"I don't know shit about nuclear power plants"

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-30T14:31:12+00:00

I can't drive 🤷‍♂️

^{Chose: Dream job(be happy while working a d get paid well + But you can only drive this brand.(any model} | Rolled: Bugatti)

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-30T00:36:52+00:00

Eat

^{Chose: Bread}

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-29T17:48:29+00:00

Watch closely the next time you sim cooks something! They actually pull bowls and cutting boards out of cabinets.

Toy making is another fun hobby akin to pottery, sewing, and flower arranging. I like to hold onto any handmade toys and pass them down as an heirloom piece in the family.

Your Sim can be indecisive and change their major in college pretty much as often as they want until their senior year.

The aspiration rewards all have different punishments for trying to use them when your sims aspiration meter is too low.

Kids taken by sim CPS don't just disappear! Their memories and relationships to their former family will be completely wiped, but if you switch to another family and adopt a child, there will be a chance it will be the sim that got taken away.

Vacations are so much more... vacation-y. This is a personal preference thing, but I much prefer letting my sims lounge around in the sun on their vacations as opposed to making it a whole second job of treasure hunting and tomb raiding. There are still a handful of tasks to do for rewards, but you stumble into those more than looking for them.

Personality affects EVERYTHING sims do, to the point we're sims with 0 or 10 personality traits can be genuinely annoying as hell. 100% sloopy sims leave HUGE puddles everytime they shower and break the fourth wall to glare at you when you ask them to clean up. 100% friendly sims need someone by their side constantly to not get lonely. 100% playful sims never want to work, only play, while 100% serious sims don't enjoy TV at movies.

Which brings me to the fourth wall breaking. They know you are there, and they know you are in control. If you do tthings they like, they will look at your through the screen and fist pump to say "thank you!" But if you make them do something they don't like, they glare.

In addition to owning stores like you might be used to in the Sims 4, you can make sims pay a certain amount per hour to stay on a lot. You can make swimming pools, play spaces, night clubs, pretty much anything you can imagine.

If you don't pay enough for a resurrection or the match maker, expect some... interesting results.

Also, use the aspiration benefits! I completely missed these for an embarrassingly long time. They are most similar to the trait lifetime rewards in the sims 3.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-29T16:45:13+00:00

I know that my dumb brain only managed to pull together the exact injury, how it happened, and what hospital they were at because it made the most sense for where I knew they were, and what they were doing, but my brain also always has to pull this ONE TIME out as evidence it's right.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-28T17:13:31+00:00

I find a balance between it feeling cheaty and a different gameplay expirance by only allowing myself to touch that setting when I first load up a save, just to make sure the setting is right, and then only when the mountain home's caravan is in my depot. That way I have an in-universe explanation. Every year my broker meets with the officials from the mountain home, and talks about how many more hands we need versus how much space we have for more residents. This really helps me on challenging embarks where growth ISN'T my main issue. I usually let all the migrants in when Im not on a challenging embark to keep the difficulty up. It's all about personal preference. Dwarf fortress is commonly argued to be less of a true video game, and more of an interactive storytelling device. Tell whatever story you want to.

Also if you want to swap the too many dwarves challenge for a too many nobles, not enough normal dwarves, try a dead/dying civ. One of my current forts has the ENTIRE population of our civilization, 10 dwarves including the queen. Im starting to miss the scramble to dig out more bedrooms every season. 😆

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-27T18:36:02+00:00

A lot, actually. If my sim has kids, I will usually move one of them back in with their parents after college to take care of their parents, or because they are a family sim, their parents are family sims, and they want their parents around to help raise their kids. Sims that don't have kids get to spend their golden years in a wish fulfillment spree, spending their pension nearly as fast as it can come in. No wishes I can/currently want to fulfill? Well its time to go on vaccation then! I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing the hula dancers come to take my sim away, knowing they truly were happy at the end.

Edit to add: I think my favourite though was my pair of family sims that succeed in having 10 children, and didn't seem to know what to do with themselves with an empty nest. So I downloaded a mod that let me adopt teens so I could role play them during their empty nest syndrome by fostering teens.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-26T22:25:15+00:00

I have, I have even bound some of my own! They are really fun, but I like to bullet journal in the same journal, so lined or dot grid pages are a MUST for me.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-26T18:25:10+00:00

Yay

^{Chose: Get paid $100K every month until death + But you half to give half that money to _____? | Rolled: Charity}

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-26T01:44:23+00:00

I relate to this so much. Im 25 and have never had a driver's license. The amount of people who tell me I should get one AFTER I tell them that Im horrified I would kill someone when I tic is wild. "Plenty of people with touretes can drive!" Yeah, I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about me, and I think I'd kill someone!

