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  • winterbaby20winterbaby20 Posts: 2,413 Member
    making $30 per hour at a part time job.
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited December 2017
    making $30 per hour at a part time job.
    Yes and paying several of those dollars (simoleons) for a single egg or piece of fruit at the grocery store. Volumes have been written about the potential for a dollar (euro, pound, etc.) to simoleon exchange rate formula, but I don't think anyone has come close to nailing it yet. Now we're going to need one for bitcoins as well. ;)
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  • puzzlezaddictpuzzlezaddict Posts: 1,877 Member
    igazor wrote: »
    Yes and paying several of those dollars (simoleons) for a single egg or piece of fruit at the grocery store. Volumes have been written about the potential for a dollar (euro, pound, etc.) to simoleon exchange rate formula, but I don't think anyone has come close to nailing it yet. Now we're going to need one for bitcoins as well. ;)

    I don't understand. Is there something off about those prices? That's pretty much what I pay for organic, locally sourced, low-water-use produce at the local farmers' market. And I'm sure that the in-game store has the same high standards. You would never want to poison your sim children with pesticides or heavy metals, would you? Your precious progeny deserve only the very best, and if you don't care enough about them or the environment to grow it yourself, the least you can do is buy the safest, cleanest, highest-quality produce available.

    Can you tell I'm from Northern California? But then so is EA. Maybe the exchange rate is just reflective of the going rate for self-righteousness here. On the other hand, in Silicon Valley, fourteen grand wouldn't buy anyone a mailbox, much less an entire empty lot.
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited December 2017
    That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

    Some of my sims do grow all of their own food and sell the surplus at markets in various ways. But whether talking about sims or people, there really isn't much point in trying to figure out how to grow all of our own food and harvest our own eggs when choosing to live in a densely populated urban center with millions of others, or in a suburban tract with maybe just enough land for a rosebush and a single tomato plant. Especially when the municipal water supply is under suspicion, the government is spying on us through our webcams, and we are constantly being irradiated by cell phone and wifi signals buzzing all around us (tightens up tin-foil hat a bit).

    Can't help but feel the discussion is veering off-course a little now, even though I'm clearly contributing to that. ;)
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  • MikezumiMikezumi Posts: 49,697 Member
    Being able to make 6 servings of fish and chips with a single minnow. Actually I get 10 serves from one minnow but for those without mods you're stuck with 6 ;)
  • IreneSwiftIreneSwift Posts: 6,247 Member
    Mikezumi wrote: »
    Being able to make 6 servings of fish and chips with a single minnow. Actually I get 10 serves from one minnow but for those without mods you're stuck with 6 ;)

    Actually, it's 8 servings.
  • MikezumiMikezumi Posts: 49,697 Member
    @IreneSwift You are so right! It's been so long since I made the normal serving that I had totally forgotten!
  • Minx11Minx11 Posts: 1,386 Member
    When you reach Level 10 of the Military Career, one 18 hour shift a week (on a Monday of all days) is acceptable and is not at all horrendous working hours.

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  • Sonata13SingerSonata13Singer Posts: 183 Member
    MorieTris wrote: »
    If my Sim goes to another Sim's home and acts like they own the place, the actual owner gets cheesed off. If they come over to visit my Sim and they just plop down in front of the computer and start playing games, that's A-okay and a completely normal thing to do.
    I hate when they do this! I said this before, some sort of password or lock is needed for the computers to keep others out.
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  • AnthonydyerAnthonydyer Posts: 1,197 Member
    Here's a good one I thought of this morning.

    In the sims, it is so easy to renovate your house. Have a light in the wrong place, just move it in build/buy. Don't like where your bathtub is located, move it. Have a problem with a wall, move it. If only my real life house was that easy to fix. I'm stuck with misplaced lights, bathtubs, and walls.

    I guess that is why The Sims has no industry for plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. :D
  • AnthonydyerAnthonydyer Posts: 1,197 Member
    edited January 2018
    Minx11 wrote: »
    When you reach Level 10 of the Military Career, one 18 hour shift a week (on a Monday of all days) is acceptable and is not at all horrendous working hours.

    I always interpreted it as the astronauts being sent to the moon. I would hate those kind of hours too.
    I feel bad for our real life astronauts being sent to the moon for months at a time.
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited January 2018
    Minx11 wrote: »
    When you reach Level 10 of the Military Career, one 18 hour shift a week (on a Monday of all days) is acceptable and is not at all horrendous working hours.

