More Awesome Than You!

So, I've been one of the lucky ones in regard to nannies.  Mine usually don't pee themselves, actually take care of the babies, and rarely set the kitchen on fire.  So, I was horrified to find this scene in my bathroom this evening...The nanny (for some reason running around naked?) peed on my poor baby, unfortunately named "Lucky"! :o



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LMFAO! I need to steal that one and make an avatar of it. OMG that is too funny.

And HA! I knew those of you who bragged how great your nannies were would have it catch up with you sooner or later. ;)

Rofl Just what you need to go with your other evil Nanny Avatars ;D

EW Nanny bum!

*is scarred for life and will never never EVER take away the censor grid*

 :o

Now I've seen EVERYTHING!  :D

LMAO.....
I always have pretty good luck with nannies...I'm actually pi**ed (pardon the pun) that mine *are* so well behaved!

The guy is the picture looks pretty disturbed and I can't blame him.  

It's disturbing on so many levels! :o Thanks for the laugh.

That has got to take the prize for the funniest sim pic ever!  I laughed so hard my tummy hurts.

Motoki, I would fall out of my chair if you used that as an avatar! LOL!  It was pure coincidence I happened to even see that--I heard Chaz cackling in the bathroom, I paused it and rotated to see what was so funny, and starting laughing hysterically.  Sounded a bit like Chaz, actually!  I just wish that picture weren't so dark--it was sunset;I have GunMod's fabulous lighting mod installed--and the lights hadn't come on yet.

Man, I needed that after the day I had today...
That is FUNNY! 

My nannies are never that interesting in my game....

You gave me a huge laugh... thanks  ;D  And your avatar is really something too  :P

Man, the poor things these children endure.  My poor toddler was left with his ass stuck up in the air.  All alone and abandoned and what a perfect face!

(http://the-isz.com/pics/abandoned.jpg)

ROFL, I almost pee in my pants...  I just don't want to smell what will be getting out of that toddler's butt.... shooo.....

lol....and you guys all have such interesting avatars. All I have is scary looking smustling pregnant woman that ou can't even see properly because it's dark and I suck at pictures.

oh and is it just me or is the site running slow?

What was even funnier is that I was raising hell at my game because I had thought someone had walked off with the kid because I couldn't find him.  My husband comes out and looks and starts laughing me and points to the changing table and asked what the hell happened to that kid.  Yep the poor little feller got all stuck like that and no one could pick him up, even if I moved him on the floor, which looked even goofier.  I had do delete the wee one and exit the lot and come back in.  Just one of those things I guess.   :D

This is probably  the strangest sequence of pictures I've seen, so far in my game. Well, maybe not. You know how I play my game LOL.
Check this baby out(and for those who have downloaded him, the baby is Joel Goth-Bayfield) :

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/babyclimbingcrib2.jpg)(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/babyclimbingcrib3.jpg)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/babyclimbingcrib7.jpg)(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/babyclimbingcrib6.jpg)

Here's a couple more weird ones. Castor Nova was really attached to little Jamie Bayfield. Castor is playing kicky bag, in the first one. With Jamie still clutching to his side. And I like to caption the second pic "I'm up here, dumbass..." (and again for those who've downloaded them, the toddlers in these two pics are Jamie and Shellie Bayfield)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/kickybagbaby.jpg)(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/upheredumbass.jpg)

LMAO..oh man...that is great.  That right there about sums up the nature of the nannies in this game LOL

Brynne..your baby peering out of it's crib is freaking me out lol

Mokey, which of the nannies was it?  (I once had about a hundred of them in my game - I'll never hire a nanny again!)

*giggles madly* Here's one I had a while ago...the poor toddler looks really horrified!

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My nannies are always naked :-\

[edit] btw I posted this as a screenshot on the sims resource-but it isn't linked from there  ;)

Brynne do you have Inge's hack (can't remember what it's called) where a baby/toddler can 'escape' it's crib after it wails and whines to get out? I have it and I swear the looks toddlers get on their faces when they realise they can get out is truly creepy!!!  ::)

Yes, that crib is one of Inge's. I find the mischievous expressions on the toddler's faces absolutely adorable when they do that, but it's a little weird on a baby...and notice in that last shot how the same baby that just stood up, put down his own crib railing, flipped over the railing to climb down, is now lying helplessly on the floor, lol.

