More Awesome Than You!

Quick update:

- Still using Ubuntu
- Now running VMware and upgrading my box, so hopefully I'll have Sims 2 functional again
- All my old data went poof so I'm starting over from scratch (probably not going to do any more modding)

Am I crazy or did Hobbsee flee to go work at Ubuntu?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hobbsee

If so, she is now a Master Of The Universe which is pretty darn close to being More Awesome Than You.

DIZZY!!!!    ;D   Long time no see.. :P   How was it being dead?

Dizzy! Where did you run off too for such a long time!

Dizzy! Welcome back. :)

Zombie alert! ZOMBIE ALERT!

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!



Just kidding. Nice to see you, Dizzy. We've all been wondering.

Thanks for the warm welcome. I kinda missed hanging around here and the chat, but there was some family complications. Suffice it to say, it was not fun. Hopefully I can start making up for that here pretty soon.  ;D

Looking forward to OFB (haven't even seen that yet). In the meantime, I'll probably just randomly surf for a while.

Dizzy!!!!!!  We missed you!  I tried to tell JM you weren't dead, but he wouldn't believe me.  He said he had his "sources" who reported that you'd been found dead in your apartment.  :P

Silly Pescado. I haven't lived in an apartment since 2001.

Well, I'm glad you're not dead.  :)  You'll have to replace your avatar because there was an accident in March where Hurricane Josh wiped out all the files stored at MATY. 

Check. Now, new and improved.  :D

Welcome back Dizzy. :)

*Brynne launches a cow at dizzy*

So happy to see you!!!!

I am not sure if I want to ask what the cow was for.

The cow's an inside joke that's probably before your time.

Welcome back dizzy! Your presence has been sorely missed. I just thought I'd pop by and add to the welcome back sentiments. :)

A shame that you wont be modding anymore. We've lost some great modders in you and Inge. Even tho more and more people seem to be getting into modding... I'm not so sure how I feel about them. :P

Oh wells. Totally understandable tho. Regardless. Welcome back and glad to hear that the rumors about your death have been awesomely ;) exaggerated. Hee hee.

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DIZZY! Or should I say Lazarus?  ;) I, too, am so glad to see you back and ALIVE. Whew.

 ;D  Yay Hobbsee!!!!(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/flowerchile/partytime.gif)

Dizzy, I am very pleased to see you.  Not least cos *I* was right and *Pescado* was wrong HAHAHHAHA!   But seriously, it's good to see you back.

Yay for Dizzy!

Hobbsee hasn't completely abandoned the sims.  I knew she had got into the unixy type stuff, but I didn't realise she'd got that far into it.

I'll make her run past and say hello

OMG Dizzy! :D Thank goodness you are still alive!

All Pescados Suck :P

Welcome back! I know you don't know me, but what the hell.  ;D

I have no idea what that means, but apparently that's on the to-do list, as opposed to an already-done list.

Also, Hobbsee has a scrawny pencil neck.

Wow, Dizzy! Splendid...  ;D

Well now, I'm so glad you're back Dizzy. It felt good to see you post. :D

I'm using a few of your mods, and I have OFB. They're working fine, by the way.

IT'S A DIZZY!!

/me throws a grilled cheese sandwich at Dizzy.

Welcome back, Dizzy!

Didnt realise i was being so closely watched.  I mostly keep the ubuntu stuff pretty quiet.

Anyway, no, i dont have a job there - in that i dont get paid.  yet.  hopefully that'll change, once i get a bit more into it.  Anyway...

Yes, i got MOTU :D  And it's very useful.  Upload rights are fun!

Oh yeah, and Hello everyone!  I'm in chat more than forums - i tend to avoid forums.

Oh, and Pescado, that's the done list, the to-do list is somewhere else, and is incomplete.  Silly Pescado.

* Shields up!

We've missed you!  So glad to see you back!  ;D

Hey Dizzy!  You don't know me probably but I'm glad you are not dead!  Well, mostly I'm glad Pescado was wrong.  Cuz it's funny.

Neither of you know me, but you're both (in)famous here so hi and welcome back!

Kind of cool, actually, when you've seen some names for months on end and suddenly there they are in the flesh...erm... in the pixel.

