Tangle

Tangles the Christmas and Halloween String Lighting!!

Do I know you?

So... do any of you care about my first take on Late Night? Well, if you don't, too bad. You're here for a reason. I'm gonna babble for awhile. If anything, I'll make you laugh.

OK, so my copy of Late Night arrives yesterday and I get it all installed and we're happy. I put my sim I made to test out Late Night into one of the apartment complexes. There ain't much real estate to be had in Bridgeport so I guess family sims will have to be disappointed. Most apartments and homes are cracker boxes. Not even decent for a single sim, but whatever. Anyway, I get him moved in and immediately run out to take in a play at the cineplex. A little bubble popped up saying my sim would like it... blah, blah, blah. So much for not finding vampires during the day or easily. Broad daylight. Playing the game for like 5 minutes, first stop, two vampires walk up. The sparks and smoke sort of gave them away. The black and red clothes were another clue. And if you got really close, you peed your pants when you looked into their queasy eyes. I did introductions but didn't keep them long chatting. I mean, afterall, they were smoking and the smell of burnt hair isn't nice. It's only polite. There were some celebs hanging out too in front. Like... 8? So much for not finding celebs anywhere but the posh places too. They were pricks. Do I know you? Maybe you should come back when you can impress me. Up yours buddy. Not impressed with the celebs, but never was. Sims 1, 2, and 3. Then some grandma pulls a piano out of her butt and starts jamming right there on the sidewalk. Everyone went nuts. Dancing, clapping, whistling... and there they stayed. I ran off to a bar and the bookstore. Did the taxi and subway, yah dah.

I'll get this out of the way because I just have to. If you don't know me you won't be aware of my rampant distaste for trendy jeans. No bootcuts, bellbottoms, low rise, baggy butt jeans for me. I just want normal jeans, timeless jeans, jeans that hang the way they should and be pulled up to the waist. That sort of stuff. I'm not into crack or ripped ragged edges because they drag on the ground. Anyway, the women have always had a set of normal jeans. Since the base. Yahoo! I was so happy. But the guys didn't. Ugly huge belt buckles, baggies, hi-waters, ripped, stained, bad textures, flares, whatever. Aha! I was THE happiest girl in the world last night when I was dressing my sim. Woot! First thing in the pants window. NORMAL JEANS! For the love of God and all that's holy! Normal friggin' jeans! No ragged edges, no stupid cuts, no ugly belt buckles. Just awesome normal jeans. There are some really sweet threads in Late Night for guys. I am very pleased. I made a male sim so I didn't check out the chick stuff yet. I was like yelling and hooting and just going nuts at my computer. My neighbors probably thought somebody was killing me. They weren't home thankfully. Ok, I'm better. Just wanted to get that out there.

I swear every woman has had a boob job in Bridgeport. The boob meter was sorely needed and I am quite happy to adjust all my female sims that need it so they're more balanced. I refuse to make skinny chicks that look like little boys when they wear a swimsuit. C'mon, you've GOT to have something. Now even my skinny chicks have some curves and look like girls. I don't really get into the big, bulging, bowling ball things. If you want that, fine. It's unnatural as heck, but who am I? Bridgeport is full of bowling balls. And... and... this is as important to me as the jeans for guys. THE 6 PACK IS BACK! I was also hooting over that. I was so, so, so disappointed when no matter how hard I worked my male sims they never got ripped. The blank surface around their belly button baffled me. A real person without a six pack doesn't even look that pathetic. So now I can tweak all my guys with the muscle definition slider to have a shadow of a six pack or a full blown ripped physique. I don't like the ripped look but I do like them to look fit and the oddly barren tummy area will give me nightmares no more! MUCH better for swimming. God. The humanity. And here is something... random I guess. I had my guy make use of a urinal. Didn't think anything would happen and I normally don't watch my sims go pee pee. I'm glad I watched though because I got a grand giggle out of the guy whistling while he peed! OMG! He looks around, at the ceiling, side to side, and whistles while he works... so to speak. I thought it was a nice touch.

I do have some complaints. Not many, so far, but some. Is it just me, or does it take an inordinate amount of time to get anywhere in Bridgeport? I guess I need to give my guy a crotch rocket because this taxi and subway crap is for the birds. It's slow as heck! The elevators stink. Just as slow as they've ever been. I could drag myself up stairs faster. But you know how it is, always gotta have some useful object be the target of woohoo. So we have hot tubs back and... crappy elevators.

