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@raindropdrinkwater replied to your post “@phinae-simblr replied to your post “The More You Know - TS2 #1” …”

Bizarre. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi ils ont cache des morceaux!

Je me le demande aussi! Beaucoup de ces artistes/bands sont européens. Peut-être que Maxis voulait faire plaisir aux joueurs non américains anglophones?

[annegirl13]

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On the start of the Tinker Round:

penig replied to your photoset “Stephen and Wanda Tinker were thrilled when their adoption request...”

It's good that Stephen finds Wanda hot when she's pregnant.

Yeah, it’s definitely a good thing.  I think he finds her hot no matter what...She finds him pretty equally hot, so that’s also good.

raindropdrinkwater replied to your photoset “Stephen and Wanda Tinker were thrilled when their adoption request...”

Gosh this sounds insanely difficult! Good luck! XD

On Drabbles:

nestadaughter reblogged your photo and added:

I wasn’t sure if you played John before, but I figured he was popular enough a character to request him. And it turned out well! John is such a trainwreck. And Natasha was lovely. Grilled cheese and nothing else matters ;)

At some point I will go through with my long-held plan to recreate Desiderata Valley in my non-Freetime game and play with all those characters. And the ones from Belladonna Cove.  I’ve downloaded them from MaxisTaste about 17 times...

In the meantime, I have seen so many people play John and Natasha (and visited their pages on the Sims Wiki so many times) that I can figure out how to write them.  I had a lot of fun coming up with my own version of them.  :)

jaydesims replied to your post “16, Don Lothario, for the Drabble thing? ^__^”

This was so beautifully done! Thank you so much! <3

You are so welcome.  It was really fun to write!  I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[foxglovesims]

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Replies to @simblu, @shastakiss, @soloriya and @raindropdrinkwater

gotta love sims 2 for the ridic scenarios. :)

Oh yea, too true! I love that the game actually makes me laugh out loud at the silliness :D

simblu replied to your photoset “Here comes the twins… and neither of them have any alien genetics!...”

cool names

Thank you!! I can’t think of names at all so i use a cool random generator for all my names :D

shastakiss replied to your photoset “The headmaster is coming over later and Lea thinks this is the best...”

popcorn pic is my favorite pic of 2017 :D

Haha! Thank yoou<3 I was editing the pics and just noticed the hamster right there and watching... too funny to ignore xD

soloriya replied to your photoset “30 Days of Sim Making Challenge - Day 13 - Rich & Gaudy Catrine Von...”

i really love how you do this challenge! so many different and interesting characters!

You are too sweet <3 Thank yooou! I usually do not put too much effort into my characters and think of cool backstories so this challenge is very fun for me and is to help me get better :D

simblu replied to your photoset “Lea picked the perfect time to invite the headmaster over. At least...”

I'll have to grab that.. custom food right?

I believe this food comes with holiday stuff pack? You have to have put the cornucopia out and then you can cook it. I read it somewhere and had to try. Don’t know the level of cooking either xD

raindropdrinkwater replied to your photoset “Lea buys Estella a bribe hamster named Kevin.  Even Kevin wants out.”

Awww! XD (Estella's amazing, btw!)

Awwww :) Thank you, i love her too!

[deedee-sims]

Griffinmere replies :)

eliskuyathurwolf replied to your photoset “Some more Frida and Meow :)”

That poor cat o.O

eulaliasims replied to your photoset “Some more Frida and Meow :)”

Meow's face looks incredible in that pic. xD                

Heh, maybe she didn’t enjoy it as much as Frida :P :D

soloriya replied to your photoset “And Velma is expecting again! ^^”

^___^

Yay for more babies! ^^

eulaliasims replied to your photoset “The Novak’s bought a cat, Meow! (=^･ω･^=)”

Awww, look at her little ears! <3

They’re cute! I wanted a cat that looks a bit different from my usual cats, and this small ears type (it was scottish or something) looked so cute! :D

wiksims replied to your photoset “Some more Frida and Meow :)”

Meow has different eyes does it? One brown, one gray.

Yup, that’s true! You’re a great observer! :D

dreadan replied to your photoset “The Novak’s bought a cat, Meow! (=^･ω･^=)”

so cute

catnip-sims replied to your photoset “The Novak’s bought a cat, Meow! (=^･ω･^=)”

<3

soloriya replied to your photoset “The Novak’s bought a cat, Meow! (=^･ω･^=)”

omg!! xDD ♥

I love pixel cats <3 (=^･ω･^=)

raindropdrinkwater replied to your photo “Griffinmere - Round 9: Novak on my LJ! As usual, cat, baby, business...”

So cute!

