Oh, and he cries until he’s coughing, then spits loogies on my rug. Son of a bitch!!
Go away!!!
Zette, your family just has to feel better, until then, you have the clown.
As for a shut down problem, there is a patch at the sims site. http://www.thesims.com Or should be.
Fall trees are also at the well dressed sim. I, too, use custom everything, but I’m on a T2 line, so I have the time to upload/download usually.
I saw the kewlest thing! Kate Winslet! Woohoo! I’m a huge fan of her’s, and I LOVE those vintage dresses from Titanic.
Oh, I WANT THIS GAME!
Medea,
I CAN’T cheer up because he’s driving me crazy. Even fun things aren’t fun to my girl anymore. He won’t let her get enough sleep or enjoy anything 
bummer!
Zette, the only way to get rid of the clown is to make everyone in the house happy. Or he’ll stick around “trying” to cheer you up.
Try to ignore him by say, having your sim use the virtual reality. That has high fun points and brightens their moods…maybe that will make them happy enough to get rid of him.
I have Kate Winslet…I think. I know I have Angelina Jolie, Mulder, Scully, a really good George Clooney and Sean Connery. A few others but those are the ones I know offhand.
Just so you all know… I went to the store last night and bought the damn expansion pack! I’m holding all of you personally responsible for this! It is all your fault! I accept both personal checks and money orders! Not to mention that I overslept for work today because I was up super late playing that damn game last night. All I can think about is going home to play it again… God why is this game so addicting??!
I have my cheat sheet at home and I haven’t had much time to play this summer, but I am almost sure it is “set-hour 0500” for 5:00 a.m. If not, it is fairly close.
I have got to get Livin Large before the snow falls and I get stuck indoors.
laughs at DuhMan I told you we’d get you!!!
Duh,
BBWWWAAAHAAAAAAA!
Last night I had the weirdest things happen (see tragic clown incident above). Whatever you do, don’t put that damned picture up! He would NOT go away, and I had to evict my person and start again on that house. It was awful!
Another guy of mine used his chemistry set and made an evil clone, who took to slapping my people and kicking my lawn gnomes. This resulted in his mate not liking him (since it was a clone) and it got ugly.
The genie usually sucks, but last night I got a little good and a little bad from him:
a fire
my spouse hating me (not my real one)
a hottub
a bunch of bills
$2,500
We had a few fires- I was truely bummed that one of my houses got ruined before I could upload it, but I’ll fix it up again tonight.
So that’s Sim life at my house. I am addicted and I love it. The best part is, I play on a laptop. This means while I’m doing other chores I can watch the action and intervene when needed. I still get to play, plus I get my work done. Good deal!
Zette
Wow, great minds think alike…check out the post times for Diane, Falc and me.
Addicted? Nahhhhh!
DuhMan gave in. Tee hee. Another one to the Dark Side.
Has the Sims invaded your everday life?
Examples:
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While bitching to my BF about something, I half-jokingly told him he was losing relationship points with me. He laughed.
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While walking around the rich historic part of town, we saw a beautiful modern painting in someone’s window. At the same time, we exclaim, “That’s a Sim-painting!!”
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While watching the Truman Show on HBO, this past weekend, I turn to him and say, “Truman! He’s the ultimate Sim!” We giggle madly throughout the movie. Mental note: Make a Truman Burbank house.
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While watching “Mission to Mars”, every time they mentioned the “sim” (the space simulator), we’d brighten and chirp “Sim!” to each other.
I know we’re goofy. But I swear I’ve had dreams my BF was a Sim, and I tend to look at my relationships with people based on the point system now. “Hmmm…what would they do if I hugged them right now?”
No sympathy at all! What should I expect from a bunch of Sim addicts! I guess I’ll add my experiences from my SimLife. My guy made a potion too… it turned him invisible. Does anyone know if I can do anything cool while he is invisible? There must be something fun to do with it. I wish I could go to other people’s houses and walk around and haunt them… that would be great. I had to clown come too… what a pain in the ass! The voodoo doll is fun… but somewhat pointless. The genie gave did some good and bad for me. He set it up so the next person that saw me would fall instantly in love with me… he also made one of my friends hate me… never good. Well… thats all i can remember as of right now… i’ll let you know if i think of more.
