Wow he's cute. Definitely a keeper. But do my eyes deceive me or is he the spitting image of Mitch Indie?  I think Mitch is a playable sim that lives with roomie Max Flexor at Academie LeTour in one of the student houses. Or I've got their names reversed, I can never remember which one is which. It's been a while since I played my neighborhood with that college.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"-George Santayana

It's one of my favorite quotes. 

What a beautiful little house. I want to know where you found the lovely flowers too. So pretty.

You must play with aging off Gali. Otherwise I'm certain that sims born on one side of the lot would die of old age once they get to the other side. 

Same here. I've got all the critical fixes like the romance tombstone fix and the no unlink on delete. I thought the problems I previously had were resolved with the Nightlife patch but it happened again a few days ago with Darren Dreamer's tombstone. Prior to dying of old age he had been living with his second wife Jane (formerly Jane Stacks of Sim State) and their daughter Nora in Downtown, I sent his tombstone to my Pleasantview Memorial Lawn to be next to his wife Darleen. Darren's tombstone was invisible in build/buy mode, visible when I sent a sim to the community lot. In hindsight I wonder if sending a tombstone across sub-neighborhoods FUBARed my cemetery.

But did I learn? No I had daughter Nora send both Darren's tombstone AND Darleen's back home and then to Gothier Green Lawns. I was determined to have them buried together. Same problem. I sent the tombstones back to the Dreamer townhome, quickly made a downtown mausoleum and sent them there. Worked with no problem.

I am quite unawesome so I really don't know why the problem still occurs. I don't know if it was the moving across sub-neighborhood thing or if there's a "limit" to the number of tombstones at a community cemetery before problems like this occur. The day before Darren died Castor Nova's cowplant ate both Komei Tellerman and Sandy Bruty and their tombstones sent straight to Pleasantview Memorial Lawn with no problem. I'm not sure yet if Pleasantview Memorial Lawn and Gothier Green Lawns will work for any of my future dead. I haven't had the time to play this week but am tempted to kill off another townie just to see.

Edit- I just killed Brandi LeTourneau and was successfully able to move her to my Pleasantview Memorial Lawn. Her tombstone was visible when I went to the lot in build/buy mode.  So I'm at a loss as to why there were problems with Darren & Darleen Dreamer's tombstones and why my Pleasantview cemetery is now working. I haven't tried Gothier Green Lawns yet.

Same here!  Heather Huffington looks absolutely lovely in this hairstyle. Thank you Blue for alerting us to Windkeeper's awesome work.

I second what Emma said. Wow! I'm going to quit having my sims avoid the bartenders.

Inquiring minds must know, what is the ghost color for "death by elevator woohoo?"

I think the space bar allows you to do that.

Actually Jordi you've contradicted your own statement. You've just proven with your rude remark that there are immature jerkwads everywhere, even in your country. 

The phrase you're looking for to aptly describe Miranda & her mom's lips is "catbutt face."  I saw the phrase once describing an annoying mother inlaw and thought it was quite appropriate.

Don't forget to clean the monitor too. It's amazing how well a clean monitor improves graphics.

Strange, I'm not using one.  Maybe my game's just possessed.

The unfair reality is that if you haven't had a child you have no idea what it's like to be a breastfeeding mom. Just like those who haven't experienced the heartbreak of infertility do not fully comprehend your pain. Wouldn't you be offended if someone judged the decisions you make with your infertility situation? My heart goes out to you guys, I had secondary infertility (I have ovulatory problems that the doctors never found a cause for) and had to take fertility drugs to get pregnant with my second daughter. I had rude, insentitive people tell me, "You already have one child, shouldn't you just be happy with her?" or "Why don't you just adopt?" That hurt, I felt like people who didn't understand my situation were passing judgement on me. They didn't know what it's like to be on that awful emotional roller coaster and I just wanted them to shut their mouths. It became even more uncomfortable when my problem temporarily corrected itself and I surprisingly became pregnant with my third daughter. Then I was on the receiving end of remarks like, "See I told you all you needed to do was just relax."

So I hope you understand I'm not trying to take a pot shot at your painful situation but hoping that you will try to understand how we feel. Being a nursing mom isn't a cakewalk in this country.You haven't yet been in this situation yourself so you don't know what it's like. To be "banished" to another room to feed your child. To try to cover yourself with a blanket when you feed your child in public. To be treated like some second class circus freak for wanting to care for your child as you see best. And believe me, like Faemidwife said people seem to notice when you use the blanket. I'm glad that I had these cool nursing tops, it was rare that anyone noticed my baby was eating. I didn't "flash" or act like some self-centered exhibitionist (I practiced in the mirror too), I just wanted to feed my child in a normal fashion while being able to care for my other kids. I didn't want to have to schedule my daily responsibilities around having to hide in another room while my youngest received nourishment.


It's interesting how it all seems to be a matter of "mental conditioning." My children and many of their agemates couldn't care less. Makes me really wonder about the mindset of some adults when their response is, "Eww, can't she go in another room or something?" when the children who see the same nursing mom don't notice her or even care. I'm not talking just preschoolers and such, I've seen preteens and teens with a, "Who cares, she's feeding her baby" attitude. Maybe hopefully in 10-20 years this will no longer be an issue in this bassakwards country and nursing moms will finally stop being harrassed. But there will probably be no agreement today or in the near future.

