View Full Version : Do you ever have an irrational dislike for a sim?
Macaroodle
27th Jul 2012, 11:42 PM
Okay... I've developed a dislike for my one teen boy sim, and I can't figure out why. He's a knowledge sim with six nice points, but somehow he just seems kinda slimy to me, even though he's never done anything mean. He's never really rolled any social wants other than for his family or girlfriend, and even those don't come up too often. This isn't automatically a bad thing, but somehow he strikes me as considering himself "above" the other kids (especially when he autonomously checks himself out in the mirror :rolleyes:). Plus, he's always doing Responsible Things at home- helping with his toddler brother, cleaning up dishes... again, not automatically a bad thing, but for whatever reason he strikes me as being smug about being a "good boy".
Has this ever happened to any of you? If it has, can you pinpoint what caused your dislike?
beafish123
27th Jul 2012, 11:53 PM
I initially hated Dustin Broke. Most likely because he was in the criminal career track, I assumed Angela could do better. Now I look at his career as probably the only thing he could find, and his mother clearly wasn't going to get a job. I still have them break up, but now it's because he wants to be there for his family(and he can probably do better...).
victory101
28th Jul 2012, 12:19 AM
I can recall two off the top of my head, and a third one that doesn't quite count?
In one of my earliest families, there was a second generation daughter named Carrie. Initially I was kind of ambivilent to her, especially since her older sister was pretty phenomenal (Rosemary. She brought home straight As on her first day of school :O And she maxed two skills autonomously before she was halfway through her childhood), but then when she got into her child and teen stages, she just ended up being a total brat. She was constantly harassing her sister and parents and she broke up Rosie and her boyfriend by autonomously flirting with him in front of her :/ Rosie stayed mad at him for ages -- probably because I couldn't keep them from fighting whenever they were in the same room after that -- which completely ruined my plans for the household D<
The second one was a third gen kid from a different family, Vesper. I actually started out really liking her! But about halfway through her toddler stage she turned out to be a massive brat; she spent nearly the entire time screaming about some motive or another, even when she had the means to take care of it herself. (IE, if her hunger was low and there was a bottle right there on the floor next to her, she'd still just sit there and shriek about it instead of just grabbing the bottle.) Mostly she was just incredibly annoying and disruptive, and she was just as bad as a kid (except as a kid, she made it a point to regularly torment her siblings). By the time she was a teen, I pretty much couldn't stand her. I dedicated a great deal of her time in university to making her miserable >_> Revenge.
And the third one I thought was going to go the way of Vesper, but ended up stealing my heart instead. In my current family, Payton started out being really irritating. The nursery was on the same floor as her parent's bedroom, and she NEVER let them get any sleep. Or do anything else, for that matter. She was constantly queue stomping them with "Ask for Attention" autonomous actions, and whenever they laid down she'd go into their room and starting crying at them over something and wake them up. And she just loved passing out in exactly the right place that blocked traffic on the staircase. (To be fair, Natalie and Ben were pretty awful parents; I had to replace the cribs with pet beds just to make sure Payton and her sister Wanda could get some sleep >_>) But she ended up being an absolute darling when she aged up into a child. More responsible than her sister (although less so than her older brother) and surprisingly sweet, in spite of the fact that she only had one nice point. She's my favorite of the family, so far.
(In fact, that one nice point only ever seems to be a thing with people who mess with Wanda. Once, when they were all teens, their older brother Van brought home a friend from school that was just a huge bully; he spent a ton of time picking on them all, but especially Wanda. After a point, Payton apparently got sick of it, because she attacked him out of nowhere and kicked his ass! I was so proud XD)
It always fascinates me, how these things end up!
Selly_2009
28th Jul 2012, 12:52 AM
For me it's Alvin Futa in my BACC hood. In his teens he'd frequent my sims' owned community lots and start autonomously picking fights with random sims. Although the businesses involved were owned by "experienced" sims, having to keep an eye on the entire lot for any untoward and unwelcome activity spoilt the fun somewhat.