Wow, welcome back! We don't know each other, but JMP had me half convinced you were truly... expired.

You don't know me either, but welcome back from the dead  :D

 :o  Welcome Back...My favorite mod of yours was the Call-anyone-NL but it doesnt work with Family Fun :'(  Sorry to hear you wont be doing any more modding but if you dont want to thats ok too.

*Jumps on bandwagon just to wave at famous people*

Hi! Welcome back from the dead!

*fans self and nearly faints from excitement*

I am also glad Pescado wasnt right - I didnt and didnt want to believe that you were dead - just figured you had other things going on. Sorry to hear about the family complications but its good to see you around again.

It's... ALIVE!!!

Welcome back Dizzy.

Ubuntu actually works?  When I installed Kubuntu, I couldn't even get Opera to install.  OpenSUSE worked a whole lot better.

I have a feeling that Pescado killed someone since Dizzy came back.

Tune in tomorrow to see what avatar Mister Paper will have next!!!  :D

ROFL! His avatar changes on it's own, reload the page to see.

Sheesh.

Well, whichever works for you. I use Ubuntu. I tried out the latest Opera and it's overrated IMHO. I also tried out that uslab (start menu thingy) and it's okay, but it's no substitute for a real Gnome menu.

The thing that makes Ubuntu really cool is its brownness.  ;)

Hi dizzy - I'm glad you're not dead although you don't know me, anyone who can prove JM wrong must be ok lol

J.M. is often wrong about non-Sim things ;)

Hey dizzy! I'm another person you probably don't know, but oh well. :D Glad to see you're still around and not worm food like Pescado wanted us to believe, heh.

Anyhow, I use Ubuntu on my linux box, and I love it, it's great. I would (and do) reccommend it to anyone. :)

I tried out Firefox, and it's much more overrated IMHO.  It doesn't pass Acid2, Firefox 3 no longer supports 95/98, and is generally slower than Seamonkey.

OpenSUSE worked better, but I still had too many problems with it.  I only got Seamonkey and Opera to install on it, and when I tried to install "critical" updates it wouldn't install them.  It took several tries to get rid of FF and OpenOffice.  It also wouldn't install simple things, like Wine and KOffice either.  I do have to give it credit though, it got farther than Kubuntu.  However, I haven't had a Windows XP program fail to install in a long time.

Then again, maybe Linux just hates me.  I can never seem to get into the console because it won't let me enter a password, and those two distros just won't let me install stuff on them.

Well, if you do decide to come back to Ubuntu, Opera is pretty easy to install (via apt-get):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser

Sorry, I guess Linux just likes me better. I've never had any trouble with Wine or CVSCedega. 99% of all the programs are available with one or two mouse clicks to install. Firefox and Opera are almost exactly the same speed on my machine. Never had any problems that I couldn't work around by editing xorg.conf or the fstab or reading a man file.

WElcome back from the dead Diz...glad to see you alive and kicking.  Sorry to hear about family complications but that is better than what JMp wanted us to believe....


You had/have some great mods and your skills have been and willbe sorely missed but we understand.

Better alive than dead, Dizzy. Welcome back. :)

Can VMware really run TS2 and the expansions?

I'm asking because I've been looking at Ubuntu for a little while now and I'm getting pretty interested.  A friend of mine has it and says that he likes it.  I keep hearing people rave about it online.  And if it can play TS2 as good as it plays in Windows then I'm willing to drop Windows like a bad habbit.

I know there are programs out there like Wine and Cedega that can run Windows games in Linux.  But I'm not too sure if they can run them as well as they run in Windows.

I suppose I could just do a dual boot like I had with Windows and Debian a few years ago.  But that was rather annoying.

Welcome back Dizzy. I've used your stuff forever, and was really upset when JM said you had passed on. He just likes tugging on the heartstrings methinks.

I'm pretty sure VMware can run TS2. The only problem is you need a relatively new processor for decent speed, something that supports virtualization, preferably.

Actually, thanks to superior memory and file handling, Wine typically runs programs better than Windows as long as they are compatible. Dual booting is annoying, but I seriously don't trust Windows on the internet anymore. Their security policies have really been going bad lately.  :-\

Wine and Cedega won't run TS2 since neither of them can emulate DirectX 9.0c yet or something like that.

