More Awesome Than You!
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
2024 March 29, 09:10:23

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
540270 Posts in 18066 Topics by 6511 Members
Latest Member: zheng
* Home Help Search Login Register
  Show Posts
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 17
51  Serious Business / Spore Discussions / Re: Over 900 negative posts about Spore on Amazon on: 2008 September 10, 04:19:10

Merged now.  It looks like he was first, though.   Tongue

Meh.  Mine's better. Tongue

ETA: Actually I didn't even look at the times, just saw how many responses there were and decided his had come along later.
52  Serious Business / Spore Discussions / Re: Over 900 negative posts about Spore on Amazon on: 2008 September 10, 01:29:35
We already have a thread about this.

Go there.
53  Serious Business / Spore Discussions / Re: Spore is Review-Bombed, All Thanks to SecuROM on: 2008 September 10, 01:20:54
Interesting that Amazon.co.uk is pulling the reviews, but not the discussion board. It's making them look worse.
54  Serious Business / Spore Discussions / Spore is Review-Bombed, All Thanks to SecuROM on: 2008 September 09, 07:11:02
Check out the Reviews on Amazon.com A 1 star rating, all courtesy of SuckuROM!  Just goes to show, it really does fuck up your game, EA.

Check out a google search of the publicity the review-bomb is getting

I lurrve it.
55  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful Than You! September: Not As Advertised on: 2008 September 08, 05:02:32
So, I decided to go check out Renegade Sims, because the link was listed here. I found more Peggy stuff that looks great when advertised... and sucks when in the game. Credits for the pics from Renegade Sims. XD

*snip* <---From the front
*snip* <---- What Peggy seriously did not mention about this hair...

Looks like she's having her scalp surgically removed...

edited to fix stupidity (my own).  10 points to whoever finds it.
56  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Has the clothing tool changed, or is it AL?? on: 2008 September 08, 02:30:54
I had my first uni graduate post AL last night.  Usually the clothing tool lets me buy new clothes for graduates at a premium to get them out of the fugly aging outfits the game usually foists upon my sims, however this time I got a new dialog box which simply said 'Suggest Outfit' and gave me all the clothes as an option to change to.  I don't think it cost her any money, either.

Has the clothing tool had it's functions changed, or is this an AL feature?
57  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: *stomps on Brandi Broke's uterus* on: 2008 August 16, 10:52:52

I could understand it if, at conception, she was having twins, because that's how it's meant to go.  Number of babies decided at conception.  I'd just shrug and go with it.  But the fact that it's changing at some point after conception, and overriding the limit on the number of sims on the lot is driving me nuts!

I admit, I didn't know WTF I was doing when I happily clicked on the level 4 'perk'.  It's not happened to anyone else (then again, there haven't been any other pregnant female fambly sims lately; John Burb though has superpowered sperm and has had Jennifer give birth to 2 sets of twins in quick succession).
58  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / *stomps on Brandi Broke's uterus* on: 2008 August 16, 10:15:58
This Free Time "perk" of increased chances of twins is driving me insane!

I restarted Pleasantview with the new computer (read: couldn't be bothered pulling ALL my files across from the old one) and when I went into the Broke house, set up the sims various perks.  Brandi, of course, is already pregnant (with ONE baby) at the start of things.  The next time I go into the house, Brandi has suddenly decided that in fact, she is having twins.  Twins Brady and Bobby were duly born.  Because they're both Brandi clones, they're the closest thing we can get to identical twins.

Anyway, days go by, she finally meets a nice single father by the name of Matt Riffraff, and his two daughters, Kayla and Layla.  After some effort Brandi and Matt tie the knot, and wouldn't you know it are off to the bedroom to conceive the next little Riffraff.

I checked the number of babies after hearing the lullabye.  One baby.

This made sense, because there's Brandi, Matt, teens Beau, Bobby, and Brady Broke, and Kayla and Layla Riffraff.  According to the world of the sims, there's only room for one more sim (and I don't have any hacks to change this).

Oh, no.  I went into the Broke-Riffraff house today and found that Brandi is once again expecting twins.

I SWEAR, on Brandi's grandmother's grave, there has been no cheesecake consumed or use of forcetwins.  I've never ever seen the number of babies change from one playsession to the next.

It's chaotic enough with 5 teens in the house who are nowhere near ready to go to college yet, this is just going to send my blood pressure through the roof!

Ugh.  I can't wait till that woman hits menopause.
59  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: EAxis House of Fail: July on: 2008 July 24, 12:31:20
At least he hasn't planned your death yet...

Has Pes shared the plans with you?  At least you'll be prepared...
60  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Visa, Freetime and Sims IKEA on: 2008 July 23, 01:11:14
SuckUROM does that to me.  Can't be helped.
61  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Updating custom fridges to Seasons options on: 2008 July 21, 03:18:45
Because I phail at searching.

I have a few custom fridges that were made pre-Seasons.  Now, post Seasons, BV and FT, they do not have the nice shiny Seasons options included (you know, to do with leftovers and stocking food).

How does one attach these options to these fridges?  I am pretty useless at SimPE so probably need some serious handholding.  (I have gloves and anti-bacterial handwash if you are worried about contracting vecki-germs)
62  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Visa, Freetime and Sims IKEA on: 2008 July 21, 01:29:36
Sounds like a SuckUROM issue.  I haven't had any problems (yet) with Vista and Freetime but one of these days I should get my arse into gear and remove the sucky-sucky-poo-poo.
63  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: EAxis House of Fail: July on: 2008 July 15, 14:09:15
I download a lot of floor plans, because I have no imagination.  But I suck at using the building tools so I never get it 'right'.
64  TS2: Burnination / Peasantry / Re: [Work in progress] Polygamy or marriage of convenience on: 2008 July 04, 03:54:18
This gives me an idea to do a Song of Ice and Fire themed hood, lots of arranged marriages, although...