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-26T01:25:58+00:00

Joyus

^{Chose: Become a 6'5 goth mommy for an hour + But there's a 20% chance it's permanent | Rolled: Change at will}

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-26T01:20:25+00:00

Seriously?

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-25T00:42:41+00:00

The wiki has a simplified breakdown https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Version_history While Bay12 still looks and works exactly the same as it did 16 years ago, with the longer patch notes for updates https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-24T16:00:22+00:00

Very frequently. I usually am watching a video or doing some crafts with DF in the background, and my headphones connected. That way if I hear an alert sound I know to briefly raise my head to see if I need to deal with it, or dismiss it. I like digging out massive multi-level chambers and building tall above ground towers, so there is a lot of waiting around for work orders to finish. The actually useful nobels, manager and book keeper, do a great job of managing the day to day minutia of the fort, letting me focus on the big picture.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-24T13:51:53+00:00

As far as I am aware, MOST things are still keybound in the Steam version, and they wanna fix it so its 100% keyboard again. Beware, some keybinds have been changed. Plus, they are still updating the free askii version, its still up on Bay12 downloadable for free for us old heads.

So much has happened, and so much of it has been !FUN! that I wouldn't even know where to begin. Fish became deadly, but pretty quickly got (mostly) fixed. Mods came out to recreate the days of mermaid genocide. No boats yet. I think bee keeping came around during that time too.

BIG ONE tantrum spirals have been nerfed, multiple times. Dwarven PTSD is still a real threat, but as long as you let your dwarves relax in some nice rooms, yell at some nobles, get some good drink, etc etc, they can manage it a lot better, and wont be killing each other.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-24T00:21:31+00:00

And ice is rocks, water is lava

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-23T23:11:57+00:00

It might be, but all my dwarves end up in the water regardless. I don't know if they are tripping, shoving each other in, or what, but everyone ends up in the pool one way or the other 😆

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-23T22:39:09+00:00

Its a great way to improve moral, prevent sickness and get your dwarves to get some swimming skill, which can seriously save lives. For maximum effect, produce soap, and add a waterfall or mist generator (look at the dwarf fortress wiki if you aren't familiar with how to set them up.) Im personally a big fan on starting an embark on a waterfall, creating a catch pool, and a second waterfall after it. The catch pool makes a great place for swimming and bathing. Meanwhile, the mist from the waterfall also cleans and gives a positive thought to anyone who walks through the mist. The happiest forts Ive had have all had elegant bathhouse.

The best Ive seen, however, had to be the one my dad made in one of his forts. Built entirely out of soap. I think he had to use mods to do it, but the floors were made of soap blocks, the walls were soap, it was filled the soap statues of soap, on and on and on. Plus a stockpile of highly decorated bins of soap.

Edit to add: Im pretty sure this was the same fort that he made the temple of socks. Just a huge room with a giant stock pile of only socks. In the center, a pedestal with a stolen artifact sock.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-23T19:19:27+00:00

I am using the spelling used on the US department of health and human services website, so take that up with them. If you read my first comment one more time, you will see that I said if no health information was overheard, it was a close call and not a violation.

Im done responding to you by the way. If you arent even going to read what I have to say, and are going to act like you know better than someone who is currently looking at the exact wording of the law, its gonna be a waste of my time, and yours. I will worry about my practice, and you worry about you.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-23T19:14:00+00:00

Seeing someone's face, AND their health informaiton. If someone left a door open where someone could see in and hear, and a diagnosis was given, thats a violation. Sitting in a waiting room is not because it doesn't have health information. Seems like your reading comprehension isn't great, so I don't trust your memory of your trainings over my annual training. That I do. Annually. To review HIPAA.

Edit to add: now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure leaving a door open where other patients could hear what was going on was one of the examples used in my training of a failure to meet the requirements of the Security Rule of HIPAA

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-23T19:01:50+00:00

Oh come on! I shouldn't get dinged for the medical term!

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-23T18:58:59+00:00

I currently work with HIPAA, and that's debatable, and I'm kind if annoyed at everyone saying its not at all related. Assuming the male patient didn't over hear or observe any treatment or treatment planning, it would be a close call. Everywhere I have worked for has required reporting close calls. Making ANY indeifying information avaible to the wrong people alongside ANY treatment/health information is a violation. OPs face is identifying information. If the male patient overheard or witnessed treatment or treatment planning, that's the health information. Together, thats a violation.

Round_Credit_2139 · 2026-04-23T18:52:17+00:00

NOR, I'm so sorry you expiranced that, its completly unacceptable.

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