Wow.  This is just sad.  

Although, I'm not sure if it's sad because y'all have done all these things online, or if it's sad because I have no husband and don't shop for groceries at all.

I'm gonna go with the latter.  

Seriously, it's been pretty cool reading this topic.  I had no idea I was so primitive!  

Well, I better get back to the TV.  You know, I don't have electricity, so I have to watch TV by candlelight.  

Thanks witch! 

That would have been a valid selection too! *kicks herself*

I don't know square one about what info you actually need, but my Sim game runs VERY smoothly, and this is what I can tell you about my computer:

HP Windows XP Media Center Edition OS
Intel Pentium 4 processor
2 CPU's with 2.4 gHz each
512 MB RAM

And I use Nvidia, but I don't even know what that means...

Apparently, the HP Presario (I think) is even better for gaming than what I have.  I'm assuming mine runs smoothly because of having 2 CPU's, but like I said, I have no idea.  I just thank God for small miracles! 

Hope that helped!

Thank you all for your feedback on this.  I do appreciate it.  However, I feel the need to defend myself a little.  I can't say too much...I don't want to sway any remaining surveyors...

This is for a class called "Popular Music of the Americas Since 1840".  Classical is not popular music, so it does not apply, but I WILL be mentioning that the classical genre was not included on my ranking list.  Also, I know classical may be someone's all-time favorite music genre, and that's wonderful, but I chose these particular genres for a reason, which I'll get to in a sec.

Also, I agree that Pop and Rock are not the same genre.  Chicago and Britney Spears have nothing in common musically.  But I lumped them together for a reason as well...

This is a Social Science class...not a music class...it just happens to deal with how society shapes music, and how music shapes society.  I lumped Pop and Rock together because of the social following of both, not so much because they have a lot in common with each other, but because they have so little in common with the rest.

I hope that made some sense! 

Thank you all for doing this...it's saving me a lot of paper, and I'm getting much more varied results than what I would have gotten asking my friends!

Please, continue...

Shit.  Thank you, Ancient.  I will mention that in my paper. 

Hey you guys,

Thank very very very much for doing my survey and giving feedback.

Results coming soon....

J.M., could you lock the thread?  I need to keep count while I'm tallying.  Thanks!

In Pleasantview, I play the Brokes the most.  I've never managed to get Brandi married...no one likes her!  But I wanted her to have kids, so she's been adopting.  She now has nine children (a few have grown up and moved out).  Here's the clinker:  they're ALL boys.  I have tried like hell for her to adopt/birth a girl, to no avail.  No one will sleep with her, and the damn adoption service just keeps sending boys...sigh.

In Strangetown, I play my CAS sim, Pete Syko.  He wears a kilt and makeup.  He recently became a vampire and moved in with Contessa "something" downtown.  He's constantly in aspiration failure!

I try to avoid Veronaville.  I hate Shakespeare and love Moliere.  I feel like I'm cheating Moliere to enter that neighborhood!

I, of course, play more than just these Sims occasionally, but these are my favorites.

I got sick of my ghosts, so I threw their stones into my sim's inventory and placed them in the cemetery downtown.

witch, you've been watching the Simpsons WAY too much! 

Thank you!

I've never downloaded a .package file.  Do I need to do anything besides save it in my Downloads folder?  I mean, I don't have to unzip it or extract it or anything, right?
Sorry I'm so stupid! 

That's really strange...*scratches head*. 

Thank you, gali!

Hey guys,
Well, I did a search and didn't quite find the answer to my question, so here goes:

I have NL, and I had the Matchmaker get my guy a date.  It turned out to be a Dream Date.  During it, I proposed that she stay the night, and she nodded (but I said "Goodbye" to her later that evening....hmmm).

Anyway, after the date was over, I picked "What do you want to do?" from the pie menu.  She talked about a purple heart.  Oh, goodie!  She wants to woohoo!

I got her to relax in bed with my guy.  They could cuddle and kiss, but that was it.  So I took them out to the car.  Same deal.  No woohoo option.

His relationship with her is 100/40.  Am I missing something or is this a glitch?

Thanks.

I have to concur with gali here.  What about nohomework?  I don't presently have it...I have one called "homework-sometimes-faster-fun" from someone over at MTS2, but I would prefer the nohomework hack!
Thank you Dr. Boris!

That was just too witty...you made me blow Diet Coke out my nose!
Nice one, Judecat! 

I'm good too!  We lost power for about 16 hours, and one of our ugly trees in the yard keeled over, but that's all that happened to me.
My mom and I just started drinkin' beer when the power went out.  We got wasted and talked about dreams for a couple hours, then passed out.

I hope everyone in the Beaumont area is okay, though.
Love,
SJ

Hey guys,
As requested, I have modified the title of this thread.  Please post here afterwards if you're from Houston/Galveston/Louisiana, so we know you're okay.
I have to go store my computer now.  Be safe!
Love,
Sara Jo

I have a gourami in my tank right now named Sunburst.  He's probably dead right now.  For the past few days, he's been on the bottom, sideways.  But he always gets upright when I feed him...rest in peace, little guy...well, I think so anyway.  I've had him a year or two.  I suppose that's a good lifespan.

I have a 99 cent algae eater that's been alive for 6 years.  His name is Pirsig.  He's great!

I don't mind you buyin' crickets, Fated.  And I don't even know you and I think you're strange. 

But it must've sucked if one got out.  Remember that Fresh Prince episode?  Chirp-chirp, chirp-chirp, chirp-.....AUGH!

I had a white mouse named Elvis Presley Dunstan.  When I got him, I was 9 and thought he was a gerbil.  He bit me on the finger, and used to knock his wheel over, climb on it, and get out of his aquarium cage.  Then his cedar chips got infested with ants.  I gave him away and got a dog!

Edit:  for cabelle and your avatar:

"Pinky.  Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Well, yeah, Brain.  But how are we gonna get peanut butter in his ear?"

Ready...Set...Go!


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Tell me about your toe jam if you want to!

There are just so many topics that have diverted from the original post, I thought this would be fun...burninate me if necessary!

You should ask Maxis about this.  They'll probably tell you not to use the arrow keys, because it's probably a problem with your keyboard.  Those morons!  Hee hee hee.

Good luck, Braveheart!

Someone may have posted this already, but I thought it would cheer some people up.  Well, at least MOST of us!

Cheers,
SJ

Yeah, he's that scary to the 49% of us who DIDN'T vote for him...and probably most of the morons--excuse me--PEOPLE who DID vote for him too.

Bitch.

Kidding!
(I really am kidding...love you Momthing...)