All in all I'm really happy with the EP. It's got great stuff and improves a few things that needed dire attention. The travel thing. That needs to be fixed. It's the main reason I refuse to go to China. I don't want to spend my trip walking up one hill and down the other. Lame. And now Bridgeport is a prime example with my sim taking a taxi, stopping to get out, taking the subway, popping out only to get in yet another taxi and eventually, many hours later, he gets to someplace before it closes. And... he could've gotten there with JUST the taxi in the first place. Oi. If you had Nightlife you'll feel right at home.

Having trouble uploading. See Gallery for some upcoming stuff

Hi everyone,

I'm just not having much computer luck these days. I have a bunch of creations ready to go but am having trouble uploading them. Hopefully I can figure out what's going on soon.

Gia :)

POLL Results... Stories revisited...

The story section is very dear to me and I wish it would stay a prominent factor here on TSR... Thanks for participating!!!

Here are the results of my STORY SECTION poll:

We like the stories categorized: series and single stories.

New stories coming out... Fine as it is (or was).

Leave a story featured on the index page for 3 to 4 days

The majority visits the story section a couple of times a week....

Question: Stories, categorize them

1. Too many categories just sims2 and sims3 will do | 26.42% (42)
2. I like it categorized in Series and Single stories for both Sims2 and Sims3 | 40.25% (64)
3. Categorize it in Length / Pages | 9.43% (15)
4. It's fine as it is | 28.93% (46)

Question: How often we like new stories coming our way

1. Every Day | 24.53% (39)
2. Every other day | 16.98% (27)
3. Every Week | 30.19% (48)
4. It's fine as it is | 31.45% (50)

Question: Featured on the Index Page

1. Change it Every Day! | 27.67% (44)
2. Leave a featured story there for 3-4 Days | 29.56% (47)
3. Change it once a Week | 22.01% (35)
4. It's fine as it is | 27.04% (43)

Question: How often we visit the story page?

1. At least twice a day! I'm an addict! | 14.47% (23)
2. Once a Day | 19.5% (31)
3. Oh...maybe a couple of times a Week | 47.8% (76)
4. I don't care, so it's fine as it is! | 21.38% (34)

End of October Update!

So basically, my life has been insane between classes, midterms, and sorority stuff going on. I'm sorry I haven't uploaded in forever! I do have a couple of lots that are about ready to be uploaded (as in they're finished, but I have to take screenshots and Photoshop them). I'm really excited to get the new expansion! Tell me how it is everyone :)

Michele

Bienvenue - Welcome !

Bonjour tout le monde !

Je vais commencer par me présenter : Je m'appelle Sarah, j'ai 23 ans et je suis Suissesse. Je suis fan de cette série de jeux depuis leur sortie il y a maintenant plus de dix ans. A part les Sims, je suis aussi joueuse de World of Warcraft et je suis une dévoreuse de livres, surtout des thrillers, et de séries anglaises et américaines. Si j'ai tardé à vraiment m'inscrire sur ce site, c'est à cause de la langue. En effet, ma maîtrise de la langue de Shakspeare n'est pas bonne du tout. Je vais cependant m'efforcer de proposer tous mes textes dans les deux langues. N'hésitez toutefois pas à me corriger en cas de mauvais anglais.

Toute nouvelle sur le site, je vais me mettre à la lecture et à la traduction en français des divers guides et tutoriels destinés aux créateurs, nouveaux et anciens. Dès que ce sera fait, je me ferait la joie de vous faire partager mes découvertes et mes créations pour les Sims 3 uniquement.

En effet, depuis sa sortie, j'ai définitivement rangé les Sims 2 au placard...

Au plaisir de vous croiser aux détours des divers pages de ce site...

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Hello world!

I'll start by introducing myself: My name is Sarah, I am 23 years old and I'm Swiss. I'm a fan of this game series since their release there are now over ten years. Apart from the Sims, I'm also player of World of Warcraft and I am a devourer of books, especially thrillers, and British and American series. If I really slow to register on this site, it is because of the language. In fact, my command of the language of Shakespeare is not good at all. However, I will try to offer all my texts in both languages. But please correct me in case of bad English.

