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Forum Descriptions
Apocalypse Now! - The end times are upon us!
The Horror, The Horror! - The Sims 3, it burns, it burns!Facts & Strategery - These threads contain verified, useful information about The Sims 3. No L&P or Prima Guide crap!Pudding Factory - Have you created something for The Sims 3? You can share it here.
World of Puddings - TS3 Self-Sims, stories about self-Sims, and links to Sim videos.Burnination
The Podium - Questions and comments relating to The Sims 2 (PC and Mac), or spin-offs such as The Sims Stories. Discussion of the Sims games on consoles should go to Retardo Land, and should not pass Go or recieve £200 (or 200 of your local currency). Also serves as basic PC/Mac/Linux tech support.
Oops, You Broke It - Game crashing to desktop? PC randomly freezing? Post a thread in here, and the friendly (and not-so friendly) forum members will either try to help you, or laugh at you.The War Room - "TS2 gameplay-related strategery, tips, facts, and data. Remember, this is the war room! You can't fight in here!" Should be required reading for every MATY member. Especially the Myths, Urban Legends, And Apocrypha Of TS2 Explored And Exploded thread.Planet K 20X6 - If you're looking for a challenge, try here.
Building Contest of Awesomeness - The buildings and results from the 2006 and 2007 building contests.Peasantry - Have you made a mod or tutorial that someone here is likely to find useful? Post it in here.
Taster's Choice - The best community made mods, tutorials, and recolours.Made-Up Animals - Self-Sims, stories about self-Sims, and links to Sim videos.The Bowels of Trogdor
The Small Intestines of Trogdor - The technical hacking section addressing various technical hacking related issues for TS2. You must display technical competence before you are allowed to post in this forum.The Large Intestines of Trogdor - The technical hacking section addressing various technical hacking related issues for TS3. You must display technical competence before you are allowed to post in this forum.Awesomeware
AwesomeMod! - There can be only one! This is for TS3.Armoire of Invincibility - Other FFS tools for The Sims 3.The Armory - FFS hacks for The Sims 2.
Playsets & Toys - FFS standalone objects (not hacks)The Scrapyard - Hacks that have now been made obselete by patches or new EPs.Secret Laboratory - I'd tell you, but I'd have to kill you. (Alright, I admit it. I don't know either.)Darcyland - Moderated by Lord Darcy
Lord Darcy Investigates - Hacks and other content by Lord Darcy.Ye Olde Simmes 2 Archives: Dead Creators - Old hacks that are unsupported. Use at your own risk!
Ye Olde Crammyboye Archives - Old hacks by Crammyboy, which may or may not work in your game.Ye Olde Syberspunke Archives - Old hacks by Syberspunk, which may or may not work in your game.Serious Business
Retardo Land - The vast wasteland that functions as the MATY garbage disposal. Also a place for silly, off-topic discussion that has no where else to go, or discussion about the latest piece of EA LIES AND PROPAGANDA (see Sayings). Retardo Landers (members with garbage cans under their name) are restricted to posting in this forum.Cheese With Your Whine - Moderated by AmberDiceless - Found a broken link on the site? Are forum images not showing up for some reason? Is your age wrong in your profile? Post here! (Please read the Cheese With Your Whine FAQ first)Senate Chambers - Where the Senate decides on things that ultimately have no meaningful consequence.Secret Desert Headquarters - Official Non-Sims Awesome Gaming.Spore Discussions - Various Spore-related discussions and uploads are share here.
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Acronyms and Initialisms (last updated: 4 April 2007)
BBS - The Official Sims 2 Bulletin Board.
BFBVFS - Big Fiery Ball Visible From Space. What happens when your game/neighbourhood implodes.
CB - CrammyBoy. See Modders/Hackers.
DAC - deleteallcharacters
DC - Director's Cut. See Modders/Hackers.
EA - Electronic Arts, the company that made The Sims 2.
EP - Expansion Pack
FFS - Flying Fish Systems, the hack-making "company" owned by J. M. Pescado and Doctor Boris. Can also stand for "Family Fun Stuff", or "For Fuck's Sake" depending on context.
FUBAR - "Fucked Up Beyond Any Repair"/"All Repair"/"All Recognition"
HR/H*R - Homestar Runner. See Links.
JM - J. M. Pescado. See Modders/Hackers.
