User talk:C.Syde65

Archived your talk page
Hey C.Syde65. I noticed that you removed some messages from your talk page. This is perfectly fine, but a much better solution would be to archive your talk page. I have archived the two discussions you removed. If you need help, feel free to contact me! K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 03:22, February 6, 2014 (UTC)
 * To archive your talk page, you should follow the instructions on this page. The only difference is that you use a different template than the one shown on the said page, and that you MUST enter Source mode to properly archive your page (Visual mode is too messy). To enter source mode, click on the "Source" tab at the top of the editor. I've already added the template on your talk page - if you want to edit it or find the source code, enter source mode and copy the code.


 * Generally, to archive a talk page you should create a sub-page of talk page (which i've already done for you), for example: "User_talk:C.Syde65/Archive 1". After that page has a lot of discussions in it, create a second subpage called "User_talk:C.Syde65/Archive 2", add a link to that page in the archive box, and carry on. The maximum capacity that each archive page can hold is up to you.


 * To archive discussions, simply open up the main talk page, enter Source mode, select the conversations you want to archive (they'll be divided into level 2 headings, which look like this in source mode: ==Heading 2== ), and cut (Ctrl+X) them out. Then go to the archive page and simply paste (Ctrl+V) them in. Add at the top of the archive page, and hit publish. You're done!


 * You can also play around with rollback here. Make a few edits and then click on "Rollback" in the page history.


 * If you have any more questions, contact me again. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 12:24, February 7, 2014 (UTC)


 * Actually I don't think its possible to rollback your own edits, I already tried with my sandbox. Joey.eyeball (talk) 02:38, February 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, you can rollback your own edits. The reason why your experiment didn't work is because rollback reverts all consecutive edits by one user to the last revision not made by that user. The reason why your experiment in your sandbox didn't work is because you were the only contributor to that page. Rollback can't revert a page that only one person edited, because there's nothing to revert to. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 03:34, February 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * Correct! C.Syde65 (talk) 08:03, February 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've archived all but the most recent discussions. Let me know if you need anything. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 12:45, February 10, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Permanently Blocked Users
It's still their userpage. Indefinite blocks are not infinite blocks. Users can still be unblocked (and reblocked) at any time. Good admins should allow blocked users to edit their talk page so they can contest or appeal a block, as is the policy on Wikipedia (a lot of admins on other wikis make this horrible mistake). Also, the only reason why a userpage should be deleted is 1. Author's request or 2. If it contains offensive or inappropriate material.

User talk pages are almost never deleted, as seen here. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 13:00, February 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if local wiki admins can actually delete a user page or user talk page. I would expect that that may be reserved for Wikia staff. Dharden (talk) 14:38, February 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, it is possible for local admins to delete someone's user page or user talk page. I deleted someone's user page here. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 20:54, February 9, 2014 (UTC)

Caliente sisters headshots
Are Nina and Dina's headshots in your fanon altered or those are extracted from their original appearances? If they're original, I'd like to ask if they can be used for the canon Nina and Dina's headshots. The current ones are smaller than they usually are.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  13:59, February 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. I thought those are originals. If you could, I'd be thankful. I just didn't have time to do that myself. Also, I correct myself. Only Dina needs her headshot replaced. Joey added her headshot but it was shrunk to 200x200. Not that it really matters, but it's just inconsistent.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  05:17, February 10, 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks! Don't worry about the unused images. They'll be deleted eventually.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  06:29, February 10, 2014 (UTC)

Re: Battles
It should be fixed. The problem was that one of the voters had a line-break between their vote and their sig, and that was being read as the end of the sequence. So, votes after that were numbered as being part of a new sequence. Dharden (talk) 14:30, February 12, 2014 (UTC)

Blond VS Blonde
It has come to a conclusion that the term "blond" is preferably used for male and gender-neutral context, and "blonde" for female. While this isn't enforced, meaning if an article uses the term "blonde" throughout the context we may leave it as it is or change it, changing the term from "blond" to "blonde" is discouraged. This isn't wrong at all, but doing so means that we change the term into a less-specific context. tl;dr: The usage of "blond" for male is already specific and correct, so why change it to "blonde"?