I think it was Kendall something. I recognize her name from Pleasantview; I didn't deleteall like I usually do with a new terrain and have been playing with the Maxis characters from the Academie.  In her defense I have to say that as soon as she finished peeing and cried for a second, she picked up the baby, put him in his crib, and left for the day.  :D

Brynne, I adore that first picture! That face is priceless.  I've had that effect with Inge's crib and it's hysterical how they flop on the ground "helpless" afterwards. 

Kendall is a pain!  Didn't she realise the poor thing must have needed a bath?
(Even after I had the antiprank fix in my game, she attacked her employer (a single mum) with a water balloon the minute the poor thing got out of the pool car!  Needless to say, she was fired, and the mother had to stay home from work until the kid grew up!

Kendall was the first nanny I ever used. She soon became my nanny-ghost. This was pre-uni, and she just kind of moved herself in. The toddlers were screaming and where was Kendall? In the hot tub of course! Or diving off the diving board. Then she took to walking around in her granny panties and gray bra, "bragging" to all my sims. I could not keep the woman dressed. Her last days were spent facing the corner in the kitchen, in her undies, standing in her own pee and emitting foul odors, and making my sims gag at the dinner table. Poor lady must have gone senile. She was eventually killed by a resident ghost. And Kendall was not a very nice ghost, herself:

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/KendallscaresJoe.jpg)     

I'd be inclined to move her tombstone!

I think that one of my teens kicked it and broke it into pieces and it got swept up. I noticed her tombstone was missing one day. And she would have been a fun ghost to put in a community cemetary lot, but this was way before Uni, so I couldn't do that.

Oh, well, just goes to show how much your sim-kids must have hated her!

Ugh, The Blair Witch Sim Project.

That's exactly what I thought, too :D

I think you needed the lot debugger to unfreeze her motives!

Why? It's fun! Doesn't everyone want a nanny in her underwear staring into the kitchen corner and pissing herself? ;)

That could be a story idea, the Kendall Nanny Project. ;)

My morning coffee just wouldn't have been the same without seeing this, MokeyHokey. :D

I wish I'd kept that video clip of Joe sobbing into the camera about how it was all his fault the nanny died...damn. ;)

OMG - what a hoot!  Haven't laughed that hard in a long time.  In fact, all the pictures in this thread have cracked me up - whew!

That's the funniest sim pic I've seen ever! Poor baby will be scared for life heh.

I don't think I could handle any of my nannies walking around in the nude like that, it's just too wrong :P

I had Miss Crumplebottom do it in Sims1 (at the Park) after she used Simslice's rejuvenation machine!  It was really wierd!

I cant even picture  the old prude in undies let alone nude ;D

Bangelnuts, it was worse than you could even imagine. For the original Miss Crumplebottom, under her clothes, was... A FIT MEDIUM-SKINNED MAN!! :o

When Maxis realised that a bunch of us had doors that made people nude & so on, they had to include a "fix" for the Crumplebutt in the Hot Date Patch. Because it was just way too disturbing for a pale-skinned old woman to suddenly become a buff young guy!

There's a hack for naked nannies at the adult section of MTS2. ;)

I'm not the least suprised you'd know that Motoki :P

So tell us what's with the bizarre nanny obsession thingy?  ;D

Actually... it does make some crazy sense.  Maybe her real name was Mrs Doubtfire?!

Oh, lord, say it ain't so!!


No, that would be me LOL.  I still don't know why she was naked in the first place; maybe someone interrupted her shower? :-X

wow :o I wonder what the current  old prude really is .Ms.Crumplebottom that is

And to think the worst thing happening with my lots are that my college students are suddenly running round nekkie.

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I dunno the nannies have been doing odd things in my game for eons

Did you linstall NL while she was in the shower, Mokey?  I had it happen to some sim female after I installed Uni.  she came out of the shower, hubby threw up his hands in horror, I'm sure she blushed before doing a twilr and getting dressed.

I remember the same thing happening with Sims1 after installing Superstar, so maybe it's just something that happens with new installs, like sims all getting maxed out needs, or losing interests, etc.

