My loner inventor who lives with 2 robots is being roasted. I mean, I'm sorry. What do you mean Theodosius and "Therapist" would get along?
On the other hand, it's kinda hilarious that her only other friend is the therapist. I'm pretty sure that has to be the NPC, because I have no Sim named "Therapist" with a blank last name.

It's a bug - the Therapist is one of the global/object NPCs, and shouldn't be showing in friend requests. Answering yes can potentially cause trouble with the Objects file(s).

Mod to fix it:
http://cyjon.net/node/239

Oh.

Am I screwed if I already said yes?

Check if any of the "Objects.package" files in your install location has a "date changed" that doesn't match up with the rest of the files. If it has the same date, everything should be fine. If it has a changed date, it's possible there could be some issues.

The files are found in the "...TSData\Res\Objects" folder for each pack, in the install location.

You can replace the file(s) if you've got access to a clean version of the install files (if not, reinstall or fix the files via Origin/EAapp/Steam - make sure to backup your savegame files just in case). It should be possible to edit out relationships with the Therapist in SimPE to avoid future issues.

Thanks for the tips. Did a check both on the files and with SimPE and the files are untouched, plus he has no relation to Theodosius so I assume I either said no or quit without saving, phew.

Just in case, I recommend this video by April, on which NPCs are actually safe/not safe, and all the potential bugs and issues they cause and/or come with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1qJLry_MWY

Logan, son of the wealthy Lafiyas family who owns 12% of the town (the rastricks their rivals own 10%), got married, had five daughters three of whom are grown and married __ (one daughter married a Rastrick 😱. As a only and eldest son of 3, Logan wishes for a boy
this hood requires population control because it’s getting to its tipping point…however i let them have one more child…They had another girl. He has one grandson from his daughter Nari who had a premature death at 20, now his son in law Rylan keeps the baby away from him as he has married someone else and with whom he just had a baby. Will Logan ever have a male heir or see his only grandson again?

So, something kinda awkward happened. I made a new family for my neighborhood. I moved said family into an old lot where there was a small graveyard of the previous owners of the lot. Which does pose a challenge, dealing with ghost (kinda cute that one of said ghost is happy his old bed still remains). Anyhow, today the kid came home from school with a friend... thing is, the kid was part of the old family but was taken away by social services due to neglect. So now he's back on the lot where his parents are buried... awkward.

That is a very good example of the surprises Sims 2 keeps coming up with!

Not directly in the game, but I'm still working on trying to get all the screenshots of my 2006 game installation together and organize them so I can make a thread here about it...

Unfortunately because of medical stuff I can't really take the old brick with me (it's at my parents' home and I currently have a weight lifting restriction of 1 kg, because of a surgery I had 2 weeks ago, and the damn brick weighs that for sure!), so I'm trying to finally get it done over the weekend before I go back home.

I recently encountered a bug that I had never seen before. A family was about to move out of their apartment and into a house, so I stash their furniture into their inventories to save time on selecting it when they move in. I've done this kind of thing before without much issue, but this time after I placed all the furniture in their new house, about every 5 seconds all the sims would error and reset. Thankfully I hadn't saved, so I exited and reloaded a couple times, 1st time doing the same thing, and the next I sold all the old furniture and bought new stuff. Predictably the 1st time yielded the same result, but the 2nd everything was fine. I used boolprop to see what the errors were, but it went over my head.

I decided to reboot my Strangetown. I wanted to play it a bit differently to try to keep the families from getting so intertwined right away. I am also now aware of an issue with the template I am using where the Curious children are not correctly linked as family, so I can fix that from the start and prevent any unintended romances from developing as in my old Strangetown.

I've always thought Strangetown should have a proper military base, so I decided to add one as a subhood. I used HugeLunatic's Black Mesa map, which fits the overall look of Strangetown but has a handy grid for laying out the buildings and houses of the base. To prevent interbreeding, I moved in every townie as a playable, and I'm also playing all the La Fiesta Tech students, so there are quite a few families. However, I really like playing each Sim and creating their role in the military base community.