I'm saying this because you seem to inconsistently change the term "blond" to "blonde" in some Sims, such as Loki Beaker and some others, but sometimes not.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  10:44, February 13, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Facial Hair
Oh, sorry! I didn't notice that he had sideburns, and I think they do count as facial hair as well. Joey.eyeball (talk) 06:27, February 14, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Witch Doctor
I'll try and upload the image myself, once I have time to open up SimPE, since SimPE performs quite poorly on my machine. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 02:56, February 18, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Preceding unsigned comment
To sign an unsigned comment, you need to go into the page history and figure out who left the comment. Once you know who it is, copy their username, edit the page, and add username. For example:

This game sucks —Preceding unsigned comment added by K6ka (talk • contribs) 00:00 1 January 2014 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~

Here's the link to the actual template.

K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 12:04, February 18, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Edit on the Sims FreePlay
Good job there - I was at taekwondo when you made that revert. There's no need to tell anyone though - if it's blatant and obvious vandalism, revert without question.

Here's another tip - consider warning the vandal on their talk page after they made their edit. As is the custom on Wikipedia, warning vandals lets them know that their edits are being monitored and that they should probably stop. Sometimes a simple warning is all it takes to get someone to stop.

To warn a vandal, add to their talk page. If the vandal is an IP editor (i.e. is not logged in), add |ip=a to the template. If the vandal already has a level 1 warning, add |type=vandal2 to the template. So for an IP editor that has a level 1 warning and vandalized after the first warning, add. See the template itself for more information on how to use it. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 01:37, February 22, 2014 (UTC)


 * Always warn when possible, even if it's clear the editor won't stop. That way, it prevents them from saying "But you didn't tell me this was wrong!" and it allows us to say "Don't say we didn't warn you, cause we did!" K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 02:13, February 22, 2014 (UTC)

RE: School Grade
Just to make it clear (hopefully you don't think it this way), I changed the Clarify template to Confirm because it's more appropriate to use this one; and I changed it not because I doubted you. :) I always say this because when you bring up the discussion topic to someone's talk page, it implies that the discussion is intended particularly to that someone. Maybe next time you should bring up a discussion onto the article's talk page, unless you actually intend to point it out to someone in particular.

I'm not really sure about this glitch though. Children's grades are the same as adults' career performance, which is gained depending on their mood when they arrive at school / work. If the cheat somehow affects children's grades, theoretically it's supposed to affect adults' career performance too. I never heard career performance had any issues though, but I don't know it myself. It's just my theory.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  15:21, February 23, 2014 (UTC)

Userbox
Hey, you seem to be pretty confident with making userboxes, so I was wondering if you could create a userbox for people who have SimPE? Joey.eyeball (talk) 07:44, February 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * Maybe with the SimPE logo/title. Joey.eyeball (talk) 07:47, February 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * Umm... the icon? Joey.eyeball (talk) 07:53, February 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * Never mind, I already made one myself. Here it is if you want to use it.

Joey.eyeball (talk) 06:50, March 10, 2014 (UTC)

Undoing revisions
Hi, why did you undo the revision on Holly Alto's article? She is likely based on Meadow Soprano and there is no character called Autumn on the Sopranos... -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stella terrano (talk • contribs) - Please sign your comments with ~

Re: Gray World
After reading your Kingston Starker Fanon page, I see what you mean by your gameplay being more unambiguously black or white. Your Brandi Broke, the "complete opposite" of Kingston, would then be a moral paragon.

Many characters fit the profile of "bad, but not evil". They usually have at least one (but not too many) of the following traits:

Inappropriate, Hot-Headed, Grumpy, Mean-Spirited (not an exhaustive list).

"Evil" characters are those who make others suffer because they enjoy seeing other people suffer (ie. "Fiendishly delighted" moodlet of the "Evil" trait).

