The family of alien and human is growing. Now they have a little baby girl, a sister of two big brother, and the oldest son is teenanger now. (They grow up so fast!) Father Teqeq has quit him job as test subjects and works on medical career now and this is clerly right career for him. Mother Tea-Riina is still soldier but now she is on maternity leave.

I was playing the Jones family in Riverview, when Kirsten Remington came out to haunt. For most of the night, Kirsten was pretty quiet, minding her own business like a good little ghost. But around 6 a.m., Hannah Jones woke up and got something in queue from Kirsten- "listen to request?" Turns out Kirsten was asking her cousin for a bedtime story, before she'd go back into the grave- but I wasn't able to get the book in time, and Kirsten went back to her grave.

Y'all, I was actually crying! Dead kids already make me really sad (so sad that Kirsten ended up dying so long before her time,) but this just BROKE me. I caved. Hannah just barely had enough Lifetime reward points for a genie lamp, and Kirsten got to come back to life.

Not sure if I've ever shared what's happening in my ts3 games before but I'm actually mindblown so I think I have to.

Since April I've been playing a couple I made, named Tyler and Kaylee Lémieux, and they were both in the film career (different branches) and 5-star celebrities living in Bridgeport. Over time they had two kids, a girl named Rowan and a boy named Axel. They also had 3 cats - Remy, Majora and Henry. When Rowan was a teen she started dating a boy named Keith, one of two sons between Moxie Logan and Romeo Rake. Their other son, Keith's brother, is named Ricardo. I couldn't find anyone for Axel to date because my game plan was when Tyler and Kaylee reached level 10 that the whole family would relocate to Sunlit Tides and leave the spotlight so to speak, and I didn't want to bring half of Bridgeport and there were no eligible women for Axel that weren't related to like 50 other sims.
So finally the time came to move to Sunlit Tides so I nraas porter'd the family + Keith's family + the graves of Remy, Majora and Henry + Devin Ashton and Ace Wilde (and Ace's cat) because they were Tyler and Kaylee's besties the whole time. The first thing to happen was Tyler adopted two new cats, named Sassie and Alex (not to be confused with human, Axel, idk why I didn't change the cat's name). Tyler and Kaylee were elders now, and Rowan and Axel both young adults. At some point Axel met Mary-Sue Pleasant who via nraas story progression had divorced Daniel Pleasant and I thought it'd be kind of fun as a lifelong ts2 lover to play like alternate reality young Mary-Sue so her and Axel started dating.

Fast forward to where I am right now, Rowan and Keith have two kids named Enzo and Ricarda (named after Keith's brother Ricardo). They all still live at home because I'm waiting to chuck them out into the world until after Tyler and Kaylee die, and Axel will keep the house. Axel got abducted by aliens and I kept the baby, a boy named Amaris. And then since Axel's a redhead I gave both him and Mary-Sue fertility treatment to try and get alternate reality Angela and Lilith but they ended up having QUADRUPLETS I've only had that happen one time before and that time it was on purpose so I really was unprepared for 4 whole new babies. 2 each, I've named them Aurora, Lloyd, Maylis and Yoshi. The next world I intend to move to when the quads (and Amaris) are young adults is Aurora Skies so naming one of them Aurora seemed fun.

Anyway, this is what I'm working with right now. The house has 4 bedrooms already so right now all 7 kids are crammed in the "crib room", which works while they're toddlers and babies but if Enzo ages up to a child I don't know where I'm gonna put him. I hate to say that I'm looking forward to Tyler and Kaylee passing, another 5-10 sim days I think. They each want 10 grandkids and I've locked it in for them just in case and Rowan and Keith maaaaybe could but I really can't see Axel and Mary-Sue having any more at this point.



Love this for me. Should I have quit without saving? Maybe. But I love making things hard for myself.

Apart from brief visits I've never really explored Oasis Landing. So, eager to fill this gap in my simming experience I decided to send one of my sims on a mission to uncover it's secrets. But which of my regulars would I send?

Pussy Willow drew the short straw...



She shares my views on Oasis Landing fashions, but I thought I'd give her something appropriate to wear. She favours the 'superhero' look. She's now thinking of changing her name to 'Astrocat' (the Pussy Cat from Outer Spaaaace!).

