Well, then.  I wonder how I got it confused with a Pets cheat?  I don't even have Seasons yet. At least that explains why my searches for Pets cheats weren't turning anything up.

I guess the mind really is the first thing to go.

That was amjoie's response to the people who jumped all over his/her original comment:



 
The second comment did come across somewhat that way, but I took it in the context of amjoie getting defensive about all the negative responses to his/her first comment.

I also should have made it clear I was responding to the collective dogpiling, not just Ellatrue alone.

Grumble, grumble.  I've been searching, and I can't find that comment.  Hope I didn't dream it.

The last two arguments are just help text.  They don't make any difference to the functionality.  I'm currently using a null string for the last one, and I have in the past used a null string for both.


Wait.  A while ago, wasn't someone saying that if they included a particular cheat, that nothing after that was being recognized?  I can't remember which one or whether it was ever confirmed to be a real phenomenon.  Hmm, looks like one of the Pets cheats, because I have those stuck at the very bottom of my file with a note not to put anything after them.

No, excuse me!

Isn't disagreeing with how MaxisEA coded the game at least half of what modding is all about?  Sure some if it is bugfixes, but the rest is changing the game to suit our personal preference as to what would make it "better". 

Whether I agree with amjoie's specific complaint, or not, how is it different from complaining that they can't have triplets or quads?  How is it different from complaining that the nannies are stupid?  How is it different from complaining that employees at businesses don't behave right? How is it different from complaining that the skins aren't realistic? How is it different from every other complaint I see on this site?

Yes, I know mods exist to alter all of those examples.  That's precisely my point.  If they hadn't annoyed somone in the first place, the mods wouldn't have been created. But,not everyone has the skills to make the mods they want.  Some of us have to hope that someone else will make them.  And horrors, if we look around and don't find what we want, sometimes we even talk about our ideas, to try to inspire someone to create it.

Aha.  I thought I already had everything visible, but that box was still checked. 


Well, Venusy's instructions worked for me.  But that last statement would explain why the switch was already in there, once I did find it.

Where should I be looking for boot.ini?

So far all I can find is reboot.ini and boot.ini.backup

Yeah, but did MaxisEA comprehend that fine distinction?

Remember how PO'd everyone was about visitors harvesting our money trees? 

Sorry, you'll have compete with me for that title. 

That's exactly what we need.   

So a sim is always at risk of either the plague or SHC?  Bizarre.

I suppose they were going for the traditional belief that being cold compromises the immune system, making one more likely to become ill, but overdid it as usual.

I thought it was only a VBT if the house had sims in it?  Does it apply to vacant houses too?

I've played two houses with pets so far.  One has the most expensive round bowl, and the other has the cheap square bowl.  In both houses the bowl has been in two different locations: in a corner and against a straight wall with another object to one side. I haven't had any problems* with them at all. 

I have noticed that the square bowl rotates 45^o and the pet stands at the same angle while eating. It occurs to me that  might cause a problem if the bowl is blocked on three sides, such as against a straight wall between two other objects.

* I don't think it's related to the bowl:  My glitchy cat originally ran away while Grimmy was standing in her food bowl (he came to pick up the elder who was trying to refill it).

Update: 

1. I tried the Lot Debugger and the Retrieve Missing Sim option came up, but when I clicked it, it didn't do anything.  I tried Christianluv's pet teleporter, but the cat didn't appear on the list of available pets. 

2. Then I went to a different lot and used the pet teleporter to teleport it in there.  They did the check collar and call owner routine.  The owner came over to get it, but I think an interaction dropped out of queue due to a blocked path, and the owner started wandering around doing typical visiting sims kinds of stuff.  I thought maybe I needed to say goodbye to the owner, but she left without taking the cat  I tried to call her again, but the option wasn't available.

3. I went to a third house and teleported the cat in there, hoping they would be able to call her, but the option wasn't available there, either.

4. So I used the Move In option of the pet teleporter to move the cat into that house.  That seemed to work OK, and it seems to be behaving normally there.  Except...its icon still says Ran Away, even after three simdays. 

Hmm, I forgot to go back to the original household and see if its icon was gone from there.  Maybe I need to do that so everything can clear.

LOL!

Anyone want to take a break from Seasons and help me with Pets, which I've only recently installed?  Is this normal weirdness, or is something borken?

A cat ran away.  It was wearing a collar, and I called to report it missing.  The following day, I got a phone call saying it had been found, did I want it brought back?  I answered yes and the caller said he would bring it right over.  However, the caller was the Social Bunny and the cat never showed up. 

The other thing that may be related is that it ran away while an elder was dying.  But I didn't see any of that happen because I was upstairs watching a baby transition to toddler, also happening at the same time.  (It was an eventful moment...)  Oh yeah, this is the Goth house.  I'm playing in a freshly generated Pleasantview for now, before I put my custom neighborhood back in.

It's been another day now, and all of the cat's needs are in the red.  I tried turning on the pet commands and telling it to Go Here, but that didn't help.  I haven't tried the Pet Teleporter yet, would that do any good?

I have Uni, NL, OFB, and Pets.  I have recent downloads of the Pets Director's Cuts from JM and TwoJeffs, although I didn't install every hack.  I do NOT have the Kitten Killer, or any of its relatives.

Eggplant actually do contain a lot of liquid.  So much so that the prep for some recipes involves layering slices between paper towels and setting something heavy on top to press the juice out.

Drinking it sounds disgusting, tough.

I knew I should have gotten my lists organized before Seasons came out and everyone started updating, so I can't really blame anyone but myself.  Do you have stuff anywhere else besides Peasantry and Taster's Choice?

Ditto.  Or at the very least his own subforum.

Thank you.

I'll cast another vote in the Pleeeaaase!!! column.

Does anyone know what's going on with Quaxi's site?  I just tried to get the Pets version of the censor blur remover and all the links are broken.  Everthing just takes me back to the front page.

 
I'm doing exactly the same. Same time frame, even.  I've been lurking around, trying to get back up to date.  I'm hoping to install Pets tonight or tomorrow.

I haven't looked at hacks outside of MATY yet. I only have a couple of those.

ETA: http://www.the-isz.com/theisz/index.php?showtopic=278  looks useful.

There isn't any chronology from lot to lot.  Only a vast and eternal now. 

Whatever state she was in when you saved her on her home lot, that's how she will show up as a visitor.  It doesn't matter how many days have passed on that lot as opposed to her home lot. The weird thing, though, is that each day of pregnancy is a different state.  She shouldn't be showing up with a third day belly if she was only first day pregnant on her home lot.