THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
Lerf:
Quote from: Kyna on 2009 May 22, 02:42:50
Quote from: Lerf on 2009 May 22, 02:32:26
This is awful. I'm a respectable coven-going middle aged lady. And I'm seriously considering downloading pirated softwar. (Of course 80% of the software I had for my C vic-20 and C65, and my Amiga was pirated, but that was different. Sorta.....
You can't fool us with that veneer of respectability. We've noticed that if we say your name backwards it's actually a cuss-word from Farscape.
It is? Oh, coooool!
I just asked my husband if I could dl it--he's the one who'll have to fix any messes I make in the course of so doing and he said he prefered not to have to de-virus me if I goofed up. Now, I understand his reluctance. We spent most of Thanksgiving weekend removing something called Vundo from my machine, and he spends much too much time on weekends fixing his Dad's computer because if his Dad see's a popup saying, "Want a virus that will wipe your hard-drive? Click here." he will click on it." (FIL also doesn't believe in firewalls, or rather he believes in them until a virus tells him to turn it off.) So, I think I'll give it a miss.
seanachai:
Oh Lerf, I had that awful Vundo Trojan on my laptop this past fall. I gave up and just did a fresh install. First time I've ever had a really bad virus on a computer, I'm usually really good about it.
I have a question for those with the game ... I don't think it has been answered yet. Is there same sex marriage in the game? Is it still "joined unions"? Or is it (gulp) not in there at all?
TashaYarrr:
Maybe this is one of those things that everyone knows but me--is it an entirely different design team or creative director (or whatever) behind sims 3 vs sims 2? A lot of details just seem oddly different from what you'd expect (the forced female maternity leave mentioned in another thread is what got me wondering, along with lots of other franchise trademarks that really ought to be there but aren't).
I know the two aren't completely analogous, but it's sounding like Sims 3 is to Sims Franchise as SimCity Societies is to SimCity Franchise?
ETA: I know people are understandably reluctant, but just go to a well-known torrent site (not sure I can be specific here) and read the comments. It's really unlikely the highly-seeded ones (i.e., the ones that shows lots of downloads) will have virus or trojans without someone having caught it and commented already. Other than that you really only need two pieces of software (probably daemon tools and winrar, both of which are legit and can be gotten for free directly from their publishers). Well, and a torrent downloader.
Honestly, leaving ethics out of the question, which I like to do in this situation, getting arr'd stuff is way more akin to "just be an informed consumer" than "walk alone through the bad part of town at night and hope to god you don't get mugged." The torrent sites stay up because they're making money. (Or I suppose some of them have altruistic reasons). Either way they have a vested interest in making sure the torrents associated with them don't cause your computer to explode into, well, a fiery ball visible from space. And the community, via comments and whatnot, tends to be self-correcting. I'm definitely going to hell for my arring if hell exists, and I've yet to create a fiery ball visible from space. A firewall and common sense go a long way.
coltraz:
Anyone know why there is no ceiling in my house? I put flooring above it to make a ceiling below and the roof disappears, I put the roof back and if the tiles are there it won't get on the house. Then, if I remove the flooring and put the roof back on there is no ceiling!
Also, does anyone have this problem ... hairstyles from far away have white speckles in them. When I zoom in they clear up.
Insanity Prelude:
A couple of random "why"s:
Why do children have their own cell phones?
Do all females get a positive moodlet for being pregnant? That just doesn't sit right with me. For one thing, the third trimester just seems like it'd be too damn uncomfortable to make someone auto-happy. (then again, I say that as someone who doesn't have and doesn't want kids- what do I know, right?)
Why so many damn rabbit holes? The jobs, I can understand, no one really wants to watch their Sim sit at a cubicle. But restaurants and stores were fully playable community lots in the previous games. Is it just laziness that made them do it this way? (Probably.)
TashaYarr- yeah, instead of Will Wright they've got Rod Humble. actually, this may have been the case for a while, I'm not entirely sure.
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