Oh bloody hell!

[Ayslhyn]

I thought I was rid of the Twins Plague. My nice new MacPro hadn't done it at all. My old PowerMac was a bugger for it, bucking the odds with about one in four twin births (complained about on here previously) So what does hubby do?

Sticks 4 GB extra RAM in the bloody MacPro which then immediately starts to dump twins on me. The wretched thing has 6 GB RAM in total and is making a total nuisance of itself. Four out of four of my last births were twins.

Someone PLEASE convince me that this is coincidence.

[floopyboo]

Ah, they joys of sadorandom dice falls.

This is precisely why I have TwoJeff's triplets & quads hack - so if I am having a glut of multiple births, I can do something about it.

[Nailati]

Nope, not a coincidence. The odds of twin birth are well known to be based on how much RAM you have. Incidentally, was your computer manufactured in a leap year? This has also been known to increase twin births in games installed on those machines, but only if they have less than 2 or more than 3 GB of RAM.

[Ayslhyn]

Yes but why did this only start AFTER the extra RAM was put in? The puter was fine before that. Stupid hubby installs all that RAM. Mac goes haywire.

[Zazazu]

If you look for a cause to a random event, you will always be able to manufacture one. RAM has nothing to do with it. Randomness. Get TJ's hack and edit the odds to lower the percentage of multiples, if it pisses you off to that level.

[Ayslhyn]

I will. Thank you. It buggered up my Chav family horribly. How can Chardonnay and Reece drag up their horrible ASBO brats if they keep spawning twins?

[SaraMK]

Are you sure you haven't been feeding your sims cheesecake?

[Ayslhyn]

Now come on. I'm mac-using and by definition not stupid

[Ellatrue]

Hah. The macs are awfully pretty aren't they?

[Ayslhyn]

What this one? Not so you would notice.

Top-end macs are very boring to look at. An aluminium box. Tedious as hell
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But then the devil has the best tunes.

[Fairlight]

This raises the question of why you bought one in the first place.

PCs are too hard for you?  That can't be, because as you pointed out, all Mac users are geniuses!

[morriganrant]

Was the Ram manufactured by a company who's top executives were cross eyed? Did they build their company at a cross roads? Was it manufactured during the full moon.

By the way, all of these are also qualities that you want to look for in a lucky rabbits foot. Killed by a cross eyed man, at the cross roads, during a full moon. Have you been in contact with a lucky rabbits foot lately? Are you sure that the rabbit was killed in the approved method that I have just mentioned.

[Ayslhyn]

Was Satan dancing to the music of a fiddle? Was Astarot, Grand Chancellor of Hell giggling? Was Beelezebub distracted from his fly-pots?

[morriganrant]

Well, I'm afraid that you would have to tell me, seeing as you were there.

[Ayslhyn]

A mere glitch inflicts no damage on a Prince of Hell.

[Annan]

This only supports my theory that extended Mac usage lowers IQ.

[Gwill]

I believe we just entered the Chinese year of the rat.  Might that be the cause?

[ebonyspiral]

This only supports my theory that extended Mac usage lowers IQ.

That's no doubt true, as there are less problems to solve. 

I use a mac, except for gaming. Ayslhyn, you are making me cringe. Please STFU.

[jolrei]

Yes but why did this only start AFTER the extra RAM was put in? The puter was fine before that. Stupid hubby installs all that RAM. Mac goes haywire.

I can't see how moar RAM would "cause" anything in the game, except to perhaps make it go "whoosh" a bit better. 

Wasn't there a conversation earlier about you and your hubby getting a PC for gaming because the Mac wasn't working well with the game?  Whatever happened to that?  Was the moar RAM installation a replacement plan?

Anyhow, to counter sadorandom twins events (when unwanted) there are hacks that will allow you to check pregnancies for "how many" and edit if you wish.  I personally use Insim for this, and know it to work (I'll take the puppy killer comments as read - I'm a cat person, OK?).

[seelindarun]

You had twins the last four times, but how many births did you have before?  If you had, say 8, which weren't, then you'd be running at 33% which is only a little more than the advertised rate.  Any sample with less than 20 births really isn't enough to complain anyway.

You're suffering under the illusion that random means uniform.  It so doesn't.  Clustering is actually a characteristic of true randomness.

[Nailati]

Ayslhyn, you are making me cringe. Please STFU.

Agreed. Ayshat, you are misrepresenting Mac users.

Remember: Random events segregate nonrandomly!

[Zazazu]

Yesterday, I tossed a coin four times and got heads each time. I blame the last lunar eclipse.

[Jelenedra]

Well, at least with all that RAM, you don't have to worry about lot lag with all those babies crawling around.

[spambi]

I had this happen once back when university came out. 10 out of 10 births in my neighborhood were twins. I stopped believing it was random around twin birth 5 but kept breeding sims because the chaos was amusing.

It turns out that the problem was related to a sim that died when she was pregnant. I resurrected her on a whim, she gave birth to twins and then the twins stopped. I think the game got stuck in twin mode when she died.

Have you had any sims die recently while they were pregnant (maybe not showing yet?) I thought the bug might have been related to that random pregnancy death bug that they fixed a while ago, but maybe it wasn't.

[Jelenedra]

Pssst. It's not a bug, it's the game stupid number generator constantly throwing twins instead of single births. The only things in game that causes twins is cheesecake and the supposed twin token.