Someone from the-prism.com asked EA technical support about a problem with HomeCrafter Plus not working. HomeCrafter Plus was made by EA for The Sims 2. EA's response as follows:

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts Technical Support regarding on your concern with The Sims 2.

As to your concern, we do not support or advice the use of this program (Homecrafter Plus) since it's considered as a game modifier. It may cause conflict(s) with the game itself.

Should you have any other concerns or problems regarding EA Games feel free to contact us or you can review our extensive Self Support Knowledgebase (http://support.ea.com).

Sincerely,

Jay P.
Technical Support
Electronic Arts™

So, how daft can you get? Very, if EA's tech support are anything to go by.

I am stepping down from the Torrent Queen role and whoever wants it can have it. My original aim in torrenting paysite content was
- to annoy T$R
and
- help spread the message that Paysites Must Be Destroyed, and I feel I've succeeded in both.

Please don't request any new torrents - a refusal often offends.

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Atwa is also known as:

• BeaSims
• ElkieB
• QUEEN-BEE
• EffieM

Sheesh! What is wrong with EA?

As if SecuROM wasn't bad enough, there is also a MASSIVE SECURITY LEAK in Spore: If you EVER share ANY content with ANYONE, be warned that YOUR COMPUTER USERNAME is ENCRYPTED INTO THE CREATURE "IMAGE" FILE. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REMOVE THIS INFORMATION BY HEXING! This means that ANYONE who downloads it will know what your username is on your computer.

This represents a MASSIVE security breach because many people (foolishly) encode their real names into their Windoze username. Even if you don't, revealing this username to the world presents a point of vulnerability for attack by hackers. By sharing any Spore content ANYWHERE, you are leaving your computer open to attack and leaving yourself open to stalking and identity theft.

From: MATY.

Like I said already, EA aren't getting a penny more out of me. What the hell is Spore anyway?

Something strikes me as strange here. It’s been some time since Aikea Guinea and Gelydh retired from FA status, yet their names have not been added to T$R’s retired artists page (thesimsresource.com/artists/retired/). Two more recent departures (so recent that, at the time of writing, their content still hasn’t been free released) Confide and Tantra, are already listed on the retired artists page. So I wonder why Aikea and Gelydh aren’t? Weird. T$R’s choice, or Aikea and Gelydh’s?

By someone who actually knows what she is talking about... A message from Nouk in response to copyright claims by RoseSims2.net (spellings corrected by me, because I am such a pedant)

1. Whatever you import into Milkshape, has the skeleton information from the Sims 2, which give the mesh it's animation. Even if you delete the meshfile, the skeleton (bones) remain, otherwise the hair wouldn't work in the game.

Rose did not create the game animations nor the skeleton and bone information, EA/Maxis did.

2. After that, the mesh gets exported into the .gmdc format. Also, EA/Maxis made coding, not Rose.

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Ayyy!! I managed to finally get a 5 star Sim! This is Cherry Pie, #1 pop singer 😀

Nice big fanbase
I took loadsa pics of her performing the music videos, but they didn't save!!

Dance, Kitty, dance!

Posing with her trophy cabinet — 2 awards so far

Betty the Yeti!
I didn't know how to feed the cat on holiday, it almost starved to death, so I had to send Cherry back home after less than a day 🙁

Meow!