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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / What would you do if 2 Grand was burning a hole in your pocket
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on: 2009 March 03, 18:11:16
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I'm trying to decide if i should buy a gaming laptop, upgrade my current desktop or just let my common sense override my "moar shinies!!! (but it's on sale!) impulse.
Here are the options :
Dell XPS M1730 Laptop
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache) 17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz Speed: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) with Free Fall Sensor NVIDIA®SLI™Dual GeForce®8700MGT with 512MB GDDR3 Memory Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition
Dell XPS 730X Desktop Intel® Core™ i7-920 (2.66GHz, 8MB cache) 3GB Tri-Channel DDR3 at 1066MHZ (3x1GB DIMM) 300GB Western Digital Velociraptor - SATA-II, 3GB/S, 10000RPM, 16MB Cache 500GB - SATA-II, 3GB/S, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache nVidia GeForce 9800GT 512M OR ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
How do you think both of these babies would run The Sims (with all the expansion packs) or the just-around-the-corner Sims 3.
You're also welcome to try to argue me out of dropping 2k on a frivolous geeky purchase
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Can I install The Sim 2 without having to go through the whole enchilada
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on: 2009 February 22, 18:41:38
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On your Vista rig, you need to manually set the folders you want to see to "Shared." And if you have Norton firewall, shut it off (I've heard it's worthless anyway.) I don't use Norton so I can't say much about it, but I use Mcafee firewall, and when it detects a new network, it asks if it should trust the network. If you say yes, it will allow file sharing, among other things, within the internal network. However, never choose to trust a network, unless it's your own, properly locked down, and secured router. You should never do that in a cafe for example, or if you (gasp) connect straight to the Internet without a router, or if you did not lock down your own wireless router.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Can I install The Sim 2 without having to go through the whole enchilada
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on: 2009 February 22, 18:26:24
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I am looking to transfer the game between computers. I believe I have a handle on the no-cd crack use to avoid securom, but I have some questions regarding transfer methods...and exactly which content needs to be transferred.
Are you intending to reinstall the game on your new computer? I assume yes. If so all you need to transfer is everything from your document folder that is in EA Games\The Sims 2. This way you are assured that have absolutely everything. The absolute easiest way to transfer is to purchase a USB drive and transfer everything you want on it, and then back to the new computer. A USB drive is a darn useful thing to have around, if for nothing else than backup/offline storage. If you want to do it through a network, you must be ON a network. For example, both your machines must be connected to the same network, typically the same router. If you do not have a router, you can use a special cable called a cross-over cable. However everyone who connects to the Internet should have a router, as it's an important security measure In any case, you do not need to google anything. Windows comes with a wizard that can set this up for you. it's located in "my Network Places". The wizard is called "Set up a Home or or Small Office network". It should set everything up for you. Not sure how this will work between a vista and xp machine however, as the wizard was written pre-vista. However if you set up the home network, you should at the very least be able to access your xp machine from Vista, if not the reverse. Note: If anyone is interested, my plan to reinstall The Sims 2 without having to reinstall a million CD's, worked beautifully. I just copied over the files, and imported the necessary registry keys and voila.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Can I install The Sim 2 without having to go through the whole enchilada
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on: 2009 February 07, 02:31:37
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I want to reinstall my computer, but I really don't want to reinstall a million and a half expansion packs. Some programs can be happily transplanted to a new system by just copying the program files and data. TS2 apparently does not. I'm not really surprised.
I'm assuming I'm missing some key registry keys. Does anyone know of a way to backup an existing installation and to restore into into a clean system?
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: NEVER FORGET! BLUESOUP HAS FAILED US DAY!
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on: 2008 March 26, 15:34:12
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Oh, nice. So complaining about ignorami and their lame punctuation is drama whoring?
Err....no. That was just a quick comment before I went back to being on topic. The topic is BLUESOUP is it not? From the accounts here, she seem to fit the drama whore profile.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: NEVER FORGET! BLUESOUP HAS FAILED US DAY!
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on: 2008 March 25, 20:01:25
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Similar to what happened to Roy of Siegfried and Roy. I'm sure the tiger was just being playful Seems to me that there is a disproportionate number of drama queens on the 'tubes. Makes me wonder. Is it the relative anonymity that makes people give in to impulses they might otherwise contain, if it had consequences, as in a relationship or a job. Or is it something about forums that attracts drama queens. Or maybe DQ tend to post more and get involved more. I dunno. Part of the attention whore thing, I'll guess.
