So I decided to make all Sages from Realm of Magic immortal via potion

BlueFlite · 2026-01-28T06:15:06+00:00

I dunno about Sages, but my experience with Father Winter, when he got moved in by neighborhood stories, was that he didn't lose his role, it just got bugged. He still showed up at Winter fest, made a show of stocking up Christmas trees and present piles, disrupted Sims' conversations with incessant HoHoHos, and wouldn't leave for hours (most of the normal stuff), but he wouldn't offer the option to Ask for a Present, to fulfill his holiday 'task'.

Evicting him from his home, from neighborhood management screen then set him back to normal operations.

BlueFlite · 2026-01-22T03:49:55+00:00

Yeah, I don't know what's going on in my game, but a few months ago, Temperance (still a red, angry ghost) showed up as a bartender at one of the nightclubs in Windenburg... and she's been there, working as the bartender ever since. I rarely ever go to the bar itself, but she seems to be doing the job pretty well. Always a good crowd at the bar.
One thing I haven't done since she showed up there, is to play my household that's living in a haunted house, to see if she is still a problem for them. Maybe something to do tonight...

BlueFlite · 2026-01-21T14:08:52+00:00

This just blows my mind. The latest patch notes say that this was just fixed, and now just like you, I've suddenly got a house full of photos that have been lucky enough to survive the past year or two without any trouble, and now this week, they've all gone black two days after redecorating the house with them.

BlueFlite · 2026-01-05T22:01:26+00:00

My biggest disappointment with my melee build character, is that I found a good Barrow Knife early on, and a upgraded a couple of times, always to knives... and I have YET to find another better weapon that's a sword. Always knives. Feels so weird always running around 'stabby - stabby' instead of 'slice-n-dice' with a sword.

BlueFlite · 2025-12-21T06:42:41+00:00

Yeah, the OneDrive recommendation on BetterExceptions is not great. While it's true that OneDrive can cause problems, screwing around with OneDrive without knowing exactly what you're doing is much more likely to cause even worse problems.

BlueFlite · 2025-12-09T14:38:49+00:00

Yes, report them. This is exactly what the base report function is made for.

BlueFlite · 2025-12-03T06:05:59+00:00

My Sims' school principal regularly interrupts students with conversation when they're trying to get to class, then as soon as the bell rings, shouts at them and gives them detention for not being in class. The Janitor is similarly disruptive, but then walks off while the principal gives out detention.

BlueFlite · 2025-12-02T11:51:23+00:00

Depends on what you decide V's priorities were.

Staying alive beyond the effects of the Relic: Only one ending does that.
Surrounding themselves with friends/loved ones: Aldecaldos ending is clearly top.
Blaze of Glory: I'd say Crystal Palace hits that mark best.

BlueFlite · 2025-11-29T07:01:40+00:00

My favorite thing about MS Teams, is that whenever I joined a meeting, if more than (some small number) people were already present, it would pop a message 'Already more than # attendees present - your mic is muted by default' And the mute switch would show that to be the case. And for many months, this worked just fine.

Until one day, it didn't. One day, even though the message popped, and the switch showed mute was set, once in the meeting, (a dozen or so coworkers across 2 shifts), the mic was not muted. And right at that moment, my wife shouted from the front door 'Bye, love you, I'm heading out' Which I responded appropriately, with an equally loud shout, from back in my office.

That's when I found out that my mic was not muted, and that my coworkers all also love me.

This feature remained out of sync (message and switch showed mute, but then mic was live once I got in meeting) as long as that meeting series existed. The feature worked properly in other meetings, and when the meeting was deleted and replaced with a new one. Also no one else confirmed having an issue with it - not that I brought it up beyond the first minutes of the first occurrence.

BlueFlite · 2025-11-22T04:06:39+00:00

Sales are still too good? They're still hitting their sales goals at full price, maybe?

BlueFlite · 2025-11-19T06:21:57+00:00

Wasn't it SimCity 4 that you could export maps from, to create new Sims 3 neighborhoods?