    I always interpreted it as the astronauts being sent to the moon. I would hate those kind of hours too.
    I feel bad for our real life astronauts being sent to the moon for months at a time.
    Yep. The only problem I have with that shift is that by the time my sims get to Level 10 in that career, it's been a long while though so maybe this isn't true of ones I would have played from earlier in their lives anymore, they are just about elders. It's a very rough shift and difficult to be well rested and prepared for in high enough moods to last quite that long without having to see them crawl home on their hands and knees just in time to pass out altogether from exhaustion.

    It's also easy to forget that the shift is coming if you aren't paying close enough attention to the sim in a very large household.

    The pay and prestige are pretty high, though. :)
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  • BlackSandBlackSand Posts: 2,074 Member
    igazor wrote: »
    Minx11 wrote: »
    When you reach Level 10 of the Military Career, one 18 hour shift a week (on a Monday of all days) is acceptable and is not at all horrendous working hours.

    I always interpreted it as the astronauts being sent to the moon. I would hate those kind of hours too.
    I feel bad for our real life astronauts being sent to the moon for months at a time.

    Yep. The only problem I have with that shift is that by the time my sims get to Level 10 in that career, it's been a long while though so maybe this isn't true of ones I would have played from earlier in their lives anymore, they are just about elders. It's a very rough shift and difficult to be well rested and prepared for in high enough moods to last quite that long without having to see them crawl home on their hands and knees just in time to pass out altogether from exhaustion.

    It's also easy to forget that the shift is coming if you aren't paying close enough attention to the sim in a very large household.

    The pay and prestige are pretty high, though. :)

    Pfft ... Y'all just haven't figured out how to get ahead in the Sim world.

    Take for instance well produced and aged nectar.
    Drink a glass of Hot Cherimola (10% cherimola grapes, 30% flame fruit and 60% life fruit ... all at perfect) before work.
    You get moodlets "full of life" (+50), "astonishing aroma" (+30), "sugar rush" (+15) and "warm fuzzies" (+15).

    Uh, duh ... :/ ... Get liquored up before work for a +110 mood boost ... And get promoted every two days.
    It's just like the real world ... When you are too drunk to work ... They promote you to management.

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  • WaterdragonWaterdragon Posts: 780 Member
    igazor wrote: »
    Minx11 wrote: »
    When you reach Level 10 of the Military Career, one 18 hour shift a week (on a Monday of all days) is acceptable and is not at all horrendous working hours.

    I always interpreted it as the astronauts being sent to the moon. I would hate those kind of hours too.
    I feel bad for our real life astronauts being sent to the moon for months at a time.
    Yep. The only problem I have with that shift is that by the time my sims get to Level 10 in that career, it's been a long while though so maybe this isn't true of ones I would have played from earlier in their lives anymore, they are just about elders. It's a very rough shift and difficult to be well rested and prepared for in high enough moods to last quite that long without having to see them crawl home on their hands and knees just in time to pass out altogether from exhaustion.

    It's also easy to forget that the shift is coming if you aren't paying close enough attention to the sim in a very large household.

    The pay and prestige are pretty high, though. :)

    I tend to give my astronauts the potent invigorating elixir before their shift. If I remember, that is. My first alien baby was not only named Leonard (after Leonard Nimoy), he also became an astronaut. Aliens have no problems whatsoever with the long shift.

    Thought of this today, while playing:
    You can raise your toddlers by giving them two bottles of suspicious green liquid every day. No solid food needed.
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  • Nikkei_SimmerNikkei_Simmer Posts: 9,403 Member
    edited January 2018
    Minx11 wrote: »
    When you reach Level 10 of the Military Career, one 18 hour shift a week (on a Monday of all days) is acceptable and is not at all horrendous working hours.

    I always interpreted it as the astronauts being sent to the moon. I would hate those kind of hours too.
    I feel bad for our real life astronauts being sent to the moon for months at a time.

    Well, I guess they're working on a moon-shot right now...

    Considering, I'm old enough to remember the very last of the moonshots from the Apollo program... I felt for those guys like Michael Collins, Richard Gordon and the other CM pilots who ended up trekking all the way to the moon and getting stuck on the command module staring at the moon from lunar orbit.

    Swigert was slated to be the CM pilot for the Apollo 13 ill-fated mission.

    I hope I'm still around to see the Mars Colony established.

