The second room has been completely redecorated. You didn't just change the bed. You put expensive floors down, added a rug, added lights, got an expensive desk and a nice bookcase.

"More realistic"? Sims' breasts are already larger than most womens'.

I've had cats who follow me when I go on walks. I never could get my cat to accept the harness and leash I got for her, though. I once saw a guy on the subway with a cat; he put her on the seat next to him. She didn't seem to like it much, but she was obviously used to it.

Actually, that sounds more like kewian is qualified. Since she thinks she knows what a whore is, and all.

I can't imagine anything more disturbing than the little girls with boobs, either. But I bet it's out there. The Peggy buttcrack teenager is a close second.

I've had only three sets, but my very first Simpregnancy turned out to be twins. I had no real idea how to play the game at the time. I'm surprised everyone survived.

The secret to twins is to really not want twins, I think.

I don't mind ugly Sims, I mind mutant freak Sims. I have quite a few born in-game fuglies whom I rather like. The difference between them and Maxis ugly is that my fuglies look human. Maxis ugly is scary.

My experience is that the professors who bring food to exams give the toughest exams. Being nice to students isn't incompatible with teaching a challenging class.

Being a Sim is, though.

I dunno, those appear to be somewhat well-made (barring the uneven stripes), and while not exactly something I'd wear myself, I see that kind of stuff constantly in Florida, especially the bottoms. As Sim clothing goes, it's really not too bad. Not in the same league as the buttcrack pants, imo.

I can't remember the last time I had an accidental death in the game. My problem with them is that they are all so stupid, not that they occur often. I wouldn't mind life being a little more hazardous for Sims, I just object to having Will Wright's personal fears about fire projected onto my game, especially in the form they take in the game. And the running with scissors, and pool death, and Sims playing instruments till they starve to death. Dumbness. I think a lot of it is laziness on part of the programmers and developers.

There is so much potential in the game, and instead we get spontaneous combustion from working out.

About the 20-something comment: I've read lots of reviews of The Sims, and if EA/Maxis is going by reviewers, they could very well think that what people like most about the game is Sims dying for stupid, random, unrealistic reasons on a regular basis. My problem with the deaths isn't that they happen often in my game (they don't). It's that they're highly stupid. Causing a flaming inferno while cooking an omelet doesn't happen, and if someone does set something on fire accidentally, they don't stand there screaming about it waiting to burn to death. I caused a kitchen fire when I was about 10 and knew to get the baking soda, for crying out loud. I am also not terribly fond of the game designers' sense of "humor" in a lot of areas, because calling it sophomoric is an insult to sophomores.

This game is also a relaxation and "escape" for me. Especially in the building of houses that I can't currently afford, and the manipulation of my little people so that they enjoy their little lives. I am a (usually) benevolent goddess to my pixel people. Some of us are Utopian players, some of us aren't, and there's nothing wrong with either style.

Anyhow, I have nothing against giving my Sims a good scare now and then, and am going to buy them a scarecrow now. It's too bad it doesn't do something more interesting. Maybe it could be possessed around Harvest time or something.

I've never been attracted to any girl, so I don't see the point of kissing one. There have always been plenty of guys to kiss .

I agree about sexuality being a continuum. I'm waaaaay on the hetero side; I have kissed a girl, but found it completely pointless and dull.

I don't know why this would happen, but have you tried uninstalling in the order in which the expansion packs came out? Try re-installing Uni, then see if you can uninstall OFB, NL, Uni, then the base game. Just a guess.

He's super-sexy, but any relationship where the guy says "fear me, love me, do as I say" is one which I would run from screaming, probably changing my name and moving to another state. Now, if he gave the kid back and dropped the whole bossing me around schtick, we could talk.

Speaking of Bowie, I saw an interview with him in which he talked about how hard it was for him to come out as completely straight. He'd been part of the whole 70's bisexual New Wave thing, then realized later that no, he really only liked to boink women.

BetsyJane: http://www.parsimonious.org/fashion2/lingerie/5.shtml

Parsimonious has a lot of stuff that would be good for plant sims besides that as well.

You've never seen Labyrinth, have you?

That he doesn't like to point and laugh at others? What? You're missing a word or three.

I agree with witch, except I think you should give gali gray hair.

I lived in New York City, in an old apartment building. We kept the place spotless, and there were still roaches crawling up through the sink. I now live in Florida, where there are roaches outside. I have never been even remotely tempted to cry because of the existence of some bug in my vicinity, and no, I still don't understand it at all, nor do I think it's realistic, even if there are a few people in the world who exhibit this strange behavior.

What I hate about mourning is that it's invariably at the wrong time. Sims ignore the actual death completely, then hours or days later they stompinate a queue with sobbing. I wouldn't mind the Grim Reaper stompinating other actions, but no, they'll autonomously do other stupid crap like play cops n' robbers right in front of a grandfather's death scene.

Sims also seem to care more about roaches than the death of family members. Who on earth cries about bugs?

Yeah, and what happens next, anyway? I still hope there's a dire fate in store for Paris.

You want her more likely to do housework? All my nannies ever want to do is housework! They regularly put a meal in the oven, then stalk all the way across the house to empty a potty, or scrub a sink. The only competent nanny I've ever had was high outgoing, nice and playful, and low everything else.

As for bathing kiddies, Sims have two settings: obsessive and ignore. Ignore is far better. I like to get the kid fed and bathed before the stupid nanny comes, so the stupid nanny doesn't have to interact with it at all.

My only abductee is a vampire as well. Knowledge, so he was happy about it. The best part was that his girlfriend kept laughing at him about being probed.

I don't have this problem. Perhaps your bathroom's environment score is too high.

Well... I have nVidia cards, and the game runs like a dream. So it's not all of them.

Oh for...
http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?p=1531631

You'd better read the whole thing from the beginning, actually.