SamFlash

Sounds like a great tool for beginners and advanced players alike. I applaud your efforts and wish you great success.

Sometimes we come face to face with the fact that it may be time to relocate. The big question is: where to? Here are some tips. You can live in Phoenix, (AZ) where: 1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade. 2. You've experienced condensation on your butt from the hot water in the toilet bowl. 3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town. 4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food. 5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door. 6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! You can Live in California, where... 1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house. 2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway. 3. You know how to eat an artichoke. 4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party. 5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is. You can Live in New York City, where... 1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan. 2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map. 3. You think Central Park is "nature," 4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual. 5. You've worn out a car horn. 6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression. You can Live in Maine,where... 1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco. 2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas. 3. You have more than one recipe for moose. 4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons. 5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction. You can Live in the Deep South, where: 1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store. 2. "y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural. 3. "He needed killin' " is a valid defense. 5. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, Bobbie Jean, etc. You can live in Colorado, where: 1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car. 2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and he stops at the day care center. 3. A pass does not involve a football or dating. 4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail. You can live in the Midwest, where: 1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name. 2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor. 3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day. 4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?" 5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!" AND You can live in Florida, where: 1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon. 2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars. 3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist. 4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state. Add your own..............

Date: 9/25/2005 5:15:20 PM Author: Madhollander @ samflashjr could you tell me how u figured it out, i cannot seem to get any dammd bridge over my stream After creating the river go back to where you want a bridge and bulldoze a path across the river. Use the terraforming tool for lowering land and create a small hole in the middle of the riverbed. It only needs to be deep enough to cause a bridge tool to appear when you drag a road across so don't go crazy with it. Experiment and you'll get it easily. Hope that helps. [Mod Edit - This by tutorial by dedgren will help; How to Make a Land Bridge ]

Nice looking map DP. Vandy can give you any help you might need if you encounter any problems in the rendering. I'm looking forward to where you go from here.

I've always been careful about not having any duplicate .dat and .SC4Lot files in my plugin folders as one of the first things I learned here in 2004 was that duplicates slow down the game. Recently I decided to check for duplicate .SC4Desc and .SC4Model files and came up with a ton of them. They have the same name and same size but are paired with different lots. My question is - can they be safely deleted or does each lot need it's own model file and description file? How do different lots share the same model file? Moderator - If this is the wrong forum to post this question in then please move it to a more appropriate forum.

There are games and there is real life. Games are meant to be enjoyed for a season, real life is meant to be lived. You richly deserve the best of everything that real life has for you. Thanks for sharing the last two years of your life with us.

Hey, we're doing better. England, Wales and Scotland have been heard from as well as Northern Wisconsin and the Florida Keys. As far as Starbucks is concerned, we have one here in Los Angeles that was torn down in order to build a larger one. I guess they wern't making their quota of lattes.

Originally posted by: micromanager I tried...and I failed. I dezoned every last non-agricultural industrial zone, removed connections to other industrial cities, and zoned some more agriculture in a desirable place. What happened was essentially the Great Depression - no more jobs, people start leaving, etc. I even raised taxes on other industry types - they all decreased, but the Ag demand still stays stubbornly at zero.I have given up. Thanks for trying to help.quote> The game goes in a natural progression from small towns to big cities. Start out with farms and you can keep some of them , if your dilligent, as you grow your cities. Going the opposite way is almost impossible. Sims will not leave the city for farm jobs. They'll just leave completely. Deleting all your industry was a mistake. Even with mostly farms I still have some hitech and medium industry to keep my sims happy. Sorry to hear what happened to your city. Reverse your action and it will probably come back in time. Next time build some farms first.

I agree with JoeMeister on this one. Your missing the trees which are a separate download. Look at the readme file in the city beautification pack for help.

Originally posted by: Rayden Someone even mentioned that the minute you have some Htech Ind grown in your city, you won't have ever have any new farm growing. quote> That's not true. I have high education and high Iq and hitech industry and can grow farms at will. But then I started out with a farming community before zoning for any other industry. I also keep my population low and adjust my tax rate for farm growth. I also use some mods to increase farm jobs and encourage farm growth. High density and farms are not compatible. In order to get larger populations in a farming community you need to decrease funding for education as you increase the population.

thatmonkeysim - #7 is a classic. Yellowlab - Your #2 is probably true of many places across America where politicians think our tax money is their money. Thanks for the wonderful contributions, one and all. Let's keep them coming and I'm with SkiGeek on this. Where is the rest of the world? Surely there must be quirks about the city you live in that only those that live there know about. Everyplace has them.

5. The river is afraid of the harbour's water quality and consequently flows upstream sometimes. Pretty funny

Great to see some additions to my original post. All we need now is for some of you living in other parts of the world to contibute something about where you live. Thanks N_O_Body for adding something about Canada.

Originally posted by: koffee You can live in AK, where: 1. Summer days are long - in some places 24 hours, but winter days can be cold and very dark. 2. You can become involved in many outdoor activities and sport. Outside is anywhere outside Alaska. 3. The biggest sporting event is the Iditarod, athough the Yukon Quest is considered by many mushers to be tougher. 4. The biggest betting (lottery) event is the Nenana Ice Classic. And no, it is not a sport. 5. There is a good chance you will probably meet /know someone that has had to start a fire under their vehicle in order to defrost and start it. quote> Pretty funny especially number 5.

I'd wait a few months as Intel just announced that their new processors will be out within the next few months. They're well worth waiting for.

