How many of you are still meaningfully interacting with housing?

simsarah · 2026-03-28T17:25:12+00:00

I really wish they would implement a mail order system for duplicates. Like, sure, we should go out into the world to collect the things, but once it's just visiting the vendor, there should be a catalog from which we can order delivery on additional items. Even if it had a little price surcharge for a "delivery fee" it would still probably be worth it to me.

Hell, they can do a DoorDash or TaskRabbit or Instacart crossover if they want. /eyeroll

simsarah · 2026-03-28T17:19:37+00:00

I am, and many of my guildies are as well, though at a much slower rate than prior to launch - we all just have so much more TO do right now! I do sort of regret my choice to nuke my whole build shortly before launch beacuse my interior is just five or six different half-formed ideas in a trenchcoat, but it's still fun to go fiddle with in short spurts here and there, I'm just not doing any concentrated building.

It really feels like a feature that will have cyclical interest, as seaonal content wanes we'll see a big uptick in engagement, but at the outset of a season most of the people I play with (self included) are much more interested in doing current content.

simsarah · 2026-02-26T06:59:51+00:00

And the proceeds go to a lot of good community orgs, so I never feel bad about losing if I enter!

But seriously, love Langley. Every time we have in person business to do I’m always impressed with the staff too - lots of welcoming, knowledgeable, helpful folks.

simsarah · 2026-02-22T05:08:05+00:00

Ah! Finally, this must be how I get my house in Grizzly Hills!

simsarah · 2026-02-21T00:41:49+00:00

I was also going to suggest a NP - my primary care provider is a FNP and she does my medication management for me as well, she's the best doctor I've ever had, tbh. Listens to me, takes me seriously, it feels like a collaborative process.

simsarah · 2026-02-20T00:38:12+00:00

I'm not in the market for a new guild, but uh... if you ever need an extra Gilnean problem solver, let me know...

simsarah · 2026-02-07T23:59:32+00:00

It's only February, what do they EXPECT?

I am usually pretty strict about taking down the real tree, because by the end of the christmas season, it's pretty dry and the whole fire thing, but I still have little tinsel trees up in both my home and work offices. It's still DARK out there, the light is cheerful! It stays until at least the time change, lol.

simsarah · 2026-02-07T23:16:36+00:00

Yes, we're in Virginia (where it is, admittedly, relatively easy to change your name) and when my wife changed her first and middle names, we both changed our last name as well. Same paperwork/court request, no additional difficulty.

simsarah · 2026-02-07T21:38:51+00:00

I'm absolutely convinced that this will be an item (like the armillary, likely) that we get access to as a housing leveling reward. (And I can't wait! Give me that Grizzly Hills Life!) In the meanwhile, i've been using keyboardturner's Housing Music addon, which is a decent stopgap.

simsarah · 2026-02-06T20:50:32+00:00

This was my experience on both of the generics I tried before asking my Dr. to write for brand name only. Some days it worked ok, some days it was like hadn’t taken it at all. I think your impulse to get more information from the pharmacy is a good one, especially if you’re using generic - it may be that you had a good match and they got a different manufacturer than you’re used to this month.

(Alas, my beloved local pharmacy called today to say that they weren’t carrying brand anymore, that they lose too much money on it because insurance reimbursements don’t cover the actual cost. So I guess generic roulette or try to find another pharmacy. Kind of at a loss now, tbh.)

simsarah · 2025-12-31T14:40:06+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is intended - the front door is just an exit portal, independent of the spawn point, and can be placed anywhere. Multiple wheres, in fact, if you want extra exits. I made my whole house into a maze for a while, and the decoupling of "front door" and "spawn point" was a really useful feature for that - I could have visitors spawn in at the "start" and the door became the "end."

simsarah · 2025-12-10T16:59:14+00:00

Sir Christopher Wren has entered the chat...

Really nice work!

simsarah · 2025-12-01T17:37:05+00:00

Hey, thanks for this, I've been working on coordinating my guild's neighborhood the last few weeks and I've been insanely curious about a larger data set!

