Hahaha, I totally feel ya! I didn't crash my pc, but it tended to get awfully slow and started to lag horribly :D
Also, yeees, cheating is how to play the sims ;) I also tended to stop the needs of my sims when I actually ended up playing a family for a bit instead of just building and creating characters.
I also have some other games on my phone, but at the moment I avoid playing them. I know that I sink way more time into them than is sensible when I start playing them again...
Well, if you used it for a year, then it wasn't totally wasted at least. My tablet is on holidays right now as well - I use it mostly to take notes in lectures, so that's okay. If I had it just for recreational purposes it wouldn't be worth having either, but it's really useful for uni and sometimes it is nice to have at home, too.
Yes, I agree. It can be a hard lesson to learn that, but in the end it is very often worth it.
I just finished the second side seam, next up are the sleeves, but I won't start them tonight anymore, it's already quite late and I expect they will take a while. I don't want to have to stop in the middle of it.
Here's a horrible quality progress pic:
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