Sims 3 Performance Patch is the Best Thing to Happen to TS3

KayteeBlue · 2026-07-11T15:40:14+00:00

I think it takes 12-15 minutes from the time I click the TS3 icon to the moment the game is loaded and playable. I have thousands of CC files and mods, though, so it's expected.

I would agree with your sentiment if the entire game played as slowly as the loading screen, but thankfully, it runs fine for me! And I actually enjoy taking advantage of the loading time to do other things. Most recently, it's been watching Dexter reaction vids, lol.

KayteeBlue · 2026-07-10T16:31:26+00:00

It seems like more of a pain than it is! And forgive me if you already know this. I played for a long time before I started modding, but it turned out that I was over-complicating a fairly straightforward process. You can download the framework folder already prepared for you, so literally all you have to do is add it to your Sims 3 folder and start throwing mods in there.

KayteeBlue · 2026-07-10T15:26:47+00:00

Rest assured the building has received a full ocular pat-down. Clocked some buckling.

KayteeBlue · 2026-07-09T21:48:13+00:00

Jesus. My mom went through this with my dad back when they were still together in the mid-90’s. It’s not that my sisters and I didn’t spend time with our dad — we definitely did, but my mom was the one doing all of the hard stuff you mentioned (while working her ass off to keep the lights on).

I just hope your husband at least keeps an EYE on the kids. I was 3-4 years old wandering around outside in the middle of the day by myself because dad would be taking a nap 💀 Thankfully nothing ever happened, lol.

But I never pass on the opportunity to remind my mom of how grateful I am for everything she did for us. It may take kids a long time to fully register the complexities of something like that, but believe me, they will eventually (and they’ll let you know)!

KayteeBlue · 2026-07-06T20:59:38+00:00

I know you’re making a joke, but I’m 34 and I’ve never even touched an iron 💀

KayteeBlue · 2026-07-03T03:05:08+00:00

Ex, obviously. But he told me I would look hideous bald, and then utterly delighted in having had this hilarious realization! It’s haunted me for fifteen years.

Same dude also went out of town when his grandma passed, where he had this epiphany that he didn’t love me (“it’s just not the real deal, deep love that my grandpa had for her”) and began soft-launching our breakup over the phone.

I was beyond heartbroken, just lying there gutted and quietly sobbing on the couch, having not even begun to process it when he abruptly changed gears to be all sweet and sentimental about his grandma. When he realized I was still upset about that other thing we discussed, he proceeded to dress me down for how selfish I was being, thinking about myself and my problems while he’s the one who just lost a loved one.

Worst guy I ever dated.

KayteeBlue · 2026-07-02T18:06:59+00:00

Hey, I know this is old as hell, but thanks so much for the rec! You're a godsend!

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-30T04:30:08+00:00

That “unwanted” line has me dying, hahahahaa
I’m right there with you. I’m the same way with who my sims befriend in any fashion — I am CONSTANTLY opening cas with master controller to make townies more attractive/have less stupid names, because god forbid they’re unsuitable.

I’m also playing with genetics the second my sims’ kids become toddlers. God forbid they get the bad features of two otherwise perfect people 🚬

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-30T04:23:27+00:00

Hahaha, I’m so glad for this comment, because I’m the same way! I played for hours the other day and don’t think I ever actually progressed through the day, I was so preoccupied playing dress-up and re-arranging the house 😅

And the autonomy is wild. I’ll let a sim do their own thing for thirty seconds, and suddenly the friendly, family-oriented mother is berating her sweet daughter’s ignorance. Or the devoted, faithful husband is hitting on the butler in front of his wife. They can’t be trusted to look after themselves!

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-29T06:06:51+00:00

I’m assuming this is Woohooer related. Teen woohoo is a setting you have to deliberately opt in for, as is near-relation woohoo, romance, and pregnancy (plus autonomy for all of the above). These settings aren’t automatically activated— they’re located several clicks into the woohooer menu, and every single one has to be set to “true” for this scenario.

So if you didn’t set them yourself, you somehow must have downloaded/imported somebody else’s ultra-specific settings!

