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I had a house with a gay couple and 5 kids (3 adopted, 2 from alien abduction) and one day one of them caught something and spread it to everyone else. Every time I got one of them better, the others would just reinfect them. I had to get Shaklin's medicine cabinet to get them all cured at the same time.

I think somebody needs to find a way to make sims immune to diseases they've already had.

I don't have the OFB patch and I don't have nodormieprotect. Mac and Cheese Girl was the first ghost dormie I've ever seen - and there was another one a little later on, too. I thought it might just have been because this sim I was playing was actually playing through college in a dorm rather than being rampaged through in a private house... but I've played sims through college before and there were never any ghosts.

This is a brand new neighborhood, brand new college, and the girl eating the mac and cheese is a dormie. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??

At least it's giving the other two kids something to talk about. :p

My two Servos are named Jeeves and Dorcas (that's Chester Gieke's robot wife. I saw "Dorcas" on a list of baby names when I was looking for names for a set of twins and decided it would be cruel and unusual punishment to inflict it on a human being... but I had no problem inflicting it on a robot. ).

When they say "have your game CDs ready" for the install, do they mean ALL the CDs, or just the OFB CD, or just the original game CDs, or what? (never installed a Maxis patch before)

And why Servo eats even though he has no stomach.

AVG and ZoneAlarm treat me right.

I was hoping cleanbot would get bottles, so I put one in the kitchen of one of my houses with a new baby, and... nope, the bottle's still sitting there and cleanbot's ignoring it.

Which makes cleanbot good for exactly two things: picking up yesterday's paper (and only if your house isn't on a foundation, because he can't go down/up stairs) and cleaning up a puddle in the bathroom and going berserk, dumping piles of garbage everywhere (where are they coming from?? he doesn't clean up anything!)

Some of them seem to think that it's wrong to put custom hair in the right bins because "OMG how will tehy no its custum hare!!1!oneone"

The pictures shrunk because they were too big. Photobucket automatically resizes pictures that are bigger than 512KB.

The same thing happened to me. It totally failed my "twirl" test. It just looked way too unnatural.

I bought him a car (it was about time for them to get one anyway) and he was more than happy to drive himself to work.

You guys are significantly more awesome than me 

No, no, and no.

so, my simself and her simhusband have a set of twin toddlers and simme is using her vacation days to stay home and take care of them -- but simhubby refuses to go to work, saying that he can't "leave the little ones home alone", even though their mom is home with them! Anyone know what's going on here?

Yes, it was the really expensive one ($7000 or something) in Sim State U.

I tried moving her into a dorm and her grade meter was fixed, but then when I moved her back in with her sister, it went back to the way it was. I deleted her and went to the neighborhood without saving (was I supposed to save? I don't want to delete her forever) and when I came back her grades were still stuck.

I think I'm going to move them into a different house - they can't really afford the one they're in right now anyway.

ETA: alright, they both have functioning grade meters now. Phew.

Jeez, when it rains, it, uh, rains slightly harder.

Okay, so in my custom neighborhood I've got alien twins and I sent them to college. One of the girls' grade meters is stuck on the lowest level despite her having all the necessary skill points. Her sister's grade meter is normal. I've tried having her change her major and change it back, I tried using the college adjuster to add a point to each of the required skills (thinking maybe the game wasn't recognizing that she had the points or something), and she's been to class and back. What gives?

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I think that must be what happened in my case too - the Pleasantview house is built on a hill, and the whole custom neighborhood that the other house is in is very hilly - I had to flatten much of the lot to build on it. And I don't even have a lousy video card, I just have lousy integrated video. :p

It doesn't affect gameplay in anyway, it's just a graphical glitch on the neighbourhood screen.  I wouldn't worry about it.
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Okay, I just tried it. When I pick up the lot, the "weirdness" (don't know what else to call it) appears to stay where the lot was, but then when I put the lot down, the weirdness moves to the lot's new location. I'd really hate to bulldoze that Pleasantview house, since it was not built by me and therefore doesn't suck :p The house in the custom neighborhood, though, probably will have a date with a bulldozer sometime in the future because it was built by me and is therefore sucktacular. :p

Hi, I'm new here, please don't hurt me

I've got a problem that has shown up twice, in two different neighborhoods. I tried searching the forum, but actually I'm not sure what keywords I need to be searching for.

Instance 1: Pleasantview
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I had Lilith Pleasant and Dirk Dreamer living in this house, but after the first time I played it it started looking like this. While I'm actually on the lot, everything looks and acts normal. I've since moved Lilith and Dirk to another lot, which isn't having this problem.

Instance 2: Custom neighborhood
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I'm doing a challenge on this lot, and after the first time I played it, it started looking like this. While I'm actually on the lot, it looks and acts normal.

I have.... holy crap, 43 hacks??! Of which the only ones that didn't come from this site are Shaklin's medicine cabinet, no gnome theft, and homework sometimes, and some custom hairs and clothes. I have Uni, Nightlife, and the holiday pack, and I don't have the new NL patch yet.

My most pressing concern right now is whether this is just a cosmetic problem or if it will actually affect my game. Will it? And/or how can I fix it?