Sims 3 werewolves

Submitted by erika on 10/12/12 5:49am
Aroooo!

It's been a full month since I got the Supernatural expansion pack, and I still have not talked about werewolves either. For shame! Really though, it's just a great example of why this is the best expansion pack so far. Most of the expansion packs, I was already getting sick of talking about them after a month. But there is still a lot I haven't explored in Supernatural yet.

There are four ways your Sim can become a werewolf: they can be born that way (werewolves mating with non-werewolves have a 50 percent chance of throwing a werewolf baby), you can drink the Bottled Curse of the Lycan (which you can make with the Alchemy skill, or buy at the consignment store), you can receive the curse by requesting a bite from another werewolf (you must have a high relationship with them for this request to be granted), or you can build a werewolf in Create-A-Sim.
 
(It's so much easier than becoming a werewolf in The Sims 2! I never did have the patience to get my relationship high enough with the pack leader to get a werewolf in that game.)

 
Werewolves gain Athletic skill faster than other Sims, live about twice as long, howl at the moon, and have a special ability to hunt for collectibles. The more you hone this ability, the better you get at it. (However, not having played a werewolf yet, I'm not sure whether or not this ability overlaps with the Collection Helper.)
 
Werewolves have many animalistic interactions with other Sims and animals. They will play fetch, sniff inappropriately, eat raw meat, scratch furniture, and enjoy a good belly rub. Other Sims may complain about their shedding, or whack them on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper.
 
You can also form a wolf pack with other werewolves in your town. Once you have a good relationship with another werewolf, you can ask them to join your pack. After recruiting enough werewolves for your pack, you become "alpha wolf." 
 
Although most of the time they go about as normal Sims, werewolves transform into their wolf form during the full moon. They can also transform at any time by will, but during the full moon you cannot change back into human form until the sun rises the next morning. Werewolves may also transform if they get angry enough, or their mood drops low enough.
 
To de-werewolf yourself, simply obtain the Potent Cure Elixir, either with the Alchemy skill or by purchasing it from the consignment shop. A romantic interest can also ask a werewolf to Forsake Their Powers, which will let you choose to become a normal Sim.
 

Cooking pork loin chops

Submitted by erika on 10/12/12 5:21am
It's easy and delicious.

Ever since I went gluten free, I find myself cooking a lot more meat than I ever have before. This has been a real learning experience for me, and boy have I learned a lot!

Pork loin chops have become one of my staples. With the cost of meat being what it is, it's important to look for bargains. I guess pork loin chops are not very popular, because they are usually cheaper than almost any other cut of pork. And frequently on sale, to boot.
 
I'm not sure why pork loin chops sell so poorly. They are more tender than regular pork chops, and don't have that messy bone to chew around. Plus, being thicker, I find them easier to cook without overcooking.
 
However, as with all meat, a meat thermometer is key. I finally shelled out the fifteen dollars for one of the fancy kind. It has a probe you stick in the meat, and a cord that dangles out of the oven door to a sensor. You can set an alarm to go off when the temperature reaches a certain point, or set the timer by minutes and hours. And it's very easy to use, read, and set. Plus it's magnetic, so you can stick it to the front of the oven. It's a bargain, and a lifesaver.

One of my "go-to" meals is simple to prepare and execute, and requires only three main ingredients: pork loin or pork chops, half an onion, and water or broth. I start with this recipe from the How To Cook Meat website. (By the way, that website has a lot of great recipes and information, I have had nothing but success there.)
 
Instead of butter, I use olive oil because it's healthier. (Or so I am led to believe.) I add at least a cup of liquid in the deglaze, because I like to have lots of broth at the end. I bake the meat for a lot longer, because I use thicker cuts. It's probably more like 15 minutes at 450; I don't really pay attention, I just go by the internal meat temperature. 
 
This recipe results in thick juicy pork loin chops which are properly cooked, yet moist and tender. Wonderful! 
 
And finally, I serve it over a bed of brown rice. The brown rice soaks up the juice in a most delicious fashion, and provides a lot of good nutrition to boot.
 

Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is engaged to her adopted brother?!

Submitted by LauriePerry on 10/11/12 10:35pm
Is this a publicity stunt for her new reality show?

This year has been full of ups and downs for 19-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown. In February, she lost her mother, Whitney Houston, tragically and suddenly. In the months since, she's been in the tabloids for supposedly carrying on a relationship with Nick Gordon, who is essentially her adopted brother. Now, word is that Bobbi Kristina and Nick are not only together -- they're engaged!?

This is just too much! Bobbi Kristina supposedly breaks the news about her engagement in a special "sneak peak" of the new Lifetime reality show The Houstons: On Our Own. One can only hope that this is some sort of publicity stunt.OK, let's hash this out, shall we? Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon essentially grew up together. They have a long history, and both loved Whitney Houston. Both have no doubt mourned her loss deeply this year. But are they even dating? Rumors that these two are engaged have circulated for weeks now, but until today, they were just that: rumors.