A more awesome version would be lovely Pescado. Thank you.

And you said it perfectly. *stands and applauds faemidwife*

I will never understand why people act like that either. A mother should be able to care for her child in the manner she believes to be best. When I see people make some big disgusting deal out of it I have to wonder what's wrong with them. Baby's eating, so what? Why do you (the person with the problem) have to turn it into something dirty? And I'm not against bottle feeding, I'm more pro-"mom should do what is best for her situation and all other's should keep their noses out."

I went with Marj too, she's got this weird "little old lady" expression going on. I hope the poor things will improve with age. I haven't seen the toddler teeth pokng through the chin in my game but I've seen shots of it numerous times in photo albums.

I've got a set of my own uglies who's only hope seems to be the plastic surgery machine. Kevin Beare's (Sim State frat boy) features don't seem to pass on all that well, even when his wife is quite pretty. All three of their children have his pug nose and pointy cheekbones. They have really great personalities but man they're ugly. When the oldest, Emma, went to Sim State I couldn't stand it anymore and unlocked the career rewards. I was worried that when she went to kiss her boyfriend she'd put one of his eyes out with her cheekbones.  

Maybe since this is an ep about business the pig blimps are symbols of corporate greed.

It never did resolve itself. His bar stayed stuck every single semester. Made me nervous that he would have problems graduating and moving back to the regular neighborhood but there were no problems with that. He and Klara are just fine in the regular neighborhood raising their twin daughters. It did happen one other time back in early October to a Uni townie who moved into one of the sororities but I ended up having to reinstall for other reasons so I never was able to see if I could fix it. It hasn't happened to another sim yet (knocks on wood) but I guess if it does I'll have to live with the guessing again. Though with TwoJeffs college adjuster it's easy to click "set semester grade...A" then "set final exam...2 hours" and the sim will come back from the final with the A and the grant money. I sure wish I knew what causes the glitch though. I hope it's not a sign of an impending EFBVFOS.

I had the stuck grade bar thing with a created student when I moved him and Klara Vonderstein in together. Moving him out and back in didn't do a thing. What was strange was that if I had him do a couple of assignments, his term paper, attend a couple of classes (then move up his final with TJ's college adjuster) he'd come back from the final with a good grade. I was even able to graduate him and move him back to my regular neighborhood without a problem. It was just kind of annoying to have to "guesstimate" where I thought his score was really at before sending him to the final. I'd use TJ's college adjuster to give him the semester grade of an A just to make sure.

Yay, another history lover! Hi SarahKjrsten. Thanks for the tip about the remeshed food processor/morter & pestle, I'm going to go check out MTS2 and see if I can find it.

The other thing with this challenge is I've been wondering about is if there should be a minor penalty to going above a certain number of sims dying from old age. 50% of children died before they reached the age of 5, the #1 cause of death among women was fire (getting too close to the fire in those long skirts, especially when wearing a crinoline) and #2 was childbirth. Though I wonder how that should be worked in the challenge, roll a dice or something to determine whether the sim lives or dies to the next stage. 

My thoughts on this challenge are that wealthier families did employ gardeners and nannies. And some of the ceiling fixtures in the game do resemble gas lights that were available around the 1850's. And while it was the "women's work" to take care of the inside of the house the menfolk were responsible for the gardening in the working class families.

And without the phone, how are sims supposed to keep in contact? Our ancestors kept in touch through the mail or telegraph and we don't have that option in the sims. They also "went calling" where they would rotate visiting their friends and having their own specific "at home" day where their friends could call upon them. Unless you used something like Inge's teleporter to bring their friends over on a certain day to visit you'd have to use the phone to bring them over.

I could be wrong but I was certain that early versions of telescopes existed during this time period. Scottish inventor James Short apparently made over 1500 of his version.

Business careers would also be appropriate for men (think of all the entrepeneurs of the time period!) and so would either Science career. The science careers could be the equivalent of the "quacks" who peddled their wares like "Dr. Jones Hair Restoring Tonic."

Girls sometimes would obtain secondary education in "finishing school" where they would become proficient in art, music or language. It was to show how "accomplished" they were. If a female sim went to a university a degree in art or philosophy would be acceptable.

And since we don't have old fashioned iceboxes, cookstoves or bath fixtures like we did with Sims1 what would be a good alternative?  Do you know of any good custom content around? I remember one of Maxis' past surveys when the mentioned the shopping packs and a "history" pack was one of the ideas. I sure hope they make a pack like that someday.

Sounds like a really interesting challenge. I have to admit I'm not into having my teens marry or have children though. I've got a book around here somewhere that seems to indicate that marrying during the teen years and having children was actually the exception and most of our ancestors married in their late teens early 20's. I'll go look for it. Drat, I just can't find that book. It had some statistics in it of the people researched and showed that the majority of both genders married in their 20's as opposed to the belief that most married in their teens. I'll keep looking for it though.

Sounds like a "Don't complain at me!" mod would be a nice addition.

Actually when I saw your initial post Hook it made me think of in RL when people "flip" houses. They buy a fixer, do some remodeling and sell it for a profit about 6 weeks or so after they've bought it. Some people actually make a good living from it.