MATY - This site: www.moreawesomethanyou.com
PMBD (aka PSMBD) - Paysites Must Be Destroyed!. See Links.
RL - Retardo Land. See Forum Descriptions. Can also stand for "Real Life", depending on context.
RTFM - Read The Fucking Manual. See Sayings.
SP - Stuff Pack.
SS - Syberspunk. See Modders/Hackers. Can also stand for Social Security or Secret Service.
SWAF - Sim Wants and Fears. In SimPE, each sim has a SWAF entry, and doing a DAC or deleting Sims by other means can leave orphaned SWAFs. Also referred to as "dangling SWAFs" or "hanging SWAFs." Read more about it here, or do something about it here.
TJ - TwoJeffs. See Modders/Hackers.
VBT - Very Bad Thing. The action that causes the BFBVFS to happen.
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Sayings (last edited: 18 August 2007)
6s, 12s, 18s, etc. - Your age at MATY is your most recent age that is divisible by six. If your "real" age is 56, you are only 54 at MATY and will remain that age until your 60th birthday. If you are a teenager, you are a mere 12 (and should not be at this site) until you reach legal age at 18.
Awesome (-ware, -land, etc.) - Pescado's hacks, playing methods, or personal Sims 2 game. It is always spelled with a capital A to distinguish it.
BoolProp - An incorrectly used term to refer to the cheat code "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true". Actually, there are several "boolprop" cheats in the game (as boolprop stands for "boolean property", also known as a boolean variable), but the BBS in particular as well as many other uneducated Simmers continue to refer to debug mode or "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" as just "boolprop." This is a constant source of irritation for many. >:( Contrary to popular belief on the BBS and other Sims forums, "boolprop" does not destroy your game, destroy your sims, delete objects from the game catalog, delete your hard drive, or any other such nonsense. It does not cause errors to occur. Rather, it lets you know when an error has occurred so you can decide how to solve the problem, instead of just resetting your sim and going on. It also produces a helpful log that can be found in the directory shown in the error message, which can be uploaded here as a text file so the Awesome ones can analyze it.
boolprop testingcheatsenabled true - See BoolProp.
Congratulations to: Draklixia - Leftover phrase from Pescado's days of adminning KludgeMUSH. See here (NOTICE: This link goes to an external site. MATY is not responsible for the content of external sites. If external sites have been replaced by Goatse/Tubgirl/scenes from SWAP.avi, this is your problem, and not ours) (thanks Fairlight and Assmitten).
Custom Titles - Some users have custom titles. Who has one (and what it is) is determined solely by the discretion of El Presidente (although some moderators can change their own custom title). Appears between the user's username and their rank.
Debug mode - See BoolProp.
Fs and Ts - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator dichotomies. Look here for more information. If you score high on Feeling, you are a stupid F. If you score high on Thinking, you are an intellectual T. We have a disproportionate number of INTJ types here, and like it that way.
#grah - MATY IRC in your BBQ.
Kitten Killer - The InTEENimater, a game modification that is considered non-awesome. Posting its name anywhere in a thread will normally result in someone else (generally a moderator or J.M. Pescado) posting this image.
LIES AND PROPAGANDA - The official term for any Expansion Pack/Stuff Pack/Spin Off that Pescado has not currently obtained the objects.package of. Posting that you have the latest EP without posting the ISO/BIN/CUE when the latest EP's existence has not been verified by a reputable source (e.g. The Pirate Bay, Mininova) is now considered a bannable offence.
MOAR FIGHT!: Simply put, any fight between two opposing factions. As is the MATY way, it will inevitably be encouraged. "MOAR" is a portmanteau of "more" and "roar", for those of you who get all of your news from Fox News.
Necromancy - The act of bringing threads back from the dead by posting a reply in them. Threads are generally considered "dead" if there have been no new posts in them for approximately a month or more.
Oldversioned - Your game is using the old version of a hack instead of the new, shiny, less buggy version.
Paid Title - A royal title earned by donating to the site. Appears above a user's username, and is different from other titles in that it is not insulting. Limited time offer: you can get one too! Offer good only until December 15, 2008!
Pulling a Ness - Having multiple versions of the same hack installed. This leads to versioning problems and causes people to point and laugh at you.
Read The Fucking Manual - Usually every hack posted here has a RTFM or Read Me text file included in the zip file or on the thread. The Director's Cuts are the exceptions to this rule, so if you're curious about the purpose of a DC-exclusive hack, then look HERE or search the forum. Someone will probably have asked the question already. If they haven't, feel free to post it in the appropriate place.
