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Well, I didn't see it fitting anywhere else and I'm pretty sure the post would have been forgotten from the long existing threads here. :lol:

Solander from Pimp My Sims has posted his thoughts about the whole "free vs. pay" debate as he calls it:

http://www.thesims2-blog.com/2006/11/13/sims-2-downloads-free-vs-pay/

I have a bit of a headache now. Thank you.

I had a really hard time determining what was the actual point of that blog. The logic circles and contradictions were enough to make me a tad seasick.

Yeah, when I was reading it I thought he was one way on the debate... but then I kept reading and he seemed to have magically switched over?  :?

I guess it was supposed to look at all sides of it, but but but I got confused.  :cry:

Not having read it yet, my opinions on solander, are that he is extremely good looking.  Little dissapointed he always uses the same picture of himself though  :wink:

Of course I had to post. :P

Now I have to go back and look at a pic lol

Edit:  Oohh, he's pretty good-looking.

Is that pic him?

Well he is a handsome bloke, isn't he? Broody starving poet type, if you will.

His kitchen was one of the first cc's that I ever had in my game. I still use it even though it is blurry as hell as compared to the newer, shinier things.

I will have to agree that he is good-looking, ohyes.

Ok so to summarize what the drool worthy solander wrote is this:

He doesn't like and/or agree with what we filesharers are doing, though he can see just how some of these paysites have gone about bringing this problem upon themselves.  Some free stuff is better than pay, with a slight implication that he is talking about his stuff, so why are we complaining.  Overall "creators" should be able to sell or not sell their creations as they desire, but they should also stop calling them donations, as they are clearly not that.

I don't find him good-looking. But then, I like long hair, and guys who look more RAWK than he does...

His argument confused me highly, but I'm extremely tired right now...

He's gay, ladies.

I had to post as well. Hope I made my point well enough.

Meh, he could be the best-looking man in the world, but it wouldn't excuse the number of typos he made in his message.  :lol:

That's doesn't matter.  I'm underaged anyway.  :P

And I'm married. Point being?

Doesn't matter if he is gay. He is still pretty.

Yep, gay doesn't mean he's not good looking.

Just don't wet your panties hoping to cyber him  :P

I made it through 2 paragraphs. The poor spelling and still not knowing where he was going was enough for me. I do not know where he went with it, and do not care.
Womens taste in men frightens me.

Edited twice for stupidity.
(fears women even more now.)

*comes out of lurking*

This comment makes me giggle a little...teehee

*changes panties and hides evidence of stalking solander*  :wink:

Most people think my taste in people is weird in general.  :lol:

*passes Ensign EO a towel for her chair*

Funny.

I look at his pic again and he is starting to look rather like Ben Stiller. The eyebrows maybe?

*laughs* You people amuse me so much!

Gross!  

I concur though, he is still attractive.  Also where does everyone get all this information about everyone else from?  I must really be under a rock.

hes okay, not my type i like guys like channing tatum NOW OMG HE IS SOOO FINE! this guy is okay thought , he seems sweet :?

When I got to this:

I gave up!

And yes he is a cutie pie.


Pam Anderson is on Jimmy Kimmel and she looks a hot mess in some bronze pleather dress.
And glitter.
And yes...a cheap weave.

I always start thinking a guy is fugly when he says dumb shit. Like, I saw that picture, and thought hm, not bad, but then I tried plowing through the blog and now I don't think he's attractive at all.

I'm married too and the first thing I noticed when I clicked the link was his pic and thought he was pretty cute.  He has a similiar forehead and facial shape to my hubby though.  :)

*edit* And about Jimmy Kimmel, I seriously want to take all those girls from My Super Sweet Sixteen and bash them in the face, especially the chick who throws a fit because Eminem didn't come to her party.

One of these days a site owner is going to actually make a statement about this issue in intelligible English.

And he is totally not cute.  He looks like a sexual predator.

To be fair, english is definitely not his first language. At least it's understandable.

True, true.

I think it's just that none of it made much sense so I think the majority of us just went back to talking about his looks.

He should have wrote less and posted more pictures of himself.

Well I guess at least his English is good enough that I wasn't sure if English was his first language or not.  Not that I have any problem with people learning and speaking in English, but it does make this whole thing annoying.  And painful for my poor little head, trying to make sense of the jibba jabba.

I remember reading this quote about the show and laughing my ass off

"The series is like an infomercial for class war, and should the revolution come, an episode guide will provide a handy, illustrated list of who should go up against the wall."

:lol: That seriously made me laugh out loud.
They tend to look like everyday people actually.
But his man-scarf does make him look a bit arrogant.

He's italian. Man-scarves are acceptable there!

