He's home!!!

Woman contacted me this morning about a different ad she saw on craigslist with a found dog that fit our dogs description.  Called the woman, and found out it was our dog.  ^_^

He's home safe and sound. ♥

Non-sim blog--It's been over 24 hours...

since we noticed our beloved Chocolate Lab, Jake, wasn't in our yard yesterday afternoon.  We have looked everywhere we can, I have put up a craigslist notice in the pets section where we live, put the word out on my FB account, notified family in the area, and have harassed the pound every hour since noon today asking if anyone has turned him in.

The worst thing we can possibly think is starting to feel like a reality...that he was hit by a car. I am extremely heartbroken at the thought that I will never play fetch with him, or take him for a walk again.  He was/is the best dog anyone could have asked for.  He was very obedient-he always brought the ball, or Frisbee  back to you to throw it again-he protected our chickens from predators-he always let us know when someone was here (even if the person was just walking by), but most of all, he was great with our 3 year old daughter.

We took him from a woman who was moving and couldn't take care of him anymore.  We didn't have him for very long before he went missing-almost 4 months-which makes this even harder.  Even though we didn't have him for long...we felt like we had had him for years.  He was/is definitely part of our family, and even though it's looking dismal that we'll see him again, we are still hoping and praying that he will come home to us.

Professor McGonagall

Everyday

Formal

Athletic

Sleepwear

Swimwear

CC used:

Witches hat (you will need this if you do not have Supernatural and want her to have the hat): http://traelia.blogspot.com/2012/09/supernatural-witch-hat-de-hairified.html

Hat Slider Mod: http://awtmk.blogspot.com/2011/04/bone-slider-set-hat-control.html

Chin Width Mod: http://www.modthesims.info/d/463699

Newsea J105 Millet Hair: http://www.newseasims.com/inside-page.php?cid=1&id=277

Newsea's Swan Hair retextured by Eternila: http://thed3n.blogspot.com/2012/08/newseas-swan-retextured-for-teens-to.html

Miss L Eye Makeup set: http://breyetesims.blogspot.com/2011/05/miss-l-eye-makeup-set-realistic-eyeball.html

Forest Wizard Female Dress (everyday and Formal dress): http://silfantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/dresses-from-sims-medieval-converted-to_5.html

RealiSIM oval glasses: http://nene.modthesims.info/download.php?t=419798

Eyebags: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=391004

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Making a barn roof

Little tut. ^_^

Start with a ground level.  This room is 8 x 16 room.

Remove the automatic roof and add a second floor.  Since my ground is 8 blocks wide, I went in 2 blocks and made a 4 x 16 room leaving 2 x 16 blocks open on either side.

I then went to the roof section and chose the "gabled roof" (first option).  Depending on the length and width of your 2nd floor room you may need to use the "Tall Gable Roof". After you pick the roof and place it, choose the "Roof selection pitch control" under the roofing section in build (you should already be there) and lower it to your liking (I like to lower it pretty low, and if you have to use the Tall Gable, you will need to lower it a lot).

Go back to the roof selection and pick the half gable roof and add it to the top of the first floor space you left open.  Using the roof pitch control raise the roof up so that it just touches the underside of the gabled roof on the second floor.  Do the same thing on the other side.

 You may have to mess around with it a bit, but in the end you should have a barn roof, like this.

Hope this was helpful. ^_^

Woodside Meadow Apartment

No CC (except for a pattern or two--that I think I got off the exchange--honestly cannot remember where I got them).

First apartment.  Worked fine in my game, I hope it works for you!  The playable apartment is a loft bedroom, but if you wanted to move in a family, there is enough room on the second floor to add walls to make two bedrooms.

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Oh for crying out loud

So I see this in the GD today.

 So the OP wants to know if people would download this sim and refuses to upload this sim until they know a ton of people would download it thus giving them a ton of downloads. *moment to roll my eyes at that*

Well, my immediate thought was that there is no way to know if it would get a lot of downloads as is, or if the OP made adjustments to the sim.  There are a lot of creations out there that are overlooked and have lower download/rec numbers when they really deserve more than what they got.

At first I thought the sim wasn't that bad, I still don't.  I thought she looked unique. The Op says that they wanted her to have a nice face.  Well, what you might think is nice is obviously going to differ from the next person or the next 1,000 people.   The OP says that if she's not good enough they will have to go back and work on her for another hour.  At this point, I 'm thinking, "Give me a frigging break.  Why the hell should you care if others think it's good enough or not?  Just because you want to have tons of downloads? All that should matter is if you like her or not."

