I get that IRL with tacos.

I had this happen with some elder sims, and I figured it was just a harmless glitch.  It's funny if they put in a hidden trait to make elder sims forgetful.  Useless, though, because there's no way I'm breaking up a marriage and getting sims married again just to get a few more lifetime achievement points for a sim who doesn't need any more.

I try not to laugh when I'm websurfing at work.

This made it damn near impossible.

I think the only way to do a rave there is to have a musical sim show up and start playing and then hope that some random assortment of townies wander by and join the party.

It's much better as a place for sim-hobos (smobos?) to crash until they can afford homes of their own. 

Personally, I insist on having everything run through an autoclave before I touch it.

I'm not doing the Legacy challenge, because I don't want to follow all the rules, but my Legacy-esque sim spent a lot of time mooching off public services and using her property only to grow vegetables.  Now, she's built a crude one-room log cabin next to her garden, with a bed, a toilet, a tub (with duck scrounged from neighbor's trash) and a TV (stolen from the theater).  Her property is lit by a streetlight she stole from the warehouse in Riverview.  I have no idea how she walked away with a streetlight.

She's made most of her money by feeding expensive books to a wild omniplant and selling the harvest.

Really, the game just needs a way to get high and sell love beads at Phish concerts and it'll be the best sim-hippie game ever.

The warehouse in Riverview is paradise for squatters.  You'll have to put your own stuff in there (I think it contains a bookshelf, a desk, and a loveseat in the upstairs offices to start), but it's roomy enough that you could raise a family in it.

I like that teenage relationships stay intact even when one person becomes an adult.

I like that the other families (and other branches of the same family) age without me playing them.

On a related note, I like that in one branch of my family that I moved out, they had a kid (probably a clone, but whatever) and named it "Einstein," which is actually in line with the way I've been naming the sims in my family.

Awesomemod.

That kids can go places by themselves or get left home alone.  It's like growing up in the '70s all over again.

The "creeped out" moodlet when someone tries to get flirty in the bathroom.

The ease of going to multiple other lots.

Load times, or the lack thereof.

Work and school "tones."

Traits, and Create-A-Sim in general.

Create-A-Style, especially the relative ease of dragging and dropping to create matching themes.

Being able to have birthdays at any time, so that once everything that can be learned as a toddler or child has been learned, you can just jump ahead.

I even like the puddings, generally, although every once in a while I find one that looks like a catcher's mitt with eyes, and I have to CAS it.  Still, it's an improvement over the horrific genetic accidents that were EAxis-spawned sims in TS2.

I need to start my own Alice & Kev . . .  or maybe just Kev.  I'm thinking Insane, Kleptomaniac, Loves the Outdoors, Virtuoso, and Loner.  He (or possibly she) got turned out onto the streets by the terrible policies of the previous Leader of the Free World.

Old Age ghosts could get a negative moodlet when they watch someone have a birthday.

Also, I think ghosts should have some sort of neat abilities beyond constant eerie wailing.

My self-insertion sim's firstborn (J. Tiberius) married Sandi French.  They got a message that Sandi's mother, Molly French, was close to death so they invited her over to meet her grandson.  She took one look at the kid and died while visiting.  A couple of my sims got the opportunity to make a playable ghost, and I hadn't done it yet, so I went ahead and did it.

Interesting, but I wish there was some kind of play difference.

Eventually, though, I needed to clear some room in the house to bring in some new sims (J. Tiberius' younger brother knocked up his girlfriend and they needed to get married), so I moved Molly French's ghost out along with another sim who had been a family friend living in the house.  They moved into a small house together, and everything was cool.

Now, for some reason, Molly French's ghost has come back.  She wanders around the house, has picked a bed to be hers that she'll sleep in, and makes her own meals out of the fridge.  She's not a playable, and her urn isn't on the lot anymore.  She's just taken to haunting the house.  It'd be more interesting if she wasn't an oldster in addition to being dead, because I'd have a reason to marry her back into the family.

This has been my experience.  I've been playing with a proxy-me, married to Tori Kitamura.  One of the offpsring had a weirdly wide jaw as a kid, but it just looks chiseled as an adult.

I looked at all the thread titles and didn't see one that looked like it addressed gender of babby.  My apologies.

Does that actually have an effect? 

I edited a sim from an adult to a YA using the mirror <firstname> <lastname> cheat.  It ditched a couple of her traits (taking her down to the number of traits a child would have, weirdly) but it was easy to add them back since I was in CAS.  More interestingly, it replaced all of the perks she'd bought with null markers.

I can't count how many games I've started and stopped and restarted and so forth.  So I can't count how many babies my sims have had.  It's got to be at least 10.  Not a single girl.

Since I didn't have the option to give my sims a double-Y chromosome, I have to assume it's something I can't see.  Is this just a freak of sadorandomness?

Oh, god the picture!  Now that I've seen it, I've only got 7 days to live, don't I?

This I don't mind so much (though I agree it's silly that children can't learn guitar--which should be "music"--until they're teens).  In Sims 2, I pretty routinely had all skills maxed before my teens went to college through toddler/child skillination, smart milk, and the educational bookcase unless I just chose not to do it.

I'll have to try the mirror cheat when I get home.  I've got a who sim came with the house my proxy sim moved into who is fantastic except for her age, LTW, and nose.  Well, she has neat hair, anyway.

Perhaps they're not just pregnancy books but also educational on where babbies come from.  Which means pictures of nekkid people.

Most of what's been said, I miss.  Also, alien hybrids.  Yeah, I can make a green guy in CAS and he won't have crappy genetics, but the whole alien abduction thing was fun.

I installed the leaked version to see if my system would handle it well enough or if I needed a beefier video card than the minimum recommended.  I bought the retail version, though, and am still getting the unauthorized copy warning as well.

I initially tried deleting my internet cache and cookies.  That kind of worked, except that the welcome screen was in Spanish, which was weird, and it didn't fully load.  

So deleted, scrubbed my registry, rebooted, and reinstalled.  Still no dice.

I'd skip the launcher entirely except that I do want to use the Sims Exchange, and it looks like that's the only way to upload stuff, correct?  If there's another way, I'll just ditch the launcher entirely.

Izimbu, how did you get the leaked version to update to the retail version?

EDIT: Nevermind.  I got it.

I always replace when I can.

What I ended up doing was moving all of my old mods to a backup directory, d/led the Director's Cut, added what I wanted from that (most of it), then added in TwoJeff's College adjuster and some of his items (vampirism and werewolf potions, wolf attraction sign, etc.) and the new uni_ltw_sns, and I haven't had a blank want since--also my load times got cut significantly.

So, barring a new blank want slot appearing, it seems to be fixed.

I don't have any such hacks to my knowledge.  A while back I went through and took out every hack, mod, or object I could find that wasn't Awesome or made by TwoJeffs (I use his college adjuster and some of his mods to nuke annoying autonomous behaviors) and then restarted all neighborhoods.

*sigh*

Maybe I'll just wipe my directory and d/l the Director's Cut.  It'll be quicker than a binary search.

I updated, and I'm still getting blank object wants.   

What mod allows for the Free Love cult?