Who cares, are we finally getting #JusticeForOccults
#WolfJusticeIsServered🥳🥳??
#NowGiveUsZombies🥳
No I can't do it. I made one before just to see if I could make myself and it creeped me out almost like a voodoo doll. So then I evicted myself and made myself a Townie. Everytime I popped up on my sims I felt creeped out again 😂😂 quick delete.
The most I have made since then is a sim that looks "similar" to me since we got the South Asian kit, which doesn't bother me and is kind of cool. But to see my twin is a no no. And I made a sort of toddler version that resembled me as a toddler. But besides that I really want to know and feel like I'm playing a fun video game VS trying to live through it. I have these huge mirrors in my house because I practice and learn dancing, (traditional as well as other styles)
I think that's enough of seeing myself 😅
I have no problem with how people choose to play. Simselves didn't start with ts4 and I try to respect all the different playstyles, but I think when EA makes the focus of their promotion the simself and representation it ultimately leads to more confusion, nerfing,and outrages because people get so absorbed and forget this is "just" a game. It seems like they think it's real life and they must fight tooth and nail to make sure everything is 100% accurate to life and justice is upheld.
But games as I've always known them are wild, games are glitchy, games are silly, buggy, weird, inaccuate, fantasized fun and senseless. Games are the manifestion of a vision the Devs dream up for it in order to transport you to another world.
I feel like once that is forgotten it stops being a video game.
Who cares, are we finally getting #JusticeForOccults
Fun survey, I liked the choices. I had to vote with my heart, so #justiceforoccults. However, in all seriousness, I have never created a simself. The idea feels weird to me, almost creepy in a way, but I don't know why. I have created sims with similar personalities and interests, but they don't look like me and definitely don't live the life I lead. I've also never made sims who look like family or friends. Or enemies either, lol.
I made my simself and one of my coworkers for fun and both sims are so spot on it's kind of uncanny. I feel weird when my simself shows up on a lot. My coworker says the sim I made for her looks more like her than she does. lol
I mostly use my Simself to start new saves where I plan on mostly building, or when I'm re-attempting to make a template save. I import her into the starting CAS when you start a new save, tuck her away in a starter house or apartment, then move on to whatever else I was planning to do in the save.
On occasion, I'll pull her into the game to take some screenshots, or test the playability of a community lot.
Because I'm too sexy for its code.
The game can't handle it and always stops responding the moment I place him (me, *sigh*) in the world, just so that it can ogle at my simself. Code Ogling Code. Gorgeous code at that.
I don't have any interest in playing my simself. Instead I placed her in Oasis Springs then marked her as immortal with a mod. Also made sure to turn off romance options for her. Now my sims have a chance of meeting her anywhere. I did the same in TS3.
Yes my Simself has joined my rotation. She is chilling in Henford-on-Bagely and playing with her is not as boring as before with the Cottage Living items. Basically I have her living that Harvest Moon/SoS/Animal Crossing life that I dream of hehe.
She has become the main sim I use to address village errands.
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I don't have any interest in playing my simself. Instead I placed her in Oasis Springs then marked her as immortal with a mod. Also made sure to turn off romance options for her. Now my sims have a chance of meeting her anywhere. I did the same in TS3.
That's actually a smart idea, that I may borrow. The immortal option exist in MCCC if I remember correctly.
I don't use CC so if you see something in a screenshot of mine, it's from the game.
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I don't have any interest in playing my simself. Instead I placed her in Oasis Springs then marked her as immortal with a mod. Also made sure to turn off romance options for her. Now my sims have a chance of meeting her anywhere. I did the same in TS3.
That's actually a smart idea, that I may borrow. The immortal option exist in MCCC if I remember correctly.
Who cares, are we finally getting #JusticeForOccults
HAND OVER THE OCCULTS ALREADY!
On topic, I have a rule where I never make sims that are intentionally based on real people, myself included. Alot of weird, wacky and inappropriate stuff occurs in my game, and I'd rather not have a simified version of myself or anyone else dealing with it.
My simself is in my current save, but as an NPC. I have played "me" in the past, both in earlier sim-games and in sims4 but tend to stop at some time. I can do "now" fairly well, but it gets weird when the game moves to the future - also I tend to get bored as I'm just not interesting enough. I take out my own trash in real life, I don't need to do it in game too. More fun to play someone else.
Moreover, I advise that the cart button must be destroyed!
In a way its a yes and a no, there comes a time where a simself of mine becomes so far apart from the real me even their name changes. Sometimes they're much older, sometimes they've became a cat and back again thanks to Sims 3s console powers. They're always me in all but heart.
Hey, I've even found a townie with my last name before and even had a suspiscously similar named Sim born just to be able to say I didn't create myself! Indirect self-Sim creation is a genuinely hilarious thing I hope to try in a proper legacy one day.
...As a result... Am I me anymore, or is me just something else entirely?