So in came some members giving their two cents.  Some said to go work on her more, some asked what the OP was going for when creating her.

^sort of contradicting yourself aren't you?  Hm...red flag?

                                            
Am I really the only one that caught that?  First the Op asks what they can do to make her pretty (or if she is pretty) then asks with an angry face if no one else thought she was pretty after implying that another called her "ugly" for giving some constructive criticism?

Finally, one of my favorite sim creators came in and posted exactly what I was thinking.

At this point, I started wondering if the OP was serious or not and just under Caturae's post I find this.

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/509740.page

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/509740.page#7896393

Oh for crying out loud...

So... anyone who disagree's that this sim is ugly is wrong, lying, and failed this pathetic "test"?  Again, give me a frigging break!

I finally see this, and couldn't agree more with this memeber's post.

This. 100%

To tell someone, anyone, who said they liked the sim or thought the sim was "pretty" (just because you don't or you want people to not like them) does not make them "fail" or make them a "liar" (which also, I thought was rather lame to "test" people since you really don't have any proof if anyone really liked the sim or not based on what they said).  What they think is "pretty" is not necessarily going to be what you, or anyone else, thinks is pretty.  And to tell someone they are wrong in their opinion of what beauty is, is wrong in itself.

Honestly, I don't think the sim the OP created as a "test" (and I say test with the most sarcastic voice I can think of) was that bad, and is pretty because she isn't the "stereotypical" beauty and has flaws (as real people do...so it made me wonder,  does that mean that if a real person thinks a real person the OP didn't think was stereo-typically pretty, is pretty, they are a liar?  I think that just makes them less shallow than you if you want me to be honest).

So saying that I think this sim is "pretty" makes me a fail your stupid little test, and dishonest because it's not the answer you're fishing for?  Really? Then so be it. You have no proof with your test if someone saying they thought the sim was pretty or not, was being honest or not, to begin with unless they came out and told you they were lying!  And even then, if they said the sim was pretty and then turned around to say they were lying about it, then there is still no way of knowing which was the truth! Even the ones that were saying, "I failed I guess" doesn't necessarily mean that you were right.

 Sounds like the only one that failed this test was you, OP, because there is no right or wrong answer when it involves someone's opinion and, again, to tell someone their opinion is wrong is stupid. So stupid.

I have to agree with   Gigidawn... Not sure what the point of your experiment was other than to prove, there are more nice folks on the forums then there are trolls. 

Although I would change that slightly to, "...there are a lot of different opinionated people on the forums". 

My simself is a grandma! And my game is acting up after patching---shocking

So first...my simself and my bf's simself (who are married in my game) are grandparents! ^_^  Their son, Logan, and his fiancee had a baby girl name, Kyla. :)

Now for the patch issue.  Grrrrr.....

I never used to take out my mods/CC when I patched.  About 6 months ago I decided I better start doing so because I have so many, and I don't want to lose my game or my CC/Mods.  Well, ever since doing so...I've had headache after headache when patching.  I never had issues with patching when I left the mods/CC in their folders.

So yesterday, I decided to install the new patch.  I took out my mods and CC, then patched my game to 1.38.  I then went and got the updated mods.  The ones I use are all updated to work with the patch so I was able to get them all. After doing that, I put everything back, and that is when the nightmare began. The game loaded normally.  My saved file loaded normally, but the saved game (my legacy family) is frozen when I go to play them expect for the group icon above their heads (because that is how I left them last time), and the trees moving. I have been pulling my hair out since 2pm yesterday (Sept. 4) trying to find the issue.  Thought it was because I hadn't updated the pose player...nope.  Thought it was some other package files...nope.  Went and re-downloaded my  mods to ensure I had updated all my mods, they were, but I still had the issue.  Finally, I took all my package files out except for my mods.  The game did the same thing.  I took the mods out and started putting them back one at a time, and found that when I put in Error Trap, the game would act up.  Thinking I had found the issue, I put all my package files (minus Error Trap) back in the game.  The game loaded up...and did it again.  So now I have to go through all my package files and find which one is causing this issue!  All I want to do, is play my game dammit!

Legacy family update

I move my legacy family to Sunlit Tides and remodeled the exterior of their house.

