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Hey JMP,

How much longer until you get the NL EP? :P

Inquiring minds and all that ::)

Well, he said 6-8 weeks, and it's been nearly a month.  I don't think he is in a hurry to get it.  Maybe he's waiting for us to find all the bugs for him.   :-\  I'm just glad that all the other modders are on the ball and have most of theirs ready for NL and that there are enough of JM's mods that seem to work okay with NL to tide me over until JM gets to work.

I told you people, 6-8 weeks. It takes awhile for things to make it through security and arrive.

Yes, I know.  That's your story, and you're sticking to it. :P

Hey, Pescado, I thought you were hibernating!

He was waiting for the patch to be released so he dowsn't have to update as many hacks.

But he hasn't been around much, ripping lips off etc.!  I was n't around for a bit either, and it was new before I wasn't around that poor Katze was stupid, and it's still new now!  Whassup, JM, can't you think of anyone else to be rude to?

Well, it did change for a few days, but it's back to Katze again.  Can't remember who it was those few days, it was someone I didn't know.

He used to make a change every couple of days!  He must be busy reinforcing his gates or something!

I think he said he had to conquer the galaxy or something like that.

More like he's busy sharpening up a big shiny axe, or his tongue...  ;D

Or polishing his lip-ripper!  ::)

He's laying low after an atlercation with a pizza boy that went bad.  See, said pizza butt wouldn't come to the door to deliver the cheesey pie, said JM said to walk to his car to get it.  Then pizza butt had the nerve to ask for a tip.  So JM speared him, ate all 16 pizzas in the car, washed it down with the pizza boy's blood then stripped nude and wore the pizza boxes on his person as a sign of his manhood.

Of course authorites are only after JM for the 39 seconds of nudity.  We don't care about violence around here.

Well, if he was in the buff, I imagine there were more obvious signs of his manhood than pizza boxes! ;D

Even for an old man with a very long beard?  :o

How long is the beard?  and would it count as being in the buff if the beard was THAT long?

Er, I was thinking more of the part about being very old. :D

Well, it might shock some little old lady if she saw him in the altogether!  Even with the beard and the pizza boxes!

Yeah, I guess it would be a sight to see.

 ;D  (A bit like Gandalf minus his robe?)

Hey, there may be snow on the roof but there's still fire in the furnace! :D

Hook

I believe JM's furnace is very deep underground, though!

About 4000 miles down, I'd say.

haha, what a disgrace to Gandalf :D


just kidding!

Next EP maybe we should chip in and send it to him express? ;)

I just want to make a simple point about J.M. being in the altogether with or without beard... ewww! (Feel Certain you're a fine figure of a monst...er...man, she says as she carefully puts on lip guard and helmet.)

As for the underground furnace...? Hmmm, I'm wondering about other places deep in the bowels of the earth with similar heating issues????  ::)

Do you mean JM is suffering from Global Warming?  (Perhaps his underpants are too tight?)

Lord, I do hope not. Tight knickers are never good.

Of course, but not having seen many, erm, elder men au naturel, I didn't know if they tended to shrink or something.   :-[
Good idea, but it wouldn't work because it would require him to reveal his actual address (other than just the state of Montana).

Of course, but not having seen many, erm, elder men au naturel, I didn't know if they tended to shrink or something.   :-[
Good idea, but it wouldn't work because it would require him to reveal his actual address (other than just the state of Montana).
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Is the Hellmouth in Montana, then?

And, no, older men's bits don't shrink, rather they head south just as other saggy portions of the body might as you get older. So, I reiterate... eewww!

Dunno, but they did some kind of research on fertility and found that men over 50 were more fertile than 20-year-olds!

So it seems, if your daughter is desperate for a baby, have her marry one of dad's mates!  (Or even Grandad's!)

I concur with laeshanin, Ewwwww!!!

Well, since I'm the wrong side of xxxxx myself, it'd be a bit wrong of me to say ewwww!  So, Ugh!