Nope.  As a matter of fact, I did a fresh install a week or so ago after we kind of came to the conclusion that my game was irrevocably bugged--see the "squiggle lines" thread--so s'not that. I think Kendall was just having a hot flash.  Or something.  :-X

In my personal opinion, Maxis nannies aren't that bad.  :D I think they are one of the most complicated NPCs Maxis ever made. But uhm they have to stay for several hours in player's lot, so I think Maxis felt they have to make them look more alive and active. So they made them care for their own motives so I think that's why they are fooling around that much and peeing on themselves and babies.  :D

I should send you some of my nannies and then see how you feel! ;)

I frequently have the problem where they will just stay at my house and never leave. Seems to be some issue with the nanny van when I checked the logs. Sometimes they will just go about their business and sleep, eat and shower on their own (but ignore the kid :p) but other times they go completely nuts and start acting like a malfunctioning robot standing in place waving their arms over and over yelling "GORMON!!" until they get so tired they pass out in their own piss.

that doesnt explain why they neglect their young charges and are abusive to their employers.Not to mention they waste food by the carload and set the kitchen on fire. in addituion to peeing on themselves

Are they stuck? In most cases, forcing error will help. That might be not related with the nanny van. They can be stuck..  :D

Baglenuts. I think they are pretty complicated and evolved. (At least I think so  :D) But they have a process of caring for their own motives, so they can be abusive to employer sims and eat something, take shower, fool around and so on.

I've noticed those nannies have some unused stuff in their code. Like there's something in there for them to react to an ambulance coming (presumably to take a pregnant sim to the hospital to deliver her baby) but that feature obviously got cut from the game.

I also noticed the nannies have code to potty train etc. but I've never had them actually do it so it doesn't seem to work. Any idea why that is Christianlov? You're painting nanny does potty train but the Maxis ones sure don't.

I did have a nanny recently give a kid a bath in the tub and I've had the game for a year and always use nannies but that was the first time I saw that happen.

Another very annoying thing about their code is they are way too biased towards hunger above all else. If a child is only halfway on the hunger meter but all the way down on energy or bladder they will keep trying to force it to eat even if it pisses itself and passes out on the floor. They will also stick tired toddlers in the high chair which the toddlers do not like! :P

I know those nannies are complex but they could have tested them a bit more or worked on them some and cleaned up the code too, there's no need for the ambulance part. :P I have to say your nanny works a lot better for me than the Maxis ones, though she does just stand around a lot so maybe that's part of the reason. Those Maxis ones always wander off and do something annoying and/or stupid.

Motoki:
Maybe it just hasn't been added yet?



I noticed with JM's baby controller that the nanny will potty train right up to when credit is about to be given as in "was potty trained by...", then the nanny would insist on passing the toddler to a parent so that the parent would get the credit.  Did anyone else notice this?

It was one of the pre-release features they talked about but it got cut like some other stuff, washing clothes, storms and the power outage scenario etc. It's possible they could finish it or add it at some point like they did with drivable cars, but I don't see them bothering with it personally.

Well, unless washing clothes has some point, like gaining cleaning skills, it's seems a waste of effort to me!  (Annoys me that actually cleaning up all the coffee cups they see doesn't add to cleaning skill points!)

the flip side though is leaving them sit causes the sim in question to screech about the environement

True!  And the sloppy sims screech the loudest, and do the least to put it right!

until tonight  my new hood didnt have a maid in any of the houses but I finally broke down and hired one for my house that has 10 sims living in it.I got tired of my 2 grouchy sims complaining about the toilet a pregnant sim threw up in  and yet neither would clean the toilet.

Well, they would if you told them to!  They'd moan, but they'd do it......even Don Lothario will clean a toilet if he HAS to!  And it's odd, but these sloppy sims don't throw up the Hire a Maid want unless they also happen to be Fortune or something.  And I've never had a sloppy romance sim moan about changing a nappy, but Family sims really hate it!  (Mind you , some of the neat ones will empty potties without being told!)

Heh, I was browsing TSR and found the perfect house for The Kendall Nanny Project:

http://www.thesimsresource.com/items/comments.php?ID=6431&type=ts2houses

heh gotta love the description too, "Some are saying that the ghost of the old lady is still prowling..."

