What's some sims 2 hidden lore you know about? Maybe something behind the scenes..or even in the game!

Apparently Brandi Broke's first name was originally supposed to be "Bunny", but was deemed to be going too far... for some reason. Do they mean like a Playboy Bunny?

No, not quite....it's very subtle. Think of rabbits.

I thought of that reason as well, still doesn't feel inappropriate all things considered since she currently shares a name with a type of alcohol and likes grape juice.

Bunny also goes very well with the "All-American" sitcomy names and characters the wanted for Pleasantview (Skip, Beau, Darren, Mary-Sue...).

Speaking of Pleasantview, I think the same developer that mentioned the Bunny thing, Jake Simpson, also said the Dreamers were supposed to be a gay couple, the first same-sex couple of The Sims franchise. Seems like the world, or rather EA, was not prepared yet.

Have you ever stopped to think about same-sex or alternative relationships on the franchise?? Give or take some implied relationships, the only explicit ones came with Roaring Heights, the last world for TS3.

And then, we had to wait until "Cats & Dogs" in TS4 (in 2017!) for a same-sex family -which were actually quite publicized on the trailers for the game. Since then, almost every world in TS4's had a non-conventional family.

Come to think of it, the growing acceptance of alternative orientations may be one of the few real-life social changes that have affected The Sims. I can't think of anything else!!!

EA has been ahead of the curve on that particular issue for a very, very long time. Sims 2 was literally the ground breaking one and when EA was challenged by groups to change it, they refused.

Just because EA only lately introduced the idea to Sims 4 does not mean it has not been in the game forever. Sims 4 has literally been the least effort expended in any game and the milking they've done to that iteration is absolutely shameless.
This particular article discusses what happened when Russia tried to influence EA to drop the sexual nature.

https://theconversation.com/trailbl...%20relationship.


2012:


https://www.ea.com/news/ea-celebrates-lgbt-pride-month

Lol imagine a whole story about the murder of "Bunny's" husband

Maybe she's broke because she's an alcohol addict? Might make more sense because wouldn't Brandy be more of an expensive alcoholic drink? I don't know much about alcohol and its prices so I can be wrong

It could be like a joke - oh she's named after an expensive luxurious drink but shes actually a brokeyyyy

IMAGINE the drama they could've made out of Darren Dreamer being gay after his wife died

...and yet "She enjoys grape juice and crumpling tin foil" was completely fine

Not to mention that some have speculated that her bedroom is decorated the way it is, and the reason Beau sleeps in the hallway, is because she *ahem* provides "special services" for others at an adequate price.

There's a lot of speculation about that particular episode-with half of the consensus being was an accident, or someone (wild guesses here count) removed the ladder in an effort to remove him from the scene for whatever reason.

Skip was unemployed and they were pretty deep in debt, Brandi had just become pregnant, and Dustin had to get a job to bring the money in..sounds very suspicious, doesn't it?

Everytime I've resurrected him as a ghost, he's really, really angry about being dead. Like he knows who did it, but he can't do anything about it..

About Sims and homosexuality, this video is pretty long, but contains probably my favorite bit of secret Sims lore: It was a complete accident. They debated a lot and eventually decided that homosexuality was too risky and would upset the conservative audiences, but then it was programmed back into the game and it went back and forth, and then E3 came and The Sims demo was presented. And there were two female sims falling in love in one of the scenes presented, and everybody loved it, so suddenly gay sims were expected and they had to commit to having them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-...HVhbGl0eSBzaW1z

I've never tried that, the plot thickens! That bunny...


I'm very glad that they did!

So are all my numerous gay Sims!