Hello Kitty Brick

I want one…no, lots. And I shall build a house with them.

clipped from www.kittyhell.com Hello Kitty Brick The problem with Hello Kitty Hell is that even something that is already far more horrendous than most people can imagine without wanting to physically hurt themselves can be made infinitely worse by additions that the Hello Kitty fanatic wants to make. Take, for example, the Hello Kitty house. Most people would take one look at that and pull out a Hello Kitty gun to quickly end their misery. The Hello Kitty fanatic, on the other hand, decides what the Hello Kitty house really needs is to be built out of Hello Kitty bricks: My wife has fallen in love with this idea. I, on the other hand, can think of very few things in life that would be more Hello Kitty Hellish than living in a Hello Kitty house made of Hello Kitty bricks. This is especially true since I would undoubtedly end up spending most of my day smashing me head against them in a futile attempt to escape the Hello Kitty Hell I was inâ¦

Ariel Pixie – The Sims 3

A pixie that decided she wanted to make a home for herself in The Sims 3. =)

Hair is a Peggy Sims mod. It replaces the female mohawk.

view more at TheSims3.com

A Very Smart Parrot.

…and some very smart owners for teaching it this kind of thing!

clipped from www.mellowmonk.com Yosuke the parrot Police in the town of Nagareyama were at a loss about how to return an escaped African gray parrot to its owner, so the bird, tired of waiting, did the natural thing—he recited his name and address. And when I say “name,” I mean Yosuke provided his first and last name to the police. Not bad, bird. “I am Yosuke Nakamura, and I live at …”

Hello Kitty Online Update News!

Sanrio is adding more pets and a pet breeding service to Hello Kitty Online upon release! I’m very excited to check out the breeding service to make all kinds of different hybrids. Very cool! Check it out! =^.^=

The Sims 3: Garden Guide

Clipped from my The Sims 3 blog:

clipped from www.thesims3.com The Perfect Garden Guide Are you having trouble making the perfect garden? Look no further than inf666’s gardening guide. Your garden will be in tip-top shape in no time!

Hello Kitty For Your iPhone/iPod Touch

Too cute. I would love to have something like this for my Palm Pre when the phone comes to Canada! =^_^=

clipped from blog.sanriotown.com SANRIO Global Consumer Products Introduces iPhone/iPod touch® Applications Through Global Partnerships Sanrio Global Consumer Products is pleased to announce the arrival of several new iPhone/iPod touch applications featuring pop icon Hello Kitty®. The applications were created in conjunction with Sanrio Co, Ltd. (Tokyo), Sanrio Digital (Hong Kong) and in partnership with AITIA Corporation (Tokyo). Select products are available now through Appleâ™s iTunes App Store and the agreements are effective immediately.

Random Screenshot Collection

Read more Stories on The Sims3.com >

The Sims 3 Cheats

The next biggest question on The Sims 3 forum is the cheat codes. May people have been trying the codes that worked in The Sims 2 and find that some work while others don’t. The blog/website http://www.sims3cheats.org/ has a list of cheats that will work in The Sims 3.

Also, please note that if Ctrl + Shift + C is not working for you to bring up the cheat console, Ctrl + Shift + C + windows key has been found to work.

Edit: A simmer by the name of TheLighterDark was kind enough to type out the cheats in an easy-to-read format. Thanks TheLighterDark!

To enable the cheats, press Ctrl (Control) + Shift + C at the same time (Windows). Once done, a blue bar will appear at the top of your screen and you can type in the following cheats:

General Cheat Codes: (Command – Effect)

help – Lists all commands available at the moment.
enableLlamas – Gives a message that says, “Llamas enabled.”
jokePlease – Posts a random (and silly) joke on-screen.
fullscreen – Toggles between full-screen and windowed modes.
resetSim <firstname> <lastname> – Resets the named Sim with neutral motives, no moodlets, and teleports Sim back home.
fps – Toggles framerate indicator in the upper-right corner of the screen.
quit – Exits the game.
TestingCheatsEnabled true- Enables cheat functionality.

