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1  TS2: Burnination / Peasantry / Re: Kitchen & Bath Stuff on: 2009 February 15, 19:01:15
And I've heard that you can play games for Windows on Mac by using a virtual OS. Am I Correct?

You can but the performance hit is significant. Both of the lead commercial virtualization programs support DirectX acceleration, but the performance hit is significant.

Do you mean something like VirtualPC?

VirtualPC on Macs was always emulation, not virtualization. VPC never made it over to Intel Macs as virtualization product, largely because Microsoft bought out the product from Connectix.
2  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Can I install The Sim 2 without having to go through the whole enchilada on: 2009 February 15, 03:12:48
4. For the CEP ...well, actually, you can just grab it(plus the CEPextra files), but there is also a CEP file in the core files that it uses to work. It is the _EnableColorOptionsMMAT.package. It is found in PROGRAM FILES\EA Games\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Sims3D, it will have to go back there.

Wouldn't it be easier to just reinstall CEP?
3  TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: TS3 L&P on: 2009 February 14, 06:31:06
Speaking of TS3 look what the CC creators made.



DEAR FUCKING GOD WTF IS THAT THING!

They made José Eber?
4  TS2: Burnination / Peasantry / Re: Kitchen & Bath Stuff on: 2009 February 14, 05:01:02
Does anyone know where to find the Kitchen & Bath stuff that was added to the store? I'm willing to contribute funds, but I can't download it because I have a mac. Grr....

Do you have an Intel based Mac? If yes, partition using Bootcamp and play in Windows. You'll be much, much happier with the experience.
5  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Oops! QuickTime broke it! (Mac issue) on: 2009 February 13, 05:44:45
Could anyone who has done this tell me if they're getting securom-related problems on the Mac side?

Windows can't even see HFS+ partitions without 3rd party software -- securom cannot fuck up what it cannot see.

Unless suckrom burns out your media drive, that is. 

If you want to be truly paranoid, don't do the install when booted into Windows -- do it in a VMWare or Parallels session that's virtualizing your Bootcamp partition. That way Windows has no direct hardware access to the optical drive.
6  TS2: Burnination / Peasantry / Re: Super Kick-ass Tipi/Teepee by Ambular on: 2009 February 05, 05:14:59
Honastly, somnambuwatsit, why haven't we had sex yet?!

Because my wife might object to that?

Bleh!  Tipi is not meant to produce fight!  Cannibalism strictly optional.  :p

No! No! It's great work, I nabbed it.

No sense of humor much? GTFO my thread, douchebag. Have a nice day. Smiley

"cannibal tribes" is right out of the 19th century equivalent of the Weekly World News. It's a racist anachronism. It's not something I joke about.

Edit * 2: Missed a period, then inserted it in the wrong place. Damn me.
7  TS2: Burnination / Peasantry / Re: Super Kick-ass Tipi/Teepee by Ambular on: 2009 February 05, 04:47:06
Now grab you a OMGWTFBBQ and make you some cannibal tribes.

WTF? Antiquated racist stereotype much?
8  TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: TS3 L&P on: 2009 February 04, 08:20:25
FAQ describes it quite well.

Yes yes I wandered off into the wilderness of reality for a moment.
9  TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: TS3 L&P on: 2009 February 04, 05:07:19
(Also, it's ever so slightly disturbing to think of people on the internet being born in the 90s, especially the latter half of them. It makes me feel old, though I'm only a 24 myself.)

Sigh. I was already downloading Mosaic betas before these youngins were born -- and I'm only 28.
10  TS2: Burnination / Peasantry / Re: Fixed Objects for Chimneys on: 2009 February 01, 05:26:46
Mantle, not chimney. Thanks though.
11  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: EAxis House of Phail: January 09 on: 2009 January 31, 01:46:30
In any case, I am currently annoyed with the total boredom and lack of inspired decoration that is Academie Le Tour, and am redecorating everything there.

My current obsession as well, especially after returning to University in a post-Seasons world. The Library at Academie Le Tour doesn't even have bathrooms -- it has a fucking outhouse.  Undecided
12  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More FUBAR Than You January: Gameplay Glitches on: 2009 January 31, 01:39:47
While the book textures have migrated themselves to the nursery floor.

