stephbass
Asinine Airhead
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Messers Awesome, the horrific spelling & grammatical errors unleashed upon me and other FreeTime victims is driving me nuts. Is there any way to retype the in-game chance cards/pop-ups/whatever? I thought I could live through the "Hey David, how's it going I haven't seen you much lately" peeve, but I don't know if I can go on for much longer with the Babelfish-esque run-ons we've been subjected to in this installment.
I am dangerously unawesome - no brains for computational logic or arithmetic, and while I do own SimPE, I really only look at it. Is it possible in SimPE/at all? Would it be relatively easy if so?
Seriously though, I thought game publishers had armies of beta testers to catch this rubbish.
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J. M. Pescado
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Fixing spelling errors in the game is easy enough to do: just fix the relevant string entry. Finding it can be a bit tricky, though.
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.
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stephbass
Asinine Airhead
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Is it going to frustrate you to no end if I ask what a string entry is?
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Gwill
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Is it going to frustrate you to no end if I ask what a string entry is?
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Charamei
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A string is not an integer or a boolean. There ya go  Okay, okay... it's text. And the entry is where it is entered. |
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Assmitten
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Is that FOR REALS? They should be ashamed. For reals.
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<notovny> Aww, yeah, WOODBEAST.
<kutto> Keep it in your pants, notovny.
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Emma
Goopy Lover
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All Pescados Suck.
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This is my current favourite text hash up in the game:
<image snip> Um...what? LOL! |
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Simsample
Knuckleheaded Knob
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It seems to have been fixed for FT (that screenshot was taken with BV), unless there are several messages depending upon sim personality or something.
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Alex
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So, uh... What exactly is going on there? That pop-up is absolutely atrocious! Did they whack some chinese text into babelfish or something?
I agree that the spelling is incredibly infuriating. Reading some of the chance cards make a grammar freak like me want to gouge my eyes out.
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Quinctia
Corpulent Cretin
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Now that I reread it, it looks like a text string that wasn't actually done before the game shipped.
Once in awhile, if I couldn't think of something to title a paper I was writing, I'd put a huge bold title on top: INSERT TITLE HERE.
If you look at the end of that box is says: TEMP. Needs to be written for reals.
As I am a horrible person who tends to use cutesy made up terms all the time like "for reals," I think that's what's going on here. Sounds like a few different potential lines and then a "Don't forget to finish this!!!!!" note. Which someone forgot to finish.
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BastDawn
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I once read a published paperback novel that had the text "insert diagram here" written in bold text between paragraphs.  |
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Gwill
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I accidentally sent a job application where I forgot to change [company name] and some other variable from my form letter. No one complained, but I didn't get called to interview either.
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