Maybe he's taking this opprotunity to actually PLAY his game... ^_~

I believe he has been abducted.    ;D

Ah, but has he been abducted by aliens, or by the Secret society?  And if it's aliens, will he come back pregnant?

EVERY male that is abducted by aliens comes back pregnant.  ;)

Not teen males, and not if you have Carrigon's patch. ;)

I am just trying to figure out if JMP is in the military, prison, or a military prison for that security. :)

Not elders.  JMP's an elder. :)

Hook

Oooooooh, now that's interesting.

maybe he is in the witness protection program.   Did he say he was hiding from the law or the mafia?  ;D

Maybe he's just hiding!

JMP has mentioned on the forum here (and I'm paraphrasing heavily) that there are people who have a want to see his ghost.  And considering the amount of security he has surrounding him, they apparently have considerable ability.  But I'm betting on Pescado. :)

Hook

Would Rentech be one of those?

Whoa. Some people take this game waaaaaaaaaaay too seriously.

He must have really pissed off the simmasters. :p

He gotta be one them aleein varmints...I say we grab our pitchforks an hunt him down

Betting what? That they won't kill him, or that he'll outlive them?

He did say he didn't want EA to be able to track him with the game's tracking number.  Wonder how he managed to register at the BBS without giving away pertinent info?  He also hinted that someone was looking to kill him, so take your pick.

Well I hope no-one succeeds before he's fixed Nightlife! :o

That could be a very long time.  I have a feeling we are going to need him around a very long time even after Nightlife, because the hacks will have to be upgraded for every EP from now on.  :-\

I think you may well be right!  And then, after they've finished with Sims2 (3D), and move on to Sims3 (Holograms) no doubt we'll still need him!  so I hope if he reaches the age of final transition, he clones a younger edition of himself first!   ::)

Yeah, that would be a good idea.  Maybe he could create an android with his intelligence and his essence that wouldn't even need caffeine to stay away, he could work all the time and never sleep or eat and never die.

Sort of a Data version of JM?  ;D

ROFLMAO! ;D Ahhhhh..the consipiracy theories! :D Maybe he dicided that being "retired" is too boring and decided for a "comeback" to his old career?

Lately I've been thinking the whole "old-man-with-long-long-long-bead" thing is a cover up! I bet he's a skinny, small fourteen year old full of zits with glasses like goggles, braces (one of those that go aLL the way around the head) with this HUGE head beacuse of his HUGE brain (double the size of his skinny, small body) with all kinda info stored in it..;) :P And now his parents are onto his secret lab.. ;D

Yeah, I KNOW this is farfetched, but if the alternative is imagineing his saggy manhoood.... :o argh! I'll stick to my story... ;D ;)

Maybe it's somewhere in between the two extremes!  And really, he's a computer geek who made enough money to build his fortress and retire there to play computer games and make mods for Sims2!

Yup... let's make certain the prioritis are in the right order. Maim, burn, poke with pointy things, but only after the EP is fixed goddammit!  ;D

Saggy old men parts... eeewwww! Always down to the lowest denominator. Shocking. Shocking.

Yeah that'd work.

Haha, I get this weird picture of a walking Candy Apple wearing glasses. :P
Maybe he is Will Wright. That would be a hoot. Nah, Wright goes out in public, so that's out. :-\

I think he's Mortimer Goth!

Wow. thats a good one.

That would be funny.  Will Wright secretly writing patches for the game he invented.

I think I'm in favour of the alien theory.

How do you know he hasn't done so already? This JMP could be JMP #100 for all we know.

Yeah he could have.  This one is being awfully quiet though.

Maybe he's busy building #101.

Heheh

I think he's been too busy attempting to take over the universe/galaxy/whatever (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/starport) to worry about modding Nightlife.

Weird, is that some new/old online role-playing game?

I think it would make more sense to wait until I have the game before worrying about modding anything. It's not due to arrive for 6-8 weeks.

Another 6-8 weeks?  It's already been a month, so that should cut it down to 2-4 weeks.

What about the objects.package? Or does that still have a few Microsoft hours^(tm) to go?

