I can't even begin to say what's wrong with that stuff.  If my husband so much as threatened to wear any of that stuff I'd shoot him.

Same here.  Right now, I'm quite content playing Sims 2.  If I get bored, will just get an expansion pack.  If not, there is plenty of other games that I would like to play (such as Medieval: Total War, Civilisation . . . )  Hopefully, for EA's arses sake, they've got someone checking out forums like this one to see if we will get the game, if not, why.  It makes better business sense to do so, and EA Games is at the end of the day a business.)

Edenstyle posted a run down of what she saw on her site.  Just basically what to expect.  Sounds interesting, but the new way of CC doesn't quite grab me.  The whole 'in game thing'.  They said a hacker could alter that though, but that means most of us will still have to put up with maxis shit thinly disguised as CC.  Do not want.

That is true.  The original person behind MTS  has retired near the start of last year, and announced as such.  Perhaps EA should have looked toward WNF or GoS or even good ol' Insim for CC reps.  These guys will probably still be around when Sims 4 is released, and remain bigger and more popular names than any of the fools from TS2 could ever aspire to being.

So, we won't pay for things we know we should because we prefer to keep the money?  This twit is right about only one thing - would much rather keep the money than waste it.  But wrong about paying for custom content.

 Most games these days have some custom content.  That custom content is created by members of that community because the people doing it do it for fun.  The Sims is unique in that of all the games with CC online, its the only one where you have to actually spend money to download CC.

 Paysites may have come about because, and I may be wrong about this, in the beginning struggling artists couldn't find the money to pay for their bandwidth.  But soon people came on board who did it not entirely because making CC was fun (and I'm sure they still think it is) but because they think making heaps of money is fun.  And I'm not going to argue with that philosophy.  It can be fun to make heaps of money.  To some who lack a sense of moral code, ripping off people and fooling people into thinking that its just to pay for the um, server fees is fun.  But folks if its just for the server fees, why charge so fucking much?  No.  Truth to tell, with well over a million computers world wide with the Sims installed and well over half of that going online to download CC there is the potential for millions of dollars to be made in paysites.  These greedy, cunning little SOBs know this.

Why, please tell, should we pay for Custom Content for our game, when no other community in existence does this?  I bet, if there wasn't any profit to be made out of all of this, T$R would not be saying that people should pay for CC.  It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to hear that EA has been recieving a percentage of the profit from TSR (in other words arse fucking them).  It would explain why so many TSR members are going to be at this little camp.  EA wants to surround themselves with their feral little whores to show the rest of their software competition just how big a pimp they are.

Methinks the Fishmeister is getting a bit slow and senile in his old years 

The problem is with 'secure' coding or whatever is that ultimately it is like a sign screaming 'Oh God Hack Me Please'.  Its just too much of a temptation to some hackers.  They'll hack it just to prove a point.  If the temptation's not there, its no fun,  they won't bother.  So, HTTP I suspect is ultimately more secure than HTTPS.  Apparently, its just as easy to hack only its twice the temptation.  But that isn't to say not to observe some security practices (Ultimately, though, the only way to stay completely safe on the net is to rip out the Ethernet or USB cable that runs from your computer to the modem/router.)

Yeah it is.  Ebay Australia recently tried to force users to use Paypal as the only mode of payment for anything purchased on their online auction site.  An Australian Government watchdog stopped it though (forgotten which one).

*grabs newspaper, rolls it up, and cracks missangelica on the noggin'*  SimAr got it right, not you.  I was being sarcastic when I said 'apparently'.  I know full well that there are no Sims Store items on the site or in the booty.  There never has and there never will be.  If I can recall correctly, Pescado said as much himself in another thread.  Some dopey Maxoid on EAs forum got it wrong in the first place by saying something about the booty being illegal and that we were hosting Sims 2 Store stuff.

*wacks missangelica again just for the hell of it*

I suspect that EA chose creators for two reasons:  1.  They make the Maxis stuff actually look good and 2.  Didn't want any that they know where affiliated with PMBD.  Since we apparently have Sims 2 Store here.  That and things might get a little political.  (Like it won't do, anyway.)

I've had some of Decorgal's stuff in my game before.  Not bad stuff.  Nothing trashy or skimpy, and fairly conservative.  Highly detailed, as well.  What I don't get is why they chose to ignore some of the better known lot.  You know, the stuff that people actually . . . well, I don't know  . . . download, perhaps.  To me it just seems that EA is just interested in promoting its trashy little whore (T$R).

Tried the sharing the computer thing once.  Never again.  These days if my Mac needs fixing I hold his computer for ransom (put games on it I know are unstable and likely to stuff up his computer, tamper with the files and settings until the my Mac is either sorted out, or replaced - with another Mac to my specifications.)  I'm a very strong minded and demanding woman

I've got a few things that are faux fur.  They're actually quite warm, and don't absorb moisture as readily as most fabrics will.  Even got a faux fur back pack - which I have in fact named.  Its called Minky.  I am known for my weird bags.  Aside from Minky I have a white bag with what looks like a mass of thick woolen dreadlocks, and an expensive bag in the shape of a pink fish.  Barely a strip of leather in sight, funky, very unique and functional.

Yeah I had chooks that would get a bit of attitude.  If they attacked me, I'd kick them right back.  They eventually get the message that you are on top of the pecking order, not them, and leave you alone.  More often than not, they actually keep their distance.

I grew up with animals:  Rabbits, guinea pigs, chooks, mice, turtles, you name it.  Got three pets now.  The eldest is my boozy budgie DJ, also got a hand reared albino cockatiel called Phoenix, and a 8 month old maltese/bichon frise called Snowy (because my husband said it had eyes like piss holes in the snow.)  Always got one lingering around while I'm at the computer.  At the moment, its Phoenix, whose currently got the moves and grooves going on.  Phe loves to get funky .

 Hand raised a baby wattlebird that had fallen out of a nest last year.  It had gotten a little brain damage and was pretty much on deaths door when we found it, but within a fortnight it was thriving.  Quite a character, that one, and very cute.  Got a photo of it somewhere, after I had to bathe it (had sticky bird food all over it).  Sadly, when it got older and it was moved to a bigger cage, one of the neighbours cat tried to pull it through the bars one morning.  When we found it, it was wedged in the bars, which were bent.  Its wing was stripped of feathers, raw and broken - its bone showing.  And it was still alive, just very scared.  When we got it out of the cage, it calmed down and sat there looking at us.  We had to have it destroyed, as there was nothing to vet could do.  (Vet consultations are free for native animals).  We were both really upset about it for a while.  I was actually surprised at how strongly I reacted to it.

I've never eaten a pet.  Don't think I could.  Neither could my husband, he's a big softy when it comes to animals. I don't think I could not have pets, either.