More Awesome Than You!

But... I feel stupid for this.
I am enabling the Limozine to be a buyable object. Never hacked a non-catolog item to enable it in the game. Should I just clone another buyble car and mesh the limo (if anyone could give me the file name and how to overlay)
Or, what behavs to change, RAW data, All that junk. Im a recolourer at heart. First advent with hacking. Read tutorials, know what im doing yada yada yada yada...
 (cant upload, copyrighted, some one else did it, blah blah)
I am just learning, so I can network a little more.
So helps me please :D

Sounds like you're after what Numenor already did; see http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=99385.

yeha, i just want to do it my self
so I can lern how to code BEHAVs and RAWs

/me calls coricaman a retard, because the thread's title told her to and she likes being helpful.

*KevinTMC smacks Avalikia, even though she was just following instructions.*

Oh, and people...people, please. "Retard" is so insensitive.

So many hurt feelings could be avoided if you just called people "morons" instead. Is that so hard? :)

("Cretin" and "imbecile" work just fine too. As does "Paris Hilton".)

 I dont get offended when people say "this is gay"  Do you get offended when people say "oh this is normal"?
So whay are you getting offended for them?

Sorry if my last post was confusing. Just being silly; nothing more. It's been a long day.

No need to apologize for your funny post; coricaman is obviously a newbie who hasn't yet developed an awesome sense of frolic.

I used to say "that is gay" a lot. Then my gay friends started to reply with "No that is so [Jelenedra]."

It stopped it real quick.

ROFL... Oh, so true.

Kevin, your post gave me a good laugh. Believe me, with sarcasm and smart-assed-ness like that, you will feel quite at home here.

This place is sarcasm-central.

OH NOES!!! OH THE HUGEMANATEE!!!1

*cough*

I mean, what?

Speaking of Paris Hilton, I was watching Season 1 of Veronica Mars, and WTF! Paris Hilton is in episode 2! Eww! And with Logan? Double Eww. Poor Logan. A terrible blight on an otherwise awesome, awesome season of an awesome, awesome show.

Yeah, but Paris is nothing compared to the blight that is the America's Next Top Model Crossovers.

Lol. Yeah, but at least they get rid of them pretty quickly. Naima had like one line and was promptly driven off a cliff. Lol. I thought that was pretty damn funny.

What scares me is that they won acting challenges for get those spots... *shudders*

That's an excellent idea! I'm glad I thought of it. And very appropriate, seeing as Jelenedras suck.

/me points and laughs at sucky Jelendras. :D

And I just wanted to chime in, cuz I'm bored, and waitin for the end of Project Runway to roll around again cuz Tivo cut off the last minute or so ::)

Veronica Mars is teh awesome! I have not watched season 1... yet... but I finally torrented both seasons. I totally have to rewatch S2, because that was one hell of a convoluted plotline. But still, very awesome. Any show that guest spots Joss Whedon like totally rules in my book. Hee! Those top model guest spots were totally awful tho. But I had no clue about that. I just thought that those people were like really horrible actors. :P I obviously don't watch Top Model. I'm sorry, but Tyra is teh suck.

Janice Dickenson >> Tyra Banks but...

Heidi Klum >>> Janice Dickinson >> Tyra Banks thus

Project Runway >>>>>>>>>> America's Top Model :P

Heh. Anyhew, I'm lookin forward to the Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars combo. Looks like it could be a great night for girlie tv. Eeeeeeee!!! Incidentally... VM was only picked up for like half a season (I think 13 eps)... soo... if the ratings don't pick up... it could get the axe. :-\ Which would be sad for me, because I actually got hooked off last season, and the finale was pretty crazy but very awesome. Poor Beav. Oh well. Hopefully this season should shape up to be just as interesting and compelling, without the dizzying, convoluted, circuitously ridiculous spaghetti string plot lines. It's almost as bad as trying to figure out simantics. :P

Ste

I don't think you're particularly sucky Jelenedra, at least no more than I am myself and certainly not enough to warrant a news box flash!

