To the best of my knowledge you can open options.ini (My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3) and look for this line:
enablememories = 3

Setting it to 3 should disable memories entirely, letting you ignore the in-game settings.  However, please keep in mind that this is for 1.42 and higher.  Prior to 1.42 you would need a third party mod.  It won't hurt to look here for an explanation of some settings (even if you aren't crashing).

The roommates do at least seem to have better AI than Sims 2, but I was annoyed during the term I had a sim at Uni and friends started sharing a double bed with her until I moved the other bed in the room to another and locked the door.  Or basically roomies playing a shuffle game when it came to which bed they slept in.  It seems as though setting a bed owner means little, though perhaps we're supposed to assign every bed available.

I also noticed that whenever your sim isn't actively studying or attending class the performance meter decays (or at least it does for me).  It's probably intentional, though some of the flavor text makes it seem that you wouldn't suffer this so long as you actually attended every scheduled class.

I am seeing the same behavior (or lack thereof).  Decrapified, launcher-installed Monte Vista and the Al Fresco set. The pizza oven isn't even as useful as a decorative item of dubious environment enhancement.  There are no options available whatsoever. The harvest stands, on the other hand, work just fine for me, at least in terms of purchasing from them (and wasn't I surprised to find flame fruit for sale).  I have not tried consigning anything with them.  (I did not try the lemonade stand, but at least that has options available to me.)

I generally only use the Eaxis 'hoods for testing or challenges, but otherwise ignore or delete them.  And then I create a new 'hood, play it for a while, and generally abandon it when a new EP comes out and start another one, though I back up all neighborhoods pre-update.

But I do extract sims I become very fond of and turn them into saved sims, custom N001 template townies, or default facial template replacements.

You can delete the offending wall in Build mode, take the picture normally with walls up, then hit Ctrl-Z to zap the wall back into place.

I've used Avast! for several years, but I also keep links to online scanners like F-Secure.

And I just switched from Zone Alarm to Comodo as a firewall.  Apparently ZA doesn't support 64-bit, so the hell with them.

I recently killed a CPU, inadvertently.  And I probably could have saved the sucker if I'd done one simple thing.  Reapply the heat sink compound.

Almost the entirety of the BV Director's Cut (the smattering of things I waffle on are disabled or removed, such as zombie apocalypse, dormie and townie noregen, local walkby, and harder jobs), and generally anything in test, the LS and PS conversions, etc.

I do have folders for TwoJeffs, Inge, Crammyboy, Dizzy, Jfade, Syberspunk, and a handful of other people from here and there.

Sure, in your best sultry voice.

That's why I like Gadwin PrintScreen, as it numbers them for me.  I just clean out the folder once I'm done each time.  Besides, the game camera makes me think I'm closer than I am, and that vexes me.


Externals (Gadwin, anyway) let you specify a folder for the pictures to go to automatically, and file format.

I despise phones in general, which is why I only own a cell.  It's set up to play custom ringtones for three numbers, I think.  My husband's cell, my parents' landline, and my brother-in-law's cell  (maybe the cells of my parents, I dunno).  If I hear the default tone, I thumb the side button to shut the ringer off and ignore it.

I don't know my number, either, but I have it written down somewhere.


My husband once managed to (ostensibly) convince a telemarketer that it wasn't actually necessary to ever file taxes.  Though, she might have been playing along in the hopes of getting things back on track to him purchasing something.

For what it's worth, there's another way (easier for me) that I found reading the The Ragnarok Apocalypse thread by Felicia1066 over at Boolprop.  Have your founder purchase a ton of dreamcatchers (I don't know which EP they came in) at §50 each and sell 24 hours later.  You get §1,200+ for each one.  Do that for a semester and you're loaded.

*snicker* Sure, like the one year when polls were only open to Republicans in the area I lived in.  For some mysterious reason, Democrats were being turned away due to some "difficulties."

When I lived in Merritt Island, the fellow across the street and one over hired people to decorate for him.  He had the full santa set on the roof with additional lights, lighted candy cane posts along his driveway (complete with lights strung between them), lights spiraled around his palm trees in three colours, more tacky lighted crap on the front "lawn", etc.  It was a nightmare.  And my bedroom window faced it, yay.


Absolutely.  The only part of Florida I consider being the south is maybe the panhandle.  Aside from that, there's too many imports and retirees and whatnot to ever think I'm living in the south.

I found it highly amusing earlier while playing that a coach marched onto my lot, waved at a few people, then left.  The least he could have done was make like a drill sergeant on the one fat dormie in sight.

Maybe it's just that my eyesight is wonky, or the picture is off somehow, but the mouth on this looks like it's been shifted sideways so it's no longer centered.  It's really peculiar looking.

Every time it's happened to me (normal hot tub), only one person gets nailed, regardless of how many people are in it at the time.  Weird, huh?

Kind of sad in a twisted way.  No newspaper headlines screaming "Mass Hot Tub Death at Downtown Singles Club!"

It's sad, but there you go.

Sims are too stupid to:
1. Check for a pool ladder before diving/sliding into a watery death,
2. Unable to simply get out like a normal person by hoisting themself up onto the surround.  (I guess their arms are strong enough to paddle and swim, but not leverage.)

So, it's not a shock when a sim continues to bubble away happily in the hot tub (though perhaps with a quick jump out to say "Wow, it's raining") without ever once displaying a shred of intelligence, and running like a frightened gazelle to "indoors" to avoid lightning strikes.

In the short time I had a hot tub outside at a dorm, two dormies died, and several more got fried.  Granted, I found it all quite funny (especially when my sim avoided getting hit), but eventually I placed corner greenhouse walls and a matching roof just to keep the pain and suffering down.

People can say all they like the phrase "shouldn't have to" but we all know it doesn't work that way with Sims 2.  It's the modders who make sense of the tortured illogic of Eaxis.

So, what... maybe Dizzy includes this sort of thinking into the autonomous behavior whatsihoozit?  Or is it too much...

You're entitled to your opinion.  I am to mine.  We will disagree, whether you agree to doing so or not. 

Any parent who dressed their child in the "elf" clothes (or even the earlier example of ivy or whatever by the same 'artist') and paraded them around in public ought to be hauled in to the police station.  (Yes, yes, I know, these are sims, not people.  At least, I think that's what they are.)

In any case, there's plenty of offerings in this thread that I don't think are the least bit whorish, so we'll just agree to disagree, okay? 

Well, considering that the definition of whore includes both sexually promiscuous and prostitution, we have it both ways, eh?  So, free or not...

Personally, I think the outfit on either child or teen is like saying, "Hi!  Calling all pedophiles!  Come and get me, baby."

I think someone already alluded to this, but it's absolutely insane that a good half or more of the walls/floors from Life Stories are better looking than anything included in Sims 2.  I mean wow!  Fantastic!  Some really nice choices.

(I'm just glad I stopped back in to see why the thread was still going strong.)

Removed.

No, but I am aware of one that tried to lure an innocent young man down the dark road of food debauchery.

On another day, and in a better mood, I would laugh and nod my head.  Right now...?  Heh, right now I'm tempted to think it would have been funny had Delphy swapped in ... what is it?  Goatse?