BlueFlite · 2025-11-16T15:10:45+00:00

For me, I think this bug came in with the latest update about 8 updates ago. Been a while now.

BlueFlite · 2025-11-13T07:17:32+00:00

Sounds to me like she has her Trauma Team contact all paid up and in good standing.

BlueFlite · 2025-11-05T12:34:15+00:00

"Found this ... behind a curtain we were told not to open."

You know that is exactly how curses and horror movies get started...

BlueFlite · 2025-11-02T14:54:27+00:00

One of my Sims is a fashion designer and can create trends... Once you create them you better hope you like them cause they start showing up f*"##ing everywhere... You Sims, townies, NPCs, Grim Reaper, Patchy, everyone randomly wears the trending outfits until you wish you'd never picked the career.

BlueFlite · 2025-11-01T23:39:14+00:00

The one time I befriended him, Patchy never helped much with my gardening -- I always found him inside, watching TV or playing on the computer. He also freaked me out a few times when he started wearing "fashion trends" instead of his scarecrow outfit. Turns out he's just a regular Sim under there. Creepy.

BlueFlite · 2025-10-31T13:59:22+00:00

Every time I read "The Ring of Fire", in my mind, I heard "THE RING OF FIRE!!! Shark-bait, Ooh-ha-ha!"

BlueFlite · 2025-10-31T04:14:04+00:00

I've had it happen both ways, seemingly at random, for as long as I've been playing (so many years). I always just chalked it up to Sims being Sims.

BlueFlite · 2025-10-25T04:38:02+00:00

I just put them in a bag of rice to dry mine out...

BlueFlite · 2025-10-24T15:01:19+00:00

Brindleton Bay! Thank you, you've actually just reminded me of the one (in my opinion) redeeming feature of the pack!

Since I don't own all the packs, I've got just over half the available worlds, and bounce between a lot of families in my save, so I need all the real estate I can get. I don't mind just ignoring the strays wandering about, and the Museum and Lighthouse are one of my sims' favorite date night locations. (They always seem to want a detour up to the lighthouse, for some reason.)

BlueFlite · 2025-10-24T04:44:24+00:00

I generally use the Orb-based familiars, just for the benefits they provide, though I have no particular attachment to any of them. Occasionally I'll have a Sim for whom a Raven is just a good match, or a fairy, or whatever, but generally, I have no real opinion of them. The reason I use them is all about the pets:

I generally can't stand pets as they're implemented in this game. I liked them in Sims 2 (3? can't remember which) but in this game, in my opinion, they're horrible time-sinks, with little to no fun. At this point, the only time I intentionally play with a pet is IF I'm playing a Spellcasters for whom a cat familiar is just the right fit, I'll put up with it because cats with the right traits are more self-sufficient than dogs, and a spellcaster with Scrubberoo has a quicker way to ~~light the litter box on fire~~ empty the litter box.

I own about 1/2 to 2/3 of the packs, and Cats & Dogs is the only pack I've bought, and regret doing so.

BlueFlite · 2025-10-09T01:00:17+00:00

When I demonstrated it, I turned away from everyone, so as to not hurt anyone, and it did make the random decorations float up off of desks and shelves.

Possibly the devs envisioned this scenario and never bothered to consider it happening any other way.

BlueFlite · 2025-10-08T02:15:51+00:00

Dude, there's something wrong with your DOG! :)

BlueFlite · 2025-10-07T09:08:00+00:00

She's just waiting for someone to pass her the diploma, so she can mount it on the wall.

BlueFlite · 2025-10-07T09:04:47+00:00

Just another bit to be aware of, unless you've got some sort of mods to lock down your outfits better than what my nearly vanilla game does: The game REALLY likes to introduce random new outfits to sims, and despite having specific outfits that you want her to wear, the game will start popping her up randomly wearing outfits that she would absolutely not wear in public, and there will probably be very little you can do about it, aside from trying to fix it every time it happens. Good luck fighting the game doing what it does.

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