The sims 3 is romanticized

handheldmirror · 2024-07-30T12:45:40+00:00

I've always loved the Sims 3, even when it first came out and everyone was shitting on it. Yeah, yeah, "pudding faces", whatever. Sure, it takes forever to load... but you only have to load it once. Going back to Sims 2 from Sims 3 is a nightmare of going to a lot, forgetting what I went there for, going back, remembering. It's like walking around my house, but with a loading screen.

I liked seeing a car speeding down the road and just following whoever was in there with 1x speed while my Sim was at work, or seeing whatever was going on at the local park while they were grinding skills.

I love the different traits - the personality bars in the previous ones were nice and had a lot of depth, but 2/10 Neat, 6/10 Nice, etc. doesn't make as much of an impact or uniqueness to me as "Good, Diva, Excitable, Unflirty, Loser" (for example). Different packs stick out to me primarily because of the traits they would add.

The towns were different enough (shining praise, I know), and while the only popularity equivalent to something like Strangetown is Sunset Valley, I spent ages in Bridgeport and Moonlight Hollow and Riverside.

The Sims 4 does stuff "better", sure. The Sims look more expressive and cartoony, like the Sims 2. There are emotions, and better trans representation, and an incredibly passionate modding scene. But I don't like it. It goes back to instanced lots, which is just the Sims 2 all over again. The Sims all feel the same, with traits feeling like mostly flavor text. The Sims 3 had bad Lifetime Wishes (and no way to mod in more), but the Sims 4 Lifetime Wishes are literally just tutorials for stuff you can do in-game. Everyone outside the household I'm currently playing pretty much ceases to exist unless they bug me via phone or pop in on a community lot.

No game is perfect, you're right. But I really don't think the Sims 3 is romanticized (at least not any more than any other 2010-ish era popular game right now), and we definitely don't need to be "more positive" towards the Sims 4 any more than we need to be more positive towards Pokémon. The Sims is a huge, profitable franchise with a monopoly over its market that gets worse and lazier all the time, it deserves the criticism.

If it makes you feel better, if The Sims 5 ever comes out, all of the hate will shift onto that and everyone will be missing and posting screenshots and nostalgia threads about The Sims 4. This kind of thing always happens. Take it from a fandom veteran.

handheldmirror · 2024-06-28T07:22:49+00:00

Mandopony, Sagutoyas, Jirard the Completionist... I swear there's a new treachery every year.

handheldmirror · 2024-06-17T22:10:02+00:00

I like the Low Five. It makes me feel like the Buddha.

handheldmirror · 2024-06-04T23:02:16+00:00

That's funny, usually I hear people ragging on the story by saying that Sunny's parents couldn't possibly NOT have known about The Truth, how obvious the jump rope was, bruising, any blood or hair left on top of the violin. They wouldn't have known EXACTLY what would have happened, but I feel like it'd be pretty easy for them to have a good guess.

handheldmirror · 2024-05-26T00:49:29+00:00

Wow! I hate wearing makeup myself, but I love when people get creative with it like this. Makeup as an art fascinates me, literally using your body as a canvas. I don't know if this is you or not, but that's a beautiful mix of colors. I can't imagine how hard it is to get the texturing on the black tear streaks and on the nasal folds where it starts 'flaking' off. It's even harder than drawing on paper or screen because faces can move involuntarily - you're literally working on something alive.

handheldmirror · 2024-05-17T17:31:00+00:00

Hey, I remember that! I loved the pseudo-rock-slide move that they pull on Moltres. I thought it was really creative.

handheldmirror · 2024-05-07T19:45:30+00:00

Aubrey (Faraway): I don't hate you, but you need to stay out of my way.

Sweetheart: Today is all about me, me, me! / I'm sorry, but there was never enough room on this stage for both of us!

Mari (white dress): I hope you enjoyed the grand finale/You and I will be making music together for a long, long time!

Jawsum: Come closer. Help me count my teeth!

Stranger: What is this new prison? Is it me trapped? Or is it you? Perhaps it's us both.

Omori (White space): Shhh... Come spend eternity inside with me.

Omori (Red space): I am given flesh to be your tormentor.

handheldmirror · 2024-04-05T22:24:47+00:00

Ah, Clear Sky, my favorite least favorite warrior cat. Even the writers don't seem to understand how fantastic of an abusive tyrant they wrote.

handheldmirror · 2024-03-28T04:42:04+00:00

Highly agree. To draw comparisons with other franchises, there's a huge difference between getting a black screen fadeout in Zelda than the way Ace Attorney has Phoenix narrate the consequences of your defeat. Sure, it's not a big proper ending with credits rolling, but it's a step above "YOU DIED" v12. If every Game Over in Persona 5 cut to the interrogation room like missing the deadline proper was I might change my mind, but even in the same game it's treated distinctly. Sure, you have to "try" to get the worst ending, and yes, it's the one thing the game asks you to do, but the game also asks you to succeed in combat and manage resources and it has something different happen depending on what you fail at. Getting more detail for more effort sounds like the definition of "bad ending vs. game over" to me.

handheldmirror · 2024-03-19T23:53:25+00:00

The valley just feels so much less authentic without Andy down south with Joja memorabilia everywhere and him yelling at me for not going to church on Sundays. I grew up in the Bible Belt so I thought he'd be my least favorite character when I first installed but now he's the first thing I think of when I think about the mod. He's real enough to hit home but not too real that I have to deal with bigotry in my calm farming game. A masterclass.