As for General Grunt, his alien xenophobia is only justifiable to some extent -- as much as the uncertainty of the alien agenda. To me, Grunt represents "rigid formal regimentation" and the obsession of forcing these standards on others. Though I do not fancy his sort of character, I have taken care not to portray him as a tyrant. In my show, Grunt the "control freak" has ironically given the control of his own fate into other people's hands...

You consider Albany to be "bad" due his excessive feuding? He does give me a bit of the General Grunt vibe, to be honest.

It's not always easy to "sort" characters clearly into clear categories of good/neutral/evil. Most of them are somewhere along a continuum. Aldo Hyde  07:07, March 22, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Hairstyles
Early before, the Category:Sims with curly hair only contains Sims with hairstyle like Jennifer Burb's, and mainly females. Of course no one ruled out that the category is exclusive to women only, and neither did I. Personally, I'd prefer to just add Abhijeet to Category:Sims with short hair and add Sims with hairstyle like Sabastian or Jared Starchild to afro hair if there's such category. But if you think it suits him well, that's fine.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  16:40, March 31, 2014 (UTC)

Re: PT9 Abduction Video
Just saw the PT9 video. The concept is interesting, but the video pacing is not so good - the uploader should have edited out some parts. The uploader didn't continue the "story", with PT9 and Jenny both pregnant.

Wonder if you saw this one ;)  Sims 2 Karaoke Craze

About the STM Makeovers: Thanks :)

Aldo Hyde  09:09, April 1, 2014 (UTC)

Userbox
Hey!, I've finished the userbox you've requested and it's posted on the userboxes page for you to use! Sorry it took so long! :) Star ಠ_ಠBee  13:21, April 1, 2014 (UTC)

Re:Typing Mistakes
I didn't mean to link to your page. Usually I'm really careful with that, making sure to add (TS3) at the end. I was in such a hurry to get her page up, that I totally forgot. LOL, I swear it'll get so much easier when I get further in the legacy. I'll choose names I know no one else has. WayfinderOwl (talk) 04:53, April 4, 2014 (UTC)

Karaoke
Have you experimented with the karaoke machine in Sims 2 Nightlife? As in, sims of different creativity levels and voice types.

I suddenly realized you only have the Base Game, Uni, NL, OFB & Apt Life... no other EP in between :o  But you have almost everything for Sims 3... Since you have S3 Showtime, does its karaoke machine have significant differences from S2? Aldo Hyde  09:56, April 1, 2014 (UTC)

Check out this YT Channel for Sims 3 Showtime Karaoke.

Karaoke Duet #5, #6 ; Solos #1, #2 and Oogie Fever are definitely the same songs as Sims 2 Nightlife. Aldo Hyde  16:33, April 7, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Disappearing Graves & Game Corruption (Sims 2)
SimPE can probably do the job, but it's much easier to use the HoodChecker instead. K6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 01:39, April 8, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Signatures
To customize your signature, go to Special:Preferences. There's a section called "Signature". If you want the whole thing to be one link to your userpage, uncheck "I want to use Wikitext" in my signature." If you want to have more customization (ex. include more links to different pages), check the box. The above will be treated as Wikitext (the text in Source mode). Keep in mind that your signature should include at least one link to your userpage. Not including it is typically seen as obstructive. Also keep in mind that signatures are global - meaning that the same signature is used around Wikia. Since signatures are substituted, changing your signature won't change existing ones. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 10:53, April 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * No? Well, you can always go into source mode and look at other people's signatures. I'm not an HTML whiz, but a Google search should bring you somewhere. I found this tutorial that explains how to make colourful text using HTML. This page should also provide some tips. Oh, by the way administrators automatically have light green text for links to their userpage, dark green for bureaucrats, and blue for bots. Have fun! --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 10:53, April 10, 2014 (UTC)

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, but as always, K6ka was there to cover me. Anyway, do you still have struggle customizing your signature? I can help you explain how to make one if you want to.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  16:22, April 11, 2014 (UTC)


 * Go to Special:Preferences, to the Signature section under the My Info tab. There, you can see the Custom Signature text box. Filling in this box will change your signature, but after that, don't forget to press the save button at the bottom of the page.