You know, that pimply-adolescent theory could hold water. The 6-8 weeks may be the amount of time it takes to save up his allowance to buy the game. Or perhaps he's been grounded.

Kidding, JM ;)

I noticed that too, but decided not to comment at the time. :)

Back in the 80's, companies would talk about their new software being released in 90 days.  Always 90 days.  If you checked back 4 months later, they still said "90 days."  Anyone remember that? :)  Besides Pescado, that is.  Hehe!

Hook

The thought has crossed my mind more than once that perhaps JM is just not that into the sims, anymore. Maybe once he gets NL his interest will be renewed, if that's indeed the case.

Well he does seem to like when sims fight and make enemies and they're certainly is no shortage of that in NL.

And don't forget the flaming things!

Silly Brynne. If money was really the issue, I'd just increase the subscription fees!

But that would require me asking my husband to raise my allowance...

1373 members, 29.95/mo.

Pesc is livin the sims 2 high life!


He is just pretending not to have nightlife to drag out how long people as paying for the site waiting on fixes!

That reminds me, I need to pay my renewal fees. Is the special still in effect?

Buy one for the price of two, get a second absolutely free?? 

Yeah, I don't remember that one having any kind of expiration date. :)

Hook

PS.  Hm.  I remember suggesting that one to Pescado. Maybe that's why I'm a senator, as a kind of punishment. :D

Could be. He's probably lost a lot of money because of that special.

Wait a minute. Are you saying you didn't take the lifetime special (paid in advance)?

Indeed. That comes to 11,171.35, and even with the expected effects of the one for two for one deal, it still comes to an impressive 11,171.35! Not bad for someone who's probably selling nuclear weapons technology on the side.

Did you read the fine print on that? It's only good for a sim's lifetime, which is approximately 70 sim days (I think) or about 28 RL hours.

Actually, I did. The small print says nothing about using aging off, and Inge's Heirloom Cake. It also declares the contract revalid if the sim is resurrected. Plus, I spend far too much time on MATY to do something as time-consuming as playing. Just check the "More Stats" link at the bottom of the home page to find out just how long I've spent here.

You'd think that someone who makes hacks would be able to spot loopholes like that.

6 to 8 more weeks,  he said that a month ago.  

 He's a sadist I tell you,  he just wants us to beg and cry and call him "more awesome"  until we have satisfied his ego and then maybe he will have mercy on us.   :P

  But don't hold your breath.    ;)

My thinking is that he HAS Nightlife and has been playing it since before it was released.  He's just waiting until we all give up on the concept that he will ever make hacks for it, and then mysteriously put of a gaggle of them. 

I have my monthly fees pulled directly out of my checking account as part of my contract. Should I worry?

I place my vote on some sort of Secret Project involving either the flaming thing, the furious state, or running people over.

Only if you suspect JM of being a likely candidate of check fraud.  I'd go ahead and do it, but terminate it if you start to see things pop up like "Weapons-Grade Plutonium-Enriched Ballistic Missiles."

I hope it's running people over.  Even without any new animations... add a 'Commit Vehicular Homicide' option to the car menu which calls up the phone list (and maybe a 'random townie' option), the sim drives off and returns after an hour with said unfortunate's urn in their personal inventory.  And one of those happy corner messages.  "Ralph has earned §348 by robbing Kennedy Cox's corpse!"

I don't kill sims much, but I probably would if there was a less passive-aggressive option.  I blame too many comics in those important teenage years.  If I'm going to have a neighbourhood villain, I'd prefer a hand-on psycho to my current option of 'I shall miraculously and instantaneously move you into a small exitless room by the mysterious power of my utter disregard, then become frustrated because I can't get at you to play kicky-bag until you die - when I gain nothing and cry like wuss'.

LOL! That is a great idea! But I would prefer that ayou could choose which townie/npc to kill.

Great idea.  Joe Carr (no pun intended) would be the first on my hit list.  I'm just to lazy to mess with the cowplant and I'm toomuch of a softy to be able to sit and watch sims suffer and die.

