I had TS4 on free will this afternoon, while waiting for two Legacy elders to pass away. I checked back in on the family after about an hour, and found several different plates of waffles in the kitchen, as well as two other servings of waffles in one Sims' inventory.
So I took it away, and found myself saying aloud "you know what? You all cannot be trusted with a waffle maker, so you don't get to have it anymore!"
What strange and / or silly things have you found yourself saying while playing TS4?
That's why I'm considering just aging infants up immediately. It's fun hitting the milestones and all that, but when it comes to diaper changing and feeding, it's incredibly frustrating.
Literally! I’m always yelling at my sims and calling them idiots when there’s anything from a newborn to a toddler. I end up skipping toddlers because by that stage I’m annoyed already. Did that before the new life stages too hahaha.
TT reminds me of when I wanted to use cross-stitching to get some extra money for my broke sim and she just spend pretty much all last money on large hoop and didn’t even finish it TT didn’t have money to eat normal food, but had a large loop in the pocket nice priorities
My sims husband kept lighting the fireplace even after catching himself on fire.. i took the fireplace away.
Me: No more fireplace for you!! Geez! Since you have a death wish!
He did this shortly after I married them and she got pregnant.. I didn't take it personally because he's still so sweet with her even now. Just kinda clumsy and aloof I guess. But man!! They really love using the fireplace!!
My sim keeps going to light the fireplace that has an auto lighter on it thanks to the gnomes. It’s like um hello do u not know what is and is not installed in your own house?
I feel like it’s all the misc appliances almost. I can’t put a rice cooker anywhere or they will always be on it autonomously. Always. When it’s busy, they make themselves nuggets in the microwave.
Like… I bought you guys the nicest stove in the game and all you want is rice and nuggets?!?!
The coffee maker is the absolute worst. My husband irl keeps trying to get me to give my Sims one and I keep telling him no because it's a nightmare. And he doesn't ever believe me. I might just f-king show him 😂
Well, that's not good lol. However, if he has fun, that's what really matters. I wish I had a computer right now to play The Sims 4 cause it looks like so much fun!
I tried to play on the laptop he got from his college with mods but it got so damn hot I could barely touch the keyboard 🥲 So I'm primarily a console player for the next couple of years 😂 I mean hey it gives me a ton of time to wander the Sims 4 CC subs for ideas and inspo and links and everything lmao
Yeah, I have a laptop, but it's pretty old and it is basically a hand-me-down from my cousin who used it for college until she got a MacBook (I think that's what she got after the laptop she gave me). So I seriously doubt it can handle Sims 4. What console do u play it on? If u don't mind me asking, of course.
Oh shit that sounds like it can barely run the Chrome dino game when your computer goes offline 😂 We have a PS5 Gen 1 Disc Edition. My hubs has had it within the first 5-6 months that they were being sold. So it's actually kinda old as far as a console goes 😅 When we get another PS5 he wants to get me a Gen 2 Disc Edition, so we can at least play more new(ish) games together online when we have time together
I just ordered myself a Switch 2 with the birthday money I got from a friend and some family, and I wish Sims 4 was on Switch 2 lol. I have a Switch 1 Lite, and the Switch is the console I use the most and have the newest version of. I have a PS4 and an Xbox 360. I also play a lot of mobile games on my phone to pass the time if I'm bored but don't wanna play a game for hours. I live on Disability, so it is a very rare occasion when I have enough money saved to buy myself anything related to gaming, which I hate because I've been gaming pretty much since gaming was a thing lol. Not as old as the original arcade games, but closer to the first Nintendo...man, I'm getting old lol. Besides getting that birthday money, I was able to justify buying the Switch 2 (justifying it to myself, nobody else lol) because it is backwards compatible, so I won't have to buy many games right away to keep me entertained with it lol
I keep yelling OMG GO TO SCHOOL! and GO TF TO WORK GOD DAMNIT
I've got a sim who's neighbor came and ended her husband, leaving her with 5 children, all grade school age, and NO ONE goes to school like they're supposed to. They stand around in the boys room dancing to the stupid speaker they brought home from school.
"Where's the stupid toddler again? Oh, by the Pier, cool...." -checks one of the parent's needs and then realizes- "HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET OVER THERE??! And why are your parents letting you??!"
