Jagged line talk balloon

[hedgekat]

I thought this was the symbol for the corrupt death memory but it must be for something else too.  I saw a toddler produce this balloon in  a brand new neighborhood in which no one has died.  Do has to be something besides death. Anyone have an idea what?

[LFox]

I've seen it a few times even with the death fix.  I think it just means something their talking about is garbled (corrupt, damaged whatever), and i think it could be anything.  Although knowing EAxis its a specific thing they talk about that is garbled no matter what.  I haven't seen any exploding side effects of it though so i think its harmless.

[Orikes]

I recall hearing that seeing it once or twice is harmless and just a problem with the sim dealing with too much data and not being able to translate it. If you start seeing it ALL the time, then it may be a sign of impending doom.

[Gwill]

 

[starrling]

This also happens when you delete sims out of the sim bin.  Have you done that?  Something about dangling sim wants and fears (swaf's) I think. 

[cwykes]

I understood it to be a corrupted memory as well, but I leaned all I know from the more awesome folk here!  I'd say it's almost certainly a gossip memory rather than a memory of something the toddler did or saw, so you can use the option on the lotdebugger to delete gossip memories from the toddler.  As he/she probably got the gossip from a family member, I'd do all the sims in that family as well.  If you are feeling really radical, the lotdebugger has an option to get rid of gossip for the entire hood!  13,000 memories deleted in one click when I hit that yesterday! (scary!) I'm still not sure if it was a good move...... , but  I'm not playing that 'hood for the long term.

[Strangel]

I tend to delete randomly, at least once in a while. From what I read, it keeps file sizes down and the gossip is essentially useless token usage aside from "so and so slept with your wife!" type of situations.

[hedgekat]

This also happens when you delete sims out of the sim bin.  Have you done that?  Something about dangling sim wants and fears (swaf's) I think. 

Nope, no deletions at all.  This is a brand new neighborhood created for the Apocalypse Legacy Challenge.  I knew it couldn't be a death memory since no one has died yet. There are only two other families in the neighborhood but at the time of the jagged line incident the legacy founder was the only one in his family who had met any of them. Very little opportunity for gossip of any kind.  No one but the founder and his wife even knew anyone outside the immediate family.  Can toddlers pick up gossip memories from overhearing two other sims talking? I've never noticed them having balloons with anything other than books, bottles, teddy bears, etc. before.

[Zazazu]

I just had that for the first time in a brand new 'hood I'm playing the TSR Challenges in (the only truly good thing to come from that site). Yes, it involved throwing tons of occupied houses in, but they looked clean to me in clean installer. I got jagged lines on looking out the windows. No conversation oddities. If the neighborhood combusts I don't really care, though. It's a junk 'hood on a reject version of a terrain I'd been trying to perfect.

[seelindarun]

I think jagged lines can come from missing CC, so that might explain your sim looking out the window.  I'm kinda just speculating 'cause I'm not sure if sims attach any sort of marker to objects apart from their beds, but I have noticed that my ghosts would scream about their deleted CC beds if I cleaned them out of the DL folder.

[pixiejuice]

... aside from "so and so slept with your wife!" type of situations.

Has anyone ever had anything come of this?  Say your sim did gossip to another sim that his wife was cheating, what would happen?  Anything?

I delete all gossip every once in a while too.  It does do wonders for file sizes, and in turn, load times  

[jsalemi]

... aside from "so and so slept with your wife!" type of situations.

Has anyone ever had anything come of this?  Say your sim did gossip to another sim that his wife was cheating, what would happen?  Anything?

It has no effect what-so-ever, unfortunately.  Sims only get the jealousy reaction when they're physically present for the cheating.

[LFox]

... aside from "so and so slept with your wife!" type of situations.

Has anyone ever had anything come of this?  Say your sim did gossip to another sim that his wife was cheating, what would happen?  Anything?

It has no effect what-so-ever, unfortunately.  Sims only get the jealousy reaction when they're physically present for the cheating.

Yeah real shame that.  I remember a old video before sims 2 came out showing a guy cheating and his wifes sister seeing him.  She then went over to tell the wife and the wife went and got pissed at her husband.  They also cut the weather system before the game got released.  Probably best to take anything about sims 3 with a grain of salt.

[rohina]

Yeah real shame that.  I remember a old video before sims 2 came out showing a guy cheating and his wifes sister seeing him.  She then went over to tell the wife and the wife went and got pissed at her husband.  They also cut the weather system before the game got released.  Probably best to take anything about sims 3 with a grain of salt.

That would be "wife's".

Grammar Day 2007 - thank you for participating.

[Mrs.Facetious]

It seems that I have had a sim gossip to a spouse about their transgressions. This resulted in the spouse becoming angry. I will have to look and see, but I am pretty sure this has happened.

[LFox]

That would be "wife's".

Grammar Day 2007 - thank you for participating.

It's close enough, I didn't reread it 20 times like I usually do.

It seems that I have had a sim gossip to a spouse about their transgressions. This resulted in the spouse becoming angry. I will have to look and see, but I am pretty sure this has happened.

Well let me know what you find out.  To get full effect on this stuff i'm sure you have to play with free will on.  Which i of course never do.

[Fairlight]

It's close enough, I didn't reread it 20 times like I usually do.

This should properly be a period or a semicolon, not a comma. 

Well let me know what you find out.  To get full effect on this stuff i'm sure you have to play with free will on.  Which i of course never do.

You should have a comma between "Well" and "let".  Also, when using "I" in the first person, it should always be capitalized.

Thank you for participating in Grammar Day!

[Nailati]

Yeah real shame that.  I remember a old video before sims 2 came out showing a guy cheating and his wifes sister seeing him.  She then went over to tell the wife and the wife went and got pissed at her husband.  They also cut the weather system before the game got released.  Probably best to take anything about sims 3 with a grain of salt.

That would be "wife's".

Grammar Day 2007 - thank you for participating.

Not to mention missing commas, the use of the phrase "a old video," and lack of capitalization on the titles "Sims 2" and "Sims 3."

Happy Grammar Day!

[LFox]

...yeah I don't think I'll stay on the forum any longer today.

[Zazazu]

...yeah I don't think I'll stay on the forum any longer today.

Don't take it personally. It's Grammar Day! All posts are checked for grammar, and advice is given in a helpful tone instead of a snotty one.

As for truth in Sims advertising, I'm still waiting for my fire-breathing toddlers and women who rip their tops off and throw their men on the couch.

[Assmitten]

And we can has a souping. Nice dogpiling, there.

[rohina]

Fire-breathing toddlers! Pescado! This is what the Buttlings should do.

[Assmitten]

As for truth in Sims advertising, I'm still waiting for my fire-breathing toddlers and women who rip their tops off and throw their men on the couch.

Oh, snap! I forgot about that. And hereditary wacky hair.

[LFox]

...yeah I don't think I'll stay on the forum any longer today.

Don't take it personally. It's Grammar Day! All posts are checked for grammar, and advice is given in a helpful tone instead of a snotty one.

As for truth in Sims advertising, I'm still waiting for my fire-breathing toddlers and women who rip their tops off and throw their men on the couch.

I know i don't take it personally.  Still it gets annoying pretty quick having your grammer corrected everytime you type.

Sadly i don't think we'll see either of those things even in the sims 3.  Still that was a animated trailer the thing i'm talking about was an actual in game video.

[Assmitten]

Aw, unsouped.