<![CDATA[LeeFish - Sims Discussion]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:41:27 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Dont have groups.cache in files?]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10228 Tue, 30 Jan 2024 06:16:44 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10228 <![CDATA[Hobby Dorms Reloaded]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10114 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:10:22 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10114
But I won't even be trying to upload the packages for these Hobby Dorms to make them available for download anywhere anymore, as I'm still very "once bitten, twice shy" about my experiences of trying to do just that over at The Big, Ugly Sims Site and its community, which is so incredibly toxic that 20 years of mithidatism wouldn't prepare people for it. Dodgy

I originally created both my Fruityboo Farms dorm and my Abstractivism NOW! dorm with zero Custom Content to ease approval and upload over at Mod the Sims, only for both uploads to get repeatedly denied by the Upload Manager over such bull-schott reasons as "The roof angle is too steep" (It was a standard 45 degrees all around, or 25 degrees for Fruityboo's useless but decorative little water tower), "The dorm rooms aren't all on the same floor" (Nevermind that I can name six official EA dorms that come with University which divide the dorm rooms among the bottom two floors, just like Fruityboo does), "You have not included the Lot Price on your upload (They're dorms. They don't cost anything to move into!) and "This contains custom content which is not present on the lot" (...bwuh? Like hell it does! I turned the CC selections off before I even plunked down the lots in my Dorm Test Hood, which was before I even started to build my dorms! So the Upload Manager was accusing me of doing something which was made practically impossible through my process).

Meanwhile, other people's homemade stuff — including stuff that's broken, irredeemable rubbish — continues to get uploaded, approved by the Upload Manager and made available on the site's Downloads sections.

[Image: ModTheHobbyDorms-Hood.png]

So after realizing how clandestinely political that site's Uploads/Downloads process is, I gave up on sharing my Hobby Dorms and other stuff altogether. But with that resignation came a realization: If I'm not striving to get any site's Upload Manager's approval anymore, then do I really need to leave the CC out of my creations anymore?

So now I'm back to Simming, I'm also back to going hog wild on building Hobby Dorms to cover every hobby, even two or three hobbies if the hobbies mesh together well, like with the Brick Gymhouse covering both Fitness and Sports; they're both athletic hobbies which demand and cater to Active Sims, particularly to those working on their Body skills. So Sports and Fitness go quite well together. Nature and Cuisine don't have any Simmy personality traits in common (Sloppy and Playful versus Neat and Lazy), but Nature Sims are great at growing fruits and veggies as well as catching fish, all of which can make a Cuisine hobbyist's food even better (and more likely to win a Food Judge's approval and a blue ribbon, if your Cuisine Sims are into food contests).

(Of course, now almost every one of my dorms has at least a 2 x 4 garden patch with a 180-degree sprinkler and a ladybug house or two — even if my University Sims have to buy them out of pocket — ever since I figured out that the fast track to University success and a 4.0 GPA is to feed my Young Adult Sims a steady diet of eggplant smoothies, interspersed with several three-day vacations — preferably to Takemizu Village — and all the Refreshed benefits that come from that. Big Grin)

So, Hobby Dorms that I've already built (though alas, some of their .package files have since been lost somehow):

• Chef Rocco's Dormitory (Cuisine)
• Fruityboo Farms Dormitory (Nature + Cuisine)
• Abstractivism NOW! Dorm (Arts & Crafts)
• Hwang Motors Dorm (Tinkering)
• Uncle Bub's Junkyard (also Tinkering, with a smaller lot, fewer junk cars and more tinkerable appliances; abandoned after Dormies started taking showers and baths outside, walking their dishes all the way to the dishwashers outside and causing various other problems)
• Aspirational Laboratories (Science)
• Bellum Center for Xenobiology (also Science, but better)
• The Fens (Nature + Fitness)
• The Brick Gymhouse (Fitness + Sports)
• The Hypatian Archive (Film & Literature)
• Wild Deuces Cards and Lodging (Games)


Dorms that I've merely planned thus far:

