We bring you the shocking news of the latest TSR atrocity: SPYWARE AND VIRII!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so have at it.

Well, in TS2, you could paint custom pictures in the base game and early expansions by swapping the screenshot file before the sim started painting it after painting a still life. Later on, the facility to directly paint those paintings was added.

In TS3, you simply can't, you can only paint the premade paintings in the game.

At least his name suits him.

Not even that, really. The facility to paint custom pictures does not, in fact, exist in any form by any chicanery in TS3.

I don't see what the big deal with "homeless sims" is. All I see is ineptitude of play, either because the player sucks, or because they're doing it for the lulz. The fact of the matter is that being homeless is the DESIRED state for a freshly made sim, and homes represent a luxury item for those who have more than a lousy 16K to burn, as 16K doesn't buy a house worth a damn. As substandard equipment in TS3 is actually harmful to your sims, you are better off simply roughing it without the "benefit" of these harmful, negative-moodlet-inflicting items until you can afford a real house.

"Story Progression" is the game's name for "random crazy sIII that happens purely because the game says so". None of these things are actually happening, the game just decides, "BAM, you're <insert random crazyarse event here>", and sticks it on sims in other households. Including yours. Crazyarse events include suddenly becoming fat, dying, being fired or moved to random jobs, receives a parthenogenetic clone-baby, or being disintegrated from the neighborhood.

Admin note: Even you are subject to the no swearing Pes, you naughty boy!

Yes, but we're specifically trained to bite strangers that try to touch us. Anyone who would want to touch someone else's kid is a pedophile and deserves to be bitten. Plus, being that we are specifically bred for combat, aggressive tendencies are part of the bill.

Well, to be fair, if you look at the actual guest list of the creator's camp, most of them are morons and other assorted lackwits. EAxis would hardly have invited a crowd of smart people. Smart people wouldn't have told them what they wanted to hear. You will note how easily they succumbed to EAxian brainwashing and quickly turned to regurgitating the party line.

And let's face it: Child abduction essentially represents a corner case of gameplay to begin with: This happened in TS2, too, and mostly wasn't noticed because who the hell lets random strangers handle their kids? In my fambly, we're taught to bite anyone who tries it.

I dunno, "not giving money to EA" doesn't have to mean anything, really. Pirate Cat doesn't pay for his downloads.

My suggestion is that you wait. There is little that this game offers over TS2 at this point, if you already have a fully-functioning TS2 game. TS3 may be what I am pulling apart right now, but TS2 is still the game to actually PLAY.

They did succeed in one thing, though. The fact of that the game was utterly crap meant I didn't pirate it at all, despite the lack of DRM. Not that DRM has ever stopped Pirate Cat. Of course, I didn't buy it, either, because it was CRAP. The lesson: Crappy games have nothing to fear from pirates.

Pah, only the noobs say that. The rest of us are still firmly in dislike mode.

It's not really selling if the manager is taking the copy home for himself. And whether or not the game is "legal" does not change the content of something. If anything, being legal makes it worse, because everyone knows stolen food tastes the best.

No, TSR has a mockup of a custom content tool. It doesn't actually do content any more than the mockups of Duke Nukem Forever let you play Duke Nukem Forever.

Investment in a shrink wrap machine may be the best purchase you've made in awhile.