The Targaryens in that series wed brother to sister (hence the insanity at the end of the Targ line), and I kinda go 'ick' at that idea.  Although that may not be a big problem depending on where I start the family (possibly at the second to last generation)
65  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Vista Service Pack 1 + FreeTime = Crash on: 2008 July 03, 06:43:01
One person over at MTS2 had the same problem, but a ton of other people seem to have no problems running the game with SP1.  So does anyone have any idea why this is causing my game to crash?  Ideally I'd like to keep Service Pack 1, as it's supposed to actually make Vista somewhat more operational.  I'm running FreeTime (no patches) + a NOCD crack.  All Eps and Sps (except Ikea) installed.

I'm a lucky duck who hasn't had this problem.  I believe the computer came with Vista + SP1, I wonder if this makes a difference? *scratches head*

What I mean by that is I installed the game after SP1 was installed.  I have no idea if this would affect it but perhaps a good old fashioned uninstall/reinstall is called for?

66  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: New computer - I submit for peer review on: 2008 June 28, 14:05:05
Yeah...didn't quite get what you were saying. Something about reformatting, getting XP with SP 2, upgrading my graphics card and mentioning my "rig" has a lot of potential.

The other recommendation I would make is to got to an ATI Radeon card, rather than an NVidia one if you ever get the chance to upgrade. I swapped about 2 years ago when I built my current machine and although I have the odd graphics glitch, it's nothing like the problems I experienced prior to that with NVidia.

Yeah...didn't quite get what you were saying. Something about reformatting, getting XP with SP 2, upgrading my graphics card and mentioning my "rig" has a lot of potential.

The other recommendation I would make is to got to an ATI Radeon card, rather than an NVidia one if you ever get the chance to upgrade. I swapped about 2 years ago when I built my current machine and although I have the odd graphics glitch, it's nothing like the problems I experienced prior to that with NVidia.

Woah, deja vu witch! Grin
67  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: New computer - I submit for peer review on: 2008 June 27, 02:12:18
And I've learned that depending on which brand of Vista or chipset or whatever you have (32 vs 64 bit), Vista may not be able to see extra RAMZ anyway.

I hear 32 bit can't see more than 3 Gig RAMZ.
68  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: New computer - I submit for peer review on: 2008 June 26, 06:51:15
Nice work Jess.  Vecki can haz new puter too so has been celebrating by... playing Sims endlessly

(yes, I stopped long enough to put my hacks back in again)

(yes, I spent some time getting rid of the promotional garbage that came with the computer)

(yes, it was out of the box, that's why it had loads of promotional garbage on it.  I couldn't be arsed building from scratch.  At least I got a free printer out of it)

(yes, it has EVILL VISTA(tm))

(yes, it asks me no less than 4 times if I really, really REALLY meant to double click on that file I just downloaded from a reputable website)

(yes, when presented with a compatibility issue, it links to a Japanese website which I suppose is meant to have a solution but I can't frickin' read Japanese - That's right Trend Micro 2008, I'm looking at YOU!)
69  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful than You! June: Stuff that you Do. Not. Want. on: 2008 June 11, 09:25:51
It may not be eligible as it was created after the competition start date, but I DO. NOT. WANT spray on clothing.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=288310
70  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Game is choking and dying. Wah! on: 2008 June 04, 23:39:58
Not an ASS KellyQ, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't leaping to the wrong conclusion.  Wouldn't be the first time.
71  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Game is choking and dying. Wah! on: 2008 June 04, 06:12:28

I'm assuming you mean 1gb to 2gb RAM?
72  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Game is choking and dying. Wah! on: 2008 June 04, 04:44:25
Heh.  Suddenly it all comes together for me.  Pescado is Hordak.

We're gonna try plugging in the boyfriend's power supply this weekend, but I'm not sure its gonna be enough (I think it's a 300W supply).  Maybe I'll at least see if the game lasts a little longer, which might give me an idea of if the power supply really is to blame.
73  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Game is choking and dying. Wah! on: 2008 June 01, 07:14:24
* vecki takes deep breath, this could take a while to explain.  Consider yourselves warned

For what seems like forever my game has suffered from the NVIDIA blue screen then crash (well I assume it crashes, the screen goes blank, the monitor's power light blinks on and off, and nothing can be done except to use the magic button to turn the computer off then on).

I updated my video card from the FX5200 128MB to the 7300GT 512MB (heh, thinking back, shoulda gone for ATI instead of another NVIDIA).  Still suffered from blue screen then crash (to add insult to injury, for the 45 seconds I was able to look into a lot, bits were missing from sims).  The animation was much smoother though, I noticed.

I finally found what Assoid Sam had referred to as the 'last known good NVIDIA driver' (he'd made it tough by making a typo.  Grr).  So loaded up the game again and visited the Brokes in my vanilla account.  The missing bits of the sims were now filled in... hurrah!  And there was no blue screen.... No siree.  My computer decided to skip that little inconvenience after the usual 45 seconds and go straight to the crashing.

When I start up the computer NVIDIA does warn me that the card is not getting enough power and will reduce performance to prevent damaging the computer (from what I recall it needs about a 350W PSU and my measly Acer T300 only came with a 200W PSU), but I don't know whether to point at that as being the cause of the crash at this stage.

Thoughts?  I'm all out, thought I'd borrow some of yours.
74  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful than You! May: Clothing Meshes of the Damned on: 2008 May 30, 07:12:57
Pescado may well oblige your wish Emma Cool
75  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful than You! May: Clothing Meshes of the Damned on: 2008 May 30, 06:40:11
That just HAS to win. Cheesy
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 17
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.068 seconds with 18 queries.