Obsessive Diary-Writing
witch:
Quote from: V on 2008 March 05, 07:08:40
Get back on topic, people! I don't want this thread getting tossed to Retardo Land! I want the "Diaries are for 12s" hack NAO!!!11oneone! Crazed sims running off to write in their diaries was bad enough before, but now it has just gone too far.
Akshully I have noticed the diary obsession. I've never liked the interaction, even in Castaways at the beginning when they're low on social. I would totally support a hack that does away with diarying altogether. But I'd settle for minimisation and be damned grateful for it.
notveryawesome:
I think it was Dizzy who made a hack that only allowed sims to write in their diaries if they were alone in the room where the bookcase was. He recently posted his hacks on The Laden Swallow. It doesn't completely quash the obsessive diary-writing, but it does do away with a lot of it.
witch:
I had that. I just haven't put Dizzy's hacks in my Freetime test hood. It still didn't squash it as much as I'd have liked.
doren:
I agree that sims are a bit too fond of diary writing since Freetime and choose the most unsuitable situations (shop owner in a shop full of customers) for it, but I would like to point out that diary writing is not only for 12 year olds.
When my grandmother died I took charge of her diaries which she started writing again in 1964, one year after my birth. I loved reading them and they told me a lot about my family and my grandmother. A few years later I got prepared to move and so was my brother, there was a mix-up of boxes and one of mine was accidently driven to a waste plant and burned, including all the diaries up to 1971 (and they were the ones with the most interesting stuff). I still consider this as one of my greatest material losses.
Diaries written by famous or completely unknown people are found and published, because they provide not only a very particular perspective on the time when they were written, but also tell about the person who has written them.
EDIT: Oh, and I think if it gets too much I get the hack from Dizzy, it sound like the right one for me.
Ryslin:
I am all for complete removal of the diary writing. They get stuck in the "omg people watching me write ..noooes!!!".
Annoys me to no end.
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