Marry all six of them to a "Black Widow(er)" Sim.

The want will be satisfied, you don't have to play twelve sims (just two once you're done), and you've made some fortune sim VERY happy.

One thing you might try...

If you have a backup of the neighborhood, and you aren't overly partial to any other lot in Pleasantville, delete the no-longer-Pleasant neighborhood from your Sims 2 folder and replace it with the back up. You'll obviously loose any recent changes to your other families, but you'll also loose the crash-causing bug in the Goth house.

Good Luck!

This looks very cool!

In the interest of the arts (just the bias of an English/Drama teacher, I know)...would it be too unwieldy to use all skill points rather than logic...

You might then lessen the percentages, as you'd need 70 points to distribute, rather than 10, but if you've lumped them all together, it would mean less work. Maybe? I'm scared to even think about looking into hacks, but it was a thought. Either way, this looks great, and I'll be downloading as soon as I've posted.

My students can attest that I firmly believe in grades being hard to earn!

My sims will only share staircases if I'm using the porch stairs. Any "normal" staircases is for one sim at a time. Maybe they're afraid of fire hazards and life-saftey codes? Is there a Sim OSHA?

And then there's the difference between VDay as in the anti-violence movement (www.vday.org) and V-Day as in "I can't be bothered to spell Valentine's."

Of the three, BlueSoup....VD Day sounds the most uncomfortable. 

angelyne, that looks heavenly! Any chance you'll be sharing with the rest of us?
puhlease?

If I promise to bring the Godiva liqueur, may I join...mmm white chocolate booze in hot cocoa...bring your own marshmellows.

I'll celebrate Valentine's Day when neither women nor men are brutalized by their partners. Until then, let's celebrate amity -- the love of friendship.

Happy VDay, everyone!

Nope, a hidden bunker in Montana...

I grew up in Montana, and I can tell you that ol' Teddy K. (Kazinski...Kasynsky...whatever) isn't the only one with tunnels in his basement.

Your points are entirely valid, Hegelian. I do take exception to the idea that my generation isn't up to the same mental capabilities as those that have gone before us.   I'm unable to prove anything to the contrary at the moment, but please allow that Gen X isn't the first to cry "Give me simplicity or give me death!". For instance, take a look at our less-than brilliant president who's worried about cloning adventures in human-animal hybrids.     (Which is another story altogether. Sheesh.)

My hope is that by letting my students take the simple way out of the "tough stuff", they will see that they can write something more challenging than internetese or three-word sentences and read something more challenging than the sports page. Many of their previous teachers have allowed them to get away with nothing harder than multiple choice worksheets. Not even cummulative exams, for Heaven's sake! By starting them with more difficult work, if not as challenging as one would hope, I can wean them towards what high school students should be capable of. If I continue to raise the bar year after year, they may just get somewhere. Baby steps. Baby steps.

I cannot speak for school systems across the board, of course, but due to NCL-B (No Child Left Behind), most American schools are suffering from two oppositional and equally powerful forces: RAISE TEST SCORES and GRADUATE THEM ALL, ESPECIALLY WITH HONORS. We cannot do both, and yet we are mandated to do so. It is statistically impossible to have more than 50% of students doing better than 50% on standardized tests. (You can't have six out of ten students beating six out of the same ten). That's what NCL-B requires us to do in the next few years. NCL-B also demands that we lower our drop-out rates to nearly zero in the same amount of time. If anyone of you can tell me how to make our classes more challenging, keep the less-able students in school, and make every student (including those with mental retardation and lesser learning disabilities) perform better than at least 50% of her/his peers, please tell me.

Yes, it's true that we need to work on standards, make sure that teachers are qualified to teach, etc. I just don't know that requiring my students to be as good a reader/writer as the standard English major is the way out. My students do leave high school knowing how to, at the very least, start well and get help when needed. No, it isn't an ideal system, but I cannot do everything. I wish I could.

