I are Sims Sig. This are Sims thread.

[sigma7]

It's just such a relief to work on a computer and not have to worry about Parallels, Exchange Server, or Remote Desktop. So I've been unwinding by playing the Sims, and specifically in recreating two families: The Utonium family and the Mythbusters family.

So in the upper-scale place in downtown Pleasantville there's a rich man, Professor, and his three girls: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. On the other side of town are the five Mythbusters roomies: Jamie, Adam, Grant, Kari and Tori. (Bother: can't make Jamie both bald and beret'd. And the randomly-assigned sleepwear for Kari is, er, frightening.) Turns out that both Professor and Jamie have similar ambitions: home businesses. The Prof, in addition to buying a club downtown, begins making toy robots, Buttercup contributes some daisies, and they start selling them at home. One of the first visitors is, indeed, Jamie Mythbuster, and when I divert my focus for just a second, Professor Utonium is furious with Jamie.

So Utoniums/Mythbusters might just be the new Hatfields/McCoys, if I can just get the damned game to stop crashing on me. My attempts at adding custom music seem to be fatal to the game's execution. I just want to listen to "Supper's Ready" while customizing a family. Amazingly enough, my first attempt to make a custom TV channel worked effortlessly; the Sims will now see "Porkchop Sandwiches" if they watch the cartoon channel. This is as it should be.

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I want to bother with Seasons or not. Sure, there's the whole Plantlife thing, but I really shouldn't have installed Pets. If it weren't for the "No Pets Allowed" paintings, I'd have gone nuts from the strays, not to mention the skunks....

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Seasons has advantages you can get from having gardens, though. Like potion type advantages.

But thanks for the "no pets allowed" tip; I hadn't realized one of those was in there. I can lower the strayness.

I wonder, now, if there's a way to de-scent a skunk.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

But thanks for the "no pets allowed" tip; I hadn't realized one of those was in there. I can lower the strayness.

I downloaded it from...er, somewhere. Can't quite remember where. A cursory glance over MATY and the wiki doesn't enlighten me either. I'll investigate in the game. I need to rebuild Utonium's club; had to trash it, as it was crashing me game.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Aha. Found it.