Missing: Tank's scar. Reward offered to anyone who can find it.

[strangetomato]

I'm not sure how I managed to do this, but Tank's scar is missing. I think it might have been deleted in a custom content purge of some sort. I did delete the entire glasses/accessories folder, due to an issue that I was having (and I just had a lot of useless junk in it), so maybe it was in there. When I opened up Worthington's lot, Tank no longer had the scar, and oddly, he was wearing the General's face paint again. I don't have time to worry about what that behavior might mean (besides the fact that Frances ought to stay away from Tank for today), because I need to find that scar. A search on MTS2 found nothing, and I was sure that was where it came from. Now I'm worried that I found it in some remote corner of the internet and I'll never find it again. If you can tell me where this might have come from, I would greatly appreciate it.

(Oh, and there are some bonus funny pics. Just 'cause.)

Any ideas? I know that I had a matching one that was for the chin too, which is also missing. They're very simple looking, as you can see here.




Ripp: Have you checked the garbage? Sometimes Nervous puts random things in the garbage for no reason. He's pretty fucking weird like that.

Me: No, Ripp, I hadn't thought of that. (I wonder why?) But it seems like you're going to check it out for me...




Me: Did you find anything?

Ripp: Yeah... looks like I found something really good.




Me: Ummm... Did you just EAT something from the garbage, Ripp?

Ripp: What?! Yeah. It was still good! What's wrong with that?!

Me: That's just nasty, Ripp.



See? I need help. These sims are just not helping me.

ETA: It has been located! Thanks ndainye!

Comments

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Most of the scars I've picked up have come from Garden of Shadows forums. In those cases, they're found in the dollies sections, and they're almost always in the makeup bin after install.


Hope that helps. That would be the first place I'd look.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have never been to that forum before, so it seems unlikely that I would have picked it up there. Do you mean that some of the sim designs have scars included in the download? I suppose it might turn up on a random sim, so it's worth taking a look around. I'll check it out.

I was pretty sure that Tank's scar was in the full face makeup folder, but I'm not really sure how I would have deleted it.

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Some of the doll makers include scars they've either made, or were made elsewhere, yes. I want to say that a lot of the contributors used to contribute at places like InSim, and maybe MTS2 in years past, but most of their stuff is more goth/emo friendly, so they prefer uploading to GOS instead.

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

Possibility?

http://www.thesimsresource.com/profiles/619166/

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That really does look like it! I sometimes do download from The Sims Resource, though not that often (I think I may have found the scar from one of those sims resource theme lists). I'm going to give that one a try. If it's not exact, it's pretty close.

Thank you!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

This is definitely the right one. Thank you so much! :D

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help! Got lucky on my site search order.

[hidden-kitten.livejournal.com]

Is there a reason I can't see the pics? It's been going on all night now, ever since I hooked up my router.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, it seems like other people can see them, and I can definitely see them.

That's odd. I don't know what to tell you.

[hidden-kitten.livejournal.com]

I know. I don't get it. Everything in allsims shows up, but nothing else, not even my personal journal. I'll search the FAQ and my journal settings...
OH AND THE DIALOGUE MAKES ME WANT TO SEE THEM SO MUCH MORE

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

No clue for the scar, sorry (I would have guessed MTS2 or TSR, since those are about the only two places I go to).

I hope Ripp doesn't get food poisoning.

Ripp, dear, if you're going to eat from the garbage, take a tip from George Costanza. You can only eat it if it's on the top (and it helps if it's an eclair or other sweet). I can clearly see you're in that can up to your arm pit. NOT COOL.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. And it's usually just MTS2, so I thought it would be easy to track down. That one from TSR (recommended above) might be the right one, actually - I have to check it out in-game to be.

Do they get food poisoning from doing that? That would be funny. That'll teach him to stay out of the garbage.

*snort* Good advice (and I love George Costanza). But he's definitely going for something right at the bottom of the can.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, they get food poisoning from such vile behavior.

*snort* George. "Pastrami is the most sensual of the salted and cured meats."

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

Ripp could definitely get food poisoning. I had a sim do that and the next time I went to his house he was sick as a dog. 'Serves you right,' I said. Sloppy sims will do this sometimes. I once had a child sim passing by a lot, stop, get INTO the garbage can and find something to eat! All the way in it! That was so funny.

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Aww, Ripp is trying to help! Such a nice sim lol. Unfortunately, he's got severe ADD.

Yeah, that one from the sims resource looks a lot like tanks scar! Poor Tank, at first he was so embarrassed by the scar that he had to put war paint on to cover it up, and now he's so used to showing the scar that he's embarrassed that it's not there so he's covering his face again!