Anyhow, since she's already a musician (a virtuoso, no less) we decided that she would become expert with the Lazer Thingummy, and get a hero statue in Legacy Park (I'm curious to know if it will have a tail), But her endeavours are not being helped by 'Captain Underpants' there, who insisted on bashing out disharmonious noise on that guitar. It is obviously the first time he has ever picked one up, and I am sure he's only doing it to be annoying. His name is Colby Delafield, and he has been a regular pain in the bum since Pussy arrived. She had hardly finished getting the introductory spiel from Emit Revelart when this Colby character launched an entirely unprovoked attack on her. Pussy lost the fight, and a re-match: well she's an artiste, not a fighter.

He is evidently not a cat person. Well, I ain't particularly a Colby person mister, I'm gonna get you for that!

Pussy also volunteered to help Revelart with his research. He immediately sent her off to meet her descendants...



And this is what she was confronted with. Oh, my dear Pussy! I am so dreadfully sorry about this!

And it turns out they're Landgraabs, of all people. Her name is Jeanette, a teen, and the old geezer on the sun lounger is Nikolas, presumably her grandfather. If ever there was a time to consider meddling with the time line, this is it. But how? Aside from being a talented musician, Pussy is also Flirty and irresistible, so expecting her to remain celibate for the rest of her life is probably asking too much.



Back in Sunset Valley, Emit came through the portal and checked out everything in Pussy's house, including the decomposing Goopy Carbonara she'd left on the table. Primitive times, Emit! And, whilst he was about it, tourists started coming through the portal in rapid succession. I lost count, but there are now at least three Plumbots wandering around town. Sunset Valley will never be the same again!

Well, you must admit that looking out of your window in the morning and seeing a robot playing a bull fiddle on your lawn is a trifle out of the common.

Do you have any expansions/item mall stuff with bunk beds and lofts (Generations, Supernatural, University, and Into the Future have them)? Here are two 1-tile wide cribs: Little Sister and Owl Nursery (baby crib) . You should be able to fit a loft bed over a one tile crib and you could also put the 1 tile cribs side by side to save room. You might be able to put a loft over a regular crib but I haven't had a house with that many toddlers and babies before. When do the adults sleep?

There was also a mod that allows people to sleep on couches (rather than just nap) but I can't find it at the moment.

This totally stressed me out but Sweetdevil just released some smaller cribs as well https://sweetdevil-sims.tumblr.com/...This%20time%20I

A dance club in São Paten

Aside from story telling and keeping up with my regular families, much of my regular simming lately has been exploring 'unknown regions', that's to say things I have never done before. And you may be surprised to hear that I've never played Sunset Valley with ageing turned on. So, what the future holds for all the residents of that esteemed neighbourhood is a mystery. So I want to play there for a couple of generations, or maybe more, and see how things play out. Who will marry who? What will their children be like? What will the future hold for them?

So, once again, I have chosen one of my 'A team' of long serving sims for this special assignment. And this time the lot fell to my loveable little imp, Bridget...



Here she is, just leaving a party at the Langerak's. And, if you compare her with that letter box, you will notice that she is, shall we say, of rather 'modest' stature. She is named, as you might guess, after a certain song sung by Ray Stevens. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6RKKY-1J-w)

I don't think I have posted much about her before, but she is one of my 'veterans', although previously she has always been a teen. This is adult Bridget, although she is exactly the same height as her teen version, thanks to the judicious use of height and leg sliders. She is a good head and a half shorter that a normal sim adult. I couldn't make her any smaller than that, otherwise she'd not be able to sit in chairs properly. As it is, her bum sinks rather comfortably into the upholstery...



I've got Bridget busy working on the Jack of All Trades LTW, which should keep her busy for a while, but really she's there to observe. She'll befriend sims - indeed she will have to, if she wants to improve her celebrity standing - but that's it. If she becomes romantically involved it will not be with any of the existing SV residents. Which is hard lines on Christopher Steel, who has already been smitten by her charms, poor chap. I can't say I blame him though, she is rather adorable.

Oh, and she'll be there for the long haul: thanks to Buzzler's Ageing Manager every sim in the game will live out their lives, grow old and die, but Bridget will still be around to see their grand children grow up.

