Alternate History World; 19th Century to 1950s; North America

The Thirteen original colonies(New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia) revolted against Great Britain in 1775-83 in what was known as the American Revolutionary War for Independence. Great Britain was forced to respect the colonies as independent nations. The U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788 & the bill of rights in 1791. Overtime, many more states would join the Union prior to the 1860's.

Seven southern states seceded between December 20, 1860 to February 3, 1861(South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, & Georgia) & formed the Confederate States of America on February 3, 1861. This was due to GOP Republican President elect Lincoln's plan to impose protective tariffs on steel which would harm the South's economy. The South was also a different nationality from the Northern states dividing the United States of America between the Yankees(USA) & Dixies(CSA). Lincoln would eventually order an invasion on the CSA after the attempts of the Dixies to claim sovereignty over Fort Sumnter in South Carolina. Shortly after the start of the American Civil War(April of 1861), several more southern states moved to secede & join the Confederate States(Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, & Arkansas) with Missouri, Kentucky, & Maryland hanging in the balance fighting for secession. Union troops stormed Maryland in efforts to prevent secession. Missouri & Kentucky didn't officially secede from the Yankee United States until 1866 but were unofficial Confederate States. Three new U.S. states were created between 1861-64(Kansas, West Virginia, & Nevada). West Virginia was illegally ceded from Virginia into Yankee territory. Thanks to the Dixie victory at the Battle of Vicksburg, the Civil War was prolonged & eventually ends with a Southern victory on May 4, 1870 after getting some help from Great Britain, France, & Mexico. During the 1860's, Lincoln's GOP was de facto the only political party in federal Yankee politics with Democrats facing persecution. Lincoln held onto power through dictatorial means such as fraudulant elections where votes were manipulated through force, especially in the 1864 & 1868 presidential elections. Lincoln would be deposed by a military coup by rebellious Democrats known as "Copperheads" led by Clemente Valladigham of Ohio, staunch opponents of the GOP regime.

Lincoln would be overthrown in 1870 & the Treaty of London established on May 4, 1870 would recognize the Confederate States of America as a sovereign confederation & officially end the American Civil War. Missouri, Kentucky, & Maryland would become Confederate states in 1866. West Virginia would be annexed back to Virginia as part of the Treaty of London in 1870. Washington D.C. would remain a Yankee territory being the capital of the United States of America.

Robert E. Lee would succeed Jefferson Davis as Confederate States president in 1868 & would pass away just months after the Treaty of London. Robert E. Lee would die on October 12, 1870 & John C. Breckinridge would succeed Lee as the 3rd president of the CSA. Arizona & New Mexico territories would be ceded to the C.S.A. with what is today Las Vegas belonging to Nevada.

United States of America(1870-1910): The GOP would be dissolved after the war with Horace Greely being elected by U.S. Congress as temporary president in November of 1870, when the new Congress of fresh Democrats & Liberal Republicans were recently elected, after a provisional military government. The United States experienced rise in food prices after the war due to failure to establish trade relations with their Southern neighbors. Ontario would join the U.S. on July 1, 1867. Reformist Republican Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio was elected in 1876 over Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York. Hayes created some more diplomatic relations with the Confederate States in terms of trading steel & agriculture. The Yankees & Dixies were high in steel manufacturing & agriculture respectively. The United States would lose much of it's western territories which sought to form an independent federal republic in the 1880's. What was left of the contigous United States was Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Iowa, & Minnesota plus the District of Columbia. The Progressive movement began to grew during the last year of Grover Cleveland's presidency in 1896. William McKinely of Ohio was elected president on the Republican ticket in 1896. Theodore Roosevelt of New York was Vice President in 1901 when McKinely was shot to death by a Polish-Yankee anarchist named Leon Czolgez. It was during the 1901 Pan-American Expo in Buffalo, New York. Roosevelt was a Republican of course. During World War I(1896-1902) The North Americas were involved in the Spanish-American front of the war with the United States gaining the Indies of both West & East. The United States ceded Cuba to the Confederate States of America in 1902. By 1906, the United States would have the following colonies: Puerto Rico, Liberia, Phillippines, Micronesia, Guam, Yankee Samoa, Guyana, & Yankee West Indies.

Confederate States of America(1870-1910): The Southern Democratic party was the major majority party until 1951 elections. The Confederate States finally win the war after nine years of fighting off Yankee invaders. The CSAs best industry was agriculture & in the 1870's established a free trade agreement with the United States in exchanging manufacturing & agricultural products. The Confederate States would gain some territories in Northern Mexico in the mid 1880's mainly Rio Grande, Chihuahua, & Sonora. In the 1890's, the Confederate States Congress passed a law to limit non-white immigration & encourage white immigration. Most of the immigrants that arrived in the CSA were Jews from central Europe. Slaves were no longer recognized as slaves by the Confederate government & in 1870 slavery was partially abolished & free blacks were granted citizenship & slavery was prohibited in Confederate territories & no new states could legalize slavery. Slavery continued to exist in some CS states but by the 1890's most states already abolished slavery with Alabama becoming the last State to abolish slavery in 1911. Alabama would be the last subnational entity to abolish slavery in the Western World as the United States abolished slavery in 1866. Many of the slaves in the Confederate States were freed by the end of 1870 after fighting in the Civil War with some blacks receiving medals of honor. Blacks began migrating to the Western Confederate territories in Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Rio Grande, & Chihuahua as well as other states in the 1870's & 1880's. Since 1891, laws have been passed to segregate whites & blacks while aboriginals remain citizens of their homelands while they are protectorates of the CSA government. The Confederate States would purchase Cuba from the United States in 1902 after the Spanish-American war with residents of Cuba being granted citizenship on May 1, 1902. Cuba would become a CSA commonwealth. Oklahoma before 1907 was an Indian reservation exclusively for Native Americans until Oklahoma became a state in 1907.

