The key there is tense. "TSR believed EA was going to". That's not what they told members. They were consciously deciding to state that it had already changed based on the straw man that was the Content Manager EULA. And we now have pictoral proof of Thomas coaching Tomato into the same thing. TSR ignored two old adages "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched" and "Always get it in writing." And now? They look like schmucks. Justified? Sure.

Yup, EA dicked out on everyone equally.

Me either. I choose to believe the discrepancy between the contact we were getting and the contact they were getting was some sort of right hand/left hand situation over in California. Goodness knows EA does not excel at communications or logical business decisions.

I believe the thread at TSR I posted in regarding EULA and legality was right around the time of the thread start (September 2007). At that time, they said they had been having meetings and phone calls with EA employees and that EA was sympathetic to their cause. They didn't say anything about the game/Homecrafter/BodyShop EULA changing. They said the EULA had already changed...that the version which was clearly only for the Content Manager was the new EULA. "Our" side was not helped by Miss Misinformation of SecureROM (intentional mispelling) fame, MaxoidDrea.

Of course, my stance at this time and to this day is that meetings and phone calls mean exactly diddly. It needs to be in writing. We had communication from EA Legal during the same time period (in writing) stating that paysites were violating the EULA and that filesharing of paysite files was supported by EA (I'm paraphrasing, but pretty dead-on).

I do believe that TSR met with someone over there and that they thought they were going to get the legal go-ahead to charge for CC. However, they've never produced anything in writing (and I called them out asking for it before) and they posted blatant lies to mislead community members into support their cause.

Neither do I. I'm like that in real life (well, I do say thanks)...I don't give compliments unless I really, really mean them. I hate polite compliments. They aren't real. So if I do comment on something, you know I absolutely love what you made.

I also don't expect thanks or compliments. They are nice, but I don't do things for validation.

I about lost my lunch when I read it. I understand being attracted to someone like that. I have my own person that I have this ridiculous immediate bond and attraction to. But he's not married. I can't imagine letting yourself dwell on an attraction to someone who is taken like that, nor speaking about it to other people. I'm blunt. I don't have much of a filter when it comes to my boy-craziness. But I would never have spoken to someone like she did. It was disgusting (notice the correct spelling).

So do I. I cry when I'm frustrated, but also when I'm touched. If I ever have one of those "oh, so-and-so really cares about me!" moments, I start bawling. My one doctor actually wanted me to try drugs for depression as she was one of those touchy-feely types who cared so dang much for everyone and was constantly being super-sweet and starting me up on the crying. So she thought that meant I was sad, when really I was thinking that she was the sweetest person in the world and how lucky I was to know her, and I couldn't hold the happy in.

Oddly, I almost never cry when I'm sad in front of people. I cry very little in private, too.

Tomato, friend request sent. Same name as here.

Quite the exaggeration, and probably contributed to Jfade's overreaction. Cart & cartload for Pescado. I'm torn between smacking Pescado (pointless) and chiding Jfade for taking anything he says as he says it.

Didn't you post on your normal account that you've been using for months at least? I call bullshit.

Of course. We know these are old screenshots from the time the thread was actually active.

Well, if that's true they got fucked up the ass. You'll pardon me if I don't cry for them.


Zube, I have to take your statements with a big grain of salt. You've only made two posts. We don't know who you are, and you have insider information? It doesn't seem plausible. Screenshots or it didn't happen.


*proceeds to catch up since Saturday was craziness, whilst giving Calalily dirty looks for the fail joke*

The key is maximizing your sim multiplier early on by unlocking the districts. That's an instant SM of 15, plus your starter 1. Additional points are gotten by building community lots, at 1 pt per 5 lots (plus 1 for your first lot). So get 5 player-owned community lots for the Business District, get one sim to donate a mil for a University lot (easiest way if their family is the one running all those businesses and taking the money perks). Easy 13 SM. Then chug out community lots (I'd endow them, plus add 1 lot/4 houses) to up the multiplier until you reach a virtual 25k and get a downtown. At that point, you get the 5 sim multiplier addition that automatically takes you over the 50k goal.

The major loophole? You can "add" another Business district with each 5 community lots, giving you 6 more points (1 for 5 lots, 5 for another district). So in truth, 5 community lots are always worth 6 points, not 1.

Nope, just random typing. They all contain parts of letters. Most don't have entire letters.

She has a facial tattoo (one of the many I recolored primarily for my aliens as they are nice and subtle) she's totally going to regret when she's 60. And she's a near-fluorescent redhead who runs a pie diner and is expecting her second child.

It's a fun challenge due to the goals and how easily I can modify it with some of my usual rules. I've already temp-unlocked the Culinary career, am halfway to temp-unlocking Business, and have an SM of 2.

Considering that the current EULA is a newer version than the Content Manager EULA and part of the changes included even stronger "noncommercial" statements, I find this hard to believe. Where exactly did you get this information? From Thomass?

The earlier pic is the SC4 region. And yes, it was made by placing letters in different fonts and greyscale levels on a properly sized .png file. I like doing random things in Photoshop and seeing how they'll turn out on an actual terrain. The great thing is that the north half of the region has areas that easily give near-level beach lots. Download link, in case you have SC4 and want to cut your own roads.


I only have a couple "cities" that I've smoothed and paved. One has way too much liveable area for my taste. The other one is this:

I placed beach lots. Download link

The founder is Alani Merritt, now Alanii Thunderfist as she married a sim called Koit Thunderfist (coolest random name ever) after her first beau lied to her about how much money he had, presumably to get her into bed. Koit had less money but at least he's not a lying bastard. I'm playing the BACC challenge while throwing in more curves from my usual playstyle.

I think she's Missbonbon's.

No, instead it was updated December 12, 2007. The new copy is still in AL.

All they've done is make it even more clearn. "Any commercial use is prohibited."

Thanks, Missbonbon, and Crunk, for the simmies. I'm starting a new 'hood because I thought making new SC4 terrains using letters would be interesting. It is. I need founders!

...especially if it was linked as related to another unofficial music video.

I seriously want to see copies of that, too. But I'd understand if Coconut (or her connection, as Coconut's status is not known) wants to sit on that for a bit.