OK, you know what, this laptop hate is ridonkulous. Yes, of course, a desktop is far superior when it comes to playing games, as you can get a much better rig for much less money and less chance of burnination. But that doesn't mean you CAN'T play The Sims on a laptop, it's just not optimum. There are plenty of reasons why people use laptops and not desktops. It's just so boring to always hear the same histrionic refrain of "GET A DESKTOP". Clearly knightguy wants a laptop over a desktop FOR A REASON.

I have never simmed on a desktop. I used to play TS2 on this hulking beast of an HP, which did have overheating problems, but this was rectified by a cheap fan. It handled everything pretty well but took eons to load the game. Course, this isn't much help for knightguy, as this was a couple of years ago now. Now I play on a macbook, and whilst the game is definitely far from optimum, its lag is not so bad that it makes me stop playing. Yeah, it would be better to play on a Windows desktop, but I'm not going to be replacing my mac anytime soon for the sake of a single game.

So yeah, if I can play pudding on a 2 year old macbook pro, then there's definitely a laptop out there knightguy can use to play a decent game of Sims.

Why are we helping Sita? Seriously, WRY!?

Actually, three months is quite definitely necromancy. However, in the case of tech threads, there's a lot more leeway. What's more annoying is that Sita has no qualms correcting people's grammar in random dead retardo land threads, but seems to think she is above posting for help in existing threads about her issue. CONSISTENCY, SHE HAS NONE.

Except not everyone can do this: Mac players, for example.

I think you're woefully behind the times, jezzer. Indoor hedges are so the Next Big Thing, right after astroturf bedspreads and picket fence bathtubs.

Fix'd it for ya.

I had this problem too, and I have no mods or CC except Sims Store objects. Even when the Store objects are removed, the problem persisted. I'm not sure if I still have this issue, as I stopped bothering with bands.

You're really not getting it. I only gave you a list because you asked for real world details! Actually, you asked for empirical evidence, but like I said, I haven't the time right now. My original point, before you started on about topography and climate - neither of which are factors in the Sims - was that your "wood fire polluting the atmosphere [...] doesn't seem very eco-friendly to me" tease is WRONG. Why not just admit this and then I will happily drop it. Perhaps bringing you up on this was nit-picky, but MATY is nothing if not a picker of nits.

Ok fine, here's a partial list for WHY wood burning stoves are considered a good choice for the environmentally friendly consumer.

1) Wood burning stoves are carbon neutral, in that burning wood only releases the same amount of carbon dioxide as the tree takes in over its lifetime. So as long as you plant trees to offset the ones you're using for firewood, you're fine on that front.

2) Wood is renewable and can be locally produced, lowering transportation costs to the environment.

3) Chopping up firewood requires very little processing.

4) You can now buy "clean-burning" wood stoves which are certified for use in smokeless zones.

I have to work so I can't fish around for actual statistics right now, but I can do so later if you really want me to.
We're not talking "billions of homes", we're talking one eco-home. Did I say stoves were a perfect solution? No. I pointed out that they are considered eco friendly and are therefore hardly incongruous on an eco-friendly lot. Also, it wasn't me who brought real world specifics into it, you brought up climate, population, topography and equipment.

Oh, and for the record I got the tongue in cheek smiley, but you can be both tongue in cheek and WRONG at the same time

Of course, you could have just replied "but that's a fireplace, not a stove" and saved us all this.

Ok if we're really going to be this pedantic, that stove could be for clean-burning fuel. However, going on the basis that sims don't have council restrictions on fuel-burning, and because if you're going for that level of pretend-legislation in the game you're clearly a bit of a nutjob, I would propose a sim-wood burning stove is fine. Yes, of course if you're getting all your electricity from renewable energy, then the stove can be considered wasteful. However, if we're being this pernickity, even with the solar panels shown in the pictures, it's unlikely such a house could go completely off-grid.

Wood burning stoves are cheap and sustainable, far more so than oil or gas heating. Wood burning stoves are considered to be eco-friendly and are increasingly marketed as such. You may disagree with this, which is fine, but I think you were just trying to be a smart-alec in your original post. It's a sims game, not an architectural blue print.