After Tank went to college and Ripp was kicked out of the house for not getting good grades, thus missing university, Buzz and Buck moved up to the military base proper. Tank moved back in with his father after graduating university and married Barbara Young, a former townie. Ripp stayed in Johnny's bedroom at the Smiths' for a while, since Johnny was also away at college, but it wasn't long before he met and fell in love with Chloe Curious. They moved in together, had a child, and are now married. Meanwhile, Buzz started seeing Lola Curious on the sly and eventually lured her away from her fiance, a townie named Gary Walton. She moved in with him, but Buzz does not intend to marry her. She did get pregnant eventually. So now PT#9 has two grandchildren who are half Grunt, one the son of his former enemy. To tangle things even further, Buck is now at university with Jill, and they are seeing each other. However, I have spotted Buzz and PT playing chess together on community lots so I think they are mending fences now that they are technically family.

The current mayor of Strangetown is Trista Vu. She is a townie formerly named Trista Shaw. There were two Trista Shaw townies, a blonde and a redhead--she is the blond. When I started, I made her Crystal Vu's sister and they lived together. They each had a daughter, formerly townie children: Vicky and Kana. Crystal has since moved out to pursue a disastrous marriage, and the girls have gone to university. Trista was already in the Politics career with quite a lot of skills, and since she spends all her time networking, it's no surprise she was elected mayor. However, she is a very unconventional person who has entered into a plural marriage situation with three other Sims: Edward Fuchs (former townie teen), Blossom Moonbeam, and Aldric Davis (both LFT grads).

General Buzz, whose LTW is to be mayor, was unhappy with Trista being the leader of Strangetown, so he resigned from the military and entered politics as a Senator. He stands a good chance of beating Trista in the next election, despite having a campaign that seems to be based mainly on stealing newspapers out of his neighbors' hands. I'm not sure what will happen to Trista if she loses the election, but I'm quite certain one of Buzz's first acts will be to make plural marriage illegal. Of course he is quite the hypocrite, not being married himself but having a child born out of wedlock and also carrying on quite a few affairs around town, but I don't think hypocrisy ever slowed Buzz down.

In other news, Loki Beaker got himself turned into a werewolf, and being able to skill all night has really advanced him along the path of becoming a mad scientist. I also moved in the Strangetown Bella Goth. She is a mysterious, very wealthy businesswoman with an unknown past who lives in the nicest house in town and has had a string of lovers. Men seem to become bewitched by her and are unable to help falling in love with her. But she accidentally got pregnant by the mailman and now has twin daughters, who are named Cassidy and Alexa. Cassidy grew up into pigtails on her own accord. Because I aged her a bit, Bella is now almost an elder, and still no one knows who she really is or where she came from.

So...I got done taking some screenshots and trying to piece together information about the backstory and families in my old 2006 game.

I'm planning on making a post or even a thread about it tomorrow (as it's already close to 10 p.m. here and I'm tired, lol), but I'm not sure where to post it exactly in the forums here?
If anyone has an idea let me know, otherwise I'll try to figure it out myself.

Anyway, it was actually really fun exploring the old game, apparently it has a lot less CC in it than I thought/remembered, but the oldest CC files in its folder date all the way back to early/mid 2005 as far as I saw!
And I seemed to have played on the old brick from 2006 to some time in 2012/13, it also has all the expansion packs installed. Some of the discs are definitely well used, especially Pets and M&G, since I use M&G to play of course I could only really "test" that one, but at least the M&G disc still works just fine.
I should make personal backups of all the discs though, since they eventually will kick the bucket for good.

Beds can cause problems if you take them to new homes, it seems to glitch the ownership. Perhaps someone who knows the technical reasons for this could clarify!

I figured something like that. The errors used the words "missing, tree, and parameter" so my assumption was something related to furniture ownership.

Speaking of bed ownership, selling a bed through inventory circumvents angry ghosts, right?

