Is it the hotdogs or the woohoo?

[Avalikia]

I've gotten this error multiple times, always during a hottub woohoo cutscence, but the error mentions hotdogs which were being eaten by townies at the time.  I have all of the expansion packs, all patched, except for Bon Voyage (Christmas!) and none of the silly stuff packs.

Let's see, any more pertinent information?  It's on a community lot.  I do have a squinge hack that allows non-playables to use the grill, but they weren't grilling at the time, just eating the hotdogs, so that's probably not it.

[Aggie]

Sorry for the off-topic post, but it's nice to see you back, Avalikia.

[Avalikia]

That's an interesting thing to say, considering that I never left.  Well, I did leave in the sense that I don't post nearly as much as I did at one time, but in that sense I'm not "back".  And I'm not likely to ever be back in that sense because I didn't approve of the way I was being treated, that's unlikely to improve, and instead of being a whiny n00b who runs around complaining about how mean everyone is I did the sensible thing and started hanging around forums more to my liking.  This site's still good for downloads that fix my game though.  And advice on what to do about my woohoo/hotdog problem.

[J. M. Pescado]

That's a Stupid Random Maxis Error. For some reason, Maxis thinks it's necessary to throw a wobbly if a sim performs an animation 3 times in a row. There's no logical reason WHY it is necessary to declare a fatal error, they just do to be annoying. Since Maxis code often picks an animation from a pool at random, without anything to enforce non-3-repeats of the same one, the game throws a fatal error when the same animation is picked for the third time.

[Avalikia]

Well that's just great.  This seems to happen every time there's a cutscene and someone's eating hotdogs.  It's very hard to click the options on the error message that pops up with the invisible mouse during a cutscene, and I keep forgetting to turn off the testing cheats and/or cutscenes when it might be an issue.

[KatEnigma]

I got so tired of it getting stuck when an error popped up during a cutscene that I've turned them off permanently. I can't survive without the testing cheat, so it had to be the cutscenes that went.  It's not as if Eaxis has given us any new ones in 3 years, anyway. 

However, I'm thinking that somewhere in the recesses of MATY there were instructions on how to easily get to the cancel button when it's hidden by the cut scene. I know I remember being told something, but I didn't pay close attention to it because I'd already turned the cutscenes off.