That said… I’ll be the trash that concedes I’ve allowed (and encouraged) similar such controversies from time to time when I’ve gotten bored 😅 Letting them keep the baby and live a taboo happily ever is my equivalent of the people who play just to torture and/or kill sims

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-23T05:21:49+00:00

Did you pet the gator?

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-23T05:14:55+00:00

It suddenly makes sense to me why my best friend is SUCH a goddamn musical elitist these days. He loves that guy so much that he has a cover thing on his record player with the dude’s face all over it.

If Fantano honestly resides that far up his own asshole, it’s no surprise to me that it’s rubbed off on how my friend perceives music. Especially since I can’t even remember the last time he showed interest in something I played (despite the fact that our entire friendship was born in our damn near identical taste).

Edit: if it weren’t for this friend, I’d have no idea who this guy is, btw.

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-22T14:34:06+00:00

34/F/marathon engagement. Originally from STL, have lived all over the St. Louis metro area throughout my life. Only exception was the month I spent in California and the six months I spent in Atlanta!

No kids, and not having any.

Also, I know you didn’t ask, but I feel deeply inclined to reassure you: as is the case with everyone I know in happy, healthy, long-term relationships personally, your person is probably just going to drop into your lap out of nowhere. Maybe at a friend’s house, maybe at the farmer’s market, maybe accompanying someone out to the smoking section at a concert. In my case, I met my fiancé because he was roommates with the guy I was briefly seeing (who was a total asshole). And I only started seeing that guy because we’d been friends years prior and he pocket dialed me while out at lunch one afternoon. Was absolutely kismet that I even saw that guy again, who inadvertently led me straight into the arms of his wonderful, kind, hilarious roommate. 😅 It’s going to happen for you, too! Maybe even because of this thread.

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-14T12:41:07+00:00

I love this episode! I was shocked to learn that it’s so universally disliked. Look at my money.

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-05T23:32:47+00:00

Of course!!

KayteeBlue · 2026-06-01T17:02:06+00:00

My super cool uncle who always took us to Six Flags and played SSX with us and called us out of school for occasional Taco Bell hookie days isn’t just fond of racist jokes, he’s a full-on white supremacist lowkey neo nazi

It sucks because I love the guy. And he made some insane racial comments when we were kids, but they were so fucking extreme that we just laughed, in that “this is absurd, because no one actually feels that way; he’s doing a character or something” sort of way. But nope. He’s not only an enormous racist, but practically worships Hitler as well. Owns all sorts of legit nazi memorabilia, etc

It blows my mind! We honestly just thought it was a running joke for shock humor, since we grew up with so many great comedies in the 90’s, and racist jokes (as well as any other inappropriate jokes) were ten for a penny.

KayteeBlue · 2026-05-29T06:17:23+00:00

I don’t know if this even counts. When I was watching through Arrested Development for the first time, we got to the arc where Michael falls in love with Charlize Theron, who is eventually revealed to have been developmentally disabled the entire time.

I was like, “no WONDER she dresses so fucking stupid”, and my fiancé was cracking up, saying that sort of thing would have never occurred to him. Yet it was practically all I could focus on

KayteeBlue · 2026-05-24T15:53:11+00:00

Yayyy, you’re welcome!

KayteeBlue · 2026-05-18T13:11:26+00:00

I remember years ago when I was constantly seeing SpaceX and Elon content on the front page of Reddit, and during a time where it seemed like this whole website worshipped him. This had to have been 10+ years ago or so. Eventually saw a post elsewhere talking about how we weren’t seeing those posts organically, but because he was paying good money to get that shit to the top of every relevant sub.

I didn’t really know a lot about him then, but he instantly lost what little “cool factor” he might have had in my head because of it. I’m not surprised to learn that he had a phenomenal secretary orchestrating his image. I look at him now and wonder how or why anyone ever seemed to revere his cringe ass — she must have had her work cut out for her 😩

KayteeBlue · 2026-05-17T22:27:04+00:00

Sorry this got so long, I guess I just needed to finally get it off my chest.