Nice smart-arse reply, but wood burning stoves are generally considered a much more eco-friendly way of heating your house than using radiators etc.

No! It looks like a sperm.

Well, to be fair, Goldeneye was vastly improved with the addition of big headed inept guards, rather than the usual normal headed inept guards. Perhaps the OP is recreating bunker on a hoodwide scale.

Oh no he didn't.

I can translate chav to English, does that count?

It is one thing for a sim to grow up, it is an entirely different flight of fancy for a rag doll to change into an action figure, aka something which completely different asthetics. Also it makes nada sense, a teen is no more likely to play with action man than an old patchwork doll. Plus, this is EA we're talking about. When have they ever put that much effort into something? Besides, what would be the adult and elder stage of your hoped for doll? A blow up sex doll for adults I guess, that's your sort of thing after all.

You just barged into the thread demanding people do in-game research for you to see if your bizarro "theories" might, just might be true. "hey hey, I was just wondering, will my fish turn into gyrados if I keep them for long enough? Hey, someone see if I'm right, I'm pretty sure I am, huh, huh?"

Seriously? You really thought that EA would create a completely different figure for every life stage? What planet are you on?

It depends what you're after, really. True, there's not much in the way of "physical" content, beyond kid's stuff and some whacked out tv sets. But I actually think Generations is a lot better than it appears on first glance. It adds plenty of small details which help fill out sim lives beyond sleeping, peeing and working. Took me ages to find the bloody canes though. I miss Sims 2 style collection catalogues.

Avast used to scare the living daylights out of me when suddenly, in the middle of the night, a disembodied robot voice would announce 'virus database has been updated'. Not cool, Avast. Not cool.

Lolzers, I wasn't offended. I was teasing jezzer. Perhaps I should have included a jaunty smiley. Jez is just jealous coz he couldn't get his fixie bike to work, and all the hipsters in his local cafe laughed when he could not fit his Goliath pc monstrosity on the spindly little table.

Honestly guys, does Norton install a sense of humour bypass when you buy a PC?

Which one am I, jezbeans?

saraswati wasn't laying into you or getting on a soapbox. There's really no need to respond like that, cannedsarcasm. If you want to contribute to a conversation, then you should actually read what you're replying to. Otherwise, we don't fancy listening to your lazy, I'll informed replies. If you don't care about a subject, why chime in? Or were you just showing off your edumacation, in which case *golf clap*.

Ok, you know what? I am sick to death of constantly having to defend my choice of computer on these boards. It's one thing to tussle with jezzer, his hatred of the A-word is well documented, and besides he is just jealous of my hipster weave. But to be insulted by some randomer? Yeah, fuck off. I have not been hoodwinked by Apple's shiny advertising campaigns. It turns out the reason I like Macs is because I prefer OSX to Window's shitsville systems, especially Vista and Seven. I am not alone.

I have been using macs for the last two years, but bought a windows netbook for my Australian adventure because who wants to cart £1000 worth of equipment round dodgy hostels? For two years I haven't encountered any problems I couldn't fix myself. Suddenly, upon my reluctant return to Windows I discovered a host of issues. Wireless didn't work, dongle didn't work, windows firewall as per usual was running around everywhere mooning and generally cocking things up. Granted, this is just one unfortunate experience, but it is an example of why I prefer Macs.

I know Macs are overpriced, and I know Apple are evil bastards hiding under a veneer of 'hey we're so cool and charming' but you know what? I like Macs. If I can afford to buy a computer I will actually enjoy using, what's the harm in that? I paid a similar price for a high end laptop before I bought my pro and it was beset with issues from the get go. If i have to pay the price of a lesser gaming experience, then so be it. Obviously if I were a hardcore gamer, I wouldn't use a Mac. I am not some rabid fan girl, I am well aware macs have their limits. I am just sick to death of constantly having to watch the baying hordes of MATY sit around and have group wanks over how much Macs suck.

So no, I am not a moron. I have not been 'deceived by clever wordplay'. I am just a consumer who prefers Macs to PCs.

This is a standard problem on Macs. So far I have found no work around, you just have to put up with it.

It's pretty damning that the only defense for furryism Wolffuck can come up with is 'it's not as bad as paedophilia'.