I don't have a specific testing pixel, but when I do, they're tired out by my testing them: "let's go to this community lot to see if what I did fixed it" or, "You have to go have a break, we're going to check out the routing on this lot!"

All I can think of is when I'm done the particular pixel will look at me and say, "Are WE done yet, madam? I have a life, too!"

I've had anything from a test family, to a test hood, to a full test folder.

Depends what I'm testing, but I'll usually test with minimal other CC (my regular mods + basic defaults, and whatever I'm testing). Sometimes I use them to take pictures of some new CC and I just want fast loading + easy finding in my CC.

The good thing about taking a step back from The Sims and enjoying other games is that it feels refreshing. The bad thing about taking a step back from The Sims and enjoying other games is "what the hell was I even doing".

I find it hilarious that telling a Sim to clean up a plate of burned food, they just shove the entire thing into the dishwasher without scraping off the food first.

I mean, I've known a distressing number of people who did that in real life too...

I finally downloaded a mod that extends every life stage by a x2 and I love it. My sims can date around, enjoy their hobbies on theor day off instead of building work skills, earn some money before starting a family, don't become old while the kids are teens. My couples can move in together before saving enough money for their dream home and not have kids right away. It kinda reflects real life where the housing crisis isn't awful.

I've never seen a sim clean their dishwasher, either...

Wish my dishwasher was that good. It refuses to clean even tiny amounts of baked on food.

I've never owned a dishwasher and it perplexes me how people load items of various levels of dirtiness into it. If I was washing by hand, I'd start with glasses and coffee cups, then dinner plates, and end with a pan, instead of drizzling the grease over everything. And it uses hot water and corrosive chemicals for everything even though the cups don't need it. Then others claim that they make canning jars sanitized by washing them inside a dishwasher. That is after it had the gunk of a hundred dinner plates circulated through it. I've recently heard a video that says you don't need to rinse your items, and that the dishwasher uses barely any water. That sounds like a recipe for it clogging up.

Sims also have an infine supply of dinner plates in the pocket, and will dispose of them into a trashcan if they can't get to a sink.

It's some kind of post scarcity utopia where electricity is free (but somehow the water for handwashing is not).

I like to think that all Sims 2 dishwashers function the same way as this one specific dishwasher, The Dish De-atomizer, or at least in a similar manner:
Regarding real-life dishwashers, I have a feeling I have mastered the science of dishwashing after I watched all of Technology Connections' videos on dishwashers. His nerdiness on the subject is mesmerizing - either to learn more about dishwashers, or to fall asleep at night, or both at the same time!
Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
I messed up. You're using too much detergent.
Your dishwasher is better than you think (tips, tricks, and how they work)
Connextras dishwasher follow up (the sequel)

Also, the outside garbage can never gets full.

With how many times it gets kicked down, I'm not surprised.

My sim is in love with Mr. Big. They was out with friends and one of them started to flirt with another. This make Mr. Big furious and I saw get caught cheating memory above heads. For some reason the other sim was not furious while seeing my sim kissing with Mr. Big. I think this is not normal. Is this some Mr. Big feature?

Do you have ACR? Different Sims can have different jealousy levels.

No I do not have acr. Do you mean that the mod allows different jealousy levels?

Yes. Off the top of my head: No Jealousy, Crush, Love, Steady-Engaged, Married.

That's because the repairperson is always fixing it!

that and the trash compactor are the two most deadly appliances in the pixel land.

I love those Technology Connections dishwasher videos too. It does make sense that you can run it with all different levels of dirtiness in it because it basically has a bunch of tiny pressure washers which remove items from the plates first. What winds me up though is when people insist that rinsing the plates will somehow make the dishwasher unable to clean them. It doesn't make sense!! Yes, it probably will automatically select a less-stringent washing programme - because it can sense that the plates are less dirty and need less cleaning. THE END RESULT IS THE SAME! We can stop arguing about this. Someone else can rinse, I can not rinse, it will all be absolutely fine.

Different levels of dirtyness/not rinsing OTOH won't clog up the machine unless you never ever clean the filters.

The funniest thing in the sims is when they clean up an entire birthday cake just by smashing it in there. Or a turkey - bones and all.

There are filters? Or is that what you clean when you run an empty load with dishwasher cleaner?

I think it's in those videos that he mentions that by having more things on the plate, the molecules in the detergent have more stuff to hang on to, and therefore more detergent winds up on the dishes = more effective at cleaning. That premise is actually partially true to some extent: I usually leave a messy plate, while my boyfriend practically licks it clean (think, leftover ketchup after fries). When left to dry before being put in the wash, my plates always come out clean, while his sometimes still have some reddish tint from leftover ketchup. We have a basic dishwasher model that doesn't auto-choose programs based on how dirty they were, it's either glassware, everyday, or heavy programs (and the European Eco which no one ever uses). Could be a coincidence, the ketchup thing.I recommend watching the video before the Connextras video. (Sorry, just being funny. ) Some dishwashers have filters that you should remove regularly and rinse in the sink, and will have food residue on it. Other models have an active blade in there that truncates the food so there's nothing to clean. I think it has to do with the American kitchen culture - over here in Europe, I've never come across a household that has a 2-in-1 kitchen sink drain and garbage disposal - we just have drains. Likewise, I was surprised to hear about dishwasher models that have a built-in garbage annihilator.

"Today on Mod The Dishwasher"

Yeah, we've never had a garbage disposal either. But, we've also never cleaned filters either.

At least your boyfriend doesn't lick his plate clean and then consider it ready for the next meal like sims do. XD

Things became weirder. My sim invented both to her party for seeing whats is going on. There Mr. Big flirted with the other townie and I saw crush memory above her head. Maybe this is reason why she was not jealous at first. Now she was... There is interesting drama between townies if Mr. Big is jealous for person who have not even crush on him. :D

At this point when I look at the city map of Cascadia that I'm gradually filling in with most of my modern urban constructions, I'm more and more aware of how all of it looks like something *I* made (because all of it is) and how no city is planned out that much by one person... but at the same time, the whole point of Cascadia was to put all *my* urban lots together into a single city and see where that led... I'm not sure what to do with that lol!

What if you needed to cook at the stove to can your harvested fruit instead of them lasting forever in the pocket. And you could get a 'mysterious disease' if there wasn't enough citric acid. Then a random visitor from the garden club, in a police uniform, would come to scold you.

I just finished a batch of applesauce. It makes steam volcanoes that burn like hell if they erupt on your hands because the cooking skill was too low.