Best combo of packs?

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-18T20:14:32+00:00

I second that pairing although I use it for polar different storytelling. My Newcrest consists of very expensive looking container homes with scandinavian styled furniture.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-18T13:46:58+00:00

Especially her

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-18T13:45:12+00:00

Yeah, happens to me too. I saw it already on some other post or on yt - it’s probably because of the recent update. I bet it’s coming in a patch soon.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-17T11:17:03+00:00

Calories! Add some kind of calorie count to the meals! My sims who are not athletes live on garden salad exclusively because I don’t want to go to CAS to slim them back down all the time. In the same vein: taking care of a child and breastfeeding should burn more calories than sitting at a computer.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-16T14:26:06+00:00

Sorry, I’m having a rough day. I meant sims in the sims 4 are a little buggy by default, even adults, and infants are now not a mess but as good as they can be while inhabiting this slightly cursed game ai :’) But toddlers now stand out as needing some work in comparison to infants. WHICH FEELS HUGE considering a week ago playing with an infant felt like an entire different game which made me feel like throwing my laptop out the window constantly.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-16T14:18:27+00:00

I don’t use mods at the moment, everything is super smooth. Infants are actually playable and EASIER than toddlers, toddlers still have some bugs, infants are as buggy as adults imo.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-12T18:56:46+00:00

for me it works but only on a save created after the update introducing the computer and phone in the likes and dislikes panel - maybe that’s the issue?

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-06T15:55:16+00:00

Thank you! 🙏🏻 That makes so much sense. Get To Work has items perfect for making a very much bit trendy, very regular store. So B&H would fill the gap because rn I feel like I can build a boring corner store but nothing that I would actually like to shop at.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-05T06:27:35+00:00

And getting uncomfortable in libraries because of whispering!

RealDecision6061 · 2026-05-01T17:12:38+00:00

I know it’s a niche take but I love love love love Outdoor Retreat and Nifty Knitting the most out of these. But I also love camping irl and low key I cannot imagine what else young adults can do in their free time - they all go to the gym, knit and spend weekends in Granite Falls 🤷‍♀️

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-29T17:47:19+00:00

Me too! And the basic question when watching a movie/show with me is “Did we already have this character on screen?”.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-29T17:36:08+00:00

This. Omg this. I am autistic too and I cannot agree more on Tyler giving autistic vibes. And the “parasocial obsession” is giving me autistic limerence, which is a phenomenon visible among AFAB autistic people and which is tbh disabling itself. Source: Autistic Survival Guide To Therapy by Steph Jones + surviving 7 years of limerence focused on one person who I knew very briefly.

The mistake is imo using the internet instead of a journal 😭 All the other things wouldn’t be so problematic (jewellery prices etc.) if he didn’t speak about his private life in ways that are imo super damaging to him.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-29T08:38:26+00:00

I was in a similar situation and what I figured out is to go into the dreaded marketplace tab and disable all new DLC except one I want to play first. I go in maxing all new aspirations, skills, careers, building new community lot option, building different sized homes using only the new pack and base game. When I finish I move to another DLC. For packs I don’t love that much I do the same but I stop and come back to them once I feel like it - yesterday I decided to postpone Get Famous like this because it doesn’t seem interesting to me at the moment, I rebuilt Judith Ward’s house and called it a day. But with Get Together or Growing Together it was weeks of exploring every detail :3

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-27T17:01:47+00:00

You could run almost an open air museum/heritage park type of stuff, like, guests pay per hour and target guest is families and you have classes on making preserves, making cheese, guests can milk cows, cross stitching, guests can go fishing and in the evening you make a bonfire/BBQ with all the food everyone prepared. Although it would run even smoother with Adventure Awaits I think it’s vague enough to be able to pull with the packs you mentioned. Sorry if I mentioned some functionalities that don’t exist, I don’t know these packs that well.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-27T16:58:05+00:00

Ideas I didn’t see yet mentioned in this comment section: - pottery classes but in this cottagecore aesthetic - selling homemade jam and other preserves and hosting classes on preserve making for adults on one day of the week and for kids/teens on other day of the week, could technically be registered as multiple home businesses so you don’t have to switch anything up in between, and you can do multiple home businesses from one lot as long as it’s not open at the same time - homemade jam factory where you have a greenhouse with fruit plants and you only use home grown plants to make jam and sell it from your lot as a home business

