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My sims are making me hate them
Solomutt
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Don't take this too seriously, it's just me venting in a joking way.
Edmond and Jade wanted another child, but they had twins. I had to move them from the Daisy Hovel. Even though I had built the house up to accommodate their growing family there simply wasn't enough room. If they had ONE child (other than their first kid Chloe) I thought I could make it work. After all, Edmond's father, Jericho, had passed and I got the message that that Edmond's mom, Zoe, was not long for the mortal coil.
So yeah, I figured when Zoe bites it I can use her bedroom for the new kid, even as an infant. Twins changed things. I needed more room for two cribs. So I move them to a bigger house. The thought was Zoe is going to pass son, and she'll do it before the twins are toddlers. Then I can use her room for them. With the larger house I had to put cribs in the living room and have the parents take turns sleeping on the couch to care for them on the fly.
But it's a nightmare! Even with a nanny!
These things wouldn't bother me except that sometimes the parents walk right past the screeching baby like it's not there just to go do something like exercise. Dude, isn't YOUR child more important? Do I need to direct you ALL OF THE TIME? It's a grudge match now. I'm determined to get these kids on track even if my sim family wants to play stupid. I am going to make these children succeed.
But Zoe, sorry, girl...will you just croak already?
Edmond and Jade wanted another child, but they had twins. I had to move them from the Daisy Hovel. Even though I had built the house up to accommodate their growing family there simply wasn't enough room. If they had ONE child (other than their first kid Chloe) I thought I could make it work. After all, Edmond's father, Jericho, had passed and I got the message that that Edmond's mom, Zoe, was not long for the mortal coil.
So yeah, I figured when Zoe bites it I can use her bedroom for the new kid, even as an infant. Twins changed things. I needed more room for two cribs. So I move them to a bigger house. The thought was Zoe is going to pass son, and she'll do it before the twins are toddlers. Then I can use her room for them. With the larger house I had to put cribs in the living room and have the parents take turns sleeping on the couch to care for them on the fly.
But it's a nightmare! Even with a nanny!
- The nanny they have now is the same guy that was a nanny for their first kid, Chloe. He's become a family friend. But he sucks as a nanny. He spends too much time yakking or reading or swimming in the pool when the twins are screech-crying. He even stops the family from doing things they need to do. Got a few moments infants being asleep and need to work on that skill for a promotion? NAH! Nanny guy will start blabbing so it slows everything down. Gotta cook a serving of a meal? Ya gotta race nanny guy to the kitchen. He'll get there first and make a less quality meal.
- My sims suck as parents. They were good with Chloe, but with the twins. They really suck. They'll stand there and do nothing while one or both twins are destroying my ears with their crying. Even when directed to FEED THE CHILD they stand there for a ridiculous amount of time. The nanny may or may not act, but this knucklehead carried one outside by the pool, got a "scared" emoji and ran inside. If this was vanilla it wouldn't have bothered me, but SEASONS is installed. It could rain, etc. Dude, you're a nanny and you left an infant OUTSIDE by a pool!
- ZOE WON'T DIE! Ugh...she was the mother of my "make ten generations" self-challenge...and I dreaded her looming demise . At first. Now I'm like "Will you die already?". I need the room. and it was like a week ago, simwise, when I got the notice that you were not long to be here. That may be fault. Zoe was into fitness and she maxed that out. But dang, girl...it's time to go.
These things wouldn't bother me except that sometimes the parents walk right past the screeching baby like it's not there just to go do something like exercise. Dude, isn't YOUR child more important? Do I need to direct you ALL OF THE TIME? It's a grudge match now. I'm determined to get these kids on track even if my sim family wants to play stupid. I am going to make these children succeed.
But Zoe, sorry, girl...will you just croak already?
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That whole thing bugs me though. In real life being fit can help you live longer, but it also helps you live healthier. Why do these fit elders get dangerously exhausted from going roller skating?
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-No person with the mean, hot-headed and self-absorbed traits, I don't think you should get married.
That must be it. Because she's on track to see her son turn into an elder. If I had known that aspiration would work like this I wouldn't have let her complete it.
@Eleri if I had known she'd hold on so long I wouldn't have allowed her to finish it. I need her to die because of the space. I had always planned on moving the family to a better house, but I also did not expect Jade and Edmond to have twins. I need Zoe to go so I can use her room for those kids who will be toddlers real soon.
...and I never wanted twins. What a nightmare. Now even though the house is better than the built-up daisy hovel I had them in, I might have to add an extra room because grandma won't pass away. Either that or I could purposely kill her.
Zoe like to exercise. It fills her fun bar. But she does get "dangerously exhausted" and I have to make her stop. What happens if I let her keep going?
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The nanny isn't much better. Since I got the same nanny that helped out with Chloe, he's become a "family friend". (He would come over to visit before the twins were born). So II don't want to "fire" him.
But this knucklehead left one of twins outside by the pool at night! I know the game won't let an infant die, but geez.
Awhile ago he walked into Chloe's room just as she was about to go to sleep and sat on the bed. Now she can't get in it until he moves. And poor Chloe was exhausted, it was midnight and she has school in eight hours. This jerk sat there for TWO HOURS. I had to make Chloe go downstairs and sleep on the couch.
I found out the same way. I may give my sims that aspiration but I don't have them complete it. Now, I use a lifetime aspirations mod and I rarely complete any sims' aspirations. Which feels realistic to me.
The children are supposed to ask the Nanny to take care of them. My nannies work out pretty well, but only because my kids are constantly bossing them around.
-Yes, person I barely know, you have my blessing to hang out with Johnny Zest.
-No person with the mean, hot-headed and self-absorbed traits, I don't think you should get married.
Mountain climbing would make more sense than roller skating, I agree. My uncle is a senior citizen who loves biking, has run marathons and mountain climbing for years, until he retired from mountain climbing. My aunt is a senior citizen who took tap dancing classes. Both of them are around 20 years older than me, but more fit than I am because I am used to a sedentary lifestyle. If I didn't have trouble with my knees, ice skating and roller skating would still not be an issue for me though. But mountain climbing? I could do that in my teens and 20s, back when I could run for 20 minutes straight or climb 20 flights of stairs in one go....but it would totally exhaust me now, I would not even try. Mountain climbing is much harder than woohoo (except car woohoo).
I had my gen 4 heir do that aspiration without knowing how long they actually end up living too. I ended up just drowning my sim.
I had made him a "swim team" club when he was a teenager, so I thought you know what, now that you're old, it makes sense you'd swim in your free time... And you could get dangerously tired in the pool... So I directed him to work out a bit and go for a nice little dip...