• A 'Powerdance Studio' dorm, for Fitness + Music & Dance (connection: Active trait).
• A 'Capoerjutsu Dojo' dorm, for Music & Dance + Fitness + Sports (connections: Active and Outgoing traits, bonus if active Sims come home from several vacations and teach all the Dormies Slap Dance, Hula and Tai Chi).
• A currently nameless arena-style dorm, for Sports + Games (connection: Grouchy trait).
• A 'Monet's View' dorm, for Arts & Crafts + Nature (with lots of easels under outdoor overhangs overlooking gardens, a pond and a grove; connection: Sloppy trait).
• A 'Dinner and a Movie' dorm, for Cuisine + Film & Literature (with a couple of small theaters with the largest televisions and a large 'concession stand' kitchen joining them; connection: Lazy trait).
• A 'Food Trek' dorm, for Science + Cuisine (with a 'flying starship' theme and my concern that Star Trek's food replicators would annihilate the culinary arts; connection: Neat trait)
• An 'Our Wondrous Cosmos' dorm, for Science + Music & Dance (with a large observatory platform and several telescopes surrounding a sunken orchestra pit; connection: Serious trait, and with several Melodysheep videos inspiring me).





(Yeah...like that one.)

I'm probably overlooking several more ideas, though. What might those be? What sorts of Hobby Dorms do you think would be good options here? Undecided]]>
But I won't even be trying to upload the packages for these Hobby Dorms to make them available for download anywhere anymore, as I'm still very "once bitten, twice shy" about my experiences of trying to do just that over at The Big, Ugly Sims Site and its community, which is so incredibly toxic that 20 years of mithidatism wouldn't prepare people for it. Dodgy

I originally created both my Fruityboo Farms dorm and my Abstractivism NOW! dorm with zero Custom Content to ease approval and upload over at Mod the Sims, only for both uploads to get repeatedly denied by the Upload Manager over such bull-schott reasons as "The roof angle is too steep" (It was a standard 45 degrees all around, or 25 degrees for Fruityboo's useless but decorative little water tower), "The dorm rooms aren't all on the same floor" (Nevermind that I can name six official EA dorms that come with University which divide the dorm rooms among the bottom two floors, just like Fruityboo does), "You have not included the Lot Price on your upload (They're dorms. They don't cost anything to move into!) and "This contains custom content which is not present on the lot" (...bwuh? Like hell it does! I turned the CC selections off before I even plunked down the lots in my Dorm Test Hood, which was before I even started to build my dorms! So the Upload Manager was accusing me of doing something which was made practically impossible through my process).

Meanwhile, other people's homemade stuff — including stuff that's broken, irredeemable rubbish — continues to get uploaded, approved by the Upload Manager and made available on the site's Downloads sections.

[Image: ModTheHobbyDorms-Hood.png]

So after realizing how clandestinely political that site's Uploads/Downloads process is, I gave up on sharing my Hobby Dorms and other stuff altogether. But with that resignation came a realization: If I'm not striving to get any site's Upload Manager's approval anymore, then do I really need to leave the CC out of my creations anymore?

So now I'm back to Simming, I'm also back to going hog wild on building Hobby Dorms to cover every hobby, even two or three hobbies if the hobbies mesh together well, like with the Brick Gymhouse covering both Fitness and Sports; they're both athletic hobbies which demand and cater to Active Sims, particularly to those working on their Body skills. So Sports and Fitness go quite well together. Nature and Cuisine don't have any Simmy personality traits in common (Sloppy and Playful versus Neat and Lazy), but Nature Sims are great at growing fruits and veggies as well as catching fish, all of which can make a Cuisine hobbyist's food even better (and more likely to win a Food Judge's approval and a blue ribbon, if your Cuisine Sims are into food contests).

(Of course, now almost every one of my dorms has at least a 2 x 4 garden patch with a 180-degree sprinkler and a ladybug house or two — even if my University Sims have to buy them out of pocket — ever since I figured out that the fast track to University success and a 4.0 GPA is to feed my Young Adult Sims a steady diet of eggplant smoothies, interspersed with several three-day vacations — preferably to Takemizu Village — and all the Refreshed benefits that come from that. Big Grin)

So, Hobby Dorms that I've already built (though alas, some of their .package files have since been lost somehow):

