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Date Posted: 14th Apr 2014 at 6:33 PM

I've been working hours and hours trying to teach myself the quirks of CFE. It all started with a tutorial written by Fergus' Mind on using CFE to manipulate roof angles and such.

It's opened up some ideas for me. Right off, there were some houses that I was unable to make before, because my plans would include an attic, but NOT a full floor, and I could NEVER get the roofing to cooperate. Well, now I can, just like that - problem solved.

So I've been looking at other problems, and seeing how CFE might solve them.

What I see as the added bonus, though, is the way such manipulations effect the appearance of the gable ends. And I find myself playing with angles and wallpapers to produce the illusion of depth and of decorative additions.

I had been working on 3 separate projects for upload, two of them probably a little too ambitious for someone of my limited skills. But now, I'm spending hours playing with CFE, and I've been neglecting my projects. (e.g. today - zero hours)

Now that I'm saying this out loud, I guess I'll hafta make a point of putting down the new toy, and getting back to my projects.
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Just Ask

Date Posted: 17th Mar 2014 at 4:48 AM

If anyone is reading this...

I've just read where a fellow member is having problems with someone's lot that he downloaded and installed to his game. It has objects from an EP he doesn't have, and it's causing him problems.

If I've made a lot that you might like, but cannot use due to its EP content, I will be happy to wipe out all the EP objects, and send you a base game version. Just PM me.
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Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Date Posted: 7th Mar 2014 at 7:04 AM

I've got YouTube on my Firefox...playing a single Led Zeppelin song. Second cut on the first album: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. This is my favorite Zeppelin song. Ever. And they produced some great shit.

But this song plays, and I can't do anything but listen. Good thing no one ever played this in the OR when I was still a nurse. I'm not kidding.

The first time my husband got out of the Marines, he took a job as a stock clerk at Lucky's food store. It was a union job, and it was at night - no customers (in the olden days, we didn't shop 24/7).

Well, there were probably 10 other stock clerks and maybe 2 janitors working on any given night. And since there were no customers, the store speakers were set to the radio - and the radio was tuned to a very popular FM station in the area.

One night In A Godda Da Vida came on. And it was the LP version - 17 minutes. Tom told me that the entire night shift came to a complete stop. Everybody. Everybody stopped what they were doing, so they could just listen. Like they couldn't stock or sweep or write or push a dolly while the song was playing. Tom said that when the song came on, the night manager was in the office (where they kept the controls to the speakers). And he actually turned up the volume!

When the song finally ended, they spent another 10 minutes reminiscing about what they were doing the first time they heard it, how many times they got high, had sex, etc...

I'm out of touch with much of the music today, so I don't know - is there a future classic playing somewhere, that will one day paralyze its devotees?
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I can't use my right hand...

Date Posted: 22nd Feb 2014 at 12:14 AM

I don't have a central line anymore, but a nurse comes every day to remind me to take my prescriptions and to give me IV meds. Well, today she DC'd the one IV, and started a new one. It infiltrated, so I DC'd it, and called home health. Another nurse came, and tried to start a new IV, and managed to bruise up my hand. So now my left hand is swollen and the bruise covers the entire back of my hand up past my wrist to the lower third of my left arm. It hurts to type with it, but I am stubborn that way.

The thing is, I have an IV in my right hand, now. And it pokes me every time I try to use my mouse or type any letter that uses the index finger. So typing is actually a bitch. Both of my hands hurt.

I feel so pissed off right now, and it's really not anybody's fault. These things are bound to happen. The nurse who messed up the first IV is actually a very good nurse, and I've never had this problem with my IV before. The second nurse is just new...she's not experienced, and my veins are not so easy to find these days. The poor thing was in tears. She's only 23. I kept telling her it was okay, but I probably wasn't convincing enough, what with the wincing and the gasping.

So, I'm gonna put in a DVD...maybe binge on some Monarch of the Glen. And I'll ace-wrap a couple of ice bags to my left hand, and hope the right one stops poking. Five'll getcha Ten - she's gonna end up DC-ing this IV. Sometimes I miss having that central line.
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I hate microsoft.

Date Posted: 20th Feb 2014 at 6:57 PM

For months I've been unable to watch anything on youtube. I kept getting some screen that...wow, I can't remember what it said, but it was static in the background, and NO video. I tried all their suggestions to no avail.

Well, today I found out that, at some point, Microsoft upgraded/updated my computer to block my ability to watch youtube. I didn't give those assholes permission to do that. They offered me instructions on how to work around it, but given my neurological problems, I don't DARE try to type in those letters and numbers. It reads right there that if it's done incorrectly, it will screw up the computer!

So, I downloaded Firefox. I used to keep them as my default browser, years ago. If I can get myself to relearn their tweaks, I may well again. Right now, I'm used to explorer...the font size, the windows. We'll see. In the meantime, at least now I can watch tutorials on youtube, and also listen to some old Motown, funk, and soul while I'm online.
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Totally Bummed

Date Posted: 20th Feb 2014 at 12:24 AM

Okay. I think I finally got the handle on Sims3packs. When you generate a file, and the lot in that file contains objects in the sims3pack format, those objects follow that file. So, whoever downloads it, gets the CC whether they want it or not. And from what I was just told it's not always easy to remove.

