Cool! I've never ressurrected a Sim...perhaps I will try this myself.

I love Grandpa Tricou up there with the surfer hair. Sweet!

That's so badass. A great storyteller and a talented neighborhood creator!

I'd like to see that, radiophonic. Please let us know if there's anything special about them.

No privacy for NPC's!  They our the tools of our YA sims. I got tired of sending Sims through college, but when I used, man, the hoops I jumped through to catch NPC's before they went into hide mode....

Yes,  boo Yahoo Groups!

I would love to join so I don't go out and spend a bunch of money on Civ 4 and "The Movies." I hope I am not too much of a noob here to participate.

Ugh, The Blair Witch Sim Project.

For some reason, no buskers doesn't work in my game, so for families with instruments I make flat roofs and put everything on the roof.

I like the new "invite friends" feature, because then they will actually hang out with your Sim.

Motoki, you crack me up with your ideas and your crazy-ass nannies. That fuzzy hat discussion was hilarious too.

I am so glad you posted this. I am so burned out right now. I am spending way more time here than on actually playing. I think maybe I have been playing for too long...it is so frustrating now. I was a lot more forgiving of the Sims 1, except for the bugginess that was Unleashed. And that was before I even knew what "move objects on" was. I had to go on the official site's chat and ask a bunch of 12-year-olds, who were like, "use the cheat, DUH!" Ah, nostalgia. 

Well, that's unfortunate. I hate when I'm trying to keep a Sim a certain way (lazy, out of shape, whatever) and they improve accidentally.

Dusty, your icon reminds me of someone famous--sort of like Alicia Keys. But there is someone else I can't think of.... She looks nice.

I kind of like the floating Sims, I don't know why. One of those weird things the game will do and surprise you. I don't have any nudity patches, mostly because I think the pixels are funny. I remember when I got ts1 and I saw the pixels for the first time...I cracked up.

I usually only see them in the tub in my game. Brynne's backwards-feet guy are UGH! 

Similarly, I've seen a promotion due to being friends with a coworker (after the coworker came home with my Sim). I think the phrase that was used was "So-and-so pulled some strings at work for your Sim." This is a nice feature.

I have not seen any skill gains from dates or outings.

I can only imagine how such a skill was learned...I can just picture the conversation: "You have NO IDEA how many stains club soda can get out!"

zzzzzzz....

Perhaps it's a tattoo....

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Thank you so much for figuring that out, Trepie! I had all but given up on getting my Sim kids into private school post-NL. So simple, yet so ingenious. I posted a thread about this a couple of weeks ago and got no real help because I was using "call to meal."

I just came here to post about Pao, how weird. He is like the forgotten NPC. No one cares about Pao (including me, really).

Anyway, in my game I have a CAS married couple (pre-NL), Harriet and Frank Horsenborg, that I hadn't played in eons. I loaded them up the other night and even after making their turn-ons match, they still had one lightning bolt for each other. Harriet's knowledge and Frank's financial. They were doing that thing where they were acting like family Sims, because I was having them be affectionate a lot, and they both rolled the "have a child" want at the same time.

Since it seemed like they didn't have any red-hot luuuve going on, I decided to have Harriet tramp around a bit. She can have children, but they won't be Frank's! So Harriet got knocked up in the photo booth by a CAS guy who has red hair, light skin, and blue eyes. Did I mention that Frank looks Italian?

This is where the "things I have learned" part comes in....Harriet was home from work and Frank was gone, so I decided to have her befriend another target guy for her next baby (she's having three, with three different baby daddies). Pao walks by to deliver the mail and Harriet gets all swoony over him. She was pregnant and starving, so I had her influence Pao to make her a meal. Then I had Harriet flirt with him a little bit and she went from swoony to disgusted, and had a strike through a bolt! I wonder what he said? Is Pao's grammar atrocious?

Anyway, I learned that Pao makes a kickass chef's salad. AND that you can lean on NPC your Sim doesn't know from Adam to feed desperate pregnant women.

Aha! I wondered if there were benefits to tipping NPCs. Once (a couple reinstalls back) I had Mortimer tip his maid until she would hang out with him, so they hooked up. Any other benefits?

Has anyone seen the Sims 2 commercials on TV with stories behind them? I watch one television show once a week at my sister's house, and I've been seeing a commecial for the past two weeks. They are little Sim movies made from the game with narration, and then at the end they show the "simmer" who made them. Last night's was a Sim kid who grows up as somewhat of a failure but them becomes a famous politician (it looked like a dig at Bush, honetsly). At the end they showed the creator and said her name, and something like "this is how she plays her Sims." So far it's just been adults.

Anyone know is these are real people? Did they round people up on the BBS or have a contest? I am just curious.

I agree with Brynne--I read Reggikko's stuff for the first time the other day. HILARIOUS! The captions were killing me. I will keep watching for future installments.

I like what kewian said...I think they should wilt and die like in the first game. Then your Sim can have the pleasure of recieving fresh ones.

My Sim has gotten many flowers, and a mirror, which seems more realistic than the DJ booth. I wish I could have that date...I could use a couple thousand dollars right now. 

And that is when the game gets really interesting--randomness like that. Poltergeist! Polterlamp! Polterpuddle!

Thanks for the story. 

I had a tiny bit of oddness too.

My icon for Makin Magic, which I haven't been able to uninstall through add/remove programs because I don't have disk 2 anymore   , has been replaced by the Nightlife logo. 

That's funny, KellyQ, that you posted about Angela coming home with Dustin every day. Before the patch, I didn't realize that was a glitch. There is so much illogical intentional programming in the game that I thought they meant to do it, because D & A were dating. I thought maybe all non-live-in relationships would turn out like that.

I am not Jewish, but I did notice the "token" menorah, for sure. That is a pet peeve of mine. I think this pack will be of interest to people who like Christmas. I am not Christian, but my family celebrates Christmas (gift-giving, eating like fools). A pack like this could also be very popular in Japan, when Christmas is very popular and embraced as a commercial holiday, while less than 1% of the population identifies as Christian.

Dang, I was hoping to see "Sims will no longer die of old age before they finish a meal at home."

It's a good thing I got that talk less, eat more hack!

I'll believe it when I see it....

No, I'm not that cynical. That's great news! Thanks!