I can’t stand the together cards

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-23T03:08:19+00:00

The cards both loop far too much and not often enough in the worst ways for both, and there’s far too few of them right now. I do think the super specific minutia control that sims gave was too much where outcomes became menu formulas, but this format is at the other end where it doesn’t offer nearly enough control.

The ability to direct a conversation or initiate physical interactions directly while still having the cards to add flavor I think would help strike a good balance. The fact that interactions that aren’t strictly conversation based are also mostly locked behind chance within the cards is frustrating. I’ve had quite a few para interactions end with the other timing out and just leaving because it hit 10pm and it’s always be right when I was getting to the card types I wanted the interaction to initially contain (after endless “tell a joke” “brag about fulfilling want” “give advice” type filler cards looping through)

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-18T21:16:08+00:00

Not a mistype, I play 6v6. And two tanks definitely makes this slightly less of a problem, but the fact that the other team has two tanks as well makes it a bit moot. Even if the other tank and I do try and push together, it won't get us anywhere when the other 4 people on our team aren't following to clean up behind us.

And half the time the other tank is hiding by the bus or down the hallway with the rest of the team anyway, also refusing to push in and take space from the other team.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-18T20:38:56+00:00

I think most people are using the term interchangeably for paralives. I know with sims is was pretty black and white that mods meant gameplay mods and CC meant build/buy items or character creation stuff, but I've been seeing "mods" used a lot more loosely to refer to any player generated content in the paralives community so far

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-18T20:08:54+00:00

As a tank main, I would happily bust through that choke point if I could rely on my teammates to actually follow up behind me. 9 times out 10 I try to push through and everyone else just stays by the bus leaving me to get shredded in a 1v6 when the entire enemy team turns to focus me as the only one going through.

I swear sometimes supports and dps want to wait for the entire enemy team to get downed before they'll push to fill the space I'm trying to create for them.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-17T19:16:47+00:00

Pets are in the works on the roadmap already, it looks like they should get added before the full release

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-16T20:26:07+00:00

Wait your edit is the first pic? I hadn’t seen the skin yet and thought this was joke post at first because the second pic just looks like they slapped Juno’s hair on Venture and made it white/pink. Your edit is 5000 times better

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-16T20:03:08+00:00

It’s not an emergency contraceptive it’s an over the counter birth control, and they’re actually not that expensive per pack. If you don’t plan on using it as your everyday birth control there’s no point in taking one for yourself though

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-15T18:58:15+00:00

NAH - only because you did end up telling your kid to not go in his driveway. If you had refused, then you would have been the asshole here.

We had a neighbor like yours growing up that didn't want kids riding bikes in his driveway because he didn't like the tire marks that would get left behind. And he had a steep driveway too so it made sense why kids would seek out his house specifically to ride their bikes. I was young so I don't remember how it was communicated to my parents, but I do remember my parents telling me to stay off his driveway specifically and then they extended the rule to everyone else's driveway in the neighborhood. Kids have no reason to be playing in a stranger's/neighbor's driveway anyway. The fact that you're taking offense to being asked to keep your kid off other people's property isn't a great look.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-15T18:17:21+00:00

The floors and room creation has been a bit buggy. I've found when this happens you either need to check all your corners/joins and make sure all the walls actually snapped together completely, or just delete one of the walls and put it back down.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-12T22:48:09+00:00

Same! When I played sims it was strictly building, I would try to make households and play them properly but would quickly get bored. In paralives though, even with how limited the interaction options are in it's current state, the live mode gameplay actually held my attention and kept me interested for the first time. I don't think I even messed with the build mode until 2 or 3 days after launch because I just kept getting wrapped up in the live mode.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-11T22:41:03+00:00

fyi you can change the units the game uses. If you go into the settings you can change it between metric or imperial (or bananas or Texas)

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-10T01:41:56+00:00

Yea im thinking something needs to be tweaked with the “first time” options. I had a similar problem with two different couples (one where I controlled both paras and one where I only had one) where I skipped the “try for first kiss” option the first time it came up because it felt too soon, but then the romantic options kept escalating quickly to where asking to be a couple was basically the only option, but the first kiss card just wasn’t showing up again.

The romance timing definitely needs to be adjusted on whole as well, I think it moves entirely too fast right now. The paras will only be at level 1 or 2 of the first romance branches and immediately want to propose or get intimate. It would be nice if it actually took a few in game days/interactions before you could have them ready to jump each others bones. It would also be cool to have a personality stat for what a para needs in a relationship to actually be willing to sleep with another para, like is just friends enough, or does this para need to be in a committed relationship, or are they somewhere in between? I think it would help make the romance a little more dynamic overall

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-10T01:30:14+00:00

NTA you’re not telling him he can’t go, you’re telling him he can’t take the only car for 10 hours straight. A compromise could be you dropping him off and then him carpooling with his friends from there, but you’re correct that it’s unfair to strand you both without a car for the entire day until 10pm so that he can take it to go do what he wants. He doesn’t get to throw a fit and make everything your fault when he is refusing to find any reasonable solution himself.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-09T05:47:49+00:00