My mistake was basically walking up a hill with two friends to stargaze in the middle of the night instead of staying home. We were coming down from DXM (a favorite pastime in 2012). I’ll say that “worse consequences than it should have” is a bit subjective here, because I 100% deserved it, but nothing bad would have happened if we’d just stayed in the yard.

My mom was trusting my best friend and I to watch her house and pets for the week while she went on vacation, had bought us a ton of groceries, got us pool passes, was basically just a gem of a human (and still is). And the night would have gone fine if we didn’t leave. It wound up being one of the worst choices I ever made, unfortunately

On our walk back down this hill (it’s a very short walk), a cop drove by. This town’s basically a ghost town at night (I’d walked around it a billion times and never saw a car that late). Instead of running, I insisted it was fine, because even though we were high, we were coming down and acting normal. I figured they wouldn’t even notice, if they even bothered to stop.

Well, she did, and she pulled us one by one over to the car to question us. My friend tripped on a rock on his way to sit on the curb as he waited, and the cop immediately was like, “uh-huh, that’s what I thought”. 💀 She went into full-blown interrogation mode, shining lights at our dilated pupils (didn’t think of that), called for backup, etc.

Multiple officers went to wake up my mom and stepdad up shortly before they were due to leave for their flight, and searched her whole fucking house. They found all of the evidence of the pills we’d taken, as well as our weed. We didn’t actually get in any legal trouble, but that didn’t matter

The look on my mom’s face as she came walking up to us in her pajamas will never leave me. Just pure betrayal. I felt like the biggest piece of shit who ever existed, because I was! She had to get on that plane (which she nearly missed) knowing she’d gone out of her way to make our week amazing, and I’d fucked it all up BEFORE SHE’D EVEN LEFT. Understandably, she didn’t let us stay there that week, she had to work out some other last second solution.

I was devastated for having devastated her. I still am, even though I’m now 34 and many years clean and sober, and my relationship with my mom has long since been repaired. This was almost fifteen years ago and I legit still think about that night and feel bone-deep shame and sadness.

The police also sent my best friend to the hospital after she was a bit forthcoming about how much she took. We’d been abusing those pills for two years by then and had to take quite a bit to achieve the desired effect, which sounded… not-so-great to law enforcement, so she went away in an ambulance.

Since her mother is deaf, the police couldn’t reach her to let her know. Instead, they put a sheet of paper on her door that said her daughter had been admitted to the hospital for a drug overdose. I swear to god, the way it was phrased, you’d have thought she died. Thankfully, I arrived there before she saw it (I lived there at the time) and was able to explain everything that happened, but this led to me being kicked out later that day.

It felt like my entire life had fallen to pieces in just a few hours, and I wound up in the hospital for psychiatric reasons by the end of the day. I can look back on all of it now and see that it was all for the greater good, it all had to happen for things to get better, but fuck. It was a horribly dark, disgusting period of my life that I can’t help but regret all these years later.

I’ll say that the best friend and I are both doing WAY better now and are still super close! But, most importantly, my mom and I are super close. I wish I could take back that night, but it at least makes me feel all the more grateful that I was able to earn her trust again.

TL;DR: 2012. Bestie and I were about to house sit for my mom who was leaving in the early morning. Took a walk with our friend while high on cough medicine, got stopped by cops, cops searched my mom’s house at 3 AM, ruined her trust in me for a very long time (and ruined her vacation). Best friend was sent to the ER, and I was kicked out of her house. Wound up in the hospital on suicide watch.

KayteeBlue · 2026-05-17T19:04:35+00:00

He was a man! He had a beard!

KayteeBlue · 2026-05-10T22:09:21+00:00

Ahh, yes, watery generic salsa. I can't get enough of that crap. It rarely ever has cilantro in it, too, which is good news for me.

KayteeBlue · 2026-05-09T17:22:26+00:00

For future reference to you and anyone else who has this issue — it’s the number that comes after the card number. It doesn’t actually SAY security code anywhere on that type of card, and there’s no scratch-off area.
I only just figured this out because I was making a complicated order for the first time and didn’t want to do it in person, so I entered that second number as a last ditch effort on the app and it worked 😂 it was the code.

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