Of course I downloaded it. ;) I may try moving some crazy asses nanny in there and having her scare people to death with the ghost, or maybe a vampire in a coffin or even the scissors lol.

LOL Just the house for here. I should try and move her in myself.

that is true a Romance sim will change a diaper without so much as a hiccup . whereas the  Family sim wants to lecture the baby for soiling it's diaper ::) I use the no empty potty patch from Inge and her sleep through the night patch for toddler it works perfect even  babies sleep through the night with it

Am I the only one who has never seen a baby being lectured? I feel left out.

Family sims are the culprits when it comes to that. I got tired of it so Installed the anyi baby lecture from JM

I have quite a few family sims and I've never seen the lecturing. I still feel left out...

mine woulld stand at the crib shaking their finger at the baby and lecture it for soiling its diaper. in the meantime the baby is screaming its head off and wriggling all over the crib . I would have to cancel the action to get the parent to pick the baby up aand change the diaper

Well, I've never seen the baby lecture either, and since I always have the flamingo of contentment, babies actually NEVER soil their nappies, so they never need changing.  They get bathed more to give the parents something to do instead of just standing like a moron holding the baby.  However, it doesn't stop toddlers from getting potty trained, although you do have to catch them at the right moment if you want a nearly full bladder so they learn more!  (But with smart milk they only need one or two visits to the potty anyway.)

And I don't bother with sleepthrough night patches and such, if the toddler wakes up at 3 am, I simply yank them out of the crib and let them get on with doing their own thing until breakfast time.  Quite often they'll go and sit in the parents' room though, and get social points, but sometimes it wakes one of the parents up!

I rarely ever use Smart milk as the old trick of canceling the action on the parent when they look bored works in my game to potty train toddlers. walking doesnt really need smart milk nor does talking unless the toddler is
 a really slow learner

It speeds everything up though, and they learn other skills really fast!  I've had toddlers reach level 4 in their skills while taking smart milk.   And if you get them to transition immediately after drinking it, they can sometimes get to A+ on the very first day at school!

I used to use smart milk but  never saw any real benefit to it after learning the potty training trick.my sim toddlers are maxed in body skill by transition time and usually at level 3 in all other toddler skills and unfortunately my simmie kids have never gotten smart milk stuck.there is no right or wrong way to play this game fortunately and that mere fact makes for some very interesting and varied storylines. like Brynne I play the sims she gave me in real time and they wont be elders in 29 sim days. other sims in the same neighborhood  age in sim time so my neighborhood is constantly changing around this one family.as their friends die and new generations interact and become friends with my main family.

How on earth do you max them in body skill?

Probably that crib mobile by Rennie.  ::)

Oh!  Don't go to vS these days.

It would take all the fun out of it for me if I had kids maxed on skills that early!  I like sims to keep on learning something throughout their lives - after all, it's what we humans do!

I actually thing it's a pity they haven't added an upper level for each skill, so Knowledge sims who have maxed out all their skills could then aim for new levels of knowledge!

The mobile I got from VS that Inge coded for Rentech

As I said, I don't go to VS these days.

I ve had the mobile in my game since I got uni eans ago it seems. its not a recent add to my game. I actually got it to have a nursery decoration as there is very little available to sim babies. Ididnt know it added body skill till it had been in my game for a couple of months.I have a sim kid who is maxed creativity while her twin sister is screeching daily into the Karaoke machine gaining creativity.its hysterical to watch because the minute she picks up the microphone her family puts their hands over their ears and beats a hasty retreat out of the room most head outside  or upstairs .kind of unfair to little lexie though her entire family has maxed creativity  so therefore sound good on tha Karaoke while she cant cary a tune in a bucket :P

Have you noticed that one at least of the karaoke songs is from sims 1?  (The boogie boogie boo one from Houseparty!)

yes I did notice. my teen and adult sims love that song and they sing it all the time. I constantly hear oogie oogie  ewww out of them. on my maxed creativity  sims I love the duets. they are awesome. :)

I think it's great too when a whole family get really good at Schmustling, and they all do it in unison!  Always annoyed me that they could only "join dance" and not "dance together", but now they can schmustle and get really good before they become teens, so that's one Scholarship already!

