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    SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
    in The Sims 3 General Discussion
    when im playing the game and if it happens to be on fast mode trying to get the sim to hurry up, the sim just stops and looks directly at me. and when your in front of the game and the sims turns and stares at you its down right creepy..

    I don't know if its a glitch or not, but feels like they are watching you. its like "so you are the one controlling my every mood!" and then they continue on like nothing has happened.

    has anything like that happened to you? if so, isn't it creepy? I wonder why my sim does that....

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      LittleMinxUndrLittleMinxUndr Posts: 4,196 Member
      edited July 2013
      It doesn't happen too often. TS2 sims used to break the 4rth dimension a lot more.
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      WaxingCrescent05WaxingCrescent05 Posts: 577 Member
      edited July 2013
      This used to happen quite frequently in TS2. It was one of my favorite things about the game. I didn't know it happened sometimes in TS3 now. Never noticed this and I've been playing for a while. Maybe it came with a new update? Now I have to go play and check... I'll be ecstatic if this is true.
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      SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
      edited July 2013
      meant move not mood. lol

      I never seen this happen in sims 2. but in sims 3 it has happened twice.

      they go about and stop and stare at you and then they continue what you are asking of them. when it happens again I have to take a pic of it. its quite creepy...

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      Hallonsaft11Hallonsaft11 Posts: 1,377 Member
      edited July 2013
      Never had this happen that often in TS3 but in TS2 my sims would stare up at the camera whenever they had nothing to do. What I do find creepy in TS3 is when your sims has their gaze set to a certain object and you move them with 'moveobjects on' their heads will turn to that object wherever you move them. :P

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      SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
      edited July 2013
      you mean they move the object with their minds or they move to the object after you move it yourself?
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      SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
      edited July 2013
      oh you mean they follow the item when you select move objects.. ya that's creepy.. lol

      of all the creepy stuff that happens in the game. we should video it... make a great Halloween horror sims movie...
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      Hallonsaft11Hallonsaft11 Posts: 1,377 Member
      edited July 2013
      Yeah, when I move the sim it´s head will still turn to that specific object. :P
      A horror video of sims shouldt be too hard to get together. :wink:

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      EveebellaEveebella Posts: 832 Member
      edited July 2013
      my Sims in TS3 do this to at first it really freaked me out to have them suddenly turn and look at me but now its less creepy LOL.
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      alexmb1008alexmb1008 Posts: 15
      edited July 2013
      Nothing like this has ever happened to me, not even in TS2. I would probably freak out.
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      xkaylanicolexxkaylanicolex Posts: 3,760 Member
      edited July 2013
      Sometimes they move their head while its paused.

      That happened to me with this set of pictures:
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      I was pretty creeped out tbh
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      PamhamletPamhamlet Posts: 5,556 Member
      edited July 2013
      Sims are programmed to do this by the developers (break the 4th wall). It is called eye-tracking and they are programmed to track another Sim's eyes as well as the main User-Interface camera eye (you). Of course they are not sentient beings so are not aware of you as a person, but the UI control will sometimes "advertise" to them and so they will often look up at it. It's eerie, but a fun built-in feature of the game.
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      DarklingDarkling Posts: 6,327 Member
      edited July 2013
      Pamhamlet wrote:
      Sims are programmed to do this by the developers (break the 4th wall). It is called eye-tracking and they are programmed to track another Sim's eyes as well as the main User-Interface camera eye (you). Of course they are not sentient beings so are not aware of you as a person, but the UI control will sometimes "advertise" to them and so they will often look up at it. It's eerie, but a fun built-in feature of the game.

      Interesting, but I still get the feeling that Samara from "The Ring" is masquerading as one of my simmies and biding her time until she can crawl out and kill me! :shock: :lol:
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      rednenemonrednenemon Posts: 3,206 Member
      edited July 2013
      This has happened to me plenty of times.

      One time, I paused the game to check on the other Sims in a household, and the Sim I was controlling looked over at me while he was flirting with his husband, which led to his expression:

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      And then there's this sort of situation:

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      Another thing that can happen, though much more rarely, is when you pause the game at the right time, and everything about a Sim freezes...but their head keeps moving back and forth erratically. :shock:
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      EivindbroenEivindbroen Posts: 223 New Member
      edited July 2013
      Oh god i have so many memories of this! I'm just casually zooming in on my sims because it feels so much different, it's something i do all the time. When i got SN and played with my horrifying witch she suddenly looked at me like: :shock: with a creepy smile, i could not breathe because it was a late night, maybe 2 am when my parents was asleep.
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      brightpawbrightpaw Posts: 233
      edited July 2013
      I'm officially creeped-out now. Thanks guys! :D
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      SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
      edited July 2013
      when my sim looked at me, it has the ring movie feeling... or the shinning movie feeling... redrum.. creepy..


      @rednenemon

      what is that red stuff on the door behind the couple kissing on the couch? looks like blood? and their is a red line on the blonde guys head on the couch?

      the first pic of the guy with the "hehehe" look was creepy..

      back to the topic. I never heard of a 4th dimension in sims before or a 4th dimension... I think the game gets weird if the computer cant keep up with the human and gets weird...
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      SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
      edited July 2013
      sorry bright paw... :(


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      SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
      edited July 2013
      @Hallonsaft11

      making a horror movie might be fun. but how do we make a movie from pictures? oh, a haunted slideshow picture movie? with music in the background...?
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      rednenemonrednenemon Posts: 3,206 Member
      edited July 2013
      SimsSimmerie3333 wrote:
      @rednenemon

      what is that red stuff on the door behind the couple kissing on the couch? looks like blood? and their is a red line on the blonde guys head on the couch?

      At one point, the guy on the right (the one in the brown jacket), he became a fairy, and his wings are the "Majestic Monarch" type colored a dark red. Those are actually his wings sticking out from his back.

      That red line in the other guy's hair, also from the wings, I'm not sure why it does that.

      Yes, his wings do look blood-colored. Come to think of it, that might have been what I intended.
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      PamhamletPamhamlet Posts: 5,556 Member
      edited July 2013
      Darkling wrote:
      Interesting, but I still get the feeling that Samara from "The Ring" is masquerading as one of my simmies and biding her time until she can crawl out and kill me! :shock: :lol:

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      PamhamletPamhamlet Posts: 5,556 Member
      edited July 2013
      SimsSimmerie3333 wrote:
      ...back to the topic. I never heard of a 4th dimension in sims before or a 4th dimension... I think the game gets weird if the computer cant keep up with the human and gets weird...

      Not a 4th dimension, but a 4th WALL. Breaking the 4th wall is a theater term. A theater stage has three walls (back, and two sides) and the 4th wall, which is presumed to be there, is invisible of course, and is actually the audience. The actors on stage or on a movie set are normally never supposed to look at the camera or audience, but when they do, it's called "breaking the 4th wall" because they are seemingly aware that someone is watching them outside of the little world in which they are performing.
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      aleyna06aleyna06 Posts: 95
      edited July 2013
      This never happened to me... Now I want it too! Lol it just seems creepy and funny. :P
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      PunkiMommaBearPunkiMommaBear Posts: 77
      edited July 2013
      Remember in the TS1 they constantly broke the 4th wall? Whenever they needed something... And TS2 they did it occasionally. I've only seen it once or twice in TS3
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      yoursharona34yoursharona34 Posts: 3,201 Member
      edited July 2013
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      SimsSimmerie3333SimsSimmerie3333 Posts: 1,008 New Member
      edited August 2013
      sorry for the late replies. thanks for the info...
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