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TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful Than You! March: Fugly Models
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on: 2008 March 17, 21:00:30
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This one's face structure is also highly questionable. While this one, as well as the sick looking skin, looks as though the face has been " Simmerized". Eurgh. They were used by Sera Sims, now available at the graveyard. That kinda reminds me. It seems all the rage these days to create "blended" skin. Has any one seen a tutorial that explain how to do this?
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Crammy's Penis and FreeTime
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on: 2008 March 16, 20:21:13
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*Titters in an immature manner
Don't worry this is a titter worthy thread I saw in several custom skin files found on adult sites, additional details for the item in question. They are part of the skin texture. I don't know if Crammy's extra bits use that texture or not. I never really stopped to pay attention. It might be it's only used by the clothing only equivalent to Crammy's boy toy
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Best way to completely nuke unwanted babies?
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on: 2008 March 16, 20:12:12
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lol. I had to look up "town bicycle". How did I ever live without Google.
Well having 6 unwanted gets would seem to be a logical end result of being the town bicycle(s). And since they are from good stock (you said they were pretty), They might turn up okay after all. Why not work them into your story.
Insim allows you to change a sims first name.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Has anyone had trouble aging townie children?
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on: 2008 March 08, 18:23:28
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Aging townies up is foolish. Do you want only Elder townies in your neighborhood?!
I would image that new kids would be created once you remove one from the pool. Notownieregen might stop that though. I haven't used the option yet, but what I plan to do is only age children that my sim has a relationship to. This way they can grow up together. I think it's a cute option and better than having your kids be friends with their great great grandparents friends. How creepy is that.
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Awesomeware / The Armory / Re: Anti-Redundancy *CRITICAL FOR BVp0*
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on: 2008 March 07, 18:13:47
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If I attach a new university, will this hack prevent the creation of a whole slew of butt ugly professors, or will it reuse the useless bunch that's currently ensconced in my game. And what about the rest of that sorry lot, the cheerleader and mascot and such? I'm sick of the look of my university but I won't create a new one if it means even moar undesirable Maxis characters
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / How does the game choose the "one hobby"
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on: 2008 March 07, 16:27:20
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Has anyone figured this out yet?
I just moved 7 sims into a college dorm, all payables from my neighborhoods. Most had not been played before FT, so they had not acquired any interests yet.
I've let them loose in the dorm and a couple have found their one true hobby. However there seems to be a disproportionate amount of sports lovers in the bunch. So I'm really curious as to how the game picks their one true hobby.
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TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful Than You! March: Fugly Models
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on: 2008 March 07, 00:12:54
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It's not that this model is freakishly ugly. What disturbs me, is rather that it's too obviously a self-sim and that she uses it for almost all her clothing. Narcissism? Wish fulfillment ? You decide. Also the middle-aged look of the face doesn't really match the hot 20 year old body. Bit of a cognitive dissonance there.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Neat new FT feature
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on: 2008 March 01, 14:13:36
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Zazazu did you mean the toddlers? Because it was the children that the game offered to grow up, not the teens.
I know there is a cheat to do that, and I use it a lot. But I just thought it's neat the way the game offers to grow your sim child friends. It makes the concept of 'childhood friends' an integral part of the game, instead of having to use a cheat or hack.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Neat new FT feature
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on: 2008 March 01, 02:24:36
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My child sim just grew into a teen today and I had a neat surprise. When one of your sim grows up you have the option of growing up other townies of the same age. I think your sim has to know them. I don't know if the same applies to adults or teens yet.
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TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful Than You! February: SKINS
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on: 2008 February 28, 22:43:48
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Yuck! Shiny, greasy AND pimply skins. Who made them? I can't remember. It was on a small site. They looked ok from the screen shots. I'm always on the look out for nice skins so i downloaded them into my game. ick. Not good. They got the boot right after I took a screen shot for this thread.
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TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful Than You! February: SKINS
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on: 2008 February 14, 02:06:00
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I vote for funny myself. Totally the wrong pond lol Ack that is just too freaking bizarre. I can understand ear piercings, naval piercing, nose (even though I think its unattractive, but the rest is just weird. Whatever. Just ignore me, I'm just an old trout.
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