And not everyone will be getting OFB, so they will bo doubt be glad the patch has been updated!

If the increase in PC stats is similar to what happened with each EP so far, then a lot of people won't be able to afford it - it's not just the cost of the pack itself, but the cost of upgrading in order to play it!... And you can't run multiple versions of the game like you could with sims1, where you could have different combinations of EPs stored on a second hard drive which you could load as long as all the registry entries were in the registry.  So installing the EP may mean for some people they will have to do without either Uni or NL and have a complete reinstall.

9 gigs??  How long does your game take to load??

Not in my life.  There is nothing like being read to by someone who does it well.  When it's really good it's like magic.

I still remember taking an english class some 20+ years back (ouch).  I think it was called introduction to fairy tales.  In one particular class, the teacher was reading to us.  It was incredibly soothing.  It must have had the same effect on the class, because you could have heard a pin drop.  She probably noticed our dazed look, because she stopped and asked if we would prefer to finish on our own and the whole class all protested at once that we wanted her to continue... and meant it.

Not sure what it is....something half remembered from childhood?  But being read to is great.

The one thing I really, really miss from the old game was the ability to grow your own food and have a farming family.