Ah, good point. And here I was about to get all predatory on the poor man. Thank you for talking me down from that ledge.  :P

Yeah, there's not just typos, there's run-on sentences. I like that most of the commentary on this post relates to the writer's looks. Not a good sign.

In my defense, I wasn't able to make heads or tails out of what he wrote.

It was the cyber equivilent of an out of body experiance for me.

Man scarves aren't as bad as popped collars.  Those should be outlawed everywhere.

An expert on sexual predators, eh?  I've got my eye on you.  <_<

Laguna Beach is worse.
I absolutely hate that show with a passion.

Man-capri pants are horrid.
Men must wear full length pants or shorts.
Nothing in between.
No exceptions.
And men who wear socks with sandals....
Thats just....wrong.

Labeena Gooch is a borked city. Never saw the show.

It's a show on MTV, you know the "music television" that has nothing to do with music  :?

Not an expert.
I've unfortunately known people like that.
And they look no different than anyone else,
Sadly, thats why they get away with it.
Freaks don't always wear a freak flag.

White socks with sandals...

... during winter. :lol:

I *want* a freak flag to keep annoying people away.

No worries.  I work with children so I get to know all the ins-and-outs of sexual predators.  I had to call Child Protective Services just last week, in fact... You don't even want to know.  *barf*

Coats with shorts.
Muscle shirts

I use to like Daria on mtv.

Maybe it was cold when they took the picture, so scarves are practical? I like men in scarves, as long as they aren't ascots. And to answer a question, we know he is gay because he is involved in a website called Gay Sims Club 2 (not everyone there is gay, but the ones that are don't hide it, of course).

Anyway, his logic may be a bit circular there, but at least he is trying to look at it from both sides. He doesn't come out and say that we are evil, evil people who should be erraticated, he does say there is some validity in our point, though he disagrees. Really, that's what more can we ask for than for people to actually take a look at our position even if they disagree?

And I agree with him that they should call purchases by their real names. If this is their job and how they "feed their kids", they should be taxed on it just like everyone else. You can't claim that this is your livelyhood, then claim to be accepting donations when the tax man comes.

I wish I could use this logic when it comes to certain so-called nonprofit organizations.

'Zactly.  I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers, BUT - to move onto his blog entry...

The purpose of grammar, spelling, and good writing is to make your point clear and easily understood by others.  To make it compelling.  If I'm having to read and re-read a sentence twice to understand it, I'm going to discount it.  I may even think the person writing the piece is an idiot.  I'm not saying he is; I'm just saying if he wanted to get his point out to more people and actually make people think about what he's saying (as opposed to thinking about what it is he's trying to say)... well, a proof-read and a spell-check wouldn't have hurt.

And the sad thing is, I suspect I probably agree with some of his viewpoints, but I'm not going to spend 30 minutes trying decipher it this late at night/early in the morning.

Meh.  I'll cut him some slack - he's German, and considering the fact that I only speak two languages (english and profane ;-)) I won't fault him for less than perfect command of the language.

He looks like he's freezing his ass off, to me.  So man-scarf forgiven ;-)

The article gets a bit easier to understand towards the end.  Given that he's not a native english speaker, I can overlook a lot.  A lot of the run-on sentence structure and what-not is probably because he's thinking German and then trying to translate.

And lastly, I'd never even thought of the donation/IRS thing.  Yikes!  Question, though - does PayPal report to to anyone?  Or is it all just cash-under-the-table?  I've sold some stuff and taken payments over PayPal, but not in any serious amounts - mostly the odd eBay sale.

Liegenschonheit I was actually more joking about how I technically live under a rock now in the sims community.  Besides here and SFV I don't get out much. ;)

Hi everyone,

i feel very sorry having caused headaches for some of you. Should anyone still experience headache or something comparable, please drop me a line and i can try collect some donations for you.

I maybe should have double-checked it, but i simply wasn't in the mood to do this, even it would maybe been better to do so.

But I really do not understand why some of you get so upset about this. Noone forces you to read and if you feel your brain beeing in danger, just stop reading and browse to another site. If you would write me in german, I would try do decipher it and if i wasn't able to do it, i would maybe ask for clarification. You would never receive a "if you can't write in german, just don't do it" message from me.

And yes, it has been scary cold when the picture was made.

Solander

Aww I feel bad now.  I don't think your post was that confusing, I was able to make a summary out of it.  I think we were having a bit of fun, as we were about other things in the thread, sorry if you took offense to it.   I don't think anyone meant that you aren't entitled to an opinion because English is not your first language.  English is my first language and I am a terrible speller.  

Thanks for coming on and explaining yourself so civilly

Don't worry about your English, Solander. I don't think many people realized English was your second language. The fact that you write in more than one language is a really impressive thing, I think. And like I mentioned before, I am glad that you decided to look at the issue from all angles, even if you do disagree with us in principle. I wish more people would do so.

