I have NOT read this before and this was intriguing!



I wonder if it was one of the Curious brothers? Because I feel like a lot of simmers play them that way, and it seems to fit into the "alternative" vibe of Strangetown, too.

I thought it was the Dreamers and that they weren't meant to be father and son. Their family's story isn't as interesting as the other housed Pleasantview Sims, and I could see that being because it was thought up at the last minute.

Yes indeed, it could have been that they made Dirk an adult male partner of Darren originally, rather than having a double love triangle surrounding Don and Cassandra. But then perhaps someone said wouldn't it be fun not only to have drama with Dina but also have another option for Cass, and they decided to make Dirk a teenage son instead. I find this weird, though, because Cassandra is surely very young given the ages of Alexander and Bella, and Darren is old enough to have a son about to go to college!

Well we don't know how long ago Bella disappeared. Mortimer is already an elder and when Cassandra was a child Alexander wasn't even born yet, so there must be quite a large age gap between them. Also, Dirk is only at the beginning of the teen stage and we don't know how young Darren was when he had him.

Heaps and heaps of amazingly well-made functional objects and custom foods made by Jacky93! https://jacky93sims.tumblr.com/

Hey!! I was on a hood deco downloading spree and came across this Pregnancy bump community lot fix, which prevents sims from popping into their third trimester bump when you take them to community lots (skipping the second trimester bump in many cases). I was literally just wondering whether this was fixed and somebody has fixed it! Woohoo!

https://simsantoinc.tumblr.com/post/751650082566340608

April Black with a new myth-dispelling video.

Bonus kitties at the end!

Now I want to make the Social Worker playable...

Me too.

If only she released the video last weekend, I wouldn't have wasted my time making two Social Workers in CAS. It's ok, the Social Services in my BACC will be expanding soon enough. I'll grab the NPC Social Worker next time.

I found this video and can't stop laughing.

I haven't tried to make the social worker a part of the family, but I have with the repairman and a professor so far. No problems whatsoever, and the video actually helped clear up some confusion about the guids/etc.

Explained a lot! Thanks for the link!

I switched straight to the kitties. What was the video about? XD

Oh, bunnies and cats really. You watched the most important bit!

...So, anyone want to write all that down somewhere? I'm interested in it, but not "a half-hour video that'll likely give The Algorithm™ ideas" interested.

Essentially: Any NPC that has an actual character file is safe to move into a family. Some of them just behave weirdly and cause bugs. You can fix this by changing the original GUID in SimPE.

@G-Mon you can also open the link in an incognito window. That way, the algorithm won't know that you actually bust some Sims 2 myths in your free time!

Thanks.
That still leaves the "half-hour video" part, and I'm still not that level of interested. :P

New functional washing machine for kids!
https://www.tumblr.com/jacky93sims/...ng?source=share

She says: Playing with NPCs won't corrupt the game but she specifically didn't talk about Object NPCs (Crumplebottom, Grim etc) because those are different.

She explains why some NPCs-made-playable will cause a lot to constantly lag, why some can't be interacted with, and how you can convert them into not-NPCs if you ever wanted to.

If you're not interested and don't have any burning desire to marry a Social Worker or Fire Dancer, then you're not missing anything useful.

whoward69 recently updated the Skilling Sim to include progress on toddler and life skills!

Have you ever wanted to name your beloved Cowplant?

Now you can.

EpiSims has made a mod to allow one to name their cowplants, like children.
https://www.tumblr.com/episims

Isn't this sweet?

However, that isn't all!

She added new interactions, like "Talk to" and "Tease"


But wait! There's still more!

Pforestsims has made the cowplant without a pot!

It also can have invisible pot recolors.

https://www.tumblr.com/pforestsims

It's growing season for cowplants!

Dig in and grow 'em if you got 'em!

Here are more direct links in case the original posts get buried:
https://www.tumblr.com/episims/7528...52/cowplant-mod

https://www.tumblr.com/pforestsims/...ed-cowplant-kit

On the cowplant theme. Grow your own. XD https://modthesims.info/showthread....358#post4487358

So happy about being able to name the cowplants in TS2, thank you!!

Epi also shared a male variant of cowplants:
https://episims.tumblr.com/post/752...m-male-cowplant
(they don't produce milk, and don't hunt sims, so they're a bit... uh... friendlier than their counterpart. For the sims who just want to cuddle the big, snuggly thing without getting eaten )