Probably does, since FEY is designed to ignore burnt food, and with no cooking skills there's not much they can make.  In that case, have some type of food in the teen's (or someone else in the household's) inventory.

Second first -- get one of the free anti-virus programs out there.  Many of us like Avast!, which is free for personal use, not a resource hog, and works quite well.

To start on aaar! skills:  first, read the 'get rid of SecuROM' thread at the top of this forum, then get yourself over to gamecopyworld to get a no-cd.exe for your game and use only that.  Then, look into torrent clients (uTorrent is quite popular), and read the FAQ and general instructions on their website. TorrentFreak also has some good basic info and tutorials on setting up, securing and speeding up the client.  As suggested above, The Pirate Bay is a good source for finding reliable torrents when you're ready.

Ok, good -- I'm glad to hear that the sign has to be present for this to kick in.  There're some lots where it will come in very handy, and others where I prefer to control their cooking myself.

My secret is out!

Also a type of glue for kids here in the US, common in pre-schools and elementary schools. Comes in a jar with a brush built into the lid.

http://www.elmers.com/kids/product_detail.asp?pCode=E505A

It is (or used to be) based on corn starch, so it was quite edible, and somewhat tasty. 

No kids, nothing good on TV, and the wife goes to bed early...

Ah, maybe they're attracted to him.  I haven't had Bigfoot move into any playable houses yet, so I don't know about that one...

Yea, it's happened many times in my game that more than one LOtP shows up at the same time.  Are there babies or toddlers on the lot?  That attracts them even more.

No, it's EAxis borkage -- if you're not using clean templates, it comes with two LOtPs out of the box.

Heh -- I ran a census last night, and my Pleasantview has 173 playables.  Probably spread over 45 - 50 houses/dorms. I play each one for one sim day (or a bit more if a birth is due), so it's taken two+ years to get to this point and Gen-5. Since I normally average playing two or three hours a night, it takes about a week to cycle through the whole hood now.

Very handy to stick in a baby/toddler's room, too.

Unfortunately, that's not always an option -- my DirecTV HD DVR connects to the computers to play audio and video files, but it fails to function if UPnP is turned off in the router. (Or more specifically, the video/audio sharing on the PCs fails if UPnP isn't enabled.)

Not clear on one thing, Pesc -- does the sign have to be on the lot for this to function, or is it like the macro controller, where it functions as long as it's in the game?

Yes, if you have an ISP that's smart enough to slow traffic on the standard torrent ports.  However, you have to be sure your router has Upnp enabled, so it'll know to pass torrent traffic through to the new port.

I thought those settings only affected moving sims/pets into the lot, and that you still need something like lotfulofsims to have more than the default born on the lot.

Same here.  I got TS2 and NL back in late 2005, made Pleasantview my main hood, and have been playing it ever since.  It's somewhere in its fifth generation now. Only hood I've ever rebuilt from the start was Strangetown -- I use that as my test hood for new EPs, etc, and really fouled it up at one point. I made one custom hood but rarely play it, and never play Veronaville. I'm getting fond of the Desiderata hood that came with FT though, and have been playing that one quite a bit as a break from PV.

Turn the testing cheats on, and shift-click on the want to fulfill it.

Yes, to both questions -- nouniprotect and the cow head on the lot. This is one of my Pleasantview unis, which I've been playing for 2+ years now, so I guess the cow has finally been terrorized enough to go into asp failure.

Not a great picture, but this make me giggle -- as soon as the cow wandered into this dorm lot, he went into aspiration failure. Haven't seen that one before...

Long thread -- for those who didn't read it.

Well, not 'never' -- just 'never in an unmodded game'. Dizzy has some hacks that make them autonomously put leftovers away, or get leftovers instead of cooking a new meal.

I created mine with the NPC creator on the mailbox, and no problems that I've seen.

Ah-ha!  Guess I need to keep up with the CEP thread more.  I knew about the borked phone, but not the teddy bear.

ETA: yup, it was the CEP add-on.  My sims can now happily sew teddy bears.

Huh -- I never thought of CEP being the issue. I will investigate.

Probably not the sim blender, since I have that in my game and haven't seen this problem.