Most of my friends are into martial arts and the ones who don't use their fists are armed.  Possibly to the teeth.

I agree with you to a certain degree (insofar that rage is more useful than despair) but I don't see the benefit in forcing someone from sadness to anger.  Most people make the transition on their own and then you get the fire to move on.  Just because you can whip them into a frenzy now doesn't mean they won't cry themselves to sleep in a few hours and then they'll be, like, enthusiastically depressed and they start listening to really awful rap metal and crying at soap commercials.

On the original subject, I killed a pregnant sim for a story last night and it took hours for her to die (which made it even harder to do).  I don't understand why accidental pregnancy deaths are so prevalent when the same pregnant sim resists pre-meditated means.
 

Oh, he gets annoyed sometimes (like when I promise to do my half of the housework and, uh, don't).  My sister is the only one who truly understands the addictive nature of the sims and she only has Sims 1. 

So I guess it's safe to assume that you've never been hit on at the bus stop by a guy with a black marble instead of his left eye (backstory, "the aliens took it") who told you that he thought you could need him.  Once you experience that, your standards for wierd are pretty high.

Actually, my boyfriend was freaked out by his self sim.  One conversation went:

Him:  Get closer to that guy dancing all crazy
Me:  (zooooooom)
Him:  Oh my God, that's ME!  Why am I dancing all crazy?
Me:  It's fun, you like it.
Him:  Who's that woman floating in the background?  She looks like Liv Tyler.
Me:  Uh, that's me.  I'm meditating.
Him:  You don't look like Liv Tyler.
Me:  I know I don't, but I want pretty sim babies, and with my threehead, cheekbones and huge nose replicated in this game, our kids would be horrific.
Him:  Cool.  Little freaks.  I still don't want to be dancing crazy, and can't you make me a little more manly?  If you can look like Liv Tyler, I wanna be the Rock.  And doing that eyebrow thing all the time!

 

One of my grandmothers dyes her hair chestnut brown and the other keeps a nice ash blonde rinse going that makes her hair an undefinable yellowish-gray.  The only older women I know who go white or gray are those who can't be arsed into covering it up and those who embrace it.  My boss is salt and pepper and I covet her hair like nothing else. 


Funny that you saw that "sim" while looking at Edward Scissorhand stills.  I think that many of the "goth" sims found on the Exchange are creations straight out of Tim Burton's mind.

I'm doing a story with characters based on real people (but not real situations) and some of my nearest and dearest are so fun to turn into sims!  My mom and my boyfriend especially lend themselves to amazing likenesses because they have nice, proportional features and generic bone structure. 

I lost a baby at age 23, when I was a single gal shacking in a friend's utility room and working at Wal-Mart for an amazing $6.25 an hour.  It was for the best and I came to terms with it as soon as I was able to step off the hormonal rollercoaster from hell.  I have been chastised for not being more sentimental, but what more can I say?  I was emotionally prepared for a baby, but "emotionally prepared" doesn't buy diapers or cover childcare.  I've known some women who see miscarriages as a challenge to try again (one woman had 8 miscarriages and 5 babies and she passed her bad heart on to every last one of them), some see it as the end of a dream and others (like myself) have a more pragmatic (and dare I say Pescado-ian?) reaction. 

However, I think the key to being an outsider in any loss situation is to let the person most closely affected deal with it the way they feel they should, as long as they are not acting in unhealthy or dangerous ways.  Grief is irrational and nonsensical and it doesn't help anyone when you try to force it to be. 

When I first got the game and only used money cheats for larger families, I had my self-sim popping out kids left and right.  I kept the nursery next to the master bedroom and, since I always put a cheap fridge and a few counters in my nurseries, I was able to maintain her motives through copious amounts of gelatin and without upsetting the design of the house too much.  When I'm playing a multi-generational household I use a combination or the energizer, meditation, and the services of any retired elders that might be wandering around. 

Now, like Inge, I play the game the way I want to play it so it's enjoyable.  Even in Legacy houses, I use a motive cheat to fill in motives (usually fun and environment) that I feel impede the game to a ridiculous degree.  My boyfriend, who would rate an east 8 on the neatness scale, doesn't go into a 15 minute whiny fit when there are dirty dishes, nor does he refuse to perform other functions because of his discontent with the cleanliness of the house.  I also adjust motives when they encounter glitches (like getting trapped in the bathroom by the maid) or when they break queue to weep over roaches or hug a parent returning from work.

When it's all said and done, I could live without custom content (although I love me some realistic eyes and have Helaene's as my default) but there are a few hacks that, were it not for them, I would have given up on the game within a few months

1. Merola's Multi-painting- I hate that CAS sims are such blank slates and, being SpimPE impaired, this is the easiest way for me to fine tune personalities, skill sets and interests without having to waste a bunch of time getting them up to standard.  I also like having the ability to adjust specific moods, especially when glitches happen in my Legacy houses. 
2. College adjuster- Even in non-cheat situations, I'm a slave driver at Uni.  I can get the semester grade filled up in a fraction of the time that Maxi allots and not having the option to "fast forward" the semester would kill my gaming momentum.
3. TwoJeff's Same-sex marriage, preg for all genders, have child not adopt-  Equality for all sims! 
4. Abduction hack- My first hack ever (and the one that has, admittedly, been most abused). 
5. Inge's teleporter shrub-  I don't know how I lived without it.  Not only has it made matchmaking a breeze, used in in tandem with Dr. Vu's plastic surgery machine, it's increased the Townie attractiveness quotient tenfold.

