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1  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: A Very Interesting Discovery... on: 2008 June 05, 01:17:23
My TOU: No permission required to use any of my meshes in movies/stories/screenshots or to recolour. Mesh may be included with recolours or in lots on FREE sites only. Please also give credit and a link back to Natural sims.  You may upload recolours only to paysites and you must give credit and link back to the mesh at Natural Sims.  You may not upload to the exchange under any circumstances.  Do not upload and claim as your own.  You may clone the mesh if you want but only if the clone will be uploaded to a free site. Thank you for respecting my TOU. gayle_afcb www.naturalsims.com


You have a very generous TOU .. personally, I wouldn't even allow recolors of my meshes at a paysite: why let them profit off my work?

Of course, since I have all the talent of a cockatoo let loose with finger paints, I don't have the above to worry about.
2  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Numenor's Opinion of pay vs free on: 2007 August 25, 03:51:58
Quote from: "Feverish"
Quote from: "missangelica"

Quote from: "Numenor"
Numenor Moddings is a paysite? Must it be destroyed? You can think whatever you want; I think that it's like shooting at the Red Cross.


If the Red Cross tried to make me pay to get their food/water, yes I'd shoot them.


You know what? One year the river here flooded big time.  The little town to the north of us was awash.. but our house was high enough to be high and dry.  The Red Cross came by and was almost crying because we wouldn't take anything from them.  Although my kitchen could have used a new mop, broom and cleaning supplies , I kept telling them we didn't need anything.  Finally I allowed my children to accept some granola bars.

My point:

Rum is good, banoobies is better and any content created for Sims games should be given from the heart .. just as the funds raised and the volunteer time are given from the Red Cross. Numenor needs to get over himself... I'm glad that Gnohmon (Sims 1) is free and fileshare friendly!

I wonder how hard it would be for Pescado to come up with a CEP with his own twists to it?

~misty
3  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline on: 2007 June 21, 20:36:26
This is interesting coming on the heels of simlogical getting hacked recently.  

Who's next?  Hopefully.. no one.  And even more hopefully at some point karma bites the perps on the butt.
4  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / LMAO off at Vita Sims "donation" celebrity heads.. on: 2007 April 11, 17:50:12
Quote from: "Lorelei"
Point me to pix. I'll sock them away for when I have free time. Smiley


Take your pick

I prefer the clean cut Law & Order look.. but he was hot as that serial killer in The Cell!

<wipes off the drool>

~misty
5  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / LMAO off at Vita Sims "donation" celebrity heads.. on: 2007 April 11, 03:16:13
Quote from: "Lorelei"
Quote from: "calalily"
Lorelei - I think they're pretty good - very realistic representation of the people concerned.


Well, cool! Thanks for that.

I'm uploading the Law & Order Sims .RARs today. Same address as above.

(snipped)


Please to be informing me when/if you do a Bobbie sim.. I love Donfrio! My hubby looks a bit like him.. if I tilt my head and squinch my eyes just right  :lol:

~misty
6  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Help! With FTP on: 2007 January 15, 05:02:05
Quote from: "BlueSoup"
OK, I think I figured it out now but man, is this a giant, fiddly pain in the ass!!

Thanks for your help all. Smiley


If your site is going to be anything like mine.. ie anything under the sun... you'll want to add directories under public_html.. stuff like "sims2", "catpix", music.. and then under each of those sub-directories add specific directories.. just like you would in your sims2 downloads file.

It makes it much easier to find stuff ;-)  I'd just copy the stuff you have up already and "move" them to their new directory(ies).  

If other people are already linking to specific pages.. slap redirects on the html of the linked pages to their new homes for..say.. a month and then delete them.  If this is a fresh site.. just move them ;-)

I save that upper level area for important stuff.. just directories.. once inside the public_html area I add all my sub-directories and only have a few gifs that I will use throughout my site.. like a particular 1x1.gif that is just a blank pixel which I use to place images/text precisely where I want them (using size attributes). And also my index.html page.. the "front door" to my site.

~misty
7  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Help! With FTP on: 2007 January 15, 04:34:01
Quote from: "BlueSoup"
No, I know how to use FTP.  And I've read that particular article.  I just don't know where to upload the actual zip files so I can find them to link them for the "pics you click to download".  Understand what I mean, because I'm not even sure I understand lol


Ok.. when I Mifile my stuff.. it goes to my public_html directory.. which is the directory that has all my website pages/files in it (ie not my email directory nor spam assassin etc). I can do my html and view it from the directory. There are buttons to click to create directories , webpages etc.

on my freebie account I "go into" my website directory and browse/upload from my pc. I can do my html etc from there. The basic structure is there.. I just click buttons to have things happen (like make a directory).

On my hubby's isp website.. you only see the website via the ftp client (yuck).  All work/pages is/are done on our pc only and then uploaded. But MiFiles is easy to use to create directories etc.. just sux having to do it all remotely.. when I'm used to doing it the other way.

I don't know how godaddy has its sites set up..

So once you log in to godaddy.. what kind of structure do you see? A .jpg would help to determine how you are to work around in it.
8  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Help! With FTP on: 2007 January 15, 04:08:18
Here's the FAQs for godaddy:

http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=96&topic_id=114

So.. do you have an ftp tool on your pc? I use MiFiles http://www.simdata.com.au/products/miFiles/miFiles.htm  easy enough for me to install and use ;-)

Any other help you might need? (I know sometimes I need more than to read a faq.. having someone walk me thru stuff helps it stick.)

