Maxis agrees with Laurenke

[ZephyrZodiac]

Young and marketable, but often unable to communicate in more than three word phrases linked by "like" "You know" etc.

[SimsHost]

Off hand, I'd say, at their peak of youth and beauty:

those rarely coincide.  or did you mean,"youth and marketability"? sorry, major personal annoyance issue.

Oh well, I'm happy that I was able to provide some entertaining annoyance for you then! 

[bluecatvon]

The question you really don't want to ask is 'so...what if you don't notice exactly when it withers and falls off?' It's a dim and distant memory, but I do recall that there was alot of screaming in my household when a little discovery was found on the carpet! (The other digit fell neatly into my baby's shawl).

my god!! that's gross and funny at the same time! lol!

[bluecatvon]

i wonder where can we get a glimpse of our almighty Mr More Awesome than You...

[gali]

At his Sim Page on the BBS, the avatar is close to how he describes himself...

http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/mysimpage.php?user_id=195920

Wow! didn't notice - he is already "stand-up Sim"...

[J. M. Pescado]

That's impressive. I've gained a rank in absentia? I haven't even really gone there.

[Judecat]

Oh no,  your Avatar looks just like my husband.       

[veilchen]

That's impressive. I've gained a rank in absentia? I haven't even really gone there.

Told you...your fame is universal. The german sites translate your stuff and send people to you all over the place. I'm sure that goes for many other countries too.

You don't have to actually be there, just being around somewhere is apparently enough for the adoring hordes of fans you have. :D

[ZephyrZodiac]

Perhaps you should start guided tours of the old homestead, JM?

[Thanatos]

I don't recall their names, but they were probably called Jill & Pollination Tech#9 Smith, or something very similar.

As a biotechnology student we were taught in genetics class about a real case like this in the U.K a while ago. A totally white couple got a black baby. The husband accused the wife of cheating. So they went for a genetic test coupled with research into their family tree. They found out that one of them actually had a black ancestor several generations ago. The genetics were hidden for so long that their origin had been forgotten.

[ZephyrZodiac]

An even odder case, which you may also have heard about, was a pair of twins.  the mother was from Nigeria and the father was English, but the twins (monozygotic) were born one entirely black African in appearance, the other blond, blue-eyed and pale-skinned.  Evidently a very rare form of mirror-image twins!

[Zeljka]

An even odder case, which you may also have heard about, was a pair of twins. the mother was from Nigeria and the father was English, but the twins (monozygotic) were born one entirely black African in appearance, the other blond, blue-eyed and pale-skinned. Evidently a very rare form of mirror-image twins!

I actually saw a similar thing at a wedding. The groom's half-sisters were mixed caucasian/asian. One had darker skin, but blonde w/blue eyes, the other was pale with black hair and eyes. Apart from colouring, their features were identical and they were stunning.

Myself, both grandmothers were blue eyed, both grandfathers and parents were brown eyed, all dark to black hair. As children, myself, brother and sister were brown eyed with dark hair, but now, my sister is blonde with green eyes...

[bluecatvon]

oh my god!! That's our almighty Mr JM Pescado?! he looks so cute!! sort of like Amish people (no offense)..

still can't understand him..i mean, he's mean, and while i know some grandpas always amuse themselves by being mean, he's technologically advance...my dad can't even type a letter without my help..and he's younger than JM. I think I love him more...haha!

[SimsHost]

That's neat!  My avatar looks a lot like JM's avatar (and very little like me).  I'd show it to you but I have no idea how to figure out the URL of a link that would point to my sim page.

[bluecatvon]

why don't you just type it whole and we can just copy and paste it?

[SimsHost]

This will sound really dumb, but I have to ask: How do I find out my user ID number on the Maxis board?






(Yup.  Even after I typed it, it still sounds pretty dumb.)

[Kitiara]

This will sound really dumb, but I have to ask: How do I find out my user ID number on the Maxis board?

If you go to your SimPage, and look at the url, the last thing in the address is your id number.

[Zyrcona]

Last thing I read, you are supposed to be attractive to someone who is different to you but not too different. The current philosophy is that you choose someone whose sweat smells different to you but who has a symmetrical face shape of the same race as you. (people of very different races may have divergent genetics, in which some of the genes have translocated, and this can result in offspring that are retarded/ deficient as a result of chromosomes crossing over and genes being left out) If someone has an abnormally asymmetrical face it implies that they are a) deformed, and therefore may have faulty genetics or b) they have walked under a bus as a result of stupidity/ poor reflexes or that they start fights and then lose, in which case their genes are also likely to be undesirable. It might be a freak accident and not their fault, but evolution doesn't work like that.

I have never seen a human being with black skin and any eye colour other than brown. Hair, eye, and skin pigmentation are all a result of production of melanin. Melanin production can vary slightly between different parts of the same person, but large variances are improbable. Albino people cannot produce melanin and have blue eyes, white skin, and colourless hair that looks pale blond. People with white skin never have pure black hair (not the really black sort that has a bluish tinge to it like Asian hair). Only people with pale skin can have ginger or blond hair and blue eyes. Blue eyes in my experience are extremely rare as this is the result of having no eye pigmentation and is recessive to everything else. Grey eyes and what people describe as being green have varying amounts of melanin, followed by hazel and then brown, which is the full pigmentation.

The NPCs that the game creates are all minging (IMHO) because they mix up incompatible features and hence the black-skinned man with blue eyes and a blond mullet who loiters in a repulsive tracksuit outside the house, urinating on the topiary and eating out of the dustbin. Even the ones with plausible skin/hair/eye colours are ugly because the archetypes are all ugly and don't look like the races they're supposed to represent. I don't know why this is because the playable characters in the game aren't plagued by faces with the eyes too far apart like hammerhead sharks and huge lips like startled guppies (well, apart from Dina Caliente (or whatever her name is -- the one in the dress with blonde hair), whose face is the stuff of nightmares). I use Pescado's No Townie Regeneration hack with my own neighbourhood, and blitz the character files and neighbourhood entries with SimPE before making any characters in it.

[Dea]

the mother was from Nigeria and the father was English, but the twins (monozygotic) were born one entirely black African in appearance, the other blond, blue-eyed and pale-skinned.  Evidently a very rare form of mirror-image twins!

I read a story like that in Teen People magazine years ago... The mother was caucasian and the father was Jamaican...I think the twn daughters were fraternal though...but they looked the same just different skintones...people didnt believe that they were twins or even had the same parents...