 * Now, there are two ways to change your signature. The first is a simple text change, by leaving the "I want to use wikitext in my signature" unchecked. Currently, your signature is C.Syde65 (talk). If you input basic text into the text box, like, your signature will change into Hello, it's me! (talk).


 * The second one is less simpler. By checking the "I want to use wikitext in my signature" box, you can customize your signature like mine. You can change the font size, font typeface, font style, font color, add shades, make it reflect, and so on. I'll pause here to make sure you're still following me, because I'm not sure which part you're having trouble with. I just want to ask one question to you before we continue. Are you familiar with Source Editor while editing a page, or you've always used the Visual Editor all this time?  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  03:11, April 12, 2014 (UTC)


 * Ah, okay then. You should try to get used to Source Editor and get familiar with source coding. Just an advice. After you check the box, you should now put the source code of your signature in the text box. The simple code like below will produce your regular signature, and I guess you already know it.

C.Syde65 (talk)
 * C.Syde65 (talk)


 * Now, if you want to color your signature, you should add the following HTML tag to your signature to customize it. Or maybe you want to make it italics, so I added two apostrophes there.

 C.Syde65  ( talk</font)
 *  C.Syde65  ( talk )


 *  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  03:23, April 12, 2014 (UTC)

Mention of me as owner of a Fanon on a talk page
The fanon page, Sandi Reaper, was not done by me but by Freedom50000. You mentioned on 50.173.253.195's talk page that it was my fanon. You might have gotten me mixed up because 86.21.53.138 had edited my fanon page, David Harper, which you left the same message on that person's talk page. Icemandeaf (talk) 01:12, April 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Icemandeaf (talk) 01:39, April 13, 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect Rollback/Revert
It probably wasn't your intention, but you performed rollback on an edit that was not vandalism (diff). In the future, it would be best to look carefully at the diff and verify that the edit is not vandalism. If it isn't, but it still needs to be reverted, use the Undo function of manually revert the edit and explain in the edit summary. If you do accidentally use rollback on a constructive edit (it happens), quickly revert your own edit using the "Undo" function and explain that it was a mistake. Thanks. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 11:09, April 13, 2014 (UTC)

Re: My Karaoke Vocal Duets
Earlier, you commented that the Monty Siblings' duet was "still not very good", despite it being the Creativity 8-10 version. So I'm not quite sure what you mean by these various pairs being "fine", despite their low-medium Creativity scores.

For me, the best way to depict such gameplay is to upload videos. Will you be comfortable recording them, then uploading them to YT using your pseudonym?

Anyway, I think the worst (0-3) versions are funnier than the medium (4-7) versions ;)

Aldo Hyde  15:49, April 13, 2014 (UTC)

It's easier to re-record karaoke gameplay than to make machinima ;)

But it's up to you if you're comfortable creating a pseudonymous account for uploading to YT.

One other benefit of a YT acct is the ability to send PM, since the Wikia doesn't seem to offer that.

Aldo Hyde  12:26, April 17, 2014 (UTC)

Re: Various Messages about STM
Beards are allowed in every career field in all my Sims Universes.
 * Haircuts are optional for everyone, male or female, in all my Sims Universes, prison inmates included.


 * Loki & Circe's long hair shows the passage of time. Yet at the same time, it appears somewhat comic, as they are a close couple who somehow end up looking alike. Loki's shaved face may be temporary, because he is a fugitive who wishes to escape detection.


 * Kent Capp & Nick Grimm don't particularly have anything in common in STM. So even if they meet on-screen, their exchanges may not be as significant as the ones between Kent & Vidcund.

Aldo Hyde  15:49, April 13, 2014 (UTC)
 * Kent comments on the "Veronaville Afterlife" in STM 2.01. Viewers wondered about the whereabouts of the teens. But the show's focus is really on the living residents.

By this logic, you'll probably interpret Antonio Monty and Cornwall Capp as "senior figures" too.

