Welcome to the world of Chuck Taylors!

Essentially they are "hip, fashionable" tennis, high top type shoes. I don't understand the obsession with them though. When Rum nate said the "oxford" ones, those are the shorter version of normal chucks. Otherwise known as "lo-tops."

TSR is just trying to slowly take over the community with their tool. It's sad really.

As for Thomas refusing to convert their downloads, poo on them then. That just means that subscriptions will go down, because let's be honest, are you really going to pay for a website when you don't even know if you can use their content? And they aren't offering ANY solutions whatsoever? Thomas just shot himself in the wallet if you ask me.

Plus I really think he's trying to keep people that venture just TSR, in TSR alone. If he was to suggest using different package formats, they would have to leave TSR to get those programs, which potentially opens the doors to have their rear ends exposed. Personally, I don't see EA fixing this. Last patch it was .package files, and now it's the sims3packs? I am jumping on the bandwagon that EA does not want people to modify their game at all. Which is confusing to say the least, because if those dumbasses don't realize that being able to mod the sims (1, 2, and 3) is what will and has kept those games alive for so long.

At this rate I might as well go play kudos. It's cheaper, and works like it should even after patches.

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I do not expect someone to memorize these things, but by asking Paden to have her friends decompile your tool, they are breaking the EULA, thus it is regarded as invalid since breaking the EULA means that whatever they have of the tool should be destroyed. The third picture is the more interesting. Why would you need to add in that if any virus or worm harms your computer because of the tool, it's not IBIBI HB's fault?

I find it hard to believe. Just in that post alone, not only did he contribute sharing information, but when Atwat was making her "screenshots," he cheered it on. That alone shows me he has at least one foot in the bucket in this whole mess. Also considering when buggybooz account was hacked, Johan was the first on the scene here, and so far has been more fourth coming with information about it than anyone else from TSR.

Again, I doubt he is as involved as Thomas is. I really do believe that he maybe only experiences 20-30% of the drama, is told 20-30% of the drama by someone else, and reads the rest from coconut. Just by his replies he does not come across as knowing first hand information as to the situations that had occurred behind closed doors, but coconut has screenshot proof he has/had/more than likely still does, participate in the action.


I had forgotten that while typing my reply. I guess it is plausible that Thomas did not send Johan if Inge is willing to vouch for him. This makes me question then, as to WHY, now out of all these years, he is becoming so bothered with what is said here and at MATY. If Pes truly believes that Johan is not involved with any drama, then why would any statements made on either of those sites bother him? Why would he even be reading them if he stayed out of things?

Zillah-- I don't know about anyone else here, but I am on the fence about TSR participating here. Mainly because it would just seem weird to me to have one of the head people in charge of a website we are trying to destroy, becoming one of our own. I do think maybe on outside forums, such as MATY, GOS, or even Prism, could be better grounds for calling his participation too.

I am rather curious as to how much Johan actually distances himself from TSR's political side. Mainly because a quick search on coconut's blog will bring up results of him participating himself in the information sharing incident. Congratulating people for their finds. Not that I take Atwat's word, but his name has been mentioned in association with her's a couple times on the blog as well.

Not to mention this is the second time an issue has occurred that makes TSR look bad, that has Johan stepping up first. Could be because he's tired of it. Could be because he's in the dark, and truly believes there in nothing wrong. Just given those few instances I'm hard pressed to believe he avoids all the drama entirely.

I just have the hunch that he knows what goes on. Not from personal experience, but second hand. Whether it's through reading the news, because he has already admitted to reading coconut's blog, or whether it's because Thomas is filling him in. Just by his responses, and refusal to even acknowledge the possibility that someone close to him could be operating with different motives, show me that not all the dots are lined up on the peg board.

Agreed. If Thomas came here it would have become hell fire and brimstone.

To be honest, I prefer it to be Johan. Not because myself, along with others don't want to rip into Thomas, but it's just overall better. For one, we do not know how many people that frequent TSR, read here. We can always say that no one reads PMBD from TSR, but since this whole fiasco, I have seen more "lurkers" denounce TSR. What's to say that one person teetering on the fence isn't reading as well? And unlike TSR, this debate has provided two sides to the argument. We aren't just passing out the kool aid to sip it down.

In coming over here, there have been several things Johan has said that has been slapped down by other members, Pes, or even based off of what he said himself. I personally believe if people were teetering on the fence, and saw that several of Johan's statements weren't "congruent" or even really assuring, it would help them rethink the paysite debate, and their stance with TSR. Yes it can be deleted, but he basically said that he doesn't know Swedish law for privacy protection, and that before the huge hacking incident, did not have a mostly fail proof security protocol on their customer's information. Not to mention, even said it himself that they felt the sharing of information back in the day was justified. How would  you feel as a TSR customer reading that? Would you feel safe giving TSR your credit card information? Also said that even though their FA's are paid staff, they do not do any background checks whatsoever, and were willing to hand out sensitive information on the drop of a dime. Does that really make someone feel safe?

The way I see it, by him coming here the only thing he's done in my eyes is maybe not totally confirmed for 100% fact that everything coconut reports is true, but she at least has a wider general gist of what's going on behind the scenes than Thomas tries to lead people to believe. Hell, wasn't Thomas and Dot the ones that were chalking up those screenshots of the information sharing thread to be fake, and now we have Johan here basically saying they are true. That's just egg on the face on TSR right there.

