Unless you have the fridge reward from completing the cooking carreer. One of my sims is at the top of that career and with the reward she is well on the way of providing super quality left overs for her great grandchildren. Stuffing food in the sims pockets is bad though.

If you had lurked and read some of the grammar police's earlier posts, you would be surprised by the fact that their entertainment value is in high regard around here. 


Hmm, so what you are saying is essentially FO Grammar police, I'm not arrogant, you are! Meet Mr. mirror. BTW, not all of MATY are grammar police, yet most of us expect others to adhere to the current grammar rules. Which means for me that if I'm called out on a grammatical error (which happens from time to time) I make a note of it and mend my ways. Trust me, it's a learning experience.


Yes, yes, this has been stated before by other n00bs. Every time they get the question: Why are you here then? Why do you care so much? Right, you were beaten up by the Grammar police. Poor you.


So, now we have a mafia? Cool!


That is well and all, but here people are advised to lurk and to read the faq, preferrably more times than one. Also, it is a good thing to do a bit of research so that forum threads don't get bloated and to make it easier on others to find the technical info you search for.


Look, if you want to become a grammar police that bad, sign up with Rufio. She will help you out.


See, here all is fair game. That means there is no privacy on the board. Type something and you better expect others to respond, even those who haven't started the thread.


Have you talked to the Tard?


I'm not an expert, nor will I ever be. I do however put in an effort to learn me some english grammar and consider the posts by some members here to be highly educational.


You really did take a wrong turn at the intersection.


Um, the thread is called Grammar POLICE. Followed by what could be construed as a warning. Are you blind? You don't want to be Grammar Police you say, yet earlier in your post you make an effort of correcting some of the Grammar police. I don't get it.


A cage match means that you should try fighting with someone. If you don't understand a saying, try googling it. Or even better, search the forum for related topics. And no, it is a meme. It was funny.


Bad grammar police, yeah, we got that by now.


Again, if you had any knowledge of MATY's culture, you would have brushed that off with a laugh and moved on. Ferrets and cats can never be wrong!


Are we really? I wasn't aware of that. Again, if you want to apply for Grammar Police, contact Rufio.


We shall weep for you. No, seriously. Go.


Actually, it seemed like you weren't too sure how to use those words. We do have valuable exchange. With people that are less insulted. It is funny though how many come in here weekly to try and change the forum only to say Buh-bye shortly thereafter. Have a nice trip, shelleyb!

This place is riddled with people who has been given schticks for seemingly no reason and with no regard to reality or off-site activity. Start a claim that in-game 12's are so cute and that you are attracted to them and people will soon label you a pedo. How do you avoid such an occasion? Read more of previous forum posts. If you already have been given a schtick or a nickname, try not to show any reaction toward anyone calling you it. If you react to a poke, you will be poked again. And again. That's just how MATY works. Check out Retardoland and you'll see what I mean.

And btw, on MATY there is a rule of 6. We all are considered to be 6 until we turn 12, then we are considered to be 12 until we are 18 and so on. I think that is why people are so squicked out by the fawning over 12's. All I have to say is, if you continue ranting about this, expect to feel a sharp stick up your behind.

I must be blind. I don't see anything in Mootilda's post that indicates him/her being attracted to pixels. Why are you assuming that everyone else must be?

And even if the physical body of a teen is similar to a young adults, the brain isn't done cooking yet, so to speak. That means they're full of hormones and not thinking straight (not all of them, mind you) plus not having a fully functional frontal lobe to logically interpret situations with makes some girls and boys prone to get into difficult situations, such as letting themselves being lured into a relationship with an older partner that is not necessarily good for them.

Again, why are you trying so hard? It is a bunch of pixels. If you get off to that, then fine. I still think TS3 teens look like 12's, no matter how hard I squint at them. In the real world there are people who are only attracted to older women. Are they lying about that too, since it is not within your scope of imagination that a player be attracted to a certain age group within the game?

I think that what he/she is saying is that it doesn't really matter what sort of video card you have, since EA is still full of bullshit and will do whatever it takes to put the blame somewhere else. I have a Nvidia Geforce 7300 LE and I also have the riddler tiles. I bet that if I would go to EA and ask for a solution they would encourage me to update my drivers. At this point in time I'm not able to do that though, since "Bertha" kicked the bucket a week ago and I'm currently waiting for a new OS so I can give the old hag a facelift. I highly doubt it that all of our videocards, all different from eachother, would all of a sudden become obsolete because of some new drivers. The fact still stands: The base game came out several months ago, most of us has played the game during this time and it wasn't until about a month ago the riddler tiles started to show up. How is that an indication of a graphics card not being up to date? I would understand it if it had happened AFTER we installed the new expansion pack, or if it happened simultaneously for all just after the last patch. I r disappoint and confuzzled.