Cascadia(1870-1910): Composed of the Western states & territories of the United States, settlers in California & Oregon proposed a seperate nation for the Western non-Yankee & non-Dixie states & territories in North America. A War for independence started in 1871 & lasted until 1882. The seperatists were fighting against the United States for independence with the Seperatists being aided by the Confederate States. On April 23, 1885, the Federation of Cascadia was born with the ratification of it's constitution. It's first states were California, Nevada, Oregon, British Columbia, Colorado, Nebraska, Manitoba, & Kansas with the territories of Washington Territory, Alaska, Northwest Territories, Dakota Territory, Montana Territory, Utah Territory, Wyoming Territory, & Idaho Territory with Yukon Territory being created in 1898. Leland Stanford of California was elected president on the Whig Party ticket in the 1885 election & presidential terms would be five years long being renewable once. The three major parties in Cascadia's early years were the Whig, Liberal Democratic, & Unionist parties. Just one year after Cascadia was formed, the peninsula of Baja California was purchased from the poverty stricken Mexico. Baja California would be a federal Cascadian territory until it gained statehood on January 9, 1952. The Whig Party dominated Cascadian politics until the end of the 1910's with a Unionist president being elected in 1910. Cascadia restricted non-white immigration from only a few years after it's birth. Many of the territories in Cascadia would form the following states from 1889 to 1905: North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Alberta & Saskatchewan. Hawaii would be a territory of the United States from 1893 to 1899 until the U.S. ceded Hawaii to Cascadia. A quota was placed on Asian immigration in 1905 when many Japanese immigrants started coming to Hawaii. The last Whig to keep the consecutive record for president in Cascadia before losing election to a Unionist was Ezra Taft Benson who would express classical liberal views similar to the Liberal Democratic Party during his term as President. He would sadly loose the election of 1910 to Unionist Party candidate James P. Pearson of Kansas. The Whig Party would still hold a plurality in Congress.

United States of America(1910-1940): Immigration from Europe helped build America's working class & give people new opportunities. The Progressive Era was growing & by the 1912 elections, the Bull Moose Progressive Party became a major party with Teddy Roosevelt, once a Republican President from 1901-09, winning a third term in office. There were progressive acts made which included Income Tax, Federal Reserve, regulation of child labor along with previous progressive reforms like the Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Roosevelt became president in third term from 1913-17. Pierre Trudeau was elected US president as a Democrat in 1916 & was president from 1917-21 & would become the last Democrat president of the United States. He became unpopular by the end with Republicans gaining a supermajority in the 1920 elections & the Progressive Party coming in second & Democratic Party in last with less than 5% of congress. Republicans by this time had 72%, Progressives 24%, & Democrats 4%. This would be the last time a president in office was a Democrat & Democrats became the third party trailing behind Progressives & Republicans. Republican John B. Anderson of Illinois became president in 1921 until 1925. Anderson reigned in a new era of prosperity with laissez-faire policies that stimulated the economy, making the 20's a decade of prosperity. Prohibition during this era lasted from 1919-1933 at the federal level & women gained the right to vote by 1920. Republicans did lose their supermajority in the 1922 elections but still held a majority in Congress. Brian Mulroney of New Brunswick would be elected as a Republican for president in 1924 & he would remain president until after the 1932 elections. The Stock Market crashed in 1929 & Republicans & Democrats lost respect with massive Progressive Party gains in the 1930 & 1932 elections with the election of a Progressive Party president. Progressives would hold a 61% in Congress with Republicans at 28% & Democrats at 11% in 1933. The New Deal under Jean Chretein would begin & last throughout much of the 1930's with Progressives having a 75% supermajority in 1937 but a recession sooned diminished peoples faith in the New Deal, giving massive gains to Republicans & Democrats. Progressives would still hold majority in Congress. Chretein would win election again in 1940 & lead the U.S. during World War III.

Confederate States of America(1910-1940): In the 1890's, many Dixie states had segregation that was "Seperate but equal". Aboriginals were given special homelands in which they could have self-government as commonwealths. By 1925, five western territories gained statehood: New Mexico & Arizona 1912, Chihuahua 1913, Rio Grande 1917, & Sonora 1924. The CSA was the most social conservative countries in the world but treasured western freedoms such as free speech, the right to keep & bear arms, due process, & free markets. The CSA's economy was based mostly on Agriculture throughout it's first 80 years. Although womans suffrage was legalized in some states as early as the 1910's, there wouldn't be a constitutional amendment ratified at the Confederate level guarenteeing woman's suffrage until 1947. During the 1920's, the CSA's economy grew to record levels unseen in it's first 60 years. The GDP per capital in 1870 was 26th in the world but grew to 11th by 1925. Jesse Helms(Southern Democrat) of North Carolina was president from 1922 to 1928. Anti-Communism legislation was passed in the Confederate States as early as 1924 by prohibiting foreign Communists from entering, banning the Communist Party, & prohibiting advocacy for overthorw of government with goals of replacing it with a marxist-leninist state. North America was impacted by the 1929 Stock Market Crash & economic growth decreased. The Southern Democratic Party was becoming less popular as Confederalist & Farmer-Labour Parties gained seats in subsequent elections. The Southern Democratic Party was the majority party in Congress since 1861 but did have opposition parties: Confederalist, Populist(1890's-1920), Prohibition(1890's-1931), & Farmer-Labour(1930-1940's). The Farmer-Labour party was a centre to centre-left party concerned with defending farmers during the Great Depression. The Southern Democratic Party remained in power as they have for 72-78 years consecutively following the 1933-39 elections respectively, though the Southern Democrats has a razor thin plurality just few seats above the Confederalist & Farmer-Labour Parties. From 1861 to 1925, the capital of the CSA was Richmond, Virginia but was changed to Ft. Davis-Lee near Dallas, Texas.

