As much as I love the mental image of obsequious apple trees, I think you mean ubiquitous. 

I have story progression on and autonomy set high, and I get very few inter-townie marriages. I was getting tons of clone spawn before I turned off parthenogenesis. Now that I've got parthenogenesis off, the partnerless Sims are adopting spawn from nowhere. 

You never used the words 'you should change to suit me', but you did point out that we are not polite and implied that we should be, and gave pointers about different ways we could go about it.

You asked, and you were told that it's because we like it that way. You then proceeded to lecture that we are wrong, and that we should change to suit you.

Most of the forums out there are 'nice', just the way you want it. It is rude of you to come in here and argue that we should also be nice because that's the way you like it. If you don't like this forum, go post in one you do like. Stop telling this forum how you want it to be.

If you don't like it here, go somewhere else. The majority of forums would actually agree with you about hand holding tards and would welcome you with smileys. You might have to wait a few more days to post about your illegally pirated Sims 3 games at those forums, but once it's been released I'm sure you and all the other n00btards will be much happier in that kind of atmosphere.
People who have been at MATY for a long time choose to stay here because we prefer to not be bothered with trying to decipher the poorly spelled and incomprehensible ramblings of people who can't be bothered to learn their language properly. We don't want to see MATY become like the BBS or all the other happy forums, and we don't appreciate you all streaming in here and demanding we treat you like they do at forums we don't like and don't want to be like.

They are from AL. And, thanks for the great stuff, knightguy.

Some objects appreciate rather than depreciate over time, and using the magic wand makes them go up in price rather than down.

If it weren't for the tanked room score, the bamboo would be my favorite floor.
I first discovered the evil properties of the bamboo floor while playing a lot made by Emma, one of her empty shop lots for OFB. I had changed the floor she built it with to the bamboo floor. Customers ran screaming from the place, and the owner's environment score was in red. I spent all his money buying expensive paintings, statues and other decor, and sold anything that was cheap. Nothing worked. I started wondering what the hell Emma had done to make Sims hate this place so much, lol. Then I finally tried upgrading the floor and the environment score went up immediately. At first I thought it was the relativeness cheapness of the bamboo floor, but I knew I had seen cheaper floors not tank the room score like this floor. So I experimented with it, seeing the room score with the bamboo floor vs. the room score with equal or lesser priced floors, and the bamboo floor always tanks the room score.
It is truly an evil, evil floor.

There is one floor, Polished Bamboo Light I believe is the name, that always tanks the environment score whenever I use it. I don't know why, it's 4 simoleons per square, and I've used cheaper floors that don't have that effect.

Did you even read the question? It's about how to satisfy 'get pet' wants, not about what is the laziest way to add pets to the family.

wfsanity is one of my favorite mods, I'd never take it out, so I luckily don't get a lot of get pet wants. But when I do get them, I've had them fulfilled by buying pets from owned businesses. This also fulfills the wants of Sims in the household who didn't go on the shopping trip. (6 & 7 on your list).
I've also seen the get kitten want fulfilled by the birth of kittens. (no.
I agree with you about how hard it sucks that adopting a stray doesn't fulfill the want, it doesn't even fulfill the specific 'stray pet's name' joins family want.

What kinds of bad things happen when you move Sims out before sacking roommates? Fiery ball kind of bad? Is my neighborhood doomed?

Zazazu, I've been lucky so far with my roommates, they do go to bed and feed themselves, and tae care of their bladder needs. They never serve meals, just make TV dinners for themselves. So far my worst problem wit them is they stay out in the communal area hot tub all night in the winter, and freeze up, lol.

The roommate pays half the rent.

Yes, exactly my problem. I had one dorm that had a bookshelf in the common area on the third floor. My playable lived on the first floor and had a bookshelf in his locked dorm room so he never went up to the third floor, which was littered with books, lol. In dorms where I had bookshelves on a floor I was actually using, I started just deleting the books as they collected on every table and floor tile. It was kind of a pain, but I didn't want to waste my Sim's time picking up after a bunch of dormies.

I've wanted something like your bookshelf hack for a long time. Stupid lazy Sims throw their books all over the house and never pick them up again, lol.

I use LD's deco slots and have never noticed that problem, or any problem with them.

I once had a similar problem with Uni thinking it uninstalled itself.
I quit before the game could delete my campus/YAs, and then ran a defrag, and after that, my game loaded as normal, Uni included.
I really don't know why it happened, or why a defrag fixed it, but it wouldn't hurt for you to try that if no one offers any better ideas.

I don't have any real novelists in my current hood for the same reason. I do have one Sim currently who has written 3 children's books (Animal Stories 1, 2 & 3). He was short a few thousand simoleons to buy the toy shop he wanted, so I had him crank out a few crappy kid's books to earn the money he needed. His girlfriend had a turn on for unemployed, so he didn't want to get a real job, lol. Now with rufio's mod I think he might add his books to his toy shop inventory, while I think about who will own my next bookshop and who will write the books.

Thanks, rufio. I haven't had a bookstore in ages because they only sold the base game books, and I just got bored with it. Now there's actually a reason to have a bookstore.

It sucks that Sims who haven't written novels and don't live with anyone who has will get the want to read one. It also would have been nice for EAxis to allow you to order extra copies of your novels to give to friends or sell in a shop. Someone here posted a method to get multiple copies but it's really something they should have included in the game.

With FT, after you finish writing a novel, they deliver a copy of it to you. Then you can read it.

It wants you to read a novel written by a Sim.

There is a base game window called Breeze-easy Windows' "Double Hung" Deluxe (that's the full name in the catalog). It's the really basic window, costs 90 simoleons.

There's a fix for neighbors reading your paper at MTS2:
http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=317468