Cuteness everywhere, yay! :D

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Replies while TS2 loads. :)

I’ve been spoiled by Castaway. I’m like “Whyyyyyy is this taking so loooooooong?” 

So! For @emeraldfalconsims, @holleyberry, @penig, @raindropdrinkwater, @didilysims, and @fracturedmoonlight...

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “Chemistry among the first seven teens...”

Clicking on the lightning bolt actually sorts the chemistry matches in descending order.

Really? I did not know that. Swear, all these years playing this game, and ya still learn new things every day! Thank you!

holleyberry replied to your photoset “Random pics of the Seven of Nine (Heh…) on their first day on their...”

Star Trek reference ftw

Weeeel, you can take the girl out of the fandom, but you can’t take the fandom out of the girl. :)

penig replied to your photoset “When the first seven of the Horde of Nine aged to teen, I decided to...”

Rafael? Popularity? WTF?

‘Twas the roll of the dice! Well, OK, the roll of the random number generator, but you know what I mean. :) Generally, I actually like it when the aspiration and/or LTW is difficult or contrary to the Sim’s personality or behavior, which is why I prefer to assign them randomly rather than picking the one that “fits.” It’s like the painfully shy kid who just wants to be part of the “in” crowd but never will be. It’s sad on the one hand, but kind of an enjoyable challenge sort of thing to play on the other. Sometimes the pixel succeeds despite the odds, sometimes not.

holleyberry replied to your photo “The Horde is teening up! This is how the middle 5 fared. They did...”

Eeeeeeeeeeee! I can not wait to see what the Sandy/Goopy baby looks like.

Well, I have seen Baby BruCarbo (who’s a toddler at the point where I’m currently at) and...Well, cute. :) And Goopy totally needs to be the patriarch of an entire country. He lives for kids, especially toddlers. It’s almost like they’re on his level or something. ;)

raindropdrinkwater replied to your photoset “Captioned randoms from the Castaway island. (Sorry for the weird...”

Looks like Zion might be a mini-clone of Ben. <3

Oh, he just might be! *cough* It’s scaaaaaaary!

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “Yup, it’s that time again...”

The sim's DNA, if you look at it in SimPE, stores both their dominant (expressed) and recessive genes. If a recessive keeps getting passed along, but keeps being covered up by a dominant from the other side, it could come up at ANY point further down the line, provided the conditions are right.

Yeah, you’re right. I was thinking more like it having a sort of inventory to choose from, but you’re right that it’s a two-allele binary thing. Well, let’s hope that green eyes keep getting passed along as a recessive because otherwise I doubt they’ll be seen again once Andrea dies. :(

didilysims replied to your photoset “Alexander GilsCarbo Appreciation Post! His favorite pastimes: Telling...”

I think Orlando heard you complaining about his bad family skills.

I think it was the threats of prolonged, painful death that did it. Just screaming, “Get yer ass over there and change that diaper!” didn’t seem to be doing the trick... :)

didilysims replied to your post “Yup, it’s that time again...”

Ah I see. A useful tool in the game, but they definitely should have rethought the colour. Neon green doesn't exactly scream castaway aesthetic.

I think they just wanted to make it really noticeable, as the portals can tend to get sort of lost amongst all the other jungle greenery. Well, either that, or they wanted to match the plumbbobs which don’t exit in my game because I haaaaaaaate them. Hate. So much hate. Something like red would actually show better, but there’s so much red=bad association out there that they probably went with green=go. :) Well, no, actually, the arrows ARE red in the story if the portal hasn’t been unlocked yet, so...Yeah, it probably is a green=go thing.

fracturedmoonlight replied to your post “Sims 2 HELP!!!!”

Getting new blocks still works. I just got a new set a few days ago. Really the safest way to do things.

I tried it a while back, and it didn’t work. Nysha had reblogged and said that it’s up and down, which I guess isn’t surprising since it’s a mostly defunct website now. Maybe it depends on where you access it from, in terms of your IP? I dunno, I really don’t know much of anything about this stuff. :) So, I just go with random number generation these days, on the rare occasions when I need a GUID. Especially since most the things I make that need them -- fence/half-wall recolors and custom roofs, mostly -- won’t conflict with objects in other categories even if they have the same GUID. 

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@raindropdrinkwater replied to your post “@raindropdrinkwater replied to your post “@phinae-simblr replied to...”

Oui m'enfin en meme temps, la musique ne connait pas de frontieres! J'espere que quelqu'un arrivera a debloquer les morceaux.

Tu as complètement raison! Et ces morceaux sont en simlish! Pour l’instant, une façon de les débloquer est de les extraire avec SimPE.