One of the few reasons I'm not switching to Linux is that there's No Adobe Support, Shoddy Opera Support, "Ripping" of text, poor hardware support(Ubuntu can't detect the GMA950 correctly), among other things.  In addition, the only version of Linux that accepted my graphics chip correctly was OpenSUSE and possibly Fedora.  Kubuntu looked all stretched even though it siad 1280x800 in the configuration file.

I prefer KDE applications, and that is a reason why I'm not even considering Ubuntu.  Besides, it might work just as poorly as Kubuntu.

I had every reason to believe Dizzy was dead, given that the people I asked if they had seen Dizzy reported that he was dead, which matched observed evidence. Of course, there may have been some confusion over which Dizzy was dead. There are, apparently, multiple-Dizzys. Perhaps EA killed the wrong Dizzy.

I haven't had any success even trying to install TS2 with Wine. I put the blame firmly where it belongs: EA. EA = crap.

I prefer KDE myself, but the lack of stability in KDE makes it extremely frustrating. I have no idea what "Ripping" of text means. I go out of my way to check whether hardware is well supported by Linux before I even consider buying it.

Pescado, you should know better than to trust rumors. It is possible for people to die several times and come back to life. You of all people should know that. :D

Well, yes, but you deny having been dead at all. If you had admitted to being killed, but had gotten better, that would have also fit. However, apparently, you weren't killed at all. Which means some other Dizzy must have been killed.

When I used Opera 9 in Linux, when I scrolled down it made the text much harder to read, as if someone ripped a part of a letter and shifted it up.  This didn't happen with Seamonkey or Konqueror.  Also, in the last hour that I tried OpenSUSE, the Install/Uninstall Software text seemed to be ripped too.

I'm using a large amount of Intel parts in my laptop and I'm damn sure that it's similar to what quite a few newer laptops have too.  *buntu can't even get the god damn settings right on the LiveCD, and try to trick me that it's using the right settings by saying it's "1280x800" when I actually installed it.  I doubt EasyUbuntu or Automatix would have fixed anything nor did I even know about these when I installed 6.06.  These are things people need to freaking know without going to Ubuntu's forums.

Is Adobe crap just because Photoshop and Flash isn't supported?

JM, are you having Princess Bride/Monty Python flashbacks, or is it just me?

Adobe isn't the company it used to be. I used to love using Photoshop, but now even Gimp is as good as old PS4.0 was. Of course, I remember when Photoshop was a *Mac* program that had to be ported to Windows.

I think that may be why he wanted to be known as dizzy2 ;D.

Welcome back, dizzy - I'm also glad you're not dead.

But of course, JM wouldn't let him be dizzy2.  Therefore, he became dizzy.  Of course, he could have become dizzytwo or dizzy-two, but that just wouldn't be the same, now, would it?

Rainbow!!   You're making me dizzy!   :o

I'm making myself dizzy.  Of course, the convo in Sim Brynne's thread isn't helping either.  :-X

Update: Computer upgraded.  8) ;D

He did that. And was yelled at for it. We only have one Dizzy here.

Then how can there be multiple Dizzys if we only have one??

Oh wow. You're alive. Welcome back! :D

We only have one Dizzy HERE. There is clearly at least one, if not more, other Dizzys, which is why Dizzy was #2. Apparently, one of the other Dizzys was killed.

What a lame excuse to avoid admitting you were wrong.

What a lame excuse to avoid admitting you are a stupid Ness. All these are known facts. We know that Dizzy commonly styles himself as "2" elsewhere, but number-names are forbidden here, and there is only one Dizzy here. When I started asking around about the whereabouts of Dizzy, he was reported dead. The reports were consistent with observed evidence, so I didn't conduct further inquiries. It is, however, possible that they were referring to one of the other Dizzys, and the pattern of murdering people would be consistent with EA's behaviors during TS1. So perhaps they whacked the wrong Dizzy.

No, no.  I freely admit to being a stupid Ness.

It saddens me to see such side stepping to avoid having to say: "oops, I was wrong" - it isn't that hard.

/me agrees with Ness.  Silly, obstinate Pescado.