• Chef Rocco's Dormitory (Cuisine)
• Fruityboo Farms Dormitory (Nature + Cuisine)
• Abstractivism NOW! Dorm (Arts & Crafts)
• Hwang Motors Dorm (Tinkering)
• Uncle Bub's Junkyard (also Tinkering, with a smaller lot, fewer junk cars and more tinkerable appliances; abandoned after Dormies started taking showers and baths outside, walking their dishes all the way to the dishwashers outside and causing various other problems)
• Aspirational Laboratories (Science)
• Bellum Center for Xenobiology (also Science, but better)
• The Fens (Nature + Fitness)
• The Brick Gymhouse (Fitness + Sports)
• The Hypatian Archive (Film & Literature)
• Wild Deuces Cards and Lodging (Games)


Dorms that I've merely planned thus far:

• A 'Powerdance Studio' dorm, for Fitness + Music & Dance (connection: Active trait).
• A 'Capoerjutsu Dojo' dorm, for Music & Dance + Fitness + Sports (connections: Active and Outgoing traits, bonus if active Sims come home from several vacations and teach all the Dormies Slap Dance, Hula and Tai Chi).
• A currently nameless arena-style dorm, for Sports + Games (connection: Grouchy trait).
• A 'Monet's View' dorm, for Arts & Crafts + Nature (with lots of easels under outdoor overhangs overlooking gardens, a pond and a grove; connection: Sloppy trait).
• A 'Dinner and a Movie' dorm, for Cuisine + Film & Literature (with a couple of small theaters with the largest televisions and a large 'concession stand' kitchen joining them; connection: Lazy trait).
• A 'Food Trek' dorm, for Science + Cuisine (with a 'flying starship' theme and my concern that Star Trek's food replicators would annihilate the culinary arts; connection: Neat trait)
• An 'Our Wondrous Cosmos' dorm, for Science + Music & Dance (with a large observatory platform and several telescopes surrounding a sunken orchestra pit; connection: Serious trait, and with several Melodysheep videos inspiring me).





(Yeah...like that one.)

I'm probably overlooking several more ideas, though. What might those be? What sorts of Hobby Dorms do you think would be good options here? Undecided]]> <![CDATA[Dances with Cow Mascots]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10104 Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:24:25 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10104
So Emma Cowbanger graduated from University, left campus and took all three of Académie le Tour's Cow Mascots with her.

How ambitious of her!

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[Image: TS2-DancesWCows05.png]
They lost most of their costumes as soon as they moved in with her.

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows06.png]
(Emma has the Power Girl bodyshape, and I really need to find and download more outfits for it. All three Cow Mascots are EA's bodyshape, so clothing them is a cinch.)

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Each of them came with oodles of negative Relationships and an Enmity or three, the fruits of their nonplayable antics around campus. They also came with scads of pent-up Hobby Enthusiasm points; two of them have Nature as their One True Hobby, and as soon as they started catching their first fish, Naenae Phillipine wandered in to offer them a Club Membership and a plaque for their flawless Nature Enthusiasm!

The third one is a natural Games hobbyist. She had to play two or three games of chess before she got her plaque, but she got there.

Two of them are also Family Sims, which means that Emma and her wee "harem" of Cow Mascots — two gals and a dude — are going to want to start making baby Cow Mascots sooner or later.

I wonder what I'll be doing with those children when they're old enough to go to college.... Confused

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows08.png]
So they lost their Cow Mascot costumes' "headgear" soon after. And they've since even become contributing citizens of society. Two of them are attorneys, the third one's a legal assistant and, generally, they're all rising stars in the Law career track

Imagine that. Cool

To be continued, eh?]]>
So Emma Cowbanger graduated from University, left campus and took all three of Académie le Tour's Cow Mascots with her.

How ambitious of her!

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows02.png]

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows03.png]

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows04.png]

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows05.png]
They lost most of their costumes as soon as they moved in with her.

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows06.png]
(Emma has the Power Girl bodyshape, and I really need to find and download more outfits for it. All three Cow Mascots are EA's bodyshape, so clothing them is a cinch.)

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows07.png]
Each of them came with oodles of negative Relationships and an Enmity or three, the fruits of their nonplayable antics around campus. They also came with scads of pent-up Hobby Enthusiasm points; two of them have Nature as their One True Hobby, and as soon as they started catching their first fish, Naenae Phillipine wandered in to offer them a Club Membership and a plaque for their flawless Nature Enthusiasm!

The third one is a natural Games hobbyist. She had to play two or three games of chess before she got her plaque, but she got there.

