Umm...A rant. Sorry.

[Anouk]

The Zip vs. Rar thing is really, really moot compared to the difference that makes.

Well, since i am not an expert on this, i got it from this 100% freesite. I am sure they also use a compressorizor before they make it into a .rar file.
http://www.downtown-sims.com - I saw in their FAQ they didn't want to use zip-files, someone asked them why they didn't.
Tell the owners their argument is Moot. (for some or another reason i dislike that word - *moot*).

Your argument is moot! Your argument is moot! MOOOOOOT MOOOOT MOOOOOOOT *runs away*

[pickles]

For some reason I imagine you saying "MOOOOT MOOOOOOT!" like a train and then shuffling away with a line of carriages behind you.


I think I need help.

[silver]

Great. Now I can't keep Thomas the Tank Engine out of my mind  ... thanks a LOT!

I need rum. Lots of rum.

[Amazone]

Don't haff to hide for me   I know you're not evil. > Or, i am not 100% sure of course.
MOOOTs back!  >>|:(

[Anouk]

For some reason I imagine you saying "MOOOOT MOOOOOOT!" like a train and then shuffling away with a line of carriages behind you.


I think I need help.

ROTFL

[Zillah]

My god! I am a moron. All this time I've been compressorizing the files I play with - it never occurred to me to do the same with the ones I upload!
DOH!

Looks like I'm going to be doing a lot of reposting tomorrow.
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[celligirl]

Ohmigosh! I never even knew the Compressorizer existed! Holy cow! My Downloads folder was approaching 3GB. After reading about this program, I decided to go through and purge stuff I don't use and compress everything that I wanted to keep. Now my DL folder is...357MB. Zowie. Now I feel like I need to go download MOAR STUFFZ! 

Also, at some point in time I will have a Sims site. I make lots, mostly, though I'm taking baby steps into recoloring stuff. Mostly paintings, at the moment. But when I get that going. Oh, yeah. Compressorizer is my new best friend. I'm just sorry it only works on Sims files.

On another note...I had a 13MB bed in my dl folder. 13MB. For a bed. The hell? And I've never used it. Must've been one of those that looked good in the preview pic but crappy in the game. I can't even figure out how one can manage to make a 13MB bed. All the rest of the beds were around 200KB before compression, but that one? Weeeeeird. I also had something of Buntah's in my downloads. A massively ugly clock. Kill me now. Must've come with a lot I downloaded or something because I would not have downloaded that thing of my own volition...

[glasscigarette]

Oh, Celligirl. Your downloads have been polluted by the vile Buntah? Put your feet up and let me dab your brow. And, for god's sake, somebody make this woman some tea...with valium, preferably. It's going to be a looong recovery...

[Moune]

A 13 MB bed?!  That has got to be a record. Where did you get that from?

[Amazone]

LoL  I wonder what that bed is made of

Btw. I really like your site Moune

[celligirl]

You know, when I first saw the file size on the thing, I figured that it had to be a whole bedroom set. But I checked it out by going to it in the game and nope, it was just a bed. It didn't look like anything special -- Looked rather crappy, actually -- but it's a ginormous file. The other pieces of the set were scattered around in various subfolders in my downloads folder. I'll have to see if I can backtrack and  figure out where I got it. When I first discovered the wonders of CC, I...er, wasn't very organized, I'm afraid. *laughs* It was just called "Bed Brown," so that's not very helpful.

And thanks, GC. I feel much better now. As for the Buntah thing...It's gone. I killed it...WITH FIRE! But the fire didn't work! so I had to take an axe to it, too. Seriously, I don't know why someone felt compelled to put that thing in whatever lot I got it from. It was severely uuuuuuuuuuuugly. But I guess there's no accounting for taste.

[Hecubus]

Celli, use Clean Installer to go through your downloads folders and suss it out.  I would love to look at its guts and see if it's got, oh, the Pentagon Papers imbedded, or maybe the first season of Pinky and the Brain in it.

[Ry]

Hey, Hec....are you thinking what I'm thinking??
But where will we get rubber boots that large?

*one is a genius, the other insane...*

Now I'll have that stuck in my head all day....*snort*

[Hecubus]

 think so, Brain but isn’t Regis Philbin already married?

[celligirl]

OK, so I did a little poking at the 13MB bed. According to the item description, it came from www.simy.pl. So, I conclude that I must've gotten it from a lot I downloaded. That site's in Polish, and I couldn't find where to go to download files because I no can reads teh Polish.

Anyway, here's a pic:

I can't see any reason why the file size would be so big. There's some detail on the wood's texture and the bedding's texture, but nothing extreme. Could it have custom animations, maybe? Sounds? I've never used the thing in the game, so I don't know.

(Incidentally, this is the first in-game screenshot I've ever taken. I'm such a n00b. )

And in case anyone's curious about the file and knows how to poke at the code or something, I uploaded it to my SkyDrive. I think this link might work: http://cid-902121e9db8caf22.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/stuffz/13MBbed.zip. I'm not sure that it'll work, though, since I've only ever used the SkyDrive to store stuff for my own nefarious purposes, not share stuff.

Anyway, there you go. I'd love know why the heck that file is so darn big. It's actually almost 14MB...