#verakas

mustluvcatz-reloaded replied to your post “Does anyone out there have this thing...”

She's been active on MTS recently - maybe try there? (Or if you did, just ignore me.)

I...think I did? I can’t remember! It was a while back. And since then I deleted all my in/outbox messages at MTS, so I can’t even check. And now I don’t want to look like I’m spamming her, in case I did message her there. :\ But, if sending out a WCIF doesn’t work, then maybe I will try there again, with apologies for possible spamming/stalking. Or, maybe it’ll be trying there for the first time. Middle-aged memory, yay. :P

penig replied to your photo “Ohhhhhh, I have a bad feeling about this…. (If it’s not clear, because...”

Good thing he got that "bonus," huh?

Yeah, between that and the ~20K he already had, he wasn’t totally up the creek. :) Which is kind a shame, because otherwise he could’ve become a homeless hippie for this lot. Plantsims would make good hippies, being “one with the earth” and all, and outdoor living suits them well, since they don’t do the too hot/cold thing and rain is good for them.

didilysims replied to your photo “Ohhhhhh, I have a bad feeling about this…. (If it’s not clear, because...”

Oh gosh, is that after one offence of being in a bad mood? Harsh! Well, at least he's jobless and homeless with 40K under his belt.

Y’know, I don’t really know. I know he probably went to work in similarly bad moods before, but I didn’t look at his job perform-o-meter to really know for sure if one instance of totally-red-on-the-job was enough to do it or if it was a few times in a row. But whatever the case...Yeah, his ass was fired. :)

didilysims replied to your photo “Meanwhile, Maddie Knight, town burglar and one of Sage’s paramours,...”

That's so cool with the car! Now I want to track down my burglars and peek into their stash.

I had always wondered if burglars kept the stuff they stole. I kinda remember reading that they did, but I wasn’t sure that I was remembering right. And I don’t usually make burglars playable; I’m just testing out the jail idea here for feasibility. But then I realized I could actually check...and there the car was. :) TS2 really does have some lovely details. :)

kayleigh-83 replied to your post “Where can I find the Random Occurrences thing??”

My random occurrence generator is a really low-tech, old-school version.... I have them hand written in the notebook I keep next to the computer for Simming, numbered (I have 28 at the moment), and I ask Siri to choose a random number between 1-28. Nice and easy, very little set up, and I don't have to minimize to roll. I don't use random occurrences all the time, only when I need to spice up a round for a particular family that may be a little boring!

I would probably do that, too, but since we move around quite a lot between three houses, possibly four in the relatively near future, I try to keep stuff I have to remember to take along when we move to a minimum. So, if I can put it on the computer as opposed to having to remember to take a notebook along, it’s good. Plus, this is really simple. Just...load the program, and there the options are. :) I don’t have to minimize because I play in a window anyway. Full-screen on this big monitor just looks weird, plus I can keep my tracking spreadsheets open side-by-side with the game.

acquiresimoleons replied to your photo “Meanwhile, Maddie Knight, town burglar and one of Sage’s paramours,...”

"What did you do with the car?!" "You will NEVER FIND IT BAWAHAHAHA!"

Heh. :) Geez, it’s a car, not a body. ;) Of course, Sims can apparently stick really big things up their asses, which makes possible all sorts of crime. ;)

holleyberry replied to your photo “Meanwhile, Maddie Knight, town burglar and one of Sage’s paramours,...”

I've never seen the Social Bunny in my game O_o

I only see it in certain situations. Like this one. A single Sim locked in a section of a lot where they have no interaction with anyone, a situation that pretty much doesn’t happen in my game otherwise, because even socially-isolated hermits I’ve played have all adopted a stray dog/cat (or five) for companionship. It’d be different if there were other inmates, of course, but so far...nope. Because no one’s in the Criminal career...yet. And no other burglars have been busted so far. At least, not since the police station has existed.

penig replied to your photo “Meanwhile, Maddie Knight, town burglar and one of Sage’s paramours,...”

