No sense of humor. I mean come on...I leave the sims alone for one second and everyone around that sim has passed out from boredom.
you're kidding, passing out from boredom is such a funny thing to happen, i love that idea in TS3
My sister and mom thought it was funny too. I admit it is very entertaining when witnessing it happen to other sims, but inadvertently inviting a sim with no sense of humor to a group outing of all celebrity sims has dire consequences. Namely two of the three sims who passed out were publicly disgraced and booed at for the next couple of days.
About the only traits I try never to give my sims are brooding or unstable. Brooding because of the annoying social drops and the need to sit down and do nothing in random places. I had a brooding sim once sit down to contemplate the meaning of meaning in front of the door to the only bathroom.. and it took me a good while, and a few puddles to notice. Unstable because I always forget to send them to hospital and they end up losing the traits that I actually like ;)
I have to agree with @TreyNutz on the Irresistible trait. While I like the added interactions I HATE that every single freaking sim on the lot won't let my irresistable sim alone so that he/she can actually do what I want them to.
I haven't played a Technophobe sim in an active family, but a long time ago I took an inactive family member to university and she turned out to have that trait. It was ... interesting. She couldn't raise fun by playing online social games on the tablet (my go-to between classes). She also would autonomously sabotage things around the dorm, which I thought was hilarious. I'n the right game with the right household that might be an interesting trait to play.
Everyone who follows my updates at the What happened in your Sims 3 game today topic knows I have a technophobic sim in my current family...plus she works as a self-employed writer. I have no idea how much she hates her job Anyway I consider it ridiculous, not annoying. One of my favorite negative traits in TS3, along with the Childish and the Mean Spirited
There is a mod where they can use a notebook to write books . If you ever wanted to use it for a story c: i use it when I want them to write on the beach or festival
I haven't played a Technophobe sim in an active family, but a long time ago I took an inactive family member to university and she turned out to have that trait. It was ... interesting. She couldn't raise fun by playing online social games on the tablet (my go-to between classes). She also would autonomously sabotage things around the dorm, which I thought was hilarious. I'n the right game with the right household that might be an interesting trait to play.
Everyone who follows my updates at the What happened in your Sims 3 game today topic knows I have a technophobic sim in my current family...plus she works as a self-employed writer. I have no idea how much she hates her job Anyway I consider it ridiculous, not annoying. One of my favorite negative traits in TS3, along with the Childish and the Mean Spirited
There is a mod where they can use a notebook to write books . If you ever wanted to use it for a story c: i use it when I want them to write on the beach or festival
Yup, I know about this mod, and a few weeks ago I considered downloading it. But actually it won't make a huge difference. Technophobe sims are spending more time on writing until they manage to finish the book, regardless of the item they're using for writing. They also learn the writing skill a bit slower than other sims. The only thing that would be different is their behavior, as they wouldn't scream and make disgruntled face expressions after each writing session. And as I said, I don't mind my sim's reactions to computers. She's my main source of funny screenshots
Plus, for those who don't like this trait because of lack of amusements for sims which have it: they don't mind the stereo turned on, and of course they can read books
Frugal - let me stop whatever I am doing and go turn off some lights (and let's not get into The Clapper)
Vehicle Enthusiast - not so much annoying as useless
Photographer's Eye - again, not so much annoying as useless
Technophobe - let's have problems with anything except pencil and paper
Unstable - would probably like it better if I understood it better
Unstable - would probably like it better if I understood it better
Unstable means their other traits are subject to change.
I posted this somewhere once, must have been at MTS. For the benefit (?) of those who haven't seen it, I want to know what happens when a sim only has one trait for whatever reason, and it's Unstable. That means their other traits will change. But their other traits will not change, because they have no other traits. Therefore, by definition they are Stable.
Contradiction? Sims are digital creatures, they cannot withstand contradictions. Will they disappear in a puff of logic?
My vote goes to Schmoozer (Smoozer? Scmoozer?) because it's hard to spell and because it just feels so... Greasy.
Lol, that's my most favorite trait in the game. Extra conversation options, plenty of flattering options for Snobs (which makes best friends with them quite easy) and a bonus to the 'suck up to boss' and 'hang with co-wokers' career tones. I have to be careful not to overuse the Schmoozer trait in my games.
