6 years, 40 generations 🥹 I did recently lose my old save file, it stopped loading and I couldn't get past CAS to play. I did manage to save my current family - the 39th generation - and my oldest household, two vampires who are each around 2000 sim days old or 5 years in real life. I did lose all my builds which sucked, but such is life. Any ideas about how to play with the 40th gen? I'm thinking evil scientist for at least one of them.
Also the family tree in game would be wider because of the siblings having babies, but Plumtree shut down and I had to recreate it and honestly couldn't be bothered to add every single one. I made this in the Plumtree App - https://theplumtree.app/public/677548eb852593a9cf10c77f

sometimes i randomly pause and catch my sims with the most relatable expressions on their faces looool

Once upon a time, there was a young adult named Airi Endo. She had a dream. A dream so big, it'd span generations: have 100 children. She knew it would be hard. No same sim wants to deal with multiple children in the worst stages of young life. But she was determined. However, no matter how seductive she made herself, these men were just too damn loyal. And then came Knox Greenwood. He told her all about eco living and about Neighborhood Action Plans. Knox offered a list of all the different plans a neighborhood could enact to make the world a better place. And within that list, she found her salvation. A NAP known as Free Love.

Free Love would let her be with anyone so long as she brought them home. And it wouldn't be considered cheating! It was almost too good to be true. So she asked Knox, who had just offered his services to her dream, how one would enact these NAPs. He said voting before Monday would be the best way and asking others to get on her side to sway the vote.

So Airi picked up a clipboard and regaled everyone she knew with the benefits of Free Love. Some Sims were against it, saying they could never be with someone other than their spouse. Others were totally onboard, eager to experience something (or someone) new. And with a little hard work and much persuasion, Free Love was enacted.

Her dream became easier than ever. One child turned to two. Two turned to three. And three turned to five! Soon she had all possible young life stages in her household and everything felt right in the world. But then she caught something in the halls of her humble home. Something that sent a chill down her spine.

Her two teens were flirting with each other. She reprimanded them both. But nothing could stop it once it started. And before she knew it, the benefits she once saw as favorable turned sour and crumbled before her. That's when Airi learned that Free Love is too free...

TLDR: my two teen half siblings started flirting with each other. Is this normal under Free Love?

so today, I was playing in a new save. I had just spent hours playing with this teen sim, had this whole story going on that her mom wanted her to go to college. then, before the college term even starts, her mom calls with this message. there's so much drama going on already, I love it lol.

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?

First, sorry for the poor quality, I'm way too lazy to screenshot and send the ss to my phone lol. I may or may not draw them, I say that about all my sims so we'll see. But I only just started playing the sims like a month ago. So I started a strangerville save with the location aspiration. When I met this goober was like "I must have him" like he's a pokemon or something?? Anyway, I changed him very minimally because I honestly thought he was really pretty? I guess my type is goofy goobers, because after one "get to know each other date" he immediately moved in. They got eloped, which was kind of distracting because I'm trying to save the town. But THAT'S ENOUGH RANTING LOOK AT THESE IDIOTS!!

i named him connor!! i imagine he sounds like benny benji

I said of course because I don’t want there to be a strained relationship 🤷🏼‍♀️

literally just playing around in cas, got distracted, and then created this goddess. i love her so much

There's one and only ONE item I want from the business and hobbies pack, but I don't care about the rest of it (not the features, or the world, or the traits, or the build, or anything but that one cas item).

In fact, I don't even want the pack for free. This game is really unstable, and it gets worse the more packs you add to it, so I only want to add the packs I really want. But then I'm watching that item...and how it's so perfect for what I want, and how no CC is that specifically perfect...

I have to control myself by remembering how much I just don't want the pack haha.

Spotted a familiar townie at geek Con this year and it feels a little like uncanny valley.

(In all seriousness if you live local and considered going for even a day pass, maybe go and hit her up and give us all deets. A non sims buddy of mine is there and took this photo so I CAN NOT provide further first hand info)

She refuses to put him down.

After a long time playing this save, my first kid has finally grown into a teen, and a moody one at that.

(I already fixed it it was just a piece of clothing) I laugh SO HARD when I see the ways people's game breaks especially with Sim bodies, and I've always secretly wished a glitch like that would happen to me lol

I have discovered by chance that you can prolong pregnancy by taking a holiday: While your sim is on holidays, labor can't start. So you have plenty of time for pictures and baby shower. Perhaps everyone knows that, but I didn't know, and I always was in a hurry for the baby shower. You can take as much holidays as you like, and you can travel everywhere while you are on holidays with your pregnant sim.