"Make it so", J.M? So who would your favourite Captain be, then?  ;D

Well, since I know I don't suck and I know I'm not stupid... I won't be upset over it.

I'll just be honored that the Fat Jerk deemed me worthy enough for a newsbox.

Joy of joys.

MisterPaper and Frakenbeasley will be jealous.

I love Veronica Mars. I can't wait for the new season. I started watching just after the start of the first season cause Kyle Secor was on ( I still follow some of the Homicide actors) and I was instantly hooked.
We burned my sister a disc of season one and she kept saying she didn't know when she would have time to watch. Once she got started she watched them all in one night! She called me very early the next morning yelling at me cause we had missed the last ep when copying them over. She had to wait three days to find out how it ended and whined the whole time about when we would be bringing it over. Poor baby, jezze! I had to wait all season.

I was actually a pretty casual watcher, until the Alterna-Prom episode in Season 2, where Logan gives his "epic" speech, and I was just like...WHAT?!? But...but...she hates him, and vice-versa! And then what happens the morning after? I was like, OMG, I HAVE to know what's up w/this. And then I just kinda had to watch it all from the very beginning. And a couple of episodes in and I was hooked!

I think the problem w/ the ratings is b/c the show is pretty cynical on top of being seriously dark. That's really what kept me from being a fan in the beginning. Esp. in Season 1, it just felt like it was the world against Veronica. But when you watch more and catch a lot of the softer scenes, it stops being overwhelmingly black vs. white and more a deliciously grey interpretation of the world. While I really do like the darker aspects now that I've a better understanding of the show, I really think VM would benefit from cheerier promos. Just to get pple watching, you know?


I must say, Season 1 is the better season. You really should watch. You get a lot of the character exposition in Season 1 too, so you understand the history and character motivations better. Anyways, what I heard about the S3 deal was that they did get picked up for a full 22 eps, but if ratings are sucky it can get dropped down to 13. I seriously hope it stays at 22 eps. And beyond, luck permitting.

Incidentally, a couple of yrs ago I think I got a thing in the mail asking us to do the Nielsen TV thing. They even sent us like a dollar along w/ the package. But it was this whole log to write down what you watched, and I didn't feel like the hassle, so I didn't do it. Now if they had sent it to me post-Veronica Mars obsession, maybe I'd have done it. Such bad timing!

And I don't watch America's Next Top Model either, but I do read Rick's hilarious ANTM recaps (fourfour.typepad.com), so I am aware of what goes on. How else would I know that dead journalism teacher is named Naima? ;) 

(Wow. My post is wordier than Syberspunk's. I didn't think that was possible. :D)

Yeah, but only in this thread. Ste's been around a long while, and some of his posts on other forums are classics. His posts have gotten a lot shorter lately, actually.

I would be willing to bet my lousy paycheck that he's either an educator, or an education major. One of my professors is a double-doc, and just as eager to cross every i and dot every t :D.

She is very concerned to address every issue in such a way that every possible angle is covered, and as little as possible is left in doubt and/or left to interpretation. She makes me laugh. She's also my advisor and one of my favorite people, by the way.

Haha. That was a good episode. I think that, the reason I didn't watch season 1 was most likely because of the time slot. I think Buffy was still on, or maybe it was Angel. Either that, or one of the WB shows, Smallville or Gilmore Girls. In any case, I did half watch like the premiere ep, and for some reason, it didn't really snag me. I hadn't read anything about it, and since it was a WB show, and yes, I'm an ass for saying it, had a black actor on it, I thought it was going to be one of those lame ass comedies. Not that I'm racist or anything, well maybe slightly so, if it's being racist because I don't find any of those other UPN 1/2 hour comedies funny, and they are all pretty much "black" shows. I say "black" because they seem to be steered towards a black demographic, but obviously you don't have to be black to like them, and you don't have to be... er... not black, to not like them. I hope that made sense. :P FWIW, I also don't like any of those "white" 1/2 hour comedies on the WB either. AFAIC, the best 1/2 hour comedies are on the other networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC, but even then the majority of them just suck nowadays. I still don't get My Name is Earl, and the Office only seems to have gotten better, and as much as I <3 Steve Carrell, no sir, he is no Ricky Gervais i.e. the original UK Office is and will always be the best version EVAH!!!111

