Labor Intensive Cuppa

Well thank YOU EA for effing up something else in my game.


My poor sims can't even get a cup of coffee anymore. I trucked Tiffany (Riley? Strangetown teen I decided would be an interesting addition to Tank, Kendal and Shovel-Face Ed) down to the Cacti Cafe expecting her to get some coffee and some new lovin' contacts.
No dice.
There was a big gap in the bar where the Espress-O-Matic bar was supposed to be.
So, I know this from my learnings: EA's Mansions and Gardens effed this up. Imagine that.
Except I don't have Mansions and Gardens. But Double Deluxe works on the last EP/SP engine. Because the Store Edition is included. And I'd remove it, but I can't seem to find a way to do that and find a working CD crack and really, do I want to? I have ceilings! CEILINGS, I tell you! I have some other things too.
This is why my OFB Pescado cocktail is all buggery. I may go grab the AL Directors Cut and try to Frankenstein a working set of hacks together.


Edited to add: I found a way to get back the Espress-O-Matic. Download recolors specifically for it. I have no idea why this works. I'm guessing it's magic. So, go over to MTS, find Ailias in the creator search and search for these recolors. I wouldn't imagine you'd have to install all of them. Just one will probably be enough to get this back. I doubt it will disappear when I install Pets, but it wouldn't surprise me either.

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On story news. The Davis brothers are no longer in the same dorm. They both moved to different homes with different sets of friends. But they aren't enemies. It seems Aldric is being that guy he always wanted to be. He's getting away from Almeric and becoming his own guy. He's got a girlfriend and is shacking up with her. Almeric isn't seeing anyone. He's moved into a house with Klara V and Stella T. Klara is seeing someone. So is Stella.

But who are they involved with? Will it last? Are there pictures? You bet there are.

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Tank Grunt is DA MAN. Getting out from under the thumb of The General and away from his brother Ripp, he's finally coming into his own. Not to mention in Kendal. Oh yeah... She's all over the Tankster. AND, I have pictures to prove it. Also, he autonomously showed his more sensitive side. I was so impressed I had to take a pic of that too. Yeah. I'll post them.

Oh, he's still going to be a General. He's just not going to be like his father. 

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So I have ACR and OMG it is so much fun, but it has effing jump bugs. Grrrrr
And I'm still working on the Pescado Cocktail. 

I'm finally ranting about this

So... last summer or therebouts, when I first started getting heavily into collecting custom content for sims I had stumbled upon a well known adult mod site. I thought I'd peek into some of the stories written there because I was bored and I wanted to see how some people were using adult mods in their stories.

And there was this pretty good story, by whom, I couldn't tell you. It had decent dialog and the pictures were steamy but not over the top and I was fairly impressed by it. I even stayed up late to read this story and I was so thrilled to get to the end and read what was going to happen to everyone in this epic serial soap opera type story.

And the storyteller totally copped out and blew the entire church up where practically the entire clan was gathered for a wedding. I still seethe over this story ending. I'd rather she/he just not have ended the story and just not kept going with it. This was not closure, this was stupid.

If I wasn't writing this rant on here I would just go off to Sim Secret and post a hate you for ruining a pretty decent story. Yeah, I've been annoyed by this for that long. Usually, I'm pretty good about letting this sort of thing go, but I think reading other people's stories only makes me think back to the several hours I wasted reading that one story (it was a very long story).

Now, I read Katee and Madame Ugly's stories. Hopefully, once I'm done with Mme Ugly I'll be able to find something as good. I'm probably going to go read Sigmaroop and Strange Tomato's stories next. I've heard many good things about them.