Two of them are also Family Sims, which means that Emma and her wee "harem" of Cow Mascots — two gals and a dude — are going to want to start making baby Cow Mascots sooner or later.

I wonder what I'll be doing with those children when they're old enough to go to college.... Confused

[Image: TS2-DancesWCows08.png]
So they lost their Cow Mascot costumes' "headgear" soon after. And they've since even become contributing citizens of society. Two of them are attorneys, the third one's a legal assistant and, generally, they're all rising stars in the Law career track

Imagine that. Cool

To be continued, eh?]]> <![CDATA[Secret Society Lot Loading in Buy Mode]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10102 Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:34:50 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10102
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Okay, so I go through the usual routine: My University Sim befriends three Secret Society members and the big, black limousine shows up at their dorm or campus house at 11:00 PM/2300 Hours the next evening.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-01-51%20PM-792.png]
Then one of the local cops steps out and comes for my Sim to be initiated.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-02-31%20PM-520.png]
A sham of an arrest is made.

(Yes, he pulled her out of bed and her Underwear outfit is quite zesty. Don't judge. Tongue )

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Into the limo they go...

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-03-43%20PM-778.png]
...and off to the Secret Society they go!

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-03-56%20PM-690.png]
And then the Secret Society lot loads in Buy Mode, without any active Sims.

With nothing else to do, I exit the lot, return to the University hood and return to my Sim and her dorm.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-05-31%20PM-255.png]
The dorm loads and the limousine returns and drops my Sim off, with full Needs gauges but still without a new Secret Society membership.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-06-10%20PM-550.png]
So unless she somehow loses one of her three Secret Society friends in the next 24 hours, the limo and the cop will be back for her, carrying her off to Buy Mode and denying her initiation into the Secret Society every night until she graduates.

An interesting detail here is that any unfinished Assignments that my Sim was working on will disappear after she gets abducted, and any unfinished paintings on easels that she was painting will lose their 'Continue Painting' option. Maybe those are clues to what's going on.

I've tried this with two other Sims in two other dorms: a Popularity Sim and a Romance Sim, since those sorts excel at making new friends (more so if I pump their Charisma up first). The same thing happens, so it's not just a problem with Luscious there.

All that I can think of is that one of my previously graduating Sims took a Secret Society member off-campus to move in with her at her new home. But the game should be automatically generating new Sims to replace the University Sims who leave campus. So what could be the root of the problem here, and is there a way to fix it? Undecided]]>
[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-01-35%20PM-603.png]
Okay, so I go through the usual routine: My University Sim befriends three Secret Society members and the big, black limousine shows up at their dorm or campus house at 11:00 PM/2300 Hours the next evening.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-01-51%20PM-792.png]
Then one of the local cops steps out and comes for my Sim to be initiated.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-02-31%20PM-520.png]
A sham of an arrest is made.

(Yes, he pulled her out of bed and her Underwear outfit is quite zesty. Don't judge. Tongue )

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-03-03%20PM-816.png]
Into the limo they go...

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-03-43%20PM-778.png]
...and off to the Secret Society they go!

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-03-56%20PM-690.png]
And then the Secret Society lot loads in Buy Mode, without any active Sims.

With nothing else to do, I exit the lot, return to the University hood and return to my Sim and her dorm.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-05-31%20PM-255.png]
The dorm loads and the limousine returns and drops my Sim off, with full Needs gauges but still without a new Secret Society membership.

[Image: Sims2EP9%206-18-2023%201-06-10%20PM-550.png]
So unless she somehow loses one of her three Secret Society friends in the next 24 hours, the limo and the cop will be back for her, carrying her off to Buy Mode and denying her initiation into the Secret Society every night until she graduates.

An interesting detail here is that any unfinished Assignments that my Sim was working on will disappear after she gets abducted, and any unfinished paintings on easels that she was painting will lose their 'Continue Painting' option. Maybe those are clues to what's going on.

I've tried this with two other Sims in two other dorms: a Popularity Sim and a Romance Sim, since those sorts excel at making new friends (more so if I pump their Charisma up first). The same thing happens, so it's not just a problem with Luscious there.

