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eulaliasims said: The ‘influence to’ action is pretty awesome. Think ‘influence to…/appreciate’ will end up with an admire action? Nope, backrubs! Always! It’s like the game picks the most dramatic option.

Oh dear! I really need to use it more often!

eulaliasims said: I feel you on the shitty internet, mine goes out multiple times a day (including while I was writing this comment). I would love to hear about 16th c. naming traditions! Historical naming conventions are interesting. 😀 And ‘The Monsters of Templeton’ looks like an awesome book. I’m gonna go get it from my library tomorrow.

To make it short: Following the Lutheran Reformation, names like Hans and Gretel, the typical German names (which weren’t German at all, but Hebraic or Latin and only became German names during the medieval ages), became less popular as they didn’t fit the zeitgeist (Pietism) anymore. So they named their children “Fürchtegott” (”Fear God”), “Traugott” (”Trust in God”), “Leberecht” (”Live right”), “Thurecht” (”Do right”), which have mostly disappeared, but also “Dorothea”, “Theodor” or “Timotheus” which are still present (”Theodor” is actually becoming popular again in Germany). Most prominent example: Wolfgang “Amadeus” Mozart (Although his real name was “Theophilos”, but he also called himself “Gottlieb” for good measure. But hey, that’s an artist to ya!). Before Pietism, they were really big on names from the Greek mythology or Roman history. A little while after they started ‘adapting’ male names into female ones. That’s where we got names such as “Louise”, “Paula” or “Josephine”, but also names like “Ludgera” (from the German name “Ludger”) which sound a bit absurd. It’s funny how names you think that sound native to your language/ country are really just adaptations/ translations from another language.

Oh, hope you’ll enjoy it! I actually once recommended it to a friend and she absolutely hated it!

eulaliasims said: Loveable dork villains are the best kind! ;D

I love Jodie Larson as a villain/ dork and I’m not afraid to admit it! I mean, even their family bio suggests she made her money in dubious ways!

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didilysims said: DV is hard to get into! There isn’t much drama to grab you, and hoo boy is the architecture something else… Natasha and John are definitely the outstanding characters, but everyone else is a bit too…happy. 😛 You definitely have to create your own drama with that ‘hood.

didilysims said: Also, to add to the recommendations list, inferi-sims.tumblr.com was another one who posted great makeovers and such of DV. Sadly Photobucket has killed all the pictures on her LJ, but there are still a lot on tumblr. (And thanks for the nostalgia-triggering mention. c: )

Oh yes, that’s true. I think when you’re thinking about Desiderata Valley, you first think of Natasha and John before anyone else. They are just unique. How could I forget inferi-sims! They were part of the reason I got a tumblr (so I could follow all the storytellers!)!

holleyberry said: I also miss @gonewodwo 😦

Yes! Her story was so great and pretty unique! (I love that word today.)

didilysims said: Pescado’s abortbedmaking fixes that. There’s also this one:modthesims.info/d/50351… (because I couldn’t find the MATY link. 😛 )

Ah, thank you! I always thought I had a mod that curbed that behaviour, but… apparently not?

didilysims said: If this is what I think it is, I’m stoked!

didilysims said: Ookay, no apocalypse…this time. >.>

Nope! Not… yet. I just needed a reason to close down all the businesses. And that was the first thing I could think of.

didilysims said: Looks good! Very museum-y.

Thank you! I was pretty proud of how it turned out. Could put my “How to make a good museum showcase” knowledge from my two-week internship at a museum in high school to good use.

didilysims said: Do they still swoon when he and his dreamy face start picking fights with them? Joe Carr has always been the biggest jerk in my experience. (But also a fine looking jerk…)

Fun fact! Joe has never started a fight in my game (on his own… you’ll see.). Middleground’s resident asshole is Komei. He has beaten up/shoved a bunch of Sims.

the1975sim said: On the edge of my seat to find out what his reaction will be!

Well, sorry to disappoint you(?) XD

alienpod said: .____.

Me too. It was basically a 50/50 chance whether he’d say yes or no. I kind of hoped for ‘yes’ because happy family life, but alas. More drama, I guess?

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Are you talking about @gonewodwo because I loved her desiderata valley. It’s the only time I’ve ever been interested in any of the later ep sims and I’m still hoping she’ll come back to us

YEEEEES! That’s the one I was thinking about. I mean, the neighborhoods shipped with the later EPs weren’t bad, per se… It’s just- I don’t know. Desiderata is both home to Natasha Una, “the woman who made Grilled Cheese great again” and the infamous “will this man get fat and loose his wife, lol” storyline. @gonewodwo made Desiderata seem fun, @didilysims Desiderata is colorful, cute and fun to read, I really love what @holleyberry did with Shannon Wirth in her Dossanina story and there are a plethora of great lot makeovers by people like @meetmetotheriver . But yesterday night, I opened the game, thinking about having a little bit of fun by making a few Sims and houses over and maybe play a bit and halfway through the Joque house I quit, because it felt like a chore and I had no idea what to do with the Sims. Kind of sad.

