Sims can also learn random recipes by watching the Cookin' Cable, but I don't know if this is related to the Natural Cook trait.

The problem with the search can also be that you're using different words to look for the same thing. Once I was trying to find out if there'd been any posts about the types of grave stones that appear in the game, and coudn't find anything useful. After I posted my question, it was pointed out that there was already a post about this, but using the word "tombstone" instead, so it didn't show up in my searches for "grave stone". But, yes, sometimes people are just too lazy to do a search in the first place.

My sims either keep a part (or all) of their pre-pregnancy outfit if it's one of the pieces of clothing with pregnancy morphs, or they switch into an outfit that's sort of similar to what they were wearing. The ones that were wearing pants switch to a pair of pants, the ones wearing a dress to another dress.

I don't have access to my game screenshots at the moment, but I can post some pictures later on. Among the pieces of clothing that do have pregancy morphs are the T-shirt-over-a-long-sleeved shirt top, the skinny jeans, the jogging pants (and the matching top), and the spaghetti strap dress, at least. If you dress your sims in those before they switch to their pregnancy clothing, they should keep that same outfit during the pregnancy, also.

I have not seen the "dabble" option for beginner painters, either.

I have not tried this myself, but from what I've read, your sim should be able to sell his copy of his book to the bookstore, and after that the bookstore should be selling it.

Regarding the moving out with 0 simoleans issue, if you use the "Split household" action from Edit Town mode (by clicking on the household's house icon and selecting the Split action) instead of the Move option on their phones, the sim(s) that move out get a portion of the household money with them. At least that's how it's worked for me, I don't know if there is some reason people are not using this or mentioning it as an option.

From what I've read on the forums, the offspring of firemen sometimes or always have the ability to turn any fruit into a flame fruit.

I have an 8800 GTS with 512MB of RAM, and am able to set the sim detail to the highest. It doesn't seem to be high 100% of the time, though: townie sim detail on community lots sometimes goes to a lower setting, it seems.

What improved my general graphics detail quite a bit was doing the thing witch suggested and fix the anisotropic filtering settings. Even just setting it to x2 improved the detail to a great deal.

What does the killing of plants have to do with teeth hollowing out from the inside? I'm not following your train of thought. At all.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you elaborate a bit? Simpler how? I don't suffer from aversion to my "insides" but I don't see how it makes my life simpler, or how it would make me less of a hypochondriac.


What?

Nope, I use Chrome. I have the same problem both at my home and work computers (I haven't been able to install Firefox at work, but for some reason Chrome can easily be installed regardless of the limitations they have set up for the regular users on these computers.). What I've started doing now to deal with it is that if a page gets stuck loading, I use the stop button and then reload. Most of the time it works.

It's not quite as inconsistent with most other sites, at least not for me. The tubes to MATY give me more trouble than my other regular sites. But I'll live with it.

I have the same problem. Sometimes pages don't load at all, other times they load immediately. It's very inconsistent.

I had three magical gnomes on a lot, of which at least two moved around at first, one of them several times, but then it stopped and none of them moved for several sim weeks. Two of them were kicked at some point, but I'm not sure if they moved after that or not. In any case, it seems, most of the time they stay still and only move, seemingly, randomly.

I was browsing through my little brother's high school philosophy book recently, but had to put it down pretty fast as I was getting frustrated with what to me seemed like mindless babble, and using an entire paragraph to say something that could have been condensed to one sentence. I don't know, maybe it's just me getting old and cranky  .

That is an interesting theory, but what if we apply that to young children, or severely retarded or mentally ill grown-ups, who also may be judged not to be accountable for their actions. Do they not have rights, either, then? Was that discussed in the class? I'm thinking that theory has a giant loophole in it.

Amen

My (now dead) mad scientist:




Is this what people refer to as the "bus kill"? 

I wish I liked fish, because it would be a nice source of protein and some healthy kinds of fat. I like fish in an aquarium but not on my plate, though.

My sims, on the other hand, devote most of their lives to fishing.

That works in theory, but in modern Western countries, at least, most people do not hunt their meat. Sims can fish, but it doesn't exactly require them to be physically fit, either, when they can take a taxi to the nearest puddle and then stand still for hours while fishing. And when steaks grow in trees, they don't need to run after them, either.

Not that vegetarians are necessarily slim, either, sims or otherwise.

Agreed. I'm an almost-vegetarian because I find most meaty foods disgusting. Years ago I used to be a vegetarian for ethical reasons, nowadays I do eat some but not much because it mostly turns me off. I'm just generally a picky eater and many non-meat foods are not very appealing, either. I mostly live on dairy and grain products (plus candy).

Did you make the same mistake I did and not look into the household inventory?

Cool, thanks, case closed 

Thanks! I tried searching but I didn't use "tombstone" so it didn't come up.

So, it's not technically connected to the lifetime wish fulfillment, but it's probably hard to gain 150,000 points without fulfilling it.

Hmm, so are there two or three types of tombstones? Do sims with over 75,000 but under 150,000 get the flat one and sims with over 150,000 the tall one? If so, then what does the under 75,000 stone look like?

Edited to add: OK, I checked out the cemetary and there seem to be three types. So, the flat one is the lowest points one and the medium sized is the between 75,000 and 150,000 one?

What determines the type of grave stone/urn sims get when they die? Is it completely random, or is there some logic to it? I haven't had enough sims to die to have a large enough sample, but does it maybe have something to do with whether they got their lifetime wish fulfilled or not? A sim who had hers fulfilled got the tall version of the grave stone, while two others who didn't got the flat one.