~misty
9  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Dedicated Server on: 2007 January 14, 20:53:59
I sent a bit.  Although I downloaded a ton a while back.. I really didn't keep much of it in my downloads.. but I do use MATY hacks.. and do like what I kept.. so I don't mind sending some money to help out!

Also.. I have a ton of space at my website if it comes down to needing to farm out files.

~misty
10  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / And on into the future on: 2006 December 30, 07:42:28
Quote from: "Lemmiwinks"
Thank you, Inge for posting that link. How can it be made more available and visible to the community?
And just how big is this community anyway? In the Sims1 days, I viewed Inge, Wilf and other popular hackers as some sort of  superstar celebrities.
Then it rurned out that the community is small enough that anyone who wants to talk with you, can.
I still feel a great amount of respect for you, because I know of what you have done. The newbies probably do not know who you are and think if you don't have a paysite your opinion is worthless.
A sort of "Anti-Paypal" button would be an interesting possibility.
I think I will have another beer and stop rambling.
Cheers!


Well, those of us with websites could either write up something similar or point towards Inge's page. Any sigs could point to the same thing(s) as well.

The only thing lacking is a pointer towards EA's actual stance.. something definitive such as an URL towards the EULA or something.

~misty
11  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / a request...but not for booty on: 2006 December 25, 17:12:26
Quote from: "Lemmiwinks"
Hi mistymage! I see you are hosting Gnohmon's old Sims 1 stuff. He once made an end table that randomly changed a Sims hight and body shape. He named it after me. "The Lemmiwinker".
Useless info, I know, but I lost my copy of it. Sentimental value only.  :lol:


I remember seeing you two discuss that via the usenet ng plus it's in the .txt for the 'winker  Smiley  .. so every time I see your nic I think "Lemmiwinks -->Gnohmon-->the Lemmwinker" .. but South Park also pops into my head! I love that episode.. the music, the imagery .. and the hamster most of all.

If you didn't find the Lemmiwinker .. here 'tis on this page:
Lemmiwinker page
12  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / a request...but not for booty on: 2006 December 25, 05:35:08
Quote from: "joannajuen"
I'm only trying to help you. I'd hate to be forced by the laws of the playground to pour a carton of milk on your head and then make up a mean rhyming nickname.


Pervy scurvy?

That's all folks!

signed

misty pisty (sigh... but at least that was decades ago)
13  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / just random thoughts on: 2006 November 19, 02:41:22
Quote from: "Blue"

I dont think it was incomplete. Why I said it? Just statistics I guess.

If I remember correctly EA Games sold about 8 million sims2 games (and I'm not counting the illegal copies which are an other couple of millions I guess).
Do you really think that all 8 million are educated?


I'd guess that anyone who has access/owns a pc is educated .. to what degree depends on how you define it.

Quote from: "Blue"

Or just the ones who come here?


Again .. anyone who has access to a pc can come to PMBD ..  and that's not limited to whether they play sims or not .. I'm sure quite a few have stopped by for the trainwreck/flamewar effect.

Quote from: "Blue"

Why take it upon themselves anyway?  


Hunh? Could you clarify by what you mean? Cos I don't see the effort involved in clicking a few links/pages and reading along or even posting a comment.


Quote from: "Blue"

Someone mentioned that nobody is forced to read anything.  Well, I'm not a medium to know what's behind a title. I'm sorry. I'm really not interested how the guy gets laid. Its his private affair.


Are your fingers broken? Does the "back" button elude you? There's quite a bit on the net that needs be ignored .. threads posted here being the least of which I'd be afraid of seeing/reading.

Now.. just how does one tell the education level of a poster? L337 speak, texting speak,  foreign to the English language and drunk speak   :lol:  can all cause one to read more into a post than need be.

Obviously anyone who has made it as far as PMBD is pc literate .. what their grammar level is, is moot.

So .. what defines an educated file grabber?

Perhaps one who realizes that paysites suck and that Ea's/Maxis' leniency has been taken advantage of.....
14  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / EA: All Your Mesh Are Belong To Us on: 2006 November 14, 14:15:14
Quote from: "MMEStalker"
I do write myself, and I don't show it to other people, simply because I've never yet written anything I'm happy enough about to show others. If I ever do, I will try to listen to criticism and learn from it, however unpleasant I find it, just like I had to do through my 'A' Levels and my degree. Where do these people get the idea from that criticism is bad?


Well, if they are American they get it from being raised and schooled that way.  Precious can never do wrong and we'll just pass you along.  

I write stories and bad poetry ... but I know that my end results aren't all that great .. I write for myself and, sometimes, for my kids.  Then again I don't push for accolades or anything beyond an email link on the page (mainly for "it's broken!!" not for "Oh my gawd that was cool!").

When I was writing, back in my webtv days, I was a member of a club/newsgroup where we would post our stuff. No one but me ever actually critiqued the stories.  It was all "cool!", "great job!", and "more!". I, on the other hand, would spot big (1) grammar mistakes, mistypellings or dropped thoughts (where an idea was started but not finished). Before I could point that out I would first be sure to drop compliments .. elsewise my messages would have been ignored.

I always wished that others would have done the same for me.. because an honest evaluation of my work would only have improved the final outcome.

To get back to the sims.. I'm getting ready to put up some walls, floors and maybe a bit of recolored furniture. I know that this stuff is Oh So Not great .. but I do want to share.  I do love being part of a community and I enjoy giving back just a little, especially compared to how much I've "taken" over the years. Gives me the warm glow of belonging that webtv gave me in days of yore.

~misty

(1) huge glaring mistakes because I really suck at grammar and the intricacies of most of it escapes me.
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