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1  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: TSR: IN UR COMPUTER, VIRUSIN' UR FILES! on: 2009 October 07, 05:32:47
Wow... deja vu

I'm quoting myself from almost 27 months ago but it seems it's the same discussion again...

I hate typing so this may be the longest thing i've typed in a year...  Smiley

I agree with hecubus about the general shift of attitude lately... I've been reading this forum for what seems like forever and it seems to me the intelligent conversations are few and far between now... seems like most threads go off topic too easily and too soon... (which one was the bra thread?)... I know threads derail here and at MATY and i'm used to it.... but it seems to happen too easily here....

I wouldn't call it cliquey here, but there is little effort made to include newbs in on a conversation...  I've seen very lucid posts from someone with only a few previous post and not one regular will acknowledge them ...  (I hate typing and all i can think of at the time is "yeah, I agree")

Pes has given all of us the power over thank you and Hi post... ignore them... don't post in them... refuse to acknowledge their existence... let them float to the ether that is page 2....  Yes Pes ... some stickies would be helpful

Pirates have a zest for life and enjoy interacting with the locals and the tourists... They drink their rum, sing a sea shanty or two and yell at everyone to come in and join the festivities... they should only draw out their cutlass when the paysites are spotted of the port bow and we need a boarding party....

oh yeah... and EA must think this place is filled with a bunch of fucktards..... seriously

If it was just a tsr lackey, posting that secret, just to start a fight amongst the pirates, it sure didn't take much.... but i'm more inclined to believe that the person was sincere with what they said.

When this site first started up, I felt it was something i'd like to become more involved in.. but at the time i was still very new to forums in general and, as i said then, I hate typing.

I watched and tried to contribute when i could, but I slowly realized that this site was becoming very cliquey and those new to the site were just ignored. It's always seemed to me, from the beginning, that there were just a few people who enjoyed each others thoughts and opinions and didn't want the noobs to spoil their playground.

I'd hate to see those that have been around here for a long time to flounce because they feel that their attitude isn't appreciated. This site needs their knowledge about the Sims community. However, an analogy for a moment, if i were to go to a new store in the area and I asked the first employee i saw "Where the Garlic Powder? and they replied to me "READ THE FUCKING SIGNS", I'd probably never go back there again. I wouldn't care if the Owner/Manager is an asshole with a fiercely glowing heart of gold (ssshhhh, don't tell him i said that) or the cashiers would fart hearts for me. If there's a chance i'd have to deal with that little shithead again... i wouldn't go back.

Doing a site like this is bound to attract the enemy as well as new friends and it's sometimes hard to tell the who is who. I can't remember what thread it was, but i followed it for pages, before I realized Paleoanth was a TSR defector. I think someone like that should have had their own thread started to bring that kind of important information to the masses. If only to give some of us a chance to say hello and have a conversation with her about her experiences there, her thoughts on PMBD, the sims community in general, etc.

I understand some of the regular posters know all this information and maybe don't think it deserves a thread on its own but... I DON"T FUCKING CARE!! this is supposed to be a site about information... the more easily read it is, the better.

I'd like to know about new shinies at free sites but there's no way i'm going to read through a 120+ page thread to see if there's something, i'd like now, that i didn't want 6 months ago.

I understand some of the regulars here don't like to see new threads started but... I DON"T FUCKING CARE!!

As I stated 27 months ago and as my father taught me.... If you don't have something civil to say to someone then don't say anything at all..... unless they reveal themselves to be a paysite associate and then all's fair.

I could probably come up with a few more things to say... but i hate typing and my brain hurts.

I just hope that everybody can digest the spirit of this conversation and throw out the ugly bits and help this site to grow into a better and more relevant site for the Sims 2/3 community.

Thanks for taking the time to read my rant.

PS. one suggestion... break up the "Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find" thread into categories and make some sort of graphical web pages featuring the finds... for instance i have very little interest in bodyshop items but I'd to know more about buy/build items.
2  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Re: Insim under new management! on: 2008 December 03, 09:26:58
I think this statement Walt made on the "Q&A" thread says it all....

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Let me be as clear as I can be. I had no clue that Kathy and Eric were telling you that they were not paying themselves for the work they were doing, that they were claiming that the only costs being covered were "server and domain" costs.

So, it seems that K&E admitted to Walt they were paying themselves.... but didn't tell anybody else.... poor Walt is poorer Walt
3  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Why do people make paysites? on: 2007 July 07, 23:50:27
I'm still waiting for the boobies!!  :shock:   option....
4  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / TSR IS A SUCK-ASS SUCKY WEBSITE on: 2007 June 17, 02:54:59
Cheesy    Cheesy    Cheesy  That's great Hecubus and congrats Sherrie...

I think TSR just got a lesson on how "legal/illegal" their contract is with the FA's and SA's...

TSR owns NOTHING!!!!   :twisted:
5  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / TSR IS A SUCK-ASS SUCKY WEBSITE on: 2007 June 11, 02:06:32
Quote from: "SnarkyShark"
                                                                                        At this point in the game, if he doesn't his legal representation has shit for brains. And if Thomas's wife does leave him I hope it's for Pescado. (hee)


This is what I mean... I'm sure Thomas is well aware of what rights the creators actually have versus what rights the creators think they might have... He could con one of them to turn out something real special and then not pay them and there's nothing they could do about it except bitch... I don't, for a moment, believe Thomas is a dumb business man...

