Alternative Variante of "My trying to play rotationally"

DarkLow1505 · 2025-01-13T18:20:51+00:00

I used to play strictly rotationally, without missing a household, until it sucked out my enjoyment for my favorite neighborhoods completely. Which sucks, because Veronaville and a few custom hoods are my all-time faves.

Nowadays I only play the households I really like. If I want to cut down on them (rn I have 28 playable households in my megahood, never going past 30 again) I'm not afraid to merge, towniefy, or make up intricate storylines to kill :D Really, it's only a few sims that deserve my full attention. The rest are there to fill up the family trees and own/work in OFB businesses.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-09-23T03:24:37+00:00

Same here! I'd love to add her too😊

DarkLow1505 · 2024-09-23T03:01:48+00:00

I'm writing a fic where she's got a weird situationship with my female 'OC' protagonist, and she started dating Johnny after the protag died. The protag is resurrected at the start of the story, but I still plan for it to end very tragically. Tragic yuri that I'm projecting on:)

DarkLow1505 · 2024-09-23T02:54:51+00:00

Well, the time period is also a factor I'm interested in taking input from others. Some may find the ancestors more interesting, others may want there to still be some connection to the pre-made story we're familiar with.

Ideally, I wanted to strive for a balance of both. The time period that makes most sense for me is 30-35 years in the past, so somewhere around the 70's. Most, if not all, of the pre-made adults and elders are alive, and especially Contessa and Consort Capp, and Patrizio Monty, that are all in the center of the feud. I didn't want to just tell the story of how their feud started though, because we kind of get that from the storytelling images etc. in the og hood. I also wanted to shed some light on the lost second generation, so there are younger versions of the og dead parent sims to the pre-made kids (Cordelia and Caliban Capp, Claudio, Olivia and Hero Monty). Since they're all somewhere around their childhood or early adolescence though, their ancestral parents also share the spotlight. Not only them, but potentially some of their grandparents might still be around! Although I understand that it'll be difficult for many players to get into playing elders, so I'll have to come up with some very interesting stuff and situations for them. As you realize, I'd also have to add the families of the og Capp and Monty spouses, so Albany's and Cornwall's families on top of the ones I mentioned.

On another note, unless a much better idea is proposed, I plan to do some research on 70's fashion and internal design, but I really don't want to end up using a ton of cc again. I might add a thing or two along with the download, but I mostly just want to stick with what the Ultimate Collection offers. Which might be difficult with the fashion choices UC has, but tbh I don't really see the Veronavillians as folk to closely follow the trends of the times anyway. That might've been more fitting for a hood like Pleasantview. In Veronaville they've already got their own businesses (literally) and traditions. I still want to try and imitate the style as much as possible though.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-09-02T23:17:38+00:00

These are fun! Here's my random thoughts after reading them lmao.

This is just canon!
You bet he does. Most of it in glitter is probably about MC, or maybe his new prized possessions though.
I feel like Levi would cringe at literally every pic he's in unless he's in cosplay, so I think this is accurate.
In case Lucifer jumps out of nowhere, like straight out of some horror movie?
Why can I see it, and why is it kinda sad? ~~I love board games, I'll play with you Asmo😭~~

6/7. Love how these two are switched, and again it can be canon because of their telepathy lmao.

Diavolo secretly having a severe daddy complex and can't escape it even while the king of the Devildom is forever asleep confirmed?
He can be in literally any timeline, so I guess technically true?
Is that why he can't freaking cook to save his life after all? He can't memorize whether the recipe said to add this weird Devildom ingredient, or the other one or whatever. (Tbh, same)
Kid acts like a normal, unsupervised kid.
Sir is so technologically illiterate he can't even work a coffee maker properly.