When i decided to start a blog, I thougt about posting in german or english. I did choose english for one main reason. And this is, that as many people as possible can read it. If i had posted in german, about 10% or less of you guys would even had a chance to read.

So i did choose english, even i often feel not that confident. I know my spelling is sometimes a little "different". Maybe this is less important and less obvious, if i talk about something like meshes etc., but if I try to translate difficult german thoughts into english text, grammar and spelling sometimes sustain damage.

But the message was, that i do not agree with "free poor and lonely pay packages" supporters, even if I do understand some of the motives. And this should have survived the translation.

Solander

Edit: I'm really surprised how many information about me is available. I did not even think someone would notice at which sites i am registered or where I did post some time ago or what country i'm from :)

I agree.

edit: oh and english is not my native language either.

:oops: Okay, I'm feeling pretty crunchy.  :waves at Solander:  Oh, just to make it clear, I apologize.  I agree with Liegen, you made an effort to see both sides of the argument.  And, the funny thing is, I agree with you for the most part.  I made a lot of your same arguments yesterday.

My english is far worse than your, don't worry; I know how much it's difficult to think in a language (italian, to me) and write it down in another one.

I'm glad when someone - like you - spend some time and effort trying to collect informations and thinking about an issue, instead of get rid of all the matter with some stereotyped sentences.

Now, going back to the real important thing: would you upload some more pictures of yourself? *jocking* :D

Well, y'know, heaven forbid that someone not dress like the fashionistas in SoCal dictate, no matter where they live or what season it is. Eyeroll.

Am I the only one getting a seriously good laugh out of this bit? :D

Huh, that reminds me, I'm almost out of Excedrin.

Yeah, I got a chuckle out of this thread.  And Solander appears to be being a good sport about it, so that got him points in my book.  Not that he prolly gives a rat's batoot, but hey.

thanks.... that was a definitly not needed headache..... :D i still can't figure out whose side he was on....

I don't think he was really even taking a side. Oh well. I swear I've seen his pic somewhere before, though.

I agree, AquaMarine.  It seemed to me as though he was trying to present both sides of the argument, and also as though he's somewhere in the middle regarding his personal feelings about it.  As for his pic - I've seen it on TSR and also MtS2.

Regardless of Solander's affinities (or lack thereof), I've personally always enjoyed his site, especially the part of it that says his site will always be free, and that the Paypal donation button is there solely for that purpose, and you will get no "gifts" in exchange. That is how you run a site, IMO.

Yeah, he's pretty good looking.

But you know who was really hot? Gunmod, if his avatar pic is any indication. Talented too. Too bad he left. :cry:

Come to think of it, I have quite a bit of his content via MTS2. Looking at his site now, I can see that the overall quality is pretty consistent and I'll likely be replacing a lot of the current custom sets I have with these. It's non buggy, nothing clips, and tastefully done. This is generally what I look for when donating (in the real sense, not the paysite sense) to a site.

Of course, the fact that's he's not a raving lunatic always helps. :p

I just thought I'd point out that scarves are very "in" with the SoCal fashionistas of both sexes, despite lacking any real use for them other than to look good.

Well, maybe i should post a short summary of my posting at my blog to make my position clear:

I don't agree with people sharing donation stuff for free. In my eyes, the creator of the stuff has at least the copyright on the mesh or texture (if he did it himself), so you are free to share the package, if you remove the mesh first ;)

But i do understand people getting angry, if everyone starts offering donation stuff and leaves only poor quality items for free. Especially, if even the quality of donation items drops.

Thats it.

And my picture can be found at MTS2 as well as TSR (i have been the evil himself when being a FA  :twisted: ) as well as in some other profiles on several sites, including Pimp my Sims.com.

And i really thought about offering donation stuff in the past. I skipped it, as i think, my creations and those of my co-workers at Pimp my Sims should be free, but success can be quite expensive. At least, if someone wants to run a site like mine.

I use a content management system to handle the hundreds of files, relations ("show recolors for that item"-functions, credits) and i would like to run a website being as fast and easy to use as possible. This means, I now own the largest dedicated server version, which my provider offers. With high bandwith, no traffic limit, high end processor etc. 15,000 visitors and more visitors per day made this necessary, as previous servers simply could not handle such a traffic. Each day, about 200,000 pages are viewed and per month, the traffic sums up to more than a terabyte.

This does really cost a lot (if you buy all EPs for the sims 2, which have been and will be release, you won't reach the sum i pay per month), so I do understand, why some people charge for their creations(i don't say, they just pay their bills, there is something left for sure). I do not, but if i get mails from users flaming about "slow download" (at saturday night) or "the server was off for 15 minutes", i get really pissed. Most users don't even say thank you.

