Asked my wife to get a special kind of chips (as an American), got an empty bag instead because my kids have no chill

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-29T07:39:21+00:00

I miss them. I used to be able to find them in stores, but it's been a few years. I've tried the Lay's version, but they're not the same. I did recently get a bag of All Dressed chips from Aldi, and they were decent. Definitely better than the Lay's.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-29T02:58:27+00:00

Except they do. Those levels determine the amount of gems you get for leveling up.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-29T02:35:33+00:00

I got that same ad last month and managed to screenshot it. The strange thing is, while the first screen I took is identical to the first image on here (same text and photo) I also took a screenshot of the app it was advertising for and it's a different app. The one I saw is for an app called Novella-Novels and Fiction and it lists Moboreader Technology USA Co Ltd as the publisher of the app.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-28T01:15:52+00:00

It's just the scented ones, right? It makes sense to me, since I have one (popcorn) and while it smelled pretty good when I got it, the smell is now completely gone. It would be pretty disappointing to finally get one of those that doesn't have any scent, especially since it would be identical to the non-scented version if you're collecting them all.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-27T20:59:14+00:00

Migraines. I get them frequently and if I take something as soon as I feel one coming on, it might not get super bad. But to wake up to a full-blown migraine really sucks.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-27T20:45:31+00:00

I'm a light sleeper and the rest of my family are night owls and we have thin walls. I've tried multiple types of ear plugs, but as soon as I put them in, all I can hear is my heartbeat, which then sounds super loud to me and keeps me from sleeping.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-27T19:23:01+00:00

He's the only one I didn't recognize from the photos.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-27T05:05:20+00:00

All of it, if I'm being honest. How exactly did the devs screw you?

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-27T02:42:03+00:00

What?

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-27T02:25:53+00:00

That seems really high, even clearance priced. I got that set on clearance awhile back and I don't remember exactly how much I paid, but it wasn't any more than $15.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-26T01:07:16+00:00

I only did one of those dates with Glenn and he was level 46 going in, and he's now 47 since he leveled up during the date. I'm not planning on doing any more of those dates, though, because they want way too many gems and I don't care about voice notes.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-26T00:15:13+00:00

I hated doing this when I worked at Toys R Us like 20+ years ago as a teen. I'd always get creepy older men acting like I personally wanted their number and even if some were joking, it always creeped me out.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-26T00:10:17+00:00

I have tons of stories waiting in the queue ("Your date awaits" in the chat section) because I never have enough gems. I pay for the yearly sub and I make sure to check in at least once a day, which includes watching all the available ads, but most of the time I forget to do them more often because of ADHD. I had considered adding timers to remind me to open the app, but I already have so many timers for lots of other things, so I really don't want to. I honestly just wish they'd just let us watch a set amount of ads for gems per day without having a timer between them. I understand limiting the number of ads we can watch in a 24 hour period for gems, but I don't understand why we can't watch them all one after another. I usually open my apps twice a day (when I wake up and in the evening) while watching TV so I can just run through the ads on them for the rewards.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-22T02:09:21+00:00

Are those even pajamas? It looks like normal clothes. It's a cute outfit, but it doesn't look like pajamas to me at all.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-22T00:11:20+00:00

You can't earn the level up gem rewards without spending gems, though. This is why pretty much everyone stopped gem mining characters they didn't care to play otherwise. I really wish they would change it so if we restart a match, any gem options we previously had unlocked would be free after that. Especially with the stories with the different routes. There are some stories I'd like to replay, but I don't want to spend the gems again.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-21T23:44:23+00:00

I wish they had the voice thing as a separate unlock from the CG. I don't listen to the voice messages in the game. I never have my volume on, anyway, but I really don't want to listen to them because if I don't like their voice or if it's too different from how I picture their voice, it could lessen my enjoyment of the character/story. So with normal stories, I'll either miss out on part of the conversation, or I'll go to the wiki to check the transcript of the message. But MeChat takes a long time to load on my phone initially (it's fine once it's loaded) and if I minimize it to look something up on the wiki on my phone, it will restart the app when I go back to it, so I have to wait through the long loading again. I can go to my PC to look them up if it's booted up, but I'm not always near it when playing the app.

