More Awesome Than You!

If this has already been done, feel free to spork me, but no one posted a more awful for February, and I got the idea this morning.

This month's More Awful than You! will be on the look out for objects that are bigger than they should be for the item they are. For example, a coffee cup that is as big as a bucket. Anything that is so large that it looks redonkulous when the sim goes to use it. Pictures of the sim using the item need to be shown, as well as the location/creator of the original object.

It better damn well be funny or wtf-y.

I know it doesn't qualify as it is EAxis, but the tea set from the FT pottery wheel deserves a mention. I'll get a photo post haste.

(http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/8838/snapshotb6b7e6fbd6b80d2.th.jpg) (http://img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshotb6b7e6fbd6b80d2.jpg)

Decorative objects don't count? Or do they just not get the "in use" bonus points?

*ponders downloading the oodles of kitchen/bathroom clutter from MST2 for this contest*

Here I thought this thread was going to be about fat meshes gone horribly wrong. My bads.

I thought these were rather too big and WTF-y! (http://www.sexysims2.com/showthread.php?t=170470)

I would post a picture, but I don't know a host that allows adult content. You need an account at SexySims to view.

Exaggerated scaling is actually in many cases a deliberate stylistic choice. Many small objects would, if depicted at realistic scale, be impossible to see or click on from the perspective of about 30+ meters in the air. It does little good to render a pencil at realistic size when it becomes subpixel at 30m. This is also the cause of exaggerated facial proportions on the stock face templates.

I understand this. But some objects are even more redonkulously large that you just have to laugh when they use said items. When a coffee cup is bigger than a sim's HEAD, it's funny.

Well, there ARE giant mugs like that. Some people really like their coffee.

Do these count? 

(http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3514/babystuffom4.jpg)

I have to do this again and get some better pictures... but this time the bear gets a few of Rebecah's playable baby dolls for maximum creepiness.

Shortly after these images were taken, ChildRon died via Running with Scissors.  It was beary traumatic.

Please post links of where you got stuff, (I'm looking at YOU, rosess) just in case someone wants to actually go and get said things.

Adult baby:
Original (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=56680)     
Female (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=57540)   
Recolors (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=251704)

Toddler bear:
Here (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,91404.0.html)
Recolors (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,97145.0.html)

Playable Infant dolls (not in picture):
Here (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=313909)

That bear is so cute I squeed, and now I have it. I think I have some abnormal things in my downloads...I'll be back when I find something.

ETA: found something,

Trailer Park Yard Deco: specifically the tire planter, it is disproportionate. http://n99forumpaks.djssims.com/old.php?category=55 (http://n99forumpaks.djssims.com/old.php?category=55)

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m61/blahmos/bigassplanter.jpg)

What?

Is that tire for an airbus?

Disproportionate is an understatement. That thing is ginormous!

We had a tire that big in our backyard when I was growing up. It was an awesome sandbox. Tread on it was waaaay bigger though.

When I was a kid there was a playground near my house which had a tire that size secured to the ground standing up. It was so much fun to try to climb up the side and stand on the top.

The tire is reasonable (giant tractor tire), but the flowers inside are disproportionate.

On a side note, there's stuff in the game that I wish EA had made disproportionate, for reasons already stated (visibility).
Kittens and puppies, for one.

I knew something was up with it. I've seen tires that big, but its disproportionate for a tire that big; it's too tall and too blocky. Not a mesh issue but a failure in sizing on the drawing board.  :)

I love the teeny little kittens and puppies. They are so cute. Especially when you see their teeny tiny little paw pads. The cute. It kills.

Nothing on topic to offer, but I found something I haven't seen mentioned (nothing in search either). Is this (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r78/veganelise/MTTT.jpg) an EAxis nod to sport of More Awful Than You? Maybe they like it because they're stuff isn't eligible to "win."

Well, that was an epic flop.

Any ideas for April?

Bad/wtf-y mods? Dunno if people would risk putting anything in their games that could mess it all up.

What about, 'What's the point?' downloads.... things such as this:


Sorry, Plasticbox! But the thing is black anyway. :P (http://modthesims2.com/download.php?t=324891)

Nay, already too many. Let the CC business bloom for 2 months then a WTF type contest.

I like Emmas idea.

I've also thought of another idea:
Useless decorative crap. Stuff that looks or was suppose to work but doesn't because the creator fails by making it a decorative object only.

Well, making an object FUNCTION is nontrivial, particularly if it involves animations. Also, most artistes cannot code.

What about CC artists who recolored perfectly functional EAxis objects and broke them in the process - like the broken CC wedding cakes that someone posted about in the Podium a while ago?

For example, I somehow have a bed in my game that is at the wrong height and does freakish things when woohoo'd in.

Wedding cake borkeness is apparently something EAxis did, even EAxis's own Celebrations wedding cake is a lie.

I think I was trying to say that but I failed in the process.