Any news on the site, I'm going to start reading and translation into French of various guides and tutorials for artists, new and old. Once this is done, I would joy to share with you my discoveries and my creations for The Sims 3 only.

Since its release, I finally put away the Sims 2 on the shelf ...

Hope to see you to the bends of the various pages on this site ...

I'm back..sort of

Ok,I'm back but I want to make some things clear

• I always try to create outfit's alpha's and textures on my own and its very inlikely that I'm stealing someone's work(yet its possible if me and other creator use same sites for textures)
  
• I try my best to make outfits unique and textures seamless,thats why sometimes I cant publish new creations every day

I've submitted 7 new outfits,here's a sneak-peak at one of them:

Coming up

Just for you guys and girlz I have made a Halloween special called spook tackler it'll b on by Halloween for all you fans out there x

Someone should

I rly wish ppl would make more free hair downloads for the sims 3 :D

Ugh...

Trying to make 7,500 kudos is killing me...

all i want is that one free day is that hard to ask,

I guess so...

Well off to make more kudos

Free dress

Embellished silk-chiffon gown will now be free

What happened to The Sims 1 official site?

I just tried to visit the official The Sims 1 EA site using my old bookmark and it re-directs to The Sims 3! The official Sims 1 site appears to be gone. This is very sad. I loved that site. Does this finally mean the end for The Sims 1?

Oct. 30th, Kentworth Victorian Dressing Table

Finally! The Kentworth Vanity Dresser/Dressing Table set is scheduled for publication on October 30th. The set features an elegant vanity dressing table with lots of room (slots) for cosmetics, perfumes, and other clutter and it's cloned from a mirror! Sims can gussy up, change their appearance and do other mirror menu option functions.

The set also includes 2 table lamps, 2 theatrical makeup cases, 2 decorative hand mirrors sets and a priceless necklace, The Heart of the Ocean, which is rumored to have a mysterious past! LOL!

One day, when I have lots of free time, I hope to create a collection inspired by the 1997 movie, Titanic. The movie is a visual feast for the eyes, I just love the set designs!

Take Care and Happy Simming!

Carolyn

I think

I think that they need to make something like the sims making magic for sims 3

Adena Ember; my legacy

has been updated. it's a small update. I have more for it hoping to get it written out this week..not sure if I'll ever have time to work on the others. might just work it sim year to year. so the stories move faster.

 loveing my new job but it's a lot of brain work, so at the end of the day I don't want to think.

 anyway, enjoy the tid bit of my legacy sim. and as always thanks for reading.

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?t=385754

Holiday Fusion

Holiday clutter and string lights in October!

Back to Work

Alas, I sit here on my lunch hour, listening to my freezer meal thaw in the inadequate device we call a microwave here. It can't even pop popcorn. It's pathetic. But, it does heat up my lunches so I guess I can't complain too much. My vacation is over and I'm back to work. *sniffle*

While taking a break, however, I started a sim for the sole purpose of checking out the firefighter profession. I'm gettin' around to making sims with one goal in mind to delve into the aspects of the game more thoroughly. So this guy was made for fighting fires and being all studly. Grrrrrr. Just like my adventure sim, it wasn't long before a girl caught his eye despite his time consuming career. It actually worked out well. They ran off to France (she wanted to go) for the proposal and wedding like most of my sims. I just like it, so there. Um... oh yeah, she stays home so he can run off at all hours saving ignorant sims that play with matches. They just had their first baby. OMG is he CUTE! I really should upload my sims. Fantastic babies! Anyway, the hours for this job are fab and he ran up the ladder like his own butt was on fire. I was at the top of the career in no time. Never have I had such an easy time. He's gotten all sorts of awards, telephone calls thanking him, his own fire engine and alarm for home, and countless other perks. I'm waiting to see if the hidden firefighter trait shows up in his offspring. They'll have lots so I hope at least one gets it. Oh, was that a spoiler? Too bad.

Anyway, the reason I started to go on about this sim is I put him and his gal in my Ayesleigh lot. Good thing too. That fire engine fills up the driveway nicely. I made some minor structural changes so the roof would be better. It gave me a headache making the lot and it still bothers me. So I liked what I did, change some fixtures, colorschemes, exterior colors, and landscaping. Basically I added my own magic touch to the lot. I've said it before and I'll say it again, my first attempt usually follows the floorplans I picked out closely and if there is an exterior photo I'll match that too. Then the good part comes once I get in the game and start living in the lot. I find all these ways to hopefully make it even better. So then I do a more developed version. I haven't done my version of Ayesleigh yet and I think that might be up next. I've played in the lot before but never got inspired to improve it. Must've been my vacation this time. I noticed my creativity level skyrocketed once I got out of the office. Just one more reason to quit. I need to figure out what to do for money first.