Pescado....heeheeheehheee    :lol:
6  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / TSR IS A SUCK-ASS SUCKY WEBSITE on: 2007 June 10, 21:53:37
Quote from: "CaptainJojoba"
It is and isn't "legal" if for any reason they were caught they could claim to be an independent contractor or Self Employed (if they are here in the US) and claim that they made less than $600.00 per year. This would mean though that they would have to have some sort of print out to prove the dollar amount was $600.00 or less OR Thomass gives them a 1099-Misc. showing the same with the box checked for $600.00 or less.


I don't think these artist realize what kind of trouble they could get in if the authorities started doing some investigating of the whole TSR business... If the artist were to actually claim an income to pay taxes then they are admitting that they are "selling" a product that they don't have the rights to sell... if they don't claim the income for taxes then they could get in trouble for tax evasion... That's what they did in the '30's to get some of the mobsters... i think it was Al Capone that went to jail for tax evasion.

If i was a FA i'd jump ship as soon as possible before EA started getting involved... if EA did get involved and published all the names of the artist, i'm sure all the governments involved would want their share of taxes owed... Goods and services taxes as well as income taxes...

Maybe a couple of quick questions to some of the governments involved would cause a little more attention in TSR's direction  :twisted:

What if Thomas's wife were to suddenly want out of the marriage and wanted a piece of TSR, Thomas could take the money and run and the "artist" couldn't do a thing about it because they have an illegal contract with him... I'm sure Thomas knows how legal/illegal the contracts are....
7  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / This is PAYSITES must be destroyed, people. on: 2007 June 10, 21:28:42
Thank you Hecubus...

I was beginning to think some evil Paysite owner *coughThomascough* had spiked the rum..   :evil:
8  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Look at what I made and worship me! (Post Your Creations) on: 2007 June 10, 21:21:30
Help!!! Could someone poke me in the direction of a tutorial for combining top and bottom clothing meshes.... maybe i'm stoooopid, but i looked and looked and couldn't find anything... i found one to split a full body mesh but not the other way around....

Thanks  Smiley
9  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / TSR IS A SUCK-ASS SUCKY WEBSITE on: 2007 June 09, 21:44:15
The reason i was asking... I ran into an old teacher of mine the other day... I took a business administration course and he taught business law... I eventually got around to the controversy with the sims and mentioned TSR and he reminded me " the courts won't enforce an illegal contract"... because if the creators don't own the "rights" to their creations then they don't have any rights to sell them either.

So if the "creators" don't own their works, then TSR has no recourse if a "creator" decides to break the contract and put their works somewhere else... Has this ever happened? What was TSR's reaction?

This is an interesting angle... the teacher mentioned that the only legal contract that TSR could enter into would be with EA... :twisted:

So i'm curious what the contract is with "artist" and TSR...

Thanks for the linky Mac...
10  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / TSR IS A SUCK-ASS SUCKY WEBSITE on: 2007 June 09, 20:21:03
Just a quick question.... When someone is "hired" to be an SA or FA on TSR, is there a contract?  :?:   What does the contract say?
11  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Seen The Front Page Lately? on: 2007 June 07, 18:58:39
When and Why did this become an official killmark? Was there a letter of surrender?  :twisted:
12  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Look at what I made and worship me! (Post Your Creations) on: 2007 June 02, 23:16:26
Conundrum... controversy... what to do??  :?

I made some converts of some clothing for the meshes from Watts459 at Insim... http://www.insimenator.net/forumdisplay.php?f=294 using a tutorial on insim... http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=41045

I'm really happy with some of what i've done so far and i'd like to post them there for 2 reasons.... first, my own selfish reasons, i'd like the creator to do more and i thought doing these might give him a little incentive... second, to let other downloaders know they can make their own clothing without waiting for recolours from other creators...

I just found clothing in my download folder that i already had in the game and used that, so for 80% of it, I don't know who the creator is... of course i have no plans at all to take credit for doing anything other than following a tutorial...

Should i post them ? should i just give a general credit to who i assume the clothing came from? I don't have the time or the patience to wander the sims sites trying to figure out where the originals came from... of course having something more than "for so and so" or "www.sims2site.com" in the tooltip would have helped a lot... of course some of it is pay stuff so i'm not to worried if i hurt their little feelings...

What to do? What to do? Kathy? :?
13  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Big Name Fans in the Sims 2 world? on: 2007 June 02, 08:20:17
My faves..

ChristianLuv... All-In_one Npc's, Clothing Rack, Buyable Thinking Cap
Squinge.... cuz i can have YA's go to college without a UniSubHood
The Awesome Ones.. cuz they're awesome and i'm not
Inge... cuz i can have apartments and prisoners.... bwahaha
BeosBoxBoy and Marvine..... meshes and clothing and their inspiration to others

and the 1/2 dozen others i'll think about after i post this ....
14  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / I have a treasure on: 2007 April 25, 06:26:32
Quote from: "Ensign EO"
Dude, whatever.  Creating textures for clothes and hair is, like, way hard and takes YEARS to finish just one outfit and one hair.

I've read this over and over and don't see the slightest bit of humour in it.... droll or otherwise... :?
maybe our efforts here would be more successful if we didn't drive away the people that are helping us fight the good fight.... :?:

Quote from: "Ensign EO"
I don't think I should have to point out when I'm being sarcastic, do I?

maybe You should
15  The Pirate Ship / ARR! / Fashion Factory?? on: 2007 April 15, 18:58:53
This is where i got it..   http://www.mininova.org/tor/647884

but i saw it on a couple of other sites too... isohunt and btjunkie...

I could upload it here if needed... just let me know... Smiley
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