"It also sounds like an entirely new way to screw up the families you're not actively playing. "Oh look, I can see my Self-Sim from here... and he's burning to death!" "

This made me piss my pants laughing.  Thanks for the early morning chuckle.  Could you imagine though?  I'd be so angry.

Dammit...stop making me want to give in to it!  I just think it's way too soon!

Becci, the kiddies are adorable!  I love how clear the shots are, really makes their eyes shine.  Yep, Raven, I just want to test them out a bit more to make sure there aren't any weird animations (which is why I've held back from posting the toddler version) but they should both be up by the end of this weekend, and will show up in the athletic category =)

Eagle, your kids are adorable!  They have such pretty features!

You know what really kills me?  If you go to any forum for the Sims 2, any one of them at all, you'll see that an overwhelming percentage of players are NOT ready for Sims 3 to come out yet.  

I mean, I know it's all about EA making money, but aren't they worried that this might actually HURT their profit?  I mean, I know that I won't buy S3 until I can modify things easily (I get tired of the shipped-with custom content quite easily, especially when my pictures and my sims start to look just like everyone elses) or at least one expansion pack comes out.  

I saw the youtube preview of the sim playing it on his computer, and I have to say that I'm not really impressed.  Not at all actually.  The sims that I saw in the CASIE screen there reminded me of that South Park episode where the people from the future come back in time to get jobs, and they were this weird mixture of all the races, giving them all the same features, and even skintones--they just look spooky.  

The only differences I saw was the ability to change shoes, and--as someone mentioned before, no chat bubbles above their heads...big woop.  

Why can't they just work on having that done with Sims 2?  

I'd love to see toddlers be able to do things that children can do (blow bubbles, ballet, dance on their feet, cartwheel, throwing a ball, running, playing tag, playing patty cake, etc.), and that's just to name a few.  I sincerely hope they have hair meshes that come with alpha options to make hair more see-through (for ethnic hair, and even light curls).

I just think there's so much left to be done on Sims 2, and that rather than improving upon it, they're just scraping the whole thing and starting over with MORE bugs, something that's going to pretty much call for a new computer, not to mention new tools to aide in making custom content.  It's stupid, and just way too soon.

Rumm is a very serious little boy.  Cute, but serious =)

this is what the little formalwear dress looks like.  In bodyshop, there isn't an option for formalwear for toddlers, but in CASIE there is

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Oh wow, an earthquake?  Jeez, I heard FL was without power for a while too.  Sorry to hear that though.  I'm glad you and yours are OK though.  

No, I wasn't going to rush to get the EP--I knew I wanted it, but I said I'd wait a while and do other things with the money (I bought it at Gamestop, last night, and it came out to freakin $31.00 with tax!), but I love the ballet aspect of it, especially because I wanted to do a tutu outfit for toddlers and little girls.  I'm also loving the cute little dress they have in it for toddlers, but I'm going to be removing that bow up front, and those poofy pants underneath, lol.

After reading up on all you guys had to say about Freetime, I had to go out and get it today, lol.  I have to say, it's a really cute EP, and I love that toddlers now have a formal section.

Of course, I had to check out the hobbies.  Brooke Holland playing soccer with her father

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omfg, lol.  I'm reading all of this during my lunchbreak, and I'm dying over here!

This was, by far, the best:  I had an elder,she got a makeover she didn't like,,then she would look at me and pee on the floor.

omg...I laughed for 4 minutes straight, thank God I wasn't drinking anything, I would have choked!

As far as scratching underneath the armpit, the sim version of one of my ex's used to do that, and I did a little experiment, and made another sim the same sign as him (capricorn) and she did it too.  Never seen any other signs do it, but there might be another?  Could it be zodiac reasons?

awww, they're all so cute, Auntie!

Natalie, and Tristan

omg, Invader, what cuties!!! And, it's good to know I'm not the only one waiting for a new PC, lol.

Awwww, Kemum, what cute little pouty faces your kids have!  They're adorable!

I haven't played teenage sims for a while, so these pics are pretty old, but I still love them!

This kid was named Danny Rodriguez.  I just added him into a family, last minute, never intending to really want to play him much, but he was such a show off that I always got a kick out of him

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Another sim I threw into a family as a kid, and she grew up to be soooo cute!  Her name's Laticia, and she kept getting rejected by her love interest (she'd mourn about it at the worst times!)

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A little bit of a pattern here--and it only proves that each sim is precious...even Goopy, lol.  Rory here, a gothic sim that I never intended to play, but I fell in love with the family (the kids were so smart!) and couldn't stop playing them.  She really loved her music, there were times someone would be talking to her, and she'd just whip out her earphones, and start rocking out as she ignored them.

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Laticia again, just before she was about to go off to college

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And this final little chubby darling was my sim daughter that I had with my ex (who I made into a sim as well).  I knew if we ever had kids (even in real life) they'd look more like him, and she did.  Sweetest little toddler, and child, but quite the floozy as a teen.

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