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.  

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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

Spring Cleaning

So my Sims game is a mess.  Oh it plays fine but I just have all sorts of stuff saved to it.  Lots of well, lots and lots of saved games that all seemed like a good idea at the time.  So what's a simmer to do with such a mess??

Damned if I know.  Though my latest greatest plan is to make yet another backup of things.  Then sort through the library and go from there.  My one thing that I'd like to do is to have one sim in one game and with the help of the Traveler mod play it as one big huge world.  That's already mostly the way I think of the game anyway.  I have lots that I've made especially for certain worlds.  Like an amusement pier for Barnacle Bay, a nightclub for Roaring Heights and a couple resorts for Lucky Palms and Monte Vista.

Honestly it's getting old fixing the mistakes of how this game thinks a world should be.  I hate that depending on the world certain lots get put in and I hate where the lots end up.  Plus it doesn't always make sense for every world to have the same kind of lots.  And it would put the store venues to better use if they go into the world they were intended for.  But but my versions since I like them better.  :)

And honestly again...I like building slightly more than playing.

Anyway, there's still five months or so before the release of Sims 4 and unless I see something that knocks my socks off, I'm still on the fence about it.  Looks like there may be some, really any news coming soon which would be nice.  But yeah, I'm still sticking with Sims 3 until something else looks better I guess.

So that is Plan 3820.44 for how I'm going play The Sims 3.  Success or failure???  Who cares?

Zuzi doesn't have the answer.

Go 4th and Sim!

Happy Birthday to The Sims!

Yes, 14 years ago on this day The Sims was released.  Now I really had planned on something epic.  And I still may do something (especially since The Sims themselves are celebrating all month).  So for now this is like realizing you have a surprise party to go to in 15 minutes and you live 20 minutes away and you're stopping at the drug store and just buying the first card and thing you see.

Now I present...Bob Newbie In Sunset Valley!

Go 4th and Sim!

Big Game Action!!!

There are some big sport events coming up in the next few weeks and your sims need a place to watch them all.  Sim Acres presents Bud Buddy's Sport Locker!

 Whoa!  Three TV's behind the bar and TWO clocks to keep track of game time??

 Whoa! Gumballs AND basketball??

 Whoa!  I can have a table with MY OWN TV??

 Whoa! An outdoor area for tailgating on game day??

Whoa! A front door??

Thank you for asking!  The answer is YES to all these questions!  And don't forget the one of a kind memorabilia!

Get yours here now!!!!

Bud Buddy's Sport Locker 

Go 4th and Sim!

In the Spirit of the Season II

Act 2

Cornelia set out about her tasks.  She searched and searched for ideas yet frustration built up!  But soon she did put together something amazing.

Things came together fast.  Cornelia went to Bridgeport and commissioned an old artist friend for some one of a kind decorations.  This was the year that the Goth family won the Holiday Spirit Home Decor Contest.  That snobby Nancy Landgraab's streak was over!

She ordered fish from Barnacle Bay and baked treats from Monte Vista.  She dusted off some old decorations from the attic to put around the house.  And searched for the perfect tree.

Gunther found himself on the roof putting up lights.  Sometimes he wondered how he ended up in these situations.

The decorations came from Bridgeport and they looked sweet!

And of course things wouldn't be complete without a snow theme!

But all the hard work was worth it!  The house came out great!  Even the Holiday Spirit Home Decor Committee thought so!  First place belonged to the Goths this year!

Before they knew it Snowflake Day was here and it was time for the big open house!  The invitations went out.  Gifts were bought and wrapped.   The food was being prepared and soon Cornelia would know if her plans were worth it.

Cornelia was worried because Gunther was mostly quiet this whole time.  And even though he did what was asked of him knew he couldn't be happy with all the chaos.  But little did she know that Gunther was working on his own plans to make a memorable Snowflake Day himself.

To be continued...

In the Spirit of the Season

Act 1 

It was a weekend soon after Spooky Day and the first snow of the season was falling, Gunther was spending the day in his jammies and just wanted a deep fried turkey leg.  His plans were thwarted when Cornelia blocked his path to the deep fryer.  Gunther inwardly sighed because he knew there was no turkey leg in his near future.