In a promo clip for the new reality show The Houstons: On Our Own, Bobbi Kristina Brown is seen wearing a large sapphire ring. She then nervously laughs as she announces, "We're engaged" to the family (who doesn't seem thrilled). You can see the entire teaser courtesy of E! Online here.

FYI: A rep for Bobbi Kristina Brown says she and Nick Gordon aren't currently engaged. Does this mean they were at one point?

What do you think? Is this just a way to promote ratings for The Houstons: On Our Own (which premieres on October 24, 2012, on Lifetime), or is Bobbi Kristina Brown really engaged to Nick Gordon? Personally, I think it's nothing more than a publicity stunt designed to generate tons of buzz for the show. And guess what? It's working!

Links for October 11, 2012

Submitted by phoenix on 10/11/12 10:04pm

Spots are appearing on cows near the Fukushima plant. Enenews.com

Despite more water, radiation is still high in the Fukushima Unit 1 and Unit 2 reactors. ajw.asahi.com

Many experts remain alarmed about the risk of Fukushima Unit 4 spent fuel collapse. Enenews.com

Japan’s top nuclear regulator says that there will be no restart reactors until fault checks and tighter safety standards met. washingtonpost.com

Outfits Du Jour: Dark jeans, cool jackets and lace-up shoes

Submitted by Penny Lane on 10/11/12 4:37pm

Upon his arrival from San Jose, these two friends' outfits caught the eye of Seattle in Style. Whether they planned to coordinate their ensembles or not is debatable, but both achieve an effortless fall style with key components like jeans in dark hues, lace-up shoes, jackets in caramel and mocha shades and a floppy fall hat. Arm and finger bling complete their casual, fall looks. 

Dark jeans, lace-up shoes, cool jackets and a floppy hat: yes!

Boots and shoes with laces

Floppy fall hat

Arm bling: charm bracelets, rings and dark nail polish

Savage Hotel: Part 7

Submitted by twrites80 on 10/11/12 4:22pm
Free at last from our tiny room.

After Uncle Eddy left in late March of 2002 and our chances of leaving the hotel went with him, life soon settled into a routine for us down in room #114 of the Savage Comfort Inn & Suites. Job hunting was the most interesting and watching TV the least.

In between, we ate whatever breakfasts, lunches and dinners could be scraped together from what we got at the food shelf seasoned with whatever we could sample from the hotel’s continental breakfast.   In fact, I remember once that the front desk informed us we had taken all the milk they had put out for one breakfast! After that we only took four Styrofoam cups of milk, which we stored in the tiny refrigerator the room came with.

The desire to get the heck out of there spurred me on in my job hunt because when my brother and I got jobs, the local charity giving us funds would then help us find housing.  

After crawling at a snail’s pace from March to June, things finally came together at the end of July when I got hired at Office Max and my brother at Circuit City.   But one more hotel remained for us before we could move in to a new place because we had to pack up and leave Savage early in August of 2002. The hotel owners wanted all their rooms free for the upcoming golf tournament at Hazeltine National Golf Club in nearby Chaska and so told us we had to go.  When I heard the news, I was so elated words fail to describe my joy.

So we wound up staying at the Long Lake America Inn until we moved into our new apartment a few weeks after we finally bade Savage goodbye, ringing down the curtain on the last act of being homeless. I’m proud I survived the experience with my sanity intact, but not ever again to I want to relive it.

Video Non Sequitur: Bottle-Destroying King Of The 'Net and more strange dumps

Submitted by brodiemanthe1st on 10/11/12 4:17pm

I am not sure what is more strange here: the cut-together-by-someone-else-remix of this guy cutting water bottles with a bunch of different edged weapons, or the actual fact that there are SO MANY videos of this guy cutting water bottles with a bunch of different edged weapons.

 
 
 
Mentos + Coke = Fun Explosion. Mentos + Coke + Condom = Unease. Agree or disagree?
 

Durex + Cola + Mentosy

 
 
Based on the views on this video, you have seen it. If you haven't, lower your volume and experience the aptly-named "worst death scene ever."
 

RADICAL ENDING 2: DEATH SCREAM **ORIGINAL UPLOAD**

 
 
How do we do it, video Dumpers? THIS IS HOW WE DO IT.
 

This is how we do it,Montell Jordan.MPG

 
 
So you are from South Korea and you are an exchange student in America. How do you become the coolest kid in the school? By dancing "Gangnam Style" in front of your entire high school.
 

