Jess: suffice to say that it sucked, caused a lot of hassle for people, and was extremely childish and destructive.

Took me a while to post as often as I once had after the board-plosions. (Now I don't post as often because life is crazy busy. I still read!)

Had she merely souped off in a huff, or huffed off in a soup, that would have been obnoxious enough. Flouncing is for the self-important drama llamas. Souping ups that x9000.

Instead, she decided to try to burn everything down and then salt the earth, but was thwarted by Pescado having her number and pre-empting any serious or permanent damage. So a few hours' got lost. We're busy enough that all the ZOMG!!!einz1! after the soup'n'crash pretty much distracted everyone. Better even than shiny objects and cake.

Stop encouraging them, Cala! *scold*

They shouldn't get any more of your delicious cookies and rum money until they fix their bad crap make amends for the SecuROM fiasco.

Eek!

That brings back memories. I think I had a neighbor with that same Patriotic pattern in a lovely colour combination of golden mustard and mushroom grey/brown ("greige").

This calls for an SAT word: schadenfreude.

I don't normally rejoice when someone gets fired, but when it is well-deserved, I can't help but eat some celebratory cookies and chuckle a lot.

Seems like she's still there and still getting paid to narc, so perhaps her duties as Stupor Spai are expanding, and the demotion from FA is to lure some into false complacency where she is concerned.

What a dysfunctional place TSR is.

You know, I can't say I'm surprised.

My suspicion is that the price hike is indirectly our fault: fewer n00bz are paying for crap they can get free (as should be). Perhaps we should consider it an indication that people are wising up, and TSR's profits are dropping.

It just reeks of desperation and sneaky greed.

Did you bring the cushions?

Welcome, youngster, to the land of Pirates who do not actually "pirate". Everything here is paid for and freely shared! Please help yourself to our booty.

(You see what we did there? We were accused of pirating software, and, LULZ!, we thought that was hilarious and ran with it. Don't accept everything at face value. A good life lesson, no?)

To answer your question, the Pescado Rule Of Ages is that they all must be divisible by 6. This makes it easy for him to remember who is approximately what age. He is old and has a long beard and is busy making cool stuff and beating down trolls. Roll with it.

You are 0 until you are 6. You are 12 until you are 18.

Naturally the older members of his sites embrace this system wholeheartedly. We love being 30. Or whatever. The younger members tend to be a little less excited about the concept.

Necromancy is the "art" of raising from the dead threads that have not had any new posts for more than a couple of weeks. Even then, you're pushing it. Do not revive old, dead threads. They are stinky and tend to fall apart and leave gooey nasty slimy stuff on our freshly-swabbed planks.

As Pooki & Ensign EO said, with admirable restraint, the FAQ is your friend. Find it, read it, love it, follow it.

PROTIP: It is a standard procedure, when coming to a new 'net joint, to seek out the FAQ and to LURK MOAR.

Now go forth, and sin no more.

How can we forget The Kittunz?

Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....

Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and causing paysites butthurt with the booty....

Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and paysiter butthurt...and DEATH BY LOLCATS!!!einz!1eleventy!....

Our *four*...no...

*Amongst* our weapons....

Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise....




I'll come in again.

Sorry--did you mean me? And the 3 rebuttals re: alleged content, above?

If so, no; but I welcome anyone who wants to do so to feel free, as long as my facts are correct.

Since I was asking for verification, and was not 100% sure of my data, someone else who is more clear on those facts can run with it.

LOL, mando.

That's so wrong that it is right. 

I'd like Scurvy Dog for known Trolls, Wannabe Pirate for Lurkers, Buccaneer for Members, Corsair or First Mate for the booty goddesses, Captain for Pes, and Swashbuckler for Members over a certain amount of posts.

But I doubt that will come to pass.

Wonderful news. 

We will help you in any way we can. We support all freesites here. Let us know what we can do if you need help affording hosting costs.

Your comments about donation sets and money "not being spent on yachts but on hosting" implied that some of your files require a payment before being downloaded. That is what we referred to when we advised you that this was against EA's EULA. It appears there was a misunderstanding. If so, I regret my mistake.

To clarify:
Having a donation button that is optional and not tied to donations IS legal. Several freesites have donation buttons, but all their files remain free.
Making donations mandatory before releasing files is equal to selling them, and thus those are not actually "donations" but an exchange of money for goods or services, and that IS NOT legal.

So, again, I am glad to have this matter clarified. And, again, let us know how we can support you, if you are indeed a freesite. We are always happy to welcome talented creators and to assist, advise, and protect them in any way possible.

Also, if your site is now a freesite, your former pay items will soon be removed from the Booty (unless you wish to have us provide "backup hosting"! )

I have questions!!

OK. A thirteen-year-old was in second grade? Tell me this was a typo, or that you don't teach second graders anymore. Getting left behind in first grade 6-7 times is just wrong, yo!

A thirteen-year-old can't make her own lunches? I'll give her a pass if Mum is too lazy to buy groceries, but if there is food in the house, a child that age should know how to scavenge for and prepare meals by then. Amirite?

A thirteen-year-old doesn't "know" she is a vegetarian? (Sounds like "they" aren't veg, only Dumb Mum is!  )

Gah, my mom taught kids that age. Yikes. I don't envy you. However, the rewards for getting them to learn are probably worth the hassles most of the time.

@Devilfish: Wait until those teachers learn about re-certifications, summer school, continuing ed, required business conferences, pre-planning, and much more.

@Romain: Selling anything for any reason is against EA's EULA that you agree to when installing the games. The "bandwidth loophole" ended with Sims 1. Free hosting is available. If the money is truly for hosting, then it would behoove you to stop enabling someone to break the law and piss off most of the Simming community. Help her go free, talk to the folks here who want to help creators create and NOT break the law or look weaselly to fellow Simmers.