Just don't go loading up old PS2s saves of mine or you'll see a self-sim Graveyard
I tried to, but it always ended in uncomfortable ways:
- The first challenge he was in, he got abducted and returned pregant, as if nature wanted to remind me that I'm genetically female and should start doing my job
- Then he developed feelings for a sim I had created myself. Not quite as creepy as the abduction, but still way out of my comfort zone.
- He easily fulfilled my lifetime ambition, something I struggle with, and also finished off the Landgraab mafia in one fell swoop. That hurt.
So now he and his daughter are part of the rotational save as townies. I'm the head of forensics at the GTW police station, something that isn't too much of a stretch from real life. It's heartwaming to see my kid interact with my co-workers' children and myself with my favorite sims.
What it says in the title, do you play as your Simself? Feel free to comment why you do or don't.
I actually feel uncomfortable playing as my simself. Plus the simself in question is an alternate-reality version of me. She doesn't have my real name.
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Because I'm too sexy for its code.
The game can't handle it and always stops responding the moment I place him (me, *sigh*) in the world, just so that it can ogle at my simself. Code Ogling Code. Gorgeous code at that.
Actually, I have recreated my whole family; hubby, kids, and pets. Created them and released them into the wild, but I could never bring myself to play with the family. In real life, my eldest son now has a child, is in the military, and is divorced. The youngest son just graduated from college, is married, and getting ready to leave the country. The idea of playing the sim version of my kids is just too weird for me.
wouldn't it be so funny if we did forum simself group picture but i assume it would be a struggle to piece together
maybe less so if sims were put in same game but again cc n stuff
On topic, I have a rule where I never make sims that are intentionally based on real people, myself included. Alot of weird, wacky and inappropriate stuff occurs in my game, and I'd rather not have a simified version of myself or anyone else dealing with it.
With the sims I create to add to my worlds and stories, I never choose names that are the same as someone I know well. One exception is ordinary or really common names I use them, it's the more uncommon or rare names that I make it a point to avoid. It does limit names a tiny wee bit, but even with premades, I'll change names. Most times Caleb Vatore gets a new first name because I had a coworker named Caleb.
I don't want too much of the real world in my escapist world. And even though I play my sim as a simself, she is only a surrogate to allow me to do and experience things otherwise impossible or difficult. Me and her are a team, not a single entity. That's what keeps it from getting weird for me anyway.
Sort of? I have a number of different near-simselves. I don't give any of them my exact name (or rhyming names... just names that are vaguely similar), and they don't look exactly like me... just similar coloring and hairstyle, etc. Their fashion/style/aesthetic sensiblities are similar to my own. I don't play with any of them that often, but they're all in the rotation in my main save. I generally start them as young adults (I'm well into the adult stage myself!) and they're really sort of there to play out "path not taken" scenarios that are similar to my own life. What if I had switched to the archaeology major I considered? What if I my legal career had taken a different path? What if I'd decided to write novels fulltime instead? What if I'd stayed in the city instead of moving to the suburbs, or what if I moved to the country to raise cows instead, or to a beachside cottage? Would that one ex-fiance have been as terrible of a husband as I suspected? (Sims 4 verdict: yes!) How would I decorate my house if I'd bought the Victorian I always wanted instead of a Tudor-style home? I, too, feel like it would be weird somehow to recreate my own actual kids, but sometimes instead I have sim kids and give them the names we couldn't agree on IRL.
I will say, I probably played my simselves more during the worst of the pandemic lockdown than I normally do. I personally found it comforting to be able to travel, go to music festivals, etc., via an avatar in TS4 when I couldn't really do it. But I could see how someone else might find it more frustrating.
I'm sad that you feel that way about yourself. I'm sure there are aspects of you that are totally awesome - you just haven't noticed them yet.
I'm sorry I missed this comment earlier, I would have spoken up sooner. I know the feeling, I have struggled most of my life with self-esteem and self-acceptance. @grevilliablue is absolutely right, everybody has something about them that is special and wonderful and worthy of being loved for. Even if they can't see it themselves, it's there. Finding someone you trust who you can open up to and talk with helps a lot. That's how I got myself headed in the right direction.
No, I've thought about it but it's not really my thing
I've only created a Simself for the Sims 2, and that was at a request of a friend. She wanted me to create Harry Potter based Sims, Draco, Harry and Ron, and make versions of ourselves to be with them. I only played them when she asked about them, or when we hung out.
I have considered maybe making a SimSelf for Sims 4, but it was always ends up being as a no.
With games, not just the Sims, that require the main character to be based on you, I opt out on that as well.
Sorta, kinda. The couple I play is loosely based on me and my husband. They have our names but look nothing like us. Also, in game we have 3 daughters whereas in real life we have 2 sons. I wanted to play with girls since we never had a little girl of our own. All of the extended family in game is based on real life extended family members. My siblings and their spouses and children, my husband's siblings and spouses and their children, and our parents.
