Halloween 2003 at Maxis: The Social Bunny
At the Maxis 2003 Halloween Costume Contest, we were visited by the Social Bunny. In the new version of The Sims, the Social Bunny appears only to those who are in need of extra social, so it's not such a good sign that we could all see it.
Photos courtesy of Komei Harada and Andreas Ramos.
The social bunny hops into the middle of the crowd to begin a few impromptu socials as (L to R) Kelly Riley, Marion Gothier, Kevin Byall, and Emmy Toyonaga watch.
Poor social bunny! Someone has rejected the bunny's social attempts, and now he walks away sad. Who wouldn't want a hug from a soft, fuzzy, ratty, stained, one-eyed bunny? Kevin Byall and Charles London watch this sad sight.
Here's the bunny with a collection of other spirits from the Costume Contest. Back row (L to R): Lisa del Toro, Alvin Go, the Social Bunny, unknown, Justin Graham, BJ West, Cory Tsang, Kevin Byall, David Benson, Wendy Bliss.
Front row: unknown, Suzanne, Jenna Chambers, Gretchen Carlson, unknown.
Whew! After a hard day of spreading sociality everywhere, the bunny waves goodbye.
At right, the bunny takes a well-deserved rest. The bunny learned to respect the entertainers who populate our nations' amusement parks... those heads are hot!
But you can't keep a bunny down for long! Later that night, the bunny popped back up at Patti Wilson's Halloween Party. Patti's friend Naomi looks on as the bunny sees more people in need of social. It's unclear how the bunny's eye returned for this picture, when in fact it was sewn shut until after the evening was over.
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Pay attention to the first 2 photos. They have a printed screenshot on the wall that shows a hot tub. But the UI in this screenshot is not from E3 2003, but from earlier builds with Purple UI:
The third photo hanging reference photos to something and to the Marrocan style of objects in game.
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while im suffering from the Monthly Blood Sacrifice (tm) (periods) have these iterators in your dash!!!!
inno's clothes are based off of sbai, a traditional khmer clothing back in the khmer empire around the 1st century. it was influenced by ancient india, it is still being used in cambodia, laos and thailand. and i thought it would be interesting to put more southeast asian representation in a game i really like :)
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okay can i just like yell for a second about iterator color inconsistency cause on one hand it’s really funny to me but on the other hand it drives me NUTS
because like!! okay. pre-downpour we just had Moon (yellow) and Pebbles (cyan) which was. like ???? because why does the BLUE iterator with red spots have the YELLOW overseers and pearls, while the pink iterator with YELLOW spots have tHE BLUE(adjacent) OVERSEERS AND PEARLS?? hello?? which architect designed these two i just want to talk
i wonder if the ancients ever got confused between the two overseer colors. like the idea of some ancient child waving to one of the wiggys like “hi moon!! hope you’re doing well!!!” and pebbles is just sitting there with the most incensed look on his face. do you realize how funny this is especially in terms of like the sibling rivalry energy. like being mistaken for your sibling is certainly. the experience.
anyways then we got downpour with its more fandom inspired takes and let me just say i’m very happy with the fact that NSH has the greens and Suns has the reds, which!! makes!! sense!! it matches and satisfies my desire for character designs to match the character and i just. hgfjjgrgr good. Suns is yellow and RED and has RED overseers and pearls. NSH is GREEN and purple and has GREEN overseers and pearls. It Just Makes Sense thank you downpour for making Sense
(to be fair NSH is implied to be green even in base game according to the color of hunter's pearl, the green neuron, green overseer, etc.)
but now im caught with the dilemma of designing Chasing Wind and Unparalleled Innocence because i KNOW that CW has the purple overseer (evidenced by purple text during spearmaster broadcasts) and i think it's highly likely that UI has the white one because they're close by and i'm like. do i make them match the iterator designs or no because its funny.
i think i will just because a lot of people make CW have the white overseer and UI have the purple overseer which i'm like 90% sure isn't the case but either way those designs slap and im not gonna be like. lore police LMAO. but yeah i think whenever i get to itty designs i'm gonna go with the downpour strategy of actual color matching
conclusion: chasing wind is a grape and unparalleled innocence is a snowball thank you for coming to my ted talk
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Purple mask, brooch, belt, new vyrsks (not all (green power and crit)), underwear, relics
link: https://discord.com/channels/809082900527579199/1130114485273772112/1130114485273772112
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Hello saw post about oc drawing. May i ask for drawing of my oc Damón in his purple outfit(first sprite in bio image) in the pose of this. Minus the fire or book unless want to..which purple flames/book. Hope this is ok a request.
Hi! its been a long time since I drew something like this- hopefully you like it!- (ˉ▽ˉ;)
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I'm on Pillowfort!
Yeah, just in case The Brands™ destroy what makes Tumblr good, I’ve made an account on Pillowfort. For the moment, it’s under the username that I’m allowing both Online and IRL people to know (including... coworkers lollll), so I probably won’t be as wild on there, but whatever!
They just made it free to join, with a waitlist - go to https://www.pillowfort.social/waitlist and sign up, the wait time is only 5 hours at the time I’m writing this, OR you can pay $5 USD to get immediate access (just go through the homepage to join that way).
Once you get the email saying your registration has arrived, you just create a username and password, and then you’ll need to go back to your email inbox and confirm your email address to get full access to the site’s features.
Then follow meeeeee <3 https://www.pillowfort.social/TwasBrillig Click the little plus in a circle on the left. (Followers and mutuals, if your Pillowfort name isn’t similar to your tumblr name, please let me know who you are! I probably won’t block unknowns but would like to know :) )
I’m definitely sticking around on Tumblr as long as I can, though!
(Protip: Go to settings and turn on dark mode)
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