I didn't play the first Sims, but when I play The Sims II w/ my 7 y.o. daughter she asks about adding magical stuff for an EP.  So I'm sure she would love the "Makin' Magic" EP.  The rollercoaster house looks pretty cool.

SimTropolis is just now having its annual award ceremonies called The Trixies.  In its fifth now going on sixth year, the fansite is predominantly about SimCity, but they also recognize The Sims II as well.  The two winners this year are  ___Idiotbox for Best Sims Diary for Agrestic and Redmist for  Most Valuable Sims II Contributor; he did a Sim Diary called  Simsbourg. I won one last year for Best Educational Sim Diary with an SD called Getting Started in Driftwood .  I'd like to think of us as SimMissionaries out in SimCity land.  Congratulations over here to both of them!


http://www.simtropolis.com/index.cfm?p=trixies07&cat=Sims%202%20Awards

Straight out of classic paintings of that era.  Good job.

Nice link.

Good job again FB!

Very useful.

They are really beautiful to show to my daughter.

The threads that I have been seeing lately, along with my own problems the past couple of months ,makes me want to strongly include an EA Games included solution to successfuly managing the full and growing course of custom content.  I mean really, none of this means anything if the game can't be played or takes an extremely long time to load up.  And I really do think the game's creators should own responsibility on this for future editions.

Very pretty and nice links too.

Ooooh don't say mimes around the anti SCS crowds I've been around lately. But not me, I'd love see her haunting some of my Sim neighborhoods!

Very classic looking!

I proposed to Brown Mommy twelve years ago, almost to the day, to a Mariah Carey soundtrack.  I forget the exact song I popped the question to though.

I would think that if EA Games actually cared one way or the other then action probably have been taken by now.  Meanwhile it sounds like the webmasters are stressing out over the viability of the fansites.

Are people really not participating as part of The Sims fandom b/c of arguing whether or not website should charge for custom content??   And all this time I thought that the rivalries and jealousies between teams of custom content creators w/in the Sim City fandom  (there's a weird but hot and ongoing controversy about the inclusion/exclusion of dependency files in SC custom content) was pretty goofy.  

Oh well, as long the games themselves aren't busting my computer, I appreciate what everyon contributes but I'll enjoy the games whether or not they do!

I think it's common for autistic children to have a fascination with Thomas the Tank Engine.  My guess is the round eyes and easy to guess emotions, maybe similar to Dora the Explorer.  My son has had strong interests with both.

Meanwhile I'm glad that your brother has gotten much better!:)