I mean, if you get everything for free and if the downloads are at least average or good quality, you can at least leave a short "thank you" message at the guestbook. But out of 1.5 million visitors since march 2006, there were only 468 (right now), who left a message. Lets assume 600 feedback messages (including those received by mail), you get a feedback ratio of about 0.0004%. In my eyes, this is damn low.

I'm not crying about his, but most users simply don't care about the poeple creating the stuff, paying the webspace and running their websites. And that's what makes me angry from time to time. If everything is for free at our page, downloaders could at least leave a message.

Hope, this posting is easier to understand than the one at my blog.

Solander

Edit: Could anyone please translate "SoCal fashionistas" for me?

That make sense, and is very much on the intelligent side of the counter-argument...*nods*

I believe what is meant by SoCal fashionistas is...fashiony people from Southern California (i.e., not the real world...)...but I may be wrong.

I think Jesse is right with the SoCal fashionistas - Southern California (aka LA) people who are so fashionable and trendy it almost hurts.

Oh, i'm not a SoCal fashionista. This picture was taken on a photo shoot for a friend, who studies "making photos" and i had to stand 3 hours at 1 or two degrees celsius in a windy horse stable. The scarve is the only reason i'm still here and can write  :D

Solander

Ouch!  Living in the South (USA) I really, truly hate cold.  I define cold as anything below 40 degrees.

Oh, and a thank you for sharing your content :-)

This is not true though, when YOU enter the mesh into the .package, you bind yourself to EA's terms and conditions.  They own it, you can modify it, but they will own the resulting product.  I work as an RA in a psychology research lab.  After (months/years) of work (research), articles by grad students, professors get sent to journals, once the journal accepts it the journal owns the rights to the article, and can edit out parts of the article as they see fit.  Not always fun, but that's the way it works.  You want your article to be published by a respect journal, for the glory, for the fame, (all for free btw, journals don't pay you a cent) you have to accept the terms.

EA gives us consent to share their .packages, we can share them whether or not you choose to put things you've worked on in them.

The only point of your argument that to me makes sense is the idea that perhasp we should give more respect to the people who work on the meshes.  To an extent I can agree, but I am the type of person who is likes being grateful.  

Yet, I am also the type of person who doesn't like being taken advantage of.  I feel disrespected by some paysites who are clearly violating EA's terms of use just because they can make, buy or illegally download a mesh (ahem simbellas) and add it to a .package.  EA's terms are non-commerical.  PERIOD.   I create too, if I can accept the terms, why can't they?

You mention on your blog, that if EA cared about paysites (enforcing the non-commerical requirements of thier EULA), they could, yet they haven't, so therefore they do not care.  But that logic is circular, because I have been at a very active filesharing site for 4 years now (simsfilevault), dating back to TS1. EA knows about us, dozens of creators have written them, and they have no made moves to stop our distribution either.  All we learn form this is EA doesn't want to make a move either way, as neither side is really effecting them.

Costly, It can be but that is your choice.  If it is something you like doing, and or doing for others then it is good for you.  When I started creating I didn't expect people to fund my purchase of new expansions.  Think about if eveyrone had to pay for every creators EP's, what next then, should we buy them computers too?  Further, there are plenty of costless way to distribute your creations.  I don't have any of those things you mention and somehow people can still download my work.   I hate to say this a million times but if the *costs*, whether they are monetary, time and effort, or gratification related are too much for creators then it is probably seriously time they stopped.

Lastly, I haven't downloaded any of your creations, I don't download much now that I create, but I do appreciate and respect your decisions to give them away for free.  So thank you for that, for what it's worth.

Edit:  Typos, yep there are probably more but I need to start dinner.

No I thought it was funny too.

Solander, does Pimp my Sims accept donations from people who want to give them?  I know you want to be a free site and I think that's awesome, I fully support free sites.

I'm pretty sure he does, Bluesoup.

I just went and looked around the front page and didn't see a donate button, nor did I see a link that said Donate in the navigation.  Sooo, offhand, I'd have to say no.

@sherry: i didn't complain about the costs, Pimp my Sims.com generates each month. I did choose to run a site like mine (as i pointed out above) and i have to deal with the consequences.

But if you start a huge party which is know for its fun factor, offer free beer as much as everyone likes and if you then don't charge anything, a little "hey, cool, thanks you did this" by at least some of the guests would be nice, hm? But with the feedback ratio at our site, you had to start a party for 2,500 people to have at least 1 person say thank you.