EDIT: Buzzler's mod does not seem to work like it used to: ageing remains suspended for a few hours and then she goes back to ageing. Some conflict with another mod maybe, although nothing shows up in Dashboard. Well, thanks to a little help from Igazor over at Nraas, I was able to make her ageless using Nraas Story Progression.

I am in love with the buried alive/human statue-ghost overlay. Made a brand new ghost/witch sim to play around with in my favorite town. My headcanon for him is that he died in a building collapse during an earthquake. Second pic is him with the overlay off, he's cute without them but somehow he looks even cuter with the ghost visuals on.

I know I said Bridget was only there to observe, and that I would let things play out as they would. But when I discovered that Mortimer Goth and Sandi French had become an item, I had to intervene. Whatever else happens in this save, that ain't gonna! (Sorry Sandi). So I reloaded an earlier save and began to ponder ways I could have Bridget play 'Cupid's little assistant' and help bring Bella and Morty together.

Well I needn't have bothered, since I had just got off the phone with Mortimer (who I'd only encountered briefly, when he was still a kid) when this message came up...



Thank you game!

BTW, here is teenaged Bella, on her first day of High School...



I had to give her that hair. I've been keeping it on stand by for ages, just for her. Finally she gets to use it.

First time I got this stretching glitch. Made me laugh for a solid minute.

I'm currently engaged in a purge of celebrities in Sunset Valley. There weren't any at first, so I created one or two for Bridget to interact with. But now it has become a plague! Celebrititis has swept the land and there is hardly an adult sim in town who isn't a level 1 celeb or higher. So I'm using Master Controller to purge them by career: musicians, professional athletes, show people, authors, artists and chefs, might reasonably become celebs. But Gobias Kofi (now retired) may have been a leading light in the field of fertiliser analysis, but it hardly placed him in the public eye (the public nose perhaps). And there are a lot of others like that, including teens. Sanity must be restored! I mean, what's the point of being a celeb if everybody else is?

EDIT: I was forgetting politicians. Regrettably they get to be celebrities too.

EDIT 2: I'm an idiot! I ought to have remembered to un-check celebrities in Options, otherwise I'd just be wasting my time. The game would just go on making more celebs as fast as I could get rid of them. Well, it's un-checked now, so we'll start again.

Playing a big family in Monarch Bay, a custom world.


Lane and Jillian, newlyweds. Jillian's pregnant.


Amanda, the mother of Lane, the groom. She had him in the beginning of the YA lifestage after she got married.


Melissa helping with the toddlers.



Danielle going to bed after playing with her younger siblings.



Just some sims in the family tree. Most families in Monarch Bay are related after a few gens, LOL.

I'm happy to announce that Mortimer and Bella got hitched, without any further assistance from me...



Although I have to confess this isn't how they originally looked. As soon as they aged up from teens, I took them into CAS and changed them for these versions, both by Nemiga (available on MTS). So its sort of appropriate they chose to get married in the salon, right next to the makeover station. Let's imagine they both decided to get spruced up before tying the knot.

20 years have passed since I registered. I can't believe so much time has passed.

30th November 2004. When I joined in I was 14, a secondary school student who had just bought the Sims 2 and was looking for some mods. I would go to school, have good grades and a circle of friends who shared my interests. Despite being bullied extensively in primary school for being sensitive, somehow I coped by becoming a good student who would focus on studying to make his parents proud rather than making new friends at school. The Sims 2 was a safe space for me.


30th November 2014. 10 year later, when I was 24, I graduated from uni having earned my BA degree and having enrolled at uni again, this time working towards my MA degree. Being a young adult I knew exactly what I wanted to do in life. Despite being treated like garbage at uni by stupid people who despised anyone who's different, I managed to get over it and focused on moving on and working hard to earn my MA degree.


30th November 2024. Now I'm a 34 year-old adult. I've got my own apartment, a job and a handful of trusted friends whom I can trust. I learned a lot from the mistakes I made when I was younger. I knew what a pain in the ass I used to be and now I know it was because of my inability to cope with constant bullying and loneliness caused by my sensitivity and shyness. Having been left alone in the world and having no one to turn to, I became a troll myself because I didn't know how to deal with my emotional baggage and subconsciously I began behaving like the people who hurt me so much in my younger years and hurt those (including many of you), who didn't deserve it. I'm so sorry for that and I hope those of you who at any time felt offended will forgive me.