Ripped Lips - See Ranks.
Sadorandom - EA's variation of the random number generator used in the Sims, which among other things controls personalities for newborns. Instead of using truly random numbers the same set is chosen every time, leading to exact duplication.
Tight Pants - User created gameplay error usually caused by using conflicting hacks from another site. Tight pants is YOUR problem; don't ask us to fix your pants!
Trashcanning/Trashcanned (also referred to as "canning/canned") - Obtaining the coveted "Retardo Lander" status. See Ranks for more information.
Undiscovered Shiny - An unreleased hack that provides an annoyance fix or a new feature. Undiscovered Shinies are usually not released until Fat Gwilly People request them.
groups.cache - Delete this file in The Sims 2 folder periodically, more often if you have a lot of custom content. It seems to cache game data, and can get corrupted, causing loading and closing issues, as well as various other problems. It does regen every time you start the game.
cigen.package - Seems to be the same sort of thing as groups.cache, but for BodyShop. Deleting it can fix a problem you're having with Bodyshop, and it does regen the next time you start it.
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Ranks
Ranks (in order from worst to best) -
Dead Member - Die in real life. Lips change to .
Banned! - After obtaining Retardo Lander status, prove that your IQ just keeps dropping. One of the easiest ways to do this is to create multiple sockpuppet accounts, post threads that could be considered too retarded for RL, and generally be a total asshat. Lips change to .
Subscription Expired - Be found guilty of not paying your subscription fee. Lips change to an icon that has currently not been reuploaded to the server.
Retardo Lander - See below. Lips change to .
Souped - Gain notability, then leave in (or due to) a dramabomb explosion. Bonus points if you say something to the effect of "I'M NEVER COMING BACK" and return 1 or 2 weeks later. Lips change to .
Undead Member - RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE. (get someone to assume that you're dead, then post refuting this fact). Lips change to .
Loitering Lurker - No posts. Lips change to , although this can only be seen in private messages.
Tasty Tourist - 1 post
Asinine Airhead - 5 posts
Blathering Buffoon - 50 posts*
Corpulent Cretin - 100 posts
Dimwitted Dunce - 150 posts
Exasperating Eyesore - 200 posts
Feckless Fool - 250 posts
Garrulous Gimp - 300 posts*
Horrible Halfwit - 350 posts
Irritating Ignoramus - 400 posts
Juvenile Jackass - 450 posts
Knuckleheaded Knob - 500 posts
Lipless Loser - 600 posts*
Malodorous Moron - 700 posts
Nitwitted Nuisance - 800 posts
Obtuse Oaf - 900 Posts
Pinheaded Pissant - 1,000 posts
Querulous Quidnunc - 1,100 posts*
Retarded Reprobate - 1,250 posts
Stupid Schlemiel - 1,500 posts
Terrible Twerp - 2,000 posts
Undesirable Uncouth - 3,000 posts
Vacuous Vegetable - 4,000 posts*
Whiny Wussy - 5,000 posts
Senator - See below. Lips change to
Grammar Police - See below. Lips change to .
FFS Member - Only gained if you are an FFS Member. Lips change to
Moderator - Only for moderators (see below). Lips change to
Global Moderator - Rank is unused. Lips would change to if rank was used.
El Presidente - Only for J.M. Pescado (see Modders/Hackers). Lips change to .
* Also earns lips.
Ripped Lips - As a member's post count goes up, they acquire "ripped lips" icons. These also function to serve how many PMs (Private Messages) you're allowed to hoard. There are 5 PMs per every set of ripped lips. Senators get 100, and moderators have unlimited hoarding potential (well, some might, but global moderators don't). This is a parody of other sites that may have stars or other icons showing a member's status. JM prefers to punish instead of reward people. This is the reason for the insulting titles that one acquires as they move through the ranks. Lip ripping is also JM's favorite pastime. He has been known to rip the lips off people who he deems stupid. Figuratively speaking, of course. I've been told it doesn't really hurt...much.
Senators (added by BlueSoup, at the suggestion of Rainbow and TaWanda)
- Senators have no useful functions whatsoever. It is a parody of all parodies to even have a Senate.