Ok, maybe that comparison is not that perfect, as you get feedback watching people have fun. But i don't. I never see people enjoy my creations or the ones of my co-workers. I mostly (95%) get support mails of people asking for meshes, general "can you repair my pc and wash my car" mails and those flame mails, i talked about before. So feedback is definetely something i am looking for. That's the only thing I charge. Something personal from users, who enjoy using our stuff. I don't request novels, but a short sentence like "hey, i really like your stuff" or something like this really makes my day!  :oops:

edit: No, i don't have a donation button. I had, but only some really nice people donated and, well, i needed the space in the top navigation for "more important" links. So i dropped it.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure there used to be a Paypal button on a separate page...it seems to be gone now.

Edit: Confirmed by Solander.

Well I have to agree, I think it is sad that people are not more grateful when creators do sacrifce so much for their enjoyment.  I don't drink, but I hear beer is costly so I understand that point ;)

My point was more in saying, not that creators should have to buden themselves with all the costs of creation, but there is clearly a line that many cross in making paysites, and if they are using the excuse of expansions, computers, monthy internet fees is downright silly to me.  

It's a pity that not as many people thank you or donate to your site, I have seen your work and it is certaily top notch.  I wonder why it's so hard to get voluntary donations?  Maybe because it's hard *donate* for even a good number of the pay content out there.  I think if less sites, were forcing less donations on simmers, more would certainly throw a buck your way.  That's my opinion though.

Also, I didn't know you could ask creators to wash your car.  I have some laundry that needs to be folded if you have time ;)

oh, just write a mail. try be to as un-precise as possible, include some "help, help, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssseeeeeeeee", use a terrible background with pink flowers for the mail and i will be over at your place in just a few seconds  :wink:

Don't say that. I have a feeling Sherry really is going to do that just to lure you at her house. :lol:

I still think you are cute though. And you resemble Ben Stiller.

A site owner at this forum having an intelligent, well-explained conversation...I have to say this is very nice and refreshing to see and read! Cheers to all! what if all site owners had these talks and all pay-site owners as well...would that be actual conversation? Would it actually be a way for all to co-exsist? Too bad so many have screamed and threatened instead of talking...

I have long respected Solander as a designer...that respect is now raised to respect for being willing to talk and listen and for being intelligent and fun!

Interesting how all this has brought repect to those who so deserve it and disrespect to those who have it coming. Very nice...some people should learn from this!

That has never stopped me from trying rofl

Well, there's still some creators here -- but you don't have to pay to get some items from their websites.

so he is for shareing or not?

Uh...sorry I just wanted to edit and and it posted itself again.

I know many free-site owners who come here and support this cause...excellent designers they are...just still bashful about letting anyone know who they are...too many people out there resorting to illegal methods of shutting people up. I think tons of free sites are celebrating lately...very fun thing, this is.

I already answered this with this statement (page 5)

I was going to only say just let me kick my boyfriend out of the house, but I don't want that to be taken the wrong way.  ;)




I think he was pretty clear that he doesn't codone it.

My issue wasn't grammar mistakes.

I can forgive mispellings and grammar mistakes because I know that not everyone has English as a first language. (Unless you insist on typing in chatspeak. Then I might have to hunt you down and kill you for making my eyes bleed.)

But grammar and spelling? Eh. As long as I can get to the point.

I do, however, have trouble following circular logic. The topic went all over the place and never actually addressed the point.

He has since come here and clarified what he meant. No harm, no foul.

Any chance of a Paypal button going back up on your site, Solander? If not, what other ways can we donate?

Solander, thanks for sharing your opinion without ranting, raving, and cussing up a storm.  It is nice to see an intelligent discussion/debate with such a well-respected custom creator such as yourself.  Your creations are very well done. I haven't visited your site but I do have some of the stuff you have on MTS2.

And I don't think you look like Ben Stiller, I think you have a "Pierce Brosnan as James Bond" pose going on there.   :wink:

don't know. In fact, i don't need the money right now. This has been one reason, why i removed the button. I can pay my server bills with my own money without having to sing at the mall with no shoes, so donations are not neccessary.

As pointed out above, some feedback is really enough in my eyes. I enjoy creating stuff but knowing someone likes it, is even better. If you just count numbers like traffic, visitors or something else, you don't know, if they all did put the downloads into the trashcan right after testing them ingame. Unlikely, i know ;), but i like to "read" than just to "imagine" :)

Would you do it anyway?

Maybe i would, but i don't like to be arrested by the police or threatened by an outraged crowd

A lot of people are tough on fellow English speakers for not being able to handle their native language coherently, partially it is just poking fun at them. When someone who is not a naitive speaker makes the effort to communicate, by and large just about everyone here will be more than willing to overlook the errors because writing in a non native language is hard! I would cringe to think of what french speakers would think of my feeble attempts at their language. So no worries Blue, we aren't that mean :P

It is kind of weird how your activities around the community make their rounds and people know what you're up to. I remembered Solander being on GSC2 because I've registered and lurked around there to snag some of the creations and things.

