What is Service Area?

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Chloe Curious is pregnant with Buzz Grunt's baby.
I had nothing to do with it, apart from allowing unmarried TFB on ACR.
My jaw is still on the floor.

For some reason, Chloe and Buzz are naturally crazy for each other. I guess he secretly loves aliens and she secretly loves buzz cut hair...or something.

I've tried to keep them apart before, but they're 3 bolters naturally. It's difficult.

Oh yeah, he was one of the people to welcome the Singles when I moved them in, and he immediately started to hit on her. I refuse to believe that the devs didn't do this deliberately.
PT9 currently wants a grandkid, he's going to be so conflicted that his first one will be fathered by his mortal enemy.

Mr Silke is a bit of a mess after getting himself electrocuted. I have no idea what he was doing since his wife was giving birth to twins in the orchard at the same time.

Mr Silke now wants to gain a mechanical skill point.

I've had a series of alien abductions in my neighbourhood. Evidently one of the PTs in my multi-PT set is much more fertile than the others so I have a large number of half-alien siblings. This is going to complicate things when they start dating.

Making the full Brooks family, so I can play around with them for Christmas photos (not that I've run out of ideas for the main family, but I really do want a bunch of family portraits, and I finally had some inspiration - Apart from a few, they've mostly been living inside my head, so best get them out while I'm in the mood to poke at them XD )

And also getting ideas. A couple (yep) kind of appeared out of the blue, so now I finally have an idea for something I was wondering what to do about (mainly a scene or two). Sometimes story gets made along the way

I'm currently working on my super uberhood (all Maxis neighborhoods + the recreated Sims Stories neighborhood by the Hood Building Group) and am done with my first week in all the Maxis neighorhoods and have now added Four Corners. I actually didn't read up on the Life Stories plot before I started, so my story and characters changed quite a bit.
Riley Harlow, the protagonist, received 100.000 Simoleons next to the house from her aunt Sharon to set her up for life. Sharon Foss is part of the upper class which mainly consists of the Goths, Montys, Capps, DeBateaus and Nigmos-Specters. So moving in these circles, Sharon met Antonio Monti who she fell for and now has a child with, Bernadette Foss. Meanwhile Riley had the life time wish of climbing the medical career track (in canon she works in entertainment which I didn't know at the time of playing) and one day brought home Kent Capp. They quickly fell for one another and just got married. My happy little accident of not looking deeper into the Life Stories plot before playing has now lead to further possible conflict as Riley and her aunt and cousin will be on opposing sides. Will they get dragged into it or can they keep their good relationship with one another? I don't know.

I found I had one of those "gap walls" due to the roof being against it. (Where in neighbourhood view it appears the wall is missing). So, I decided to fix it, when I placed the new roof it did this:


Ooops.

Also ignore the fat house, I'll fix that another time it was a rush build to fit a family of 8.

Also, my latest build is showing up my other builds in neighbourhood view, I mean:


It stands out pretty badly.

But, I think I'm getting the hang of building all my own lots. (No pre-made lots, or sims!):


It looks okay in my opinion! And makes the others look crap, so I'll end up rebuilding them.

Anyhow, in the hood itself we're now onto Generation 2 having their children. They grow up so fast! I have to keep building to keep up with them.

oopsie daisy Don .. ya'll shoulda went indoors
Don had a want to go on a date.. so I had him call up Nina .. she'd barely arrived and they were havin a pillow fight when who comes strollin along .... hahahahaha ...

Mess with my man will ya! (This was the 2nd time she did this in 1 day)

Due to a (not serious) knee injury requiring meds, I was falling asleep while playing today. Coffee seemed a good idea, so I made some, then walked (or hopped) around a bit, then drank more coffee, then went back to playing.

Where I found all 5 of the Appleby family members passed out, hungry, dirty, in various stages of aspiration failure. And I almost saved the game before I quit too - but, fortunately, I remembered not to save (thank you, Coffee).

Which was a signal that I had to go to bed and read a book until tomorrow or the day after.

Oh dear @Justpetro That was a lucky escape for your sims! I hope your knee feels better soon!

with Cass bein furious with Don I thought it'd do her some good to go meet some other people so I sent her downtown .. had her take Alexander as thought would be a good outing for him too .. one of the 1st people that show up is Benjamin Long .. so I have her go over greet him and start talkin.. while they're talkin I switch over to Alex to see what he's up to .. and then I see a pop up .. Benjamin tells Cass that he knows someone who she'd be perfect with yes or no .. I go with yes .. I mean that's why she's on the outin right

*plonk* Dorian Kaulker (or however his name is spelled), the policeman falls at her feet .. the two do the usual things on a date (since that is what happens when ya agree to be in set up) .. the date is a roarin success .. Cass and Alex are both exhausted so I end the date and send her home and then send them both to bed ... while they're sleepin Dorian comes pops by ..

Me thinks Dorian is tryin a bit to hard to impress Cass .. you sure you can afford that on a cops salary Dorian? .... lol

woooahh a min there Cass .. are you thinkin of givin him a second chance? .. or maybe she wants to see if he's really all that and compare him to Dorian .. I do hope she's usin protection .. poor girl .. she walked by so I had Don go out and greet her.. my intention was to have him apologize .. I didn't get the chance .. seems Cass had other ideas .. as you can see SHE's the one initiatin this not him

Don't do it Cassandra! Stick with the nice policeman (what is that thing coming out of the policeman's butt in that picture)!

Who is the second blonde haired woman that Don has on his list of conquests?

It's the bag he pulled that giant TV from ... lol and the woman is townie Jan Tellerman (who is also romance so she's an easy conquest)

The "BIG" question here is how did you get the plants to stack on top of each other???

that was actually an accident and I didn't realize it was like that till I saw the pic .. as well as it was missin a sidewalk tile .. but to answer the question.. it was done with moveobjects on .. since the house is on a foundation it gives that extra top area

Talking of strange things, I installed a clouds / sky mod. This made me look to the sky, that's when I saw it...

First two moons, and now this. What the heck, they were just stargazing.

Kennedy Cox is checkin out his hands or readin an invisible book ..
Brandi is givin young Lucy some money tips or is she askin to borrow some ...
and I'm not really sure what Nina's up to .. bein nosey and wonderin what the Burbs have 😛

Platinum Ubermum Vicki Morgan took her youngest two to the park so they could get some air.

Spontaneously, a random killer jazz band filled the stage. Downtownie Cable Match (the cool old black dude with a blue suit) on guitar, LFT alum Jasmin Rai (in her Ramones phase) on drumz, elder superheroine Tosha (Go) Constantine on bass, and local alien/elf sex fiend Nebula Zone on keys.

They all have high CRE so they were really really good. But the kids wanted to go ice skating instead, so Vicki had to book. Too bad for me!

(I took a pix, but it sucked. Oh, the travails of the live music experience!)

What program do you use for picture taking? The in game camera isn't always the best option. I know there are a couple of programs that help take good in game pics, but the one I use is Fraps. It is free, however the pics are saved as bmp and need another program to make them jpg or png. I did buy it as I use it often enough that to me it was worth the $37 .. but I get not everyone can (or want) to do that