I didn't even notice that! I even had Houseparty. My memory is horrible...

my sims in my main family are always smustling together .I have pictures of Justin and his older Brother Jamie singing a duet together . and Justins kids,father and 2 other brothers are all smustling in unison. it helps though that this family is 100/100 with each other  as well. they are the main family in my hood and the the family closeness among them is awesome. the The Tricou Family is similar in its familial relationships. but they arent quite as close as my main family. I have a Picture of Justin's father autonomously hugging his grandson Jude. I was playing the family and the sim I was working with was his Uncle Josh when Ihappened to pan the camera  to make sure Josh was going where I told him to. I caught Grandpa giving his grand son a hug .

Oh, I have families where brothers or sisters will autonomously go and tuck in their kid brother or sister, it's really rather sweet!

I have seen the teens in this family tuck in their twin sisters autonomously and it is sweet. I have  seen their father be dead tired but he wont go to bed until  he has tucked in all of his kids including his teenage sons. I think.Justin is that way because his Father is  a total kid magnet he has to make friends with every kid that walks off the  school bus with his grandkids.. its the one house that every nieghbor kid wants to go to in my neighborhood.

I've yet to see a teenager get tucked in!

the first time I ever saw it done was yesterday in my Game by Justin. I fell off my chair in total shock.if he does it again I will snap a photo...... not sure if it was a game error or simply Justin showing love for his kids

They generally do it anyway when their social is a bit low, so maybe that's why.  If their social is max, and you send them to stand by the bed, they'll go do something else.

Iknow kids and babies and toddlers get tucked in but  this was the first time I ever saw a sim tuck in their Teenagers. but thats what he did he first tucked in his daughters who are still children then climbed the ladder of one bunk bed and tucked in his oldest son a teen then came back down tucked in his youngest son also a teen  and then tucke d in his middle son a teen as well. the only one he didnt tuck in was his older Brother who is an adult :o

I saw my Sims often tuckle in their kids but never ever pay attention if it was doing it to teens.

That was a lot of tuckling in though lol.  Maybe it is just now that I notice but it seems my sims do interact autonamously more often with their babies and toddlers then they use too before Nightlife.  They snuggle them on their own, read to them more often, they pick-up the baby from the crib and play with them, etc..

Not only that, but the reading to kids tends to work better, but you still have to be careful if you queue the action, that the kid doesn't go off and do something else!  But usually, if they ask autonomously, they don't.

my simkids are Lucky at Justin's houe they have 3 teenage brothers,3 uncles ,Grandpa, and Daddy who all are willing to read to them ,play with them autonomously and are affectionate autonomously with  twin little girls. its obvious that the kids and teens are loved in that house. its the one house  where the Familial ties are so strong that Shellie Jamie's Twin Sister who is away at Uni is still 100/100 with her entire family. funny thing is the Patriarch and father to Justin,Josh,Jamie,Shellie and Jacob is a Romance sim

Well, Romance sims have a very strong need to have loads of best friends!

Then Joe definitely has that He is best friends with his entire family and trmains best friends with his ex mistresses  Brandi Broke and Bella Goth

Well, he will do unless they catch him "cheating"! 

He doesnt sleep with either one now He is simply best friends with them now and he willalways have a soft spot for both Brandi and Bella after all Brandi is the Mother of his Twin Sons Josh and Jacob and Bella is  Justin's Mother

Uh motoki, there is a bhav named 'Nanny - Scan - Bladder' and nannies are supposed to search for toddlers with no potty train skill... but Maxis disabled this. I mean this bhav looks like being used but they don't use it at all. There is a line of checking toddler's skill flag, but there are wrong parts in this bhav so it doesn't work. Of course, they absolutely can make nannies potty train toddlers but maybe they found some bugs when they were testing this or they just wanted parent sims to do this?  :D


It's because nannies don't check if toddlers/babies are desperate or they don't know what they (nannies) should do first when toddler/babies' multiple motives are bad. Motoki you are definately right, and it's a sort of infinite loop.  :D You know, nannies do somethiing, toddlers quit this action to show tantrums, nannies try again, and so on...  :D


Right bugs are there or at least nannies have a lot of part to be modified.