Cascadia(1910-1940): Cascadia would celebrate it's 25th anniversary in 1910 honoring one of the recently deceased & oldest founders Mary Ramsey Wood of Hillsboro, Oregon who was born on May 20, 1787 & died on January 1, 1908. She was a Liberal Democrat who was partially successful at crafting a Jacksonian Democracy for Cascadia including drafting in part with others the Cascadian constitution. Women had the right to vote in all Cascadian states since 1896 though there have been some mountain states where women could vote as early as 1869, when these states were then territories of the United States of America. The federal capital was changed from Hillsboro, Oregon to Prince George, British Columbia in 1915, renaming the city Columbia & making it a federal district. In North America, many Americans would reject interventionism & choose to worry about matters that concerned them. The Whig Party lost it's majority to the Liberal Democrats in the 1918 elections with the Union Party president Pearson losing popularity for involvement in wars. The Whig Party would adopt the same platform along with Liberal Democrats in rejecting Trudeau's proposed League of Nations. 38 year old Senator Preston Manning of Alberta would be elected in 1920 on the Liberal Democratic Ticket facing Whig & newly formed Progressive Party. Liberal Democrats would hold a 56% majority with Whigs at 27% & Progressives at 13%. The Union Party which lasted for 35 years was dissolved after the 1920 elections as most members joined the Whig Party. Economic prosperity began in Cascadia along with North America, Europe, Japan, & Australasia with higher standards of living with Cascadians & Dixies enjoying no federal income tax. Yankees enjoyed low income tax. Anti-Communist & stronger anti-immigrant sentiment emerged as many Chinese immigrants were turned down & numerous communists were arrested & charged under anti-communism legislation. Cascadia would have the highest GDP per capita in the 1920's thanks to high oil & natural gas production with gas being used more often since many states prohibited alcoholic beverages in which prohibition would decline in 1924 into 1931. Unlike the United & Confederate States, Cascadia had no federal alcohol prohibition. Liberal Democratic Party would remain the majority party until the 1930 elections after the 1929 stock market crash with people turning their support towards the Progressive Party. The presidential election was contested between Whig Bob Dole of Kansas, Progressive Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, & Liberal Democrat Steve Symms of Idaho. A runoff election between Bob Dole & Bob Kerrey commensed after the general election. Despite Kerrey winning the popular vote, Bob Dole secured more electoral votes & was elected president. Progressive Party would become the majority party in Congress. The Liberal Democratic Party would dissolve shortly after due to numerous factions concerning how the economy should be run, which was between Classical Liberals, Conservatives, & Social Liberals. Many of them emigrated to the now two major parties: Whig & Progressive Liberal Parties. Those two parties would be the major parties in the 1933 elections with gains in Liberal Progressive seats due to the unpopularity of Bob Dole. Dole planned to impliment New Deal programs to try & win votes from those angry about the state of the economy. Two new political parties emerged: New Democratic Party(Social Democracy) & Social Credit Movement. The 1935 elections would feature two new political parties which looked more appealing to voters with a four way presidential race between Whig Bob Dole, Liberal Progressive Bob Kerrey, New Democrat Ray Martin of Alberta, & Social Credit Movement Kent Conrad of North Dakota. Bob Kerrey would win the 1935 presidential election with New Democrats & SCM gaining seats while the Liberal Progressive Party was reduced to a plurality followed by the Whig Party with New Democratic Party & Social Credit Movement being runners up. Kerrey started to implement numerous New Deal & Social Credit policies with stimulus spending to stimulate the economy. The recession of 1937 reduced people's faith in the New Deal in Both the United States of America & Cascadia. The 1938 elections saw declines in Progressive Liberals with Whig Party trailing by a razor thin minority. Liberal Progressive Party retained a plurality with 27% of seats. Kerrey would win re-election in a 4 way race in 1940.

United States of America(1940-1952): Chretein was re-elected on the Progressive Party Ticket in 1940 against Republican challenger Alan Keyes of Illinois. Chretein faced unpopularity concerning the 1937 recession which saw gains in Republican & some Democratic gains but Progressives still held a majority in Congress. Although the U.S. held the Commonwealth of Palestine fighting on the allied side against axis powers, the U.S. was not directly involved in World War III until after the September 11, 1941 attacks. The U.S. & Cascadia fought alongside the allied forces against Islamic Iran, Turkey, North Korea, & Venezuela. The U.S., Israel, & U.K. were the Big Three of the West with U.S.S.R., People's Republic of China, & India as the Big Three of the East. Manufacturing for war technology increased as guns, tanks, & uniforms were being made for troops as well as food & medicine. Chretein was elected for a 4th term in 1944 & continued to lead the U.S. in WWIII until 1946 when illness forced him to resign with Vice President Bob Rae of Ontario succeeding him. WWIII ended in 1947 with Rae winning the 1948 election by a narrow margain. His term as president would lower his popularity with Republicans controlling the House after the 1950 elections. Anti-communism legislation was passed under Rae's administration as well as the Korean War of 1950-present. Rae opted out of re-election in 1952 with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo running on the Progressive ticket against Republican WWIII hero David H. Petraes of New Hampshire with Cuomo winning the 1952 election. Republicans retained their majority with Progressives retaining their senate majority they held since 1933. In 1949, Liberia gained independence from the United States. Liberia was a U.S. commonwealth from 1847 to 1949.

Confederate States of America(1940-1952): The CSA entered World War III against Venezuela in 1943 & also joined the Middle Eastern front in WWIII. The CSA's economy would grow in the late 1940's to the same standards as their Northern neighbors they fought off eight decades before. President John Edwards became unpopular after a scandal hit & resigned in 1950, leaving Bill Richardson to be president. Cuba became a Confederate Commonwealth in 1902 & an independent nation in 1940. During the 1930's, the Confederate States did pursue some sort of Keynesian path but did not have the same new deal policies. The Confederate States declared war on Venezuela after the February 3, 1943 attack on Dixie oil ships bound for Mobile, Alabama. CS & South American allied troops defeated Chavez in 1946. John McCain was president during World War III & was just days from exiting office when Chavez was overthrown. John Edwards was elected president in 1945. Edwards resigned on January 4, 1950 amid corruption & money laundering allegations & possible impeachment. Bill Richardson succeeded Edwards but suffered unpopularity. This led to Confederalist Party victory in 1951 when Texas Governor Richard Perry Defeated Southern Democrat Bill Richardson. Rick Perry was inaugurated on February 22, 1952 with his Vice President Jim Gilmore of Virginia as the first Confederate States president to not be of the Southern Democratic Party which has held the White House & Congress for 91 years. Anti-Communist sentiment hit the least progressive nation on Earth and Rick Perry was a devout Anti-Communist. Perry maintained close relations with Cuba which was a Confederate States commonwealth from 1902 to 1940.