You could post it in the Social Groups section maybe. Some other people have threads about their 'hoods there.

These stories came from last year, July 2025. Not recent events, but it is not healthy playing the game everyday, so...

The Pleasant and Burb families opened their family school, where most of their young can spend their days (and nights) socializing with themselves and not the faceless mass (the latter is preferable, but the families must stick together...), and learning actual skills and badges (of varying usefulness). Clearly, their vast influence amidst education ever since Lilith and Lucy reached the top of their careers had finally ripened, and it was up to me to inflict cruelty on myself caring for 18 children!

Even as I planned to run the kids in 3 batches of 7-8 kids each, and having the older ones studying only for 8 days instead of a rotation's standard 15, the school proved to be a serious challenge, especially with autonomy off. Couldn't let them run wild, especially not for a household with clear objectives.

Mapping out a schedule was more difficult than I thought, in due part to their uneven activeness. Regardless, I got them to regularly wake up at around 4-6, have breakfasts thereafter, and then complete 2 school works a day after 8, when my Flexi School updates their grades. After most lunches came the classes proper, where random elders would be invited (i.e. abducted, the likes of Susan and Elisabeth would be far too eager) to teach a skill or badge per session, running from 13-18. Only after dinner when they would have any free time left, so the lazy kids better gave their best whines or they would lag behind!

Not every kid attended class, whether they were not fit, interested or had already mastered the skill or badge, and thus allowed to learn something else on their own, or as the families saying goes: "work hard and have fun at work!"

Building up relationships were also challenging - class chat back then was still the unreliable "Chaotic Chattery". Meanwhile, chess, basketball and fishing proved far superior as they got to build both skills and STRs at the same time. Getting to know the teachers was fine enough, and individuals chatting with them was a good way for a daily sendoff.

The last days of the 2 latter batches saw a graduation celebration, when the kids rounded together for a dance and a dinner one last time before they would have to return to their respective homes. Some grew to lead, some grew to lax, and others filled in the gap with balanced responsibilities, but all formed bonds that united the families together... Well, too united, given how, erm, the 2nd cousins regard each other... But regardless, such joy in their youths would only make it all sweeter when the time comes for them to graduation from university.

If anyone is interested in seeing a lot of pictures and some updates from my Strangetown reboot, feel free to visit my thread in the social groups here: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=695910. I've recently caught up with my postings. About half of my families are finished with summer--i.e., the first year of the hood.

After a day of much crashing and trying to get my game back into working order, I realized that I'm a dumbass.
I recently replaced the Sims2EP9.exe after the old one was corrupted for some reason and forgot to run the 4 GB patch on it.
Yeeeah, no surprise that the game decided to boot me out.

Back in April 2025, when my first custom vacation hood was up and running, I became more hooked to vacationing and so it was only appropriate that I made another one for my Sims to enjoy later in July. Isla Hannavah, a clear-cut reference to the Tropico city builder game, dense urban in feel and fully furnished with all amenities everybody would miss in a lush jungle.







In the end, Susan has set herself another task to accomplish before her final day, to go on her 3rd and final vacation before seeing her grandkids, and grandnieces, off to university. For me, peak Sims 2 is all about the coming of age, from kids becoming teens, teens enrolling, and adults in their final days. Vacationing is but a great way to make those memories of passing time all the grander.

I've been busy working on a new mod, so not been in game for 'playing' reasons a whole lot. But I will be releasing project underhaul (my nickname for it....) publicly at some point .

I've also been splitting time between SimCity 4 and Sims 2 lately.

It appears that sim city mayor has permitted this freakin' monstrosity to be build smack in the middle of a nice cozy part of town! I mean, look at it!

I'll be having words with the mayor, that's for sure! Hopefully we can get it demolished before it's finished!

Oh, and in other news, a dog has been caught peeing on a skunk, answering the age old question "Why do skunks always stink?".

Now that's just libel against a building. I see nothing wrong with it, at least.