I've noticed most of my nannies will take the toddler to potty if he/she needs to go, but only when they've already been potty-trained.


There is also something that bothers me alot, and I have no idea why it's different in some households.  When the hygiene of the toddler is really low and/or fully red, the adults of the household sometimes get the "change diaper" option on the changing table, but most of the time they never get it.  I tried to see if it was related to how clean a sim is, but it seems to make no difference.

It's really annoying cos most the time I never have baths, I just use showers in all the households.

Well, you could compromise with one of the showerbaths!  Hairfish has some nice recolours of the expensive one which are semi-transparent so they don't look too clumsy.  But even a cheap bath will restore comfort motives.

First thing I do with a new toddler is potty train it, if time and energy (teen/adult) permit, teach it to speak and I've only had one Sim autonomously take a toddler to a potty.
Though I rarely use nannies, I find they will change a diaper, but only after the kid has accepted a bottle (regardless of hunger) and they only use default cribs and change tables.

ZephyrZodiac, where can I find those recolours?

Main reason I don't like to have baths is my sims tend to get obsessed with them.  If they aren't playing in it, they are taking constant baths even if the comfort/hygiene meter is full.

They're from Hairfish's site, Mermaid Cove.

http://www.hairfish.com/mermaidcove/index.html (http://www.hairfish.com/mermaidcove/index.html)

Loads of other goodies there too!

I hate baths because they take too damn long. My sims have shower-baths for the toddlers but I don't let them bathe themselves.

Well, while they're doing that, you can concentrate on another sim!  I always let my sloppy sims take baths, it's way quicker than all the fuss about mopping up afterwards!

Wow, alot of great stuff on that site, thanks for the link Zephyr :)

I never thought about not having to mop up after a bath.  Almost all my sims are at least 4 clean tho, so I never get the puddle heh.

If they are sloppy, you will - and sometimes sloppy sims are fun to play too!  (Means they can have higher points in other things, if you're playing CAS sims with the basic pointcount.)

The interesting thing is, if you have two sims, both very active, but one is sloppy and the other is neat, the neat one will often choose to shower, but the sloppy one will almost always go for the bath!  almost as if they know the shower option will leave them with a puddle to clean up!

I make mine sloppy because they don't waste as much time. They eat faster, and will put a book on a coffee table instead of the whole crap of replacing it in the bookshelf and browsing for another to study a different skill. I also like that if you cancel an action, they will drop what they have instead of trekking across the home for a suitable counter or table to place it on.
I also use showers only and just queue something directly after so the puddle is left for someone who wants to clean it.

But they still hike halfway round the lot to put a coffee cup down!  But my latest family quite surprised me, the tathr, who is leo with only 3 neat points, is always tidying up - and he's a romance sim.  But he obviously prefers to get on and do something about the mess - his wife is Libra, only 2 neat points and hates cleaning - but then, she's got the pleasure aspiration, which I think is so suited to the lazier Libras!

I agree, though, that they eat more quickly - but ONLY if you have TJ's No Farting or Belching mod - otherwise they may spend less time eating, but the half a dozen belches tends to more than make up for it!

Trying to take the coffee cup to the second floor when they can put it right in front is a tad annoying.  Actually I've noticed that if you happen to put table/chairs upstairs (I had a house with a large balcony second floor) They would cook then go downstairs to eat at the kitchen table :/

I really wish that *somebody* would make a mod that deletes the influence wants, I don't mind them in uni so much, but playing in you're regular nieghbourhood these wants show up on almost every sim and takes up 3 of 6 slots everytime :(

Already exists. There's a "no influence obsession" that should still work with NL, prevents the influence wants from spamming your board once you fill your influence meter and thus indicate you don't use that crap.

It indeed still works, and I for one am grateful. I hate those spam wants.

Just make sure that your influence meter is kept full. Once you have some drainage, the wants will roll up again until the meter is full up once more.

Woot!!!! You just made my day J.M :)

Downloading right now  :D

Yeah, I'm not fond of that 'feature' and would rather they just be nuked alltogether and I could decide if and when I want to use influence. For the longest time I didn't even realize it worked that way and thought the hack wasn't working. Yes, I didn't RTFM, so sue me. :P