That looks like my apartment. Only more orderly.
13  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Oops! QuickTime broke it! (Mac issue) on: 2009 January 30, 04:56:17
ARR! Besides, by the time Aspyr gets the next expansion pack out you'll be able to get The Sims 2 Complete Collection in the bargain bin for $9.99.  Tongue

You don't even need to Arrr... the base game and early expansion/stuff packs are bargain-bin material already and the rest can be cheaply obtained via Craigslist or eBay. Easily (legally) obtainable for less than USD150 (aka three Aspyr-priced EPs...)
14  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Oops! QuickTime broke it! (Mac issue) on: 2009 January 25, 06:46:36
At least it looks like you are not alone. (And really... set aside a Bootcamp partition and play in Windows. Aspyr is just concentrated shit when it comes to EA ports)
15  TS2: Burnination / Oops! You Broke It! / Re: Oops! QuickTime broke it! (Mac issue) on: 2009 January 25, 05:42:17
I no longer have a Mac install of TS2 so this is a long shot: Aspyr has their launch movie saved out as a QuickTime file. Find that file and rename it -- the game is smart enough to gracefully skip the launch movie if it can't be found.
16  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More FUBAR Than You January: Gameplay Glitches on: 2009 January 15, 07:14:54
And finally... what the hell is on fire?
...
It started without warning; there was no thunder or lightning, nothing on that tile to burn.  Mystery fire!

Clearly God is speaking to the dog.
17  TS2: Burnination / Planet K 20X6 / Re: More Awful Than You! January: Accessories on: 2009 January 03, 03:56:28
EAUGH. Why would you even...? That seems unsanitary, at best, not to mention the fact that the piercing is, apparently, hovering below the ear lobe of the victim Sim. Also, the model's mouth is crazy. Like, Assmitten crazy, only it doesn't actually look good.

It's poorly executed, but a safety pin as a piercing is not exactly novel.
18  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: What is Abobe Flash Player? on: 2009 January 01, 06:24:15
No, actually, Abode sounds more like home, or a dwelling place.  Perhaps you pronounce it differently than I? 

No... no... I've been exposed to Adobe marketingese and L&P where it is pronounced as though it had an accent mark on the e.
19  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: What is Abobe Flash Player? on: 2008 December 31, 05:07:43
Blergh. Abode. Sounds like a surfer or Palin spawn.
20  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Stuff Packs in Houses? on: 2008 December 04, 05:01:23
<sigh> I know.  I even have one of those partitions, and yet I can't bear to take my oldest and most developed 'hoods over to the other side.  I think it's because I lack toolz.  I'd have to leave behind all my picture-taking, editing, writing, hyperlinked family-tree-sim-bio mac toolz... </sigh>

Just what tools are you referring to?
21  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Stuff Packs in Houses? on: 2008 December 03, 18:09:59
I'd also point out that mac users don't have much of an alternative to the EAxis installer.  Clean Installer isn't available in OS X, and jfade's MacUnpac doesn't handle file sizes that are too large.  Given that there are next to no SPs and the last 3 EPs are MIA for macs, it pretty much means that all mac users will be unable to use lots made with later EPs/SPs.

And this... this is what we get for buying from Aspyr. The best solution for any Mac user is to partition; install WindowsXP via Bootcamp; and just treat the Windows partition as a dedicated gaming partition. (I work and make money on the Mac -- I use Windows for games.)
22  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Round and round she goes, where she stops hopefully someone knows. on: 2008 September 27, 19:02:08
Clearly this is a sign of demonic possession.
23  Serious Business / Spore Discussions / Re: Lest we forget: SPORE on: 2008 September 09, 01:56:19
Somewhat offtopic, but MATY and Pescado got mentioned in the Mefi thread on Spore --  by someone younger than me and with a lower user-number. Harumph.
24  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: AL gameplay questions and help on: 2008 September 03, 01:45:50
A strange thing I noticed when making my trailer park last night. I used the floor separators (you know to separate flooring types) and everything inside the trailer beyond the point of the separator acts like it's in the community area. I cannot buy anything and place them on my own sim floors! And yes there is only one apartment door on each unit. I can actually see my sim neighbors kitchen appliances. I didn't use the separator in one of the trailers and that is the only one that acts normal. So I think this is a bug that needs fixing. Maybe I can get a screen up later. Anyone notice this yet?

To follow-up SJActress, it's a known issue.
25  TS2: Burnination / The Podium / Re: Apartment Life: Obligatory Hate/Love Topic on: 2008 September 02, 21:28:10
Has anybody else noticed how rediculessly small the neighbourhood powerplant ploppable seems to be compared to the skyscrapers? Its tiny, the plant loading bay doors are only as tall as the skyscraper main doors!

Yeah the lack of scale really irritates me; hopefully someone more skilled than I will scale it up to a more suitable dimension. (And then line it up just so with the pig balloon)
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