I've been very lucky. When I wanted to remove CC, all I had to do was open my downloads folder, and delete anything I didn't want. I never saw it again. But not everyone has been this lucky.

I put hours and hours in my library. I've been working on it for a month. The proper thing to do would have been to "share" it as a CC-free file (I have one, actually) and then add the CC, and only do screenshots of that one. The CCs would have been made available by link. In fact, I could have augmented those links by putting a thumb next to each of the item, so folks would know what it was they might want.

No more sims3packs. From now on, if I want CC for any particular lot, I will show folks why they might want it, but then link them to it only.

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Well, I've gone ahead back into the lot, and deleted all of the TSR CC except for CycloneSue's. And I've re-uploaded the new file. I just got a PM from someone insisting that there were people on my list who did NOT give permission for me to use their CC in a lot. I've gone back and reread their stuff, but I'm worried that I might not be comprehending...too many cognitive deficits these days. And after this morning's note about the one, I think it's better safe than sorry. I just don't wish to cause any hard feelings for someone who's worked hard on his/her creation, only to feel they've been disrespected.
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Mischief...

Date Posted: 19th Feb 2014 at 11:30 PM

Reading a thread on the Sims 3 Discussion Forum, it seesms that someone was hitting the 'disagree' button all up and down a particular thread...and it gave me an idea.

It might be fun to lurk in one of the Christian forums, and click 'helpful' on each and every post, just to see if anyone notices. And if they do notice, to see what conclusions they might come to, individually and collectively.

OMG. I just giggled, and I sounded like the Dowager Countess of Grantham. And that makes me laugh out loud.

God, I crack myself up.

update: omg. I just came across a post from Nysha. The staff here can tell who clicks those things. I tried to reply, "uh oh," to her, but apparently posts have to be longer than two words to publish! Now, I'm cackling. I guess this means I'll never be able to post a sinister, "Mwahahahaha."
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I must learn to read.

Date Posted: 16th Feb 2014 at 8:28 PM

So, I'd decided to make a neighborhood without a population, and with all sims' homes deleted.

Clever me, I use NRaas' MC to annihilate the sims. That way I wouldn't have evict everyone just to delete them and their homes.

I plopped down a couple of lots of my own, and placed my own sims in them. This neighborhood had only one purpose - to build.

I needed live mode to take screenshots, and to test the lots...no blocked access, no wonky stairs, etc. So, I figured two occupied lots would do the trick.

One of the lots I plopped down was the small graveyard shed (now uploaded). The lot with graves. I took some time with these graves. A few of them are just from buydebug...and say "remains," but others...about 7, I think...are actually dead sims. Sims I made, and aged up till they died...on that lot, so I could keep their graves there.

I selected my favorite sim, Jenny Pasco, whom I'd placed in the small shed lot. I come in, and all was fine, till I added something for her comfort, and saved. So I come back in, and there's not a single EFFING grave!! WTF! I back out, delete the lot, and try again. Graves are back, but then as I lift into neighborhood view, the real cemetery catches my eye...green rectangles where there oughta be graves. I zoom in, and wouldn't ya know it...no graves.

I spent probably 2 hours trying to undo stuff...even deleted all files pertaining to the small shed, thinking that all the dead people there must've skewed with some Dead Sim balance. I used the MC "manage the dead," "bury the dead," and found no dead. None.

So I tried to kill someone to see if I could watch what happened to her grave. She floated forever, death never came. So I dumped the entire town. I started a new game...and there were plenty of dead.

Okay, so I'll try again. I open NRass - MasterController, Town, Total Annihilation. And boom. that's when it hit me: Total Annihilation must mean Everyone. I had selected all, and got all - every damned sim file in existence.
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I'm gonna need walls.

Date Posted: 15th Feb 2014 at 1:06 PM

It's all very frustrating. Every time I think I've found a tutorial for making walls, I find that it's for making SIMS 2 walls. I see lots about patterns, but the walls I need aren't about patterns. These would be singular: Different pictures (as it were) of wall...needed for specific sections along the outside of an old building. God I miss SIMS 1.

I guess there's more hunting to do...
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Yea. It worked!

Date Posted: 14th Feb 2014 at 9:46 PM

My old nick was on this page, and I really didn't want it to be. It's not like I'd written anything worth archiving. Deletion seemed the best option.

I made a building that looks like a lot like another building. It's meant to. It's based on the other building, but it's MUCH smaller. I emailed screenshots of it to members there, and wow. I didn't realize it, but I'd included a vehicle that belonged to someone who used to run the place, but has recently been removed.

I'd used google maps, and its street-level captures had this vehicle in them. I didn't even think when I grabbed a Sim car that looked kinda like it to be parked in the same place. Man o Man, the emails I got back. "Are you trying to jinx us??" "Delete that SUV, and make me another picture!"

I saw that car parked there almost everyday for years...and yet when I saw it in the google map stuff, it didn't even register what I was lookin' at.

It's funny how a couple of years will change the way you think about stuff...the stuff you make a point of checking for...that alluva sudden doesn't even register, it's so unimportant.
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