Unstable - would probably like it better if I understood it better
Unstable means their other traits are subject to change.
I posted this somewhere once, must have been at MTS. For the benefit (?) of those who haven't seen it, I want to know what happens when a sim only has one trait for whatever reason, and it's Unstable. That means their other traits will change. But their other traits will not change, because they have no other traits. Therefore, by definition they are Stable.
Contradiction? Sims are digital creatures, they cannot withstand contradictions. Will they disappear in a puff of logic?
That's...interesting If I only had the ITF expansion pack, I would try this idea out.
My vote goes to Schmoozer (Smoozer? Scmoozer?) because it's hard to spell and because it just feels so... Greasy.
Lol, that's my most favorite trait in the game. Extra conversation options, plenty of flattering options for Snobs (which makes best friends with them quite easy) and a bonus to the 'suck up to boss' and 'hang with co-wokers' career tones. I have to be careful not to overuse the Schmoozer trait in my games.
I like schmoozer for my sims in the business career, as well as ambitious.
I think perhaps at least one member here might want to look up the derivation and historical meanings of the world "schmooze." Yes it's spelled funny, after all it comes from the same wonderful language that gave us such words as schlemiel, bupkis, tchotchke (one of my favorites!), and chutzpah. I understand that not everyone was brought up hearing these words every day, but historically there really isn't anything "greasy" about it.
"The guests should be given time to schmooze in the Drawing Room before the host calls them to the dinner table."
I think shy because it is so impossible to make friends...I mean of course being awkward and getting negative moodlets makes sense for a shy sim but when I played with a shy sim on her own for the first time, she'd spend ages talking to people and their relationship would go nowhere...kinda feels like that in real life hehe but in sims it's a bit sad to spend the rest of your days alone!
I think perhaps at least one member here might want to look up the derivation and historical meanings of the world "schmooze." Yes it's spelled funny, after all it comes from the same wonderful language that gave us such words as schlemiel, bupkis, tchotchke (one of my favorites!), and chutzpah. I understand that not everyone was brought up hearing these words every day, but historically there really isn't anything "greasy" about it.
"The guests should be given time to schmooze in the Drawing Room before the host calls them to the dinner table."
Are the guests by any chance smoozing with Schlomo, Moshe , Ida and Esther ?
Plenty of Jewish people named Ida. It was quite popular actually back in the earlier 1900's There are allot of German who practice Judaism . I know i have a few Ida's on my tree
I chose Absent Minded because I like to play families and need to trust my sims to do the things I tell them to because I always switch through all the family members to let them do different interactions. It's just annoying to see that the Absent Minded sim forgot what they were doing and I find them in the middle of nowhere.
Another honorable mention is the proper trait. A few sim days in, I questioned myself why I even bothered to give them an everyday outfit when in CAS, due to the fact that they wear their formal wear 24/7, with the only exceptions being when they sleep, go to work or shower
Feel like I'm giving language lessons here. This wasn't a commonly heard conversation at dinner parties in everyone's house, at least a few decades ago?
"Oy gevalt, Ida you have a lot of chutzpah waltzing into the kitchen to tell us how to run things. But take that schlemiel of a husband of yours with the shpilkis in his genechtagazoink back into the Drawing Room to schmooze and admire the tchotchkes, or you will all get bupkis for dinner!"
Disclaimer 1: Bupkis means, literally, "nothing at all." Don't believe the web pages you may find that say it means goat droppings. Disclaimer 2: Genechtagazoink is not a real word, it was made up for Mike Myers and the Coffee Talk character he played on classic Saturday Night Live sketches. Disclaimer 3: I've never had a Drawing Room, ha growing up we were lucky to be able to fit more than two dinner guests into our small living room if we needed to without inducing claustrophobia.
Plenty of Jewish people named Ida. It was quite popular actually back in the earlier 1900's There are allot of German who practice Judaism . I know i have a few Ida's on my tree
Hah, my name is Ida Many people are telling me my name sounds pagan and actually there's no such name
@igazor Enjoyed the language lesson Although I do remember dinner parties from several decades ago, the only foreign words thrown into our conversations were Japanese and there was definitely no drawing room in my house! Most of the socializing was done in the kitchen or the back yard, depending on the number of guests. Having said that, I love the Schmoozer trait
@gerefteast - Pleased to meet you. But those people don't know what they are talking about, of course. There was/is a lot of overlap between Germanic and Jewish names and words given the number of centuries that the populations have also overlapped.
