Well, EA certainly hasn't treated the Mac Gaming community very well either. Yes, I know they will release Sims 3 for the Mac via a Cider emulation on the same day, but I still can't play it as I have an older Mac and refuse and don't have the money to buy a new Intel Mac. Yes, our ports were years and months behind the Windows releases and Pets was a total disaster that EA gave Aspyr hell over (Aspyr is the company that ports our Sims games). I have all the EP's Aspyr was allowed to port the last one being Bon Voyage which was released December 2007. Of the Stuff Packs that got ported I have Family Fun Stuff, Glamour Life and Happy Holidays. That's it. Period. And EA never released the patch for Bon Voyage to Aspyr to port! You know how I play it, with Pescado's mod. Yup, Pescado's mod to prevent duplicate vacation lot Townies. Do we want the rest of Sims 2? Hell yes. We've written EA and told Aspyr. Aspyr cannot do anything because they need the code from EA. Aspyr is just as frustrated as we are, so I don't blame them. I blame EA for being greedy jerks who care little for anyone who would love to support their game. As for boycotting EA with Sims 3, that's easy. Don't want it anyway.

But I will stand down off my soapbox for now. Has anyone spoken with Buggybooz recently? I hope she is doing well and will continue to create. I'm sorry she had all this nastiness happen to her and I think she makes wonderful things.

Well, I for one cannot "pirate" any Sims software as I run on a Mac. Sorry folks, no Intel chip or Windows OS on this G5. And I don't think anyone has "pirated" the Sims 2 for the Mac and if they did they would be for EP's and SP's I already legally own. As for movies or TV shows, I have either taped them on VHS from cable TV or DVR (again perfectly legal as I do not make copies other than for myself) or I watch them on Hulu or CBS.com. Again legal.

The only reason people here talked about "pirating" Sims 3 was because of SecuROM and not many people were going to go that route anyway as most have decided they don't want the game at all (at least not a first). As for the Booty, everything in said Booty is PAID FOR and is simply shared among friends. Get it right idiots. It's called File Sharing.

Geez, no wonder TSR is full of FAIL.

I agree with Ken. We need to look at the list of suspects. A) people who knew about the Shakeshaft content stealing thing when Buggy told TSR B) Who on the MTS forums knew her account had been tampered with C) Those who Buggy told outside of A and B. I would think the C option would be a handful of people and they would only know part of the story. Thanks Jonesi for the answer about the timing. I feel sorry for Buggy, but I am glad everything was restored at MTS.

I also think Darqstar has valid points about Coconut and I hope Coconut lays low until this is mostly over and can then post what she has from the "super sekrit" forums. I think this has a much more negative backlash than TSR thinks. From what I have seen around the community, TSR is not looked upon favorably at this point. A lot of people are not willing to give TSR a second chance.

I didn't see any pots on Shakeshaft's artist's sight. I think Steve has removed them.

Well, I hope people do contact outside sources. Some suggested X-Play, Penny Arcade, and few other gaming related sites and media outlets. Seriously, this does need to be told to people at large. Like Darqstar said earlier, she doesn't want some innocent family member buying her the game, sub, or whatever because they think "Oh, this is the perfect for Darq because we know she loves the Sims!". That adds more innocent people to the mix who don't even know what EA, TSR and lord knows who else have been up to.

I need to check out a few other Sims sites I frequent that aren't are the normal beaten path. I do want them to know what happened and that TSR has stooped to these low means. I think the more people that contact friends and media outlets the more they will realize something is going on.


I think Delphy is right. Ok, now flame me with Cat Macros and stuff. Delphy isn't supporting Thomas's excuse, but I do think he(?) is right to question who did it, why, and what exactly the heck is going on. I think he(?) strongly suspects Thomas, but to be honest (as much as I'd love to be proven right that it was him meaning Thomas), we should focus on what exactly did happen. I think somewhere in Coconut's journal are the IP addresses that Thomas did buy for Atwa or whoever. If this does match up, then I'd say Thomas is very likely a strong suspect. And I'd like to know (curiosity and all that with cats) if those IP's can be used outside of Sweden. If not, then that narrows the field considerably to just a few suspects.

Edit: To clarify pronoun

Didn't someone have a list of the IP's Thomas bought for Atwa? I think they were listed in Coconut's journal, but I can't remember.

Good point Darqstar. I think perhaps it might really be Anita with orders from Thomass as he keeps her around for just such emergencies. "Oh, look it wasn't me! It was that crazy Atwa person seeking revenge on me for having fired her as Artist Manager."

I showed Delphy's post about what happened to my husband (who does not play Sims at all) and he agreed that what they did was low. I still say it is TSR and they are blowing smoke to obscure the facts.

Basically yes, you summed it up nicely. We're pretty sure DOT's "tutorials" are indeed trying to discredit Coconut. If you or Delphy want to forward information to her, she does have a blog at http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/. Plus I'm sure some people here have direct contact with Coconut and can contact you privately how to forward information.

For what I have read on the BBS, people are really disgusted over this. I have not seen any support for TSR what so ever. I think Thomass has sunk his ship this time. Well, maybe not totally, but it would be nice if it did.

Thanks Delphy and HP for your information. TSR you are lower than dirt in my book. And Thomas, remember Karma is a bitch baby. What goes around, comes around.

I hope someone provides information to Coconut to post. That would be a good way also to spread the word as many do not come here for various reasons. This is just crass. I think TSR has sunk to new lows with this.

I was a student teacher under a bitch of a teacher for 1st graders. She yelled at a little boy because it was the first time his father had had to be away over night and wasn't going to be home and the child was upset. Instead of comforting the six year old she yelled at him "BE A MAN AND STOP CRYING!". That of course only made the child more upset. I handed the child a tissue to blow his nose and she looked at me as if I'd handed the child some illegal substance. If I knew then what I know now, I'd have stood up for the kids and told the principal what a two faced lying witch she was. She would fawn all over the principal when he was in the room, but when he left she'd say "That man doesn't know anything. I've been teaching for 25 years and he doesn't know how to teach kids!" I really wish I could have gotten her fired. The other teachers hated her and wished they'd had me instead of her. One teacher told me I was very creative and would make a wonderful teacher. I never did teach though.

If I ever did decide to teach, by gum I'd tell the kids why they have to learn certain things. I know certainly I respected the teachers who did that for me. And no the answer isn't "because the school board says so."

And Darqstar, they did the same thing to my grandfather when he was in school. He would have been naturally left handed, but he was trained to write with his right hand. But then he went to school around the turn of the last century so go figure. Poppa was very creative and made some of the neatest things. He made little windmills out of wood, toys for me and my cousins, my dollhouse, porch swings (I wish I had one of those) and repaired lawn mowers. He had the largest heart of anyone I ever knew and loved us all deeply. He died in 1990 at the age of 94.

And I think you are very talented and have made a lot of really wonderful things for the game. Oh, and write wonderful and funny stories too.

I graduated High School in 1980. It was a private high school here in the US and the only time I ever used a calculator in class (and it was required for the class) was my senior year of Trigonometry. We needed it for sign, cosign and tangent so we needed on the Texas Instrument calculators that were really good. I used that until I got married to balance the checkbook and then it died. I still miss that calculator.

I wish that schools taught the "whys" of math. When I was in college learning to be a teacher, the class I took to teach elementary school math used concepts to teach kids about numbers and what they meant. If I went to teach a school now, I know they would want me to teach the "garbage" they try to make kids learn now.

Yay for singing the Preamble! But yes, that's how I learned it. Schoolhouse Rock taught us so much. I have them most all on VHS and I love still playing them. In the News was good too as it talked about current events.