More Awesome Than You!

Messers Awesome, the horrific spelling & grammatical errors unleashed upon me and other FreeTime victims is driving me nuts. Is there any way to retype the in-game chance cards/pop-ups/whatever? I thought I could live through the "Hey David, how's it going I haven't seen you much lately" peeve, but I don't know if I can go on for much longer with the Babelfish-esque run-ons we've been subjected to in this installment.

I am dangerously unawesome - no brains for computational logic or arithmetic, and while I do own SimPE, I really only look at it. Is it possible in SimPE/at all? Would it be relatively easy if so?

Seriously though, I thought game publishers had armies of beta testers to catch this rubbish.

Fixing spelling errors in the game is easy enough to do: just fix the relevant string entry. Finding it can be a bit tricky, though.

Is it going to frustrate you to no end if I ask what a string entry is?

Yes.

A string is not an integer or a boolean.

There ya go :P

Okay, okay... it's text. And the entry is where it is entered.

This is my current favourite text hash up in the game:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Bluefunk/RejectSwedishMassage.png)

Is that FOR REALS? They should be ashamed. For reals.

Um...what? LOL!

It seems to have been fixed for FT (that screenshot was taken with BV), unless there are several messages depending upon sim personality or something.

So, uh... What exactly is going on there? That pop-up is absolutely atrocious! Did they whack some chinese text into babelfish or something?

I agree that the spelling is incredibly infuriating. Reading some of the chance cards make a grammar freak like me want to gouge my eyes out.

Now that I reread it, it looks like a text string that wasn't actually done before the game shipped.

Once in awhile, if I couldn't think of something to title a paper I was writing, I'd put a huge bold title on top:  INSERT TITLE HERE.

If you look at the end of that box is says:  TEMP.  Needs to be written for reals.

As I am a horrible person who tends to use cutesy made up terms all the time like "for reals," I think that's what's going on here.  Sounds like a few different potential lines and then a "Don't forget to finish this!!!!!" note.  Which someone forgot to finish.

I was working on a government contract about 10 years ago, and was given a system document done by a different contractor to read to help the government decide if the system was worth still updating or not.  About halfway through the document, where obviously a screen shot or the like was supposed to be, was the caption "some shit goes here".  I laughed my ass off -- the document was at least 4-5 years old, had been officially delivered to the government agency, and no one (to my knowledge) ever caught that. :)

I once read a published paperback novel that had the text "insert diagram here" written in bold text between paragraphs.   ::)

I accidentally sent a job application where I forgot to change [company name] and some other variable from my form letter.  No one complained, but I didn't get called to interview either.