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#NowGiveUsZombies🥳
No I can't do it. I made one before just to see if I could make myself and it creeped me out almost like a voodoo doll. So then I evicted myself and made myself a Townie. Everytime I popped up on my sims I felt creeped out again 😂😂 quick delete.
The most I have made since then is a sim that looks "similar" to me since we got the South Asian kit, which doesn't bother me and is kind of cool. But to see my twin is a no no. And I made a sort of toddler version that resembled me as a toddler. But besides that I really want to know and feel like I'm playing a fun video game VS trying to live through it. I have these huge mirrors in my house because I practice and learn dancing, (traditional as well as other styles)
I think that's enough of seeing myself 😅
I have no problem with how people choose to play. Simselves didn't start with ts4 and I try to respect all the different playstyles, but I think when EA makes the focus of their promotion the simself and representation it ultimately leads to more confusion, nerfing,and outrages because people get so absorbed and forget this is "just" a game. It seems like they think it's real life and they must fight tooth and nail to make sure everything is 100% accurate to life and justice is upheld.
But games as I've always known them are wild, games are glitchy, games are silly, buggy, weird, inaccuate, fantasized fun and senseless. Games are the manifestion of a vision the Devs dream up for it in order to transport you to another world.
I feel like once that is forgotten it stops being a video game.
On occasion, I'll pull her into the game to take some screenshots, or test the playability of a community lot.
I've no intention of ever actually playing her.
The game can't handle it and always stops responding the moment I place him (me, *sigh*) in the world, just so that it can ogle at my simself. Code Ogling Code. Gorgeous code at that.
I'm sad that you feel that way about yourself. I'm sure there are aspects of you that are totally awesome - you just haven't noticed them yet.
S3 simblr: http://simplysimming.tumblr.com/
S4 simblr: http://simlogic.tumblr.com/
She has become the main sim I use to address village errands.
*:.｡."It's great being ((Queen Bee))!".｡.:*
★・・・・・・★・・・・・・★・・・・・・★
✧ :-"As long as I continue to believe then one day my ((dreams)) really will come true."✧ :-
EA Account (Gallery) ID: BylineBelife
Under sim flags I think.
S3 simblr: http://simplysimming.tumblr.com/
S4 simblr: http://simlogic.tumblr.com/
On topic, I have a rule where I never make sims that are intentionally based on real people, myself included. Alot of weird, wacky and inappropriate stuff occurs in my game, and I'd rather not have a simified version of myself or anyone else dealing with it.
Hey, I've even found a townie with my last name before and even had a suspiscously similar named Sim born just to be able to say I didn't create myself! Indirect self-Sim creation is a genuinely hilarious thing I hope to try in a proper legacy one day.
...As a result... Am I me anymore, or is me just something else entirely?
Just don't go loading up old PS2s saves of mine or you'll see a self-sim Graveyard
- The first challenge he was in, he got abducted and returned pregant, as if nature wanted to remind me that I'm genetically female and should start doing my job
- Then he developed feelings for a sim I had created myself. Not quite as creepy as the abduction, but still way out of my comfort zone.
- He easily fulfilled my lifetime ambition, something I struggle with, and also finished off the Landgraab mafia in one fell swoop. That hurt.
So now he and his daughter are part of the rotational save as townies. I'm the head of forensics at the GTW police station, something that isn't too much of a stretch from real life. It's heartwaming to see my kid interact with my co-workers' children and myself with my favorite sims.
I actually feel uncomfortable playing as my simself. Plus the simself in question is an alternate-reality version of me. She doesn't have my real name.
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With the sims I create to add to my worlds and stories, I never choose names that are the same as someone I know well. One exception is ordinary or really common names I use them, it's the more uncommon or rare names that I make it a point to avoid. It does limit names a tiny wee bit, but even with premades, I'll change names. Most times Caleb Vatore gets a new first name because I had a coworker named Caleb.
I don't want too much of the real world in my escapist world. And even though I play my sim as a simself, she is only a surrogate to allow me to do and experience things otherwise impossible or difficult. Me and her are a team, not a single entity. That's what keeps it from getting weird for me anyway.
I will say, I probably played my simselves more during the worst of the pandemic lockdown than I normally do. I personally found it comforting to be able to travel, go to music festivals, etc., via an avatar in TS4 when I couldn't really do it. But I could see how someone else might find it more frustrating.
I'm sorry I missed this comment earlier, I would have spoken up sooner. I know the feeling, I have struggled most of my life with self-esteem and self-acceptance. @grevilliablue is absolutely right, everybody has something about them that is special and wonderful and worthy of being loved for. Even if they can't see it themselves, it's there. Finding someone you trust who you can open up to and talk with helps a lot. That's how I got myself headed in the right direction.
I have considered maybe making a SimSelf for Sims 4, but it was always ends up being as a no.
With games, not just the Sims, that require the main character to be based on you, I opt out on that as well.