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1  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: why they didn't talk on: 2006 August 13, 12:48:16
probably it's 'cuase power idle...
the guest was seated in couch, so i send my sims to the sofa just near the couch..
the 2 sims was looking one each other for 2 minutes without say nothing  Undecided

They were communicating by telepathy.
2  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Rant - The ways in which the sims community is completely insane. on: 2006 August 08, 20:56:58
Vector: You will find that I'm nearly as nasty toward sexism against men as sexism against women.

And you'll find that I'm equally flippant either way.

Amazing.
3  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Rant - The ways in which the sims community is completely insane. on: 2006 August 08, 17:52:55
My favorite mod for a DnD game (Kivan of Shilmasta for Shadow of Amn) was written by a woman and it's one of the most interesting things I've come across. Much more interesting than Bioware shaky attempt at 'romance' for the female PCs.



That's because Bioware are men, and we all know what the male idea of "romance" usually comprises, I think. Good god! Did you ever play NWN and have a go of the brothel in it? And the cheesy meathead dude that you *had* to use if you were playing a female character, because the sexay chicks would just tell you to get lost? I felt like complaining to Ophelia about her house of ill-respute specifically because I was so offended at the lame gigolo I was expected to associate with.
4  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Rant - The ways in which the sims community is completely insane. on: 2006 August 08, 10:14:32
The DnD modding community has tons of women, you can't pin this crap on us. Also, I'd rather deal with the Sims 2 community than the Counterstrike one any day.

Oh, I knew I should have said Doom. I didn't want anybody to think I only played a handful of games and was completely unaware of the user bases for most of them. It's my wandering uterus.
5  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: HACK RATING SYSTEM on: 2006 August 08, 09:48:25
Gwill:
I found out why we don't have one here in the UK, our Govt. doesn't want to scare us. 

We've got one now. I feel so proud and special.

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/current-threat-level/?version=1
6  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Rant - The ways in which the sims community is completely insane. on: 2006 August 08, 08:57:27
And consider including some text along the lines of, "If you didn't want sims to act this way, you shouldn't have created such a whorish hairstyle."

Bwah!  Cheesy

Anyway, the Sims fan base is dissimilar to that of, say, Counterstrike or a DnD-style game with user created dungeon mods. It's dissimilar in that there seem to be lots more women. This can't be a coincidence.

The divine philosopher Plato was doubtful in what rank of living creatures to place and collocate them [women, Sims custom content creators], whether amongst the rational animals, by elevating them to an upper seat in the specifical classis of humanity, or with the irrational, by degrading them to a lower bench on the opposite side, of a brutal kind, and mere bestiality. For nature hath posited in a privy, secret, and intestine place of their bodies, a sort of member, by some not impertinently termed an animal, which is not to be found in men. Therein sometimes are endangered certain humours so saltish, brackish, clammy, sharp, nipping, tearing, prickling, and most eagerly tickling, that by their stinging acrimony, rending nitrosity, figging itch, wriggling mordicancy, and smarting salsitude, their whole body is shaken and ebrangled, their senses totally ravished and transported, the operation of their judgment and understanding utterly confounded and all disordinate passions and perturbations of the mind thoroughly and absolutely allowed, admitted, and approved of;
-- François Rabelais

Obviously some 15 year old boys in the Sims2 CC creating community also display this behaviour, which we will blame on the feminisation of society and homoerotic advertising. Yes, that's what we'll do.
7  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Two bugs for the price of one! on: 2006 August 06, 08:45:56
As for the first problem... I thought I read somewhere that a patch was supposed to fix that. I could have imagined that tho. Roll Eyes

I'm about 80% sure that there's a mod out somewhere that really does fix it - maybe by TwoJeffs? Somebody else can confirm, maybe.
8  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: CRT or LCD???? on: 2006 August 05, 08:59:07
When I first got my LCD, I did notice a bit of blurring on some games - particularly on XIII, which was very brightly coloured and cartoony to start with. I've had the monitor for a few years now, and I must have just become used to it, because I can't even see the blurring any more. I do quite a lot of design, too, and using the LCD has never had any impact on that to speak of.

