Yeah - sounds like the sort of thing they'd say on the BBS. 

So that's what it's good for?

EA were talking about the neighbourhood editor when they first revealed that there would only be one hood in the new game but I noticed they didn't mention it after 3 months or so before release.  I guessed then they'd changed their mind.  If they do release it, I would guess they would charge for it or release it as an EP - "NEW, you can now edit your own neighbourhoods!  Give us yet more of your hard-earned money (or that of your parent's) for something that should have been in the game when it was released!  And don't forget the Sims Store guys."  Lame.  

I've been playing Anno Domini 1404 obsessively in the last week (since I've completely lost interest in Sims 3) and I am being completely blown away by the depth and variety in the game.  Stuff keeps happening and I think 'O wow, that's nice.'  The depressing thing is, I remember when Sims was like that.  Arseholes.

Well, you might be right but the graphics look rather better than the trees.  I currently use a French bustop (Around the Sims) for many of my community lots. 

Oh where did you get that nice bustop from?

First born syndrome does not affect looks - that's just the simple Mendellian genetics system in the game not giving much variety.

I burnt a kid in TS2.

Oi - another one.  Where do they come from?

My eyes are rolling like the barrels on a slot machine.

Oh don't worry about that.  They enjoy it.

Isn't that also to do with flat edge lots?  If your lot edges aren't perfectly flat with the pavement (sidewalk), this can lead to problems with placement next to other lots.  With empty lots, the sides will just adapt to the existing shape of the terrain but built-on lots have a more or less fixed shape and if it doesn't match the neighbour or doesn't match the local terrain near enough for that to adapt to the shape, you can't place it.  To be honest, I often move things around with SimPE unless it makes for really large differences in ground level between neighbouring lots.

Wouldn't it be quicker to use the familyfunds cheat?

You can set hairstyles for use with pregnant sims (maternity setting) with the Wardrobe Wrangler (and SimPE).  It's not that hard, it's just a setting in the file.  In WW, it's just clicking a box and re-saving the file.

I cursed the day EA bought Bioware.  Bastards.

It's from I Can Haz Cheezburger so I imagine you can send it to whoever you like.

Here's my redo of Adele - similar to MiniDoxiGirli, I think.  The main things seem to be the cheekbones and the puggy eyes.  Once you do something about those, she returns to something like normal.

No, it's just a statistical aberration (or something).  Don't give into the guilt.

APA - I had to look that up.  mmmm.  I have to use my own university's referencing system for my PhD (nearly completed, submitting soon (please god)) but have to use Harvard at the university where I am currently teaching and prefer to use a bastardised version of Chicago which I have developed to suit myself (look, it makes sense to me).  I started using Chicago for preference after I submitted papers for publication to a couple of journals that use it.  Sigh.  Nightmare really and partly of my own making.

Ummm ... I think you missed something there.  Fowler is the standard guide to English grammar for the, eh, English.  Oxford is good but Fowler is generally better when it comes to English usage with Fowler being specifically a book on usage and the other being a dictionary.  

That's odd - I had a bum sim for a while who had nothing on her home lot and never went there.  She spent all her time wandering round the neighbourhood (I created her so I could have a look at the whole place) and that's how she fed herself most of the time.  She go into the nearest garden and pinch some of the produce.  She only got them having fits about inappropriate behaviour if she slept on one of their garden benches and then not always.  Sometimes they'd come out and invite her in and sometimes they'd come out to complain but as she was already asleep, couldn't wake her, and sometimes they just went to bed anyway.  If she got invited in, she usually headed straight for the shower.  Now that got their attention.  She was thrown out a number of times for that. 

I don't think that is entirely right - I had a natural cook sim and early on, before he developed too much in the way of cooking skill, he cooked and burnt a meal.  I made the error of putting the leftovers in the fridge and the couple were 'bleughing' out over it for ages after he actually cooked the meal - every time they got a plate of it.  I think the last serving of it is still in there.  He's gone on to rataouille and more exotic stuff now.

Yeah - except in reality there's no such thing as 'correct' UK English.  It changes all the time, just like any other language.  Sure, the change may be slow but, y'know, if languages didn't change with time, we'd all still be speaking the Ur language.  There's an argument to be made for asking people to use language (on boards like this) in a way that is comprehensible, elegant and sensible and follows rules we all (maybe) understand but to focus on differences in the use of language in separate and different cultures and say that one is wrong is just stupid even if they do nominally use the same language. 

Typical it would be an 'outsider' who insists on applying over-strict 'correct' rules of English for the English. 

It wasn't the one he did in French, was it?  Or did that one not make it over there?  Eddie kills me.


Quite a few of us south of the border would have trouble with broad Glaswegian but most Scots are fathomable for the English.  Robert Carlyle is a big favourite here: he started out on TV in Hamish MacBeth - most entertaining.  I loved Trainspotting, book and film.  

STFU Audrey - you're making me embarassed to be English.

Cholmondley is more commonly known as a name though there is a place called Cholmondley.  How about Beaulieu and Colquhoon?  They usually give the colonists trouble too.  Actually, there are gazillions of weird English pronunciations.  I think we do it just to annoy people.