Is there a patch that adds a mouse control to FF7 for PC? I once tried to get into it, good recs and all, but a keyboard-only fighter RPG? You gotta be kidding me.

Can you please elaborate that? I haven't had any installation problems, however, there were some strange things I've noticed on a computer with SATA and it would be useful to know details, as I'll have to reinstall on a new disc soon.

Ah, so there's the catch. Point taken.

I know it. Data is all backed up, emergency disk is present. It's just that my vendor complains they're overbusy what with Christmas and stuff, so it'll take time to order a replacement, yadda yadda, and, since it'll be replaced for free anyway, I can use it until I kill it, it's faster and bigger than the emergency one.

Still, no other program is behaving crazier than usual, just Sims. 

As of recently, the game occasionally freezes. So far, it happened on three different lots and on loading another one. The mouse pointer remains active, the music plays, but there is no indication at all of disk activity and the only way out is reset. On the next play, everything ran fine except for the lot that froze on loading, but that was bypassed by getting to it from the neighbor's lot instead of main map.
Some short time before, my HD started complaining about its S.M.A.R.T - I know what that means and it's going for replacement soon, but I'm curious if those accidents can be connected, given how much Sims 2 rely on disk work. Because if it's a coincidence and it's just the hood showing symptoms of BFVFS, at least I won't bother with backing it up.

4GB RAM for a game? Pffffft.

Really, and how does that meeting go? Do chefs beat the broke Sim up, make them do dishes or ask for...er...alternative method of payment? (which would be totally convenient if a Sim had that 'Shag 5 service people' wish).

I've noticed that moved-in chefs, just like mascots and uni cooks, have a nasty habit of inviting themselves into houses of total strangers. Wonder what causes that behaviour.

You can also lure your male into wonderful world of gaming with asking for a little help with difficult bits. Triple benefit: he gets to demonstrate his madskillz AND gets exposed to some gaming, and I get my RPG or quest cleaned from some moronic car race mini game. 

As for the topic - the same Veronaville since first day years and years ago. It saw a lot of idiocy and cruel experiments from me but survived, for what I am deeply grateful and will stick to it to the end.

Dude, if that's a mediocre story, the sim-storytelling genre is doooomed! That story is as captivating as watching the paint dry...no, way worse, because with paint you can at least inhale fumes and feel dizzy. It's worse than a bunnyhead story, which at least has a 'LOL furries' value.

I am more amused by the fact he had to shave it. Normally, that limb should not be hairy, all the growth happens in its surroundings...unless our hero is someone like this.

I've only have up to Seasons, but my toddlers were always bent on following, since the base game time - the only autonomous thing they would ever do after I hack-protected crappers against them (although neglected toddlers override that restriction). If a target is on another floor and there's a fishtank nearby, they'd at least go and gawk at it, if no fishtank - nothing. Just would sit and think of the stairs.

How I handle them, depends if I'm playing out some scenario or just killing time. If the latter, just lock the little bugger in the small room with floor blanket, a couple of snapdragons and a rabbit head and you can forget about it until its birthday. And nobabyharrassment is a must in any case. Arguably one of the most necessary hacks ever.

I've got a version with no pop-ups, but after I put visitor controller in, they've started to return on n+24 hour instead of n. After I pulled the controller off, this effect lingered for two more visits and then reset back to normal.

Isn't it the hack that makes dirt invisible, incidentally? Anyway, if you remember where you downloaded it from, you can go and try to find it in its site by description, then you'll know its name and could just delete it.

Veronaville, and it's just as borked as Strangetown, if not more. I looked into genetics of Sims in question and yep, the recessive skintone was missing, but so was for their siblings who have spawned with no problems, though. Oh well. Maybe EA broke the birth fix in add-on - it's, after all, traditional for them.

Other than installing Petz, nothing funny. However, the zombie in question is a half-alien and back in the good old days of base game she had exactly the same problem. Maybe those two just were lucky to get the crash gene that the rest of the family managed to escape. 

P.S.: No hack's responsible - it crashes in the naked game, too.

Recently I had two cases of the crash on birth. The fathers are two brothers, whose dead mum I ressurected as a zombie. Can it be what causes the crash, what with zombie skin having no baby stage and can I fix it by killing off the old biddy again? 

Baa!  One question - says there in  APO's rtfm, it can be placed outside the room. Does that mean it can control the fenced and locked outside territory? Because it's normally it that attracts swarms of freeloaders, especially if there's a hottub or a chess table. I've tested the team of those two hacks yesterday and had one broke whiner still, but then long time no see pregnancy crash ruined my experiment, so results aren't reliable, I suppose.

Can you please remember which hack does that? The gate whiners annoy me to no end, especially when the majority of them are penniless freeloaders who wouldn't buy anything but just stand there complaining they can't flop into the shopkeeper's pool or waterballoon their kid. 

What I want, is "No autonomous single Lobster Termidor, EVER" hack. Oh, and more, more, MORE, variety of painful deaths for those "Oh, I feel just a wee leettle tiny weeny itsy bitsy hungry, let's concoct the Termidor, yay!" numbskulls.

Duh, you call that cum? Textures are all wrong, that chick looks like she was painting her ceiling while not wearing protective hat. Or tried to brush her teeth and had a fit of really shaky hands.

Speaking of boobages, allow me to contribute this sparkly gem:




I'm linking this lovely set instead of just original mesh because,

a)unlike the mesh creator who likely has a sense of humour, this one seems to really think this stuff  is good on dudes,

b) because of "Wha...? But it's...I mean, is he really...?! Tehee...aaaaaaahahahaaaaa!!" factor.

The primary and secondary aspirations would contradict and consequently fuck up chemistry between Sims.

I just checked in SimPE - in my game, it's Philosophy professor who does that. But I usually ignore him until he goes away, so haven't noticed anything.

As for spares, they are shown as 'Unknown'.

About half of mine are adults, and given how you can date them, shag them, marry them and feed them to cowplants it's most likely safe to convert them. I have a couple of them moved in, never a problem like, say, a headmaster.

Eh, here in MATY. Although I don't see it now in the big list. Odd.

Edit: probably it was 2jeffs's, then, so it must've followed him to wherever he is now.

Is there a SimPE-ish way to find out which professor teaches what subject? I tried some custom majors, then kicked them out and would love to test Asylum controller on the spare academic bunch, but I don't really want to pull 'No meeting profs' hack out unless inevitable.