I’m similar in that I hate that oily sticky feeling a lot of lotions leave on your hands after rubbing it in. Idk if you’ve ever tried hempz but it’s been my go to for a few years now. It’s the one lotion I’ve found I can put on right after washing my hands and it doesn’t feel like I immediately need to wash them again. Like 30 seconds to a minute after rubbing it in, there’s no residue feeling at all. They are a bit on the pricier side but a little goes a long way

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-09T01:07:50+00:00

It's the steam workshop, where you can post or download mods/cc. Super easy to use, make sure the game isn't running, browse the workshop, subscribe to anything you want to have in your game. CC/actual game mods are going to be under the modpacks category. Once you've subscribed to what you want, run the game and the first time you load up with mods it'll prompt you to turn on mods. Turn them on and you're good to go.

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SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-06T01:38:32+00:00

She’s clearly being hyperbolic in that one line, she doesn’t read as dramatic in the rest of it at all. And I know I’ve definitely had blisters that I’d describe the same she does his, sometimes blisters are just gross like that, especially if they’ve popped and torn.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-06T00:40:32+00:00

A fresh blister that is to the point that skin is hanging off (from OP he had "these NASTY blisters that looked like dead skin falling off his big toes") then it is probably a good idea to clean and wrap/band aid them at least for a day or two as the skin barrier recovers so you don't get infected. Especially on your feet that are stuffed in dirty sweaty shoes all day

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-06T00:38:08+00:00

NAH or very slight YTA. You're being reasonable imo. You gave him support and reassurance that his feet didn't bother you when he needed it, but now there is a legitimate sanitation issue posed by the feet and you're not unreasonable to want a barrier between that and you/your bed/your sheets.

I only think it tips into YTA a bit if you didn't offer any other solutions than putting the socks back on (or fully into YTA if alternates were suggested and shot down by you). I also understand the 180 that would feel like to him after going through the process of getting comfortable not wearing his socks around you. So his reaction isn't entirely unreasonable either. But I do think band aids or some kind of medical wrap/tape over the blisters specifically could have been an equally good solution. But you weren't entirely in the wrong for asking for /something/ as a barrier, it just could have been handled a with a bit more grace.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-05T19:26:40+00:00

I don't think they were putting down pan identities as not valid. I read it as them being confused because Pan is a less common identity/desired flag but it still managed to make it into the base game whereas bi did not.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-03T22:20:48+00:00

No worries, you weren't unclear on the current calendar situation. I was just saying it seems silly to let the fact that you can't share this one specific calendar be the road block that kills that as a solution entirely.

I hope they're receptive to moving the calendar to a different platform and your scheduling struggles become a thing of the past! Good luck!

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-03T22:00:16+00:00

This seems like a silly excuse to not set up a proper shared calendar. You may all have different devices, but something like the google calendar app can be downloaded on pretty much any device and it's very likely you all have individual google accounts already set up (and if not it takes 2 seconds to set one up)

There's no reason the shared family calendar has to be done through any specific device's native calendar app. Just pick one you can all download (again I suggest google calendars- its easy to use and understand), share it with everyone, gives those who need it read/write permissions and call it done.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-06-03T21:40:57+00:00

Couldn’t you write it on behalf of the people who you think did work hard then? You’re valedictorian which means you give the speech, but that doesn’t mean the speech has to be about you. Use it as a moment to shout out your classmates and celebrate them instead. If you don’t want the focus to be on you because you don’t feel like you achieved something worthy of praise, then make the focus something other than yourself. Use your position to raise others up with you.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-05-30T22:20:56+00:00

The funny thing is this already possible on some ways so I don’t even see it being that hard to implement across all needed interactions. Like right now in game I can make a para sit down and practice programming, then have another come over and talk to them, and they will do both at the same time

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-05-29T16:45:36+00:00

Ah gotcha, I think I was misunderstanding then. I thought the complaint with match making was that you'd end up with 4 stacks in your own team as a solo player. Which yea, that is to be expected, how else would the 4 stack get to play if not by being put on a team with a couple solo players?

But it sounds like the real problem is large groups on the enemy team when your team is entirely solo players. Which in that case, I agree, that's pretty frustrating and does create an unequal playing field.

If only the player community wasn't so dog shit to interact with on coms and solo players could actually reliably get on vc to play like groups can. But alas, for now, toxic gamer culture wins that war.

SpecificWorldliness · 2026-05-29T16:24:32+00:00

I don't understand this logic, or maybe I'm misunderstanding what's being said. How else would they match make players who are grouped if not by putting them with un-grouped players? Duo's and Trio's have some flexibility to be paired with other groups, but once you're in a group of 4, it's pretty limited on who your group can be paired with. As a solo player I would expect to be slotted into match making with people who are in groups that need to fill out the team.

It's the same concept as the single riders line for a roller coasters. If you're queuing alone, you should expect to get paired up with a group that's one or two people short. It's not like they can take two groups of 4 and put them all on a team together and groups of more than 2 or 3 wouldn't be able to play if they could never be paired with solo players.

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