OMG. Why must I be so indecisive.

I have made a very good and complete (if I do say so myself ) mod which makes sim interest-allocation and age change work exactly the way I want it. It's totally ready to upload. Nobody else cares about this, or is bothered by the unbalanced interest allocation as much as I am, or there would have been other mods made to fix it in the last 17 years. (It has only been broken since Freetime).

So why am I sitting here pondering about how many versions to offer, and do I offer a modular version or not, and would that make it too complicated, and I want people just to be able to grab one thing and not be confused.

Actually. This doesn't matter. I can combine the two main features into one. The tuning can be done within the main file. The third optional feature can be separate. I can super quickly make the other version I had another idea for. The end.

Thank you for coming to my Sims 2 Random Thought Spiral.

They'd meant to left same-sex romance out of the first game, but forgot to tell a newly-hired programmer about it:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/anna...ged-video-games

Spending basically all of my free time watching the Olympics right now instead of playing PC or console games or reading has me thinking about stadiums in the game again. Even though they're really not all that useful, I still love designing them for some reason, and at this point I've done baseball, soccer/football, basketball, hockey, a massive concert venue, gridiron football (part of my university that's not done yet), and now Quidditch... I'm running out of events lol! About all I can think of that I'm still excited to do as something new and different is a fantasy/medieval arena for something like a tournament/gladiatorial melee...

Nothing for track and field?

Have you considered making a neighbourhood deco building? You could still make something pretty, but not have to worry about making it usable.

Hi Zarathustra, I just wanted to say that my game can't exist with your Fisk's Bar along with Kingsman Tailors and that New York townhouse reserved for the Landgraabs. Any time I began a new game I needed to have Fisk's bar and I even once played it as a family business by converting it to a residential lot and making a humble 90s apartment upstairs and the back part into a humble backyard. It's so authentic and grungy in a good way, like a movie set.

I thought I could play for a bit today after finishing my work, but after 10 minutes of loading, I was too tired to do anything at all :') I'll try again tomorrow if I can.

That sometimes happens to me. I think you did the right thing -- leave the game and come back when we're properly rested. Our Sims deserve our full and undivided attention.

I'd change that to "DEMAND our full and undivided attention" because they're liable to go off and do weird things if we don't pay proper attention to their antics.

I revisited my older Strangetown save. I opened Kristen Loste Grunt's household. She was getting her daughter married, and the morning after the wedding, these were her wants. I don't know if this is the most ambitious bucket list I've ever seen or some kind of midlife crisis, but I've gotta admire it.



By the way, I don't play with secondary aspirations. This is all Kristen.

Stephen Tinker and Florence Delarosa kept picking fights with each other when I'm playing other households. I get to the Tinkers' house and find that they're triple-bolters. Interesting....

I'm in the middle of another complete computer breakdown-my desktop has stopped working completely,(I don't know why or how it happened) I can't fix it, and my tech guru is going through a personal crisis for the next week or so. (his wife died. Not a time to ask for anyone for favors, of any kind..)

Having to revert to the husband's laptop has been an very difficult and frustrating adventure but I can't do anything about my game because it is fully installed on the desktop and the laptop is not even close to having sufficient memory or space for my game. I cannot use the external drive for the game on the laptop because it's not even close to being compatible.

My withdrawal pains are bad right now and I rue the fact that I will probably lose the entire game of Thalia rebooted but hopefully not the others (plus all my newer downloads and other work) on the desktop, but it's looking damn bleak.

I do have backups on another external drive, but everything on my installed drive I'm afraid is gone. Have no other options but to wait for my friend to work through the formalities and hope that he can possibly save it or clone it when he does.

There are no other computer techs in this area that I know of.

I hate computers. Really.

Did anyone ever switch hair and skin systems because they got a new monitor? I feel like the ones I'm using don't look good on a modern screen, but I'm feeling much too lazy to change things up.

Oh no Fran, I hope someone can get your games off the hard drive somehow! What a shame, fingers crossed for a speedy solution.

I hope so, too. I'm working with the husband's laptop and it's giving me no end of trouble. Mouse pads are awful, and this one's the worst..the cursor moves all over the place, making writing anything a challenge.
I'm hoping that I'll get it fixed sometime. I figure if I can salvage the data on the drive I'll be happy. But of course I have to wait for the tech guru to be available for this.
I'm not going to push him to do anything right now.

My computer woes do not rate very highly against his personal ordeal and I know that.

The mouse pad (for a mouse), or the track pad (mouse substitute on a laptop)?

It should be possible to change settings for the click and track sensitivity for both a mouse and a trackpad, at least if Laptop Owner allows it.

You should also be able to plug your regular mouse into the laptop's USB slot and use it

I did plug in my regular mouse, but the problem kept happening-I downloaded an updated driver and that seems to have fixed that problem. It's a known problem with Dell Inspiron keypads.

OMG! I just found the solution to the "unsolvable" problem I've been having with the laundry mod. (Yes, using it again.)
Sometimes the clothes hanger outside would "leak", causing the lot to be permanently flooded and full of weeds, returning every sim hour.
Turns out it was due to off-lot wet laundry! Removing all wet laundry with Charles object editor solved it!! It's been solving so many issues for me lately, it's a godsend!

In my neighbourhood, I have a specific Sim that I use for testing/utility purposes.





She does various things:

- Carrying graves to the cemeteries after the ghost spawns.
- Testing community lots after modifying them.
- Fixing weird uniforms on townies.
- Summoning the unnamed baby pets from the adoption pool to give them proper names.
- In both house and inventory is a copy of every written novel and custom painting made so far in my neighbourhood.

So... does anyone else have a testing/utility Sim? Do they have any story? Do you actually play them, or just load it up whenever you need to do something?

I don't have a testing Sim, but a testing EA Games folder. In that folder, all the Desiderata Valley Sims are testers. They don't have stories. Just the other day, I canceled Natasha Una's attempt to paint and said "No, you don't get to have fun. It's the tester's life for you." [/Oliver Twist]

Yup
I've used Chester before (He was my first millionaire. Made an app or something...)
Then I used the Oldies (They did my whole 1920's series, tested 62 houses and then picked the one the liked the most to keep for for their own.)
Now I tend to start new building hoods, just for building... and I have a new member of the Tester family and their large breed dog to test each new build.
The Tester family is huge! I think there are more Testers than Smiths and Jones combined! ...at least in my SimNation.

Julien Cooke works as a Test Subject for me. I can't take his appearance, name and story seriously to integrate and play him normally.

I have a testing TS2 folder too. Strangetown is my testing hood! The Ramaswamis and the Oldies have so far been my test subjects or hosts (I have been making stuff related to sim creation, so I've been spawning new sims via the tombstone of L&D).

I also have a blank hood which is called something like cdkhkudh and everyone in it has a name like k j because it's a testing hood.

I have a testing hood. I spend half my time in it testing and half my time procrastinating and playing with the sims. XD