Plus there's the issue of vanity. I feel more like an uber-n3rd with an uber-cool monitor.
9  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: CRT or LCD???? on: 2006 August 04, 21:07:19
I'd say that was a cat issue, not a monitor issue.  XD

Nevar! The cat cannot be blamed for the monitor's inability to function with added hairs.
10  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: CRT or LCD???? on: 2006 August 04, 07:19:23
You could just put your junk on top of the monitor, if you got a proper blocky one.

My cat used to sleep on top of my old CRT monitor, getting hairs in the ventilation slats and making the picture go green and wavy. Every time the desk was jogged, the picture on the monitor would shake and fade.

When I got an LCD monitor, the cat couldn't fit on top of it. He loitered in the vicinity, looking confused, then depressed, then found somewhere more sensible to sleep instead. Problem solved!
11  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Who is Father Time? on: 2006 April 20, 13:13:37
Would have been cool if they had a Chinese New Years Dragon that could have danced its way around the house before leaving (like Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom.  Sure the crops failed & people were starving but I did make sure that there was a dragon parade every year.



Even better if it could have inadvertantly set fire to stuff as it danced. Now that would be cool.
12  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Obsessive Performing on: 2006 April 20, 13:12:03
We've got a guy who looks a bit like the Pescado sim, only with a bowler hat, who plays the saxaphone outside Marks and Spencers. There's also a guy who does rubbish Elvis impressions in the tunnel near a pub. I don't know if the location is connected to the act.
13  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: A RUMOUR about the next expansion pack on: 2006 April 18, 13:01:28
For what it's worth I seem to remember it being one of the EPs with the most threads on the TS1 BBS - but then, it was particularly bug-filled too... It was by far the most glitchy for me personally.

That's pretty weird - I had most of the TS1 expansions and I didn't see a single bug until Makin' Magic. Even then, I only saw two bugs (Bonehilda wouldn't go back into her coffin and just stood in the bathroom for hours on end shaking her head and sighing so that all my sims stood behind her peeing themselves because they couldn't get to the toilet, and the screwed-up graphics bug that randomly happened when you visited/returned from Magic Town). Now with TS2, I consider it a victory if I can go for an hours play with no bugs.

It's always kinda fun to see how other people's milages vary, I suppose. Wink
14  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: A RUMOUR about the next expansion pack on: 2006 April 15, 00:49:55
z0mg liek petz n stuff lolololololz0r.

 Roll Eyes

I didn't really like University, liked Nightlife less, really didn't like OFB. I made the tragic mistake of installing the stupid Christmas pack. I'm having trouble imagining that I'll like any other expansion pack Maxis have to offer, to be honest. It's now become an exercise in what can be broken in the most inane way possible, and how the act of simply playing the game can be made as painful and non-fun as is humanly attainable.
15  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Good reason for *not* getting FFS (Family Fun Stuff) on: 2006 April 14, 13:05:27
(I refuse to use FFS, because that means Flying Fish Systems Tongue)

I dunno, where I come from, FFS actually stands for something else, something more suitable. For Fox-ache? For Fock-sake? For Fix-sack? You get the picture.
16  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Squinge found something interesting... on: 2006 April 06, 19:42:14
I don't see a controversy either. Stop trying to make one. End of story.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program:
This is definitely interesting, but has the minor drawback that Squinge has overridden the global pie menu. Kind of a no-no. Maybe I should make a more awesome version.

This would rock so much. Finally, we'd be able to have a specific nursery room on the third floor, far away from visitors and pains-in-the-asses, just big enough for skilling toys, cribs and changers, and not have to send an older sim on a five mile hike to the fridge and back just to feed the little brat. A more awesome version of this would be almost too awesome to bear.

Ugh, it really creeps me out that female sims have nipples until they become teens.
This didn't occur to me until you pointed it out. Thanks for making me disturbed, too.  Undecided What happens to them? Where do they go? Are they re-absorbed by the body? Do they fall off? Urg.
17  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: how to make alien sims? on: 2006 March 27, 23:14:08
Yeah, the white one is the skintone of the mannequins in bodyshop.