That mirrors what happens to the teddy. Even Nice children will cuddle it, beat it up, then cuddle it again.

Yeah, but you can excuse toddlers and children from being completely nutso. Because they’re nutso by nature until they’re fully housebroken and civilized. A few days of social isolation shouldn’t make the average adult completely lose it. :) But yeah, the game has exaggerated behaviors and all that. It’s just bizarre to watch, is all.

holleyberry replied to your photo “I like to use the random occurrence thingy in single-Sim households...”

I've considered looking into that Random Event thing.

It’s kind of fun. I really do need to put together my own set of occurrences, though. With this one, I often have to “reroll” at least four or five times before I’ll get something I can do in my game in the sense that it conforms to my rules and all. I need to put some thought into that. 

And it’d be nice to have some elder-specific occurrences, maybe even an entirely separate set just for them, since many of my single-Sim households are elder households, where the kids are gone and their partner has died and they haven’t chosen to remarry. Or can’t remarry, according to the rules for the neighborhood. Often, I’ll consolidate elders in retirement communities. Might be fun to do an ROS for each resident in that circumstance...

penig replied to your photo “While her daughter was busy failing at flirting, Gwen was at what will...”

But that tunic is perfect for yoga!

Maybe. But paired with those pants, she makes my eyes bleed. My bleeding eyes trump their fashion choices. :)

holleyberry replied to your photo “Nice, Mars. *eye roll* And he looks so happy doing it, too!”

At least it's outside.

Well, there is that, I suppose. I just feel bad for all the people who barge into the house who have to wade through an ocean of dog pee to get to the front door. :\

verakas replied to your photoset “This neighborhood is weird. The residential lots are 98% recycled from...”

I love it! It looks so clean and simple! And so maxis match, I love your style.

Thank you! :) Yeah, my game is kind of weird. I build sort of Maxis-match(ish), but my Sims are totally not Maxis-match and I have a fondness for Bodyshop stuff that’s currently out of favor. :) So, my game’s style is “Stuff What I Like.” 

kayleigh-83 replied to your photo “Um…Nice outfit, Amelia! And hey! She rolled the Family aspiration!...”

I for one cannot WAIT to see who she ends up with. Call me sentimental but I'm rooting for the underdog (aka the fat unemployed mechanic)

We’ll see who she finds! She just went off to college in my playing. (Where I’m about a Sim-week ahead of what’s been posted.) Of course, there’s a question of how long she’ll stay in college... She doesn’t exactly have an academic personality.

acquiresimoleons replied to your photo “Um…Nice outfit, Amelia! And hey! She rolled the Family aspiration!...”

Lmao fat unemployed mechanic. She aims high, this one

Hey, fat unemployed mechanics need love, too! I just can’t help picturing a guy in a wifebeater and grungy boxers, sitting in a recliner watching TV and guzzling beer by the gallon and Cheetos by the bagful, while she sits staring at him with stars in her eyes, heartfarting like crazy. Makes me LMAO. :) 

holleyberry replied to your photo “And it was another GilsCarbo Roof Raiser™ Most likely because it was a...”

Romance Sims. So "Easy".

That’s the thing, though! Sage is a Romance Sim, but Will is Popularity. And he’s the one who pushes the whole thing. I guess maybe it’s because Sage is familiar? Familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt. Of course it’s kind of weird(er), too, because Sage is in actuality much younger than Will, even though he “appears” older, because Sage was a plantbaby with their toddler-to-adult insta-grow. So...Yeah, weird. Yet, it amuses me. :)

holleyberry replied to your photo “Mars the wee puppy grew into Mars the great big hairy...”

That is an adorably fluffy dog

You are one brave soul!

Sometimes I just get these crazy ideas in my head. Though it was actually a lot of fun to do the stacking. Took a bit of forethought, of course, and the end result is actually a bit screwed up, but not so much that I wanted to rip it all apart again, since I’d already done that two times. :) 

penig replied to your photoset “As if building a mansion for the hell of it wasn’t bad enough, I...”