I'm split exactly in half ...
Half of me (Elf) agrees with you completely. Parenthetical citations were certainly easier, even for the deepest thinkers, when we were still using typewriters. Footnotes then were, in my humble opinion, a creation of the devil. Now that "typing" has been replaced by "keyboarding", however, footnotes are just as easy as the proverbial pie. As parenthetical citations do disrupt reading, I wish we'd all return to footnotes.
Semi-literacy as incoherent thinking? Absolutely! I don't believe you can claim to understand a work unless you understand the nuances, allusions, and all the rest that comes with real literacy and deep thinking.
The other half (Puddle) thinks the other way. Certainly we have to keep part of our language stable to maintain understanding. What's the point of communication otherwise? But semi-literacy is better than a-literacy and il-literacy, both of which I am constantly battling in my students.
For the sakes of those that have neither the desire nor the ability to attend college, let alone spend evenings reading government reports, Shakespeare, or anything at all, I say, "Hell yes! Make it simple!" If it's simple, they'll do it, and isn't that the point?

*ElfPuddle briefly battles with self over which half is correct.*

Nope, I don't have an answer. Maybe we just compromise...Those of us who know what's right should continue our standards and scream at those who can't tell the difference between there, their, and they're, or at those who say "I seen that." But as long as they remember to cite their sources IN SOME MANNER, we let them live.

I'll hold your hand!

Sandi- how big is your download folder now?
*pats Sandi on shoulder and hands her a kleenex*

My TS1 DL/skins folder was six (6!!) CDs of 650MB each!!! By the end, I was only playing in my head because game load time was impossible...not to mention crashes.

I'm much better now, and although I am not cured, TS2 loads in less than 5 minutes (game + neighborhood).

YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!!

Once again, edited for typos. Someone should hold an intervention for me...keep me out of forums while my students are quietly reading!!

In general, I would never use "this's fun". Having said that, however, I believe it's technically correct. I've never seen a rule to the contrary at any rate. It just sounds plain wrong unless you've been reading a lot of Shakespeare recently. I have, so....
...as for 's after s...
The textbooks I use in class (which are copyright 2004 and tend towards MLA), use the rule I gave. I've seen rule/guidebooks contradict each other. I'm starting to believe that, like many other punctuation rules, the possesive s after a singular s rule (my Confucius, your Charles) used to be one way and is currently changing to another for the stupidity of many writers simplicity of use. The fewer rules, and the fewer exceptions to the rules, the better. Or some such. All I know for certain is that one of my collegues will throw you through a window if you attempt to put an apostrophe s after her last name (yes, it ends in s).

*ElfPuddle pulls her librarian glasses to the tip of her nose and looks over the edge*
The possesive s rule is:
With most singular nouns, add an apostrophe and s to form the possessive. (This is ElfPuddle's book. That is George's desk.)
When forming a contraction with is or was, take out most of the verb, push the s close to the previous word, and use the apostrophe to substitute for all the missing letters. (This is fun. This's fun. Dog is Bollocks. Dog's Bollocks)
The possessive rule gets futsy when dealing with words that end in s or es, whether plural or singular. (Have you read Confucius' teachings?)
The biggest issue with possesive 's is with it. The book belongs to it...its book...no apostrophe. There's always an exception to the rule. For more information, visit your local High School.
*removes glasses and puts away teacher's key*
You may now continue with your usual lives. :)or lack thereof

Edited to fix poor typing....I can't answer student questions and type at the same time.

One inch? Oh, no, dear maxon..half a foot. For once, my students are actually DOING their work and turning it in!

Um, wouldn't it actually be
Dog's Bollocks or Cat's Whiskers

Punctuation is Important!!

Maxon, you aren't alone. I also missed reading (or read and didn't understand) InTeen's graduation from HS thing. At least you checked with SimPE and otherwise went looking. I assumed it was me/my game/the lot/the sim as the teen was the oldest of ten (three teens and seven toddlers) on the lot. Don't ask. I nuked the whole lot and THEN read the RTFM. Sigh. Live and Learn.

OOOHHHH, a census! What fun! I can't wait to go home and try it out!! Sigh, another night of not grading homework for me.


I know it isn't an AWESOME thing, but InSiminator will let you adjust relationship flags in-game, and will also help you "prune" out the relationship panel.

*ElfPuddle runs away to avoid being beaten and poked for mentioning the non-awesome*

Thanks for the directions!

thank you thank you thank you

Those game and electronic wants are my personal pet peeves!!!

I'm trying to organize, sort, etc., and I noticed that JM's poolhack.zip link was broken.

gali and ZephyrZodiac,

You're welcome. Thank you for all the help you (and everyone else, too-- don't feel left out) has given me the last few months while I've been lurking in the shadows.

And if you're really, really, REALLY craving Sims 1...check out the Sims 1 lots here: http://simslice.com/thesims2/ts2lots.htm