Is packaging 5 families and moving them to the clean uberhood a VBT?

That works.  Baaaaaa.

Is there a hack that stops the magazine offers?  They're about to drive me out of what little mind I have left.

This is me, except I'm only on a second generation.

Macrotastics - Clean is causing my sims to tinker with a garbage disposal repeatedly.  I see Zazazu had the same problem back on page 8.  Is there any way to fix this or should I just keep watching for it?  Thanks.

I have both ACR and the romance mod.  It was very interesting.  If I were a better scientist, I would've taken screenshots and such.

Right, I knew the definition of gaydar, I must've gotten confused with all the check outs I was running on both sims to try and figure out what the problem was at the time.  Anyhow, I finished running my experiment, and based on the results, and Scope Room and Check Sim Out both use gender preferences for the active Sim.   

I used six sims, three of each gender, one gay/bi/straight.  They were all either Aries or Taurus, with the Aries being 56653 for personality and the Taurus being 55663.  They all had family aspiration.  Turn ons were set to makeup and costume makeup.  All sims wore makeup and costume makeup.

Using ACR, I set sims A&B to het, C&D to gay, E&F to bi.  Sims A, C, and E were female, sims B, D, and F were male.

Results:
Scope room and check sim out were the same.
A&B showed only each other as hot.
C showed all female sims.  D showed all male sims.
E & F both showed all sims.

Therefore, when my female het sim A checked out same sex female gay sim C or female bi sim E, even though they have the exact same chemistry makeup as the male sim B, C and E, both female, showed up as not interesting.  A just shook her head rather than having any X, though.

HOWEVER.  Interestingly enough, the UI DOES have gaydar, as on the relationship panel, male bi sim F only showed hetero sim A, gay sim D, and bi sim E as three bolts, even though scope room showed ALL of the sims as glowy and F actually popped up with B as the sexiest sim there, but when you go to the relationship panel, no bolts at all.

I micromanaged a het couple into (what should've been) 3 bolts for each other, except one of them had been set as high gay by ACR.  And he was hard-rejecting her all over the place until I realized what the problem was.

He would scope room and only find men, but check her out and he was farting hearts.  AFAI remember, anyway.

So, this leads me to believe that for some reason, check sim out doesn't use gaydar and scope room does.  I should run some tests for confirmation.

Cats will watch the fish tank, too.

I heard that dogs will play with the water wiggler, but I don't currently have any in my game, so need to check that out.

OK, I've now fulfilled two LS career LTWs and they do not grant perma-plat NOR did they roll off the sim once want was achieved.  Functionality of LTW = LOW.

I toggled it on with the lot debugger, but then had to manually reroll.  Felt cheaty.

I would love this.  It's so much handier to just let the toddlers eat the dog food.  I thought it was gross, but I'm a convert.

Pescado, am I correct in thinking that it works as: 
IF STR -9 > LTR
THEN LTR +9
on a daily loop?

I would've thought it was an averaging, but obviously not.

AFAIK, everything you stated was correct up until this point.  Hernando de Soto's last name was de Soto.  This isn't a good example of typical Spanish name progression.  He would have been known to his contemporaries as "de Soto."   It's like "van Allen", two words, one last name.

I personally have never seen or come across anyone choosing the matrilineal name (i.e. Leon vs Ponce), so that may be extremely rare.  It is very, very common to keep the father's name and just be, for example, Juan Ponce. So Juan Ponce de Leon MAY have been Juan Ponce to his friends, and Ponce de Leon to anyone else.

I say "may" because it's extremely, extremely, EXTREMELY rude in Spanish speaking countries to drop any part of a person's name, unless you've been invited to call them by their first name or you know which last name they prefer.  Spanish surnames were formerly formed as Father's-Last-Name Mother's-Last-Name, but then some people, depending on the area, formed them Mother's-Last-Name Father's-Last-Name (i.e. in the USA, it was much more common in the 20th century to have two middle names than to have two last names, thus the Latinos trying to fit their customs to the culture gave their children the mother's maiden name as part of the middle name).

Some people are fine with just being called Sr/a. Father's-Last-Name (problem is, you can't tell by looking which last name is the father's last name), some would prefer Sr/a Father's Last Name Mother's Last Name (although this is considered very formal) and for women, it can get tricky once they're married. 

For example, my mother's full legal name is now Sherry Lynn Her-Father's-Last-Name Her-Mother's-Last-Name de My-Father's-Father's-Last-Name My-Father's-Mother's-Last-Name.  It's considered acceptable to abbreviate it to Sherry Lynn Her-Father's-Last-Name de My-Father's-Father's-Last-Name, and I believe that's what is on her passport.  Can't be sure, may be the full formal one.  My last name happens to be formed as My-Father's-Father's-Last-Name*HYPHENATED*My-Mother's-Father's-Last-Name, if you are wondering.  If I chose to continue this, my surname would become My-Father's-Father's-Last-Name de Whoever-I-Married, and the kids would have surnames of Whoever-I-Married My-Father's-Father's-Last-Name.

This is, again, why everybody gets called senor or senora.  If they like you, they'll invite you to call them by their first name in fifteen seconds anyway, if they don't or it's a formal occasion, you can't go wrong with senor or senora.

AHAHAHAHAH.

Now I'm glad I didn't bother with the patch.

Holy shit, it may be worth getting just for that.

Even though I'll have to probably reinstall seasons to get the patch to work.

What... the...


By the way, she's talking about Prince William.

Thanks very much.  I was hoping there was Awesomeness I had overlooked, but fences around the garbage can and/or MTS2 will have to do for now.

Is there any way to get my maids to compost instead of trashcanning all of my garbage?  (Consisting mostly of dirty dishes, as per Pescado's excellent suggestion, I have no dishwasher or trash compactor or sinks anywhere in my houses anymore.)

If the garbage can is kicked over by a furious sim, do the maids compost instead?

THANK you.  Like I said, I know it was a stupid question, but sometimes the easiest stuff in the game takes the longest time for me to figure out.  Ironically.

(After Nightlife came out, I spent about half an hour in game trying to figure out where they'd stuck the damn driveways.)

This question is so dumb I've been searching for about an hour trying to find an answer anywhere, but you can imagine the kind of results "sims 2" "custom sim" hood brings back.

Okay.  So I've downloaded some madeupanimals, uncompressed, double clicked the .sims2pack file, and the installer claims they are good to go.  So I load game, go into my custom hood, and there are no new people in the people area.  (There should be a better word to describe this, and there probably is, but I can't think of one and hopefully you know what I'm talking about.)

What am I doing wrong?  I'm sure it is super simple but this is driving me up the damn wall.

You made the elf faces' eyebrows curve a little.  Nooooooooooooo.  Must be stick straight!  Aghghgghgh!

Thank god.  I swear, yesterday my sim was foodnapping when her hunger was at 5 and her energy was at 21.  I wanted to reach through the screen and shake her to wake her up.

Now I have this image of a popup on the right-hand side of my vision every time I get in a pool saying "An omniscient being has removed the ladder.  You will now float here until you die."

I might hazard a guess that because of your subject matter, a lot of the people downloading it are underage and thus may be far more annoying than would otherwise be the case.  For some reason there's nothing quite like an annoying preteen/teenager to make me, at least, want to go on a homicidal rampage.

What!?~  I think this is the real tip here...  "Do You Like What You See" rerolls a date's wants?  Awesome.