I FINALLY got Sims 3 to work, after updating my base game, all expansion packs, AwesomeMod, 3booter and all my other mods; deleting a few corrupt packages (after doing the whole take-half-out-then-test-it-then-divide-that process of elimination thing); downloading a whole new version of AwesomeMod since I haven't really played Sims since that whole no-interactions-with-others fiasco in mid-2011, then updating that with the new updater batch file; then downloading some updates with the updater.bat; then waiting for the stupid game to load and process all the changes; and now I'm finally just waiting for one of my saved games to load.
It's already been five minutes and the green bar is only filled about 1/7 or 14% and I really don't want to be waiting an hour for this stupid thing to load.
But I can't play AC3 and I can't play freaking Zoo Tycoon 2.
So I just have to content myself with watching old One Piece episodes.
At least Ace is hot.