I've also come across some plans that have some odd, but neat, features. I thought the open staircase to the basement in the floorplans of my Eleanor lot was unusual. The lot is mediocre otherwise. Just a small house, nicely done, but that one feature intrigued me. Most odd. So maybe some lots will come through that offer some odd features. My problem is time, as always.

I have been reading comments left on my creations. I thank everyone for those. I can't remember who I've responded to and who I haven't so I'll just have to give a lump sum of gratitude for now. It's so embarrassing.

I better go. Got work to do ya know.

Hallowe'en's a-coming!

... and here's my pick of the Hallowe'en downloads for Sims 3 here at TSR!

Subscriber only:
A totally AWESOME haunted house by ayyuff, here
Some spooky Hallowe'en props by DOT, including coffin, candy, and candlesticks, here
Reeallly creepy gravestones and skeleton-bits by Cyclonesue, here
Some interior decorative Hallowe'en stuff by Apple, here
A pumpkin garden set by Apple, here
Cute pumpkin lanterns by DOT, here
Spooky dead trees by sim_man123, here

Free:
Pumpkin face masks by Apple, here
A nice mix of Hallowe'en patterns by Vanilla Sim, here
Some seriously groovy Hallowe'en patterns by SIMcredible!, here and here
An awesome Hallowe'en dining/decor set by SIMcredible!, here
Cute toddler skeleton costumes by simromi, here
Some very creepy but way cool Hallowe'en masks (facepaints) by Skystars5, here
The perfect dress for any countess by ernhn, here
A super cute Batman costume for toddlers by RomanceSims, here
More Hallowe'en paintings than I can count by paramiti, check out their minisite
A ghostly pirate by mellamoshpit, here
A haunted lot (with ghosts included!) by evi, here
A versatile, recolourable, Hallowe'en makeup/facepaint by jomsims, here
A very scary torture room for your dungeons by cm_11778, here
A ghoulish pattern by tdyannd, here
... and some novelty Hallowe'en accessories by someone called BlackGarden, here

So that's my pick, what's yours? Post your favourite Hallowe'en items here!

Happy Hallowe'en to you and your Sims!

Brudes Hill

This is my latest property based on a home my Uncle owned. I tryed to incorporate a modern feel with a traditonal look. Again i've noticed that having a pretty looking garden adds a lot to the property so I paid attention to that.

The house itself has 3 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms so it'd be perfect for family life. It has a spacious living area with a large kitchen and diner. I also added on a conservatory at the rear for extra space.

Tomorrow I plan to have a day away from The Sims to spend with my partner but no doubt ideas will be buzzing around my head. I'm thinking about taking my doggy on loooong walk so that I can take notice of the homes surrounding me in reality!

Hope you like my work so far! xo

SA Again!

What a pleasant surprise when I've got invited to become SA also for The Sims3! I must say a big thank you to all of you who downloads my stuff, to people who helped me to improving my creating skills and/or gave me incentive to keep on creating, like Simromi, Skystars, Angela, Cyclonesue, Riccinumbers, AnoeskaB, Annasims, Lianaa, Wolfspryte, and of course to TSR staff!

Thank you all so much!

Ok, ok, no more talking...let's work! ;)

New Story Goal!

Hey all,

Okay so I'm heading up to Sydney for a hopefully relaxing holiday with my family on Thursday for cup weekend. Not the main point however, I am aiming to have finished my stories before I leave. So that's the final chapter of 'Good Vs. Evil' and 'Escape from Paradise' as well as the last 3 chapters of my 'Tomb Raider' story that I haven't published yet but will in the next few days. :)

So *fingers crossed* that it all happens and I can hear or well 'read' what you all think about them.

Hope you have/had a great weekend

Adios xox

Petite Cottage

Hey all!

I'm so glad i'm on holiday, my Sims have never seen me so much! Ahahaha.