As are we all, Druscylla. I am currently enjoying my Geforce 3700 LE, and has been ever since Sims 3 came out. No riddler tiles until a few weeks ago, which says to me it has nothing to do with the graphics card itself. The tiles have sprung up on new saved games I started. The first one shows no signs of the riddler tiles, which I think it should have if it was the card that was the problem. I bet it is just EA trying to place the blame somewhere else, as usual. And yes, the graphics card is enough for Sims 3 since the graphics are wonderful apart from those pesky riddler tiles.

I just started a new hood, plonked down a family and have been playing for about three sim weeks. No sign of any ? tiles yet. I have awesomemod up to date, latest game patch plus various cc. I haven't encountered any shifty ghosts. I do not have Twallan's supercomputer, so it can't be it. Well, at least not i my game, anyway.

Some of you have stated that the tiles haven't appeared until after the latest patch. By patch, do you mean the game patch or the awesomemod update?

I think we can rule out the cc then. Unless it does something weird to the game files, which I do not believe is the casem but I'm not much of a modder and as such have no idea what is happening. But, compairing LVRuggers list with my own compiled list of cc, we have no cc in common at all. It must have been something else that was causing this. A new plague? Plus, according to gelfling the tiles even appears on the road. I don't have any mods changing how the roads should appear.

If there is a file that has become corrupted somehwere in the game, how do you find it? Deleting the caches didn't seem to work; I did that yesterday. Neither does reinstalling the game, according to some people here. As I said before, this baffles me to no end.

I noticed I had question marks in my newly started save today. Goth Manor, Wolff house and the Moderna Art Gallery are all affected. I have played the game since last spring so I don't think it's a question of the graphics card not being up to par. I did however download a truckload of cc from various sites yesterday, including from tsr (yes, yes, I know, it's bad!). Since I haven't checked the status of the aformentioned buldings before this morning I am not sure if the ?'s appeared after I added the cc or if it is something related to a mod. If a game save can become corrupted, then why would it only affect certain saves and so fast, i.e. in a day from creating it to playing it? This baffles me. I will continue to investigate the issue and if I find anything I will report back.

Edit: Corrected typo.

Ape my betters? That is an interesting turn of phrase. I was under the impression that sporking n00bs was an acceptable thing to do. Apparently I must have got it wrong. Or are your definition perhaps different than mine? Granted, my previous post has very little substance. I am not sure though where this retarded behavior you claim that I am exhibiting is observed, other than an occasional outburst of frustration about n00bs that can't use the proper grammar or who themselves exhibit retarded idéas. Do enlighten me of what behavior you are speaking of, and I will change whatever you seem to consider to not be up to MATY's standard.

Noone expected you too.

@Jordi: Don't worry. It's just another one of Austere/Caraleeches socks. Pescado will surely give it the boot in no time.

I dare say, are you going to pick you toys up and go home now? I'm not even going to bother with your obvious grammatical errors, as new learnings are lost on you. But you have really taken a wrong turn on the internet highway if you think that MATY will shut up just because you ask us to. If you post something on a public message board, be ready for people to answer you. If not, you can always post a PM to the person you want to converse with.


And there you go again with your wonderfully blissful notion that people on the net use telepathy. Noone is going to answer your questions if you haven't asked them before. But, if the question has been answered time and time again, don't expect people to bend over backwards to accomodate you. This is simple logic and expected of a person partaking in the culture of MATY. I don't know where this TS section is that you speak of. Again, you can swoop in, get the mod and run out the door without noone even acknowledging your presence. It really is that simple.

Hey elbab, if you keep bringing it up you will be struck with a pointy stick. Are you saying you are too stupid to read? ESL only means that you don't speak the language of the culture, i.e. not native to the language in question. That means that you and me, coming from non english speaking countries are ESL since we weren't born in an english speaking country. We are ESL on MATY but on a site where our languages are the norm, we wouldn't be ESL. That has nothing to do with the fact that sims speak gibberish. What you are essentially saying is "Let's make the languageand understanding of it even more confusing by not using the grammar that people all over the world are learning in school!" Great line of thought there, but do keep it to yourself.