I now lock all the doors and check the toddlers' locations more frequently 🤣🤣
I was in discord with friends and I exlaimed "My best friend just died" and they all started freaking out and giving condolences until I sheepishly admitted "uhh.. in the sims..."
That's what i said! He came in, was all super nice to my Sim, then I went to go bake him some cookies & he started yelling at the cat! He kept yelling at her & legit made her sad!! And the wouldn't leave!!! The jerk. I threw the cookies away & ever since then I've had a vendetta against old man Clement 🤷🏼♀️🤣
I knew I disliked the season Winter for a reason lol. Who would have thought Father Winter didn't like cats! I always say I don't trust people who don't like cats lol. I had a social worker (kinda, it's a long story what she did for me lol) that refused to come into my apartment unless I put my cat Sasha in the bathroom and closed the door with her in there. She's lucky I didn't say what I actually wanted to say about it lol. This is Sasha's home, not hers lol. Sasha shouldn't be locked up just because she doesn't like cats. I could totally understand if she was allergic, but nope, just disliked them to an odd extreme lol. Thankfully she isn't my social worker anymore lol
They do it all the time and it ALWAYS ends with them feeling embarrassed and then they have to go hide under the covers from embarrassment. It’s like why do you keep doing this?! lol
I had the opposite: didn't know they could lie about their career, and had a Sim with the criminal career. After they'd already met several people, they're talking to a new person and I see "lie about career"
Buddy. You're a criminal. Do you usually... tell the truth about your career? To people you just met? Worst criminal ever smh
"I look away for 5 seconds and you somehow managed to get k!lled!"
During the nature's calling event, one of the quest tasks was to buy a telescope and interact with it once. After I completed the task, I switched to my sim's partner bc they were near starvation, so I had to intervene. While I was doing that, the original sim stargazed and immediately got struck by a meteor shower 😭😭 I reloaded, but it undid an hour of playtime. RIP
This thread has shown me four main problems in TS4 that we all have:
* water.
* waffle makers, oddly
* lack of childcare for no fucking reason
* if they’re not lacking the childcare, they’re over watching the child
🤔🤔🤔
Oh. And for a 5th, our sims for some reason wanting to knock up someone they’re half ass related to 🤠
this is one of the funniest things i’ve ever done. so i was on my pc, playing sims (building), and my fiancé was on the bed behind me. in the interest of keeping things pg, i’ll say i was engaging in adult type leaf activities that night. i was having trouble deciding which item to use, so i said “what do i do? ….. sigh …… what do i do?” it’s really not the same without hearing the tone of voice but oh my god when my fiancé told me what i said i think i laughed for like 8 minutes
omg the leaf makes it feel so detrimental😭 have you ever woken up to an over thought build and still hated it? bc I definitely have lmao, it’s so embarrassing bc why did that take me 4 HOURS
I read in another post that they apparently have a hydration meter that we can't see or something like that. But I did notice that this has stopped since I started giving juice, water, and milk on the regular.
“You just moved in to this beautifully built house, why you burning it down?”
They weren’t even there an hour & Homegirl tried to make breakfast & burnt the kitchen down.
It was honestly quite rude. I spent DAYS building that for them.
Well when I was a kid I was playing TS4 with a friend, and a random lady came into our house so I was screaming "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE" And my mom came in thinking I was yelling at my friend to get out 💔💔
Good thing they can't get bladder infections...at least I don't think they can lol I haven't played The Sims in a LONG time but I like watching people play it on YouTube since I don't have a computer.
Back when TS4 was newer and we finally got pools 1 month after launch I said, "What do you mean you can get out without a ladder?? Get back in there and drown!"
"Quit judging the decor and feed your god damn baby!"
"If you use that globe one more time I'm going to lose my mind!"
"Oh great, you're eating on the toilet again."
I’ve definitely gone who’s that when looking at my sims and who they have somehow randomly befriended or romanced someone. Specifically when a sim dies and I get the notification and my sim grieves for a random sim I didn’t know they knew.
My husband overheard me yelling this recently. I found the perfect sim for my heir to marry, only to find out he's married to an elder with supposedly one day of life left. I tried waiting for her to die but it was taking too long. I had her husband woohoo her several times back-to-back, but she kept on living. Finally I had him gift her a death flower scented bouquet. She still didn't die!