"Agnes and I were talking about how Snowflake Day was such big thing when we were kids." said Cornelia.

"Yeah, I suppose it was.  The house always seemed to be filled with people during the whole season." replied Gunther. As the words left his mouth he knew where this was heading and immediately regretted opening that door.

"Yes!  It was so much fun!" exclaimed Cornelia.  Gunther waited for her to continue.  After a short awkward pause, she did.

"Well, this all came up because Martha Simmert had a 12 page spread in the holiday issue of Sim Ladies Journal.  And it got me to thinking that it would be fun to bring that sort of tradition back.  I mean it won't be too much longer before Mortimer would rather spend holidays out with his friends than at home..."

Gunther sighed again.  Anytime she brought up ideas like this it was always for Mortimer's sake.  Not that he would complain but more work always fell on his shoulders.  After a bit more talking they decided that they would host an open house on Snowflake Day.  Just like the ones they used to know.

Not wanting to leave Mortimer out of things Cornelia found some old books with stories about Snowflake Days past.  Soon things would kick into high gear and there would be little sleep until Spring!

To be continued...

Random Picture Friday

"Hmph, that bot thinks he's all that.  Fancy garbage can!"

Go 4th and Sim!

Sim Acres Black Friday Blowout!!!

Stuff yourself then stuff your Simsverse with all the exciting expansions and stuff packs you've missed out at the Origin Black Friday sale!  Save up to 60%!!  Then there's the big sale in the Sims 3 store!!!

With all that shopping, who feels like building anything??  Not me!!!  So head on over to the Sims Acres Studio to pick up some great lots to add to your game!!!!  Believe me when I say your worlds are NOT complete without such great lots as...

Pillager's Retreat

Pirates of Pizzaz Style House

Roll N' Bowl

Serendipity Resort and Casino

And let's forget such Sim Acres Classics as

Salty Dog Amusement Pier  (info)  (download) Perfect for the new world of Roaring Heights!!

Lil' White Chapel O' Love (info) (download) Because love is always in season!

Check out the rest of my stuff here!  Keep coming back because you never know when I might add something!!

So instead of fighting the crowds at ungodly hours in bad weather, stay home, nice and warm in front of your computer and spend quality holiday time with your Sims!  Don't they deserve fun new places to go and things to do???  Of course they do!

Go 4th and download more Sim stuff!!!

Hotdog Halloween!

This is the end?

Got my copy of Into the Future today at my trusty local Walmart.  They made it tricky to find since they moved all the PC games by the console games and had it hidden on a bottom row.  But I found it!  Then I played a little Wii U with an employee.  That was fun.  We were both amazed at how far games have come.

Got home, installed and started playing.  I found the game of my nerdiest sim so far and used her to travel into the future.  Why the hell do I keep putting an extra R in future???  Anyhoo, here's some pics.

Plumbots don't like to get wet either.

Harvesting in the Wasteland.

Chilling with some future descendants.

Well, now that's not right.

Future zombie.

Plumbot at the summer festival making friends.

Still need some work on the jetpack.

Overall my first impressions are pretty good.  I think I picked the right kind of sim to try all this new stuff out.  Honestly this probably wouldn't have been my choice of theme for an expansion.  That would've been Island Paradise or Showtime. Yet, I'm enjoying it all so far.

Hopefully now things will slow down a bit with releases.  I still feel like there's so much I want to do with it like everything.  If it's all store stuff from now on it will be easier for me to resist.   I think I'm going to save my reflective thoughts on the entire series for another post.  If this is the last expansion/stuff pack to come out, they did good.  Of course, I would probably say that about anything that came out.

Go 4th and Sim!

Sim Acres Salute To Zombies 2013

Don't let the 2013 fool you.  This will not likely be a yearly thing.  Just doing my on version of jumping on The Walking Dead bandwagon.  I've never seen the show and really have no interest in watching it.  So yeah.

I now present the Sim Acres Salute To Zombies 2013!!!!

And for good measure The Worst Zombie Movie Ever!!!

Go 4th and Sim!

Salute to the America's Cup

Looks like America winning the America's Cup is a big thing to some people.  So here's a Sim Acres Salute to the winning team!

Yeah, I only thought of this late last night and had other things to do so this is what you get.

Go 4th and Sim!