To Chain Reaction: As far as sitting in the helicopter if your sim is the only adult/teen home, I have this bug now, only with cars. If my sims have kids at home and they want to woohoo in the car, they have to call the nanny in... to 'hoo in the car... in their own driveway... It's annoying, and stupid, since they're not going off the lot. I don't have AL yet and this has been an issue for awhile with my game. I assumed it as some sort of safe guard in case you accidentally hit "go to community lot."  


To Hannahspring: The Pets phone does that in my game, too, and as I said to Chain Reaction, I do not have AL. If you have CEP, that might be what's causing the problem, but I can't be for sure.

Also, I no longer have the options to date and do a lot of things (toss football, gossip, tell inside joke, etc.) which is annoying. From what I'm reading here, it sounds as if I may need to store my saved games elsewhere along with all my CC and do a total reinstall of the games. I have taken out all hacks/CC and tried the game without them, but the options do not reappear.

Here is my addition to this month's house of fail remodel.

http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=234188 <---Pictures
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=729997 <---Download

I'm not quite sure why it came up as different things. Probably because I am so unawesome.

Everyone's houses look *way* more awesome than mine, but then again, this is my first time participating in this. =p

Either way, I have all EPs/SPs, except Pets and FFS. Well... I have them, I just didn't install them on my computer. Also, please forgive the crappy/pixelated/blurry screenshots ... my graphics card isn't all that shiny.

=p Seriously, I have a tendency to speed read. I took the "prroud" thing as how it would be said; there are several books in which the author uses phonetics to capture a speech impediment/accent/dialect. =D You know... like the Frosted Flakes commercial... "They'rrrrreee Grrrrrrrreeeeaaat!" *grins*

Seriously. I couldn't find any awful spelling or lack of punctuation to make fun of. >_>;

Here is my entry. I give it an "A" for NOT mangling the English language (from what I can see, everything has correct punctuation and spelling) and because the screen shots are fairly nice. However, it gets an "F" for phailing miserably at actually holding my attention... the story also seems to bounce, because I got really confused as to what her boyfriend's name actually was...

http://forums.sims2community.com/story.php?t=59015

Thanks, myskaal, I'll try that later today (renaming/reinstalling). I have all EPs/SPs, and I'm not using a no cd crack or anything *coughwouldabeencheapercough* 

This has happened to me, as well. I do not run it in windowed mode, nor do I alt-tab/ctrl-alt-delete while loading or anything like that. My Direct-X is up-to-date, and so are all my video card drivers. Yesterday it ran perfectly for about 4 hours, and after that, it began to give a similar error, saying that my computer doesn't have the latest Direct-X and couldn't run. Now the game won't even start up at all in full screen, or in windowed mode. 

Any suggestions, anyone?

*delurks

Well put, AuKestrel! To add my two cents in... EAxis mistakenly codes the nannies to be useful (ie, they don't try to set your sim's house on fire). Realizing this, they will immediately release a patch that fixes this. The patch will bork the cribs so that when used, the baby sim will disappear completely, both from the family panel and the lot. Any attempts to bring them back will be futile.

Also... it'd be kind of cool if somehow the bottles that get pulled from the fridge are borked... you know, so instead of regular green milk it becomes smart milk...? 

And wtf is that in the curve of the heel? That white glob looks like one of those snowballs you find in the stores around Easter time. That or a giant, white peep. 

So, what's April's contest? <_<;

I phail!? 

Ah, well. I'll figure out how to post the pictures and next time I won't. 
The entry is technically disqualified anyway, I think, since it doesn't actually model custom content, but still... the noses... looks like a bad prosthetic piece! >.<

Here's my contribution. The model certainly isn't fugly, but she's not really that pretty either. There is definitely something strange going on with her nose! Take a look-see! http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=279031

The lashes on those models look like they came off of a feather boa... and their lips look like they had matte glitter for lunch! 

Worse, if your simmies don't have an insta-crush on Benjamin Long, they'll have insta-crushes on Goopy... or Komei!

Let's hope that alarm clocks won't be affected by the new EP... the sims would have its first death-by-loud-noise