Cascadia(1940-1952): Cascadia was attacked by North Korea on September 11, 1941 with the declaration of war being given afterwards. Bob Kerrey was president at the time until he was term limited in 1945. Kent Conrad of North Dakota won the 1945 presidential election on the Progressive Liberal ticket against Wildrose ticket candidate Douglas Christie of British Columbia. Conrad was former part of the Social Credit party but was dissolved & moved to the Progressive Liberal party where he was elected president. He was inaugurated on November 15, 1945 & led Cascadia throughout the rest of World War III. His administration was responsible for forming an agreement with United States president Bob Rae on defeating North Korea after Islamic Iran collapsed. Kent Conrad was an Anti-Communist but was unpopular & Wildrose, New Democratic, & Whig parties gained seats with a near major loss for Progressive Liberal Party in the 1948 midterm elections. The Cold War began & Communism was being seen as more of a threat with Labor Unions & the Communist Parties being seen with infidelity. The Cascadian Congress passed the Union Regulation Act of 1949 which restricted collective bargaining rights of Unions in federal employment. Conrad would veto the bill only to have it overridden thanks to the Wildrose Party influence. In 1950, Conrad would lose re-election to Wildrose Candidate Doug Christie of British Columbia & running mate Jason Atkinson of Jefferson State. Jefferson was formed from Border counties of North California & Oregon in 1941. Christie was inaugurated on November 15, 1950 & was a staunch anti-communist. The 1951 amendment to the National Security Act of 1942 banned Communist activities including the Communist Party as well as sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, the same was the Confederate States of America severed their diplomatic relations with Communist countries in 1924.

The Sims 4 & What It Should Have Part One

I presume Seasons is going to be the last expansion pack for The Sims 3. A Stuff Pack called 70's, 80's, & 90's is going to be released on January 22-24, 2013. I havean't heard anything about any new expansion packs since Maxis usually announces that a new expansion pack around the release of it's current one.

Sim City 2013 will be released on March 5 of that year & I assume it will be the environment format alike to what SimCity 4 was to The Sims 2. For The Sims 2, you could make your own neighborhood terrain that met certain Maxis criteria which was limited. In The Sims 3 you couldn't create a neighborhood the way you could in The Sims 2 but there was a program called Create A World like Create A Sim but you could create a Sims 3 world. Sim City 2013 is going to bring more life to Sims than SimCity 4 & The Sims 3 combined. I feel it would be awesome if The Sims 4 were a Sims Life Simulator of SimCity 2013.

While The Sims 3 brought many new awesome features, I feel it could have been better & The Sims 4 has the opportunity to make it better than Sims 2 & 3 combined. I wish to tell you how Sims 3 was awesome & what sucked while I tell you how The Sims 4 could be even better in not making the same mistakes.

Awesome things in Sims 3:
Open World features which allowed your sims to travel to other lots & houses without loading screens. I found this helpful since if you want your sims to go to community lot, you don't have to wait for a loading screen. You can even see other cars driving past. Roads look more realistic though there are no highways, just two lane roads going one direction per lane with sims driving on the right side of the road.

Options To Change Aging really allow you to make aging in The Sims 3 more realistic or give sims longer lives that you could not do in The Sims 2 without cheats or mods. You can even freeze aging.

Automatic Story Progression truly brings life to your neighborhood with when you're not controlling your sims they will live their lives themselves with relationships being made, jobs being changed, marriages being made, & even death happening with sims moving in & out of the neighborhood. I really think this is enhanced with Sim City 2013 & I hope it gets even better with The Sims 4. You have the option to turn this feature on or off. I like that The Sims 3 gives you the option on Aging & Story Progression.

Innovative Expansion Packs give new ideas for Sims games. Late Night gave Sim gamers the first Urban neighborhood(Bridgeport), Showtime a bigger career in fame just like The Sims Superstar, Generations a whole new perspective on life & family, holidays for Seasons, exotic themes for World Adventures, More pet features for Pets compared to the previous 2 sim game series, & more career opportunities that come with Ambitions.

Creative & Artistic Stuff Packs bring environment pleasure to your sim games but The Sims 3 expands on that by bring new items mostly not seen in previous sim games.

More Online Features help update your game, give ability to play with friends, make downloadable content from EA games more available, new neighborhoods coming from The Sims 3 Store, & overall.

More Create A Sim Features. Expansive & less restrictive, The Sims 3 deserves credit for expanding on this opportunity & Maxis must keep up the good work.

What Sucks Though:
Rabbit Holes make the game less fun & more of a bummer compared to The Sims 2 & in that game you had community lots & not damn rabbit holes. You can't see your sims work, go to school, shop, or grab a bite to eat which sucks ass. However, the buildings look nice.

Character Designs Look Less Real. In my opinion, I feel that the character sim designs look more of a cartoon than in The Sims 2. I'm not saying it was done poorly but I'm saying it could be better. If you look at Need For Spped The Run the character designs were more stunning & I could see how sexy Sam Harper & Nikki Blake were. I just can't see that with The Sims 3.

Controlling It Felt a Little More Difficult. I felt when clicking something it felt harder than Sims 2. I'm not saying controls suck but I believe there's room for improvement. In the Sims 1 & 2, the pointer & clicker would be a narrow point which made targeting an object to click easier. I felt the pointer was too wide & made me feel like it could have been improved.

No Subhoods really confine your sims to a single neighborhood for life like the Berlin Wall. There are three vacation subhood that came with World Adventures but they mostly cannot be customized the way you could in The Sims 2. With The Sims2, you could even combine Maxis neighborhoods with special tools & even make several subhoods to create a state or country if you have either Nightlife and/or Open For Business. Bon Voyage had vacation neighborhoods you could customize more freely than Sims 3. I found the limitations on customizing neighborhoods in The Sims 3 disappointing.

