you create Sims) is no exception. So I thought I'd change CAS. I wanted a CAS in Nightlife style. Change some walls, add a floor, disco lights and not to forget a DJ booth. After saving and replacing I got back in the game, and what did I see? CAS works like a community lot because as I said, I placed a DJ booth in it, and of course, my Sim was not alone. There was a DJ, a real DJ behind the booth. How funny! I made a picture of it immediately and sent it to EA 
It was quite a day yesterday. A lot of fun, but exhausting (stupid hot weather!) Anyway, the report is on Simsnetwork and on Simsnetwerk (in Dutch)
So I already told you yesterday that I am going to meet & greet Tim LeTourneau next Friday. Tonight there was a chat and I got no questions answered this time, but did get to know a few things. I am busy writing down all questions, so I can ask them next week. By the way, nobody knows, except EA, what that one surprise will be, but I have a hunch.
I completely forgot to mention but it does need its own piece of text... I am going to Tim LeTourneau (Senior Producer of The Sims 2) next week at EA Benelux. There I will ask all possible questions which are not yet known about the second expansion pack of The Sims 2: Nightlife. Nightlife will be out 15 September in the Netherlands, a year after The Sims 2 itself. It is the second expansion pack and according to EA it will have the same system requirements. I don't really believe that last bit, but ok... What they want..
If you have any questions regarding the second expansion pack (Nightlife) then leave me a message here or talk to me on IM. I will write down all (not yet known) questions and will ask Tim LeTourneau them one by one. The previous meeting (press conference) with Tim LeTourneau was a lot of fun and I think it will be fun again this time. Now let's just hope we can take pictures.
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