"Boast about" is also avilalble for Snobbish Sims, as is "Talk about Self," "Talk about personal possessions," "Talk about bike/car/house/etc."

I know a young man whose first and middle names are Tracy Lynn.  I'd never heard Lynn as a man's name until I moved to the rural midwest.  Now I live in the south, and there are at least two male Lynns in our organization.  (Notably, neither go by Lynn; they answer to their middle names).  Tracy, I'd heard for males before, but it is also one of my names (I have a plethora of middle names), and despite what Pescado says, I am female.

I was so tickled!  I don't know if it's because of the Indie Stone mod or not, but for the first time I had a Sim come home from work with the wish to "Kiss Rayna" for the first time -- Rayna being a Sim he worked with and who I had never even seen!  He developed the friendship entirely at work because I had him meet and hang out with folks while at work, and it was his little pixelated "idea" that he wanted to kiss her!  Woot!  They are now married.  No babies, though -- he must like older women, because he just turned adult while she is mid-way through elderhood.  No worries, though; he has two kids from a previous marriage.

Unless my Sims marry late and are rapidly approaching elderhood without progeny, or have a wish for 5 children that needs to be met quickly, I never have them try for baby unless one of them comes up with the want.  It has always come up, though sometimes not until after they go from YA to A.

I read the error message.  Had you ordered a pizza, maybe when you were standing outside the house?  I'm not good at reading those things, but that's the only guess I can make.  If that's what you were doing, try going inside to order the pizza.  If that's not what you were doing, never mind.  Just giving it a shot.

I've had Sims slap and fight autonomously.  It only happened once, though, in the park.

You can carry laptops in personal inventory and use them at public lots if there is a table and chair of any sort.  My writers carry their laptops all the time and use them at the library quite often, since the library computers are sometimes in use already.

No, her computer was sitting back at home.  However, I do often equip my Sims with laptops, so I'll be careful about that.  Thanks.

Thanks, y'all.  I guess I didn't give her long enough.

Okay, so my gal on the police force rummages through trash to try to get info for a report, but never comes up with anything.  Oh, she's found bubble bath and other random items, but when I try to write a report, the option isn't there.  Is there some trick that I'm missing?  Does she need to rummage until she gets a certain message? She can write reports after questioning people just fine.

Well, now I know why putting the bear in the crib did nothing.  It needs to be in inventory.  O-kay, then.

You can set the household option for children to "off," and they won't breed while you're gone. 

You're not understanding what people are suggesting to you.

They are not suggesting that you name your main family "wolfrun."

They are suggesting that you make a "wolfrun" character as a sort of placeholder.  When you go to dinner or whatever, you can switch from your main family to Wolfrun and let the neighborhood progress as it will.  Then you can come back and switch to your main family and see what they've been up to.

I only asked because I'd read about work attendance problems in the Criminal career in another thread.

What career?

Mods go in Pudding Factory.

I've been trying to get my head around this concept of Indie being an "undead clockwork monstrosity," and how things like marriages and births could actually be witnessed.  I may making too many assumptions here, but I think those two things are the "live events" that most story-minded people care about and why they feel Indie provides a "living, breathing town."  Too many of us have seen our towns turn into retirement center ghost towns, with the only options for procreation being either fiddling about with making couples (and coupling them) ourselves, or enabling parthenogenesis. 

I don't actually mind playing just one family and letting all but the heir move out, but when I move those young adults out and they never marry and rarely have children without my intervention, it gets sad.  I don't care about Indie's messages regarding what's going on with other Sims (though I don't mind them, either) -- I can catch it in the newspaper, if I'm interested.  What I care about is that the town isn't one huge, childless lonely heart's club and that I don't have to do anything to make it come about. 

I find myself curious about what witnessable events you'd have come about, and how you define a living and breathing town if not by having a pairing, procreating, employed population.

Don't get me wrong; I think the things you do with Awesomemod are ... well ... awesome.  This whole philosophical aspect of Story Mode is just interesting to me, that's all.

Back with TS1 I made a test house and ran it all night, just because I was curious about what kind of trouble my Sims could get themselves into, but I can't imagine doing that sort of thing long-term.

@ililas:  Don't apologize for your English; you're doing fine.  I love the way you phrase things!  I especially like the "Jesus Chirst of music" part ;-)

Interesting. Is that just since No Raymundo and townies stealing from the library (now fixed), or was it that way prior to No Raymundo? 

I tried this a long time ago, pre-Awesomemod, and it didn't work.  I was starting to wonder whether I was crazy or what, reading of people doing this successfully, so I'm relieved to find at least one person who has been unsuccessful.

My gardener got eggs and cheese at level 8, I think.  Then he got a challenge to bring 10 cheeses of a specific quality to the restaurant.  By the time he did that, he was at level 10.  He got burgers and steak at that point, and it told him to "come back when you get to level 10 for something really special."  I assume he was supposed to get omni plant seeds, but since he was already at level 10, the opportunity never came up.  Or it hasn't yet, anyway.  He just turned elder, so we'll see what happens.

Nothing's changed on that front as far as I can tell, Inge.  I've resorted to having large families and marrying them off, then switching households in the middle of the night to get them pregnant.  Half the town is now related in one way or another, but they don't recognize it beyond true first cousins.  I did marry one guy to his first cousin once removed.

The game constantly surprises me.  This evening my elder couple had wishes to kiss, hug, woo-hoo, so I helped them fulfill those wishes.  I was busy on another part of the lot, when suddenly I heard the woo-hoo music again!  I went to look; sure enough, grandma and grandpa and done it again, all on their own.  As I watched, they got up and smooched some more, then went at it a third time!  This truly tickled me; I didn't know Sims could woo-hoo autonomously.  I was tickled that is, until ....

... I went to another part of the lot to see what junior was up to, then heard the Grim Reaper music.  I guess grandpa just wore grandma out; Grimmie was there to collect her.  She went out happy, though, and got a nice, phallic monument.  She was 92, while her husband is a spry 84.

Addressing the original question: My veggie-Sim passed on last night at the age of 111.  She was also athletic, and would work out to the TV or stereo constantly -- I couldn't keep the woman still!  However, I've had Sims live to 125, 109, and 106 without being vegetarian or athletic.  Seems to me veggie-Sims get the same 14% chance of croaking every day beyond 90 that any other Sim does, but it's purelly anecdotal.