Less Realistic Ancestry & Memories. Comparing Sims 3 to Sims 2, you find in Sims 3 that ancestors & memories have been removed from pre-made neighborhoods. However, you can still play Sims 3 like Sims 2 in terms of family trees but only this time the father is placed to the left of family tree. The same memory system as Sims 2 does not exist in Sims 3. In Generations, memories come back but are not like The Sims 2 ones.

Relationships are more fickle. I found it more difficult to get relationships on track than in Sims 2. Sims 2 had simpler relationships while Sims 3 makes it more complicated & getting sims to marry can be long & difficult without mods.

While the bad things about Sims 3 don't suck hard enough to bite hard into having high ass suckage they sure could be improved in The Sims 4. The Sims 3 is still a great game but I feel somethings have really bummed me out but core items are more expansive than previous games such as sims owning cars & cell phones, which really help alot as well as children having more freedom than before.

For part two I will discuss what should be in The Sims 4 to raise it's awesomeness level through the roof such as making it more awesome than The previous Sims trilogy combined.

Dedicating the Oldest Console: Playstation 2

Sony Playstation 2 is the oldest Console out on the market today being made by Sony. Sony said that this sixth generation console would continue to be in production so long as there is a healthy demand. That demand still exists today.

The Sony Playstation 2 was released on March 4, 2000 in Japan, October 26 in North America, November 24 in Europe, & November 30 in Australia & New Zealand which were all in the same year that it was first released in Japan. At the time it was competing with the 15 month old Sega Dreamcast(released November 27, 1998 in Japan) in the sixth generation line. The Playstation 2 was respnsible for the Sega Dreamcast's failure after it was doing so well in it's first & second years.

When Playstation 2 was released in Japan, Fourth Generation Consoles Super Nintendo Entertainment System(9 years & 4 months old;was only in Japan after NA's 1999 discontinuation until February 2003), Neo Geo(10 years & one month old;discontinued in 2004), & Gameboy*(10 years & 10 months old;discontinued in 2003); Fifth Generation Consoles Sega Saturn(5 years & 3 months;only in Japan at time of PS2 release until December 4, 2000), Playstation(5 years & 3 months old;discontinued March 23, 2006); Nintendo 64(3 years & 8 months old;discontinued as late as November 30, 2003 in NA); & Gameboy Color*(1 year & 4 months old;discontinued at latest in 2008); As well as the 1 year & 3 month old Sega Dreamcast. When the Playstation 2 was released, 8 consoles were still on some markets somewhere in the World with 6 of them being Home Consoles. * indicates handheld console.

The Sega Dreamcast was the first console of the Sixth Generation & brought in a new generation of gaming in terms of graphics & even online multiplayer. The Sega Dreamcast was the first console in video game history to have online multiplayer with it's network being Seganet. The Dreamcast was discontinued in North America in 2002 with it's last game NHL 2K2 being released on February 14, 2002. The Dreamcast survived at the lastest in 2007 when it was discontinued in Japan after 8-9 years. Playstation 2 also had it's online gaming feature as well although the first well known online gaming console service I remember is Xbox Live, which was in my opinion more well known & easier to use.

The Sixth Generation in Video Gaming was revolutionary for numerous changes in video gaming such as online multiplayer, open world sandbox games(Grand Theft Auto III), clear graphics, & new controversies. Before the sixth generation consoles, graphics would look somewhat pixilated & grainy but were not terrible or bad for fifth generation time. The Sega Dreamcast was in my opinion the first console to have crystal clear grain free graphics which revolutionized graphics. Dreamcast was revolutionary & gave more polish to video game graphics. Examples would include comparing the Dreamcast versions of Vigilante 8 2nd Offense & Test Drive 6 to Playstation versions & you can see the difference in graphics but they still play the same.

The Playstation 2 was released in order to compete with the Sega Dreamcast which would fail thanks to the former. PS2's best selling title is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which has sold over 18 million copies. Grand Theft Auto III was released at first on the Playstation 2 in 2001 & that game was revolutionary in my favorite type of game, which is sandbox open world. GTA III was only on Playstation 2 until it came out on the PC months afterwards & the year after that it was released on the Xbox.

As the Playstation 2 got older, it was joined in competition by Microsoft's Xbox & Nintendo's Gamecube which were released at first in 2001, just months before the Sega Dreamcast's retirement from the North America market. Playstation 2 not only survived Dreamcast, but survived Xbox & Gamecube as well. Sega would retire from making home consoles but they still make games though.

North America: Playstation 2 has survived Dreamcast by 10 years & 9 months;Xbox & Gamecube by over 5 years as of November 2012.
Japan: Survived Dreamcast & Gamecube by over 5 years;Xbox by 7 years
Europe: Survived Dreamcast by 10 years;Gamecube by 5 years;Xbox by 6 years
Australia & New Zealand: Survived Dreamcast by 9 years;Xbox & Gamecube by around 5 years.

I will not discuss the handheld consoles but I will say that a Seventh Generation handheld console called Gizmondo died within the year of it's 2005 release making Playstation 2 survive it by 7 years.

Playstation 2 was said to be the best console of the Sith Generation & I have to agree in terms of controls & games released on it such as Grand Theft Auto III & beyond that(Vice City;San Andreas).

Should the PS2 live to see June 2014, it will have surpassed the Atari 2600 as the longest running console of all time & it's very likely that will happen since Sony plans to keep making Playstation 2's until demand runs dry.

Let's Have Revolution & Fight New World Order

Don't give into the lie that you need a majority of support to bring social change.

Has voting ever been the means of deciding what rights we have or what masters we put in office?

America's Founders viewed protecting liberty through direct means such as civil disobedience and/or armed conflict as essential to protecting ownership of individual.

Voting was meant to be a method of decision making by those who were affected by the state's decision making. Voting however, was never meant to legalize the redistribution of wealth & endangerment of freedoms & property rights, which is what many ignorants think of democracy as.

Property ownership, life, & liberty come first in free societies but it seems that many people accept that the only way to change government policies is through voting & politicians. The Founding Fathers leading Patriots disagreed & after Lexington & Concord on April 19, 1775, the American Revolution started, to throw the British Crown away & establish a constitutional federal republic. This was done through armed conflict against British troops since the latter tried to confiscate the firearms of non-government officials.

