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Snowy Escape - Cool little details ^^
AlpineCuriosity
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Post all your cool findings here - anything from clothes, new recipes to fun road signs!
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Speaking of recipes I'm hoping this pack brings back hot chocolate from TS3 Seasons and we can make it at home.
Me too! 😃😍😊 And I’m so curious of all the new outfits!!
Same ugly painted-on fake gloves. Boo.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
I hope we get some more soggins and scarfs and I hope the pet sweaters that didn't make it into Nifty Knitting made it into this pack.
When it comes to the snowy part, I'm expecting hot chocolate, and ugly coats. I don't think skiing clothes look good so...
We need a good selection of winter clothes for all ages, the spare handful we got with Seasons just wasn’t enough.
> Gimme kimonos and getas please! And lots of japanese recipes!
I always feel a bit uncomfortable using the clothing that is from a culture other than my own. I don't want to appropriate and I don't feel I know enough about a lot of cultures to play a realistic family without that feeling of playing to a stereotype. I'd be curious to know how others feel about this.
me too
That’s a really considerate way to play. For the record, if there is ever any overtly Australian or Greek Sims content, you have my permission to include and involve it anyway you like. I think it’s great to see people adopting cultures out of admiration, even if they’re not necessarily 100% accurate (to be honest, having a unique twist on tradition is an Aussie custom in itself!). Any Japanese players out there to help steer us in how to incorporate Japanese culture in game?
I kind of feel like the Sims is my place to explore things that are different without the risk that I might offend someone. It certainly doesn't bother me if straight Simmers want to incorporate LGTBQ Sims into their game. Thinking out the life of someone from a different cultural group can be a learning experience.
I definitely understand and respect that. I just think that if things are done in a respectful way, there's no problem. I would feel ok about using japanese-inspired items in The Sims first of all, because I have a great respect and admiration for their culture and second, because considering The Sims is a game (and not a very detailed one), no culture could be 100% portrayed, so the gameplay can never be perfectly accurate, even for a Japanese.
But I am indeed againts stereotypes and I understand that is a risk. I've never even touched the Islamic and Hanukkah items, because I know absolutely nothing about these religions/cultures. But with Japan, I feel like I can play a reasonably accurate family with the knowledge I have from watching lots of japanese movies and animes.
But that's great that you brought that up. I would love to hear how a Japanese feels about it.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
This would be awesome😍😍😍😍. But this game never has any danger so I doubt it 😒😒😒 still wish we got the kraken
I wont speak for Japanese as I am not one but just from my experience interacting with a lot of east asians in real life (my best friends are from Vietnam and China) and in regarding sims, I interacted with many in the sims community though often times we had to use translators.
From my experience they are so "chill" cannot think of a more fitting word because that describes it exactly. I notice it's mainly americans more than others who seem to get so bent out of shape over culture, race and representation.
The chill asians are literally in their own world. I've been to their asian exclusive site where I got all my Chinese cc from and they make their own authentic asian cc they share with eachother and just have fun with the game. They don't rage and roar over every little thing. And we have had some nice discussions.
They make the coolest stuff btw I even have a aquazip that looks like a 3 headed dragon from them lol.
And to be honest I don't think this is a big deal for them. I think most of them will absolutely love it, some may not and some would be neutral.
- sims sitting on the floor instead of on chairs while eating at the table (at 1.07 in the trailer)
- a sim bows as a greeting (at 0.18)
- possibly a new tent (at 0.37)
EDIT: Also I just noticed there is something that seems to be a heater at 1:07 as well.
You're so right, Americans are always crazy outraged on behalf of other cultures, lol. It's so embarrassing. I'm from the Northeast U.S. and I see it every day. People need to learn to listen more, get a grip, shut their traps, and mind their own backyard. That's right, I said it. Other Americans can fight me.
But that Chinese CC sounds awesome! I've gotten content from a couple of Asian sites and it's always really detailed and creative.
I have said it before when talking about European cultures; my experience is that most Americans see everything in black and white. They don't get that Polish, Estonian and Albanian cultures are different despite being "white" while at the same time get super annoyed when New Zeeland natives actually aren't "black enough" yet identify as "black" (confusing "black" with African American). And so on (actual twitter convo I've had a few times when someone attacks a person from NZ with "black" in their twitter bio) or attacking the Harry Potter movies for not being racially diverse enough (despite having a rather fair amount of POC compared to what Britain actually has which is NOT the same percentages as America).
It's mostly ignorance (and some arrogance). We don't even make it mandatory to learn a second language. I think the US could use some brushing up in the education system. The U.S. is like the youngest sibling who thinks it knows everything but in truth knows very little about hardly anything but likes to scream about it anyway.