I, too, need to thank you all for renewing my addiction to The Sims. I was doing ok! I was able to not play it for hours on end! Then this thread comes up and off I go again.
I don’t have the expansion pack… must… resist…, but I’ve been having much fun with my “old” Sims. I have one couple who get along great; been trying to get them to the proposal stage but no luck yet. They were, however, offered the chance to adopt a baby, which they did. Little bastard wouldn’t stop crying though (Ok, I sent my Sims to bed and let the sucker cry) so the Social Services Sim took li’l Asmodeus back.
The man in this couple, Boris, isn’t capable of using the stove without it being engulfed in flames. The woman, Isobel, can’t get along with anyone but Boris, even though I thought she had a good personality mix. Couple of nights ago, one of the male neighbors slapped her.
I just recently created a single female, Sarabeth, and am trying to get her to hook up with one of the neighbors but so far it’s not working.
And, inspired by some of you, I created one Sim just to watch him die. It took a lot longer than I expected 
Fellow addicts!
Man, I knew I shouldn’t have gotten Livin’ Large just as I start school again. The Sims vs. Homework. Homework loses again.
I’m having a blast with this game. In one neighborhood I’m recreating the houses of my friends and putting Sim versions inside. I got the giggles when my Sim-self didn’t like the couch (I hate my real one).
In another neighborhood I seem to have a pair of swinging couples. They keep jumping into bed with each other’s spouses. I didn’t plan it that way, honest!
I find myself using sim stuff in conversation with my husband sometimes: my bladder bar is real red. My happiness meter is low. etc. It is weird how this game infitrates your life.
Now I can’t wait to play tonight! Right after dinner I’m going to try that chemistry hint and get a perfect person.
I was okay until I got the long blond hair head and the fairy skin. Now I’m gone. I’m in the game. Only in the game I have a floating house and play the electric guitar.
You know you love it, DuhMan. Just relax and enjoy it.
oh, I forgot to say thanks to Diane.
Thanks, Diane! I’ll try that cheat when I play next.
I haven’t gotten the invisible potion yet. pout But the evil clone is pretty funny. Didja notice that you can score friendship points with the clone too? They go away when the clone disappears but I thought that was a nice touch.
PS. I love those robots. They talk to your guests sometimes! Wierd. And sometimes, they talk to you! Hasn’t happened to my sims, but the BF reported a conversation with the Robot. Cool.
[dirty sexual act implied] Wow! What version did YOU get??? [/dirty sexual act implied]
I forgot- I set up my original couple so they both played instruments- the husband a guitar and the wife a piano. He booed her! Actually stood there heckling her. How rude!!! And they were 100 relationship points!
damned men anyway!
Zette
I love that this thread made two pages.
I’m not a big fan of the robots, they ahve so far been a pain in the butt. I like my own cooking better and I never have to go somewhere to turn on a maid. I do love the teleporters though.
Enough of this, people, I have to write a chem lab. Now. Right now.
Ah, yes…so addictive. I do adore this game. I always try to do it right. That is, I never really kill off characters (once did, to see what would happen). I always attend to their needs, blah blah.
Right now, I have three houses in the first, normal looking section of the house.
The Woodhouse family.
Guy, Rosemary, and Andy. (Yes, this IS a reference to one of my fave books.)
Guy is on the Slacker track and works in a convience store from ten pm to 3 am at the moment.
Rosemary is a Lobbyist on the Political track. (Girl power!)
Andy is an A+ student.
Guy and Rosemary are also deeply in love…
I have the Townshend family: Eddie and Julia.
Eddie is the guy with strange eyes and he is dressed like…um, a mad scientist. With the green outfit, and the grey apron, and the gloves that never come off. Oh, and he is a Tarot reader on the psychic track.
Julia is dark skinned and dresses in a sexy halter top and is in the military. (Earning about $300 a day!)
And my other family is the Epoque family. Belle (dressed in this stunning totally colorful dress!), Cougar (also sexy), and a poorer relation, Marissa, who is dressed as a waitress. Their jobs aren’t interesting at the moment.
God, I’m really getting too into this, hmm? And I haven’t really started building houses…THEN it will get fun. How do you get the frankenstein that I see on the box cover?
And those bugs that you have to spray- they come way too often!