The American Revolutionary War began before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. The Patriots had the right to engage in armed conflict against the British authorities due to the Intolerable Acts of 1774 that created an authoritarian regime in Massachusetts. The Colonies were independent from each other under the British Crown & the North American colonists had no intentions of creating a centralized government.

For any of you who think this was much about representation, the Patriots despised arbitrary taxation even with fair representation. Unfortunately, we don't have fair representation since partisanship elites secretly funded by taxpayers(Republicans/Democrats) unjustly clobber other parties & independent candidates. George Washington, our first president was an independent & he spoke out against partisanship as with many of our founding fathers including James Madison.

Me, I voted for Gary Johnson(L) in this presidential election along with Libertarian candidates for both the House & Senate. Neither Obama nor Romney would damn big government & Paul Ryan's budget is almost as bad as Obama's with no real hope of a balanced budget. It seems Ryan will not be serious about balencing the budget within this decade. I'm not sure if Ryan's budget is worse than Obama's but I can tell you that both budgets will increase spending through the roof. Every President since George H.W. Bush has created more big government with the current illiberal democracy being nothing more than a revolving door between Democrats & Republicans. Good example would be Republicans winning majority in 1994 & Democrats reclaiming in 2006 & Republicans winning again in 2010. From Bill Clinton onto George W. Bush & onto Barack Obama, these presidents are notorious for their legendary ass suckage.

Not voting for establishment Democrats/Republicans is symbolic speech of rejecting the hybrid one party regime. There are very few percentage of good Republicans & Ron Paul is one of them & in my view he should switch to the Libertarian Party. Ron Paul won't be leaving the Republican Party because the Republican Party left him, as far back as the late 1980's & Early 90's. The last president to favor Ron Paul was Ronald Reagan & yet spending & debt rose to unprecedented levels($1T in 1981 to $3T in 1989 under Reagan) with Bush beating Reagan's record by doubling the national debt from $5T to $10T. Obama defeated Bush in the highest debt accumulation of over $6T with the debt being $10T in 2009 & the debt now $16T in 2012. Romney/Ryan won't do a damn thing about the debt & Republicans haven't been of much help because if that were true, the debt, spending, wars, & unconstitutional programs would have disappeared & Bill Clinton wouldn't have won re-election.

Both parties cannot be trusted & despite Tea Party victories in 2010, Republicans don't plan on limiting government in time for disaster. Government was actually bigger in 2005 than it was in 1995 & just keeps getting worse. Republican Party bosses & their establishment followers want their own socialized medicine with RomneyCare as a state-level predecessor to ObamaCare.

If Republicans were actually serious about limited government, they would have listed to Ron Paul, Rand Paul & Mike Lee on budget issues & would have come up with a balanced budget within a matter of months, 3 years tops.

What are the alternatives? Gandhi prefered civil disobedience & people should secede from the United Imperial States of Amerika. There's got to be another Lexington 7 Concord on the horizon & if a small group of people band together & form a resistence movement that can crush the heavy hand of the regime, more people will follow & the resistence will overpower big government, just like the Founding Fathers & Patriots wanted it to be. What matters is going forward with resistance  & never planning on surrender. To surrender is to bring shame & dishonor.

Even if our military is winning, would the Allied Powers surrender if Nazi Germany was winning? Of course not because people in the West despised the Nazis & many young men brazenly fought to kill the Nazis. Had they surrendered, Nazi Germany would have prevailed & conquered, destroying great civilizations Earth once enjoyed.

Change and/or restoration will only come through radical reasons, even if the majority disapproves of it. The best way to send that message is for there to be an event so shocking that even the most vile of mainstream medias will cower before it's wrath. Of course, all armed conflict must comply with the Geneva Conventions on Laws concerning War.

I also like to point out that there are numerous law enforcement officers & armed force members who believe in constitutional government & would even defect from the regime & join the patriotic resistance.

What To Do About Tyrannical Government

I know my positions on favoring acts of terror against government facilities sound extreme but the truth is I'm right & you will see after I'm done writing this blog.

Elections are often inaccurate, timid, & uncompetitive with the government's use of force:
I've read comments on an article writing about the 2010 suicide plane crash in Austin, Texas on an IRS building about it being unjustified & that people need to stick to elections & the courts but the anti-patriotic comments are wrong & misguided. The electoral system is ruled by elites & party bosses which have had it their way with little to no direct resistance. For things in society to change their must be direct action either through civil disobedience to guerrilla warfare. Every action of government is done by direct action through force such as law enforcement. There are some states which allow initiatives without any consideration of votes in legislatures but it doesn't work that way in Congress. How can you possibly fight partisanship, professionalism, & corruption in an unaccountable government just by voting for politicians when there's no clear direct way of holding them accountable from the outside? It can never be done & that's why we need an effective last resort like terrorism style attacks against tyrannical government agencies whose actions bring more negative effects than positive ones. The courts also are ineffective since the only ones who have direct influence over the federal government is those in government themselves without violent outside resistence. Courts haven't been friendly to liberty & the rule of law.

America's Founding Fathers Loathed Primary Democracy & believed in militant self defense
Democracy to the founding fathers was seen as wolves voting along with the sheep to decide lunch. Liberty is the sheep defeating the attacking wolves & protecting life. There have been many times in history where the outcome of elections have been adverse to freedom & prosperity & it does happen a lot in California cause of civically illiterate voters. In between elections, congresses have become tyrannical & unhindered by the will of the people. Congress has been able to evade accountability & lower standards of living along with law enforcement & the courts enforcing & applying the rule of man respectively. The reason for armed insurrection is used for is in case elections fail to reverse the loss of liberty and/or are unavailable to curb government abuses & corruption. If there were armed goons ready to confiscate firearms or intimidate those unwilling to comply with gun control regulations on selling, then the use of terrorism against the evil goons would be justified since the last means of defense against tyranny are in imminent danger.

