Oooohhh, Mrs Crumplebottom - I miss her for sure...
. I remember that when my sims were at the community lot, and she was around, I never gave them to hug/kiss, scared that she will "smack" them with it. Only when she went away, I dared slowly to allow them hugging and kissing...and I never understood what does it mean "make out", because always when my sim tried to do that, he was slapped...
. So I never used it...
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Usually, you can learn things from the discussion, depends what was the question, or the experience described. You don't have to depend on the Maxoids to answer your question, they are players like you, and have one main role: to watch that the EA forum rules are kept. Some of them are TTT, quite new players.
Don't go to the "General Discussion" section - there are all the nonsense threads; keep visiting Technical Help, Game Help, and University; I found there quite a lot good suggestions...
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