- The only thing Senators can do that regular users can't is: vote/post in the Senate section, and they have PMs not based on ripped lips (since they have the cool flames have the cool laurel wreath , don'tcha know? :P). As of December 10th 2007, the icon of the Senate has changed from fire.gif to senate.png ().
Grammar Police "The MATY Grammar Police, 2/3 of whom spurn invitations to join Mensa, care not for any claims that you belong to any other Grammar Policing divisions on the internet, in RL, or in your own mind. Membership in MATYGP is by invitation only. Asking to join the Grammar Police may be regarded as grounds for disqualification from consideration for membership." - courtesy of Rohina.
Moderators - There are currently six moderators on the site - AmberDiceless (Cheese With Your Whine), Crammyboy (Propane & Propane Accesories), Syberspunk (Mundelow), Lord Darcy (Darcyland), Rhayden (Be Less Stupid), and witch A.K.A. Poofs (global). Pescado is the Administrator and as such has full moderator powers as well. Note that global moderators have less power in Retardo Land compared to other sub-forums, due to the anarchistic attitude of RL. However, in extremely rare cases, a global mod may feel that some topics are "too retarded for Retardo Land", and may use an exploit in the system to regain full control over a thread or series of threads so that they can be locked as necessary. This exploit is also necessary to perform some other key moderational duties in RL threads, due to the lack of power. When the exploit is used as normal, no one responds or even notices. When it is abused, the inevitable response is MOAR FIGHT! (see sayings).
Retardo Lander - This exclusive rank confines the user to only posting in Retardo Land, and is currently held by less than 1% of MATY users. To obtain this rank, simply do something incredibly stupid, or do something not quite as stupid repeatedly.
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Links
Popular Tools & Tutorials
Tutorial: Clean custom neighbourhoods, by Jordi
Empty and Cleaned-up Neighborhood Templates (for making a custom 'hood with NO GOOPY!)
Creating Default Skins, by Angelyne
Checking polygon counts of objects, by Baratron
Hair Binning SimPe plugin, by Theo
Correcting the DNA of Strangetown premade characters, by Baratron
SimPE - SimPE - The Sims 2 Package Editor, found here.
Several useful tools by Jfade, including the Mac Unpac, Wardrobe Wrangler, and The Compressorizer!
disaSim2 - Sims 2 BHAV console disassembler 2.3d - contributed by Syberspunk.
Note: The latest version, updated by Shy, can be found in here.
Content/Hack Scanner Tools - useful for scanning your game for unwanted/conflicting hacks, and deleting content. - Contributed by Syberspunk.
The Sims2Pack Clean Installer (S2PCI) aka Pheverstool
Paladin's Sims 2 Hack Conflict Detection Utility
Dizzy's Sims 2 Mod and GUID Checker Tool
Note: The latest version, updated by Shy, can be found in this post.
CEP - CEP is a tool that makes normally unrecolourable objects, recolourable. Also required to make these items show up in your game.
Other Links
Homestarrunner.com - One of JM"s favorite sites, from which he borrows a lot of phrases. For example, the child board in the Peasantry, Made-Up Animals, has this description: "If you were a sim, what would you like as if?" This is from one of Strong Bad's emails. Made-Up Animals is where MATY Members upload their self-sims if they wish to do so. Check out the HRWiki, and the HRWiki's list of H*R sightings on MATY.
Affliates/Other AwesomeNet sites: PAYSITES MUST BE DESTROYED!: Pescado's new business venture. See EA's EULA before complaining.
TSR MUST BE DESTROYED!: A redirect to the "The Sims Resource" section of PMBD. See EA's EULA before complaining.
Credits - In no order whatsoever
RainbowTigress - Writing the majority of the original FAQ and this FAQ.
Flying Fish Systems - For saving the sanity of Simmers everywhere.
Dizzy - Writing the "Using hacks in TS2" entry
BlueSoup - For writing several of the original FAQ entries.
Frankenbeasley - For writing the mission statement.
Vcline - Pointing out a broken image link.
Syberspunk - For showing everyone how NOT to post.
Flowerchile -
Kyna -
Lorelei - For giving new users a lesson in general MATY attitudes towards idiots and new users who act like they own the forum.
Venusy - For modifying the FAQ into version 2.0, guide to playing "legally backed" up games.
BastDawn - Editing the old 2.0.0.6beta FAQ to version 3.0
Questions, comments, or suggestions?
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