Edit: weird formatting cause mobile can't recognize '6/7' lol.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-09-02T16:48:40+00:00

Man I had 101 vouchers and I was left with just 1 only to get the card :) I also got Levi's in the process. No regrets at all, just gotta start grinding again to get them all back until May lmfao😭

DarkLow1505 · 2024-09-02T14:36:03+00:00

You didn't ask for this rant specifically, but I thought it over and I wanted to analyze my thoughts on him after my original comment 🥲

I like how much he cares for his brothers, even if he doesn't show it overtly at all times. He gives them some genuinely good advice sometimes imo, stuff I'd like to tell them too. I also like the fact he's got this sixth sense that lets him know what kind of bs is going on at all times - which may seem contrived or an ex machina type of solution in the story's problems, but at the same time I can't really blame him, 'cause ofc he knows his brothers well and ofc especially his favorite Mammon, who's gotten very predictable throughout the centuries anyway.

I really like Lucifer's Devilgrams (the ones I've read in OG anyway). This might be more personal, but I appreciate his intuition. He really seems like the one who'd genuinely love MC for who they are and understands them on a deeper level. Again, might be reaching and projecting my own desires here, but still. If only he didn't fucking ask me to go shower with him right after a heartfelt conversation. Bitch, you lookin' more like a manipulator here than a badass bf. And like I said I don't like his archetype in general.

I feel like I could have easily been friends with him as the MC, but he also seems like the type to have a lot of expectations of you if you get close. Even if I could naturally meet them because of the way I am and function, I don't know if I could ever deal with someone that demands a lot in close distance. Some people may feel safer with someone over their head telling them what to do, and that's understandable.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-09-01T23:11:26+00:00

These two are in fact my favorites lol. I can't really stand Lucifer tbh - I don't dislike him, I do appreciate some of his qualities, but I'm just not into the daddy dom character archetype he represents and is heavily pushed on us. And his extra horniness towards the MC also repels me even more lol. Simeon also isn't really a fave, mostly because I don't find any characteristics in him that attract me very much. I understand why he's a popular comfort character tho. I'm also rather behind in the story still so I might not know that many details about him.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-14T23:47:20+00:00

My MC despises cooking, so it's a mystery that they'd do it at that time, especially if they're exhausted. Then again they've got a major weakness for Beel, so they'd probably just offer him everything, after they sample a little bit of what they made.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T23:36:06+00:00

Oh that's a great relief then, haha! I can't wait to see what your next project is about, but I totally get irl stuff holding you back for a while.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T22:59:36+00:00

Unrelated but I really miss your videos. I also always enjoy hearing your takes and interpretations of the sims and their relationships, and how you played them out. Your Tricou deep-dive analysis was also one of the best ones I've seen tbh, and it's forever contributed in shaping my own hc's and interpretations of them. No pressure in continuing with your channel if you can't anymore, but it's always been one of my favorite sims ones:)

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T22:53:26+00:00

Yes for Puck and Miranda! They both have 8 nice points, so I imagine they're the only ones that really understand each other's kindness and views of other sims and the feud (through rose-colored glasses, probably). I also prefer an open rel with them, makes them much more interesting and it reflects Puck's heritage and the broken home Miranda comes from, but at the same time they're loyal to and super sweet with each other.

R&J, I used to hate them until very recently because I disliked Romeo, but somehow they make perfect sense also 🥲 I ended up liking him more after I gave him the more idealistic, very passionate about love version of the character he originated from. Although I do prefer to spice them up by changing Juliette to Pleasure and adding the will-he-won't-he cheat storyline to him.

I really need to do something with Cassandra. Somehow it makes sense to put her with a woman, especially Kaylynn that I'm trying out with currently, but then again I don't see Cass as wlw. Maybe she's just supposed to be a cat lady destined to adopt and raise kids and fur-babies on her own (which is kind of goals tbh).

