If you encounter a tribe of Kewhales, on the other hand, break out the harpoons! I got an announcement I was being raided by the Kewhale tribe, so I equipped my entire tribe with throwing harpoons and met the slowly moving whales in the field (being beached whales, they move painfully slowly), where they came at me with their axes gripped in their baleen. I ordered my dudes to hurl their harpoons at it, and pretty soon all the Kewhales were dead on the field with multiple harpoons sticking out of them. It was awesome. They never even touched me.

I do not wear pieces of flair, and never did. Ew. They hang lovingly on my wall. I used to cover my hemp purse with them but I lost many good buttons that way. *Admits that she had to look up "pieces of flair" because she has never seen Office Space. Hides in shame*

Oh Gods there are pins... I have this problem... I'm pin obsessed. Must have pins! MOAR pin designs please?

ETA: by pin I button 

The time it takes to Study Parenting is seriously disproportionate to the benefits. And though it doesn't function this way, what I believe cwieberdink was saying - and if it was, I agree

(and if it wasn't, I'm glad I thought of it ;p) - is that this otherwise inefficient use of a sim's time would be well suited to a Social Worker scenario. If children are removed from the home, the parent(s) could be required to complete Study Parenting before the child is returned. To further flesh out this scenario, there could be a Headmaster-like stage where the Social Worker returns to rate the Environment and food prep abilities, and if the family passes this inspection and has successfully Studied Parenting, the child/children would then be returned.

I actually think this sort of scenario should have been implemented in the base game in order for any prospective parent to adopt a child. Adopting a baby (toddler, child, etc.) should involve at least a *little* more hoopla than ordering a pizza.

I've tried adopting right after the social worker took away the kids, and got the message that I'm a bad parent and adoption is not available for me, or something like that. After waiting a couple of sim days, they were able to adopt again.

Yea, mine's only around 13%, and I've been downloading it on and off for two days now.  Probably at least 20 solid hours of downloads (I have to pause it if I want to do anything else on the net...).  At this rate I should have it by next weekend...

Yes. However, that word is hard for me to say. It is going to remain digger-whattas.

Midnight Voyager, a lot of my creations I have are like that. I haven't actually played them, though. I have a few that closely resemble frogs, and one that has these huge tentacles from its head that make it look like some sort of bush/octopus hybrid. It's so pretty when it hops around and the tentacles spin. Under the tentacles, however, is hidden a tiny creature with two of the highest bite-rated mouths and loads of spikes.

My torrent -should- finish sometime this evening. I checked before I left for work and it was still going on strong, around 100MB transfer rate. I... well, I ordered it, but I'm terribly impatient, so I'm going to get in some offline play before it gets here next Tuesday. (Who releases a game on Sunday? That's one more day that people who ordered it online can't have it. Jerks.)