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For @holleyberry, @megadevotedlyfuriousbouquet, and @raindropdrinkwater. ( @emeraldfalconsims is getting one of their own because -- SURPRISE! -- I babbled. :) )

holleyberry replied to your post “URGH!”

What a pain in the ass! At least it's done and you can play again.

It was a pain the ass, buuuuuuuuut at least now I know that my pirated backup of the complete game actually works! I had to use it for the reinstall since all my physical disks are back in Colorado. And if it means I can create empty neighborhoods, it’ll be worth it. :)

megadevotedlyfuriousbouquet replied to your post “URGH!”

Currently trying to fix broken things in my game as well. Hoping to avoid a reinstall. Fingers crossed.

I hope you can get it sorted. :( But if you have to do it, reinstalling isn’t that bad. Just tedious. And at least it doesn’t mean losing neighborhoods like having something go wrong with the files in Documents does.

raindropdrinkwater replied to your photo “You know…I think Sandy Bruty might be a little bit insane. All during...”

I giggle like a loon whenever you use the word "toddlerate". Just so you know.

Well, I’m happy to make you giggle. :D I like “adulterate” for the teen/adult transition, since it has multiple meanings. :) But yeah, toddlerate is good, too. :)

holleyberry replied to your photo “You know…I think Sandy Bruty might be a little bit insane. All during...”

I have to admit. I am a little disappointed Goopy and Sandy haven't got it on yet. They made a beeline for each other in my game.

Right???! I dunno what’s with these two. Only one bolt, but... *sigh* That said, Goopy and Sandy have gotten it on. It’s just that there’s been no conceiving. *cough* At least not yet at this point in the “story.”*cough*

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‘Tis reply time!

For @criquette-was-here, @alexbgd, @scibirg, @simsllama, @didilysims, @emeraldfalconsims, @getmygameon, @holleyberry, @raindropdrinkwater, and @ilikefishfood...

Hilarious! Wandering through original game resources is always a great fun ��

This was actually the first time I’ve seen something like that. Maybe I need to pay closer attention...

alexbgd replied to your post “*plays Castaway Stories* WHY DOES THE TAB KEY NOT WORK??! Oh, right,...”

I also wish they have button for hunger, bathroom etc in sims 2 like in castaway..

scibirg replied to your post “*plays Castaway Stories* WHY DOES THE TAB KEY NOT WORK??! Oh, right,...”

what i like the most in castaway are the keys you can press to get sims to fill their motives, like H for Hunger. i always try to press h when i get back to ts2.

Yeah, those buttons ARE really nice! It’d be nice to have them for TS2. They really reduce the mouse clicks, if you use them. Which I guess was kinda the point since the Stories games were designed with laptops in mind. Not everyone has a mouse for their laptop and, at the time the games were made, not all laptops had nice touchpads but rather those stupid little pain-in-the-butt mouse buttons. :P My only problem with those keys is that I tend to hit “Y” for hygiene when what I really want is “U” for cameraman mode. But that’s more because I’m a sloppy typist.

simsllama replied to your post “*plays Castaway Stories* WHY DOES THE TAB KEY NOT WORK??! Oh, right,...”

I never knew that you can do it with the key 'U'! ��

Yup! That’s how you get into cameraman mode in the game. I assume it’s that way in all the Stories games. Otherwise, it’s hard to take nice pics. :)

didilysims replied to your photo “So what do you do when you have way too many babies on a lot and not...”

Ha ha, you are so lucky the social worker wasn't stranded here too. :P

Inorite?! Then again, even if she was, it’s not like there’s anywhere she could take away the kids to. :) Unless she wanted to raise the little hellions herself or something.

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “Preggo Komei!”

Your Goopy reminds me of a cross between Glen Quagmire and Gaius Baltar.

I confess that I had to look up both. :) I’ve never watched Family Guy and only watched the new Battlestar Galactica once, years ago. (Now, if it was the original Baltar? Totally clear memory there. John Colicos was a scenery-chomping god. :) ) But now that I’ve done my looking-up...Yeah, I can see it. Especially if you add a bit of surfer-dude to the mix. :)

didilysims replied to your post “Sims ask: 7 8 17 :)”

I didn't know there WAS a great debate until I saw this meme floating around. Thanks for educating me. ;)

Well, it was a great debate a while back. As I recall, there was some sort of livestream or something prior to TS4′s release where the devs were playing a bit to show off the game, and one of them said “Live Mode” with “live” pronounced with a short “i.” Then there was The Debate. (That short-i dev was completely delusional. Obviously. :) )

didilysims replied to your photo “Brandi LeTourneau. Or, as I call her, “Big Hair” LeTourneau. ...”

Does the game keep track of fish caught/fruit eaten/etc. for you or are you manually doing that?

