I love these.  Can't wait to use them in my game.  I've seen pictures similar to this on the site called Yerf.com.  Is that where you got some of these, or at least the idea?  If so, it's a fabulous idea!

Well, it looks like we can finally show, even though it will only be in our own games, our distaste of Simon:  The Terrible, and our admiration of Paula and Randy:  American Idol's own Dynamic Duo.  If it's okay with you, when I download him into my game, may I torture Simon, since he's such a pain to a lot fo the people that many see on American Idol?  People that we see go into the audition rooms smiling, and with just a few words from him, come out in tears, running right for their mothers or boyfriends who happened to go with them.

I heard that the next book in the series, according to the official website for the author, isn't going to be out until late August/ early September.  http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/index.html  (here's the link so you can keep up to date on everything for yourselves)

Well, they did fix some things, but there are still a lot of major bugs that didn't get fixed, and people have been reporting that the patch only caused more problems with their games, instead of fixing them so that they are somewhat playable again.  Just figured I'd jump in and let you know about that, since you are talking about the fact that a patch has been released for Sims2 Pets.  If you look on the Sims2.site, and check the forumsyou will notice all the things that are still messed up even with the patch, and things that have been happening to people's games because of it.

Do you think that might help me in figuring out what is wrong?  I'll try anything at least once.  One other question, though.  If I download that and it shows there is a conflict with any of the hacks, even if they are already in use somewhere in the game, what do I do then?

I have all the EPs and SPs installed on my laptop for using with my game, and I've got a lot of the hacks and custom items and such from here, ModtheSims2, and SapphireSims2, but I can't figure out a certain problem that I'm having, well, a few problems.  1.  When I'm playing around with the family, and they have a pool or something near the house and the house is a 2-story house, sometimes the game sort of makes the walls flash a little so that you can see the pool or whatever through the walls.  2.  With quite a few of my Sims that are off at college, ones that I know I had already picked majors for, and that had already had that bar showing the amount of assignments they have done, and their majors and stuff, no longer have that thing showing, and instead of the life meter thing showing their college stuff, it shows the stuff that would be there if they hadn't gone.  It shows the skills they have and all but instead of the freshman-senior thing that it's supposed to show, it's showing the thing that has it where, if you put the pointer thing over it, it has the "will become an elder in ___ days" thing.  They still have their rooms and such, but that's about it.  Do you think that there may be some hack conflicts or something that may be causing this?  Do you think this might just fix itself if I just let the sims that had their stuff screwed up a bit, go whatever class pops up for them that they have to go to, and see if by sending them to their class, see if that fixes the problem, or if see if anything happens?  I need help with this A.S.A.P.

I'm not sure how big my downloads folder is but I know it is larger than 3 GBs, because of all the massive downloading I have been doing since I first got Sims2 when it first came out, and since I got all the EPs and SPs and my new laptop where I have had to reinstall some things because of moving files over to a faster computer.  All in all, my downloads file is pretty massive, but I'm sure there's someone out there with a downloads folder even more massive than mine.

Neither can I.  That can make or break the download.  If you make it so that people can see pictures of your lovely houses that you've uploaded for them to download, it helps them decide whether or not to download your item.  If you make the pictures really detailed, showing the rooms in a bigger version, where you have a thumbnail version of the picture and when the thumbnail version is clicked, you can go to a screen that shows that clicked thumbnail part of the house 2 or more times the size of what it looked like in the thumbnail picture.  The bigger the pics, the better chance you have of getting more people to download your item.

Well, if you don't know how to upload pictures, you could always find some generic pictures of what those breeds of dogs look like, and then that would give some people an idea of what they are downloading.

A while back, I did happen to stumble across a site showing that someone actually made a Sims version of the dearly departed Crocodile Hunter.  I can't really remember what the name of the site was, but it had a Sims version of Tiger Woods on it, and some other very well-known celebrities, including "The Governator".  With that last one, I think you can tell who I'm talking about.  If i find that page again, I'll post it for anyone that wants to get him and make his family, as a tribute to him, so that they'll always have something to remember him by.

Well, when I get a chance, I'm definitely going to download these and put them in some of my houses as a tribute to the one convservationist out there that knew how to get a rise out of anyone.He died from swimming over top of a sting ray and got stuck by the poison basb on its tail.  It hit him in the heart, he pulled it out but when paramedics arrived, he had already passed on.  The full story, I believe, is on the Animal Planet site that had to do with his series.

Hey, at least we can kill off our sims and have fun with it and not get into any trouble using the various methods of homicide on our sims.  It's better than going after someone in real life, and with the Sims, you don't get thrown behind habrs for the rest of your life like some of those depraved and murderous people out there who just couldn't stop killing.  The biggest thing I've ever killed IRL is a freaking spider.  But this just lets all of us who like killing things off do it in a safe environment where we can let the full fury of our anger out on a sim and deep six him/her.

Go to MTS2 and there's a house that you can download from there that actually looks like a giant toilet.  I'm not sure if it's still there or if it got moved or something, but it should still be there.  That's where this guy is going once I download him.  All sims that i am interested in getting will be downloaded tonight, and if I can ever figure out how to send pictures from my computer to one of those picture sites, you'll get a chance to see the full amount of torture this guy gets in my game.  I may even stick him in the electric chair to give him a to6tally frazzled hairdo.  Mwahahahahahahaha!!!!  Yes, I am that twisted sometimes.

So, you really want us to torture this Sim in our games if we download him?  If so, I have some ideas on how to torture him.  First of all, someone a while back actually made a house that looks like a gigantic toilet.  I actually downloaded that lot as something for me to truly have fun with, and to place Sims that I download to torture, because the person that made said sims wants them tortured.  Well, if I download him, I'm going to make him a resident of the Toilet house.  I'll let you know what happens afterwards, that is if I decide to download him, which I probably will.  Mwahahahahahahaha!!!!

Hey, oddball, if you happen to read this, or if anyone else that sees this knows what it means, since oddball was the one who had it in one of their posts, what does rotflmaokas stand for?