Already back from work, in the comfort of Terence's new home. It's so fabulous, he could get used to living in it. Terry is lucky that he has such good taste for choosing houses.

A quick shower and a change of clothes. Lina is coming to visit and is about to arrive.

As soon as Lina arrived they started arguing, apparently, she didn't like the fact that he is living in Terry the Terrible's house, she doesn't like the fact that Jaycen is associating with him either. (Sorry Lina, you better get used to it!)

It seems that the discussion escalated, goodbye to Jaycen's plans to have a good time with Lina in the luxurious mansion.

 In the end Lina apologized, but it was too late, Jaycen was already in a bad mood. 😣

The carpool arrived, Jaycen is leaving for work.

The casino can be seen in the distance. Jaycen doesn't go there now, but he will visit it later.

There it is, the Lucky Simoleon Casino in all its glory.

 And this is the Sahara Corporate Headquarters, Jaycen's workplace. It's a little late, but he's already here. Ah, he'd rather be at the casino, but what can you do, he's the heir of the Hendrix fortune, he has to manage the family business.

It's early morning in Lucky Palms…

Jaycen takes a quick breakfast before going to work.

 The day started a bit cloudy, but later the sun will surely shine high above, heating the Lucky Palms desert sands as usual.

Some strange lights appeared in the Lucky Palms sky at night. It's not the first time. Some say it is about unicorns, (do those really exist?), the truth is no one knows what's going on.

Weird things often happen in the middle of the desert at that hour.  Rumors say they come from the Area-52 Labs, or The Warehouse, the Lucky Palms mobsters' hideout, which 'happens' to be next to the Labs. Ah, Terry is going to love all this for sure. 

Now, to watch some TV before going to sleep, tomorrow he has to get up early for work and to check on the Casino. 

Since he has to house-sit for his boss - erm, partner, while he moves to Lucky Palms, Jaycen has taken up temporary residence here, so he's enjoying all the advanced technology, especially in the kitchen.

Macaroni & Cheese is not what you might call gourmet, but given Jaycen's limited culinary skills, it will suffice for tonight.

 

But we'll get back with Terry and the Cho Brothers later, for now we return to Jayden, who we see here checking the interiors of the house he picked for his business associate. 

He still thinks it is perfect for Terry, and knowing him, he's going to love it.

Jaycen has to check that everything is in order and working, he assumes that involves testing the food in the fridge as well.

Like I said before, Jaycen is going to be Terence Cho's partner in his next business, the Lucky Simoleon Casino. Terry is going to move to Lucky Palms soon, so he gave Jaycen the mission to find a house for him. Jaycen found one that he thinks is perfect for Terence and his little family.

This amazing building is Eco Modern Marvel, by who else but pancake101, one of my favorite Sims 3 lot creators. 💗 

There is where Terry and Cynthia (and their little son David) will be moving to shortly. They are already in preparations to leave Hidden Springs.

 

 Ok, back to the Sims 3 and straight to Lucky Palms with Jaycen Hendrix, who I told you about earlier in this post.

According to SimsWiki, Jaycen Hendrix is "a pre-made Sim living in the downloadable neighborhood of Lucky Palms. He is a rich playboy and has inherited most of his money and his job from his father. He has an unborn child, whose mother is Lina Lancaster. The two are just friends when the game begins".

The latter is the reason why Lina had a baby shortly after my Lucky Palms game started, and it turned out that it was Jaycen's. As you can see in the photo above, there is already a crib in Jaycen's bedroom, but there's no sign that he is going to marry Lina any time soon.

Well, I've run out of pictures of Appaloosa Plains and Sunlit Tides, and I'll need a little more time to build the next episodes of Time Traveler and The Cho Brothers, as both require new sets and characters that I want to work on calmly, so, in the meantime, I'll keep posting some random pictures of my sims and gameplay, outtakes and stuff, like these (unedited) pictures I took of Sunset Valley:

I'm also sharing these photos of Lucky Palms, again no filters and no editing:

It turns out that in December I got a new gaming laptop, so I copied my entire Sims 3 game with all my saves and cc there. It wasn't that complicated, just a little hassle at the beginning to get the game to detect the graphics card, because you know, you have to edit the Graphic Cards document and all that. But the game installed easy (thanks Steam) and started working properly right away. :) 

Then I started copying all my current game (saves, cc and mods) from my PC to the laptop. That did take longer, maybe around three days or so, but it was worth it, because the game runs beautifully, no lag, no problems, and after almost a month of playing, I haven't had any issues. 

So far, I haven't had any problems with Windows 11 either, everything works fine with it, in fact, I like it, it's quite light and pretty. :P

The Sunset Valley and Lucky Palms photos here were taken in my newly installed game. I haven't messed with the Nvidia Settings yet, but I will very soon to see if I can improve them a bit, as I don't use programs like Reshade, or Gshade or anything like that, just my photo editor. For now, this is just with the graphics settings in the game menu, all the options at maximum, still zero lag, neither in game, nor in CAS (the latter thanks in great part to Lazy Duchess' Smooth Patch, I can't thank them enough for this!)

So, the new computer arrived just in time, because my PC hardly keeps running anymore, sometimes it shuts itself off and refuses to turn on again, but now I can send it to the workshop to do the upgrades I've been wanting to do for months, without having to stop playing my game. ❤️😊

Something else I want to share with you this year are my Sims 4 pictures. Yes, I started playing it again last October, after two long years of not touching it, or was it three? 🤔I don't remember, I stopped playing it since before the pandemic, you go figure, thing is I decided to give it another chance, but I'll tell you about that in a later post. Please, brace yourselves cause I have a considerable amount of Sims 4 pictures to share with you, I hope you like them! 😉

(Of course, this doesn't mean I will leave The Sims 3. I will never ever quit The Sims 3! 😍)

P.S. Sorry for the wall of text.

As I already mentioned, I started playing in Lucky Palms, the only world I was missing. The idea here is that Terence and Cynthia, from my game The Cho Brothers, will soon come to this city in search of new business. Logically, Terry will need a contact to keep him up to date on how things are here. For that I chose Jaycen Hendrix, a premade sim from Lucky Palms. I think his profile will be a perfect fit with the Cho-Vanderburgs. 

JAYCEN HENDRIX

Career: Business, Level 2, Executive Assistant Position.

Traits: Flirty, Great Kisser, Commitment Issues, Vehicle Enthusiast, Childish.  

Lifelong Wish: Swimming in Cash (Having 50,000 Simoleons in Household Funds).

Greatest Skills: Charisma and Physical.

Romantic Interest: Lina Lancaster.

Jaycen spends more time at Lucky Simoleon Casino than he does at work or at home. He's not very lucky at the game but he's getting better at it. Of course, he knows half the world there and in general all of Lucky Palms, he has good friendships and contacts, therefore, he will be the ideal partner for Terry.

As for Jaycen's romantic life, (if he has one since he's too self-centered for that), there's his ex-girlfriend, Lina Lancaster. Hardly had the game started, when Jaycen got a call from Lina. Rather, I had him invite her over to find out why she was now his "ex". That's when I realized that Lina was pregnant and when her baby was born, (Jaycen happened to be visiting her house), it turned out that the child was Jaycen's son! 

I swear I don't know how this happened. I had barely played a couple of days and Lina shows up already pregnant. Now Jaycen has got the moodlet Public Disgrace (For having a child out of wedlock), what a start for someone as high-flying as Jaycen! But on the bright side, maybe he will decide to get married and start a family with Lina, which will make him even more in tune with his future partner Terence. We'll see!