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes Originally posted by: N_O_Body If you are really feeling that wonky about this, then you need a Windows 98 startup floppy. Start from the floppy and when you get the prompt, go to FDISK and use it to delete all hard drive partitions. You can then create a partition and low-level format it. The XP install will think you have a naked machine, and behave accordingly.quote> Thats a good idea. Iv always thought that when you let the program do the re-install it never totlay gets rid of everything on the drive. quote> Your correct in thinking that a re-install does not always wipe out everything on your hard drive. A re-install only overwrites the system files and leaves your programs and data intact. Sim1013 - If your really paranoid about wiping out everything there are some programs that you can put on a CD or floppy and, after changing the bios to boot from the CD crive or floppy drive, will overwrite your hard drive completely making everything on it unrecoverable. Then you can reformat and do a fresh install of WinXP Home for your grandmother. You can Google for them. If your not that paranoid then follow Greyveil's or Jacqulina's advice.

Originally posted by: thriller13 Originally posted by: Sim1013 It does have a video card, you juast have to the at the specifications page. It's an nVIDIA® GeForce 6150LE.quote> What it has is this: integrated nVIDIA® GeForce 6150LE graphics with up to 256MB of shared video memory intergrated=means it was a nvidea chip mounted on the motherboard, these are very low powered graphics processors plus they can be a pain to disable if you ever buy a real video card. shared video memory=the video chip is using your regular RAM instead of having its own which takes away from the amount of memory to run Windows and your games. Avoid computers with this type of graphics if you buy computers to play games on. Look for computers that have PCI Express mounted graphics cards with at least 128 meg or more of video memory. Other than the video card though it doesn't look like a bad computer for the price. Just be aware you would want to follow Praeotorian's advice and get a real video card for it right away.quote> Disabling the onboard video is just a matter of changing one setting in the bios. Takes about 2 seconds.

Enjoy! Number 4 is especially funny. Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners. Darwin Award Winners: 1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked..... And now, the Honorable Mentions: 2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company, expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved. 3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her. 4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days. 5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit. 6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money is a crime committed?) 7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape. 8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from." 9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m.,flashed a gun, demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast . The man, frustrated, walked away. AND THE 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER! 10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

This is the last one I promise. I laughed so hard that I fell out of my chair. This is clearly an Urban Legend from the Darwin Awards website but is absolutely hilarious. The website states that to receive a Darwin Award the story must be verified by other independent sources and the person(s) involved must remove themselves from the gene pool. They do give out honorable mention awards to those who give it a good effort but fall short of actually dying. They also have some very funny Urban Legends and this is one. The Bricklayer 1998 Urban Legend Accident Report This one needs an introduction, so you won't be lost at the beginning. This man was in an accident at work, so he filled out an insurance claim. The insurance company contacted him and asked for more information. This was his response: "I am writing in response to your request for additional information, for block number 3 of the accident reporting form. I put 'poor planning' as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully and I trust the following detail will be sufficient. I am an amateur radio operator and on the day of the accident, I was working alone on the top section of my new 80-foot tower. When I had completed my work, I discovered that I had, over the course of several trips up the tower, brought up about 300 pounds of tools and spare hardware. Rather than carry the now unneeded tools and material down by hand, I decided to lower the items down in a small barrel by using the pulley attached to the gin pole at the top of the tower. Securing the rope at ground level, I went to the top of the tower and loaded the tools and material into the barrel. Then I went back to the ground and untied the rope, holding it tightly to ensure a slow decent of the 300 pounds of tools." "You will note in block number 11 of the accident reporting form that I weigh only 155 pounds. Due to my surprise of being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rather rapid rate of speed up the side of the tower. In the vicinity of the 40-foot level, I met the barrel coming down. This explains my fractured skull and broken collarbone. Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley. Fortunately, by this time, I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold onto the rope in spite of my pain. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of tools hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel." "Devoid of the weight of the tools, the barrel now weighed approximately 20 pounds. I refer you again to my weight in block number 11. As you might imagine, I began a rapid descent down the side of the tower. In the vicinity of the 40-foot level, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles, and the lacerations of my legs and lower body. The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell onto the pile of tools and, fortunately, only three vertebrae were cracked. I am sorry to report, however, that as I lay there on the tools, in pain, unable to stand and watching the empty barrel 80 feet above me, I again lost my presence of mind. I let go of the rope..."

Originally posted by: BlondeTwiggy roflol! That's hilarious... I remember reading the chili cook-off one. That one is funny too.quote> The chili cook-off is my favorite. I've never read anything funnier.

Originally posted by: Diamond Dave66 Didn't Mythbusters disprove this?quote> Hence the title "Urban Legend"

Originally posted by: brancra This may sound bad, but I remember reading this in an "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader".quote> It's been around for awhile. I remember reading it a few years ago but it's still funny. There is another one I have a copy of about a guy visiting Texas and getting drafted as a judge in chili cook-off. It is so funny that it's impossible to read without taking a break to get your breath from laughing so hard. Unfortunately, the language is a little rough for posting here.

Originally posted by: Voar Tok Yeah, I've heard some of those, but actually, number 1 and 10 are old. My dad got them in an email about a year ago.quote> I think these are reoccurring situations. There is always more than one stupid person trying the same thing. Number 10 happened to my father-in-law a few years ago. The guy was gone but the hose was still stuck in the tank and there was vomit all over the ground.