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Re: Weird Pics, funny posts or something new?
« Reply #2700 on: November 08, 2011, 10:40:00 AM »
Just let a sim sit down on the couch lol! You get a funny reaction from him

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« Reply #2701 on: November 12, 2011, 06:47:35 PM »
The horses blur out when they urinate?  Seriously?  But they still show the puddle forming underneath.  I wonder how that factors into the game rating.




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« Reply #2702 on: November 12, 2011, 07:27:21 PM »
I think I've done too much evolution study in Human Bio, because I just stared at this little guy for five minutes trying to work out what he was.  I wonder if EA based the skeleton on an actual species? I'm not very good at evolution, so it's hard to tell, Australopithecus afarensis maybe? Do you think you could post a side view?

Really? I thought it was Homo Neanderthalensis mostly because of the long arms (though neanderthaler is more of a nephew than an ancestor), but you could be right also.
I should need a look at his forehead in closeup to be sure though. I'm not a pro either.
It's not Homo Sapiens Sapiens, that's for sure.

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« Reply #2703 on: November 12, 2011, 10:38:24 PM »
Really? I thought it was Homo Neanderthalensis mostly because of the long arms (though neanderthaler is more of a nephew than an ancestor), but you could be right also.
I should need a look at his forehead in closeup to be sure though. I'm not a pro either.
It's not Homo Sapiens Sapiens, that's for sure.
^nerd. Lol.

@Csquared: haha that's funny

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« Reply #2704 on: November 12, 2011, 11:34:15 PM »
The horses blur out when they urinate?  Seriously?  But they still show the puddle forming underneath.  I wonder how that factors into the game rating.

Hosfac recently explained why EA placed the blur there, and on Sims when they urinate. I'll try to include as much of what he said as possible.

Maxis/EA has always inserted random little in-jokes, the most famous of which are "Reticulating Splines" and "Llamas".

Reticulating Splines has something to do with advanced mathematics, rendering, polygons, and textures, I believe. Since nobody (outside of the video-game industry) who doesn't hold a degree in advanced mathematics would have no idea what this means, it became a bit of a joke.

Llamas were the Sports team in a SimCity game, and since then have evolved to become a Sports team, and the little triangular warning signs that sometimes pop up in the top right to say stuff like "A social worker is on your lot!". The cheat enablellamas reportedly enables/disables them.

And of course, the blur. Technically speaking, if you were to remove the blur when a sim pees, it would make no difference - the sim would be sitting on the toilet seat, fully dressed, because a toilet is like a chair, in that context. All that hoo-hah about removing the blur and the Sim is stark naked - nope, that's not true (you can see, even with the blur, that a Sim is still wearing clothes). Just what the modder who created that mod programmed into it.

The oversized blur's nothing - just a little joke that EA put in.

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« Reply #2705 on: November 13, 2011, 06:25:25 AM »
Really? I thought it was Homo Neanderthalensis mostly because of the long arms (though neanderthaler is more of a nephew than an ancestor), but you could be right also.
I should need a look at his forehead in closeup to be sure though. I'm not a pro either.
It's not Homo Sapiens Sapiens, that's for sure.

You're right, the skull is a lot closer to neanderthalensis than afarensis, but our guy's ribcage doesn't seem to fit with either. Both afarensis and neanderthalensis have slightly flared ribcages, but this skeleton's set seems to go straight up and down. I think it's possible that EA wasn't going for accuracy and decided to just make up something that looked cool. I guessed afarensis mostly because of the famous "Lucy" skeleton, I thought the developers might have heard of her.

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« Reply #2706 on: November 13, 2011, 05:16:55 PM »
Ghosts float around when they move. They can go through walls. Yet, when they go up stairs they have to walk up them!?



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« Reply #2707 on: November 13, 2011, 11:37:59 PM »
Ghosts float around when they move. They can go through walls. Yet, when they go up stairs they have to walk up them!?

I assume its a pathing issue.

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« Reply #2708 on: November 14, 2011, 03:23:06 PM »
Freezer Bunny Gnome Riding a Llama!


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« Reply #2709 on: November 14, 2011, 03:27:12 PM »
Freezer Bunny Gnome Riding a Llama!



Hahaha! This made me laugh out loud! xD

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Re: Weird Pics, funny posts or something new?
« Reply #2710 on: November 15, 2011, 05:15:17 AM »
I went on vacation with my simbot and this is what happened to my sim when I got there.

This is my sim talking to a local. My simbot was running errands.


I tried to reset my sim and all sims and it didn't fix it...

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« Reply #2711 on: November 15, 2011, 06:09:05 AM »
I went on vacation with my simbot and this is what happened to my sim when I got there.

This is my sim talking to a local. My simbot was running errands.


I tried to reset my sim and all sims and it didn't fix it...

She's speaking to an ant! :P

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« Reply #2712 on: November 15, 2011, 11:44:50 AM »
Freezer Bunny Gnome Riding a Llama!


:D Good pic...made me snort coffee through my nose. :D

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« Reply #2713 on: November 16, 2011, 03:59:53 PM »
That sounds painful bshag.

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« Reply #2714 on: November 16, 2011, 05:05:50 PM »
I just saw a nude torso of a woman with extremely long fingers on top of a child's head.  The torso of the child was also missing.  I'd really like to post the screenshot, but I'm not sure if it would be allowed.

 

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