Why are your puddings not eating spaghetti or Goopy Carbonara for breakfast like everyone else's?  All food is breakfast food.

I agree that Generations has landed us with a heap of nice-looking Kewian-based rubbish.

While it is true that consideration is given for ESL (or freestyle communication attempts from other language), it is also true that some requests are less than totally important.  For example, learning the name of the author of a non-MATY fix, for the sole purpose of posting a link to that fix on another forum/site, could be considered non-urgent bzns.

I am not overcome by the OP's sense of crisis in this matter.

Not bad, architecturally, if a bit heavy on the dark brick.  This is not a deal breaker, since individual users can customize as they wish.  On the other hand, it's got a lot of wide open spaces inside, it seems.  The screenshots suggest that the distance between shower and terlet are quite far.  Given that puddings need to walk places to do things (or run, depending on your settings), this represents lots of wasted time.  Perhaps Frank enjoyed his morning walk to the terlet, and subsequent 3 mile hike to the kitchen - builds an appetite for breakfast.

Hard to believe that would be possible, and yet...


Would they do this?  When?

I know there is a long-standing tradition in English to criticise all things French, but don't feel you, as a French person, have to be self-denigrating.  After all, the French have given the world a lot of things, such as wine that you can call either burgundy or claret, Quebec, and that thing where you spit after you say something to express displeasure.

Also, without there being real French people, English speakers could not do comedy in outrageous French accents.

Don't sell yourself short.

No luck with "fixall" or forcing a reset or error, eh?

At least it isn't the hopelessly annoying "I just had woohoo!" strut.

Hopefully that will be worth the trouble and time of downloading and updating again.  The cane thing sounds rather fun, actually.  Otherwise the threads I've seen on Generations suggests that it is a bit less than expected for a full EP.

Unpleasant for the sim or for the player?  Sim elders seem to be able to lead full active lives, including sparring, right up to the point where they drop.  The only difference seems to be that they do it in a slightly stooped over posture, and get somewhat more bony looking.

Yes, Win7 has all sorts of "I'm smarter than you are" features, which mainly seem focused on making sure you don't do things that you want to do.  It consistently wants to ask and re-ask me whether I really want to let uTorrent go through the firewall, even though I have set an exception.  Full administrator rights means nothing to this OS.

I'm always surprised when new stuff comes out that EA doesn't just skip animations altogether, like they did with cars which don't actually park, and people who just materialize inside them, rather than actually getting in the car.  Why not just have sims come to the bottom of the stairs and then materialize on the next floor?  Saves time and animation in an...er...animated (allegedly) game.

I have had the situation where the game plays all stereos, computer game, or TV sounds at full volume, whatever the settings for sim voices, environment etc.  On my old P4 rig, I set all sounds to low quality, and this appeared to solve the problem.  However, I never did definitively figure out what caused the problem.

Another solution is, apparently, to build a more adequate computer, which is what I did in the end.

Yes, the lengthy discussions of how the Launcher sucks rocks, and how CC can screw your game, and the step-by-step directions on how to install AM and the framework seemed entirely clear, and not written in difficult language.  On the other hand, there may be a reason why some boxes of toothpicks have instructions written on them.

Never assume.  If it does not work, the likeliest issue is an error on your part.

Framework installed correctly?
All patched up to date, are we?
Things are in their proper directories?
Tight pants?

Hard to say - they aren't installed properly perhaps?  Wrong file format - are they .package files?  The information you provide is not exactly sufficient to provide a real answer.

Also, why are you using the launcher?

It works in my game.  I don't believe it is in need of constant updating.  Additionally, the RTFM states that it is a

"Crappy XML tweak changing the aging lengths to realistic scaling following the
Rule of 6, so that the 0 and 12 stages are not unnaturally elongated."

This suggests that the overall lifespan of a Sim is in line with the game's set parameters, but that the lengths of different life stages are adjusted to better reflect real life (toddler stage is not as long as young adult, for example).

Yes, wearing tight pants is never helpful.

Your misconception here is that you expect logic.  This thread is a demonstration of the OP's logic-fail.  The OP will not likely even understand why you are asking this question.

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

Let's be fair, spockblock.  While this will not help the majority of MATY people, at least not those who are not summarily run off the premises because they are too stupid to live, it may be of some service to those who stumble across the forum and have only the intelligence of a boiled potato.

On the other hand, even if it did work, you might expect that a totally green sim, with no athletic, kung-fu, or other skill, might just get his inexperienced ass kicked anyway on his/her first outing.

Always "try" before you buy.  Caveat ovis.

This sounds like a decent idea to me.  I shall try it, as my rig is old (and the dust bunnies form a sort of beard).

Also - Grammar score for this thread so far:  Claeric 1 - Trixie 0.  (Unless anyone wants to make a case for me having used "Claeric" as a verb.)

Answered in your other thread.  Please do not bring up the same issue in more than one thread.  In a nutshell, if it is not working, you have either NOT installed the mod or framework correctly, or your mod conflicts with some other mod.  As this is a core mod THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

Also corrected your spelling and grammar at no extra cost.

Aha!  New learnings.  I thought the Germans just liked not shaving their legs.