All that I can think of is that one of my previously graduating Sims took a Secret Society member off-campus to move in with her at her new home. But the game should be automatically generating new Sims to replace the University Sims who leave campus. So what could be the root of the problem here, and is there a way to fix it? Undecided]]> <![CDATA[SIms 2 Problem]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10028 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:42:49 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=10028

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]]> <![CDATA[Cracked disc (the hub ring)]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9922 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:00:02 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9922
I have never had this before. But I have noticed the disc cases are very very very tight for the single discs in the center hub (tighter than I have ever seen). The ones with multiple discs on a small spindle aren't near as hard to remove, so this is my guess why it is cracked: too much stress from a bad design and perhaps a little too much pulling.

The question is, is there anything I can do? Glue is out of the question. I see there is hub ring stickers but I have my doubts how effective it will be. I suspect at the high speed of my drive this disk is going to come apart. Anyone else ever run into this? Any suggestions or am I just doomed to try ebay again?]]>
I have never had this before. But I have noticed the disc cases are very very very tight for the single discs in the center hub (tighter than I have ever seen). The ones with multiple discs on a small spindle aren't near as hard to remove, so this is my guess why it is cracked: too much stress from a bad design and perhaps a little too much pulling.

The question is, is there anything I can do? Glue is out of the question. I see there is hub ring stickers but I have my doubts how effective it will be. I suspect at the high speed of my drive this disk is going to come apart. Anyone else ever run into this? Any suggestions or am I just doomed to try ebay again?]]> <![CDATA[CEPExtra Repository Files]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9914 Fri, 19 Aug 2022 09:21:57 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9914 Any help greatly appreciated and heartfelt thanks if someone has the answer.
Elizabeth]]> Any help greatly appreciated and heartfelt thanks if someone has the answer.
Elizabeth]]> <![CDATA[How can I put subtitles on a video?]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9862 Wed, 18 May 2022 10:44:10 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9862 <![CDATA[Has such a Club Room Counter default been made?]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9830 Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:58:45 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9830

I apologize if this is the wrong place to share this question.]]>

I apologize if this is the wrong place to share this question.]]> <![CDATA[Sims 2 threads and mods]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9810 Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:30:50 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9810 <![CDATA[Sims 2 and Windows 10]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9804 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:27:45 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9804 <![CDATA[Drives You Crazy!]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9798 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 03:00:22 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9798 <![CDATA[Does Sims 2 run fine with newer AMD CPUs/GPUs?]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9704 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 01:50:01 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9704
Specifically I want to know if there's any issues with Ryzen 5000 series CPUs and Radeon GPUs. My game runs fine with no major issues on an i7-5820k/GTX 1060 setup right now.

Didn't really know any other place to post this since I'm not sure there's not many active Sims 2 communities these days lol. Thank you in advance.]]>
Specifically I want to know if there's any issues with Ryzen 5000 series CPUs and Radeon GPUs. My game runs fine with no major issues on an i7-5820k/GTX 1060 setup right now.

Didn't really know any other place to post this since I'm not sure there's not many active Sims 2 communities these days lol. Thank you in advance.]]> <![CDATA[Have to know how to write a movie critique]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9688 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:38:24 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9688 how to write a movie critique For me and for my studying it's very important. I have to have a good points for this writing task. And as a result I write it here and hope to find advices here about it. Let me know if you know about this more than me.]]> how to write a movie critique For me and for my studying it's very important. I have to have a good points for this writing task. And as a result I write it here and hope to find advices here about it. Let me know if you know about this more than me.]]> <![CDATA[Pizzatron's Big Sims 3 Adventure]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9672 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 03:12:54 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9672
Okay...first off, say what?!? We have to buy some of these neighborhoods, clothes and hairstyles with in-game microtransactions now?

And what the blazes is a SimPoint, and does it cost any real-world money? Dodgy

[Image: MyTS3Adventure001.jpg]
Hey, there's Agnes Crumplebottom!

If TS3 is indeed set in the past, does that mean that Agnes here is the same haggy old Miss Crumplebottom who prowls Downtown and lurks in wishing wells in TS2, hunting for people to batter into submission with her uranium-filled purse?

She doesn't seem unpleasant in any way now. I'd better enjoy her good humor while it lasts!