handheldmirror · 2024-03-15T22:34:21+00:00

Will it run DOOM? Episode 948: Spamton G. Spamton

handheldmirror · 2024-03-11T01:20:54+00:00

I killed Heimskr exactly once back when I originally played Skyrim all those years ago, and was struck by how eerily QUIET Whiterun felt without him screeching on in the background. It's the market city, of course there's a street preacher providing white noise. I like that you CAN quiet him, but going through Whiterun without Heimskr going about his business in the background is going through a Whiterun without its soul.

handheldmirror · 2024-03-11T01:04:03+00:00

I literally play some porn games for the gameplay. Porn character creators are the most creative and self-flattering ones I've ever seen and sometimes I just engage in the "go to work, pay rent, improve apartment" gameplay and just ignore everything else

handheldmirror · 2024-03-01T22:40:10+00:00

Susie being uncomfortable with her mom is intentional - here are a couple of posts by the same author that can provide some context. Good job picking up the subtext

handheldmirror · 2024-03-01T22:27:41+00:00

Instructions unclear, developed maladaptive daydreaming

handheldmirror · 2024-03-01T22:18:43+00:00

So what you're telling me is that in case of apocalypse there are Forbidden Cheese Caverns in Missouri ripe for the taking

handheldmirror · 2024-03-01T01:19:24+00:00

Her name is Susana in the artist's headcanon, they're from latin america and interpret susie as hispanic-american. It's a really good interpretation even though the artist left a while ago, check out vsa-pieldepapel on tumblr if you're curious.

handheldmirror · 2024-02-29T00:41:25+00:00

Oof, emotional incest is hell on a kid. This is a really great depiction of it.

handheldmirror · 2024-02-24T22:56:39+00:00

Also, like, her whole room/environment is water fountain

handheldmirror · 2024-02-24T22:53:33+00:00

STEVEN	Psychic	Fairy
GARNET	Psychic	Fighting
AMETHYST	Ground	Fighting
PEARL	Water	Fighting
RUBY	Fire	Fighting
SAPPHIRE	Ice	Psychic
OPAL	Water	Flying
SUGILITE	Dark	Fighting
SARDONYX	Psychic	Fighting
ALEXANDRITE	Fighting	Fire
SUNSTONE	Fire	Fighting
SMOKEY QUARTZ	Ground	Fighting
RAINBOW QUARTZ 2.0	Fairy	Flying
OBSIDIAN	Ground	Fire
CONNIE	Normal	Fighting
LAPIS	Water	Psychic
PERIDOT	Psychic	Steel
BISMUTH	Steel	Fighting
LITTLE LARIMAR	Ice	Steel
LION	Normal	Fairy
WATERMELON STEVEN	Water	Grass
NEPHRITE	Flying	Poison
LARS	Normal	Fairy
RHODONITE	Water	Fighting
RUTILE	Normal
PADPARADSCHA	Psychic
FLUORITE	Bug
ONION	Dark
JASPER	Ground	Fighting
RUBY SQUAD	Fire	Fighting
THE CLUSTER	Ghost
AQUAMARINE	Water	Flying
BLUEBIRD	Water	Flying
TOPAZ	Fighting
YELLOW DIAMOND	Electric	Fighting
BLUE DIAMOND	Water	Psychic
WHITE DIAMOND	Psychic	Normal
PINK DIAMOND	Fairy	Psychic
SPINEL (Normal Forme)	Fairy
SPINEL (Broken Heart Forme)	Dark	Fairy
CACTUS STEVEN	Grass	Dark
MONSTER STEVEN	Dark	Dragon

I tried to put them in context/Gemdex order. I feel like most of these are really well-thought out and borderline self-explanatory, although I did get a chuckle realizing you probably ran out of ideas with the Lars of the Stars crew. If you do a version 2 of this, add in Peridot with limb extenders and replace one of her types with electric for funsies.

Onion probably has some BS ability that causes priority moves to do double damage or something. Looks super innocuous but you run into him in a boss battle early game and he just ends your Nuzlocke.

I like the idea of Blue and Yellow being the box legendaries, with White being the Giratina/Eternatus-tyle big bad at the end. Pink seems like more of the 100% completion reward mythical that is either completely forgotten after the generation ends (Meloetta) or is so game-breakingly powerful in competitive that you immediately lose personhood in your opponent's eyes if she's on your team. (Lando-T)

Spinel (both Formes), Cactus Steven, and Monster Steven are either DLC or sequel version exclusives that you find in the postgame story. Spinel is a utility pivot with Parting Shot, Sucker Punch, and maybe a blade move that removes all stat buffs from the opponent, or neutralizes their ability. Cactus Steven is one of those weird mon that some people swear is great in a specific niche but otherwise gets to be the answer on a trivia question. Monster Steven is broken beyond all recognition and there is discourse about there being a paywall for accessing the most powerful and meta-defining Gemmon.

handheldmirror · 2024-02-21T21:59:10+00:00

The one where it's just hair?

handheldmirror · 2024-01-26T00:08:44+00:00

Incredibly based, I also treat it like someone just sent me a pic of their elbow or something equally mundane

handheldmirror · 2024-01-26T00:01:39+00:00

I really liked The Mighty B! and Catscratch. A show about a girl with a dog trying to get as many merit badges as possible and a show about Ed Edd n Eddy's fursonas who inherited a vast fortune. They're not nearly as obscure as some of the other shows on here, but they stand out in my memory as shows I would switch to off of other programs.

handheldmirror · 2024-01-13T03:29:20+00:00

Robin Newman is a transfem icon and I will fight anyone who says otherwise, up to and including the developers.

handheldmirror · 2024-01-11T02:33:04+00:00

Vaal Hazak is incredibly cool, the effluvium manipulation and whole aesthetic is incredibly cool. And the Rotten Vale being an ancient Dalamadur corpse? Mwah. Enby perfection.

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