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Send Us Videos of Your Towns!
Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
I’m trying my best to get through the list of those that signed up for the video showoff. It will likely look different than the first video we put out. Time and schedules are not in our favor. Which is unfortunate, but also why I stepped away from the full-time running of this site 2.5 years ago. So hopefully it doesn’t come as a surprise to many of you. I’ll do my best, but it may not be in the manner either of us would like.
However, beyond that I had a few folks reach out asking if we can display their town in video. Unfortunately, there’s just no way I can add to the already long list and accomplish it all before the game is pulled from the stores on Friday. HOWEVER, YOU can send me a video of your favorite parts of your town and we (at the very least Safi and I) will put together a video of these towns and do our best to comment on them. By you sending us videos of your towns, we’ll be able to do the video and commentary even after the game is pulled from the stores. So it gives us a bit more flexibility.
So find your favorite parts of your town and send us a video of it, preferably no longer than 3-5 minutes (if it is longer, note we’ll likely edit for time). You can send the video to TSTOAddictsblog@gmail.com or put a link to it in the comments of this post.
Patric will have a post up this week about how to do solid and high quality video of your town…but just for a quick explanation of how to do these:
For Apple Phones: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102653
For Samsung Phones: https://www.samsung.com/au/support/mobile-devices/using-screen-recorder/?srsltid=AfmBOoowlZ59FwTs5ZeojB6OJSZZcYQPs-ZPDC8vZsG2e6IisOGPAasW
Here’s the instructions for iPhones and Samsung, since they’re the two most common. If that’s not the phone you use, if you google your phone brand and model with screen record, instructions should come up.
Please also note this site will remain live even after the game is shut down on Friday. We’ll continue to keep this active as an archive and I’ll try to get some posts up with sounds of TSTO, and maybe even some of our favorite animations even after the game is over…as my time allows.
Thank you!
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Three Ways To Archive Your Town…Before You Can’t!
In the late 90s, I wrote a book about my Dad’s upbringing in the small, port town of St. Helen’s, Oregon. As research, we did a couple of driving tours through “modern” St. Helens, with a tape recorder running, as he regaled me with loads of stories I had never heard before. There was something about that one-on-one time, with every turn along the roads unlocking a new memory, that was beyond special.
When he passed in 2012, I remembered that I had kept the tapes from that day, and after buying a used cassette player that I could hook up to my studio console and computer interface, I transferred them all to digital, and later shared them with the entire family. After all of this time, I still listen a couple of times a year, when I just want to hear his voice, as well as the love that comes through our mutual banter.
Knowing that TSTO is going to “die” on the 24th…the need/urge/panic to capture my town, which has given me so much pleasure through a very insane part of my life, is now “Job Number One” for the time we have remaining.
Here are three ways you can do the same.
Addicts Open Thread
Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
It’s that time of the week again, time for the Addicts Weekly Open Thread! So, let’s get the conversation going! Oh and remember…just because this is posted here today doesn’t mean you can’t comment on it all week long. This open thread will still be open for comments long after today is over!
Here’s where you can talk about anything you want to talk about…TSTO Related, Simpson’s Related or ANYTHING. Just no Add me requests…those should go here. We’ll give you a few suggestions (like most Sunday’s you can talk about the current episode of the Simpsons or current Tapped Out event) but for the most part, you’re free to talk about ANYTHING your little Tapping Fingers desire…just keep it PG.
So, here is your Open Thread…..
Friday Filler Redux: – How TSTO Changed My Life
It’s said by some, that we live our lives in decades. This may come about from the fact that humans have ten fingers, and remembering facts about our history is difficult beyond the second pinkie.
However, others believe that our lives are lived in patterns of 7. Which may have come about while an older person, trying to recount the past decade, while holding a hot cup of coffee and their phone, realized it is almost impossible to get beyond 7 without spilling the coffee or dropping the phone, or dropping the phone into the coffee.
But, as it pertains to my history with The Simpsons Tapped Out (hereafter referred to as TSTO because I don’t want to keep typing out the full name of the game, while drinking coffee and holding my phone), I will be using a mathematic reference of number of 8 years. Why? Because the TSTO characters have 8 fingers, and the game, and my life in association to it, ran in patterns of 8…and a half (which makes sense if you start the second pattern of 8, and stopped it abruptly in the middle).
Live with it. It’s how we’re gonna do this.