Fire is plenty quick, although die by flies is near instantaneous and you dont have to put up with the fire panic by onlookers. Of course taking hold of them and having him/her use the energizer when they are in the green or less is pretty handy too. (after sucking out their skills with the vac of course)

With NL and for lots with vampires, tke control of a townie walking by on your lot and have them look in the vampire's coffin three times in a row.   ;D Pretty quick and no mess to clean-up - just a profit from selling the urn.  ;D

I haven't played much with vampires.  I didn't realize they could look in the coffin or that it could be fatal.

you don't even need to use a hack, you can just have another sim dark them to peek.

Just before I restarted my neighborhood, I let some vamps run wild. They can be fun but I don't like the way that once you let them loose in the neighborhood, there's no turning it off. When sims look in the coffin, they get scared - just like with a ghost - and their needs drop. Depending on the level of the sim's needs, it will usually take 2-3 (rarely as many as 4) scares in a row to wipe out a townie.  Not like I've had any practice with it.  ::) I especially liked using it in Uni. Every mascot, cheerleader and other uni walkby that I couldn't stand suddenly got irresitable urges to repeatedly look into the coffin.  ;D

and I didn't realise the energiser could be fatal - I just don't use it if my sims are below gold.

You know, I saw a car drive right through a sim yesterday. I know the "Watch Out!" interaction is meant for preventing such mishaps, and I don't remember what the circumstances were exactly that allowed this to happen, but it was disappointing and impressive how life just went on.

Death by automobile would've been such a great addition to this game. Ending all those damn pillow fights in the road...could have been a mini-game.

Cool. Will try that. Isn't it nice the things you can learn at MATY?

When I first got the Sims, I didn't pay attention that you needed to be in gold aspiration to use the reward objects safely. I watched in horror as one sim almost died after using the energizer. It's real annoying too when you select they energizer and they are in gold and as they step into the machine, they turn green. It took several "near" fatalities before I realized that you can cancel the action out as they are in the energizer and they'll stop using it immediately instead of waiting for the full cycle to finish. I thought you just had to watch in horror as their needs dropped.  ::)

I did that once, too.  And he kept looking at me while he was being electrocuted by the stupid thing!!  He stepped out, peed in the floor, then fell over dead.  It was actually quite creepy, since it was one of my favorite sims.  But, I just quit without saving, and the next time I played he was safely on his couch watching TV.  LOL


I think that JMP has NL already, too, and he's just spending hours upon hours exploring the code to it and coming up with ways to use the flamethrower decoraition as a way to burninate townies.  :)  Marsha Bruning 1st, please, JMP!  :)

I forgot about the "being in Gold" requirement and was puzzled (heh, brain fried as was veeerry tired) when something didn't work as expected. What a pillock! It was the Thinking Helmet, I believe, and the poor bugger just keeled over after peeing himself. I still laughed like a hyeana... Bad simmer, bad.  :D

Joe Carr? Really? I see him so rarely that I forget all about him.
For me, it would be the stalkers Jan, Tosha, brats Chandler and Chloe who's dog ugly and the first to follow my kids home.

I am pretty soft too, but I use Merola's mirror to grab them and age them up until they die. If I'm feeling bad, I will boost them to platinum before that final 'age up' from elder. That way, anyone who tolerated them enough to be best friends is mildly rewarded (which seems fair compensation for me killing their friend) If they just annoy you, you could always change them to toddlers (in game or in pe) and they won't bother you again.

edit: I forget about how much I hated Marsha. I actually grew her up to teen and with a hint of makeup and different hair, she's not bad at all. Sort of like a female Orlando, first girlfriend, first kiss, town bike, whatever. I invite her over to change diapers or play with the toddlers and she falls for it every time.

Joe Carr married one of my sims in my legacy family neighbourhood and died just before NL came out of old age.

Nightlife is still new for me, it hasn't gone into old age yet.  :D

Well I don't purposely do it. ;) I'm so used to my sims always being gold or platinum that I forget and sometimes through them into the darned thing or have put the smart cap on and made them pass out and lose a skill to boot! Thank goodness the skillnator is idiot proof.  ;D