In STM, I made Antonio the youngest that he could feasibly be, as I wanted him and Bianca to be very close in age. I've always thought of Kent as the youngest of his generation, sharing the same birth year as Bianca (it simply didn't make sense to me for Cordelia Capp and Claudio Monty to be the youngest). In that sense, I narrowed the gap between Antonio and Kent, to portray them more like equals.

In STM, Nick Grimm (Nervous Subject) is almost 50 years younger than Olive Specter, and about 10 years younger than Bianca & Kent.

Aldo Hyde  12:26, April 17, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Welcome Back
Yeah, I only had one opportunity to go on the internet at the library and that was for my homework. But I decided to take a quick visit on The Sims Wiki. Joey.eyeball (talk) 06:29, April 14, 2014 (UTC)

Your joke on your userpage
I noticed you removed a joke on your userpage because you thought it was impolite. I personally find it hilarious. I don't think it was necessarily impolite; while it was indeed embarrassing to clumsily trip an edit filter, I take it as a token of learning, and I indeed shared it with other people. Feel free to put it on your userpage. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 01:17, April 19, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Safely transferring saved game data
In general, EA recommends that you install the expansions and stuff packs in this order:
 * The Sims 2™ (or Sims 2 Deluxe, Sims 2 Double Deluxe or Sims 2 Holiday Edition, whichever you have)
 * University (or University Life Collection)
 * Nightlife (disregard if you have Sims 2 Deluxe or Double Deluxe)
 * Christmas Party Pack (US) OR Holiday Party Pack (UK)
 * Open for Business or Best of Business Collection
 * Family Fun Stuff or Fun with Pets Collection
 * Glamour Life Stuff
 * Pets (disregard if you have Fun with Pets Collection)
 * Happy Holiday Stuff (Disregard if you have Sims 2 Holiday Edition)
 * Seasons
 * Celebration Stuff (disregard if you have Double Deluxe)
 * H&M Fashion Stuff (disregard if you have Best of Business Collection)
 * Bon Voyage
 * Teen Style Stuff (disregard if you have University Life Collection)
 * FreeTime
 * Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff (disregard if you have Best of Business Collection)
 * IKEA Home Stuff (disregard if you have University Life Collection)
 * Apartment Life
 * Mansion & Garden Stuff (disregard if you have Fun with Pets Collection)

I've read on MTS that some users do not get glitches when they install the EPs and SPs out of order (I posted the aforementioned link and got downvoted pretty badly, so apparently a lot of people don't get glitches). The install order was recommended by EA, so they're probably right... well, considering they've screwed up 80% of the game I can understand why some people disregard this page completely.

From what you've posted on my talk page, your latest game engine is Apartment Life (you didn't list Mansion & Garden Stuff there, so I assume you don't have that pack). Basically, each expansion pack comes with a new game engine to run the game, and they make irreversible changes to your saved games in order to run them. Sims 2 Saved Games are not backwards compatible, meaning that if you install Apartment Life, load, play, and save a neighborhood with that expansion pack installed, and then uninstall Apartment Life, previous game engines will be unable to read that file. If you installed Pets and Seasons, play a hood, then uninstall Seasons, any neighborhoods that were created/played with Seasons cannot be read by the Pets game engine. All previous EPs cannot read it either. However, if you installed Bon Voyage or a later expansion pack, I think it might work - don't count on that one, though. In short, back up your saved games before uninstalling an expansion pack, unless you're a "Want All Always" guy like me. The game's uninstaller will automatically delete your saved games when uninstalling an expansion pack, since they will be useless to the game anyways.

Stuff packs also ship with a copy of an expansion pack's game engine. This is where it gets really complicated. If you have no expansions, then install Family Fun Stuff, your game will use the Open for Business game engine, even though you don't have OfB installed. This also means you will be using the "Open for business version" for mods you download, as some mods need to be recreated or tweaked with each new expansion pack. A list of stuff packs and the game engine they come with can be found here.

In your situation, I would recommend that you install all the expansions and stuff packs you have in the order EA recommends you to (you can disregard anything that you don't have). Your saved games should work just fine. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 02:30, May 2, 2014 (UTC)