Terry Pratchett has a recipe for Strawberry Wobbler in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook which sounds really interesting, though the publishers made her take some of the ingredients out...

Until I started following this thread I didn't even realise I played matrilineal n'hoods. I've never understood why people keep getting concerned over their sims names, my kids are named after their mother, end of story. Sometimes sims will get married in my game, but very rarely.

In real life I think the practice of hyphenating names is idiotic, you've only got to look one generation down to see what happens when two hyphenated names get together. I don't believe my last name was a holy gift from God, in fact I changed both my names, first and last, by deedpoll a dozen years ago purely because I didn't like my original names.

Sidenote: My son was about 11 when I changed my name. I asked him if he would like to change his last name to his father's one, or my new one or did he have any other ideas. He said he'd think about it. A couple of days later he said he'd decided. I asked what he would like to be named. 'Darth Vader' he said.   

There ain't no other options! Life is life, death is death, pretty binary really. The deciding factor, of course, is you can't play the sims when you're dead.

Yes! A prison. I have one right here. LastDitch Prison was created soon after Inge started releasing her prison objects. It doesn't have many of the newer bits but the base structure is fine, you can see some pics here.

 

For example, in Sikh culture, the male's lastname is Singh, the female's lastname is Kaur.

PS, offtopic; does anyone know whether there are any sim turbans around?

I like Sara_Dippity's ideas! *making mental note*
What about an orphanage - though you said you're keeping numbers down. Or he could found a religious cult, building a temple and moving in some teenagers to Instruct, they could all wear togas  . Or an old peoples home, make him work to build it up, having given away all his money to the local dogs home.

I don't remember getting it from MIikeInside & your file has three or four differences to mine. You have some stuff I don't & vice versa. Maybe the mts2 poster got yours and changed it a bit? Maybe we should concatenate? 

Edit: Just had a look at both, my guess is that the poster I got it off just didn't acknowledge your input Jordi, the order of commands is the same but the spelling error in 'quiter' vs 'quieter' TVs is fixed in the version I downloaded.

My sims never seem to die either, I get distracted with family offshoots and end up with bunches of elderly around that I never play. I think I've only ever seen two sims die naturally. My sims didn't even die unnaturally until I started listening to you people. 

Example of alias in userstartup.cheat:

#-------------------------------------------------------------
#     alias      real command   brief help      full help
#------------- -----------------------------------------------
alias m "moveObjects on" "Enables the ability to move normally unmovable objects" ""
alias m- "moveObjects off" "Disables the ability to move normally unmovable objects" ""


I did copy most of these from a thread somewhere, the poster offered it as free to use. I'll attach the whole file so you can take the bits you're interested in. The file lives in: C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Config

You'll have to rename the file from userstartup.txt to userstartup.cheat, I had to change the name so I could attach the file.


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Which means we get the US version in NZ 'cos we had Vacation.

Dearie dearie me, linedancing is still popular in some parts of NZ and in fact only really hit here about 10-15 years ago. Funny thing is it was taken up by two main groups I knew about, country & western people and dykes. It's pretty scary doing a linedance with a bunch of dykes when you're not a dyke and have no sense of rhythm. 

You can assign an alias to each command in the userstartup.cheat. To turn on the testing cheats, I just type 't' and so on. 't-' turns it off again. I can't be bothered remembering all those commands either.

I copied my original startup cheats from mts2 maybe or somewhere similar and have been adding to it ever since. I can post the syntax later tonight if you're interested, ie syntax how to make the alias.

I have a couple of eleders who have done some SERIOUS meditating in the last few days but they still can't teleport. If I hadn't read about teleport I certainly would never have found out via game play!

Nah, I'm convinced JM's an experimental AI created by the EA competition.

I'm quite good at self-diagnosing when reading psychology books or articles. It's amazing the number of psychoses I discover I have. 

I'm not quite that conscientious. I tend to grow sims in batches, maybe play for a few nights until there are some college ready kids, then the next house and so on. I don't mind if teenagers are friends with children, sooner or later they'll all be adults together and I'll want them to be friends anyway.

One thing I do find with 3 families is that there isn't always a decent choice of mates. With Inge's 'make me a townie' teleport bush I can add in characters I don't have to manage. I killed all the Maxis townies before I started with deleteAllCharacters. Worked a treat!

PS I had a family based on the Cletus model in sims 1, haven't done it yet in sims 2. Pity there aren't some recessive genetic abnormalities in the sims. 

Totally agree! I recently strated a prequel of Dune, what rubbish, I was editing sentences in my mind, criticising the plot development (or lack thereof) and wondering what was wrong with the book for the whole time I managed to keep reading. I got Dune out again a week or two after that, Frank Herbert is much cleverer than his son, he makes it seem like the reader is seeing and discovering the story all by themselves, instead of having it described step by painful step as Frank's son does.


Me too. I have even been known to read the newspaper fish and chip wrappers when desperate. For many, many years I had a book a day habit. I don't get how students don't see signs we put up, the first thing I do anywhere new is READ EVERYTHING! 

Yes, Stranger had a huge impact on me too, especially as it seemed to offer a brave new way of life that fitted in with the hippie ethos. I would agree Heinlein became formulaic, much more elegant way of putting it!

My (younger than me) partner frequents the groklaw site, he was quite surprised I knew the word grok and the origin of it, mind you it might not be his age so much as the fact he reads technical manuals for fun.

One of the things I admired about Heinlein was his incredible brain, I believe he invented waterbeds and waldoes in his books.
I have been a science fiction fan since the age of nine, after the fairies and the myths and legends, there didn't seem any other logical place to go!

Hmm, yes, I had the baby controller in the house, where the babies grew up to be toddlers with no birthday party or cake. Before I had the baby controller I never had a stuck baby though I always had a party and cake. I must've just got lucky.

In the war room is a tutorial...
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Well there you go Kitiara, I've learned something new. 

And then there are periods, English speaking women have them once a month, Americans put one at the end of every sentence.
English speakers use rubbers to delete pencil marks, American speakers use them for contraception. 

BTW Just to get back to the original topic, what other weird desires are shown in simpe?!? I'd look if I knew where they were.

Hmm, I've got triangular bedside tables but no star shaped table, not without using 'moveobjects on' to put two objects together. Maybe that's what you've seen? MikeInside put two of the triangular end tables together to create a star shape table in one of his houses I think.

Mind you, I don't remember bridges in sims1, I wonder if we get the UK version here? The cars drive on the right though if they're not corrected in the userstartup.cheats.

Yes. These were university students, albeit physical education ones. They had a huge plastic barrel in the corner for people to vomit in as well. That party was one of the most repulsive things I've ever seen. I stayed about 15 mins or less & had to leave.

Not a punch bowl, more like a beer keg with fruit all over it, sits on the ground.
What things were not included with the UK version?