Plenty of Jewish people named Ida. It was quite popular actually back in the earlier 1900's There are allot of German who practice Judaism . I know i have a few Ida's on my tree
Hah, my name is Ida Many people are telling me my name sounds pagan and actually there's no such name
Awesome!. Who ever told you that needs to check the census in the USA. Im sure you will find plenty of Ida's on those census. Just about everyone i know has an Ida on their family tree .
@igazor posted some of the Jewish Yiddish language which is a cross between German and Hebrew .
I met someone named Ina not to long ago. That name I had never heard before
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My sister and mom thought it was funny too. I admit it is very entertaining when witnessing it happen to other sims, but inadvertently inviting a sim with no sense of humor to a group outing of all celebrity sims has dire consequences. Namely two of the three sims who passed out were publicly disgraced and booed at for the next couple of days.
Unstable because I always forget to send them to hospital and they end up losing the traits that I actually like ;)
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There is a mod where they can use a notebook to write books . If you ever wanted to use it for a story c: i use it when I want them to write on the beach or festival
Plus, for those who don't like this trait because of lack of amusements for sims which have it: they don't mind the stereo turned on, and of course they can read books
EDIT: typo
Frugal - let me stop whatever I am doing and go turn off some lights (and let's not get into The Clapper)
Vehicle Enthusiast - not so much annoying as useless
Photographer's Eye - again, not so much annoying as useless
Technophobe - let's have problems with anything except pencil and paper
Unstable - would probably like it better if I understood it better
I posted this somewhere once, must have been at MTS. For the benefit (?) of those who haven't seen it, I want to know what happens when a sim only has one trait for whatever reason, and it's Unstable. That means their other traits will change. But their other traits will not change, because they have no other traits. Therefore, by definition they are Stable.
Contradiction? Sims are digital creatures, they cannot withstand contradictions. Will they disappear in a puff of logic?
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Lol, that's my most favorite trait in the game. Extra conversation options, plenty of flattering options for Snobs (which makes best friends with them quite easy) and a bonus to the 'suck up to boss' and 'hang with co-wokers' career tones. I have to be careful not to overuse the Schmoozer trait in my games.
That's...interesting
I like schmoozer for my sims in the business career, as well as ambitious.
"The guests should be given time to schmooze in the Drawing Room before the host calls them to the dinner table."
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Are the guests by any chance smoozing with Schlomo, Moshe , Ida and Esther ?
Plenty of Jewish people named Ida. It was quite popular actually back in the earlier 1900's
Another honorable mention is the proper trait. A few sim days in, I questioned myself why I even bothered to give them an everyday outfit when in CAS, due to the fact that they wear their formal wear 24/7, with the only exceptions being when they sleep, go to work or shower
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Ah, never heard it in this context. It makes sense, but the word just brings up like a mental image of a car salesman or something similar.
My distaste for it probably comes from my distaste of being schmoozed in real life. No flattery, tell me the facts
"Oy gevalt, Ida you have a lot of chutzpah waltzing into the kitchen to tell us how to run things. But take that schlemiel of a husband of yours with the shpilkis in his genechtagazoink back into the Drawing Room to schmooze and admire the tchotchkes, or you will all get bupkis for dinner!"
Disclaimer 1: Bupkis means, literally, "nothing at all." Don't believe the web pages you may find that say it means goat droppings.
Disclaimer 2: Genechtagazoink is not a real word, it was made up for Mike Myers and the Coffee Talk character he played on classic Saturday Night Live sketches.
Disclaimer 3: I've never had a Drawing Room, ha growing up we were lucky to be able to fit more than two dinner guests into our small living room if we needed to without inducing claustrophobia.
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Okay, let's end this off topic lol
Awesome!. Who ever told you that needs to check the census in the USA. Im sure you will find plenty of Ida's on those census.
@igazor posted some of the Jewish Yiddish language which is a cross between German and Hebrew .
I met someone named Ina not to long ago. That name I had never heard before