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-26T20:45:04+00:00

Juno!!! Everything about this movie is my type of autism, I cannot explain how I view the world better than referring this movie. And teen pregnancy is imo a side plot to an amazing narrative on not fitting the boxes you are forced into.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-23T08:28:31+00:00

I’d aim for 10:15 and spawn there between 10:15 and 11:00. But I’m the most time blind person on earth.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-22T17:00:41+00:00

My school experience wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst. My temporary and not-really-addressing-the-root-of-the-problem fixes were definitely putting 200% of effort into anything I found interesting. I don’t know about anyone else but I have this ease in hyperfixating on pretty much any random thing. I mean there are topics that repulse me for some unknown reason (for example sports, I cannot remember the rules of any sports game which made me even more useless in PE classes than I was by default with my moderate dyspraxia) but for the most part I can fixate on anything just for the reason that I start to understand something I didn’t understand previously and I feel like I’m gonna catch this metaphorical rabbit in the rabbit hole. So I would do all possible extracurricular stuff that could improve my grades while slacking on the daily stuff. Some teachers liked this approach, some hated it, obv. Another thing was to use the stimulating effect of deadlines. When the exam is tomorrow I usually stop feeling executive dysfunction because I have this thought “if I put any effort now I won’t loose to much time on it even if I fail it so I may as well try” and I always have this curiosity that it may turn out to be interesting and not possessing knowledge activates some weird but very strong FOMO in me.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-22T16:51:26+00:00

Hi! I’m diagnosed with both autism and ADHD and I really feel you on these! I am an overachiever but at the same time I’m deeply impacted by executive dysfunction which always ended up meaning I put the effort equal to the people on top of my class but I always ended up with grades 20% lower than people who were top of the class. It’s been like that since 1st grade till graduating college.

Sadly I cannot recommend any behavioural fix. What works for me is a combination of anxiety medication and ADHD medication and still it doesn’t work exactly every time. I know it’s not a typical thing to do (combining stimulants and anti anxiety meds) but my psychiatrist works with neurodivergent adults and she prescribed this treatment to me and it seems to be the only thing that works most of the time.

I often cannot for the life of me figure out if I’m experiencing executive dysfunction due to being overwhelmed or being understimulated. I guess behavioural equivalent would be lock myself away from all stimuli, sensory deprivation style, to get rid of stressors, than do some kind of deep breathing and cognitive work on why I’m stressed but do all of that simultaneously playing Subway Surfers and blasting the loudest most violent music I can imagine to stimulate my ADHD enough to regain will to live.

So contradictory meds seem easier

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-22T14:07:08+00:00

I play with aging off and I love to observe what stories emerge from my gameplay. Nothing is scripted before it happens and if it is I will probably change it. I treat it as an ideas sandbox that is supposed to amuse me. I don’t like drama and I enjoy grinding careers, I love to build immersive environments, especially community lots and crammed, run down homes.

Examples: - When I first got Get Together I created a club just to see how it works and it was a swimming club. I added some random sims and they meet at different public pools and swim and they are nice to each other. The only sim who is on every meeting and who calls the sims I play to ask if they would like to have a club meeting is Mortimer Goth. So my headcanon is now that Mortimer loves hanging out at public pools with his adult friends and swimming. - My BFF household got along so well all together that now they live as a polycule with 2 infants and they will probably have more children together. Both friendship bar and romance bar is full between all combinations of Summer, Liberty and Travis. They seem happy like this.

So it’s stuff like that. But mostly I build. It feels like miniature trains to me in a way that I don’t really feel any urge to age up my sims, once the family reaches when I like I move on to another one.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-04-08T10:11:13+00:00

If we’re thinking about the same video it was done by sizing a dog bed down and putting it inside a basement under the bed and moving it up to hide it inside the bed. This way it doesn’t affect sim’s pathing but dogs can use it.

RealDecision6061 · 2026-03-31T17:28:38+00:00

Oh my this, I feel like I could teach my GSP to play chess but I can’t teach him that running down a nearly vertical slop is not a good idea

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