May "More Awful Than You": Buttugly Brokeass Furniture

[Simsbaby]

Very, very late, but anyway...

What use do these things have in the game? They're ugly, and look very high poly too.

For Numenor



Cthulhu Ship and more-oddities

[Li'l Brudder]

Cthulhu didn't come in no damn spaceship!  It was a meteor, I tells ya!

[J. M. Pescado]

I seem to recall the official history has him arriving by flapping his wingalings.

[baratron]

The spiky "goth" furniture is probably made with rubber or soft plastic spikes. You can buy bags, boxes and cigarette lighters covered in the stuff. There's a particular polymer that you mix up as monomer with the dye, then shape it while it sets. Can't remember what it's called, though (brain fried from the huge pile of marking in front of me).

The car with teeth(?) will give me nightmares.

[Kyna]

Very, very late, but anyway...

What use do these things have in the game? They're ugly, and look very high poly too.

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I guess if someone was doing a LOTR themed neighbourhood they'd be useful as neighbourhood decorations.  I have seen LOTR terrains somewhere.  I agree with your assessment of them, they do look kinda ugly, and the edges are too crisp.  They don't look as weather-beaten as ancient statues should.

[Li'l Brudder]

We build antiques!

[Zazazu]

Very, very late, but anyway...

What use do these things have in the game? They're ugly, and look very high poly too.

<Numenorean statues image snipped>

I guess if someone was doing a LOTR themed neighbourhood they'd be useful as neighbourhood decorations.  I have seen LOTR terrains somewhere.  I agree with your assessment of them, they do look kinda ugly, and the edges are too crisp.  They don't look as weather-beaten as ancient statues should.

Actually, they remind me more of NeverEnding Story. I remember the first time I watched LOTR, I was pissed that they'd ripped them off. However, they are decidedly uncool as I see no mention of blinding rays of death.

[Li'l Brudder]

And this contest draws to a close, as it is June in Malaysia!  Let the judging COMMENCE!

[J. M. Pescado]

Judges LilQuitter, Bangelnuts, and Giggy: Nominate your More Awful Than Yous!

[Li'l Brudder]

I nominate 3:

Cthulhu Ship:


Anyone who has ever read The Call of Cthulhu knows that Cthulhu didn't arrive in a clunky, loud, light blue spaceship.  And it has glowing...eyes?  What kind of stealthy alien has lights on the ship's outside?  They CAN'T function as headlights, as they're too high.

Fire Room:


It's on fire.  It's bright.  It makes my monitor ring.

Duck Potty:


It eats toddler poop.  Parents have to manually stomach pump the duck to get the contents out.    It looks like it's eating a toddler when the toddler is sitting on it.

[Kyna]

Actually, they remind me more of NeverEnding Story. I remember the first time I watched LOTR, I was pissed that they'd ripped them off. However, they are decidedly uncool as I see no mention of blinding rays of death.

NeverEnding Story probably ripped them from Tolkien.  (And I have no idea where he ripped them from).

From the Fellowship of the Ring: "As Frodo was borne towards them the great pillars rose like towers to meet him.  Giant they seemed to him, vast grey figures silent but threatening.  Then he saw they were indeed shaped and fashioned: the craft and power of old had wrought upon them, and still they preserved through the suns and rains of forgotten years the mighty likenesses in which they had been hewn.  Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North.  The left hand of each was raised palm outwards in gesture of warning; in each right hand there was an axe; upon each head there was a crumbling helm and crown."

So they should be holding axes, not swords.

[Hecubus]

Tolkien was largely inspired by legends from the Norse, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal outright.

[witch]

I had a book recently from the library, it was a compilation of the legends that supposedly inspired Tolkein's works. Unfortunately I didn't get round to reading it and can't remember it's title.

[Bangelnuts]

while all the admissions are either blinding or puke worthy ;My vote goes to FeeEssen for the double toddler crib! her stuff is too bulky,pointy and it would take a sim house that covers an entire street to use the garbage.

[Giggy]

umm well I put down this



I'll put down more as I see fit but I'll nominate all of FeeEssens works displayed here (No I'm not going to put all the pics down as I'm too bloody lazy)

[Tailchaser]

It eats toddler poop.  Parents have to manually stomach pump the duck to get the contents out.    It looks like it's eating a toddler when the toddler is sitting on it.

Ew. Your description made it all that worse. Especially the stomach pump part.

[Ellatrue]

I don't think the Cthulu ship counts as furniture. From the position on the driveway, it looks like a car.

[witch]

I've known plenty of people that had whole bikes and bits of bikes and cars in their houses - dunno if that counts as furniture? 

[missaaliyah]

Most of ATWA's furniture is fugly (at TSR) 

[Zazazu]

I had a book recently from the library, it was a compilation of the legends that supposedly inspired Tolkein's works. Unfortunately I didn't get round to reading it and can't remember it's title.

I hadn't read Tolkien before I saw NeverEnding Story. I saw NeverEnding Story when I was around six. I tried The Hobbit the first time around seven/eight. Actually, technically, I haven't read through any Tolkien at all. Not that he's bad or anything, he's just very descriptive and I prefer more of a balance between dialog and description in my entertainment reads. One of these days I'll buckle down and try again, because they are pivotal works in the genre.

[RaeKira]

Zazazu, you should definitely get to reading them. They are really long, and take forever to read [I'm a fast reader, and it still took me a month to get through the series, excluding the Hobbit],  but they're some of the best books I've ever laid eyes on. If you've seen the movies, then when you read Return of the King you'll prolly get a little pissed at the movies. At least, I did. The director left out the end of the book, although it was probably from time constraints. I doubt that most major fans would have minded a longer movie anyway...  *points to self*

[jrd]

I was more upset with the unneeded and idiotic changes of TTT.

[RaeKira]

The Two Towers? Actually, I sped through that one so fast I hardly remember it. I do remember that they messed up with Pippin and Merry meeting the Ent... What was his name again? Treebeard? He was awesome. I also remember that they totally left out the part where they both got taller because of the Ents' and the forest's water.

[jrd]

In increasing order of stupidity:
The Ents deciding NOT to interfere
Unnecessary Aragorn fake-death to allow for an Arwen "dream" sequence
Telepathy between Elrond and Galadriel
Faramir claiming the Ring and taking Frodo and Sam to Osgiliath

[RaeKira]

Well, the Ents DID help. They went to Sarumon's place. It was all flooded? And then Pippin picked up the orb.
That stupid death is always annoying. Maybe because I don't really like Arwen... Aragorn should definitely have fallen in love with someone cooler. Not Eowyn though, she was a bit whiny.
The telepathy thing, I don't remember. Err, wait, it's coming back... Nope I lost it.
Faramir is just... Faramir. I know what you're talking about, and now that I think back on it, yeah, that was kinda stupid. But at least they hid it well. I didn't even notice it before. But Faramir is teh cool. I really liked how they had his dad freak out and try to burn him. I thought they did well with that.
I was also kind of surprised with the whole Pippin thing. I seem to remember his servitude going about differently...
Eh. I need to reread the books.