Feedback from people who appreciate your stuff IS really nice, I totally agree. I love getting little thank you notes in my guestbook and things. Sure, it may seem like just a trifle, but a little gratitude and appreciation for your efforts really does go a long way.

Eeep! Not if it is that cold!

We don't want him to get frostbite.

Well, surely the mall would be heated when it's cold out.  :wink:

And I had no problem with the spelling and grammar.  I've seen worse, and it wasn't all that terrible.  Like Keijra and some others, it was the logic that was kind of confusing me, and of course it's since been clarified so 's'cool.

Oh, i'm not a lawyer. If i was, my circular logic would have been even more circular and noone would have had a chance to understand, what i wanted to say. As some people did, i can't be a laywer. Quod erat demonstrandum.

If you were a lawyer, your circular logic would cease to be circular and become more of a dodecahedron. Or a slinky shape.

Whatever.

It's been a long day and I am not really coherant.



Obviously you have never been to my local mall...

my dad's a lawyer... I learned to get used to losing an argument XD

That's the only thing I blame lots of users for. It's so easy to browse a site, download everything you like and leave. If the content was created bit by bit with lots of accuracy and a love of details isn't rewarded.

And the hard facts like traffic etc. don't say anything. If you look at people around you in real life, they do tend to grab anything, if it is promoted and free. Place some real crap on a table, scream "free" and you will be left with nothing 5 minutes later.

That is so true.

I did that once at a garage sale my parents were holding. We had a huge pile of dirt and tree branches that we never got around to hauling away.

Stuck a sign in it saying "Free. You haul it."

Lo and behold, it was gone by the end of the day. People are weird.

Darn. There goes my secret garbage disposal technique.

Maybe that's why I thought he looked like a sexual predator.  I hate Ben Stiller.

Just to put my two cents in hours late:  Even though I find your English a bit painful to understand, Solander, I'm still impressed that you can converse in more than one language.  I can't, so I, at least, have nothing to critisize you over.

Though you're wrong that creator's have the copyright to their creations.  They don't, EA does, and EA says to share them.

I'm probably repeating a lot of people but I just got home from work and I'm tired.  So there.

Ah. I personally think Ben Stiller is adorable. But then I also have a crush on Adam Sandler.

Well that settles it then.  You're just weird.

Granted.

If you do anything in life in the hopes of getting thanked for it, you're bound to be disappointed.

Amen.

I wish they'd stop doing that. It's annoying. I even gave them a button to push instead, but they still keep posting that crap. It's not helpful.

Well, I wasn't always so insensitive. For example:  I went to your site today to say thank you and I've spent about 20 minutes there trying to post. I couldn't figure out what the hell was the matter it just kept coming back with 'fill out all fields'. Then I turned off my cookie blocker and it went through.
I don't like cookies and I don't understand why some sites want gift me with one. Of course if its essential (passwords etc) I allow it but the majority of the sites want to place not one but three or four on my computer. No thanks.
The other problem is that MTS2 gets pretty crowded by the time I get there and I'm happy if I get the download to work before I fall of the chair.

And I have to disagree with "Place some real crap on a table, scream "free" and you will be left with nothing 5 minutes later" I play with Sims2 for about 2 years now and I only have less than 2 megabytes in my download folder. I'm very picky what I download and I - just like the majority- don't like crap. Not everybody is a ..um... dowloadholic(sp?) Is there such a word?

lmao Are you always in danger of falling off your chair or do you just sit really close to the edge?  

I don't like cookies either, unless they are the kind that comes from my oven.

The guestbook ist cookie protected? Have to check this tonight, but i used to implement some "anti-porn-site-mass-posting-robots" protection features.

And to make a last statement regarding sharing donation stuff.

As i said before, i'm not a lawyer. So i am not in the position to really understand the whole legal stuff EA and others do ship with each game. But it does nonetheless not feel right to me, if the creator has no right to determine what happens with his creations. I don't say it is not right, i just say, it does not feel right.

@Blue: I don't think every single visitor of my site is an "oh, it's free, lets grab it" type, but if you look at the traffic caused by our visitors, most seem to even download the background picture of the website ;)

Solander

Sherry

I press the download button sit back in my comfy armchair and just wait...wait...wait...until I almost fall asleep.
I guess that's the time when the other side of the globe gets up and jumps MTS2.

Nah, I think it's always like at MTS2, but they are free so...

Robot porn?

You should be happy they like your work so mush. And yeah, your site does ask for cookies. :)

Do you take requests?

Robot porn means stupid robots flooding  my guestbook with hundreds of postings with links to every single porn site available at the net. I got bored of deleting them and implemented some protection features, but maybe i should reduce security in favour of a higher usability.

