The "use coupon" option appears on dining podium if a nonplayable member of a casual group has one in their inventory.

I learned that children can take part in Welcome Wagon visits. Normally they're not a available, because, like teens, they are at school at 12:30 p.m. on Mondays, when Welcome Wagon visits usually occur. But I recently enrolled Alexander Goth in Simlogical Flexi-School, so he could attend Bella and Mortimer's remarriage. Anyway all children need some time off school, and I use Simlogical Flexi-School to simulate school holidays or vacations. So, when the Daly family moved into 170 Sim Lane, Pleasantview, across the road from the Goth mansion, the Goths: Mortimer, Bella and Alexander came across the road to welcome them to the neighbourhood. Since I started using Simlogical Flexi-School (over ten years ago), I quite often get teens in the Welcome Wagon, but Alexander Goth is the first child -- the first in nearly twelve years playing The Sims.

Now I noticed another oddity about 170 Sim Lane. When I looked at the house in Neighbourhood View, the price was something over §28K. But when I opened the house in Lot View, to try to judge its suitability for my Daly CAS family, I noticed the price was about §24K! I added a double bed to one of the rooms, saved the lot, and exited to the neighbourhood, and found that the buying price (in Neighbourhood View) had dropped to about §24.5K! Unfortunately I didn't take note of the exact values, but the price change was a considerable help to the Daly family when it came to furnishing their new house. Now it should be noted that I have Tarlia's/meetmetotheriver's version of Pleasantview, so it may not be the same in the Maxis original version, but being able to save §4K in the price of a house just by adding a bed is certainly remarkable! Still, the Dalys aren't complaining!

It has really proved fortuitous for Alexander that he went along with his parents to welcome the newcomers. As I noted a few weeks ago, Alexander Goth must be the most uptight child I have ever come across, in Real Life or in The Sims. Maybe Mortimer and Cassandra were not the best companions for a sensitive child who lost his mother in circumstances he couldn't begin to understand. He desperately needs contact with friends his own age to bring him out of his shell. When I was playing the Goth household, I got a message that Alexander was about to become a teen. My immediate response was to turn Aging off -- Alexander is nothing like ready to become a teenager! Fortunately the Dalys have two boys about Alexander's age -- the twins Alan an Alex. Maybe they took compassion on Alexander when they saw him, but they immediately began to include him in their games and conversations. He's already made friends with Alan Daly, and I'm sure it won't be long till he makes friends with Alex Daly too.

A glitch in the matrix ??
Look at the date on this pkg. I downloaded; to unlock pet coats colors (love the rainbow one !) and other pet content :

Probably just be a glitch, possibly a system error that resets the clock/date, or a faulty CMOS battery for a laptop, or any of the other things that can cause Windows to show a faulty date for files, or for the computer. Intentionally tampering with the date is also a possibility. I think some programs also resets dates (I've noticed some files from the Booty say 1998, which is definitely before TS2 came out, so something they did to "fix" the files probably caused this).

Anyway, as long as the file works, it should be fine (as long as your computer doesn't think it's 2099 - then you could have some problems brewing under its hood).

It's also possible, though imo unlikely, that it was done deliberately for god knows what reason. (It does come into effect when modding Morrowind— texture/mesh replacers need to be newer than the vanilla files, so tampering with timestamps is often done.)

If you place a Mahjong table and then chairs around it, picking up the table also picks up the chairs.

The chairs are contained inside the table like barstools at the food stand.

The poker table also works that way, I believe.

^ Would be nice if dining tables and desks also worked like that...

I think it's that way in Sims 3 also; would be so useful for dining tables to work like that because then we'd be able to turn them 45 degrees.

The arcade machine doesn't wake up Sims.

I love sleeping with white noise and one day, instead of blizzard/rain sounds/crackling fireplace, I put on a no-commentary Sims 2 let's play from YouTube. It felt so relaxing, I could feel myself dozing off pretty fast. That is, until an unknown, continuous, annoying sound happened.

It was the arcade machine. I never buy arcade games for my Sims, so that's why I didn't know where the sound was coming from. In around 10 minutes of the hour-long let's play, the person playing the game bought their Sims the arcade and Sims kept playing it, effectively ruining the footage as a background noise for me.

I didn't mind the music from for example buy mode and hood view, but had quite the trouble finding peace with the arcade sounds. And I can't allow my Sims (despite them not ever owning an arcade machine) to sleep through those god-awful sounds - I must find a fix asap

Using Dolphin's Control-this-Sim on a dorm lot sometimes results in a dormie vacating their room so that the controlled Sim (both times non-YA) can claim it.

The flashing light from lightning can just... get stuck, and you just have a white screen. Reloading the lot fixed it.

Until now, I thought that a megahood/uberhood was a huge main hood with all of the lots and sims from other hoods and all the scenery from other hoods blended. Maybe it's because I tried doing it as a kid by moving everything from Pleasantview and Strangetown to Veronaville.

Sending a Sim to their freshly-built store, the Open/Closed Signs are always set to open by default. If I just send them home, it automatically switches to closed.

Apparently, if your sim gets in a fight, and they happen to have dead relatives buried on the lot, those relatives' ghosts WILL pop out to cheer on the sim during the fight. Found this out tonight because Peponi and Lerato's ghosts started cheering Olive on as she... well, got her ass handed to her, admittedly, by Buzz.

I discovered that you can (at least in my game) have two pixels working on the "poor man's junk car'. I had one playing with the engine and the other pixel doing the body work.

I think it would be the same for anyone's game.