I love how it pretends that obvious rectangles are squares.

I would quit lol.

*internal screaming intensifies* These are terrible and I love them so much!!

You know, I've been looking for ways to challenge myself as a builder. I think this is it, chief.

Selling the First Simolean Award gives you $5, lol.

Customers who get struck by lightning lose stars.

"Thats a bad service!! I want to complain your manager about this struck!!"

Lightning strikes are an Act of God. My boot in your ass as I kick you out the door won't be!

The frame was on clearance.

Instant Inviter can summon repomen and burglars to owned community lots. They can both take items that are marked for sale. Also, customers will panic at the sight of the burglar.

The second-from-left lady looks like she's just walked in on someone doing it in the AL closet

Never noticed this animation before: crying with laughter from watching other sims bowl.

That's an interesting feature. I've never noticed it either, it seems like NightLife added many new animations to already existing ones. For example the special "bad" dancing animations were added in NL.

If you make all the guests selectable before the end of then party, when the party ends, no one leaves. Then you make them unselectable and they're just visitors, so they won't leave until you say goodbye. Realized this by accident because I had the party guests selected for an unrelated reason. But very helpful in apartments so you're not getting hourly noise complaints from the neighbors.

"It's not a party anymore, I just have 14 house guests!" -Sims Logic

TIL that if you install a lot while in-game, the file will sit in the Teleport folder until you load to a neighbourhood. Swiitching subhoods works!

Hm, don't all installed lots first go to Teleport, and then once the game loads (now we know it's the neighborhood that loads), the files get teleported to Downloads?

I don't often install lots, but it would probably never occur to me to install them while the game is running. Old habits die hard

The lots get teleported to the LotCatalog folder.

Very grouchy sims argue much more emphatically, and I already knew this, but they enjoy arguing too - most sims, during the chat interaction, choose to bring up topics they are interested in and the other person will either respond enthusiastically, neutrally, or negatively. Grouchy sims bring up topics they dislike, complain about them, and if their chat partner also dislikes this topic, they start complaining about it too and the grouchy sim laughs and the interaction is positive.

When they play Punch U Punch Me they punch the other sim really hard in the arm as well and the other sim gets annoyed XD I actually knew this too but noticed it again recently after playing a sim with 0 nice points.

But the one which was totally new to me is that when very grouchy sims practice a speech in the mirror, their speech is not so much a speech as it is a total rant

Not exactly something I discovered WHILE playing The Sims, but I did just discover that you can replace/change desktop icons, so I've been making my own replacements for all of the icons on my desktop so they'll match. My Sims ones turned out so cute

More something I found while browsing sims stuff rather than while playing.

Lots of people complain about the Sims 2 nannies, but at least you can't get this!

Hiring a nanny in The Sims 4 is a binary choice, with the game not allowing players to decide who exactly will take care of their kids.

One player recently experienced an unusual downside to this mechanic after the nanny they hired turned out to be their ex-partner and their baby's estranged father, much to their displeasure.

Although, admittedly it would make a nice story hook, with the estranged dad trying to make it up to his kid.

Given that it's TS4, I expect the single parent to have gained the "Happy" (or a similar inappropriate) moodlet - Ah, it's nice and comforting knowing my child is in good hands while I'm off running errands! This makes me inexplicably happy, I hope I don't simply die how happy I feel from this!

Isn't that the plot of Mrs. Doubtfire?

On the subject of nannies, I came to tell you that I discovered last night, that a nanny can start a fire while baking and they will do absolutely nothing helpful about it. They don't call the fire brigade, they don't try to put it out. They just stand there panicking. I had to make the child call the fire brigade. Luckily she was old enough to reach the phone!

Some beds in the preset Uni dorms have their texture bugged .
But the thing I noticed is that they don't get fixed to normal by just opening the design tool and closing it. The design tool shows that the bed has no swatch selected for the frame, and reloading the lot also doesn't fix it. You have to select a swatch for the frame via the design tool to fix it. I didn't try forcing an error on it but I doubt that would fix it. Normally this bug occurs when a sim gets reset while on a bed, and you can easily solve it by opening the design tool and closing it or reloading the lot. When it normally occurs it also has a swatch whereas this one doesn't at all?
I know there is a mod fix for it, just thought it was a little interesting.



On the topic of dormitories, on the same lot the radio was playing college rock when it wasn't even turned on. When a Sim did, it started playing salsa music, the starting station.

Mod, just in case someone else experiences the same issues (here).

(Getting a new bed would probably also be a solution)

It's weird, though. The bed bug was probably somehow triggered while the lot was built, or when it was first visited.

Yep, of course. Only an individual bed can be bugged, not the actual object.
I'm curious to know what EAxis did when making this lot. It's bugged, but even the bug is wrong. I just moved some Sims first time in this lot and saw it, so I don't know whether it already existed. If anyone's curious, the lot was the Lam Plaza Dormitory at Academie Le Tour.

I've seen that in multiple university dorms. You're right that it occurs there more than it does in other bed related situations, because I definitely noticed the bug in uni first - probably because it's so clear with that specific bed - and then I realised that it was happening to other beds after installing Apartment Life.

It is probably just that it was one of the earlier lots they built. University being the first EP has a lot of weird duplication like that, like a lot of the premades have hidden copies of their hairstyle or clothing rather than the version in the catalog.