Hypnotic memory implantation
Dilettante:
In poking around with SimPE I noted that a number of my sims, particularly some of the townies, have invisible memories of things which they most certainly did not do. All these memories also have a note that they belong to some other Sim. So far as I can tell, the sim they belong to is the one they actually happened to.
Why are these memories showing up for sims that didn't have them?
a) SimPE's memory display clearly states it's experimental, idiot!
b) The neighborhood is borked and will soon become a Fiery Explosion Which Is Visible From Outer Space
c) Other
RainbowTigress:
Usually the townies are witness to these events. For instance, my two sims are making out for the first time on the front lawn, and a townie walks by. When the townie witnesses this event, he receives an invisible memory of "made out with X for the first time." Later on, he might pass this on to another Sim in conversation or as gossip. Other sims receive memories like this, not just townies. I don't know how many memories I've seen where a sim gets an A+ and then a memory of his mother having the memory of his A+, in addition to the memory that his sister got an A+ and his mother's memory of his sister getting an A+. Gah!!! I am so happy for the no A+ memory spam. Obviously, this was all before I got that mod. Cheating is an especially popular memory that gets spread around, as well as someone peeing at a party.
I've seen several instances where a sim will meet another sim, and then they will have memories that were passed to them from the other sim. Like when my sim met Brandi Broke, she received memories from her of Brandi potty training Beau and about Skip dying.
J. M. Pescado:
In my neighborhood, the conversational topic of choice is burned food, closely followed by woohoos.
Ancient Sim:
This confused me at first. I remember seeing a memory in Cassandra's file of something that had happened to Herb Oldie even though he'd been dead for ages and Cassandra had never even met him. I thought "Wow, she really IS weird" and I was quite excited about it, until I found out that someone else had passed the memory on to her. Since then I've seen quite a few Sims get memories about dead people. Mainly, it's about them burning food (in fact, most gossip seems to be about people burning food).
One thing about the cheating side of it puzzles me. From what I can gather, if a Sim passes on a memory of someone cheating to the 'wrong person', they will react as if they witnessed the cheating. This makes no sense, because how do they know it happened after they became involved with the cheating Sim? It could have happened before they even met them, or they could have been cheating on someone else. The memories don't say who they cheated on, just who by. As an example, if Cassandra were married to Don and Mortimer passed on a "Caught Don Cheating" message to her, how would Cassandra know the details? He might have been cheating on Dina with Nina or on Nina with Kaylynn, possible before he even met Cassandra. Or do they pass on the details in some 'hidden' way?
J. M. Pescado:
I think they either just ignore it, or go ballistic in some way. This is not entirely clear, as I can't find any reference to it in the code anywhere. That's the problem with the "cheating" memories by default, you can even cheat on people you don't even have a relationship with...like crazy professors.
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