It seems to me that you are trying to subscribe to a service that doesn't exist. We will not hold your hand when you come back. If you have any valid questions then that hasn't been answered a hundred times over, then yes, you are welcome with your problems. But saying that MATY is too mean for you and that is the reason you want a holding site for AM so you don't have to deal with the meanies is weak in my book. I am ESL; that is NOT an excuse for acting like a three year old and wailing to mommy that noone answers my stupid questions which I could have easily have found on the site just by doing some reading for ten minutes.

I have to ask: what is this "free" section you are talking about? Awesomemod is free, or didn't you know that? It also doesn't cost a dime to read the forum, only your time. That's right, your time, not mine or anyone elses. Need to have something translated? Fine, I bet there are people on here that might help you with that. PM them with your questions. A GPS isn't required at MATY, which is why I have to wonder why you obviously think that people here are monitoring you in some way. LURK and noone will even recognise that you are present. Yes, it is that easy.


Excuse me?? Are you claiming that you would rather remain ignorant and silent for a while and then come back as an even bigger moron? Keep reading the site but exercise LURK MODE. It will help you immensly.

I had the same issue, as did many others trying to patch. There is a forum thread here somewhere that brings up the issue. Your problem might not be exactly the same as mine, which is why I again implore you to use the search function and find that thread in question. If you still have problems, one solution would be to download the game bin from that thread. Again, find the thread and you'll find your holy grail.

Excuse elbabformat from the discussion, s/he is currently being chastizised for the exact same ESL as you are, tekaa. And yes, I am an ESL as well, so I know a thing or two about not understanding a foreign language.

Ok, now I think I understand your situation. As far as I know, the awesomemod requires the game to be patched, at least the latest version of it. Are you saying you have a cracked iso or a store bought copy? Either way, it doesn't matter since awesomemod will remove the necessity of using a cd, which means a cracked copy isn't necessary. My game is downloaded from piratebay and patched. So my advice for you is to PATCH.

Dear Jeebus in da sky. Read the forum thread, you numbnut! Upon downloading Awesomemod there, when you extract the file you will find both the package file aptly named awesomemod.package AND a file called RTFM. This RTFM file contains all the commands that awesomemod users should know about. Such as how to turn on relationships between teens and adults. If I have to explain this any further, you are too stoopid to use the hack.

Go and read in the thread where you download the mod. Whenm you download it, alongside the actual package, there is an rtfm. I strongly suggest that you read it, because therein lies the answer to your question. Now, LURK MOAR!

You could have saved some forum space by doing a simple search before you asked. That way I wouldn't have been forced to post this:

Use capital letters, like this: addtrait Pedobait

or, if you want to remove a trait: droptrait Pedobait

Search is your friend. ^

Otherwise, here's the spoon, open wide! Awesomemod

Sadly, no other than my own. 

The patch halts at 89% because it seems to be missing this file: Sims3Launcher.resources.dll  and is supposedly to be located in Game\Bin\bin\cs_CZ, but is abscent from my computer. I have installed the worldwide version of the game and I haven't patched it before this.

Any idéas as to where I can find this file? I cleaned out my pc a week ago and threw away the TheSims3.iso and since it took me 5 days to download the blasted thing I am reluctant to do so again only to find a file. Although I imagine it is unavoidable should it become evident that the launcher is somehow corrupted. And before you ask, yes, I have searched through all folders under The Sims 3 and haven't found the file in question.

Thanks for the help Ryslin. Although my issue is a bit different. I have been arring for along time so I know the procedure of mounting iso's and so on. The problem is that when I mount the iso the game setup installation doesn't start for some reason. It complains and a popup says: "Invalid directory entry has been encountered. Some content may be lost or inaccessible." It apparently is Roxio DLA Drive that is complaining. I've done the googlefu dance and it appears to be a problem with the dvd burner... Securom perhaps? But is it possible to contract securom without even having started the install process? I r confuse... especially since it is Damemon Tools that mounts the image. That was why I was wondering if someone who downloaded the same iso had issues and thus it would be a corrupt download which could easily be remedied.

I am trying to install the downloaded game from seedgames.org but I seem to have enountered a problem. I have mounted the ISO-file as one usually does, but instead of starting the install a window pops up telling me that there are files missing and that some of them may be copyrighted. After scouring this thread I also saw that some of the downloaded iso's had a file which you had to open through winrar. Well, I tried to open them but it was a no go. So, if anyone who has downloaded the seedgames.org version of the game could give me a helping hand I would much appreciate it.