The weird thing is, the bride, Felicity, lives at home with mom and dad, abd when Felicity went to plan the wedding and invite everyone, her mother and father were not in the list of people to invite (she is best friends with her mother, and has a very high relationship status with her father).  I figured this was because they were all in the same household, and since they were in the household they would automatically go to the wedding (which was on a community lot). Both parents were home at the time that I got the pop up that the first guest had shown up for the party, so it wasn't that anyone was at work or anything.  Felicity's two brothers and her sister-in-law showed up, but not the parents.  When I finally sent Felicity and Eric home, I saw that mom and dad were still home...in their formal wear.  I don't understand why I wasn't able to invite them to the community lot for the wedding and why they didn't automatically go. Is it because they are still in the active household and I needed to tell them to go to the community lot? They missed their only daughters wedding!!!!


Anyway....

I also moved the family to Sunlit Tides and remodeled the exterior of their house they had in Lucky Palms. Not a big change...the house went from looking like this:

To this:

I actually prefer it more after its remodel. ^_^

Also, exciting news for my simself and my bf's simself.  They are getting their first grand-baby!  Their second oldest son, Logan, and his "girlfriend" are expecting a baby! ^_^

It's exciting for me too because I've never gotten past Generation 2 whenever I've tried to do a legacy family in the past.  I'm actually really enjoying my game much more than I thought I would at this point.  I guess I am one of those players who play the legacy's for genetics because I cannot wait to see how his baby looks, or how Felicity's child will look once she gets pregnant. ^_^



Sims 4...

Nooooot!
Just another member thinking they found out some new information about when sims 4 is going to be announced/released soon, and this time---the source is from a personal blog with no real credible source to back up their, months old, claim.  

So she goes on to say that she read some news about sims 4 and that, for her, it's bad news.  Why?  Your source, which wasn't posted until page 3, was not a credible source of factual info, but a blog basing their "speculations".  

http://sims4blog.com/sims-4/

A personal blog is the source of your information?

Where did this member hear that it might come out in 6 months?  

That blog post (created on Jan. 06), sorry I don't/can't find that blog a credible source---"The Sims 4 will be the next game of the Sims series.", no...the next game in the sims series (if you're reading their blog for the first time now) to be released is Supernatural, and at the time that that blog was created...it was Showtime--which they even stated two paragraphs later, so they contradicted their fist assumption (and that's all this blog post of theirs is),  even go to state, "the Sims 4 will be released not far from the beginning of 2014"...even if that turns out to be true (and that's the only thing I believe to anywhere near a fact), that's a pretty far time away even if they were to release it near the end of 2013, it's more than 6 months.  I think if we were really getting it in 6 months we would be hearing/seeing more confirmation of the game coming out and not so many rumors. My intention is not to be rude or anything, but I wouldn't take that blog too seriously, guys.  Anyone can make the speculations they did and put it up on a blog (hell, you can say what I'm saying now is just an speculation of what they are saying! Confused yet?  I did, and I wrote/thought it! LOL).  IMO, it was a blog post of their opinions...not facts. No source links to back up their claims that "the best-selling PC game in history (!) is already making voices of the next game to come: The Sims 4." Where did they get that info? Link?  And if they were able to find it so easily, why isn't everyone else able to as well? And if they do have sources that prove that to be correct, why not link it to your readers? Not saying it's not true because I have no source to say whether it is or not, but if you're going to put that out there as a "matter of fact" claim...don't you think you should have some sort of source to back up your information?

So if she is saying that in 6 months from the time that blog was posted we were suppose to get Sims 4, then we should have gotten it by now.  Nothing in that blog has any concrete, credible, source of when the sims 4 is going to be announced/released.  I guess people are getting so excited, and worked up, over the idea of sims 4 possibly coming out within the next few years...they'll believe anything as "source" involving the mention of the sims 4...even if it's just speculations from fellow bloggers. 

Chill out people!!!!

Wow. I think a lot of people on the officials are getting ahead of themselves with the rumor that Seasons means the end of the Sims 3 series. So many people saying that it will end after Seasons is released. 
Why? 
My theory is because about 2 or 3 EP's ago, people who wanted Seasons were speculating it would be the last EP to be made (because it was taking so long to be made/announced/released). Well, now it's been announced and because it's been announced (and the earlier speculation that it would be the last EP for Sims 3) people are speculating it's the end of this series. Dang, I even saw people asking what computer could/would be good enough to run both Sims 4 and Sims 3!!!! 

How would be know what the specs are for Sims 4 when we don't even know when/if it will be released! I mean, good gawd, people are ready to move on before we even get Supernatural and Seasons! Enjoy Sims 3 and the Ep's/Sp's we got/are getting...Sims 4 will be here when/if it gets here. DANG!