Simgoose, you don't have an option to select which fruit to use for a recipe that uses generic fruit. It will pick one for you based on what you have and it seems to go in a certain order.  For instance if you have apples, you'll always use apples for pancakes and other recipes. I had some of each fruit in the fridge, and first it used all the apples, then the grapes, then the limes, and then the watermelons. If you are trying to control which fruit you use in a recipe, make sure that fruit is the only fruit in your fridge. Have a different sim pull out all fruit you do not want to use and leave only the thing you do want to use.

OH MY FUCKING GOD! That's what this whole thread is about! WTF!

This is all it says "Guitar Star - Guitar Stars must play at 10 parties and venues in the town to earn their title. Afterward, they earn even more money for tips and performances."

In other words, sorry it's no help. I've wondered about that myself, and haven't found an answer.

Awesome, that is getting printed and inserted into my new full size guide.

The guide they sell at Gamestop is the full size guide. I got my refund from Walmart today and bought the one at Gamestop. It's so much better. My whole point was to warn people off the one they have at Walmart because its really small, does not have the pull-out map, and is much inferior to the one at all the other stores.

Oh and yes, it is sealed in plastic. I was not even allowed to touch the thing, they had it in a locked case, they took it out and immediately locked it into a little security box for me to take to the front as if it was some sort of solid gold goose egg. I saw that the book itself was about the size of the DVD case, and I assumed that the text would be sized appropriately. Instead I find they merely shrunk the page down until the font is unreadable and the pictures look like postage stamps. I really had no way of knowing this.

My intention was not to get on here and bitch for sympathy though, I just wanted to let anyone considering buying this guide know, don't buy it at Wal-Mart.

I had reloaded. I just uninstalled it and installed my legal copy. I told it to not delete my saved games. I didn't bother backing them up because I don't mind starting over. Anyways after install my family was still there. I then got all the store stuff from the thread in peasantry and it all worked too.

I did have a mess with my second computer though. I went to game copy world for the no-cd crack, and clicked a link that had a virus infested pop up. First thing it did was shut off my firewall. AVG couldn't find or clean it. The launcher was stuffing up and crashing my whole computer. I routed the shortcut around to the .exe to avoid the launcher and was able to load the game but then had big nasty crashes after about 20-30 minutes in the game.

I finally gave in and did a good old fashioned nuke and pave on that machine. So you might consider viruses if you have a similar situation, even if your virus scanner doesn't find anything.

Fixed, and that was kind of my point. I can read paperbacks, and expected to be able to read this one. Oh well.




Yes, and the guide that comes in the CE is FOUR PAGES LONG and completely worthless. So yippee!

This post is just for idiots like me who:

1. Would buy a Prima Guide in the first place.
2. Would pick up a book the size of a paper back and expect it to have legible font size.

The guide Wal-Mart has is tiny and the printing is so small, I'd expect this book was made for insects to read. Don't bother with this edition unless you want to go completely blind. I will now have to march to Wal-Mart and stage a hissy fit in order to get a refund, because they do not like to refund books.

Sure I could do my job, if I devoted more time to it than there is hours in the day. So no, I cannot do my job. If you think you can, be my guest.

*by the way, that might not be relevant since I am not actually a teacher!

Actually it probably has more to do with the fact that your kid's classes probably have 38+ students in each class. When you teach at least 200 students a day you cannot correct everything on each assignment. Next year in our district the classes are going up to 42. We save that kind of grading for the big important writing assignments and give everything else a few "pity points" for effort.

I have not had mixed genders, but I have had what must be fraternal girl twins because they were not at all identical.

JM, finally you are wrong about something.  Sex cannot harm the baby as long as the man isn't laying his full weight directly on the baby, and that is only likely to be so uncomfortable that you get kicked off long before you can crush it or anything.

Also sperm has chemicals in it that has cervix softening and pain reducing properties that have real benefits for women who are close to going into labor.

P.S. Have you never heard of doggy style?

It is restrictive, but it's only for a few days. I also think we need to know more about how it works, because there are lots of good questions being raised in this thread. You can also try just not having any apples or watermelon in the fridge, but have other fruit and that should allow you to make any recipe that is just "fruit" and not specifically apple or watermelon.

Do they spawn in random places or exact places that can be cataloged? So far I have failed at remembering exactly where I have found something before and I'm wondering if its worth it to keep notes.

So avoid apples and watermelon. Eat only fish or something and it should still be random.

There's no eyedropper, but you can use the create a style edit feature to go into the object that has your desired texture, drag it out of CAS onto the item you want to inherit that texture. You'll then get a pop up asking which place on the new object to put that texture. I hope that made sense... I've been awake all night.

Do you mean apple is or is not slang for testicles? You are not exactly clear.

Jesus, you just don't get it. These are not nice friendly people. If you don't like how they talk to you, stop talking to them. Lurk around, absorb the helpful information, and stay out of the bullshit. If you want a nice friendly forum, go find one, because this isn't it.

Ok... convinced.  My same couple had a second pregnancy. I had the woman eat nothing but store bought watermelon straight from her buttpack since she doesn't know any recipes to cook with watermelon. She had girls with ten straight reloads. That's a nice feature since I hate boys.

Hire a babysitter?

The guide did mention it, but of course what they said was wrong.  They said cheesecake gave you only an increased chance, but in reality cheesecake gave you 100% chance of twins.

Oh good lord. Those friggin' apples!

To CharleeRose, no I only tried one family 8-9 reloads and then gave up.

So JM, when is the gender actually determined? From what you said I'm guessing its still at birth, and the game will look at actions during the pregnancy and determine it then? In my case, this family ate nothing but apple pancakes so by the time it was born there was 100% chance of boy?

by reloading and trying again, Yes or No?

I've tried reloading four times and got boys all 4 times. This makes me think sex might be determined at woohoo (unlike sims2), but it's of course not enough attempts to be sure. Anyone confirm this?

I think Vaudeville and masterpiece are not tied to completing those challenges. I have received masterpiece and have only completed two of the three challenges. I still haven't gotten to $30k royalties. I have had 25 bestsellers, so I think I received masterpiece because of that. Not sure exactly when it was earned though.

Just a thanks...  This is my first time ever using a torrent, and I managed to do it despite being sure I was way too stupid to figure it out. I had to read about six million posts here before I could manage it so I really appreciate all the posts with questions and the great answers they received because it kept me from having to whine about it when I had problems.

Anyway BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh.