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#13576 Old 24th Oct 2024 at 4:41 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
It'll work okay on modern OS; I have it running on Win 10 in widescreen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sims1/comm..._on_windows_10/

(Internet archive link might be dead for a while though until they have it fixed)


Hate to tell you this, but the IA will probably not be back, if ever.

Between the hackers that have been attacking it recently and the Hachette book case, they're not doing well.

https://www.wired.com/story/interne...ks-case-appeal/
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"The Internet Archive’s legal woes are not over. In 2023, a group of music labels, including Universal Music Group and Sony, sued the archive in a copyright infringement case over a music digitization project. That case is still making its way through the courts. The damages could be up to $400 million, an amount that could pose an existential threat to the nonprofit.


They're on the hook for millions that they can't afford to pay. They're also being barred from having any copy protected works.

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#13577 Old 24th Oct 2024 at 6:07 PM
According to Jason Scott (who works for the Internet Archive):

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Just to set expectations: as the Internet Archive is up, additional work is being done and any issues or concerns may mean the site is taken down for a time. I assure you, we know when it is and are continuing our work.

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#13578 Old 24th Oct 2024 at 6:37 PM
Interesting. I didn't even know that they had a library alongside the Wayback Machine.
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#13579 Old 25th Oct 2024 at 11:16 AM
Quote: Originally posted by FranH
Hate to tell you this, but the IA will probably not be back, if ever.

Well the plans are that it will be; Brewster Kahle (the guy in charge) says they are still working, but they've had some significant damage done and are rebuilding databases and improving security.
https://x.com/brewster_kahle

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#13580 Old 28th Oct 2024 at 7:28 AM
I was reading a CBC article about Canada's largest abandoned house:

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"It really does amaze me that he brought in so much fake rock when we're literally sitting on rock," he said, adding the three heated pools are also a bit of an overkill.

Before running into financial troubles and being forced to abandon the mansion in 2005, Grant envisioned it could be used as a corporate retreat. The top floor features a massive office space, and there's only one bedroom in the whole house.


Sounds like an average Maxis house.

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#13581 Old 28th Oct 2024 at 7:05 PM
I've built a lot twice now. I had to restore to backups twice in the past few weeks and I now have to rebuild it a 3rd time. But now I'm paranoid that what I thought was causing the issue (SimPE/computer stuff) may NOT be the issue, and it's this lot that's cursed because I used LotAdjuster to move it. So now I'm backing up my game immediately before I rebuild it just in case.
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#13582 Old 29th Oct 2024 at 12:18 AM
I'm back to playing Sims 2 a bit. I noticed I seem to 'come and go' from Sims a lot. That is, I'll play it a ton for a few weeks and then just drop it for a few weeks/months and eventually come back to it again.

I must be really strange.

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Mad Poster
#13583 Old 29th Oct 2024 at 2:01 AM
Nothing strange about not hyperfixating on a hobby for long periods. Play it when you feel like it, don't play it when you don't - perfectly natural.

Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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#13584 Old 29th Oct 2024 at 2:40 PM
CAS lets you do all kinds of things, but it's much more restrictive about what it lets you save to the game.

I was in CAS (in Pleasantview) for the usual purpose of "rolling the pacifier". CAS generated three male Sims, before it generated a female one. I thought it would be fun to give her a child (in CAS) with each of the men. CAS did this with no bother and the children looked interesting, so I decided to save the "family" to the game. But the Family Tree part of CAS simply couldn't cope with her having children by different men, even though that's the way the children were made. If I gave a child two parents, then it made them married. And any other children I gave her, it would make her "husband" the father. Eventually, in order to get them all into the game, I made one child with both a father and a mother, but the other children were paired only with their father. And of course they all came out of CAS with the same surname.

. . . So I had quite a mess to sort out when I got them into the game. It's taken me several real hours, and two full Sim days to sort it out, using the Sim Manipulator and SimPE. Though I have to admit that I (and they) had quite a bit of fun as we were doing it! I used the Sim Manipulator last night to sort out relationships, surnames, and flags, and I used SimPE today to try to sort their memories. I left the woman, Julie Main, with her original surname, but gave the three men randomised surnames, made with my name generator (which I wrote years ago, long before I got The Sims, for the purpose of generating believable names to populate demo databases). So the men became Fergus Rhodes, Gregor Page and Norman Greene. To make it easier for me and my Sims to remember which man fathered which child, I gave the children double-barrelled names, with their dad's name first: Helen Rhodes-Main, Tom Page-Main and Emily Greene-Main. To save myself the bother of building a house for such a large and unusual "family", I moved them into the large 3-storey Maxis property at 210 Wright Way, which I have furnished quite basically. As I see it, they're not really rich, but by pooling their resources, they've been able to buy this quite up-market and prestigious property, where they intend to live as a commune.