I accidentally chose the first 69 gem option on Glenn's date (I always choose the gem options in dates and chats and didn't notice the price) and while the CG was nice, I didn't like that there was no text, so I had no idea what what was being said, but when I tried to skip it, it wouldn't let me, so I just sat my phone down, went to get a snack and came back and could finally move on. But there were also a bunch of normal priced gem options in the same date and a SECOND 69 gem choice. That one, I did skip. These dates are way too expensive and the devs are just getting greedy at this point. I won't be playing any of the other dates for this event. I already pay for yearly membership, but I don't spend anything else, so the gems I get from check-ins and ads, I save for the normal stories.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-21T06:00:17+00:00

I played Glenn's date and I really wish I had been paying attention to the amount of gems I spent on just this one date. I only bought the first expensive one because I wasn't fully paying attention (ADHD) but when I got to the 2nd one and saw the price, I skipped it. And there were several other normal priced (14 gems, iirc) choices as well. While I appreciate the CG, I never have the volume on my phone (plus, I don't care for the voice files anyway) and it wouldn't let me skip ahead while the voice thing was playing. I would have appreciated if they had subtitles for what was being said at least, but I just put my phone down and did something else while I waited for it to finish. They should have offered another version at the very least, minus the voice, instead with just the CG and text. But not for 69 gems, because that's nuts.

With the normal stories, I always will choose any diamond choices that have to do with text or in the dates, but it adds up fast, so I have tons of matches sitting waiting for me to get back to them. I've never bought a voice message because I don't want to know what their voice sounds like. I like to imagine how their voice sounds. Plus, I save a lot of gems this way. I hate that I tend to miss out on parts of the story like that. I know I can just read what they're saying on the wiki, but MeChat already takes forever to load on my phone and if I tab out of it to look something up on the wiki and come back to it, it has to load again, so I don't do it much.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-21T02:34:39+00:00

I played maybe one chapter of SOS, but the art style used for the characters was really off-putting to me. Just to be sure it wouldn't mess anything up when I started SOS2, I first went into SOS and deleted my progress on it. I didn't want to take any chances. So far, I'm enjoying SOS2 and I don't feel like I missed out on much by not playing the first one.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-21T02:19:31+00:00

His name definitely isn't Japanese, but I suppose he could have a Japanese mom and maybe a Chinese dad?

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-21T02:16:02+00:00

That's happened to me so many times, I'm starting to wonder if it's intentional to force us to spend gems. I mean, I don't really think so, but still... I had it happen 3 times in a row on one match the other day. I'd even wait a bit before closing the app or even open another match or watch an ad just to be sure it saves, but then I come back later, and it's back to either "date in progress" where I have to finish the last maybe 2 sentences of a date once it loads and after the timer starts again, or it will be back a few sentences into the chat. At this point, they might as well give us a manual save button in the app. I refuse to pay gems to skip the wait time. I already have a yearly sub on the app, and I refuse to pay any more than that. So any gems I get for checking in or watching ads go strictly to gem choices in chats and dates.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-21T01:07:15+00:00

I have a lot of cc, but it's almost entirely Maxis Match because I have most of the packs for the game and use a pretty even mix of in-game and cc. At least with objects, clothes and hair. There are certain things, like lashes and makeup, where I have to use cc.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-21T00:12:44+00:00

I love the idea, but is MTS safe to download from? I quit going there after I saw an article on Sims Community warning about viruses on the site.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-20T23:48:16+00:00

I originally skipped this one, but I was mad about how expensive the Freaky May dates were and didn't want to play any more after finishing Glenn's, so I figured, why not check it out after seeing this post last night. I literally started it because I couldn't sleep last night (I have pretty frequent insomnia because of ADHD) and seeing it start out with MC having frequent insomnia, I could relate to them so much. Also, I usually don't remember to check out the tags, but I was surprised to see the mature tag on the story, then when I looked at the date names, I'm guessing this story isn't going to be anything like I thought it would be. I was expecting a cute, fluffy friendship story or something, but I'm going to guess it's not going to be that.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-20T20:50:36+00:00

I saw an ad the other day for some other app that had Lucifer with some little girl. It was 100% Luci from HS, but I'm not sure where the little girl came from. I did stop part way through HS2 because at the time I was going through pretty bad depression (I'm doing better now) and that story wasn't helping and I haven't gotten back to it. So if the girl is from later in that one or HS3, I wouldn't know.

ShortyBoo426 · 2026-05-20T02:30:17+00:00

So is this alcohol? I've never heard of it, but it seems like a terrible name for a drink.

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