Money & Lifetime Points: (Command – Effect)

kaching – Adds 1,000 to active household’s funds.
motherlode – Adds 50,000 to active household’s funds.
freeRealEstate – Ignores the cost when buying a lot for the current game.
shazaam – Gives 2,500 Lifetime Happiness Points to active Sim.

Build & Buy: (Command – Effect)

moveObjects – Removes footprint limitation for all object placement in Buy Mode and Build Mode. Removes limitations placed on hand tool for when objects are in use, or are normally non-movable objects.
constrainFloorElevation – Allows all terrain adjustments regardless of objects, Sims, and other structures on them. Walls, floors, and objects will move with the terrain, allowing you to create sloped walls and floored hills. However, placing new walls/floors will still flatten terrain, and placing objects will still require the terrain to be flat initially if the objects normally require it.
disableSnappingToSlotsOnAlt – When on, objects will not snap to slots while holding Alt.
shazaam – Gives 2,500 Lifetime Happiness Points to active Sim.

Visuals: (Command – Effect)

hideHeadlineEffects – Hides all meters and effects in the game, such as the plumbbob and skill meter.
fadeObjects – Toggles whether objects fade when the camera gets close to them.
slowMotionViz <level> – Puts the game in slow motion. Optional parameter, value 0 = normal speed and 8 = slowest.
snapObjectsToGrid – Toggles how objects snap to the grid. If true is given, behavior is normal. If false is given, then by default, objects do not span to the grid (and holding Alt will snap them to the grid).
snapObjectsToAngle – Toggles how objects rotate. If true is given, behavior is normal. If false is given, then by default, objects do not span to 45 degree angles when rotating them (and holding Alt will snap them to the 45 degree angles).

Sims: (Command – Effect)

Modify Traits – Interaction to bring up a trait-modification windows. Can set/clear traits.
Add to Household – Add the active Sim to the current household.
Set Age – Set the age of the Sim.
Edit in CAS – Takes the Sim back into Create A Sim and allows you to make physical and personality changes.

Career Buildings: (Command – Effect)

Force Opportunity – Click on carrer building you work at to force an opportunity.
Force Event – Click on a career building to give you a random career event.
Force All Events – Click on career building to display all events for the career consecutively.

Mailbox: (Command – Effect) after using cheat “TestingCheatsEnabled true”

Force Service Sim… – Force a specific Service Sim to show up.
Force Visitor – Force a neighbor to show up.
Make Me Know Everyone – Make the selected Sim know every other Sim that exists in the town. Set them to acquaintances.
Make Friends For Me – Make a few random friends for the selected Sim.
Set Career… – Give the selected Sim any career at any level.
Make Happy – Set the mood/moodlets of everyone in the house to perfect. Remove all negative moodlets.
Make Motives Static/Dynamic – Make motives static/dynamic for the entire household.

Information regarding cheat codes by members:

Petreak wrote:I have tested some of the cheats and I have some info you might find interesting. You might want to update the list.

“TestingCheatsEnabled”
You need to put True on the end of it for it to work. Like this:
TestingCheatsEnabled True
and to turn it off replace True with False.

“shazaam”
That cheat doesn’t seem to do anything for me at all.

“Edit in CAS”
I really need this cheat, but I can’t get it to work at all. Anyone have any luck?

“Modify Traits”
Doesn’t seem to work, but if you have TestingCheatsEnabled turned on, you just hold down the Shift key and left click your mouse button on your Sim and you get the option to Modify Sims’s Traits.

“Set Age”
Doesn’t seem to work, but if you have TestingCheatsEnabled turned on, you just hold down the Shift key and left click your mouse button on your Sim and you get the option to Trigger Age Transition on your Sim.

“Mailbox:”
The stuff for the mailbox only shows up if you have TestingCheatsEnabled turned on.

