Food for thought:
"And of course the self installing sims3pack files for houses, sims, pattern presets."

Do they mean that the game will automatically install files without the players permission? Or that when you download a bed or table it will install without you having to push a button?

I had an experience similar to this  a few days ago. I had my sim guy ask a girl for a date at the home lot. She accepted and wanted to go to a community lot. Walk to lot was immediately followed by the sim girl saying, Thanks for the date, that sucked mpnkey balls. For a second I thought maybe the time had run out, but no, they must have had at least two sim hours of the date left. Apparently my sims can't go to community lots with their dates at all now. Oh, teh joy. I'll do the hack dance as soon as I get home from school.

I think that the reason everyone is having such a great time redecorating this house is because it is such an easy house to play. My sims and I really enjoy this house! 

@Nepheris: I love sunrooms! Ponds are nice too. Good job!

@Mistyk: I really like the tv nook and the aquariums. I usually notice when people use odd windows for a house, but they weren't even noticable this time. They matched the colors, which was nicely done. I like the gazebo too.

@Minena: This house is gorgeous! I've tried using these colors and the same furniture but I could never get them to match. The garden was what I fell for this time.

@Caponesim: My vacation neighbourhoods are always short on good houses, so I believe my sims will enjoy this one. I know I will! Good work with the color scheme!

@Jorganza: I like the red kitchen and the garden. Also mine! Yoink!

@katteninjin: Oooh, the english countryside is a nice theme. I like what you did with the front door, sort of hiding it to the side. The back porch with the grill is a nice touch. I have always wondered how you can make those slanted roofs. Gotta search for a tutorial on that!

You did a good job on this one, Minena. I wouldn't have thought of using that theme. I think the lookout tower and the courtyard is fabulous.

Oooh, I can just picture it: Frodo and Bilbo leading new lives in urban Pleasantville. Or perhaps a family of leprechauns? They could spend their days collecting the gold chests sims can dig up and then they can start the End of Rainbow Bank.

Plz to not double-post and to correct the use of grammar. Kthxbai.

New trailer posted by 1UP:

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/23079

Again, no gameplay. It's just another video to show off the "snazzy" customisation you can do to your sims and their houses. I found it to be nauseating and dull.

Yay! *munches on moist, Adolf caek* Mmm, yum!

See? It's fun! 

Why thank you, most kind. I am just trying to learn teh grammarz like a proper student. That will inevitably include some sort of rehashing of others posts, which by some could be considered to be a pet peeve. To me, it is a calling.

Edit: And my special thank you goes to Callista!

I corrected it for you. 

That would be orsum!

P&L@Eaxis lolyer going all Nelson: Na hah!

@realmscat: I like your tower. Good thing I thought of that myself... *cough*

@Salixtree: Can't wait to get my hands on that one. I might actually be moved to play my Strangetown hood.

@Cucumberpie:
Interesting house. It sure looks like a veritable Pit of Doom and I hope *hint hint* that someone makes a story abut that.

Nice one. Although, are there two different pots used in the pic's? 'Cause it looks like one of them is floating in the air.

Oh, lovely tips. As soon as I'm done with school, I'll tackle this month's house.

@Jesslla: Wow. I'd love to be able to make a garden like that. Boy, are my sims gonna love this!

@Eevilcat:
That house looks very interesting. I can imaging it becoming a dorm... *Tingeling has planz...

@Witch:
That house looks really interesting! I was toying with the idéa of making an eastern home myself, but alas, my imagination has come to a halt. Good thing you made one then! *snatch*

@Froggysim:
You did a good job! I like the modern and the not-so-modern feel of it. Although, it might be a smidgen more interesting in the back if you put a variety of windows there instead of having them all the same kind. The greenhouse solution is nice. I didn't think of that myself. I am actually starting to miss Glamour life!

@Goggalor:
Oooh, I love the whole European feel of those buildings. I must snatch that later. Great work.

Oooh, I need more dorms! Nice one, Faizah.

@realmscat: That house looks good, almost like an abandoned warehouse.

Will definately snatch up the art gallery. Great work floopyboo!

I think it's a fun idéa to try to redo some community lots. I always have a hard time making community lots and would love to learn more. Besides, we'll know how big a success this will be if noone enters (which I have a hard time believing, but you never know! ;P).

Simae Tuxedo
Clothes that are no more
stop him from kitchen raidin'
feathers and beak and gore
turn this sim into a penguin

I like these idéas, especially the ones where you can affect sims who are supposedly occupied with something else (wtf Eaxis?!). The poems are great and though I'm not much of a poet or particularly versed with latin, I'll give it a shot.

Good spells:

A spell that makes a sim finish college, or maybe upgrade a sim so they have finished college, with the adequate memories and diploma.
Finitus Collegus
For one as bright as you
it will be a feet
made 4 years of
College complete

Makes the targeted child/teen sim a student who attends private school.
Privatus Eruditio
Enter the school
pay the fee
don't be a fool
Educate thee

Bad spells:
Expells targeted sim from College. Pretty useful if you have an adult sim wanting to marry a young adult sim whos in college, and you don't want to go through the hassle of taking them through college. (I hate Uni!)
Exitus Collegus
Dumb as a duck
soon you will see
under educations buck
expelled you be

I've been wanting a vampire sim who can be awake during daytime, that could bring more havoc to the neighbourhood. If we could make customized potions as well as spells, a potion that makes a vampire tolerate light for three days would be interesting. It would be funny if the'yd still hiss at the sun though.
Ex-nocturnalis Vampirus
Nightime crawlers hiss at the sun
at dawn feel the ray that burn
Now can drink to their delight
a drink that enables daytime bite

Edited to add vampire spell.