I've made 2 lots today but i'm most proud of my little cottage! It's the first house in which I used a house plan. I'd always planned to try using one but never really saw any in which i'd attempt but today i decided to have a little look around and come across a simple looking design so this is my attempt and, to be honest, it turned out rather nicely!

It's a couple orientated home with one bedroom. I tried to keep the garden quite simple which I think would be realistic if it was a modern, young couple that was to move in. I decided to give it a cottage-y feel on the interior but still kept it quite grand.

I love it!

I'm planning to play about again with plans tomorrow, hopefully something a little more challenging though!

G'night! xo

www.games4u.ie development

Hey everybody! This is mckconor's development blog for the new website www.games4u.ie!

First, I need everyone to sign up to our

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If you can sign up to support us you could win a free ipod app or sims 3 add-on!

Will keep updates posted here and there!

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e.g.: Books (Twilight, Harry Potter (different versions) and others), buildings, necklaces, calenders, clocks... are found HERE
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Have fun!

Snobby Clobber Cleaners

Woohoo! That's me on holiday from work for a whole week! So excited and so glad to finally get some good ol' simming time!!

My last upload was my Snobby Clobber Cleaners. I updated the laundrette that was in Twinbrook (town that came with ambitions) so I thought I'd upload it here for you guys! Dependant on how well it goes down I may upload the other things i've updated.

I've always kind of had a secret hate of EA made lots, especially community as they have no personality! I've updated the majority of the community on my game so it only seems right that I share.

Give me a little comment to tell me what you think! :)

Keep you up-to-date

Hey everyone. No, I'm not going to start writing again just yet, because I've got alot of concerts, after school projects, reharsals, adutions, ect., ect.

I have written the next part of The Telescope, but I haven't got the pictures and I know they're going to be hard to find. Oh, but I do have some exciting news about why this might take a while to finish.

At school today, a proffesional author (I'm not sure if you have read any of her books, but her name is Vivian Vande Velde. she wrote the books Remembering Raqueal (reaaaally good book!!), Stolen, Now You See It..., There's A Dead Person Following My Sister Around, and a ton others. here's her website: http://www.vivianvandevelde.com/bookLists.cfm?BookCategory=3 ) talked to all students who had an A in Literature (Yaaaaay im special! And in advanced literature! :D) about her books, making books, ect., and while she was talking, she came told us about a publishing company who publishes books written by people 18 and under. As soon as she said that, my adreanilne pumped in and I started thinking about the book I just started writing, Cooper Island. I was thinking of maybe puting it on TSR, but it'd be a lot of work-even more work than The Telescope!-because it involves a plane and a plane crash. (You can probably guess where my story has gone with this, but I tried to add originally with to it, so don't judge me!) I know I'm being ambitious, but I am going to give this all a shot. And don't ask me for the name of that publishing company because I don't know the name. She's sending my school library a list of publishers like that and I'll try to get anyone whose interested in that the names.

So yes, I'm very very busy now but I will try to squeez in as much time as possible for TSR.

Thank you so so so SOO much for being patient and being understanding in this.

You are all so awesome. :)

-Allyson

More than 1 M downloads!

Thank you all for downloading my stuff! It's been a pleasure designing especially for the male sims :D I'll keep posting really cool stuff so stay tuned!

Louis Vuitton Inspired Beauty Pumps!!!

Louis Vuitton inspired "Beautypumps!" . It's really expensive in real and it's high fashion. New season, and famous people's choice!

It's not classic pumps look. It'll make your sims cute and smaller, high heels, ribbons and new pattern.

Would you want to download it for your sims? It looks really good with formal dress also good in everyday clothes.

Landra

Yes, Landra is up and ready for downloading. I think it's the last of my small lot floorplans. If I find more I'll surely do them. I really think this one came out well. For such a small lot it offers enough space for a family. You can always lop on another floor or build out a breezeway in back to add in some basement stairs. There's room in the yard for a garage if you want one. Instead of a color theme I stuck with neutrals and earthtones. No pink or blue. A little yellow in the master bedroom but that sort of falls into the earthtone category for me. Maybe you think the wallpaper and floors are garish. I was experimenting with the palettes and colors. I like to find uses for the ugly stuff EA gives us. I mean really, would you put those patterns in your house in their original colorschemes? God no! Some are completely worthless but some are worth fussing with to get a decent color palette so they can be used and not make your eyes bleed.