Even though I would like to consider myself an intellect, I had to choose Cheese.  Honestly, I would never read another book if it meant that the world's supply of cheese would never end.  I have one sim with the Grilled Cheese aspiration and I get so hungry playing her it's riudiculous.

Yeah, there's definitely a "Let's get this thing over with" vibe in the honeymoon limo.  Sort of sad, really. 

The first wedding party I ever threw was going well until I sent the groom's pregnant mother home as she was on the verge of passing out.  All the other guests followed suit and in 10 seconds I went from "Roof Raiser" to disaster.  After that the bride was the laughingstock of Veronaville and I decided that parties were too much trouble.  Since NightLife and the Smustle, however, I've been throwing great parties left and right. 

Hearing about the extreme glitchiness and Santa issues that come with the game pack makes me glad that I didn't get it and that my boyfriend is mystified by my Sims addiction and therefore would never buy me even more crap to support my habit. 

Does he have a metal hand and everything? (sorry, couldn't resist)

I have several knowledge sims who want to be Mad Scientists.  This will invaluable.  One of them is alsmost there and has no vacation days, I'd hate for his job performance to take a hit because of Maxi glitchiness.

That's what I thought, too.  Right after the falling out, I had the girls study together to rebuild their relationship and had them at around a 25 lifetime.  Then Maile shadowed Yesenia on an at home date, autonomously poked her, and the hatefest was on for real.  The kicker is that both the girls have high nice scores (9 and and a lot in common.  They spent two more semesters fighting before Yesenia graduated and moved out.  The last time they were on a lot together (Yesenia's brother married Maile's sister-in-law) I had to watch Yesenia's queue like a hawk and cancel every fight command she generated or that popped up courtesy of Maile. 

I've discovered that you can drive a relationship down by using the "Bad Mouth" interaction under Talk.  I don't recall if you can Bad Mouth those whom you are furious with or if you have to be enemies, but the sim on the listening end of the Bad Mouthing usually gets two red minuses over their heads.   

I had a Uni love triangle involving Yesenia, Sawyer and Maile.  Yesenia and Sawyer were in love, but he cheated on her with Maile and got caught.  Yesenia fought Sawyer (and lost) and they were furious enemies...for about a day.  Within 48 hours of the dust up, they were both rolling wants to call, kiss and fall in love with one another.  Meanwhile, Yesenia and Maile (who were roommates) spent more time antagonizing one another than studying and are my first mutual -100/-100 pair of sims. 

4/6/3/8/9

Surprisingly on target.  I'm a Pisces and, except for nice, I'm not so much what the game considers a Pisces.  I usually make my self Sim have a higher neat score because I can't stand the buzzing fly sound.  I think that if my real life dishes devolved into their own eco-system at such a rapid rate, I would be much tidier.

I agree with those who want the reasons for furor to be quasi-realistic.  If you catch your significant other in the arms of another, then get pissed and stay pissed, dammit.   If you happen to, I don't know, autonomously read the tag on a bouquet of Dream Date roses and realize that OMG! your fiancee when on a date with someone else...when she was a teenager, be glad that you're not marrying a total loser and get over yourself.

The first time I made an avatar sim and paired her with my RL boyfriend, things were going spectacularly until I died from the flu caused by some mean townie kicking over the trash and giving us roaches.

Not only did I die, which devastated our 6 children, all of whom had "Death of a Family Member" in their fear slots, but I died just after the 3:00 school bus showed up and there were two visiting children on the lot and, more importantly, blocking the path to saving me. 

So I die, I can't be saved, and my children are all in the red including my teenage daughter who was in line to try out the rejeuvenator.  She still hopped in and was promptly drained and nearly died as well.  My teenage son, a neat freak, spent the next 3 three hours crying about the roaches instead of potty training our newly adopted toddler, who soiled herself and had flies buzzing around her.   That was a terrible afternoon.

My issues with SUV's and your bigger trucks are that on my windy country road, their drivers have to go excruciatingly slow.  When you meet one coming from the other direction, they stay planted firmly in the middle of the road because heaven forbid one of thier ginormous Michelin tires meet the edge of the road.  I have been run into the shoulder about 6 times in the past month by these jerks.

Twice now Sophie has wooed sweet teenage boys into a First Kiss without my guiding her.  The first was way back when I got the game and had Will Speare in Veronaville.  His grandson, Willem, brought her home from school and before I knew what was going on, Willem had had his first kiss and was wanting to go steady with her.

Recently, she pulled this on one of my Prosperity Challenge teens.  Without even guiding either of them, they kissed and became best friends.  She's the only sim I've come across who has ever autonomously moved on to "romantic" interactions without being romanced first.

Is today's gift really a factoid and a lame ass blooper?  The wreath I liked, today I have to agree with everyone on the "rather have coal/flaming bag of poo". 

My first pregnancy, to an affluent but career oriented couple, in Night Life resulted in girl/girl twins and then I had a ridiculous run of male singles.  Until, of course, I wanted a boy.  My avatar sim and her husband can't have a boy to save their lives- I saved and replayed her second delivery 10 times and was getting the recessive alien skin on a couple, but no boy.

Now I have the triplets and quads hacks.  I've yet to get a natural set of twins for the familes I don't use the cheat on, but my children since NightLife gender ratio is still skewed:  16 boys to 5 girls.  I've never had that sort of imbalance before.

That picture is creepy, Brynne.  It looks like his head is on backwards

I had a glitchy house when I first started playing the original game and the floating nude there was a female child who was bathing directly above where her teenaged brother was making out with his girlfriend.  There was something profoundly icky about it, and I exited immediately and most everything was normal when I came back- the father had contracted a case of the white enumerated skin but at least he wasn't underaged and nekkid.