"Oh it's raining outside!"

My view was inside the house so I didn't realize it had been raining for hours in-game until I saw the lightning.

I can get so engrossed in my game, that I don't notice that it's started to rain outside in Real Life.


"Fascinating, isn't it? It holds the roof up."

"It's so you can look out at the back garden."

Little Joey Hamble is showing a lot of interest in the downtown house he has just moved into with his teenage parents. I suppose it's really a sign of intelligence. I think I was a bit like that at his age. After all, the grown-up world really is fascinating.

How do teenage parents have a school age kid lol? They must have had him when they were about 8.

My cousin got pregnant around 13 so she had a school aged kid by19 if that counts

I didn't say this during a sims game, but during the socialization before our weekly tabletop game one of our friends was talking about his Skyrim game and all the trouble he was having with it. It glitches a lot and apparently game consoles don't let you input cheat codes which just seems wrong to me? Anyway he said: "It's still a good game, though, even as glitchy as it is, and it's old, like, ten years old or so."

I said: "Ten years, huh? That's cute, said the Sims 2 player."

And in my case, The Sims 2 is among the newer games I play

You definitely have a point. The relative ages of some parents and their children in my game has long been "interesting". I mean just how old was Gloria when she had Andrew? For much of my game she has been a professional sportswoman at her peak. Now professional sportspeople usually peak in their mid to late twenties. Which would suggest that she must have been a very young teenage mum, since she has a teenage son who is now clearly old enough to be married. Now I think the minimum age for marriage may be younger in Veronaville than 16, which it is in Scotland. Especially since that champion of young love, Juliette Capp, is head of state there. However Andrew told me himself that he was 18 when he married Julian, and Julian was 17.

I reckon you become a teen on your 13th birthday, and cease to be a teen on your 20th birthday. Now in the UK, school starts at 5 years of age, and many children, including myself, actually start while they're still four (though in my case I was only a month away from my 5th birthday). So, like Gcgb53191's cousin, it is certainly possible to have a child at 13, and have them start school before you reach 20. But I have to admit that Roxie and Ron Hamble look more like 15 than 19. However some people do look younger than the really are. In fact I reckon at 19 or 20 I myself could easily have passed for 14 or 15 if I'd wanted to. (My height never got past 5 foot 5 inches (165 cm) and my speaking voice was, and is, quite high pitched.) So maybe Ron and Roxie really are 18 or 19.

Now it certainly seems Gloria must indeed have been really young when she gave birth to Andrew, yet Andrew never stops telling us that as a mother she's sans pareil! So I'm sure teenage mothers can still be very good mothers. Roxie is trying very hard to live up to Gloria's standard, autonomously tucking Joey up in bed. Sadly Joey, unlike Andrew, is singularly failing to return his mum's love. Last night he refused a family kiss from her. She's thinking of buying a chess table so she can spend more quality time with him. Or even a dolls' house or a toy garage where they can play together.

Upon loading up a household to find a Sim juggling coffee cups in the kitchen: "It's three a.m. and you don't live here."

"That must be a major step down. At least your husband's mother unlocked showers."

I am very loosely playing (I follow the general premise, but not every single rule) an apocalypse challenge with Phaenoh's rule mods in. One of my founder's twins ended up marrying Monica Bradford from the La Fiesta Tech Sorority, and I was commenting how it must be a step down from the sorority house to a bare bones apocalypse house.

"Omg I'm a theorist now ???"

(wasn't said during me playing TS2 but rather surfing MTS)

Architect in the making

"Dammit, I need to kill an elder! I need to find someone to die!"

This is my current hood count and it's so close to being great:

I said something similar recently when my sims were running out of houses

RIP Franco Salvatore

"I mean... technically that counts?"

During a party, I had a Sim influence Sim B to talk to Sim C. Sim B chose "complain about noise."

"...I didnt know that was a romantic interaction. "
2 Sims on an outing suddenly turned into a date because they threw food at each other. How is that romantic?!

I could just about credit some of my wilder and wackier Romance teens might find it romantic, but surely not most more mature sensible Sims. I recall that Mallory Mace and Keith Cormier threw food at each other, and it brought them closer, but that was in the context of an already growing relationship. I find it hard to think that food throwing might be spark that ignites a romance. But what would I know? Truth is my Sims understand romance far better than I do. And Keith and Mallory always come across to me as a fairly level-headed teen couple.

Maybe a wild and wacky couple of developers put this into the game -- because they thought it was romantic. I think there's a mod for this, but I'm not sure if I have it.

Sounds like someone on that date may have a food fetish

https://modthesims.info/d/636490/th...t-romantic.html

You can also mod the behavior out altogether (I did, after getting lots of hints on how to do it).

There is a fix for that by simler90:
https://modthesims.info/d/623909

Ah, I was wondering about that random tree parameter error. I didn't realize it was related, lol.

Snatched, thanks. What is 'complain about smell'? XD If your neighbour hasn't bathed for too long?

If you have too many green stinky things in your apartment, neighbours and landlord will complain.

"Pamela's made breakfast for you. You really should eat it."

Pamela, their teenage daughter had made up three bowls of cereal and set them on the table before leaving for school. But her parents, Emily and Horace, instead of joining her for breakfast, had gravitated to the card table in the front room, and were starting to play strip poker with each other. I persuaded them to go to the dining table, and eat the food she prepared for them.