Random Sim Musings 3-6-23

 

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Been awhile and there's been some stuff going on with Sims 4.  I have no idea where I'm going with this.

First up, THE BABIES ARE FREE FROM THEIR BASSINET PRISONS!  Kinda.  I don't generally play families but I have a few saves populated with lots of families and this will be an addition for them.  It's too soon to be annoyed with them yet.

I watched the live stream a few days ago and while I'm glad the new things are coming with the update and the expansion it's just...  Start this thought over.

The Sims 4 has added a lot over the years.  Lots of things with updates and lots of things with paid content.  And overall it's made a good playing experience (minus broken features and bugs) but it's spread out over so many packs and it can be inconsistent.   Like Selvadorada vs Sulani with culture lore.  Or even with the supernaturals.  Werewolves have lots of content compared to vampires.  Spellcasters fall in the middle since they have the Magic Realm.

Now this brings us to Growing Together.  There's the gameplay from Parenthood (which was not a Sims 3 Generations replacement) .  High School Years also had some family gameplay with the teens.  I see this as more of an add-on than an expansion (perhaps like My First Pet Stuff?) to fill in the holes in the family gameplay that's already there.

In the end I guess it doesn't matter because I'm getting the pack when it comes out and then figure out how to weave it in to my already established saves and probably making new saves because that's what I do.

Go 4th and sim!

 

Lori

#Simmer4Life

Hi again.

Making plans for this space.

Hi

 Really should post more on here.

Random screenshot.

Go 4th and Sim!

Lori

Crazy Sims Idea!

 YOU LOOKING FOR DRAMA???!??!? 

Well, you won't find it here.  Actually nobody finds this place. 🤷  The Simming Community is filled with drama...again.  It never really goes away, does it?  Not to mention the history making, life changing events of the last few years.  I'm just weary of everything.

Letting my mind wander into what ifs and this is what I got.  😐

We have scenarios.

We have a residential haunted house lot trait.

We have Strangerville.

We had Jasmine Holiday.  (She's been gone a long time.)

Here's my GRAND IDEA!

Pulling from the Strangerville Mystery, the Haunted House Residential Lot Trait, the limited time scenarios and Jasmine Holiday from the long forgotten challenge events.

I enjoyed the Private Eye career from Sims 3.  I enjoyed Strangerville.  I enjoy the location aspirations.  But once you do them they're done.  I would love to see a limited time event that adds some new gameplay.  

...

Yeah, that's all I got.  It sounded way better in my head than actually putting it into words.  I'm giving myself a 🌟for even making the effort to put something on this blog.

Go 4th and Sim!

Lori

#Simmer4Life

Wow 2 Years!

 Right on schedule to dust this off again.  

I've been in training.

And taking care of the farm..

But I have some ideas that may or may not get put out.  And that's the Sim Acres promise to you.

Go 4th and Sim!
Simmer 4 Life!

Lenny Pt. 1

This is a story I started in 2015.  I'm finally at a point I can continue/finish it.  Now on with the show!

Lenny Vicuna was your typical alien from, well, let's just say an alien planet.  Lenny's native language doesn't translate well into any Earth language. Yet his race had the ability to learn any language quickly.   Lenny's real name was his planet's equivalent of Jim Smith or Tom Jones, not unusual.  His job was also equivalent of a paper pusher, button clicker or test tube spinner.  He started off in an entry-level position and worked his way up few levels.  Wasn't the best, certainly not the worst.  Did a few good things that got him some recognition.

He had a group of friends that he hung out with doing all the normal things the aliens on his planet did.  Lenny's life on his planet wasn't really that bad.  He got by.

Yet Lenny felt that he needed something else.  He wasn't sure what.  So he lived his life and got by always with the feeling there should be something more.

Then one day he nearly slept through his entire shift and still managed to do his job in his sleep.  It was then he knew he had to take drastic measures.  He took off for Human Resources (his job's version anyway) and wanted to know if there were any other openings anywhere else.

Turns out there was an opening in their Earth branch.  Lenny didn't even give the clerk the time to give him details before he said yes.  Before he could go Lenny had to fill out a packet for transfer.  First up was getting a more Earth appropriate name.  The clerk clicked some buttons and the name "Lenny Vicuna" showed up.  Lenny shrugged and decided he could live with it.

After two weeks of Earthling training, Lenny found himself in the city of Bridgeport.  He was set up with a small apartment in a seedy part of town and was ready to start work in the lab first thing Monday morning.

At first it was exciting, meeting new people experiencing new things.  He found a local watering hole and spent many evenings there.  Nobody seemed to question him to closely.  They would just smile and nod when he said he was "From out of town and it's complicated".  Lots of people had the same story.  Topics turned to the weather or the local sports teams.

The months went by and soon he felt the same way he did on his old planet.  Same stuff every day.  Really boring, too.

To be continued...

Random Sim Musings 8-3-2020 Icongate!

Let's start with this picture.  It's summer and what's better than a beach?  

Actually, I like that picture better than the one making the rounds of the Sims Universe now.

Quite the "controversy".  This was "leaked" "accidentally" while EA was showing how to share submissions for the Sims reality game show.  Yeah, that's probably worth a whole post on it's own.  But let's stick to today's controversy.  I think they knew this icon was there before sending out the information.  It sticks out.  I just can't see this being overlooked before sending it out to the public.

There's a lot of details about the look of it.  But the big speculation is that it's....a Star Wars themed game pack.

Let me make my point very clear...NO.  Not just in English, but in every language ever known to man in the entire history of communication.  The costumes are fine.  Baby Yoda , um The Child?  No problem.  Those are free updates to the game and you never have to use them.  But to ask people to fork over $20 for something that is so narrowly specific?  FUCK NO!

It doesn't fit with The Sims at all.  Whew, enough anger.  There's enough garbage going on in the world and I don't want that to come into my Sims happy place.  Another thing I don't want is Star Wars.

Keep it long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.

The more likely speculation is a future themed pack,   Ehh.  It's been done with Sims 3.  I didn't play it much in that game and just not that interested.

Now honestly if it was a space themed pack, that would be more interesting.  Even though the astronaut career has been there since Day 1 and aliens with their own planet have been around for awhile, too.  I wouldn't mind seeing that expanded.  Make it like a cross between the Magic Realm and the vacation worlds?  With a touch of Strangerville and maybe Get to Work?

Ya got your town, let's call it Luna Bay.  Home of a private aeronautics company.  New career, private astronaut?  I don't know how that will work, doesn't matter.  Then there's a lot, like the lab in Strangerville where you can go for outer space travel.  You take a vacation to the new planet...Llamaria.  Introduce a new alien race spoiler alert...they look like LLAMAS!  🤯  You can learn the Llamarian culture.  Negotiate business deals with the locals.  Do a nice little refresh of some base game careers.

Anyway, it's all speculation until something is announced.  

One last thought...if it's not space I'd be okay with a winter/mountain theme.  Even though there's already Granite Falls.  The three circles on the icon could be snowballs, the pointy thing on the right is a mountain and the building on the left is a lodge.  What the hell, no crazier than STAR WARS!!!!!

That's enough for today.  Until the next controversy.

Go 4th and Sim!

Simmer 4 Life!