Which reminds me, after a lot of trial and error, I was able to recover Strangetown! So I (of course) play the Grunts first; Johnny and Ophelia come over and he starts congratulating Ophelia non-stop. I'm talking 20 times in a row... For nothing! Oh, and his turn ons for me were makeup and a good cook, go figure.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's nice alright. I have such a problem with him hugging other sims lately. It makes me laugh. The other sims aren't always cool with it. *snicker* Ripp will hug complete strangers.

It's definitely the right one. I checked it out. I'm so happy.

*snicker* I know. I have no idea why Tank had the paint on again. It can't be a good sign for his mental health, though.

Oh, good to hear that you recovered Strangetown! And too funny that Ripp was doing that. He can be little obsessive when it comes to Ophelia, though, so I'm not surprised. Though I have yet to see him autonomously flirt with her, which is a little odd, since Tank did it, and Ripp has much higher chemistry with her (must be because of Johnny).

Those sound like very Ripp appropriate turn ons, especially in my story (when I get the new turn ons in Free Time, I am seriously considering giving him the "good cook" one, since he's so all about that).

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Yay, Tank's got his scar back so he doesn't have to be embarrassed anymore! :)

Ripp's the kind of sim that I'd just leave on free will all the time because he's just so entertaining to watch!
I literally had to pull him away from Ophelia. And no matter how many times I told him to stop it he would go back to bugging her again! He missed work because of it.
Hehe yeah, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach... At least it is for Ripp. He sure is eager to please!

The way I finally got the neighborhoods back was very complicated and tedious and I really hope I never have to do that again. What happened was that after all of my neighborhoods vanished, stupid me decided to make 2 totally new ones instead of recovering the maxis made ones first. So those 2 towns turned into neighborhood 1 and 2 replacing Pleasantview and Strangetown. With many tries, I went into the Sims program files, copied and pasted the three towns into the saved game files, copied my two neighborhoods I created into a backup file, created 2 new neighborhoods in the game, and then copied the data that was in the old neighborhoods and put it into the new ones. I re-loaded the game and I saw that it didnt work, so I had to go to the files again, and re-name every single package in that stupid folder to neighborhood 4 and 5 instead of 1 and 2. Then it finally worked, but my wrist hurt from all the clicking I had to do. We're talking hundreds of files here, and it took about 3 hours.

I'm sure there was an easier way to do it, but at least I got the results I wanted from all that work. Now I just need to rest my wrist for a loooong time.

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to look thru MTS2, but that link at TSR really looks like it could be it.

And why do I get the feeling that it wasn't completely necessary to have Ripp help out? You just wanted an excuse to stare at his messiness, didn't you?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It is definitely that one at TSR. I'm so relieved to have found it. Now I can resume taking photos for the next chapter.

Ripp insisted on helping out! He just started rooting through the garbage for me. *snicker* Actually, I've just wanted an excuse to show those for a while. Eating out of the garbage is too funny. It's almost as bad as loving the smell of your own rotten armpits (which Ripp also does).

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Yay! Can't have Tank without that scar, now can we?

I've never seen a sim eat out of the garbage in my game. Never. Maybe if I play Ripp, he'll do it. Rotten armpits? Ewww. Why am I not surprised?

[muslemura.livejournal.com]

So that's how the Ripp in my game got food poisoning... That, or the fact that he kept eating rotten food when he came to visit other playables. Try asking a food poisoned sim out for a date and you'll have a hard time keeping the date score up!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Eating spoiled or burned food will do it too. Silly Ripp. (Makes me think of the scene where he's eating the burned omelettes that he tried to cook for Johnny. *snicker* Well, it was pretty true to his actual sim behaviour, wasn't it?)

Ripp does some funny things when he's not controllable. He takes forever to leave a house in the night too, in my experience. Many sims will say it's too late after 1:00 am, but Ripp often stays around until at least 4:00 am. Just last night I was playing (putting the scar back on Tank, etc.), and he stayed over there all night watching TV with Frances. (Maybe Frances took a hit off the bubble blower too.)

I would imagine that the food poisoned sim would just get sick and throw up, then decide that they aren't having a good time, and just go home. I hate when that happens.

This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

*flails arms* @.@

www.thesims3.ea.com

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool! :D

(But is it okay to admit that part of me is reluctant about Sims 3, even while I'm excited about it?)

Re: This is completely off topic, but LOOK!

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

Of course! It's the end of an era, etc. Personally I'm very very excited -- but also saddened because I strongly suspect I'll need a new computer to play it at anything but the lowest settings. Unless they've taken a leaf from Spore and it's fancy no-need-for-high-end-computer programming. *crosses fingers and toes*