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Managed to drag myself out of my bed, so have some replies (sorry if I miss some).

Cyd Roseland, ladies and gentlemen

lilibethsonar said: Lol oh no! 😂

holleyberry said: D:

didilysims said: Classic Cyd.

Classic Cyd indeed. That guy is… I love him.

Dustin gets fired

holleyberry said: It’s for the best, Dustin.

Yup.

Old neighbourhood

alienpod said: *__*

didilysims said: That’s cool! I love finding old stuff like that. I’m impressed at how many houses you managed to fit so close together. It looks like a thriving neighbourhood! Though the lack of plumbbobs is conspicuous… 😛

That’s just my mod, though! I would guess that about 2/3 of the residential houses are inhabited. And it was a thriving neighbourhood. I played it a lot!

Don getting cold feet

holleyberry said: Damn it, Don.

But isn’t that how we know ~~and love~~ him? (Kidding.)

Sad Cass

primaverasims said: oh Cass 😥

Confession: I’m a mean Simmer and locked her fear. But seeing how hard she took it almost broke my heart.

PSA

meetmetotheriver said: Hope you feel better soon!

twofee said: ouch! heal well and feel better!

Thank you for your well-wishes. Somehow managed to catch a nasty cold on top of it, but I’m slowly getting there.

Brandi and Darren

randozaz said: I liked the images of them both are loving.

They are an adorable couple! Three-bolters, even.

Grandma’s comfort soup

meetmetotheriver said: Yep.

Ah! The pop-up you get when your Sim eats a soup confused me a bit. Thanks for clearing it up!

Daniel gets caught

randozaz said: Daniel is all Casanova ok no

Funny thing: he’s a very conflicted Sim in my game. He loves his wife (and continuously rolls wants about her), but also rolls “typical” Romance Sim wants.

Family life

randozaz said: Hey in my game, Lilith plays the guitar.

Hah! Now we only have to find a Lilith that plays the drums and we have a band!

Even more replies :D

Wow, you guys are very chatty today. XD

twofee said: water safety courses are awesome. had so much fun with my lifeguarding class in highschool. im jealous of your skin diving, ive never gotten to do anything cool like that.

Yeah, it is fun AND it is an important skill to learn. It’s very sad to see how many kids cannot swim or are very insecure when swimming. The people who taught me how to swim are doing a very important job (I believe they are actually volunteers, so… wow.).

I’m kind of sad that I’ll never get to use skin diving outside of pools (I’m not very fond of open water and all the things that live in there). But yeah, it’s a cool skill to have.

littleblondesim said: Names are so interesting, yes! The name I think is tainted the most around where I am is “Steven”. I also like looking at how a name changes based on when and where it is. Like, Mary/Maria, etc.

It’s really sad that “Kevin” became a ‘tainted’ name, because, it’s a nice name. But it was a name that was very en vogue around the time I was born. That and the fact that English-sounding names are often perceived as lower class names (class has become a huge factor in naming your kids- parents are afraid that they’ll disadvantage their kids if they give them the wrong names). Add in a discussion about a paper that claimed that teachers hate “Kevins” with a fiery passion because they are unruly, wild children and parents afraid of being associated with the lower class and ‘problematic’ children and you have effectively tainted a name for at least 50 years… Seriously, “Kevin” and “Chantal” are now the cliche names for poor, stupid, lower class people my age- and that paper that started all was basically bullshit from an academic point of view…

A currently popular variant of Mary/Maria in my country is “Mia”. It’s actually the number 1 girl name right now (depending which statistic you trust- there are several different ones out there, some counting first and middle names, some counting them separately). “Mila” is also becoming popular, and “Marie” is the most popular middle name here…

Yeah, as you can see, I’m very passionate about names. XD

littleblondesim said: Also, I found this yesterday which you might be interested in:time.com/3856405…

Aw, it doesn’t even know my name! To be fair it’s a very rare German name, only somewhat known among Catholics…

katatty-main said: haha, i was playing veronaville and he greeted her with a kiss even though theyre enemies!! nuts.

This could make for a very interesting story. And a very, very dysfunctional relationship…

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Jan/ Leo break up

moocha-muses said: Maybe Jan should have just gotten him fixed.

Your comment had me snorting out my drink. Nice! (Although I can assume that there are ethical concerns concerning the “fixing” of partners even in the Simworld).

littleblondesim said: Go Jan!

littleblondesim said: I adore your version of her and only want the best for her and I just don’t think Leo is going to give her that.

I agree with you. Their relationship just wouldn’t work out. They really are too different (I actually noticed that in-game- they roll completely different wishes). Jan just wants to be successful and meet new people (and woohoo them- she is a Romance sim, after all), while Leo was hellbent on settling down. So, in a way, Kaylynn’s pregnancy was exactly what they needed…

Lonely Jan/ Peptalk

littleblondesim said: i believe in you bby

If Jan can’t do it, who can?

Getting to know me

littleblondesim said: ooooh, I’d join a name enthusiast fandom!

Great, then we’re already two! Names are just so fascinating, like “Where did they come from?”, “What makes a name popular?” and “Why are people more biased against some names than others?” (Seriously, DO NOT name your child ‘Kevin’ in Germany. I’m sorry for all the Kevins out there, but it has become a tainted name here.)

twofee said: “swim team was weird” thats a large understatement! what was your best/fave event?

Eh, I should elaborate. It wasn’t a competitive swim team, it was actually an organisation that taught you to be a safe swimmer and how to rescue people (that was the fun part!). After training with them for almost ten years before stopping in 2012, I’m actually qualified to work as a lifeguard (well, I would be if I had bothered to renew my license). My favourite part was probably when I was taught how to skin-dive (I actually am a qualified skin-diver, too). I’m also not as crazily fast as actual competitive swimmers, but I’ve got a great stamina and can swim for a long time without getting tired.

I did, however, join the swim team at my school. We never did do competitive swimming, either, but we did a lot of fun stuff like learning how to play water polo. It was fun.

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olivesplum06 said: What a cute idea!

Thank you! The lot’s actually by plasticbox, I just made it over. Figured it would fit the neighbourhood quite well.

twofee said: feel better soon 🙂

Thank you! I already feel slightly better after almost collapsing during my oral exam yesterday (I made it! And got a pretty good grade, too, so all’s well!), although I must confess that I took a ton of cold medicine today and feel slightly spaced out. XD

quill-of-thoth said: Two further testing scenarios: Use a hack to increase the number of customers a business lot can handle (my game keeps getting stuck on 3 customers…) or ban your culprits using the visitor controller. It could be that your game is throwing a small fit about conflicting hacks or something has made it think they’re the most “loyal” customers for the owned lots. (Thinking they have 5 stars when they don’t.)

Thank you for your suggestion. I tested both of your ideas, but unfortunately it didn’t work. If I banned Joe and Brandon, the game would send no one else… so weird!