Seeing it's in my game, you'll not be surprised to hear that it's a bisexual commune. In the course of time I suspect that (among the adults at least) everybody will be happy to woohoo with everybody else! I am using a version of Chris Hatch's bouquet to make them more receptive to each other's advances. Of course there are occasional disagreements, but, no doubt with the help of the "no jealousy at all" mod that Andrew and Julian made me get, they all seem to be getting on well together. The children are quite happy to play together too. Right at the moment the boy, Tom, is trying to play quietly with his toy car, while the two girls are rampaging about the bedroom round him, trying to shoot each other as they play cops and robbers. I rather like this sort of gentle reversal of traditional gender roles, and it's quite autonomous.

Here are a couple of (spoilered) pictures:

Screenshots

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#13585 Old 30th Oct 2024 at 6:14 PM
Funny lot imposter moment. My Sugar Cube Bowling lot is a teen club, so I used LotAdjuster to add a road to the side, then placed invisible skating rinks on the side so teens could roller skate in the street. Looks and works great on the lot, but in hood view...

Screenshots
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#13586 Old 31st Oct 2024 at 5:54 PM
Quote: Originally posted by inspiredzone
Funny lot imposter moment. My Sugar Cube Bowling lot is a teen club, so I used LotAdjuster to add a road to the side, then placed invisible skating rinks on the side so teens could roller skate in the street. Looks and works great on the lot, but in hood view...



You need this hehe. https://modthesims.info/d/301776/box-of-skates.html
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#13587 Old 31st Oct 2024 at 6:23 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...ew-pagonis.html

To be fair, if you look closely at his pics, he's got darker-colored briefs on under the cardboard.

Makes me wonder if he's playing the sims 2 ??

Not often that I see anything sims-related in the mainstream media so ....

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Theorist
#13588 Old Yesterday at 6:17 AM
just has another "huh" moment ..so we know that the Curious family tree is a bit wonky due to PT9 impregnating Glam Curious .. this was to have happened BEFORE Jenny an the boys were born as Glam got with Kitty Hogleg after the girls were born.
..
Jenny has 13 days to elder
Pascal has 18 days to elder
Vidcund has 22 days to elder
Lazlo has 27 days to elder
And yet ...
Lola and Chloe Curious both have 25 days to elder .. so they're both YOUNGER than Jenny, Pascal, and Vidcund ... lol

PT9 has 15 days left (he's already an elder) .. so how old is he reeeally ... hahahaha

But Aliens age different than normal sims you might say .. which you could see it that way .. so does that mean that Nina and Dina are actually older than their 24 days to elder .. granted their only 1/3 alien, but they still have alien genes .. :P
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#13589 Old Yesterday at 7:03 AM
If you look in Olive's memories, Nervous has to be younger than Buck because he was born after Lyla died. The detail proofreading in that neighborhood was very poor and we, as readers, just have to run with it as best we can.

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#13590 Old Yesterday at 10:58 AM
@Peni Griffin You really have to play and be attentive to realize those things, I understand why they left it like that. It is difficult to organize the order of events and you would have to write everything down or have it very clear in your mind in addition to spending a few days focused to do it well. XD It's happening to me with my custom hoods with the order of memories. Deciding who is older, who was born first and the rest is a pain xD
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#13591 Old Yesterday at 12:00 PM
Nervous is younger than Buck?

Nervous is the Child of Death. Maybe Death is speeding up his aging because he wants him back?

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#13592 Old Yesterday at 5:19 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Sokisims
@Peni Griffin You really have to play and be attentive to realize those things, I understand why they left it like that. It is difficult to organize the order of events and you would have to write everything down or have it very clear in your mind in addition to spending a few days focused to do it well. XD It's happening to me with my custom hoods with the order of memories. Deciding who is older, who was born first and the rest is a pain xD


It is kind of unprofessional when they're selling the game.

Quote: Originally posted by AndrewGloria
Nervous is younger than Buck?

Nervous is the Child of Death. Maybe Death is speeding up his aging because he wants him back?


That's a scary thought.
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#13593 Old Yesterday at 5:26 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
It is kind of unprofessional when they're selling the game.



That's a scary thought.


I am the first to criticize these types of bad practices and leaving games half-finished and broken. xD Strangetown is unplayable without clean templates.
Memories and lore need more time than they were given. Still it was pretty good.
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#13594 Old Yesterday at 6:05 PM
Quote: Originally posted by iforgot
I'm back to playing Sims 2 a bit. I noticed I seem to 'come and go' from Sims a lot. That is, I'll play it a ton for a few weeks and then just drop it for a few weeks/months and eventually come back to it again.

I must be really strange.


This is also me and basically the only reason why I keep detailed notes in my custom neighborhood about every family and what they were doing in the last round because I never know if I will keep playing tomorrow or 8 months later.

Okay I need to go as pink flashing next year I will just be T-posing all night
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