[Image: MyTS3Adventure002.jpg]
So like the original Superstar expansion for The (original) Sims, some Sims are celebrities and your Sims can become celebrities too, thanks to TS3: Late Night. Unlike Superstar, celebrity comes in five ranks, with 1-star celebs being something like your local heroes and 5-star celebs being your A-List movie stars, leading scientists, corporate tycoons, Presidents, that sort of thing.

Morgana Wolff there is a 3-star celebrity, so she's definitely someone worth knowing! It's time for Carmilla to make some moves and put her savoir faire to good use....

(Morgana's also wearing hospital scrubs! Maybe she's a famous surgeon or physician, the "Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman" of Simsville. She's far too pleasant and amicable to be a genderbent Gregory House, at least. Tongue )

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Of course, wherever there are celebrities, there are paparazzi too.

The good news? The paparazzi can make you more famous and increase your Celebrity rating over time; if they're there taking photos when you walk out of the hospital after cheering up all the children in the ICU, they'll let everyone know how wonderful you are. The bad news? They can easily damage your reputation by spreading word of any untoward deeds you do while they're around, including adultery, multiple lovers and the like. Sometimes, they spread false accusations too, just like real life!

Carmilla could be walking into a social minefield here.Confused

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SUCCESS!!!

Keep climbing that ladder, Carmilla. Big Grin

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Apparently, Anne Song got bored of taking photos and eavesdropping on Carmilla and Morgana's witty banter, so she went for a swim.

I hope her camera's okay.

(Note to Carmilla: Seduce the paparazzi chick! She's cute, and it'll be great for PR!)

[Image: MyTS3Adventure006.jpg]
YAY! Some of Morgana's celebrity rubbed off on Carmilla! YAY! Big Grin

[Image: MyTS3Adventure007.jpg]
And see that? Getting noticed by the paparazzi can increase your Mood and make Sims happier! Carmilla definitely needs to rope more papas into her social circle! Big Grin

(Wait a minute. What's the singular form of "paparazzi," anyway?)

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"Welcome to my lair, Morgana. I must warn you that at least one of your articles of clothing will not be leaving with you in the morning!"

Oh, yeah...and Carmilla took a phone call and promised to bake cookies for the local school district. I think that Opportunities are like the Chance Cards of TS3, except that Opportunities never blow up in your face; you just have to do a little work for their rewards instead.

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Do you suppose that WooHoo with Morgana will rake in a third star for Carmilla? Let's find out!

(I'll get to the cookies later, dadgummit!)]]>
Okay...first off, say what?!? We have to buy some of these neighborhoods, clothes and hairstyles with in-game microtransactions now?

And what the blazes is a SimPoint, and does it cost any real-world money? Dodgy

[Image: MyTS3Adventure001.jpg]
Hey, there's Agnes Crumplebottom!

If TS3 is indeed set in the past, does that mean that Agnes here is the same haggy old Miss Crumplebottom who prowls Downtown and lurks in wishing wells in TS2, hunting for people to batter into submission with her uranium-filled purse?

She doesn't seem unpleasant in any way now. I'd better enjoy her good humor while it lasts!

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So like the original Superstar expansion for The (original) Sims, some Sims are celebrities and your Sims can become celebrities too, thanks to TS3: Late Night. Unlike Superstar, celebrity comes in five ranks, with 1-star celebs being something like your local heroes and 5-star celebs being your A-List movie stars, leading scientists, corporate tycoons, Presidents, that sort of thing.

Morgana Wolff there is a 3-star celebrity, so she's definitely someone worth knowing! It's time for Carmilla to make some moves and put her savoir faire to good use....

(Morgana's also wearing hospital scrubs! Maybe she's a famous surgeon or physician, the "Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman" of Simsville. She's far too pleasant and amicable to be a genderbent Gregory House, at least. Tongue )

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Of course, wherever there are celebrities, there are paparazzi too.

The good news? The paparazzi can make you more famous and increase your Celebrity rating over time; if they're there taking photos when you walk out of the hospital after cheering up all the children in the ICU, they'll let everyone know how wonderful you are. The bad news? They can easily damage your reputation by spreading word of any untoward deeds you do while they're around, including adultery, multiple lovers and the like. Sometimes, they spread false accusations too, just like real life!

Carmilla could be walking into a social minefield here.Confused

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SUCCESS!!!