Anyhew, getting back to Veronica Mars, I think the buzz was later, that it seemed very Buffyish meets Nancy Drew. So that semi sparked my interest, but still not enough to watch any of Season 1. I wasn't into Nancy Drew (or the Hardy Boys) when I was a kid. And although I totally love Buffy, a mystery type show with no girlfight ass kicking? I was still kinda meh. And I'm usually weary of getting into a show midseason, or in later seasons, when I feel like I've missed too much of the canon character development. But once Buffy got like an official endorsement by Joss, I just had to check it out. And by then, Buffy and Angel were gone. I think that maybe Lost was competing with Veronica? But then it eventually got moved to Tuesdays. I was actually putting up with the hassle of taping episodes of one show and watching the other. Heh, who uses VCRs nowadays? We've finally gotten a TiVO, so things should be much easier this time around, and with VM being back to back with GG, I probably won't have too much of a problem now.



I don't think the cynical, seriously darkness is an issue. Because there have been plenty of cynical, dark shows on tv. Buffy and Angel for one. Felicity. Dawson's Creek to some extent. X-Files anyone? My So-Called Life (although that only lasted a season). Gilmore Girls, hello! Although that is somewhat less dark, but a good mix of cynical optimism if there ever was such a thing. ;) And then there are newer shows, Alias, Lost, Desperate Housewives, House M.D., Grey's Anatomy, Bones. I think a lot of shows lately have become darker. But then again, I never watched Season 1, so it might be very different. One of these days I'm eventually gonna watch the torrent I have. :P I think one of the bigger problems was the fact that it was on the UPN. The UPN isn't as widley distributed as the other main networks. And then the fact that it is On the UPN, which the majority of its programming was geared towards a black audience, and yet Veronica Mars doesn't quite seem like a "black" show, despite actually having minorities and major supporting characters. Plus, include the other shows that it was up against in the time slot, and you have a pretty tough combination of factors to overcome ratings wise.



Nowadays, it seems like a lot of shows are better Season 1. I think the sophmore years in shows, as with CDs, is the stereotypical clincher. You gotta get over that hump. First seasons can be flukey. But if you keep your audience hooked through season 2, and manage to build a bigger audience over time, you're probably good to go. Unless you change the show in a huge way that alienates your loyal fans (e.g. Alias, and to a lesser extent Desperate Housewives and Lost). I think I read in EW that the order was 13... with the option to order more if it goes well, not the other way around. I really hate when shows don't get a full season. But them's the breaks. I've read that the plan is to have 3 major story line arcs over the season. That there will be some overlapping, but the season will generally be broken down into 3 shorter arcs rather than one large arc. So hopefully the plot lines won't be as confusingly entangled.

Yeah, I've read tho, that people who do choose to do the Nielsent thing end up regretting it. They supposedly hook up a thing on Every TV, and you're supposed to report Everything. And people get sick of it, and some people are embarrassed to report some of the things they watch. I think the whole Nielsen's rating thing is crap anyways. Why should bumfuck middle American get to decide what is good TV first of all, and then what *I* get to watch on TV. Kind like voting for a President. ::)


Hehe. I only knew that red haired lesbian, who was working the car rental counter in the ep that Joss guested was from Top Model because my sister told me. She loves Top Model. But she swears it's only for the glam shots and Not the drama. ::) Hey, who am I to judge? I watch a lot of crap on tv. And as similar as we are (my sister and I) we do have some differences in taste. Admittedly, from some of the shows that I have caught, the glam shots are pretty cool. The challenges can be interesting. But it just doesn't seem to be really about talent the way that Project Runway or American Idol is.