I did take requests in the past and maybe will do again. My blog is intended to be used for things like this. I am planning to post my new creations their, ask users if they would like to see something special included in the set or even propose completely new sets. So this could maybe be called "i do take requests"

I know what you meant Solander ;) I should probably stop posting after 4:00 when I stop taking everything seriously due to lack of sleep.

I was hoping Lemmiwinks would come in here with a joke about robot porn.  Which he didn't.  You let me down Lemmiwinks!

Only hundreds?

Edit. "I was hoping Lemmiwinks would come in here with a joke about robot porn. Which he didn't. You let me down Lemmiwinks!"

Hey I gotta sleep sometimes!

Sleep is for the weak.  That said I am off to bed!  I have to be up at 8.  Ugh.

Rule 34. Robots are included.

Solander, i will check out your blog and post my idea if its all right with you.

Sure you can. Or write me a mail to webmaster@pimp-my-sims.com and include some images of what you would like to have "simsed". I'll have a look and maybe will mesh it.

I'll try to create some new stuff tonight, so maybe there will something to comment or to add new proposals.

Solander

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robot porn?

Eww

Also what's with hXXp://www.simforum.de/ :(  I do find it funny that Sera is on this site LOL.  She the biggest theif of them all.  I guess no one she stole from can speak German though so she is safe there.  There were enough people on my forum she who knew what she steals to run her off the off the site for her hypocrisy.   :roll:

It's no wonder sometimes it's hard to take people seriously when they talk about integrity and such when you look at the company they keep.  I would rather have 100 filesharers as my friends than Sera.

Don't forget to ask him to wash your car and do your dishes ;-)  Put a couple of links to porn sites in there, maybe a couple of derogatory comments, and absolutely NO "thank you"s, or "please"es, and you should be good ;-)

"Don't forget to ask him to wash your car and do your dishes ;-)  Put a couple of links to porn sites in there, maybe a couple of derogatory comments, and absolutely NO "thank you"s, or "please"es, and you should be good ;-)"

Jealous? I don't blame you. He's good looking, intelligent, witty and has a great sense of humor. A girl can only dream about someone who has all these quality together.

I'm lucky. I have one at home  :D

I hate this 'quote' stuff  :evil:

This is so frustating. Only 17 postings and everyone seems to know what really turns me on  :lol:

:lol:  I have one at home, too :-)  Just to clarify, because the internet is sometimes wonderful at losing the subtle nuances of conversation, I was teasing.

:lol:  You really shouldn't be so easy, hun :-)  I think you need to expand your Terms of Use to at LEAST 10 pages, they should require a lawyer to decipher, and... oh, yeah.  Charge at least $50.00 per month in subscription fees ;-)

Subscription for pimp-my-sims or for turning him on?  :D

Ummm, both!! Can I answer both?  :lol:

The idea of anyone doing my housework turns me on.  They don't even have to be attractive.

Oh, having someone doing the housework can be soooo annoying. I really hate to lift my feets, when my boyfriend vacuum-cleans the floor  :roll:

I think I could live with the inconvience of that if my boyfriend actually vacuumed.

Maybe he should write another blog but even more complicated. It would definitely take your minds off more err basic thoughts. You know, nothing like stimulating the mind.
Or maybe not. Some people  only understand simple phrasing. I've read that someone even got a headache.

avic,

no problem. I didnt get mad or anything :)

My boyfriend vaccuums...:o He doesn't do anything other than that though...>.>

My husband vacuums (and I do think it's a pain to have to lift my feet), but he also cooks, does dishes, laundry...

Lmao!

Same with me and my husband.  Except I'm the one who only vacuums and he does everything else.   :D

I am being to hard on him.  He works alot longer and at the office than I do, and brings home the majority of the Bacon so to speak.  Plus I can still get him to do the things I won't, shovel the driveway, take out the garbage and clean the kitty litter and he even does the dishes because I cook.  I think I have it made but shhhhh don't let him know that.  :wink:

Hey, mine too. Isn't it nice? Well, I do have the excuse of being ginormously pregnant right now... but who am I kidding, he still did all that before I was pregnant too, heh.

C.

I had to do all the vaccuuming when I was pregnant...:(

I'm just a wee bit spoiled...

C.

My friend once gave some weirdo my SN on IRC.. he came in and started begging if I had anything for him to do, he wanted to do my homework, wash my car, clean my house, because it turned him on to be ordered around....

she's not my friend anymore O.o especially since she knew I had a boyfriend then... and I'm not a dom...

No offense, but some of you make me feel like a little kid. :(

Aw, the flipside of that is, I feel ancient. :)

I like being a young'n.

I'm stuck in the middle.

I look way younger than I am and so people guess me at around 18 or 19. I've even heard 15  :roll:

And I would love to know how all these husbands are housecleaning. Mine is firmly convinced that his voice will go up an octave and his testicles will shrivel to raisins if he so much as does the dishes.

