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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Help Wanted: Building my own PC
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on: 2007 February 06, 13:41:13
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If you're an nVidia fan, you shouldn't give it up just for the Sims though. There are modded drivers that work quite well. I have both an ATi and an nVidia system and I prefer the nVidia system for games that use heavy 3-D rendering. God knows that Black and White 2 is choked on my ATi card.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: My pets don't die soon enough. (Age duration hack?)
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on: 2007 January 05, 18:23:59
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I don't mind the age duration so much as I do the large litter size. Every time I want my pets to breed, I get 3 new kittens. Realistic, but dear lord, what am I going to do with so many kittens? I don't want to spam the adoption pool with a million kittens just so I can have a family line for the cats.
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Awesomeware / The Armory / Re: The Fight Club: Now With More Shinyness
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on: 2006 December 05, 15:55:05
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Paladin has a working assault rifle over on simwardrobe. Yeah. I've downloaded all of his shooters and various other hacked objects. I haven't used them yet... have you tried any of the shooters? What kind of death memory do the sims get? Shotgun is the best kind of weapon to use against zombies... so I'd still prefer that, with 'splodie heads too. That would be totally awesome. I'd also wish someone would come up with a nice stake hack for vamps. Then I could role play some Buffy scenarios... heheh. I think Shaklin has a stake related type hack... but I think the animation looked weird, at least in the pictures. Maybe I'll go redownload a bunch of her stuff again and test it out someday. Ste The animation was odd, but boy was it worth it. I turned Riley into a vampire and had Angel stake him, which is what I always wanted to happen in season 4. Stupid Riley. I'm not a nerd or anything.
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TS2: Burnination / Peasantry / Re: Tutorial: Clean custom neighbourhoods + townie creation (pre-Pets only!)
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on: 2006 December 01, 19:46:19
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Maybe I'm alone in this but...
When Pets came out, I created my neighborhood by renaming the character templates for Uni, NL, and OFB. I originally tried to rename the Pets templates, but it caused crashing when creating a hood. I restored the Pets templates and removed "nostrayrespawn" and tried again. This time, it created the neighborhood just fine. I then spawned my townies but never got around to playing.
After reading this, I checked my character files. All I have are the strays, the one sim I created, and the townies that were spawned. Nothing extra.
So as far as MY game is concerned, this method works abeit without being able to get rid of strays.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Why do so many people's male sims look like women?
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on: 2006 November 18, 15:46:52
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It also answers the age old question: where are all the hotties in history?
Answer: Didn't exist. Everyone was ugly and didn't know better. Mona Lisa was probably the smokin'est babe Da Vinci could find to paint.
Not so... It's just that the perception of "beauty" has changed along with society. Those hotties were there it's simply that different criteria were needed to make it to those exalted ranks and you only have to check out paintings from various different artists - spread across the centuries - to verify this. Most notable is Rembrandt whose personal choice was for ladies that tended to be on the wholesome side. Anyhoo, beauty is very much an individual perspective and it differs from culture to culture hugely, as well as being somewhat muteable within our own jaded societal experience. Well, absolutely. I was just being facetious. Beauty is a completely relative concept and has evolved along side our morphology. The modern Western ideal of beauty (because while not everyone agrees on what is beautiful, there are certain people that are largely accepted as so) did not exist in the time of Rembrant because those physical characteristics didn't exist in the general populace. In it's context, Primavera is the Renaissance ideal of feminine beauty. Most modern viewers, however, might decide that she was decidedly plain. Hence, Mona Lisa was probably pretty hot though I'd be hard pressed to name a person in my intimate circle that would want to hit that. Certainly, by their time's standards, there are beautiful people in history. When we look at art, we tend to wonder where all the good looking people are because our standard has evolved with each generation. Anthropologists can easily take human skulls and show that evolution is occurring in the human form within our lifetimes. This means that our ideal of beauty is not just a culturally perpetrated ideal, but a result of our changing biology. I adore this particular theory because it's the best support for evolutionary theory: evolution you can see by comparing human skulls within the last hundred years rather than having to venture to prehistory.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Why do so many people's male sims look like women?
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on: 2006 November 17, 16:17:07
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So that's why all of my great-great-grandmothers looked like those old men I see hanging out at the laundromat.
It also answers the age old question: where are all the hotties in history? Answer: Didn't exist. Everyone was ugly and didn't know better. Mona Lisa was probably the smokin'est babe Da Vinci could find to paint.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Why do so many people's male sims look like women?
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on: 2006 November 17, 15:17:53
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I learned in my biological anthropology courses that each generation of male has successively more feminine features. The average current male facial structure resembles what the female facial structure looked like about 3 generations back. What women look like now, will be what men may look like in about 50-70 years if the trend continues.
Most of the anthropologists that I saw speak on the subject tended to think it was because women are unconsciously selecting to mate with men that are less "threatening." While they may at times be attracted to the "rugged" type, they tend to select men that are less physically threatening or able to hurt them. This is especially prevalent in the last century as "ruggedness" was no longer a good indicator that a man could provide. In fact, ruggedness is now being selected against, as more and more men are earning money in "soft" professions.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: IE 7.0 sucks
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on: 2006 November 10, 17:34:52
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In Los Angeles, FTW usually means Fuck the World. You see it spraypainted under freeways and appears commonly in anti establishment song lyrics.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: IE 7.0 sucks
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on: 2006 November 07, 18:33:52
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The only real script support that Firefox lacks is Active X, which is proprietary to Microsoft and the major reason FOR your IE security holes.
I have a low opinion of those that use Active X in their sites anyways.
Edit: I have yet to come across a page that didn't display properly in Firefox.
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TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: IE 7.0 sucks
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on: 2006 November 07, 16:35:26
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I knew my boss was an idiot when he refused to let me install "dodgy freeware programs like firefox and spybot." I'm using a hideous IE 6/McAffee config right now and it gives me migraines.
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TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: I...hate...Nvidia
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on: 2006 October 07, 18:17:28
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Since this is an Nvidia hate thread, let me just voice my immense dislike of the new Nvidia control panel. Yes I know we can get the old one back, but this is such a bad concept it puzzles me why Nvidia is pushing it on new users…
According to my pet Nvidia employee, it's because people that weren't "hardcore gamers" didn't understand the old one. They tried to make the new one easy for everyone to use. And failed.
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