He's a little better as an adult - maybe he's grown up a bit now he's got children, but I don't enjoy playing his household much. He seems rather smug, even though I can't pinpoint anything specific that makes me feel that way about him...
There is a second one that makes me cringe every time I see him outside his home lot, but right now I can't think of his name!
SingleClawDesigns
28th Jul 2012, 1:07 AM
Carlos Contender- reminds me of an old "rocky" type of guy and that just makes me want to somehow throw him off his roof. I mean really a boxing stage in your own house how much of a loser can you be?
Patrizio Monty- only because he's the first elder to ever die in my game when I had the base game and I wasn't aware he was so close to death from the start. I tend to just send Romeo and Mercutio to college now from the college screen and stay away from that house.
Buck Grunt- the only frigging obese kid in the game from the start and had to be part of THAT family and that's just really sad on Eaxis part that they thought that was ok.
Elizabeth Aspir- maybe it's because of her lips i don;t know but I can't ever shake the feeling that that woman is just cold to the core and the type to know all the latest child rearing/family information to tell everyone else but disregards it herself.
Olive Specter- You killed that many people yet can't even pencil on some damn eyebrows? Everyone ages her down but I don't yet I still want her damn genetics passed on somehow.
Those are the ones I can think of at the moment.
Fivey
28th Jul 2012, 1:39 AM
I don't hate Dirk Dreamer, but I do find him boring.
I do hate Ophelia Specter, because in my hood, she is a total creep-under-neon-towels. She got pissed off when Johnny got drunk and proposed to a stranger. Understandable. She broke up with him. Sad, but it makes sense. She starts full-on hitting on Mitch Indie, after knowing him for five seconds. A little suspicious. She insults Achmed Meredith, someone she doesn't even know, which makes him cry like any shy-nice-neat sim would. What the hell? She comes over to the Grunt house in the middle of the night to flirt with thirteen year old Buck Grunt. What the hell?
Saturnfly
28th Jul 2012, 2:04 AM
I do have one sim I absolutely despise. It's weird, because she's probably the nicest sim in my game, just unintentionally gets in the way of EVERYTHING.
I send another sim to use the toilet, who is on the verge of peeing themselves, guess who decides she needs the toilet first?
Same with the shower, same with a chair, same with the fridge, argh, she gets on my nerves so bad, yet now all there is to do is roll my eyes at her.
She has about 9 nice points, was a great mother, but... y'know... there's always someone you know, who is really nice, yet drives you absolutely MENTAL. Or maybe that's just me, lol.
DigitalSympathies
28th Jul 2012, 2:17 AM
Kennedy Cox.
I have no words for my hatred to this man.
M.M.A.A.
28th Jul 2012, 2:22 AM
Probably Sophie Miguel, because she's enemies with the Llama Mascot! :faceslap:
victory101
28th Jul 2012, 3:00 AM
Oh! I thought of another one that slipped my mind.
In one of my custom neighborhoods, I had this one sim, Sam. She was my place holder sim, basically; the one I used to generate all the townies and test everything before moving in actual families. I left her in the neighborhood as a playable on the off chance I wanted to make more townies or mess with a few piece of CC or something. Anyway, I moved my first family in, and it was just a founder sim, Zev. And Sam, naturally, was in the welcome wagon, since she was the only other playable in the neighborhood. So I introduced them.
Biggest. Mistake. Ever.
She stalked him everywhere. Zev could not go to a single community lot without her showing up, and whenever they were on the same lot, she'd constantly queue and requeue the "Greet" action, and until he finally acknowledged her, she'd just stand there. Staring. And following him around the lot. And she showed up every day at his house and would just stand there outside for hours, waiting for him to come out. And she called him, all the time. It was just incredibly creepy and irritating. Especially when she'd follow him when he went to go to the bathroom, and then stand outside the door and prevent him from leaving.