Last time I went to the dentist without make-up and wearing a Spongebob T-shirt the dental assistant asked if I came with my mommy or daddy today.  I was like, "Uh... my husband?"  She thought I was twelve.  xD

And your husband/boyfriend had better be making up for things elsewhere if he's not doing any dishes, Keijra!  Boo!

Well he did just finish building me a Tetris style shelving unit for my shot glass collection.

I think he is keep-able.

That is incredibly awesome.

I always get mistaken for being 15 or 16, which is hilarious because my husband is 39 and looks around 45.  And even though he works and I don't, he doesn't mind doing yard work on the weekends, or helping me fold laundry.  Plus he's a better cook than I am, so on weekends he cooks.   :D

Well, I'm actually 23, and look...well...23. Well, my mother's 15 year old neighbour thought I was 19, but she's eastern-European and everyone in her family has about 5 kids by the time they're my age, while I only have one. The matriarch of that particular family has 20 grandchildren, and is only a year older than my mother....who only has one.

I am at the tail end of 24, but I feel much older.  :?

I'm so freaking late to jump on that topic, but I'll still do it ;) ... the bad thing about that place is not the langauge barrier, but the complete ignorance of the fan-dom gathered there. It is much like the issue with the "put a bunch of crap on a table and call it free" ... most folks simply don't care if they download from a thief or the original creator.

So try and go complaining about the theft on the boards. You won't get a point there. A good friend of mine tried to, not only once and speaking for herself as well as English speaking creators, just to find herself in a flame  war of the finest sort. Maybe it has become better by now, I don't know, but in those days of Sims 1 and when Sims 2 was brand new, some German boards were a pain.

Well, I don't care if file sharing is considered illegal or not, but giving credit where credit is due is a must in my opinion. Good thing that I'm just a consumer, not a creator...

I absolutely think it's um funny? (cause irony is a literary devise) that some of the people who hang our with Sera can cast judgement on what we are doing.  I am not just talking solander here, but Teko, who likes to start his own wars with us over at the SFV... is still hanging out with a huge theif.  I mean Sera only steals others content, claims and as her own and then sells it as a donation.  Wonder why so many of her donations disappear?  

I guess the sim community forgets easily when it comes to creator disputes.  Who cares Sera was slightly modifying SimChic meshes and selling them, then which creator was it she did the sam thing to on TSR, I forget?  Who cares at one time in TS1 land exnem was wildy considered a theif because of stealing and claiming content from 8DS?  Sheeple will follow anyone.  Yuck.   :roll:

There's no 23. Only 18 and 24.

I'm 19. So I guess it makes me...18...sucks

Wow, guess I'm 24. Until I'm 30, right?

24 is good. I think I will stay 24 for a long time.

I don't like thinking about the fact that I am 27.

Hm...no, you're still 18. Until your next birthday. Then you'll be 24.

What do you get to be if you're 21?

Then you're 18, until you hit 24.

Does that mean that you're just a college freshman with a REALLY good fake ID?

Well, considering I really am a college freshman, I'll say yes.

Aw, I don't want to be 18. Doesn't actually stop me from doing anything that I can now, but it gives me false hope of a life not-yet-wasted, if I'm 18...

i'm 50 tomorrow .... groan
i think i am still 17

Well, if it's any consolation, there is no 50, only 48! :)

I'm 30 and I still think I'm 17. So I'm never really going to grow up, then?

Well I'm 20 and feel/act 45....   :oops:

I know a lot of twenty year olds probably say that, but I serisouly am middled aged. I have a mortgage, great job (not McDonalds), stable relationship, I'm A MEMBER OF A BOOK CLUB for chrisake... And this morning I was sitting with 'the mothers club' at work and I found myself complaining because MY SUPERMARKET STOPPED STOCKING MY FAVOURITE MAYONAISE!!!

*pulls hair out*



On the subject of Pimp My Sims, I absoloutely love this site simply for the fact that they allow you to upload their furniture sets with a house that you've built  :D


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I'm a college freshmen too and I'm 37.  Dahvyd, 45 doens't feel any diffrent than any other age really.  My husband is 41 and wears big dog slippers that I bought him, he is a child at heart.  I still feel extremely young at heart even if my body is screaming that it's getting older.  It's all a state of mind.

I feel 0 years old.

How does that feel exactly?  :lol:

So much necromancy today...:o

Hopefully when the kiddies go back to school the stupid will lessen somewhat.

It feels like 0 years old.

I am uncertain who came up with the brilliant idea of letting them OUT of school in the first place, ESPECIALLY when we no longer have coal mines to throw them in!

Damned child labor laws. :lol:

Give me year round school! I'm a teacher and that means I would get my vacation times staggered over the year rather than bunched up in the summers. I love me my vacations.