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Started playing today, it's quite enjoyable! The tutorial is adequate to get you started and leaves you alone after a while, by which time you're probably ready to find out the rest yourself. I like researching things to unlock new technologies and costumes. It starts getting a bit overwhelming when all of your stars demand a trailer, entourage AND need to spend time socialising, de-stressing, rehearsing and making movies, while the timeline ticks ever onward. The pace is a bit demanding for someone like me, who enjoys taking their time and watching things happen.

After 15 in-game years, I won my first award for Most Prestigious Lot. But I seem to be perpetually behind all the other studios in every other category. It seems impossible to catch up to their ratings, which makes me feel rushed into constructing/destroying buildings and constantly improving things. And while I'm doing that, my stars are slowly losing relationship points, complaining about their image, or demanding better trailers...

Overall, I'm enjoying it. But I hope there's some way to wind down the difficulty. It's not a hard game by any means, but I'm finding it difficult to keep up!

Problem: I installed, but when I try to run it it tells me to put Disk One in. Disk One is in.

Grab a replacement exe from gamecopyworld, that's what I usually do in that situation.

One of my favourite games. It started to have a budding mod community too, but unfortunately the mod support was lackluster and it never really took off until well after the company's demise.

You thought DF Carp were deadly? Phah! They don't even use projectiles.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3054085/Teen-speared-in-chest-by-float.html


FTA:

"TEENAGE angler Tom Mitchenall is lucky to be alive after he was speared in the chest — by his own FISHING FLOAT.

Tom, 17, had hooked a large carp and was jostling with the heavy fish when the line snapped sending the slender plastic float "twanging" back at him like an arrow.

Incredibly, the 8in-long plastic dart pierced Tom's chest and embedded itself in his lung which collapsed.

The riverbank "missile" missed his main artery by just an inch. Had it been cut he would have bled to death.

But Tom was rushed to hospital where surgeons removed the float from his chest and drained the fluid on his lung."

Let me tell you how I got convinced to Windows 7:

There was a pretty old game (Win98 era) that I couldn't run on Xp even with compatibility modes, but it perfectly runs on my Laptop wich has Win7 on it.

So I would say, go for it, you don't have much to lose with it.

Lol, that's the first I've heard of that happening.

@Sean: I've encountered the "Win XP Virtual PC" thing before. Would you say it runs reliably enough for me to forgo partitioning my disk for a seperate XP install?

I've clung to Windows XP for the longest time out of fear that many obscure or older games/applications would no longer function under a modern, 64-bit OS. But XP's life is drawing to a close, and we all eventually have to move with the times, right?

I recently upgraded my desktop to 4GB RAM, as an incentive to finally make the plunge, but I'm still not quite finding the motivation. The family PC has Vista, and my god, I hate it so much. All I know is that Win 7 is like Vista, only "better" somehow. Beyond that, I don't actually know much about it.

I still need convincing... perhaps to hear some of the features that I'd personally find enjoyable, beyond the utilisation of all that shiny new memory.

I'm a gamer at heart, with varied tastes. I enjoy old as well as new. I don't want to leave my 32-bit apps behind, if possible. Dual-booting is an option I've heard of, but never attempted, and my harddrive is kind of small for that sort of thing (150GB).

I guess what I'm really asking is... will I regret it? Or will I be saying "why didn't I do this sooner"?

Sometimes I get too inwardly focused and introspective.

I'll spend a good part of the day replaying some minor event in my mind, going over every single little detail to see where things went right or wrong.  My mood can swing wildly as I try to figure out if there's some lesson I haven't learned or if I'm sliding back into bad habits.

Does anyone else have a problem like this?  Thanks.

I do that a lot too. I find myself obsessing over some event, thinking how I should have said this or that. In fact, it happened just this morning when my folks were arguing over something stupid and I yelled at them. I spent the rest of the day replaying it in my head, coming up with all the witty remarks I could have said instead of just "ACT LIKE ADULTS!" xD

It stems from frustration and insecurity, methinks. It's difficult to repress. I try to take my mind off it somehow.

I'd post mine, but I don't plan on updating my firmware. Yet. Patience will pay off. I have to believe...!