Well, fuck

[katrisims]

Now this was going to be a happy post about how I had a good, long play session today and how my heiress is permaplat and on top of it pregnant. How interesting plotzy things happened. How I only have one small scene to shoot before I have everything I need for the next chapter. Until I found out that I don't have a single picture of any of it.

Yeah, apparently Gadwin turned itself off without warning (or possibly I forgot to check that it's on before I started playing), and I didn't get a single picture of today's play session. And that only included my heiress getting permaplat and a major event related to plot. Excuse my French but this fucking sucks.

I suppose the upside is that since I've been fearing a blowup of the computer, I've been making frequent backups, so I can go back to backup taken before today's play and replay the events to get the pictures. I'm not going to leave a gap of this size and this much importance in the story because of lost pictures, dammit! But it does mean more work, in principle futile work, and it's not going to feel authentic because it's not really how it happened. I do, all the time, shoot scenes that actually then never happened, but having to fake major legacy events like these just sucks.

And I thought I only had one more scene to shoot before I can just back everything up and ask my friend to come over and switch the sucky hard drive with a properly functioning one. And tomorrow, instead of shooting that one final scene and backing up the computer, I'm going to be replaying today's work. I accomplished a lot, several sims reached careertops and all these minor things happened too, I can't even remember what everything happened without the pictures. Great.

Man, I was going to go to bed so happy for a little while.

Comments

[mzyra.livejournal.com]

*hug*
I HATE it when that happens. I've given up on legacies altogether in the past for that kind of thing, but obviously the Bookacys will pull through
*hug* for your frustration and wasted time though :(

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sympathy! I really feel like I can use some right now.

Yeah, the Bookacies will survive this, I'm sure. What's sort of ironical, though, is that if I hadn't been fearing that my hard drive could die any moment, I would most likely have a way, way older backup, and might actually be considering quitting right about now. Scary thought...

Anyway, thanks. I'm feeling slightly better already.

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Yuck :( I've been hearing lots of problems with Gadwin lately, never fun.

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm feeling slightly better now, I'm backing up my progress and getting ready to switch into a backup to get the pictures. Ironically, had I not been fearing a hard drive failure, I'd probably have an older backup, and might be rather screwed... I suppose I'm being lucky in being unlucky here.

Yeah, I had the feeling that I'm not the only one for whom Gadwin has not been playing nicely lately... Bad Gadwin, behave!

Anyway, thanks for the sympathy. It made me feel better.