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lilsisterg said: I use a customer adjuster mod, it’s been so long since I’ve played without, but I believe in a vanilla game 3 is max customer count – I think. I would also double check to see who if anyone was banned with the VC.

Thank you for your reply! I checked the VC but nothing came up. It’s still a mystery to me.

holleyberry said: Your loss Brendon.

Brandon’s an a**. But on the other hand, who in their right mind decides that the 15-second time frame before the taxi arrives is the right moment to make your bed? 

holleyberry said: Wow, this is so weird. I wish I knew how to help you out here. Maybe make a thread at Leefish and see if they can’t help you trouble shoot this?

Thank you! I might try that if I cannot solve it myself. The people over at leefish seem to be very competent in that regard.

taylors-simblr said: On default owned business lots will only allow 3 sims at rank 1 as you gain ranks you’ll get more sims. There’s a mod at sim wardrobe that lets you choose to have more sims. It is really weird that you’re just getting the same sims every time though :/

Oh yeah, I’m aware of that. It’s just so weird that the game is hellbent on giving me the same three sims every time, though (well, at least I get three customers now. on the old save, I would only get Joe and Brandon- and if I played their businesses, I would only get the other one. That was really weird.)

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olivesplum06 said: What a cute idea!

Thank you! The lot’s actually by plasticbox, I just made it over. Figured it would fit the neighbourhood quite well.

twofee said: feel better soon 🙂

Thank you! I already feel slightly better after almost collapsing during my oral exam yesterday (I made it! And got a pretty good grade, too, so all’s well!), although I must confess that I took a ton of cold medicine today and feel slightly spaced out. XD

quill-of-thoth said: Two further testing scenarios: Use a hack to increase the number of customers a business lot can handle (my game keeps getting stuck on 3 customers…) or ban your culprits using the visitor controller. It could be that your game is throwing a small fit about conflicting hacks or something has made it think they’re the most “loyal” customers for the owned lots. (Thinking they have 5 stars when they don’t.)

Thank you for your suggestion. I tested both of your ideas, but unfortunately it didn’t work. If I banned Joe and Brandon, the game would send no one else… so weird!

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didilysims said: Ha ha oh noooo! (I probably should not be laughing…)

I am so ridiculously bad at keeping Sims alive at times… The saddest thing about the Kaylynn thing was that she was pregnant. Thank god Daniel was there to save her.

Attack of the gardeners

littleblondesim said: oh dear

Yeah… I think I found a nice resolution for the problem. >:)

Evil Stepsister

littleblondesim said: omg

They’re beginning to warm up to each other. (Funny thing: Parker is actually the meanest of the bunch- she inherited Brittany’s nice points. Misaki has five, I think and Haruka a full 10.)

Wonky Ethan

emphatic-fangirl said: wow, he really got a his looks from his father, didn’t he?

Yeah. Although I think part of his chin line is from Jane, because I’m pretty sure Kevin’s not as wonky. Either way, time for Ethan to grow a beard! XD

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didilysims said: Oh no! There was even a pool ladder there. What happened?

I effed up. Apparently her energy was already in the red but I didn’t notice and just wanted her out of my hair (she and Ty had toddler girls and I was kinda focused on them). Put a few “swim here” in her queue… yeah. Not my brightest moment (I once accidentally killed Kaylynn Langerak because I let her learn “parenting” (she starved)… I have bad luck with keeping mums alive…)

12raben said: do you have any mods, which affect adoption? You can also use simwardrobe’s hack conflict detection utility to find any conflicting mods. hope this helps 🙂

I do have the adoptinpoverty mods but I remember being able to adopt babies with it… Thank you! I didn’t know about that one, I’ll check it out when I have the chance to open my game again!

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Ugly, giant windowless shoeboxes

didilysims said: Trying to keep the lot value down? Though that could also be avoided by not building huge empty rooms… Maybe their chief house-builder was actually a vampire.

That would make sense… or someone reaaally hated their job…

The kid I tutor

didilysims said: At least you know you know you have a student who really needs help!

They really do. They have fallen behind schedule and have trouble keeping up even with tutoring (a bit like me in math back when I went to school…). But to be fair, their teacher is shitty (I know her as I went to the same school). Extremly high expectations. Expects a flawless accent from every student, does not approve of limited vocabulary etc. They are in Grade 9, cut them some slack!

Elsewhere!!!

didilysims said: Agreed!

didilysims said: And sometimes I wonder what magic could have been accomplished if plasticbox had had all the EPs with all their building tools and possibilities…

Wow, that would have been awesome! I mean, I don’t mind changing the apartments myself… but all the building tools that were added in the latter EPs (and all the stuff… just wow!)