Lol. That is an accomplishment. Congratulations, but don't think you'll be wearing that victory crown for long. I am the queen of overly superfluously verbose posting. :D



Yeah. I have been somewhat lax in my posting length lately... haven't I? ;)


If you lose that bet, who get's your paycheck? Me? Lol. I was somewhat of an educator, but not really. I was a Gen Bio T.A. if that counts for anything. Right now, I'm kind of in limbo, considering what options I have left and I was thinking about it, but I don't think I could teach on the college level. As much as I loved to hate teaching :P and actually miss it, I don't know if I could put up with younger brats. If it was at the high school level... maybe... but I couldn't teach any subject that required reading student's written work. I would just go insane with the grading. I know it's probably a lot to expect college freshmen how to properly write formal papers, much less formal scientific papers ::) but if the grammar and general writing skills is atrocious even at that level, I don't even want to fathom what I'd have to deal with in high school. Maybe I'm just an elitest snob, because I never even realized just superior my high school was, but it really is a sad, and sorry, depressing state to see the kind of things students will turn in for their assignments. Don't get me wrong, I was a total slacker, in high school And college, And grad school, but I personally would be ashamed of the kinds of the "work" that I received from my students. If I end up teaching, maybe I could go back to my own high school... and maybe I'd have to focus on some scientific/mathematical/computational field, that doesn't require evaluating written work.

Ste

ETA: removed too many tonguey icons in last paragraph. :P

I watch ANTM for the photo shoots as well. Not really into the baby's mama drama on reality shows either. Although I will admit I watch Hell's Kitchen because of Chef Ramsey's yelling.

*wipes tear from her eye*

I'll never forget the time he called that girl and "fat lipped cow ****"...

Yes, I can see you've managed to blow my puny few paragraphs straight of the water. Lol. :D


I think Season 1 was definitely more depressing. In S2 Veronica at least had friends, all friends she made, mind you, throughout the course of S1. So for a long time the only friend she had was Wallace, and then you had the Logan abuse revelation and the potential incestuousness plus all the Lilly baggage, all of which packed a lot more emotional wallop. Plus the whole school hated her guts, she had Clarence Weideman on her ass, *and* she had major mommy issues. Oh, and let's not forget the whole rape drama.

And while lots of shows are dark, I think w/ VM being a essentially high school show, set in a town of the Laguna Beach vein, the darkness doesn't quite mesh well w/ the "intended" demographic. You watch a HS show, frankly, you're expecting One Tree Hill, not noir. And even if you're selling "Nancy Drew in CA!", Nancy Drew never had this much shit to deal w/, I'm sure.

On the other hand, if you watch a show about Vampires, you're not expecting happy-cheery. You watch a show about a secret agent, you expect to see manipulation and shadiness. Crime procedural, you expect to watch rotting corpses and dead pple. Felicity was sooo not dark. Same w/ lots of the other shows too, but a show by show breakdown would be unnecessary. Still, Gilmore Girls, dark? Compared to VM it's about as threatening as a Care Bear.

And speaking of House, he is pretty cynical, but I don't think the show's dark at all. And this season he's really mellowed. He's not as fun now that his leg's better. When he was miserable his wisecracking had a lot more bite.

Anyway, my real point is - the first time I watched it, I was just like, OMG, Pescado as a doctor! The similarities are uncanny, no?

/me SMASH PUNY POSTS!!!! *SMASH*

Hehe ;)


Ahh... see, I missed that. I'll definitely have to watch that season then.


Yeah, GG isn't really dark, but it's pretty heavy on sarcasm and cynicism at times. Heh. It isn't your average WB show. Felicity wasn't really dark either, but it had shades of grey and again, with the sarcasm and cynicism. I mean, we have like very jaded characters here. I think J.J. Abrams kinda thrives upon that in his characters.