Alas, my vacation is almost over. Today is officially it. Then the weekend and I'm back to the grind on Monday. I thought I'd have time to create more but I was out and about a lot more than I planned and the weather has been so nice. A rarity for Northern Illinois. We actually HAD fall this year. Oftentimes we only have two seasons here. Winter and summer. And it's not odd to have them both in the same day. I'm not kidding. Just a week or so ago we were swinging 40 to 50 degrees during the day. 30s in the morning with frost and 80s by early afternoon. You actually have to dress for two seasons. It stinks. You do have to follow the weather here closely because it is so odd. The farmers have been blessed with a beautiful harvest this year and I do hope they get their pokey butts off my roadways soon.

Ah, as for future plans... I dunno. I had really hoped to start on patterns over my vacation but it didn't happen. Nor did creating worlds. I want to dabble in that too. Sure, I can download what others have done, but I wanna learn to do it myself! That's just how I am. I crave to learn new things and you can't really gripe about something authentically unless you've experienced it yourself. I'll keep doing lots of course. That's my forte anyway. Always has been. Someday I hope to do a really fancy, impressive, impractical lot that will never be used because it's too ornate and messed up architecturally to actually use. That's so not me. If I'm not going to use it I don't make it. Period. If I had time to kill, to really explore building mechanics, eh, maybe. But I have to choose between throwing caution to the wind and making something that will be useful in my game with the limited free time I have. And honestly, EA provides me with more than enough stuff to just sit in my hood and look at. I can at least save the planet and give everyone something useful. Call me crazy. I know, I'm such the rebel. *eyeroll*

I guess I'll leave you for now. I don't have much to say that would interest you and I'd rather be playing. I started a firefighter sim the other day and he's been a blast. Woo! Woo! Woo!

Return to TSR

Hola Simmers I'm nearing the end of the season here on Mallorca, It's been a blast, but I'm glad to be going home soon..... As of today friday the 22 of oktober I only have to work for one more week and then it's holiday for me. I'll be flying home on sunday the 31st of oktober early in the morning. I hope to be soon on TSR and share my creations/ designs with you. Not an easy job to do when you first have to pass by all the relatives that haven't seen me in 8 months, but I'll be back very soon. Hasta pronto Amigo's y Amiga's

and look who's back!!!

Hey there fellow simmers!

It's been a LONG time since I last got in here! Lots of new changes and I am doing my best to catch up!

Anyways, this shall be brief.

I'm back to creating for sims 3 once more, only this time, I'm trying to expand my horizons! :D

And I really hope that I haven't lost my touch. :D

Happy Simming,

Alyosha! :D

Just to say a big thank you

Thanks everyone I have achieved over a thousand downloads. Please remember to say thank you for my items. This will determine what you downloads like so I can create more amazing things that you like.

xxxx

Why I hate lacking feedback in a help forum

Sometimes I like to give advice by posting in the help section of the forum. Probably it's worth a separate blog entry why I am doing it, because IMHO this is the one thing you shouldn't do if you're going for easy kudos or mass production. Maybe I want to help, maybe I want to keep sharp on my knowledge, or is it only for showing off?! Honestly, I do not know for sure. The explanation I like best is based on something I saw in a signature of some help forum moderator years ago. I hope this translates well into English: "Do not pay back, pay forward!", meaning if you get helped, return the favour by helping not the same person, but the next one in line in need of help. What a cool idea!

Posting an answer to a problem thread in the help sections takes time. You can't fire away a "great, I like it" and be done with it, but you have to understand the problem, check the facts, look up some details, maybe even try something yourself before giving it as advice, and then you have to put it into words that leave not much room of misunderstanding. Most of the time it's an iterative process, too, because you have to verify some details the OTC (original thread creator) didn't mention. Oh, that's another topic worth of a blog entry. Some people just write "my game doesn't work. I need help" without as much as giving a clue about the circumstances. Anyway, what's important here is that answering to a problem thread usually involves some kind of obligation to walk through the solution process over several postings, too, so you have to check back at the forum every now and then.

Which means: helping involves time and implies an obligation.In an ideal world, the problem thread finishes with a "thanks, this or that worked" or at least a "no, that didn't solve my problem, but thanks anyway".Such endings have the advantage that other people reading it know whether something worked, too. People with the same problem can search the forum months later and learn about right (and wrong) ways to solve their problem without starting at point zero again.