Free Speech needs to be defended by whatever means necessary
We can't protect any other rights without means of militant defense. What would happen if all militant means of force were monopolized into the hands of law enforcement & military? People may feel better if they assume government can be trusted but nobody with that much power can be trusted. North Korea is a totalitarian state in which only the military & law enforcement can carry weapons while the commoners are completely disarmed & indoctrinated. with this kind of society any thing you say that the regime dislikes gets you incarcerated, often without fair trial. What's the last resort after failed elections that are in desperate need of reform? In North Korea, people are screwed without the might & minds to fight the Kim regime.. But in America, there are many people with the power & minds to fight tyrannical government, even if armed terrorism against government is necessary to secure life, liberty, & property. Most of the World views absolute free speech as an infidelity & not just oppressive regimes but even Western Countries like United Kingdom. When peaceful solutions failed, armed terrorism is the final resort.

The rule of law cannot be protected solely by policy makers & judiciary
The courts have catered to political correctness & rule of man by issuing rulings as if they have infallibility. Governments have indeed relied on the rule of legislatures as if it were the rule of law regardless of if laws violated life, liberty, & property. Courts are often relied on for the protection of the rule of law but do the opposite. Thomas Jefferson warned that leaving the law in the hands of judges breeds despotism & tyranny. Relying on an impartial arbitrator is hard & when you know the same judges who've made controversial & unaccountable rulings then you know they can't be trusted with the rule of law. It shouldn't be the end of the line when appeals fail, especially when justice is denied. When injustice becomes law, it is a patriotic duty to rebel at all costs. Courts can also erode the will of the people such as prohibiting important initiatives on self-determination. Allowing the judiciary to defeat you will bring liberty & the rule of law to it's grave & make Congress king.

Fraudulent elections can be hard to prove & serious electoral reform could take years to bring without serious attention
One action of seeking media attention over marijuana prohibition was a young man named Luke Helder who in 2002 mailed several pipebombs across America. He is being detained but is incompetent to stand trial. Have you ever seen a voting machine? What you don't know is the programming to manipulate results. Who can you trust to protect your liberty? Freedom should not lose because of adverse elections possibly due to fraud.

Mainstream media & public education share responsibility for disinigrating the truth & steering people onto politically correct ideologies
If you ever grew up in a totalitarian or authoritarian country then you know what it is like to be indoctrinated & having thought the state could do no wrong. As you see a freer world you realize you've been deceived & you wish to defeat the political correctness that you once thought was right. Only two major candidates per election have been receiving decent media attention & the mainstream media engages in propaganda that propels people into thinking that there are no other choices & that certain bad policies are great. Ed Schultz & Chris Matthews promote socialized healthcare as a friend to the poor, the financial regulation bill as a protector of consumers, & trying to sell gun control as a policy of public safety. Public education introduces students to an authoritarian experience of prison like routine & bullying by authority figures. Children don't elect their authority figures but are subject to their will through force. Plus, school seems to be more like labor than education as being a teacher with two dozen students brings less efficiency & more work than homeschooling, private schooling, online class, & unschooling. Compulsory education laws only ruin the family & that's happening more rapidly in Sweden. Without alternatives to public education, our children will grow up to be communists. Even private schools in some places find themselves under the long arm of bureaucracy with licensing schemes making them seem as if they're owned by the state. A centralized cirriculum seeks to destroy the individual & ignore reality. How far will this problem last until the last resort can be used?

Prosperity could be long gone by the time elections are finished
Jobs shipped overseas, businesses closing for good, inflation on the rise, property rights diminished, finanacial lives ruined by tax laws enforced by the IRS, & massive debt & spending are nothing to just wait for until the next election, especially if the election turns out to be broken promises. It has happened. Regulations that are overbearing have no good reason to be there & I recommend ad first that people make a stern warning to regulatory agencies that there will be no compliance here & if that fails, then people have a right to fight back if they feel the threat of an armed invasion from bureaucratic thugs is imminent. How many elections will we have to wait for in order for prisperity to be like it was in the before time? Prosperity can only be brought back through both non-violent & violent resistance against violent bureaucratic thugs using deadly force to solicit complience. When the economy is in peril & threatened by big government, time is of the essence so prepare to fight & resort to armed fighting against armed law enforcing thugs such as the IRS.

I may have been harsh calling the IRS "terrorist" but the word I wish to use now is "organized crime syndicate". Much of IRS activities include harassment & intimidation of free market minded people. The IRS insists on destroying prosperity by cracking down on tax protestors who dare challenge the legitimacy & constitutionality of tax laws, making the IRS an enemy of freedom & the constitution. The IRS has no respect for the rule of law & must be resisted through armed force.

Nobody has the right to violate your inalienable rights or forcibly breach contract
If someone steals your car & you steal it back & that thief resists, then you have the right to fight back using self-defense. If your life is in imminent peril, legal modes cannot stop the situation before the harm is already done. In order to save your life from violent criminals, you must defense yourself even if the criminal gets killed. This would be justified since your right to life was threatened. People can be prosecuted under the tyrant's law for resisting the most violent & unlawful actions of a law enforcement officer & this is happening because the courts have turned ignorant & despotic in the face of this tyranny, giving officers a de facto license to kill indiscriminately despite the potential for legal action against the officer which will not happen until after the harm has been done. Protections of life, liberty, & property should not be monopolized into a centralized state, especially when the guardian is tyrannical & has no respect for your rights. As an individual, you have the right to secure your natural rights, even if that means waging an attack on that whom threaten you. Contracts can only be enforced if there are impartial arbitrators not affiliated with any of the involved parties.

If society goes wrong, the only way to reverse tyranny is militant action
It takes most of the population for change to occur merely through elections but only a small percentage can defeat evil with militant action such as shooting enemies & bombing enemy compunds. America is headed to a bleak society where multiculturalism, corruption, hypocracy, & lies are tolerated. If third world immigration is not addressed, whites will become a minority & even their culture might become minority too & the fastest & best way to prevent that is to take militant action, even if the streets must run red with the blood of tyrants & parasites! California is becoming that kind of society where elected officials are left wing tyrants & the only hope for California is a violent revolution filled with first person shooter video game style action plus overthrow of the left wing banana regime.