You just can't stop challenging yourself. Go you!

I think it’s more like sometimes I just can’t help indulging that teeny bit of me that can be a masochist sometimes. :)

verakas replied to your photoset “As if building a mansion for the hell of it wasn’t bad enough, I...”

Amazing! I'm jealous of people who can do this kind of magic with the lot adjuster. I can't seem to do even the simplest thing with it. ^^

This is a fiddly technique, but once I did it a couple of times it began to make sense in my head. First, I built the building in the tutorial exactly, and then I did a small, simple one of my own, and then I did this big one, not without a few missteps (which I probably wouldn’t have made if I’d mapped the thing out on graph paper first), but overall it wasn’t too hard. And I’m by no means a wizard with the Lot Adjuster. I’ve really never done anything with it other than shrinking/expanding lots.

didilysims replied to your photo “Oh, look! A (mostly) virgin Maxis downtown! Whatever will I do with...”

Is there no Downtown terrain template? Huh, chalk another one up to things I never noticed. Probably too late now, but if it's just the terrain you're after, it might be easier to use Hood Replace to take it to an empty 'hood.

I don’t think that terrain is in the SC4s, now that you mention it. But how it usually goes with me is that I just don’t want to have to mess with a downtown much (because I’m not really good at more urban-style building, really). So, I’m happy with the it all pre-built for me (even with Maxis crap) and I just throw in a few apartment buildings from my lot catalog to put playables in. But sometimes I just decide to rip everything out, usually well AFTER I actually start playing lots in it. So, it’s my fault, really. It usually is. :)

didilysims replied to your photoset “Progress on the Big-Ass Friggin’ Mansion.  I think the front facade is...”

Ooh, fancy schmancy! Looks well planned out too, which is impressive with that amount of space!

I’ve been fiddling with the design in CAD for months, off and on, so its layout is something that’s been developed over time. I didn’t have to make too many adjustments for building-in-the-game purposes, other than greatly simplifying the roof (grrrrr... :( ) and making rooms smaller so that it’d fit on a 6x6 lot. If my end goal was a playable lot, I’d make it a lot smaller, but I have no intention of ever playing this lot, so...

thewynd replied to your post “thewynd replied to your photo:Apparently, it pays to have an affair...”

Ooh I must experiment with this! Thanks! and by saying 4 days is one year, you mean sim-days right? (probably a stupid question but I'm known for them)

Yes, the age mod is four Sim-days = one year, so that your Sims can have actual ages that you can calculate and that are proportional to a 3 sim-day/9-month pregnancy. It’s Hat’s mod. The seasons are out of whack, since they last for 5 Sim-days (So it’s like having each season for a year and three months), but age mods and season length will probably never be compatible, anyway. :)

penig replied to your post “thewynd replied to your photo:Apparently, it pays to have an affair...”

They should get leave occasionally and get to meet their family on a vacation lot.

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about furloughs for deployed Sims even for those without families, like for those who are shipped out for more than a year. It’d work well with the “timeless” nature of the game’s vacations. The problem is that I’m kind of bored with the Maxis destinations and want to build at least one of my own and make my own locals for it and whatnot. I’d like to do that rather than adding any of the Maxis destinations, but I keep procrastinating on it. :)

penig replied to your post “klaartjesimblr replied to your post:When you go to the huge-est...”

I usually call myself "vegetarian" rather than "pescaterian" because "vegetarian" is at least a familiar sound they can retain. The choice itself is because there's no ethics involved: I don't like meat, but I love vegetables and like fish for the occasional change. But I feel bad when I have to resort to a fish dish at a restaurant and thus confuse my husband's family further. I know I've made it harder for the next vegetarian in line.

