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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #60 on: May 16, 2023, 04:23:17 AM »
Thanks! I knew it was one of the Nraas mods that would set the number of paparazzi. I need to wait until my son builds my new desktop computer before I add any more mods, however. I think this old laptop is at it's limit. It was REALLY hot by the time I was done playing yesterday.
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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #61 on: May 16, 2023, 05:02:09 AM »
You're welcome!!

Speaking from experience, please-please be careful letting your laptop get hot. I burnt up one of my laptop's video cards by playing too long on warm days without a cooling mat/pad. Even with them you need to be careful, as some laptops still don't have adequate cooling.

An idea to consider is to go through what mods you have currently to see which ones are must haves and get rid of those you don't use much or use anymore. I do this from time to time to help keep the mods I'm using to a minimum.

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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #62 on: May 16, 2023, 09:32:01 AM »
I bought a cooling pad for my laptop last year. I helps to keep me cool as well. :D

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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #63 on: May 19, 2023, 01:21:04 PM »
My laptop is elevated on a stand, so that helps a little. I try to keep track of how hot it gets, but sometimes it surprises me. Here's my latest Adventureland episode.

https://sims3addict248.blogspot.com/2023/05/adventureland-14-santos-island-survival.html


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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #64 on: May 19, 2023, 04:53:35 PM »
I love the way you play this game. I would have no idea how to interpret the thought bubbles.

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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #65 on: May 20, 2023, 04:39:04 AM »
Sometimes I don't know how to interpret the thought bubbles either when I'm taking the screenshots. Some I know mean probably mean something else. For instance, when William goes to Natashia in the art room and there's the money speech bubble, I originally thought that since he looked bored at her performance earlier that he might be asking for his money back, but the interaction showed that she received the comment positively, so I decided he must be thanking her. In reality, he was probably just mooching money, but that didn't fit into the story. Sometimes I change the order of the screenshots if it tells a better story that way. Alexander slapping Jenni with the glove seemed so random. From the corner of my eye, I saw the glove come out and remembered that he has the Proper trait, so I paused and moved in on the situation, positioned the camera to the best angle, unpaused and paused to get the screenshots, then decided what to do with them after reviewing all the screenshots. I love having a lot of sims on a lot, most of whom I'm not controlling but know something about, and watching where their free will takes them.
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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #66 on: May 20, 2023, 02:57:48 PM »
I read in your story about water taxi's or whatever they're called and seeing if they come from Island Paradise expansion. I was curious about that too so I did a quick test with and without IP and found the water taxi's or taxi boats come from Island Paradise.

First test was without IP and had a Sim swim to a spot and try to take the taxi back to land... And they swam back to shore.

Second test was with IP and did the same test - swim out to a point and take a water taxi back to land and that's what they did. lol

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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #67 on: June 01, 2023, 02:45:51 PM »
I just got back from Chicago. Here's a bit of Adventureland. I've also been trying to get Sims 4 to recognize all the free content I'm supposed to have for it. No luck. I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it. I also revisited Emerald Valley, another of my Sims 3 games, but it crashed on me earlier. I think most of the original inhabitants aged up to elders and started dying off, and too much was happening at once and the game ran out of memory.

https://sims3addict248.blogspot.com/2023/06/adventureland-15-honeymoon.html
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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #68 on: June 01, 2023, 04:21:17 PM »
Excellent! :))

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Re: Cheeseweasel's Story Room
« Reply #69 on: June 04, 2023, 02:16:58 PM »
I thought I'd drop in on Emerald Valley while I mull over how to approach the court case in Adventureland. https://sims3addict248.blogspot.com/2023/06/emerald-valley-9-harman-foreman-and.html
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