I can haz Securom?

Yes. I haz it. I can't find a no CD crack that will work with my newfangled version of the game. Until I do, I have Securom, so I might as well play the game. Fuck you EA.

Wootyhoothoot, go me!

So. I was in a bit of a lather over the fact that I couldn't play my game because I couldn't find a No CD/DVD crack for Double Deluxe that would work (well, I found one at Game Burn World but I wasn't willing to download another one just to be thwarted again). We went to Walmart today. I hate it there, but it's a double edged sword. It's all we have in this town for the most part. I'd have to travel 30 miles rt to get to the game store and I haven't been willing to leave the house that much. In my wisdom and laziness, I decided to go check out the Pets EP that was there. I knew I could get the combination pack with Mansions and Gardens and Family Fun but I knew Securom would be on there. I checked when I was there, and I was indeed correct. But it wasn't on the Pets CDrom. And the Pets CDrom was bassackward compatible with the Double Deluxe DVD.
The Pets EP still has the old encryption stuff (which the mofos at EA should have stuck with for all The Sims games - I could rant about that for awhile). For those of you aren't following, this means I won't have Securom on my computer.
But now I'm in a quandary of sorts. Since Pets works (for sure, I installed it), does that mean I'm going to have to get all the EPs and SPs, uninstall Pets, install the new EP/SPs , and then install Pets last? Will this work? I know that Pets isn't the last EP. That's Apartment Life. And uninstalling and installing Pets is going to be a bitch, but dammit, I don't want that shit on my computer.

As for Apt Life, they have it at Walmart and I think it would have Securom on it, but it doesn't say it is on the back of the case. All the others said it did. If Apt Life does not have Securom on it, that means good to go. I wonder if the CD-Rom versions all have the old OpenSSL encryption on it?

Now, I have to go to Amazon and find used version of the SPs that come with the Pets combination pack that came out on Jan 12 (M&G and FFS). And if they are old, they won't have the Securom on them either. And they'll hopefully be cheaper.

Yay for Xmas

I actually mean this. I don't usually enjoy the holiday season. Other than it gives me an excuse for cooking a lot of food, which I do like to have an excuse for. We had ham and a bunch of side dishes.

But, I must say I scored in gifts. Not only did I get a bag of nuts, comfy sock shoes and a 15 dollar Starbucks gift card from my roommate's sister, Jan, I also got The Sims Double Deluxe. Now I just need to find a no-cd version so I can actually install it without Securom. Life Stories doesn't have Securom but Pet and Castaway Stories does. Since my computer is now Securom free due to it having XP reinstalled on it, I would like to keep it that way.

In other news I also received the new Mario brothers by proxy. Jan it bought it for roomie and of course I've been playing it. It's much like old NES Mario, which is so cool, but it's harder and of course it has the options of using the nunchuk and there is this cool thing with teeter-totter style beams that you have to actually tilt the controller to use.

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I've been reading Madame Ugly's journal, Simbation, over at LJ. The link is over there -----> If you like uglification Sim stories you should visit. It's a bit adult at times, but it's hilarious. She's really talented at writing high drama. I have started from the beginning. This is a daunting task as she has a lot of entries and they started back in 2005. But it's been well worth it. I routinely bust a gut at her writing. In fact my new favorite saying is from one of her comments in the readers comments. She said she, "snorted so hard she practically deviated her septum". That alone set me off to the point where I actually had to go use the loo.

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I have no idea if anyone will read this blog. I don't really care. The Sims have given me such joy and I just need to share it.