didilysims said: A lot of my n-hood deco I just fiddle with and add to what’s already there, or copy from other templates. I have a really tough time starting from scratch. My main ‘hood is the Grizzly Hills template, for example, and I copied most of the tree and rock placement from Nepheris’s sample pictures. Other sub-hoods are either pre-decorated Maxis or custom terrains. If it’s a blank template I just stare equally blankly at the screen. 😛

I don’t even have the patience to copy neighbourhood deco placement from pictures (I especially hate placing individual trees). Decorating is just sooo hard (especially when you feel like you have to. All the little touch-ups I’ve done in Middleground only got done because I didn’t feel like I had to…)

didilysims said: Just saying thanks, Dad, for passing on your great genes.

Yeah, but he’s actually more Christy than Remington. The hair colour (Christy has recessive red genes), the nose, the chin… the eye shape might be Remington’s (then again, I’m terrible at analysing genes).

didilysims said: That’s why you’re supposed to ask the custodian. 😛

didilysims said: Of course I say “supposed to” very lightly because chance cards are have very nonsensical logic sometimes…which is why we love them. 🙂

You know what? For a long time, I didn’t really notice how non-sensical those chance cards are, because most of the time I was just like “… It’s America, America is weird. They probably do it like that!” 

Maybe Timmy’s hospital doesn’t have a custodian (which sounds like a pretty major health violation, but who knows. It’s the Sims.

didilysims said: I FORGOT HE WAS JOE’S KID!!! Wow, I need to go back and reread from the beginning I guess. 😀

He’s like 75% Joe (that mouth is definitely Christy’s)! Wait, who do you think was his dad? Remington? 

Do it! (I’m actually thinking of doing something like a tl;dr for “newcomers”. Maybe throw in a few family trees (there is also an emerging relationship that’ll make matters even more complicated….)