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Well would you look at that I passed the 10,000 Gamerscore mark (10,010 to be precise). I didn't even know, I knew I was at 9,995 the other day but obviously got me some more achievements that pushed me over the edge, woop.

So, mostly playing Fable 2 recently, as a break from Fallout 3 for a bit, felt a bit more like playing something a bit more cheery than the desolate wasteland of DC that is Fallout 3, not that it isn't fun.

Nothing much in the way of photoshopping or anything like that, haven't found any short, fun tutorials recently.

Sims 3 is just under a month away. Not entirely sure if I'm going to get it, I'm literally sat there with Game.co.uk open on the sims3 page and trying to decide. I loved The Sims, I enjoyed Sims2, except I felt that it lacked content, because they intend to sell you more stuff later on, and I know that the Sims 3 will probably have the same curse. However it's a cool franchise, and it's now been expanded to have more of a open neighbourhood, as opposed to just your house and a few locations, which makes me want to grab it and see if it's any good. However it's a bit of a time consuming game, which I have a few of already for the 360 so not sure if I want another game to take up my time. But I's like to think that it'll afford me some good fun, I love the whole building a house and interior design type stuff and back when I played The Sims, I had a nice successful family (named after Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, he was Ol' Dirty, he had a wife who I forget her name, something cool I think and a son Li'l. And they were the Bastard Family - I liked rap and was juvenile enough to think the Bastard family would be funny... which I still do), who I spent a good amount of time on getting up through the career paths and affording me to buy a new lot and build my own house, which I could then expand on and it kinda looked like the white house, and I had a lot of fun. Now I can't say I had the same experience with the Sims 2. One thing I have noticed though is that whenever I create me and use it in a game I struggle to do anything more that what I might realistically do (aside from shooting people in the head), so with the Sims 2 I tended not to have a girlfriend or wife as I kinda thought that a) it may depress me (yes I'm that lame, leave me alone) or b) it'd just be a bit sad living out an idyllic lifestyle which essentially isn't mine. And this (As is common I put an y at the end of And, it's a strange concept impulsively spelling your name when you try to type and with a capital) also extended to job choices, I wouldn't chose a career that I wouldn't particularly do in real life, meaning that I limited myself to what I could do and I also tried to have friends who where real (well a Sims representation of my real friends) and spent far too much time trying to get the relationships of my friends to how they actually are, so making brothers like each other and stuff like that (I hope they allow you to preset some relationship levels as it annoyed the hell out of me when you had a family that started of with indifference to each other, meaning you spent the first few days (sim days) trying to get everyone to like each other before getting jobs, that or have one person no one likes but brings home the bacon. Which leads me onto another annoying thing. You got §20,000 (simolions, and I'm pretty sure that is the right symbol) to build/buy your house and stuff for it, but this was the same for all families, 1 person or 8, meaning that for 1 person you could buy some decent stuff from the start, but with 8 you essentially bought the cheapest possible things you needed (a cooker, fridge, shower, toilet, beds etc.) and usually ended up with too few beds and the worst possible lifestyle for the sims. So basically they need to give you more money depending on the size of the family. Fair enough you could cheat and start with an 8 person family and then kill them off, but so what, if you do that you're lame), all this meaning I just couldn't be arsed playing with my own character. So with this theory in mind, and the past experience of a complete random family unrelated to my own, the Bastard family, through which I managed to do well, I may buy the game and create an obscure family which I can play with. Soooooo..... that was all rather long winded and strange. Incidentally that'd be the first PC game I'll have bought for years (I don't count The Spore Creature Creator as it was £5 and not really a game, more a waste of time and money).