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  • BlackSandBlackSand Posts: 2,074 Member
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    I spend a few measly grand remodeling and upgrading the Consignment Store ...
    And Greg, who was the surgeon at the hospital, decides to become the consignment specialist.

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  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    The Medical career is overrated. Anyone can play chess (or pretend to) and look up at the sky through a telescope to build up Logic. It takes real skills and finesse to run a consignment cash register. >:)
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  • SimmzSimmz Posts: 72 Member
    Carrying a newborn baby outside for fresh air and then randomly leaving it on the sidewalk.
    Learning a new song while on vacation, and then walking around singing it every 2 hours...for like the rest of your life.
    Becoming a vampire and then having to ASK everyone if you can drink their blood. I'm still disappointed that wasn't fixed in a patch.


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    [quote="Mikezumi;c-16199543"][quote="Waterdragon;c-16197916"]It only takes consent on both sides and an exchange of rings to get legally married. [/quote]

    No less legit than jumping the broom ;) [/quote]

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  • AnthonydyerAnthonydyer Posts: 1,197 Member
    edited January 2018
    igazor wrote: »
    The Medical career is overrated. Anyone can play chess (or pretend to) and look up at the sky through a telescope to build up Logic. It takes real skills and finesse to run a consignment cash register. >:)

    Lol. That's true. If you've done a shop in TS2, you should know that is a doozy.

    I don't like the medical career. They have these 10 hour shifts and are expected to be on call. I'll stick to business. I'm not cut out for the medical field.
  • puzzlezaddictpuzzlezaddict Posts: 1,877 Member
    igazor wrote: »
    The Medical career is overrated. Anyone can play chess (or pretend to) and look up at the sky through a telescope to build up Logic. It takes real skills and finesse to run a consignment cash register. >:)

    Lol. That's true. If you've done a shop in TS2, you should know that is a doozy.

    I don't like the medical career. They have these 10 hour shifts and are expected to be on call. I'll stick to business. I'm not cut out for the medical field.

    I agree that it's a lot of work to advance a sim to level 10 of the medical career. On the other hand, at the top level, the shift is only five hours, four days a week. Aside from the usual work effort options, you can choose to "play golf" and just raise the fun motive. You often have the option to give a health seminar at a rabbithole (something about educating workers on their HMO benefits? The fact that someone actually pays for this could be its own entry here) which lasts for maybe two or three hours and maxes out the job experience bar. So, to recap, your sim gets to work, is asked to hold a 2-hour lecture or conference, then goes back to work just to play golf, and gets a fat raise at the end of the shift.

    On second thought, this actually sounds exactly like real life. Never mind.
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited January 2018
    Now of course I was only joking. Yes, it's challenging to move up the ranks in the Medical career somewhat. And not only does the pager go off at the most inopportune times, but no matter where your sim goes in town someone is bound to get sick and require their assistance. But I still love that career, the outdoor free clinics are my favorite. Some of the animations are hysterical (Open wide and say 'Mooo'?). With or without the great pay, there is still this illusion that one is helping out their fellow sims in some kind of way that no one else can. :)
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  • BlackSandBlackSand Posts: 2,074 Member
    igazor wrote: »
    Now of course I was only joking. Yes, it's challenging to move up the ranks in the Medical career somewhat. And not only does the pager go off at the most inopportune times, but no matter where your sim goes in town someone is bound to get sick and require their assistance. But I still love that career, the outdoor free clinics are my favorite. Some of the animations are hysterical (Open wide and say 'Mooo'?). With or without the great pay, there is still this illusion that one is helping out their fellow sims in some kind of way that no one else can. :)

    Much like real life ... I discovered a long time ago that it never really "pays" to be an employee in the game.

    Smart investments, and work were you control the level of benefit with effort, always pay better.
    The only thing that slows down the Sims in my towns is complacency inherent to game design.

    Pretty much like the real world if you ask me.
    I must admit I have just as much fun watching real people as Sims when the opportunity arises ... :D

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  • PalmArrowPalmArrow Posts: 4,329 Member
    This is probably my favourite bit of sims 3 logic:

    Drinking chamomile tea gives you Rebel influence.

    In real life, it's difficult to think of anything that's less rebellious than a cup of chamomile tea. A pair of fluffy slippers, maybe?
  • igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
    edited January 2018
    @PalmArrow - My favorite image associated with that one would be shady characters hanging around on sketchy looking street corners to annoy innocent passersby. "Psst! Hey buddy, you wanna buy some chamomile?" ;)
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