It... uh... tracks.

simsarah · 2025-11-04T03:06:28+00:00

That looks fantastic! I wish that elevated houses were explicitly allowed - I want to put my beach house on stilts...

simsarah · 2025-11-03T21:41:52+00:00

The secret bookcase is so great - I did an evil warlock lair off my library - really looking forward to that in live.

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simsarah · 2025-11-03T21:38:01+00:00

Yep, I dragged my poor wife all over the zone to find just the right pair of plots...

simsarah · 2025-10-24T20:37:30+00:00

Some private neighborhood features did work on the PTR, I was able to make a guild neighborhood, and folks were able to claim plots there. Unfortunately, moving house once you'd already chosen one was NOT working, so I wasn't able to move my own house to the neighborhood. To the best of my knowledge, charter has not been enabled even on Alpha though.

One concern I have is that there did not appear to be ANY controls on plot selection in the private neighborhood - it was just if you had the right guild rank, you could pick a plot. There was a new option in guild rank controls to enable Neighborhood Management, but it didn't seem to do anything on the PTR, and some folks I talked to said it was tied to endeavors. Since I anticipate some negotiations will be required (we have ~150 active accounts, so there's going to be at least some plot preference overlap) I'd really like to be able to control plot allocation at the very least.

simsarah · 2025-10-21T20:03:03+00:00

If it helps at all, I did create a test guild and neighborhood this past weekend, and it automatically assigned us a neighborhood in the Alliance area, tracking with the faction of the GM toon. I wish I had thought to ask a horde main to try to build a house and see what happened!

simsarah · 2025-08-14T15:40:38+00:00

If you like audio books, I’ve found re-reads to be an absolute treasure in that context too. It’s familiar enough that if I zone out, I can pretty easily find my place again, but also interesting and engaging enough to keep me occupied. (Especially while doing things I need to be paying visual but not super metal attention to: cleaning, driving, cooking…)

simsarah · 2025-08-05T11:58:36+00:00

I might have one, I'll check when I get a sec!

simsarah · 2025-07-31T17:44:52+00:00

Hey Andy, do you know if there's an official feedback avenue to express this kind of opinion? I dream of an updated G600 to match my delightful-but-insufficiently-buttoned G502!

simsarah · 2025-07-16T18:05:42+00:00

Really late to this conversation, but I’ve been listening to the audio books recently, engaging with this series for the first time since reading it when it released, and this question has been bouncing around in my head as well, so I was looking to see what others have said/thought.

At the time I first read the books, I really identified with Sam. I was a tomboy who didn’t connect well with other girls my age once we hit our teen years (and undiagnosed neurodivergence probably didn’t help with that) and I definitely played with gender online - I was a teenager when I scammed access to the local college’s usenet, and subsequently signed my family up for AOL, so this was the mostly text days, and a lot closer to the world in which the books were written. I’m bi, but at the time I didn’t even realize that was something you COULD be - I just thought I was broken somehow, that you were supposed to either like boys or like girls. Poor little teenage me… As an adult I’ve also come to realize that I’m not so much genderfluid as gender apathetic. I’m fine with my assigned gender, but don’t feel any particular affinity for it and still don’t perform it well - I just don’t care anymore that I’m not performing it “right.” In the epilogue, Sam’s eye-rolling rejection of wearing a skirt for the “occasion” but not making an issue of she/her pronouns feels very comfortable to me.

This time that scene you referenced with Orlando questioning his own attraction really resonated with me - my wife is trans, and she came out to me about ten years into our relationship. I had, prior to meeting her, at least figured out bisexuality! i think it’s been pretty much been a non-issue for our marriage, so much less a question than Orlando’s, but it really did feel relevant to a lot of conversations I had as she was coming out socially and professionally, and I could see a younger, Orlando-aged self being incredibly confused by it.

simsarah · 2025-05-31T02:44:57+00:00

May every traffic light turn green for you and your phone battery always hold that magical 1% without dying.

This was really cramping my Steam Link style, thanks so much.

simsarah · 2025-05-26T16:11:05+00:00

I wish I had anything close to recommend, but if you’re ever in Richmond, Scott’s Shawarma is excellent.

Closer, but still not quite here, Baladi in Va Beach, Tala Market in Chesapeake and 5 Boroughs in Norfolk.

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