Oh yeah, Lol. Dr. Pescado indeed. Hugh Laurie is fanfuckingtastic. :) He's mellowed a little, but do you mean season 3? I think that's just because of his leg issues and what happened so far with his first case. But I'm sure he'll continue to be his grumpy, cynical self. As for dark... I think the show can be pretty dark. The way he is about himself, and the way Cameron is about her issues with only like being able to be in a relationship where she feels like she's saving someone. That's kinda all kinds of darkly fucked upness, if you ask me. And last season, the whole thing between House and his ex-wife (Sela Ward). Just because things aren't as explicitly open, doesn't mean dark things aren't happen underneath, psychologically and what not. House's whole cynical attitude alone is pretty dark and morbid if you ask me. The way he takes on things super insane cases, and the god-like ego he gets from almost magically pulling a solution out of his ass all the time. The way he gets off on that, it's pretty dark to me. I think he's still pretty miserable. It's very early in the season.

Oh... and speaking of dark and cynical, how could I even forget Arrested Development. That show is just all kinds of super f'ed upness. Lol. Especially the last season, with so many twists and turns and outlandish stuff. Justine Bateman guesting, and the final two episodes. Just totally sick and wacky and smart and wickedly funny and I loved every last minute of it! :D

Ste

I have little to add here, since I know very little about cloning and modifying objects (as per the OP), and even less about the popular crap on TV these days (I loathe most TV with a fervor that borders very close to outright hatred), but ...


As you may have gathered by some of my postings (in other threads obviously), you two may have to deal with a third contender for that title pretty soon.  I've been deliberately truncating my posts a bit since I've only just started actually posting here and all, but once I get going, and if the topic is something I have much interest and/or knowledge of, whew...  Better get that printer handy.  Some of my posts (on other boards in other lands) have been required by the management to include "Warning!  Anyone who doesn't have unlimited internet access is strongly advised to read this OFFLINE!"  ;)

Heh.  Reminds me of the 'good old days' on the BBS's actually.  Used to use some handy little offline reader that would pack up all new message board postings and you could fiddle around and reply to 'em at your leisure before uploading your little packet.  BlueLine message reader-ma-thingy I think it was.  Geesh.. been ages.  :P

-Kitt

Ahh...now that takes me back.

For me, it was CompuServe Information Manager running on my Mac LC III that performed that function. A real money (and busy-phone-line) saver. With my speedy 9600 bps modem, CIM could update a whole bunch of threads in very little time.

I had a lot of fun in religion and politics forums on good old CI$ back in the day. I don't suppose those forums are archived anywhere, since that service in its classic form hasn't existed for years now.

Well yeah, that's just it. It's not as in your face, so it's not as off-putting, so more pple tune in to watch in the first place, hench higher ratings.

Oh, and Arrested Development was good. I must say though, that I didn't get into that one until towards the very end either. For some reason, it was all pretty boring when I caught snippets, until the one time I managed to catch a full episode (the Sadaam Hussein one? LOL. So weird), and then I loved it.

That's the problem w/ these shows. They're good, but they require invested attention. Just a few glances aren't enough to hook you. And that's both their appeal and their downfall.


Ah, that's b/c you obviously haven't caught Veronica Mars. Watch! Get our ratings up! ;)

Mark Steyn was talking about this very thing in his Aaron Spelling obit in the September Atlantic Monthly. The second graf from his piece (http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=70):


I'm much more bullish on contemporary "classic tv" than Steyn or Terry Teachout, mostly because DVD sets are now so widespread. Blasting through the set containing the miniseries plus season one of the new Battlestar Galactica was immersive, addictive, a great ride, and did not require me to have tuned in every week at the same time when it first aired. (Then the miracle of TiVo let me get caught up with season two in similar fashion.)

I wonder how much of the new direction in dramatic television series would have been possible in the US without TiVo and DVD sets. (Though complex plotlines and long story arcs were hardly unknown in British television in earlier years...and there was the Dallas moment of prime-time soaps here in the US too...)

WTF?

You ignored the necromancy warning guy for that?

Aw, you missed the funny. :)

Some idiot came out of lurkdom (seriously, it was his 1st post) just to say he'd gotten the 4th season of Buffy.

Oh, no, my reply was directed at Ashes (?) but I neglected to quote.  ;)

I know, I was kicking myself when I saw the post had been deleted. Should have quoted. It was funny.

I wish I hadn't locked the thread after the post had been deleted (when I clicked on the lock button it was still there).