Isn't there also some hairiness with the alien skintone and babies? Or has this been fixed in an expansion somewhere?
18  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Post problems you've noticed, on: 2006 March 27, 23:12:55
Oh, it is. You can have gothic weddings and everything now.
19  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Post problems you've noticed, on: 2006 March 27, 20:01:31
http://www.pronupsims.fr.st/

Pronup Sims is your new friend.

Note: This website doesn't appear to work in Firefox anymore.  Sad
20  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Post problems you've noticed, on: 2006 March 27, 19:48:18
It is by design that sims wear their planned formal wear for getting married in OFB.
What's the reasoning for this?

Probably because so many people complained that the default Maxis wedding gear was boring and made everybody's weddings look the same.
21  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Techie help please on: 2006 March 22, 23:30:44

I put Avast in and was quite amused when this popped up - alarms ringing and all:


I learned that system mechanic really doesn't like .package files. It deletes them wherever it finds them, while it's running through its "remove junk and obsolete files" stage. Heh.

Some pictures of what my game looked like afterwards:

Brandi Broke with her funky 010101 hairdo and mesh clothing.
Marylena Hamilton and her trendy black gloves and tights.

Plus all my textures crapped out on me. Deleting everything from my clothing downloads folder fixed the problem, which was odd since the problems were showing up in a clean game with no modifications directly applied to any of the characters. Just the presence of the (now corrupted) clothing files in the downloads folder make the textures freak out.

It *is* quite amusing that System Mechanic thinks the package files are obsolete junk, in much the same way Avast! thinks that the game's a trojan. The makers of these programs are clearly trying to tell us something.
22  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Techie help please on: 2006 March 19, 22:15:18
If you are a light user, ie, someone who uses the computer to surf the net, play a few games, check email and that kind of thing, you aren't going to need a heavy duty IT grade antivirus and firewall. The average user probably has a better chance of being struck by lightening than being hacked, and really you just need something that scans incomming files and email for viruses, trojans and that kind of thing.

Oh, thank god somebody else has said it! Too many people are too frightened of what's going to happen to them without a firewall or antivirus running 24/7.

I regularly turn the whole shebang off if I'm playing games, and the only thing that's ever happened is my computer... runs a bit faster. Terrifying.
23  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Techie help please on: 2006 March 19, 13:09:07
I use Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security.  Even though it hogs resources, it does a good job.  Recently, the supreme techie in my family totally converted to Avast! on their computer because it was free, but I'm skeptical because something that's free can't really do as good of a job as Norton....

Sure it can.

The difference between Avast and Norton is that Norton wants to be everything it can possibly be, all at the same time. This makes it clunky and annoying. It also likes to decide for you what you should be doing with your computer, which will annoy anybody who has their own ideas about what's appropriate and what isn't. Avast! on the other hand, is just an antivirus program. It's not trying to be a soopa-elite-computer-media-multi-function-strategic-security-solution. It just looks for viruses and then removes them. Unlike Norton, which wants to quarantine them all instead of FIXING THEM. Gah.
24  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Techie help please on: 2006 March 18, 17:45:06
I've installed Avast! on my 'puter and I really like it. It includes a firewall as well. Its only drawback is slow scan time, it takes an hour and a half to scan 30 GB of stuff (but at the same time I'm browsing the internet and using Winamp

My mum swears by Avast. Says it's great. Smiley

I use AVG, since Norton is a bloated, system-resource-hogging, nannying pile of shit. But I'm sure you've learned that, and that's why you've decided to bin it. Wink

I also use Sygate personal firewall (free).
25  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: newest Maxis chat transcript on: 2006 March 18, 16:08:05
And what exactly does this mean?

If I make a sim eat cheesecake before they try for baby, how much chance will it add to my sim having twins?

MaxisHunter! (Mar 16, 2006 3:08:25 PM)
it pretty much makes it nigh-%100.


What is "nigh-%100" when it's at home?  Does he mean minus 100% because she said before they try for baby?  Let's face it, a Sim could eat cheesecake as a toddler, it'd still be before they tried for a baby.

According to twojeffs, it's set as default to 100%, he's got a hack to randomise it. No idea what the cut-off time is, though. Probably 24 sim hours, otherwise it'd just be stupid (not that that's an unusual occurence in Maxian programming).
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