Yeah, that I can understand, given that your average person likely doesn’t know what a “pecatarian” is but will probably understand what a vegetarian is. It’s easier, I imagine, to say, “I’m a vegetarian but sometimes I’ll eat fish if there are no vegetarian options” than it is to say, “I don’t eat beef, pork, chicken, lamb, etc. etc.” I just wish more people were aware of the difference between vegetarian and vegan so that they get why I don’t want cheese on my salad or cheese and mayo in my sandwich and/or have more options that don’t contain cheese or butter or eggs. I would think that lactose-intolerant vegetarians would appreciate more milk/cheese-less vegetarian options, too.

fuzzyspork replied to your photo “Yup, still in love with the “surprise engagement” interaction after...”

Things I have never (or rarely) done in TS2: table proposals! I think I did this ONCE way back in the beginning. I either forget it's an option (and my sims rarely go out to eat) or I am too impatient and just have one propose on the way to the wedding arch. XD I wonder what a table rejection looks like...

I don’t do it all the time. Often, an engagement want rolls up on a date not in a restaurant, and I’ll have them do the regular interaction, then go back to the playable’s place and then have them get married in the driveway or something because I hardly ever bother with wedding arches. But sometimes I want the “photo op” engagement and since I have the “special events” camera disabled in my game because I got tired of the cut-away videos, the “surprise engagement” is a little more involved (with better faces pulled) than the on-bended-knee one, so that’s what I’ll go for if the happy couple happens to be at a restaurant when the engagement want is rolled.

penig replied to your post “retrato-erato replied to your post:When you go to the huge-est Chinese...”

Baked potatoes. What would we do without baked potatoes?

YES! Plain baked potatoes, some rice (especially if they have something other than white rice), often some baked beans, a few veggies (so long as they’re not drowning in cheese/butter), some un-buttered bread...Good to go. :) Sometimes even the appetizers and/or soups are vegan, too, or can be made so if they can leave out the damned cheese and the meat stocks. There’s always salad, of course, but...Urgh. :P And often, the restaurant will cut me a deal, since I’m often ordering sides in bulk, so to speak. :)

penig replied to your post “Bitchity bitch bitch bitch. :)”

You can get vegetarian food in Austin, and most hi-end restaurants in San Antonio will have at least one vegetarian option (spinach enchiladas or spinach lasagna), but as for vegan? Forget it. Buffets are disease pits anyway - all that food sitting out at the ideal temperature for bacterial growth.

You should check out Happy Cow. It’s like my lifeline. Out of curiosity, I just ran a search for San Antonio, and it came up with 3 vegan and 8 vegetarian places. (One of the vegan places called “Senor Veggie” sounds excellent to me, since I’m fond of TexMex. :) ) Not that such places are guaranteed to be lower-sodium, of course, but at least such places are always dealing with special diets, so they might be more likely to accommodate additional special needs.

scibirg replied to your post “retrato-erato replied to your post:When you go to the huge-est Chinese...”

Soy allergy means Chinese is out of the question for me too, apart from the boiled rice.

Yeah, that sucks. Many places don’t use MSG anymore (since a lot of people are allergic to that), but you pretty much can’t escape the soy sauce. :( Although *I* make some good Chinese/Thai that uses coconut aminos, which is soy-free, gluten-free, and vegan, rather than soy sauce. I’m not allergic to soy at all (I enjoy the occasional tofu dish), but I try to limit it. Plus, the aminos are lower in sodium. Perhaps you could find a Chinese place that would be willing to substitute for their soy sauce. There ARE alternatives that are just as tasty , and many people have problems with soy. It’d expand their market a bit if they’d make stuff with soy alternatives.

taylors-simblr replied to your post “thewynd replied to your photo:Apparently, it pays to have an affair...”

I do the same thing in my hood, but not for military (yet). My construction guys get sent to an empty lot for 3 days per building they're working on. I don't use a prisoner token because they're still building in the main hood, but when they get jobs out of town I'll use it. I love that mirror though, I use it all the time for having toddlers sleep over at cousins/grandparents house :D

Yeah, I know people use the transport mirror to play player-run day care centers for toddlers. It has lots of potential uses, really. I like the construction-worker idea, too. :)

wellofloneliness replied to your post “retrato-erato replied to your post:When you go to the huge-est Chinese...”

Um... Ever heard of Buddhists?