So I personally don't see the people that are willing to discuss things as kissing his ass, or feeling a fake sense of safety. I just see it as trying to find out more about issues, discussing the finer details, and maybe even trying to help Johan see that mostly Thomas's name is used in association with TSR, but in reality if Thomas goes down in the fiery ball of flames, Johan goes with him. Not that I'm trying to advocate "saving" TSR, but if by having a conversation here has made Johan re-think their security issues, and actually take a moment to research their laws and make sure they are up to code, is protecting everyone in the community. Not that it's a guarantee that they won't get hacked or leak information again that is.

For two, if Thomas came over here, there would be no logical debate. I really don't even see Thomas and Pes talking to each other without someone making potshots. Not that that is a bad thing, but it definitely helps our cause when someone can be proven logically wrong, rather than seeing twenty people dog pile on Thomas, and then him running back to TSR to whine about the "mean dirty pirates" *sniff sniff* 


I'm not sure if your lumping me into that general statement about "people," but allow me to clarify. I would not believe for a second that Johan does not know what his brother does. Or even what has/does/or will happen behind the scenes. I personally believe that if Johan does know something, he will not admit it here. I don't take him to be as stupid as Thomas to do something that foolish. But if Johan is lying, there will only come a time and a place before the lies catch up to the story.


With this I do agree with. I don't believe for one second that Thomas did not send Johan here. For all those years, for Johan to just pop up is a bit suspicious. But it is also a blessing in disguise. Look at how Pes disproved Johan, on multiple accounts. Even Johan has slipped up with his own statements, such as the tax issue. I think Thomas sending Johan here will inevitably do more damage than good, and with statements already made, I think the damage has already begun in motion.

To just copypasta my reply from GOS:



I personally don't see it as the attitude of "not in the know" but rather "not willing to admit." I've seen it happen dozens of times where someone knows the truth, or at least part of a bigger truth, and denies it. Why, maybe because it's family. Maybe because it's friends. Maybe because he doesn't think along the same malicious lines as others at TSR. Either way, I don't necessarily "praise" him for coming here. I won't kiss his ass for it, but it is definately nice to actually try to reason with someone from TSR, and not some troll.

I believe Inge said it before, and I am somewhat becoming more and more accustomed to the thought, that I believe TSR would be different had Johan been running it. Maybe still a paysite, but maybe not as bad of a paysite as it has become.

Bah! Thank you for correcting that. My mind was a bit muggled about what the original saying of it was.

To me it doesn't matter if the event took place 6 years ago, or 6 days ago. As I once have seen Pes say, do something once and you show you have the capacity to do it, do something twice and you've developed a habit. (Or something like that.) You have openly admitted to sharing personal information once, and what is to make us believe that you will not do it again?

Not to mention, you still gave out your members personal information to people on your website that you have done no research into. Explain to me how you know whether or not ANY of your FA's are not identity thieves? Explain to me how you, as co-owner of TSR, is supposed to make your "customers" feel better about their personal information. Hell Johan, even if your not handing it out, just the pure fact that your database is unencrypted is just as bad, as we have already seen.

You deny that TSR has been apart of any hackings before, but then explain to me why Thomas's IP was found in Buggybooz log in data?

Yes that, I guess I should clarify that I am rather curious to know how many other people have been involved with Thomas's mind games? Was it only Inge he has spoken to or has it been other people? And if it's been other people, how many people have played into those games? I commend Inge for standing up for herself. I'm just curious as to how many didn't. Not like there's anything they could tell TSR that Thomas can't find out for himself, but I'm more or less curious as to how deep his level of contacts and grown, and in what ways are they helping him.

Bah humbug! Doe is it mean that I've been spending to much time reading PMBD that when I read that last bit about Blue, all I could think of was "What a fat head." 

I am rather curious, because if the petition was rendered inoperable, wouldn't the epetitions or whatever it was, know? Did Blue contact them when this happened? Because I see a huge issue there if they were contacted and just shrugged it off.

I am also rather curious as to how someone knew that the petition was hacked. Let's just say they did use her password, how would one find this out? And where is Blue? She's the one that posted that the petition was hacked so surely she would know better than anyone if it truly was, and if the list was sent to EA. I would HAVE to think that SOMEONE in the community knows how to get a hold of her other than sims boards.

Also with Inge, I'm glad that for once she came clean about some things. But now I am worried. By what she said, if she's not shit stirring () then that means that Thomas has been trying to wiggle his way into the community via those programmers. Why has none of those programmers come forward with that? Simple conversations are none to dangerous, but if he's trying to get some "juicy gossip" and the way he's doing it or the topics he's speaking of with other people just seems like he's trying to get the big names to praise TSR. Why are they not coming forward? The way I see it, Thomas isn't trying to get Inge's views since shes "paysite nuetral." He's just trying to get her to jump the bandwagon. Not to mention it's very clear that he is admitting, plain as day that they did share information, and that he has no problem with it.

I suppose that is true. Maybe not the fat head part because I wouldn't know.  Has anyone tried contacting the petition service she used and informed them of the events? Maybe there is something they can do about this situation.

To be curious, and probably stir the pot... I remember reading somewhere that Blue was the only person that was going to be able to see that list no? Am I wrong in thinking I read that somewhere? I am almost positive I did, because it was used as an "assurance" that real names could be provided.

I don't want to think that Blue would be involved, but let's be honest here. It's SUPER shady that the petition was pushed for so hard by her, she became somewhat defensive when I questioned the "effectiveness" of it, it was hacked by "unknown agencies," TSR is now sharing that information, and I have yet to see any response on GOS or here by Blue, two of the bigger sites I noticed that she was pushing for the petition. Please someone prove me wrong. (Literally, I am not trying to be a smart ass, but the inner conspiracy theorist is running rampant.)

New hair by nouk here  This is probably the best day ever!