I do believe people should learn how to decrapify stuff on their own, I can agree with that, but there are instructions to do that here and literally billions of other places on the 'net.

Edit: Basically, you "deprive" them of one chance to learn with this one file, so? There's lots of other opportunities to learn.

Eh, it's not important.

That's unfortunate.

It's NOT hard to decrapify, but if someone has been kind enough to do it and post a link, why make people take an extra step, just because someone "feels" like it? I assumed he was above that.

I personally wouldn't have taken it down until Pescado said why. But then, I don't like following goofy rules, just because people go "becoz its baaaad".  

Pescado doesn't seem like he'd make up a rule against sharing decrapified files for reasons as childish and arbitrary as "so people won't be lazy". If anything, it could replace all the other Barnacle Bay links and that one simply used as the primary download.

/shrug

I'm sure that one file won't make the universe blow up.

This. <3

Also, I have faith in the Sims modding community, there's some pretty crafty modders, so who's to say someone won't come up with some crazy way to make a Sunset Valley/Riverview town to be desert or concrete in the near future?

This is a very good point.
As for myself, I think it was sort of strange to adopt that sort of design. I'm sure there were other ways to get their goal for that, than what they used.

Every time I see "Life Fruit", I think of different little things that happened to me in World of Warcraft when I was out picking herbs. In WoW there's a plant called Liferoot. I had friends refer to it sometimes as "Life fruit" or "life-froot" time to time jokingly (long before Sims 3 was conceived of course). Amusingly, it was a plant hard to find sometimes when you were really needing it.

More about the custom neighborhoods, I have heard other people (and EA) pimp the design over its flaws by just saying that it would be "hard" or impossible to allow that because of the streaming, seamless design of the neighborhoods. To me, maybe I'm just grouchy but this sounds a little like lazy design. I'm not a programmer (and will not become one), but I digress.
 It was *possible* for the designers to implement a way for normal users to make seamless custom neighborhoods, they just didn't do it -- perhaps to wait to add something like that in an expansion pack. They are ALREADY working on an expansion pack for Sims 3 now, which sounds relatively fun. (Adventuring in Sims 3? Humm!)

I miss interactions in restaurants, too. It sounds wrong, but I miss taking a bad sim and making them wet themselves in the middle of the dining area.  

Edit!

Oh my gosh, do I miss this too. Were they unable to get people to make new simlish songs for this game? Also I find myself missing the music from the original Sims game and its expansions. Especially the weird elevator-type music. It had a "fun" quality to it. Kind of a bummer they just threw in a few bad songs from some designer's kid's iPod into TS3, but you can still add your own collection, which makes up for it.

I miss creating my own custom neighborhoods, more than anything else.

Who's to say, there might be a way regular users can, I have yet to see a hack/mod allowing it.

Haha! I had a great mental image of that: A woman standing at the fridge thinking about going to the grocery to restock, then... BAM! Taxi in the kitchen.

I don't have this particular patch, but I have heard about some other funny things happening from 1.3 (such as sims only being able to eat cereal and break the stove). I too have the Razor version, and have never had anything like this happen.

It sounds like it's coming exclusively from that patch.

Thank you, Kyna! I'll definitely be reading that when I get a chance.

I keep my computer locked down pretty good as adware/antivirus goes (as well as a very strong, protected router), it's beginning to look like those measures I've taken for ages now are the reason I didn't see anything bad happen to me by TSR. 

Thank you Cherita, I appreciate this.

Like I said above, I never have heard of TSR doing anything like that before I came here. History is a good indicator, I would have to agree there, for sure. It's just that no one has ever pulled me aside and told me anything. I'll certainly be more wary of ever using that site again, knowing there is a bad history, for sure.

I do realize there are lots of sites out there for content, it's just one of those things though that you find it through a network of other sites. I didn't know that there was a large collection of goodies here though (being this is the first time I've ever been here - directed from the ModTheSims site!) and I do like!  

I'll definitely be filling my hard drive now. Cherita, you simply rock.

Wow, I never said anything like that. You all are just blowing assumptions.
No, money is not the only important thing. Pride in your work and so forth and so on, fantastic. Did I ever say TSR was marvelous? No. I never said I was even a fan of the site.

But, please do keep on insulting me for no reason at all, even though all I've done was said that people are overreacting. I haven't been insulting anyone (even though I'm being attacked).


No, I did not know there was any sort of history, I've never heard anything about that.
All that I know is the time I used TSR, nothing bad happened to me.

Maybe they've changed for the worse (like I said, I've never heard anything about their history, I guess they've changed since I used it, in which case, it saddens me.)

Wow, aren't we inflammatory.

I'm not a shill, I'm not here to promote one thing or another, all I said was people are probably overreacting. Though it probably doesn't matter, you probably didn't even read my post.

Wow.
I'm not here to be the champion of TSR, but SOMEONE needs to break this goofy "omg tsr is so evils " train.

Users of TSR are not stupid (as so many of the fanboys here seem to think). There IS such a thing as not wanting to spend hours at a time making, obtaining or installing additional content for a videogame. Hence, they're willing to use a Paysite ("Time is Money, Friends"). It has nothing to do with "stupid" so much as "just don't care to spend gross amounts of time".

I have used TSR before (no viruses, spyware, malware or anything else, ever) and I have my doubts that what the original poster found was actually anything malicious at all. Yes, spyware/malware is bad, if it IS malware that would be pretty terrible, but in all likelihood, it's just that weird Install Wizard they have at their website. It was for downloading content right from their site and installing it via the website without the hassle of unpacking anything. That's... I'm almost 100% sure, the reason the program "connects to the internet".

I haven't seen any "Threat Details" here. Yes, the EULA's legalese is ominous, but so is ALL legalese. Find me legalese that isn't ominous.

I'm not trying to invoke anyone, but I do think people are flipping wigs here for no reason other than they have a wig they need to flip over something.