Santa is a free best friend.  Handy for Popularity sims, I never checked if he count towards career friends.
He's annoying as hell though; after eating his cookie and dropping the present he always heads straight for the bathroom where he alternately pees and goes "ho-ho-ho" for the rest of the night.  In order to give him that hug and get the free best friend I always have to remove BUY (which does not eject Santa since he's an NPC).

If not, by all means;Shiny!

I can't remember if it still does this in my game, but it's annoyed the hell out of me for a long time.
Some times clicking many times help, but then you risk accidentally clicking on whatever option pops up on the next menu, and you have to start all over again.
It happens on all items, but it's extra noticeable on Inge's shrub because that tends to take you through many, many more... clicks.

The maxis terrains aren't very high quality textures, and as you observed, they are stretched over a considerable larger area than floor tiles.
As for CC...  Most CC terrain paint sucks.  They're too easy to make, so any idiot with a tiling (or ever non-tiling) texture at hand thinks they can make great terrains.  Most of them never gives any thought to scale.

Ask whoever made the hack.

I never had problems with jump rope, but the tip jar for the violin has nearly killed sims by trapping them in a corner by the sofa.

Minemineminemnine!  You no can haz!

Why is it that people seem ti grossly overestimate the hassle of doing a binary search?  Unsorted is not a problem, quite the opposite; it makes it easier to divide your downloads in halves even.
A binary search of 4400 files will require you to start the game no more than 13 times, and since your downloads folder will be exponentially smaller each time, loading time will also be greatly reduced by each reduction.

Stupid question number 2: Are you remembering to save?

By cheating.

The "all ages" bit bothers me.  Do you really want a toddler with claws like that?

For some reason, changing and saving your graphics settings also activates the cheat fully, but the lag is almost as bad as just re-entering the lot.

That's what happens when people who have no idea what they are doing makes replacements.
They must have cloned the whole cup in stead of just replacing the texture (which would have been quicker and easier anyway).

As I would have pointed out, if someone hadn't locked the thread; I had alfixes installed at all points during my troubles.

I had that problem.  Pescado "fixed" it about three times before I took the hack out while playing uni lots.

That's not normal cook behaviour.

First open tag, then close tag.
Open one tag for each tag you close, and vice versa.

Is it a bug?  I thought it was some kind of inconsistent feature related to secondary personality.

That's not the only criteria for "stay off!".

Very few NPCs will blow up your game.  He might still go around whitegloveing counters, but no *boom*.

Grand vampires, The Gypsy and damned Mrs. Crumplebottom!
I have some owned community lots, which is basically just a hideout for romance sims to own, to have secret dates, get away from their spouse and get public woohoo memories without too much fuss.  Unfortunately, Mrs. Crumplebottom still gets in (despite the lot being closed) and harasses my sims.
I'm almost tempted to add the visitor controller back in.

Name = LOL
Description != LOL

Windkeeper has some really tiny lights.  I believe they can be found in the booty.
Inge has a ceiling light hider mod.  Place lights on the first floor and hide them.

I had a bug with the ballet barre immediately after installing M&G that did that.  It happened on several lots; sim touched the barre and immediately I got ten pop-ups about body skill.  Replacing the barre fixed it.
I have no idea how it happened.

This is normal.  You need to build up a bit of relationship before he'll teach you the song.

I rather like the Noble End Table from Store Stuff castle set.