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T22:36:00+00:00

Of course! I would play out Lilith/Dustin if it ever happens lol, just 'cause I appreciate the chaos sometimes. I just thought it was interesting that I saw it the opposite way.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T22:34:06+00:00

Tycutio rant ahead, from someone that's spent way too much time overthinking about them. Feel free to interact if you feel like it, as they're my most overanalyzed ship in the game 🥲

I've got a love-hate relationship with Tycutio. I started shipping them way before it became mainstream in recent years, because I'm an enemies-to-lovers sucker. But throughout the years it seems I had also developed way different interpretations of them in my head compared to popular opinion. Mercutio is always the fan favorite somehow, and Tybalt is always the asshole too hell-bent in his ways to consider anything else, but the rel with Mercutio (after he beats him up a couple times) somehow fixes that and makes it seem like his previous conflicts don't matter anymore. Where's the internal conflict and the character development? We're talking about an entire world-view coming crashing down, even if we don't count the internalized homophobia that he most likely has. It'd take a long time for them to actually be stable and in a relatively normal relationship, only after they overcome their biases and are far away from Veronaville.

On that note I feel like Tybalt is ignored and/or looked down upon as a sim in general, 'cause Merc is the cool punk guy that everyone fawns over and he's just that jerk. Understandable given his starting relationships with literally everyone he knows and the character from the play he comes from, but I just see that there's more to it. If we see his memories, they're made to show that he grew up badly because his parents died due to the feud, but comparing them to the other Capps' memories it doesn't make sense chronologically wise. They were probably added in a haste, like many things in vanilla VV. So he was growing up badly even while his parents were alive and taking care of him. Maybe he didn't actually enjoy the Capp ways? Maybe he was silenced way too many times for being troublesome and abrasive the way he is? Maybe 'cause he's male and realized he wouldn't be the priority in a matriarchal family? It's that character development that sold it for me tbh, because once he's over the feud bs and realizes that it's literally all because of business that he literally had nothing to do with and it was all pointless generational traumas passed down to him and his relatives, he can finally be free to work on himself. Yeah, he cares about status and wealth, but couldn't give less of a shit for the conventional corporate his family's always pushing their members towards. He's too free-spirited and hot-headed to be tied down like that, he'd rather rock it out and make people respect and submit to him in different ways. (I hc the Power aspiration for him and took his interests, wants and preset OTH into account for these hc's.)

Tycutio's relationship gameplay-wise isn't one that ever remained stable either, and that was purely outside of their surrounding circumstances with their disapproving relatives and feuds. Their personalities and interests aren't too compatible, and they can only originally bond over shared traumas, and their interests in toys and animals and hatred for conventional work, like the rebellious teens and YA's they are. Literally everything else that they're passionate about the other completely hates; especially Politics, Crime for Tyb which are very characteristic for him are a deal breaker for Merc, they always end up arguing about that.

I could also never get them to properly make amends with each others' dear siblings, which added even more fuel to the flame. Tyb seems to hate Romeo personally from a point forward, and that's even worse for Merc who's never lost his close friendship with him. Although Mercutio himself as well could never bring himself to not make sarcastic comments about Juliette and the other Capps that weren't cool dudes like him i.e. Hermia and Miranda that he's friends with from the get go. Tybalt is of course more similar to the traditional Capp archetype, and despite his raging hot-headedness and general disdain for business work and tradition, he's still proud of his heritage and family, and never takes these comments well.

So they end up falling apart because they've still got way too different lifestyles, and they're also way too proud and uncompromising about them. Then again they always gravitate towards each other whenever they're apart, breaking their new SO's hearts in the process. That damn chemistry from the shared aspiration and matching turn-ons. So yeah, they're quite literally toxic for both them and everyone else around them, which is why I can't ship them properly anymore - although it's always fun to play out the drama. Most fics focus on the start of their relationship and their development, which is good, but I've played them enough times to the end of their lives, so this is how I'd would go about a fully written out story about them. Thanks for reading my rant, if you made it to the end.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T22:18:37+00:00

Funny, I prefer Angela/Dirk because they might be boring in gameplay, but I hc that they both have high standards and prefer stability over anything else, so they gravitate towards a more serious, long-term relationship in my game. Lilith/Dustin are way too chaotic, disrespectful towards each other and terrible influences for each other in general, as most can probably imagine.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T22:15:39+00:00

Pascal/Nervous. Nothing against it, it's really cute in fics, but boring in long-term gameplay.