“Teleport”
This isn’t an actual cheat code. If you have TestingCheatsEnabled turned on and if you hold the Shift key and left click your mouse button anywhere, you will get a Teleport option instead of the Go Here option. Comes in handy for getting around fast.

“familyfunds”
Here is a code to set your family up with as much money as you want.
This is an example of how to use it.
Say you have a family named the Brown family. While you are in their house, go into the cheat window and type this:

familyfunds Brown 1000000

Your money will change to that amount. Just replace Brown with the family’s last name and replace 1000000 with what ever amount you want.

I’ll keep playing around and see what else I figure out.

Sanus wrote:If you want Lifetime Happiness points, just enable the testingcheatsenabled cheat then ctrl+click to the right of your total lifetime points display, I found that clicking around. It adds 500 points per click. To get this to work, you have to type “TestingCheatsEnabled true” in the Main Menu screen.

The Sims 3 – How to turn “story progression” off (for now).

There has been a lot of chat on the forums about the “story progression” feature not actually turning off when turned off. Here is the temporary fix for PC users (I will post the Mac fix when it becomes available):

SimGuruLyndsay wrote:

Hi All – I’ve seen many conversations popping up about our game feature called Story Progression and the fact that the option to turn it off doesn’t work. We’ve been investigating this and have found that the toggle is not doing what it was intended to do. We are working to address this asap but in the meantime there is a workaround for PCs.

For PC:
1) Find your game executable. It should be here: C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin
2) Create a shortcut on your desktop to the TS3.exe.
3) Right-Click on the shortcut and choose “Properties”
4) In the top line “Target:” go to the end of the line and add this tag –disablestoryprogression
5) From this point on you will need to run your game from this shortcut and NOT through your launcher.

So what the “Target” should look like is: “C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe” -disablestoryprogression

There isn’t a work around for Mac at this time.

I realize this is a certainly not ideal but it will address the issue while we are working on a real fix.

I also want to mention that there are a few events that can still occur even if story progression is completely off.
- Any pre-made pregnant Sims will still have their babies.
- If Aging is on, Sims will still die.
- As YOUR Sims get new jobs, other Sims in the neighborhood may have their careers reassigned to become your boss or co-workers.

Thanks so much for your patience.

- Lyndsay

So there you have it, for those of you who are wishing to turn it off.

Candy Review – Werther’s and Campino

I have been subscribed to the Candy Addict blog’s RSS feed for a few weeks now and I’ve been inspired to write a small candy review of my own. I had been hoping to write a review about the Bali’s Best green tea latte candy I read about from the blog, but I haven’t figured out how one living in Canada would be able to acquire such. Instead, I settled upon two old favourites; Werther’s Original caramel coffee hard candies and Campino’s Yogourt and Fruit hard candies.

Werther’s Original Caramel Coffee Hard Candies

If you enjoy the original flavoured Werther’s and strong coffee flavours, this is the candy for you! Each piece of candy is individually wrapped and I found they were great to carry along with me in my purse or in my pockets on the says that I skipped my morning coffee even though they do not contain caffeine. The candy has a delicious coffee taste, a hint of caramel sweetness, and a creamy aftertaste I adore. I find them very sweet, and they are sweetened with sweetener rather than sugar, so they might not be for everyone.

Campino Yogourt And Fruit (3 flavours)

One of the many things I like to have as a snack when I’m feeling a little peckish is a good yogourt cup. When I came across the package of candy I instantly remembered how much I enjoyed them when my grandma had offered some to me and bought a package. This package comes with three flavours; strawberry, cherry, and peach. Each flavour tasted exactly how it was supposed to and I enjoyed the peach flavour the most as it was the strongest. The cherry and strawberry tasted very similar to each other, but the fruit flavours were strong enough to differentiate. I found that if I wanted to have a few that it was best to have a peach in between having a strawberry or cherry to mix up the flavours enough to keep it interesting. Overall, they make for a great summer candy with a creamy, fresh flavour.