I find it fascinating that people actually want this game to 'make sense' and object to things like $$ being thrown at them at random.  I mean are you really have people getting rich off inheritences?  Isn't the answer to have your sims become nasty old hermits before they die of old age?

At least one of the threads at VS asking for Pescado had a working url in it.  Why leave it unlocked??  So there can be gossip and whining and rumor monging?   They want to find him, they can come here.  If the front pages scares some away, oh well, but that's Pescado's choice, and fully in his control.

There is enough room in cyberspace for many sim sites and many modders.  Absolutely we have our favorites, those we trust, and such.  Heck, my sims homes seem to have most of the 'new' furnishings from 3 people.  Almost all my hacks are JM, TwoJeffs and Inge.  Ugly blowups periodically happen, and periodically people do the shuffle

I'm glad that I can have more awesomeness in my game.  I'm also grateful for help I've gotten from others simmers in pursuing the ways in which I want to add/change things for the game.

I doubt I can track it down, but I remember a discussion with Maxis that did say that both that the features are blended, but also that they are... applied to some 'norm' that Maxis has for a head.  And for the most part, they are not... shown, maybe is the right word...  on newborns except for eyesize *sorta*.  The applying of the facial features to *another* face also explains how some of my toddlers can look like they have a major deformity around the eyes, yet by the time they're adults they do not, because Maxis decreases the amount it blends with the 3rd head as they age.   
Maybe another way to put it is that the characters have their facial characteristics, but they are expressed over the ages only by certain amounts, and there is a base head that the expressing is applied to.  At least that was what was said during one conversation.   Now I want to test 

In some of my houses (I'm a free will on person) I've gotten my sims into the habit of watching yummy channel.  I don't know if it's that some like to channel surf more than others, but if I see them at the tv, I have them change it, and have had some success with having that become their preferred habit.

Those are the most identical looking twins I've seen.  I've seen posts where people have said 'identical twins' where the eyebrows are visibily different, or some other feature, like eyes, or size of nose or mouth.  My thought, dumb luck and maybe some of the features of the parents are similar (as expressed on a male or female face).

On the other hand, the sibs in most of my houses tend to carry whatever family resemblences pretty strongly, and tend to look a lot like each other - as they're not always in the same age at the same time, I can't tell how close, but as all the game born children have 3 parents (unless you turn that off) - the mom, the dad, and the 'average' face - it's not surprising that they look similar.  That's also why most babies look almost identical to each other - to avoid dirt ugly babies the babies display mostly the maxis standard baby face.  I have had a couple sims now that produce  dirt ugly toddlers (they are okay as babies), the eyes come out looking bad, but as they age, they 'fix' themselves and look normal.

Glad to see this forum up, I used to go to vs primarily to check your forums.
I dug out one of my rarely used  lj avatars for this site, my usual geek me avatar looks much to cheery, besides I mostly *am* surrounded by idiots, most of the present company excluded of course