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Too bad if you missed Issue 12, it rocked

The outstanding quality of Issue 12 of The Sim was confirmed yesterday as The Editor revealed that literally thousands of fans across the globe had mailed their congratulations, and in some cases, crates of champagne to The Sim head office.

"I am happy to report that Issue 12 was a runaway success. Every story was a classic, every image a work of art in itself. I'd like to thank the fans for their constant and unflinching support through the dark days of Issues 1 through 7. And parts of Issue 9."

The Issue 12 poll reveals that the favourite story by far was the one about the base-jumping Sim unable to find anything taller than two stories to jump from, followed closely by the Friends/A-Team parody in which the A-Team discover that the Friends are Soviet 'sleeper' agents, planted in New York shortly after WWII.

Please note that due to copyright restrictions, Issue 12 was unavailable in some parts of the world, so you might have missed it.

In another nail-biting poll, Sims fans narrowly voted for a Daily Update in preference to the proposed 'Weekly' and 'Never again' options.

The Readers Decide
I think The Sim should update: [484 votes total]
Daily (233)	48%
Weekly (209)	43%
Never again (42)	9%

But in a shock announcement today, The Editor revealed that no reader need go away disappointed.

In an attempt to please all of the people, all of the time, the following update schedules have been arranged:

If you voted Daily: the Daily Update will begin again in earnest next week, probably;

If you voted Weekly: just come to this page every week or so;

If you voted Never Again: just spend your time in the Archives, reading and re-reading the same old stories, and reflect on how much better they used to be.

Eva, Natalia, Liz, Pammie, Britney, Tyra, Naomi
...and 'Dave'

Sims fan David Harleyson today denied that his Neighbourhood Four, populated entirely by supermodels plus one guy named 'Dave Stud', was in any way acting out a personal fantasy of his.

"It's just a coincidence" he said "Sure, this guy 'Dave' lives in a household consisting of him and seven famous, beautiful women. And they all go out to work, while he spends pretty much all of his time in the Love Bed"

Dave discusses the offside rule with Natalia Semanova

"And all of the other households in the neighbourhood are populated with other supermodels, who come over to visit and such. And they are all in love with him"

"But isn't everyone's game like that? Anyway, they're not all supermodels. Britney's a singer"

Sim 'Am I Hot or Not?' top (and bottom) ratings

All-time low

Issue 11 of The Sim simultaneously reached new heights and depths of Sim graphical talent, with Rocksaw's entry accumulating an all-time low of 1.5 HU (Hot Units).

In stark contrast, the entry from Openlea's My Sims scored 7.1 HU, joining the top three hotties this week.

This week's entries feature skins from Claw, Princess Liar, and Taz. Which Sims will occupy the coveted Top Three places in the next issue?

Remember, Am I Hot or Not? runs 24-7 at Damicatz' site: you don't need to wait for The Sim to update.

Let the rating begin!

Sim	Rating	Best comment
	8.8	'Try Brushing ya hair love' Image from Veronica at SimFreaks
	8.2	'Youre hatter than chrocolate pudding' Image from FingerMouse at Cheap Frills
	7.1	'Cool Birds' Image from Openlea's My Sims
	NEW rating over	Image from Claw at 7 Deadly Sims
	NEW rating over	Image from Princess Liar (no website...yet)
	NEW rating over	Image from Taz at TzmSims

Sim misses day at work, moonshot *

The career path of Neighbourhood Five Sim, Roger Bucks, was dealt a severe blow today as he missed out on the first Sim spaceflight to the moon. Roger placed the blame squarely on the car pool: "Would it hurt those guys just to wait a little longer?" he said "I heard the car, got out of the bath, and dressed. By the time I got to the driveway, they'd gone." The moon, earlier today "Boy, I tell you, those guys are just so impatient." As a result, Roger missed the all-important mission to the newly-discovered Blue Moon, and instead spent the day catching up on his reading. Meanwhile, the National Aeronautical & Sim Administration (NASA) announced that the mission had been a complete success, and released stunning pictures shown here for the first time. 'All your moonbases are belong to us'. Say what? "Future missions are planned to consolidate the Sim presence on the moon" said a NASA spokessim "And after that, Mars." 'One small step for a Sim...' 'Say, has anyone seen Roger?' "I just don't think Roger will be featuring prominently in any of them", she added. Fox TV will be celebrating this historic event with an hour-long 'documentary' explaining how the whole thing was a fake.

New This Week: Simlebrity Lookalikes *

SimFreaks	Aloha Sims

Can you nominate a lookalike?

Send in the URLs to: Simlebrity Lookalikes and The Sim will do the rest!

A mutually rewarding exchange between parent and teen

Maxis today announced plans for a 'Teenager patch' which, it is promised, will 'dramatically change' the behaviours, interests and vocabulary of Sim kids.

"Using the Makeover Studio, players will now be able to 'grow up' their Sim children into teenagers" said a Maxis spokesman "Although why anyone would willingly do this is beyond me"

Although the patch is only at the beta testing stage, The Sim can reveal that the new behaviours include not laughing at parental jokes anymore, frequent visits to a place known only as 'out', and (for male sims) writing bad poetry.

Acompanying the patch will be several new sound files that faithfully recreate the experience of living with a teen, including parental favourites such as Korn, Papa Roach and Chemical Brothers.