Guy does Gangnam Style at NCHS Pep Rally

 

2012 Presidential Debates

Submitted by TomRay on 10/11/12 3:56pm
Citizen debate critique

The first of three Presidential Debates took place at the University of Denver recently. Two dynamics emerged the moment the President and Governor took the stage. Maybe what occurred was an anomaly that will be absent from the future debates. We’ll find that out over the next several weeks. Here are my general impressions of the debate.

President Obama

He was weak, unfocused and ineffective. This is the first debate since the McCain/Obama debates where Obama did well. However, in those debates Obama held the club of President Bush’s eight years in office firmly in hand, and he used Bush’s record to bash Romney. In fact, Obama has “run” against Bush during his last four years in office, blaming absolutely everything on the previous administration. He was running on his own record during last night’s debate and it wasn’t pretty. The President’s policies and their results over the last 4 years were immediately displayed to the viewing public. This knocked Obama off balance and from that point forward he was afraid to get up off the mat. He knew that everything he said would be contested and refuted, so he went into protection mode, where he simply absorbed the blows and waited until the punishment was over. President Obama can mesmerize a crowd with his words and delivery if he is standing above them preaching fantasy and outright lies while the crowd below worships him. He simply couldn’t perform when someone was standing in front of him challenging his assertions with the truth.

Mitt Romney

He was tall, stood erect and conducted himself with a Presidential bearing that Obama, who appeared petulant and annoyed that someone would challenge him, did not. Romney’s facial expression along with his bearing never changed. He was polite, open and never interrupted or rushed the President. When his turn came, he delivered his statements with confidence and in a tone that the President chose not to challenge. Governor Romney was prepared with the damning facts of the President’s administration and instead of arguing the points the President simply took the punishment and endured the debate.

Who will be elected in November? We will soon know!

The gunshop experience

Submitted by TomRay on 10/11/12 3:42pm
Is something afoot?

When my brother passed away recently, I inherited a number of rifles, pistols, ammunition and other gear relating to firearms. I didn’t want the weapons and yet I didn’t want to sell them to just anyone—who could easily be a budding terrorist. After some research, I was stunned at how much the guns were worth. My neighbor attempted to convince me to attend a gun show and get top dollar for the guns. Again, I didn’t want to sell them to anyone who might use them in a crime.

I called the police department and was told they appreciated my attitude but could only offer the solution of bringing them to the police department to be destroyed. I wasn’t ready to do that either, especially after determining their value. I finally decided to simply sell them at a local gun shop even though I knew I wouldn’t get much for them.

While I was dickering with the owner at the gun shop I decided that I would take his best deal—which was on the low side—and get rid of everything and be done with it. Then a strange thing happened as we were starting the paperwork.

The owner of the shop set aside one of the rifles and several boxes of ammunition and didn’t fill out the paperwork on it. I thought he had changed his mind about buying that particular gun. However, when he handed me the check for the guns it was made out in the amount of the price we had settled on for the entire lot.

I asked him why he didn’t process the rifle and ammunition that he had set aside; I didn’t want it to remain connected to me.

He then stunned me by sliding the gun and ammo across the counter and told me to keep them. I was confused and told him he had paid the amount we decided on for all the weapons. He said that the immediate future was uncertain, to say the least, and he wasn’t going to deprive an obviously good man of home protection by taking all the guns and ammo he had. I thought I knew what he was referring to—another doomsday scenario. However, this was a large and obviously successful business and he didn’t seem the type to indulge in those fantasies.

He wouldn’t take the gun back, told me to keep my eyes open and walked away. This guy is obviously leads a different life than I do and he’s telling me to be careful, the future is uncertain.

What the hell!

Patriots hope for a win against the Seahawks this Sunday

Submitted by USAsNewFavPASTIME on 10/11/12 3:38pm

The Patriots will try and do something few teams are able to say year in and year out in the NFL. That is, we beat the Seahawks in Seattle this Sunday. The two teams will meet in Washington at 4:05 PM at Century Link Field. Both teams come into the game with 3-2 records and have done so in very different ways. The Seahawks have continued to show this year, as with most, that the 12th man is as strong as ever in Seattle. They have beaten some difficult teams at home this season and look to continue that trend Sunday.

The Patriots will try and put an end to that home success and come into the game playing as strong as they have all season. Last week they won 31-21 against the likes of Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, and a week prior they won 52-28 in Buffalo. They have went back to what works with a strong emphasis on utilizing Wes Welker and have run the ball as good as any NFL team this year. A win Sunday would sure show just how good they are right now and what direction they are going.

 

The Seahawks hope to show just how they are progressing as well and against the Patriots they could definitely show the NFL what type of team they are. Being at home is certainly something that helps, and Seattle may show just how loud they can get Sunday. The Seahawks have already beat the likes of Green Bay and Dallas at home.

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