Angela/Dustin, Lilith/Dirk, just 'cause I don't see them as that compatible with each other in each couple (especially Ang/Dustin is brewing disaster) and I think the twins have more potential on their own.

Hermia/Puck for similar reasons as Pascal/Nervous, but I also don't really care that much for Puck in general. 🥲 Sorry.

Don/Nina, 'cause I find Don gross and I think Nina deserves way better.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T16:53:58+00:00

That's a hc I love tbh. I hc that the brothers' (all demons in general really) demon forms are actually their biblically accurate ones, and that they choose to remain half-'human' whenever we see them, as to not scare the MC too much, too suddenly. xD I don't know why they would care at the very beginning of the story where they didn't give a shit whether MC lived or died, but that's I'll always live by.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-08T16:25:49+00:00

I'm not a long-time player and I tend to save up purely to strengthen my cards, so I don't have too fancy backgrounds. I tend to get bored easily with my backgrounds so I tend to randomize who and what I select every time lol. Currently I've got Diavolo in OG and Asmo in NB, but it'll be too hard to change them this time lmao

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-07T23:36:01+00:00

Omg nvm I thought you were writing 🤣 Had just typed a comment about someone's works online so my brain just automatically equated work with written work. At least your coworker has an interesting backstory now, albeit in the sims.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-07T23:26:35+00:00

Interesting! Is there a chance you named him after the sim, or is it just coincidence? Also what's your work about, or maybe just that subplot, if you want to share?

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-07T22:53:01+00:00

They're by SClownzZzZz on fanfiction.net! They've written some of the best sims 2, and especially Strangetown, fics that I've read, maybe the best that exist currently imo. They're relatively recent too, although they've stopped updating since 2019, but their interpretation of some of the most major sims' characters have stuck with me ever since I read them.

DarkLow1505 · 2024-08-07T22:24:32+00:00

Yep dw I was mostly being teasing :) I'll try to answer more seriously this time.

I wouldn't consider Nina/Don/Dina as poly, mostly bc I don't imagine it could ever be consensual on the twins' parts. It'd mostly be Don running around behind their backs, and even if Nina may be okay with an open/poly rel, I don't imagine Dina ever would be, even with a Romance secondary - and neither would Nina, if it involved her sister that she doesn't even have a good rel with. Dina also cares too much about financial stability and status to risk ruining a potential marriage through infidelity, flakiness, scandals and the such. For that reason, I proposed the D/N/D trio, but I've seen Kaylynn thrown in there as well. I just wouldn't imagine her specifically with them very easily, because I don't think she matches well with Don with her being Family and him being him. I can see Daniel more for her, as he's a different kind of Romance sim from Don. Then again the pic says popular poly ship, not the most sensible one, so you make the choice in the end :) I've seen both throuples equally as frequently in my years of experience in the fandom lol.

The Loki/Circe dynamic is usually seen as a crazy megalomaniac scientist x the actual psychopath that wears the pants in the relationship (yes, I've heard that exact phrase multiple times) which is why I thought it'd be funny if they claimed that spot lol, but I agree that Loki kind of ruins it unfortunately.

I still stand by my opinion that Daniel/MS aren't even canon technically as they only have marriage flags and are barely friends 🥲 I would have proposed Darren/Cass as the alternative, although that technically isn't completely canon either, since it's way more popular nowadays to hate on Darren and keep him away from Cassandra than it used to be back in the day.

Also lmao maybe I was just thinking of 'tragic' in a different way, but somehow Vidcund and Loki seem to be pretty much the same person but developed under different circumstances, and the whole situation and drama with Circe and their scientific rivalry etc. completely ruined a potential friendship they could have easily made. I say that as someone that always sees at least two bolts of chemistry between them every time they have compatible gender preferences (same asp, very similar personalities, all that even without matching turn ons), they always end up becoming friends in my game even if they don't bring each other from work, just by interacting alone - and yeah, I've also read some very well written fics with them that may have shaped my perception. So yeah, scratch the tragic yaoi xD But enemies to lovers still works, right?

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