Manually, unfortunately. I wish there was some sort of modded object, like that painting someone made that counts dream dates and whatnot, but...alas. Then again, I think that painting works by looking at memories, and since the things I’ve targeted don’t generate memories, I’m screwed, anyway. :) Thankfully, no one’s been doing much of anything other than toddler-wrangling lately, sooooo... :)

didilysims replied to your post “So you’re stranded with seven other complete strangers on what may or...”

Those sleeping positions are...different.

They kind of sprawl, yes. The animations are funny, too. To get into the bed, they stand with their back to it and flop backwards. The sprawl they land in is how they sleep. I’m guessing those animations is why the leaf beds weren’t converted to TS2. Which is a shame.

getmygameon replied to your post “Preggo Komei!”

Well that's the door to the 7th hell blown wide open right there...

It’s the door of all the hells blown open, yes... Well, actually, no, it’s really not all that bad. Two of the toddlers are children now, and children pretty much totally free-will in this scenario, so I don’t have to do anything with them. Just watch them be kids, basically. Five of the remaining toddlers are about to age to child as I type, so I’ll just be left with two toddlers -- Who will age the next day -- and two babies. And no one’s currently pregnant, either. Easy-peasy. :)

holleyberry replied to your photo “Say whatever you want about Sandy Bruty. I think she’s very pretty....”

As you know, I am a BIG Sandy Bruty fan. I think with the right hairstyle and make up she's a real beauty.

Even without hair/makeup, I just think her facial structure is striking. Maybe it’s because she has fairly large eyes, which I always find attractive. (Though not when they’re unrealistically-large, like in anime-style.) She has nice cheekbones, too. Yeah, her mouth/lips are a little extreme, but it’s easy to overlook that, IMO. Plus, she’s a Romance Sim, and I have a weakness for those. They’re just so fun because sex-postitivity is fun.

holleyberry replied to your post “Sim Parenting: A comparative study”

I've always said romance sim males make very good daddies.

They do, yes. Get them in a more committed relationship and their romance-y wants focus on their partner(s), mostly. Sure, there’s the occasional want to “cheat,” but my feeling when playing committed/married Romance Sims is that they’re more the open-relationship type, and I imagine that their partners, if they’re not Romance themselves, would lean more that way, too, that they’d kind of have to in order to make a decision to commit themselves to a Romance Sim, who they have to know is going to want to “cheat.” Right? I mean, they’d know that. Unless they’re really stupid. :) 

But that’s why I think you get Goopy/Sandy right in your story. They love each other, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not interested in other people, too. And you know what? There’s nothing wrong with that.  But I’ll stop before I get on a soapbox. :) 

And yeah, Romance Sims do tend to be kid-interactive, too. I think it’s because most of the pre-made Romance Sims, playable or otherwise, were given more playful personalities. That seems to be the key to good, attentive parenting in the game. It’s probably why Ben Long is a good dad, too; although he’s Knowledge, he’s got 7 playful points. Sandy’s got 8 playful points, and she’s all over her alien twins in this scenario. Pre-made Family Sims tend to get the Cancer personality, which is middle-of-the-road boring...and fairly serious, too. Which is totally not conducive to kid interaction.

raindropdrinkwater replied to your post “Sim Parenting: A comparative study”

Yup. In my experience, family sims aren't even that good at taking care *of themselves*. Swoon over the romance sim? Check. Complain about not being pregnant often enough? Check. Feed oneself, or one's spawn? Hmpff. Who has time for that?

*nods* Very true. It always dismays me that, when people play “Orphanage” challenges, they tend to make the adults Family Sims. It makes me want to scream, “NOOOOOOOOOO!” They’re the absolute worst choice for that. Family Sims are breeders in the worst sense of the word. They’re all about having the kids, but not at all about actually taking care of them or loving on them. And they definitely don’t care about kids that aren’t their own. For that, you need playful Pleasure Sims. They’re the best kid-raisers ever. 

But since there’s no Pleasure aspiration in Castaway, the Romance Sims are stepping up to the plate. Goopy and Sandy are amazing in this scenario. :) Ben Long the Knowledge Sim is right there with them, too, and Andrea Hogan the Fortune Sim seems content to be the support system who’s always happy to empty the potty and change diapers when needed. :) And play with the kids, too, since she’s got 8 playful points. :) Whereas Orlando the Family Sim? Yeah, I’m contemplating nasty things for his future... ;)

ilikefishfood replied to your photoset “When you spend hours on stuff that’s purely, uselessly decorative....”

I do the saaaame thing! Lol! It's gorgeous, by the way!

I’m not alone! *tosses confetti* And thank you. :)