***face turns redder than a rabid babboon's butt cheeks***

What was I thinking!? Then again, I obviously wasn't thinking!   

I'll go move it from the desktop now. THANK YOU! 

I'm having some trouble getting the no-cd crack to install. Super Bad Brain Day?   

What I did: Installed the game while disconnected to the Internet. No error message. Then I downloaded the crack from Gamefix. Extracted the .exe file and double-clicked on it. I get a message saying "Could not find the default preferences. The data directory is missing or corrupt. (1004)" After that the screen goes black for a second, and then I return to the desktop to see another message saying "Could not find a needed package.  The data directory is missing or corrupt. (1004)"

I have no idea why that happened. Is someone able to help, please?

Thank you very much to both of you! I feel totally drunk with happiness now. 

I have a brand new computer, a beautiful 8800 GTS card (downloaded latest driver), and the game seems to run well. No glitch, no lag, no crash, so far. However, none of the game resolution options fits my monitor's resolution, which is 1680 x 1050. (My monitor is the Samsung SyncMaster 206BW.)  Instead, the smallest resolution option in the game is 1280 x 1024.

Everything looks fine on my screen but all my screen captures  appear horizontally "squeezed" because they are captured at the game resolution.

Is there a way to force the game to display the 1680 x 1050 resolution?   

I thought it was rain, too, until I zoomed in and realized it was hail, not rain, that they were reacting to. XD

Thank God, Elvira, I'm not the only one with the weird problem. XD (Not that I wished anyone else the plague but I was beginning to wonder if I am hallucinating!)

I never had the problem before. I do have Pets and Seasons. (Every EP, no SP.) Although gameplay is not affected, I'm just so tired of seeing people pointing and laughing and giggling at my poor Sim. It's just that one Sim and house (although the other Sims will still do the point-and-laugh routine when he's visiting on a different lot) and I'm afraid to start a new family because I don't want to experience deja vu with this weird glitch. XD 

Oh.

But he was never in the red. I'm obsessive about making sure they stay happy. Really really really, unrealistically, happy.  =D

I just want the finger-pointing and giggling to stop. XD

I have no idea if this is normal, a glitch, an annoyance, or plain karma. I searched but didn't find a similar thread.

One of my Sims, like all of my Sims, started out dancing goofily. His housemates pointed and  laughed at him, of course. Said Goofy Dancing Sim, after that experience, started giggling to himself. I thought the pointing and laughing and all that incessant giggling would stop as soon as he chalks up enough dance points to dance properly. All of my other Sims do fine in that respect. But this particular Sim, even after he has learned to dance like a pro, is still attracting other Sims (who have never seen him dance goofily) to point and laugh at him even when he isn't dancing and is just talking or cooking. He also can't seem to stop giggling to himself. I've been forced to turn off the sound. I've heard enough insane giggling to last a lifetime.

What's going on? XD

PS. My Seasons game is running fine. No weird stuff. =)

Oh! *mortified* Sorry for posting the wrong recipes. Eep. *shakes fist at Prima Guide*

Someone on S2C posted this from the Prima Guide. =)

Apple Juice (4 apples) - finish homework faster
Beauty cocktail (2 oranges, 1 cucumber) - love potion
Eggplant juice (1 eggplant) - random skill points
Lemonade (4 lemons) - cools sims down
Orange juice (4 oranges) - cures colds
Orangeade (3 oranges, 1 lemon) - random badge points
Pepper Punch (1 pepper, 4 pole beans, 2 apples) - energy boost
Pureed boot (1 boot) - freak out (sim does random animations), no hunger satisfaction
Strawberry juice (6 strawberries) - clears furious bit
Tomato juice (3 tomatoes) - warms sims up
Vegetable cocktail (2 tomatoes, 1 cucumber, 1 pepper, 3 pole beans) - builds skills faster


PS. For the orangeade to work the Sim must have at least a bronze badge in one talent.

Only played it for two days (with all global hacks removed from the Downloads folder) but, so far, so good. The only weird thing is the "Primp" option.  It's missing. (I don't miss it though.)

I can live without the fish... and as long as Seasons is playable. 

I don't have this problem and I do have a few hacks installed, so I don't think it's a game-inherent bug. Just yesterday, playing on a lot with 3 Sims, 2 dogs and 1 cat, I had a Sim do a Propose - Move In and the invited Sim moved in right away.

Oh! I'm not the only one with game errors whenever a skunk shows up. XD

I get an error message every few seconds after a skunk shows up. What's even more bizarre is that the skunk is a mutant skunk. After the first error message, it mutants into a two-legged, chicken-like critter and it floats around in mid-air. Geez. Creepiest thing ever.  Thank goodness my Sim was still able to shoo it off the lot. I never want to see it again. 8(

Eh? XD I post on the sims2 LJ community (don't have a blog but I do have an LJ account) but I don't believe I've posted my Lie and Crave pic there. The only places where I have posted it are  insimenator.net and sims2community.com and you've probably seen it at either of these forums. 8D

In addition to using the game's cameraman mode, I'd suggest installing Gunmod's Radiance Light System. Lighting is really important to photo-taking (in real life or in a video game) and lighting can create all sorts of different and dramatic moods. After installing Gunmod's hack, I was able to take pictures like these:




They have not been photoshopped (except for being resized) and are actually screen shots from my movie. The next one I have enhanced in Paint Shop Pro. It doesn't hurt to adjust the contrast levels!



Hope that helps. =)

Thank goodness I'm not a Sim. I've been eating Chinese food since I grew teeth and I've always been skinny. If I turn sideways, I become practically invisible. =D

Same here. XD

Ah... it's pizza! They keep eating pizza that's spoiled.  I didn't know pizza will not be affected by the hack at all. 

Thank you for the clarification.   

Quote: Sims who would not eat out of a trash can will cease eating food that has gone spoiled.

This is the reason why I installed the hack. My Sims are all active, non-sloppy Sims. They will not eat out of the trashcan. However, even after installing the hack, they still eat spoiled food.  That's what I meant when I said it didn't work for me. Maybe it's one of those unsolvable mysteries? 

Installed this hack but it doesn't work.  Will there be a OFB version soon? 

Started a dance studio last night. Ceiling-to-floor mirrors and bright lights and, oh, snapdragons to keep everyone in a good mood. Business has been very good. Once they start smustling, they can't seem to stop. 

Thank goodness! *worships* I have a playable sim who owns a toy shop. It's doing very well. He has a gold badge and makes and sells water wigglers. And then he turns up at another playable sim's shop and buys a water wiggler there! WTF. 

Invisible fish, anyone? Ever since installing OFB, all the fish in the aquariums have become invisible. I have gotten rid of the old aquariums and bought and restocked new ones and the fish are still invisible.  Even though my Sims still derive fun from watching them (how!? they're invisible?!), I miss seeing the fish. XD

Same here! It's terrible. My Sim was simply too busy with so many customers in the newly opened shop. The business is doing so well now. I wonder if there is a way to get rid of a bad review. Will another reporter come by or are we stuck with that initial bad review for all eternity? *weeps*