//emily//impractical//blog//

My life really isn’t interesting, so there’s nothing to say about that. As far as my opinions go, those are interesting but really not well thought out and I don’t feel like bothering with it. Hmmmmmmmmmm…..

Well, I guess I will make this entry about Sims 2. A lot of people have been asking me where/how I get such cool hairs/clothes/makeup/etc. So this is for you people.

First off. When you go to a site and choose something you want to download, this is what you do.

1. Make sure you have Winzip. It makes everything easier. Go to winzip.com and download the free trial. It lasts for a long time.

2. Download it and save it onto your desktop or someplace that is easily accessible.

3. I usually wait until I’m done going through allllll the websites I know of and downloading all the things I want… by then I have like 100 – 300 downloads on my desktop. I open up the first one with winzip.

4. Click extract. It’ll ask you what folder you want to extract it to. Extract it to…. My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads … ok? But make sure you include the whole C:\whateverwhateverwhatever part. I just didn’t include it because it’s different for everyone. Moving on.

5. Once you have extracted it into your Downloads folder, close that Winzip window and open the next. When you have done this with all of the files and all of them have been extracted into the correct folder, they should be in your game when you start it up next time.

NOW! I will share my secrets with you. Here are some of my favorite sites to get Sims downloads.

www.modthesims2.com

www.xmsims.com

www.raonsims.com

www.peggysims2.net

and occasionally… thesims2.ea.com

There are more, I know, but I have forgotten them. My favorite users on modthesims2.com are as follows…

http://modthesims2.com/creator/Enayla – Makes AMAZING skins and eyes, and is also an amazing artist.

http://modthesims2.com/creator/bruno – All of his stuff is done well. Even though I don’t like most of the stuff for my own game, once in a while I find something that is just awesome.

There are more I can’t remember… Well here is a list of sites. I haven’t tried them all. Some of them will probably be lame. But here is a list of sites:

http://compsimgames.about.com/od/thesims2fansitesatoz/The_Sims_2_Downloads_Fan_Sites_A_to_Z.htm

Okay, that’s it for now.

In other news, Alicia Silverstone loves plants and will get naked to prove it! Loooool.