Does anybody else have problems with unplayed vampires just... dying of thirst sometimes? It's happened to me twice, both times at parties- first time it was Beau Merrick, the host, which kinda sucked because I was planning of having my vampire gold digger date him at some point. The second time it was Francisca Vanderburg, who died at her nephew's campaign fundraiser. To make things even worse, her brother scolded her for being impolite for trying to get plasma juice out of the fridge! Somehow, the party was still considered "great", despite one of the guests having melted into a pile of ashes in the kitchen...

I mean, I don't mind it since it's funny in a schaudenfreude kind of a way, but I'm just wondering, since I haven't heard this kind of thing happening to other people...

Could be a vampire mod that you have?

Definitely not a mod, I keep my game VERY lightly modded. I'm like, 99% sure that it's because they're not smart enough to stay out of the sun, which causes their thirst to go down super fast. It's just a funny little thing that I wonder if anyone else deals with- since usually, as the joke goes, it's sims keeling over from old age at parties, but I've had more thirst deaths than old age deaths at parties.

Reason I said mod, is that I still remembber WAAAAAAAAY back when I got TS3. Vampires often passed out from being out during daylight, but I can't recall any just dying.

Inactive sims do not manage their needs very coherently.
Mods like NRaas StoryProgression protect them from these standing around waiting to starve type deaths, which vampires make particularly bad autonomous decisions about. From your lightly-modded description, my guess would be that if you don't have SP what you're seeing could be the vanilla behaviour.

As SP is in such common use, that might explain why the issue isn't very prevalent for other players.

So, I'm back to playing TS3. Finally. Started a new legacy, but wanted to move one of the offspring to St. Claire. The world file I have isn't populated, so I used rapid emigration with NRAAS. Except I kinda maybe messed up on the pressure and household options. Mistakes were made, and the game ground to a halt.



At least the game didn't crash!

Looks like the Wegovy commercial.

I've had quite an emotional experience. I've had an ISB first generation with River Tam. She had a husband and two sons. She does not get along with the older one and divorced her husband fairly early and he moved out with the sons.
She spent most of her time with her horses, dogs and cats. I gave her the age freeze portion (something I never do, when my sims die, they die, I don't usually interfere), because I wanted her horse to finish one of the jumping challenges with her. The plan was to do that, have a birthday party and then have her die. She invited friends and family (even the ones she hates) and now I'm looking at her son, the one she likes, and I don't want to leave the horse and dog with him. He has no interest in animals. The days leading up to the birthday/deathday party were quite emotional for me. She made sure her animals will be fine even if the heir doesn't much care for them. I kept thinking about what a privilege it would be to decide what day you would die, so you can prepare everyone and make sure they are all ok when you're gone.

I feel like I want to wait until the animals are dead and then just not continue the legacy. I've never felt that before.

Im currently playing my own version of Test of Time using Stripe of Dooms conversion, but I included several challenges and merged them. BACC and Nothing is Free. Some randomness is included as well.

Basically, I start out with 5 couples of different ethnicities and have them build an empty neighborhood from scratch unlocking new families, lots and careers but every 3-4 generations represent a different era.

Currently Im in Year 25. In real life years, its 125 years. (1 Sim day = 5 real life year, but they are ages are 1 Day = 1 year).

This is year 275 BA and Im playing a semi realistic stone age (cant use much CC due to laptop spects so I mostly use whats available and I dont fully build the lots based on era. The families kind of looks like they lives on an island instead of caves). When I reach 4 generation, its 80 sim day and I can start moprhing the society to roman stage. Its very populated for only played for a few days but this will change after a few generation when i will incorporate deaths.

11 Households and 61 playables. BACC population is 183 and Ive unlocked 5 community lots so far. So far only daycare, angler, nectar making and gardening are available career. Military and Criminal has open career slots but they cant be unlocked until I met notthing is free criteria as well. Its also stone age so some careers wont be used until later..

As of test of time ranking for roman period, My European family (the red heads) are in the lead with the biggest networth.