Keep climbing that ladder, Carmilla. Big Grin

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Apparently, Anne Song got bored of taking photos and eavesdropping on Carmilla and Morgana's witty banter, so she went for a swim.

I hope her camera's okay.

(Note to Carmilla: Seduce the paparazzi chick! She's cute, and it'll be great for PR!)

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YAY! Some of Morgana's celebrity rubbed off on Carmilla! YAY! Big Grin

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And see that? Getting noticed by the paparazzi can increase your Mood and make Sims happier! Carmilla definitely needs to rope more papas into her social circle! Big Grin

(Wait a minute. What's the singular form of "paparazzi," anyway?)

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"Welcome to my lair, Morgana. I must warn you that at least one of your articles of clothing will not be leaving with you in the morning!"

Oh, yeah...and Carmilla took a phone call and promised to bake cookies for the local school district. I think that Opportunities are like the Chance Cards of TS3, except that Opportunities never blow up in your face; you just have to do a little work for their rewards instead.

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Do you suppose that WooHoo with Morgana will rake in a third star for Carmilla? Let's find out!

(I'll get to the cookies later, dadgummit!)]]> <![CDATA[Back Off, Origin!]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9671 Wed, 15 Sep 2021 01:23:26 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9671
But in the meantime, I found a The Sims 3/TS3: Late Night/TS3: High-End Loft Stuff bundle at Walmart for $5. So I bought it. Lamentably, unlike TS2, I can't run TS3 without Origin butting in and muddling things up. Why do you want me to install TS3 from Origin, EA? I have the TS3 disc right there in my DVD drive, and I've been clicking Autorun.exe, Setup.exe and/or Sims3Setup.exe over and over and over! Just let me install TS3 off the disc already!

Would anyone happen to know a way to tell Origin to pike off so I can install TS3 like normal people do? Rolleyes]]>
But in the meantime, I found a The Sims 3/TS3: Late Night/TS3: High-End Loft Stuff bundle at Walmart for $5. So I bought it. Lamentably, unlike TS2, I can't run TS3 without Origin butting in and muddling things up. Why do you want me to install TS3 from Origin, EA? I have the TS3 disc right there in my DVD drive, and I've been clicking Autorun.exe, Setup.exe and/or Sims3Setup.exe over and over and over! Just let me install TS3 off the disc already!

Would anyone happen to know a way to tell Origin to pike off so I can install TS3 like normal people do? Rolleyes]]> <![CDATA[Can't leave lot if more than one sim living in house]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9568 Wed, 19 May 2021 10:09:12 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9568 <![CDATA[Game not loading Kitchen & Bath Stuff objects]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9566 Mon, 17 May 2021 11:37:05 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9566 this old MTS thread from someone who seems to be having the same problem, but no solution was given. I've tried running the game without CC with no luck. Any ideas what could be causing this?]]> this old MTS thread from someone who seems to be having the same problem, but no solution was given. I've tried running the game without CC with no luck. Any ideas what could be causing this?]]> <![CDATA[No-CD for Sims 2 v1.0.0.1022]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9538 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:00:20 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9538
Do u guys have a No-CD crack for TS2 version 1.0.0.1022? If so, I would appreciate the help. Thanks Smile]]>
Do u guys have a No-CD crack for TS2 version 1.0.0.1022? If so, I would appreciate the help. Thanks Smile]]> <![CDATA[A Wee Observation on Sim-Painted Paintings]]> https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9485 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:26:45 +0000 https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=9485 [Image: TS2-SimPaintedPaintings01.jpg]

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So perhaps I need a Simmy place with a shoddier Environment for more reliable testing, but I'm getting the impression that Sim-painted paintings — no matter how wonderfully they're painted, or what types of painting they may be, or how In-the-Zone and awesome at Arts & Crafts the painter is or was — don't really do much — if anything — for a room's Environment. And isn't that the whole point of adding paintings to a house in the first place? Undecided

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So perhaps I need a Simmy place with a shoddier Environment for more reliable testing, but I'm getting the impression that Sim-painted paintings — no matter how wonderfully they're painted, or what types of painting they may be, or how In-the-Zone and awesome at Arts & Crafts the painter is or was — don't really do much — if anything — for a room's Environment. And isn't that the whole point of adding paintings to a house in the first place? Undecided

What do you think?]]>