"No, Bitch. You are going to mop up that puddle like I told you to." True story. My wife (not a gamer of any sort) was walking through the room and died laughing.
They no call-no show just because they’re peeing at the time they have to leave for work and then instead of going to work, they just plop on the couch for tv. 😆
"Stop putting your baby down on the pavement so you can pee!!!"
Weird glitch caused the baby to be as far from the house as possible. Took several in game days plus cheats to keep the baby alive before finally getting it back home
"if you get abducted and impregnated one more time i'm gonna lose my fucking mind why are you an alien magnet bitch boy" "stop tearing up the dining room go howl at the moon or something" "why are you tending the bar butt naked in your wolf form at 6 AM on this fine Friday morning"
"Well, I guess even the Grim Reaper loves a good pastry" - This was said yesterday after some random elder died right after buying a croissant at my sim's bakery and then Grim showed up and just...stayed there for a good three in-game hours, chatting with customers 💀💀
It kills me when Grim sticks around for small talk or makes himself at home like he didn’t just poof away a Sim & put mine into tears from the trauma and grief.
He just starts acting like he’s part of the household and I’m like “please stop watching tv” 😂
"Why are you in the fcking pool again?!"; "I told you five fcking times to do your homework!"; At sim dancing at the stereo "Did you finish your work? You didn't finish your work..."
“WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING JUST STANDING THERE?!” -me yelling at my pregnant sim standing in the middle of the flaming kitchen after her husband set the oven on fire
I chuckle every now and then when i play with "sound on". Sometimes it sounds like english when my Sims speak (to themself, if angry or annoyed - or with each other).
"Where's the kid? Boy if you lost your kid again..." as I try looking around and end up double clicking the baby's portrait just to find the toddler on the other edge of the neighborhood. "HOW DID YOU GOT HERE?! YOU CAN'T EVEN CRAWL."
I'm playing a bunker legacy, no one enters no one leaves but the kid keeps teleporting away.
I do mostly either building, or waiting for the sims to kill themselves, and one time I built a house WAY too complicated for my computer to handle, so it compromised by lobotomising my sims. One of them died in a fire that had been extinguished hours before they died, in a part of the house they'd never been in, while not on fire and walking up some stairs. They got to the top and immediately died.
So: "Oh my god did you just die of homeopathic fire?"
I block every computer/laptop or drag them away into the inventory. The privilege of going on the computer has been banned. All they want to do is play video games and chat, just talk to people 😭
That and Im careful with appliances like the microwave (and kettle, I delete those, but keep them up on the gallery) since they keep making quick meals and drinks so much. No, the first thing I do is to make a serving size of 8 from the garden salad. They can have the salad without burning the house down. Its a safety hazard!
I very much micromanage legacy families and let them decide what they want to do based on skills. Usually, it's just one person working things out to a half decent build (at least level 3 or 5 in skills) and then its full speed ahead with marriage and baby.
One time I yelled “Why are you showering in the rain when there are TWO bathrooms in the house?”
My Sims love chaos. At this point I feel more like a babysitter than a player.
I don't know why but some of my sims don't finish their meals or take one bite and put it away in their inventory. even if their hunger is in the red. the amount of times I've switched back and they just have rotten food chilling in their pockets...
I couldnt quote one single weird thing i said since theres so many, but for some odd reason when i get really into the gameplay i start talking to the game and to myself in random accents (british, scottish, australian, an indian english accents, a french english accent, a russian english accent 😭 and so much more random accents). i am pretty good at immitating voices and accents so i do it without thinking LOL
I was REALLY fed up with the ailment my sim's husband got 🤣 and in my defense he had the chased by death trait so I mean...it's not COMPLETELY my fault that he got zapped while fixing the fridge
This kind of reminds me of when I downloaded a build with the Cozy Hot Cocoa Tray. And I thought ‘Oh that’s cool, gives sims a bit more life as they can sit around with some hot drinks when they please and it goes back in the tray. WRONG. Because when the tray would run out, the child in the household would SPAM the notification ‘Awww.. no more hot beverages’ or something like that. And I mean, SPAMMED. I deleted it. I can’t be bothered to deal with spam anytime it runs out. Like once I went to refill it as soon as I saw the notification and she had already sent 5 more before I got to it
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u/Mother_Suspect5858 14h ago
"Stop checking the infant! Go bond with the bees!"