Unfortunately, in the real world most threads finish with an advice and the OTC is never heard again. This is not specific to my advices, but a general behaviour. I hate it. Not even the person that gave the advice learns whether his time was well spent.

A short while ago I answered a question about network connectivity problems at the TSR General PC help forum. It was not very Sims-specific, but as the problem description was quite detailed, I offered some advice, including some hints on what the OTC should check. That took me maybe 15 minutes of my life. The OTC never wrote back. This time I got curious. After two weeks or so I used Google to check if the OTC had posted his question somewhere else as well. It turned out he had. Google came up with more than hundred different forums he had asked the same question word by word (copy and paste is cheap) over the course of a week! I checked only a few of those hits, but it seems about a third of the forums had a reply (often with additional questions, too) and the OTC never replied once to any advice giver.

The strange thing was he posted in some German forums, too, but with the english text. Did he expect an answer there? And he posted a few dozen of his identical question each day, several days in a row. That doesn't sound like a spambot either. Why would someone do this? Imagine 100 different forums having this thread, each causing one guy to spend 15 min for an answer, and you come up with 25 hours wasted on helping someone who didn't care to check the replies or comment on them. Lacking feedback shows lacking manners sometimes, I think.

I have a poll for this topic, too.

Trick or Treat

Treat when cooked

Pieces of Me Story Finished

Upon posting chapter 20 of pieces of me, I forgot to include that it was indeed the final chapter of the story, I want to send a big thank you to everyone who read the story and enjoyed it, I appreciate it very much! I am now in the middle of working on a few new stories for you all so keep a look out for those to come soon!

XOXOXO-

NyGirl08

TSR

What a fantastic experience visiting this resource. Fabulous artists, fabulous creations and excellent tutorials. I feel so spoilt.

Taking It Easy

Yes! I'm on vacation and loving it! The weather here has been awesome and I've been out and about enjoying it. I've actually been gone much more than I planned but I still managed to whip up a lot for all you dedicated simmers. I've submitted it so now we just wait to see if it gets approved.

I don't have much to tell. I've been relaxing and going to various family doings and a lot of shopping. Not all fun, but the good outweighs the bad in this case. I've knocked a few things off my To Do list. I thought I'd get more done while I was off but I must be enjoying myself too much. LOL Too bad. I deserve this.

I wish my boss would've picked next week for my vacation so I could have more time to dig into Late Night. Ah well. Hopefully letting her pick when I take off will keep her happy.

I'll let you all think about my new lot and I'm going to get back to being a slug. Aaahhh...

Occasionally Yours

So that poll on my minisite ... it's gone now.  Primarily because I took a look at the results, and the voting was an emphatic 4 to 1 that I should be providing you all with a bonkers sequel.  Second place went to "give us something new," so I do hope that The Stones has provided you with a seasonable dose of the "something new," as I'll be finishing that story next weekend, after I've become more familiar with Late Night.

Now, onto the point of the blog.  The working title of the sequel series is Occasionally Yours.  I have no solid details beyond the fact that Holden Wozny has in fact become a firefighter, and a rather popular one at that.  Gwen has also found success with a musician's career, though she is beginning to be overwhelmed by the constant demands of performing and fans.  In addition, there is a third roommate involved now--and he seems to have some rather strange hobbies that regularly attract the attention of the police.  Hmm.

... ha.  Anyway, that in and of itself is fairly silly.  Fortunately, RatRaceRob and I have been in conspirational talks to inflict our characters on each other--his Jesse Simanski seems to like Miss Glover, and well, Jesse's such a charming young man when he sings about those photographs he likes to collect!  So this new series is all but guaranteed to provide your daily mininum requirement of crazy, and you can continue to enjoy the foolishness you have come to expect when you hear the name "spladoum"!

... what's that?  When's it coming out?  ... oh.  Umm.  Is that my cell phone?  I gotta go.  Ask Rob! :P

Select Artist debut!

It is awesome to be a Select Artist for TSR. I am very grateful and thankful. Thank you to all those who have wished me well and supported my work here. Well, enough of that. I gotta get back to work on my first official lot as an SA. Bye for now:)

Faraway Castle - Trailer

Here's the trailer for my upcoming lot. I hope you guys enjoy it!