Defense of the West may require armed conflict
Do you think the West could have prevailed over Nazism had the former not have engaged in armed conflict with Nazi Germany? What if the resistance was unarmed? The Nazis would have prevailed & Western civilization would be Nazified. Oppressive governments will never be stopped by non-violent action because these governments could just bring out armed law enforcement. There's still hope if we act soon & pick up weapons. It would be great to obtain chemical & biological weapons so the enemies of Freedom & Prosperity understand that there is harsh resistance & that it will stop at nothing to destroy tyranny.

The reason paramilitary organizations fighting tyrannical governments in the West fail is because they're not being stronger than Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, & Hezbollah combined. There needs to be a paramilitary organization that is competitive with the strength of governments but actually protect & serve. If there is a strong resistence willing to engage in armed conflict with the mightiest of military industrial complexes then liberty & justice will prevail. This has happened during the American Revolution of 1775-83 under the Patriot leadership of General George Washington.

Citing the American Revolution & tyrannical government, armed conflict against government & restoration of social contract is ideal even though it may sound frightning.

If liberty is your right, then who has the right to deprive you of it without due process?
Being elected does not entitle someone to dictatorship & the license to make whatever liberty infringing laws it wants. Pot smokers young & old are deprived of due process rights when it comes to their own bodies & the fact is drug prohibition is not a crime under common law & has been accepted as a right throughout much of America's early history. But should younger people have less civil rights than older people? If a 37 year old shoots an armed officer trying to illegally arrest him for consumption of alcohol, would the drinker be prosecuted if police can be legally resisted physically? Of course not. But what about a 16 year old or 20 year old if they shoot a police officer trying to arrest them for alcohol consumption? If someone under 21 drinks alcohol, police will arrest at will & if the underage resist arrest, they can be prosecuted as an adult for the serious crime of aggravated assault or murder. Arguements made defending such injustice is brain developement & responsibility despite the ability to stand trial as an adult which not only requires more responsibility but is a forced responsibility on the offender.

Is it fair to put liberty in the hands of government? That only makes things worse as no effective check can be established. The courts have been relied upon to fix injustice but to no victory. Our government should not be viewed with infallibility, especially the judiciary which has limited roles in government. What if laws were made to deprive you of your property. The next election isn't gonna automatically fix that.

When someone is accused of harming another, they are brought before a jury of their peers & made to stand trial. The jury hears the case & makes a verdict on guilt or innocence. What if the legislature denied justice? Could they be tried by jury? What if criminal justice worked the same way as bills in congress?

If liberty is to be protected, it must be done with the last resort in mind.

Special interests have hijacked democracy
I believe in peaceful solutions to unsolved problems but special interest groups like MADD & Brady Campaign keep threatening our freedoms. How undemocratic is that? Special interests cause public officials to be unaccountable to their constituents.

Legislation & votes passed often do not reflect the general welfare
If you have a representative like Ron Paul, you know you're represented by limited government. But what about the many other mobs that champion big government & vote for bills that while benefiting their constituents harm others in the process? Is that part of liberal democracy? Most legislation doesn't benefit the general welfare as a whole & is often selective in favorites such as spending bills for welfare like the Bank & Auto bailouts.

While the truth is denied by political correctness, political process cannot fix that
Party machines control elections & the best way to fix that is through revolutionary means. The question here is what's 2+2. The red team says it's 5 while the blue team says it's 6. Both teams fight over that in elections & people vote on whether to have 2+2 equal either 5 or 6 when the real answer is 4. People who vote for 4 are often overpowered by the 5-6 voters & many statists will argue that you're not always going to get what you want but in some places the majority always DOES get what it wants through mob elections. Taking for example California where the left always gets what it wants because of malrepresentation & corrupt elections. People's freedoms in California are often put in the hands of mobs in elections. However, the only way California can be truly free again is for there to be an armed revolution & overthrow of such a horrible system.

Cultural & National prides of our homelands could be diminished through unrestricted third world immigration
While many whites flee, many minorities come. Turning West into third world is something that only direct action can stop. What if third world immigrants make up a majority of voters? What if Europe became Islamic? There are political parties outside the major ones fighting for the West but political correctness, mainstream media, & protectionist election laws challenge such. However, if any immigrant wishes to become a citizen, he or she must assimilate into the culture of the homeland. Immigration laws in the late 19th century & early 20th century were fair, just, & preserved American culture while providing fair opportunities for immigrants mostly from Europe to work & make a better living in the land of opportunity. Politically correct leadership disagrees & seeks to ignore the true Yankee immigration policy of the turn of the 20th century ideolized by Theodore Roosevelt. The reason people decendent of immigrants are like Americans is because their immigrant ancestors assimilated into American society & did so very well. Assimilation works & the best immigration policy in Western History is based on the Turn of the 20th century Americanism. If the last resort is nationalist armed conflict against a multicultural government, then our founding fathers would favor such actions & don't forget that.

When time is of the essence & threats are looming, we can't wait for elections
When a terrorist makes a threat or there is a plan to carry out a major terror attack against the good people, it takes immediate action to stop the would-be terrorists. Numerous jihad terror attacks have been stopped after 9/11 thanks to vigilant missions to catch these threats while protecting & respecting the rights of We The People that would have been victims of terrorism.

Does our government commit acts of violence against good people? I hope you can believe me here. With the president assassinating & detaining people without trial, this is cause for alarm & to take up arms to stop these terror like threats. In the face of danger from thugs to tyrannical government would you wait for inaccurate elections in hopes this will be resolved or would you use force to defend yourself? You must choose the latter if you are to best survive such attacks.

What Do We Do?
We must know when to act, when to attack, & when to defend. We can't wait for elections & court rulings to save us since neither of those are reliable, especially with corruption, partisanship, & fraud. What is needed is a strong alliance of militia movements fighting for the constitutional republic against tyrannical government. We must be stronger than our enemies in order to defeat the evil that lies within them. If we ever want to save Western civilization, revolutionary methods are our only option.

Note: What I mean by Terrorism here is acts of armed rebellion that express my views only & not meant to be an actual terror attack against any good human being.