And then one day, I sent Zev on a date downtown, and he was starving so I had them order food. And Sam was there, of course. And then she STOLE HIS FOOD and Zev didn't have enough to buy more and he wouldn't stop whining about how hungry he was long enough to push the date into a Dream Date to replenish his motives. And that was basically the final straw. So I converted her to a townie and the next time she came onto his lot, I killed her off >_>
(...Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if my hatred for her was really all that irrational, given all of that XD)
julmoo
28th Jul 2012, 3:22 AM
All of the Bluewater Village Sims. They're ridiculously dull to me.
And from those I really hate Melody Tinker, she goes off and starts being mean to EVERYONE. What the hell.
Dustin is okay to me, he makes a really great older brother and he helps his siblings with homework and stuff :)
DuskTrooper
28th Jul 2012, 4:02 AM
Yes, and sometimes they're Sims that I've created myself.
lil_princess_of_evil
28th Jul 2012, 4:17 AM
The Travellers. Can't stand them, never could understand why. Honestly, I've always made good stories with them, but I can't really care for them. My game obviously dislikes them too because every time i start them in a neighborhood, one of them accidentally starts a fire resulting in a death. This time, Tina was orphaned by a fire, leaving her to move with the neighbors, the Rileys.
The Tinkers. Never even played them other than now with my megahood.
The Greenmans. Maybe its just because they're plantsims.
SingleClawDesigns
28th Jul 2012, 4:26 AM
I think the hatred of melody is because her parents have such huge mouths but she doesn't so you know that she's the only pretty one ever coming out of them. I gotta agree about the travellers though never could get interested in them as well as the ramiswamis. The issue with the bluewater sims is that those sims are more business oriented instead of the regular backstoried sims so they feel pushed. I was actually mad they finally put the Landgraabs in only to just get a descendent instead of an original. I have the vines only overlay from GOS for plantsims so i'm actually feeling a bit better about them since their skintones still show.
Aegagropilon
28th Jul 2012, 5:48 AM
Elwood Valley. Definitely Elwood Valley.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj202/aegagropilon/IHateElwood.jpg
I didn't mind him at first: he was a nice-ish Family sim with a cleaning habit. But that tolerance turned to outright hate when Elwood -- who was apparently tired of being rejected by the yellow alien women in town -- decided to try grooming yellow half-alien girl Grimhild Subject. He was relentless, calling her every day and seeking her out whenever she visited his two youngest daughters Ruby and Uncanny. He even rolled wants regarding her (and none of his daughters' other friends). I guess he figured that if he got her to like him as a kid, she'd be open to romance with him as an adult.
It was truly creepy to watch, and his antics earned him the honor of being Strangetown's first -- and only -- victim of spontaneous human combustion.
Fivey
28th Jul 2012, 6:09 AM
I think I'm one of the few who don't hate most of the Bluewater Village sims, mostly because I've played enough of them to get a full rounded grasp on them. Though, I'm not fond of the Ramirez family, but that's because I haven't played them extensively. I don't have a feel for the characters yet. Tinker family never took a grab at my attention, and every time I play them, I can't seem to power through.
I like playing Malcolm Langraab IV partly due to how I see a possible back story for him, and partly because my earliest game memories involved him. From how I view it, his parents died when he was a child (his parents died as adults, and there is a picture of him in the storybook at the funeral), his grandparents died when he was a child/teen, so I would imagine he's a very lonely person. The 'lofty expectations of his family' are more like his own conscience making him feel inadequate and lost. He didn't go to college, since he was trying to pay for the gigantically expensive house he grew up in, and that's why he only has 20kish when you open his house up for the first time. Teen jobs pay only so much, and it was a miracle for him to come by some Real Estate offers, though it helped being of money. It would seem that someone from a rich family would live easily, parents or not, but he was just a child when he lost his family. That's gotta be hard on a kid. His Criminal Mastermind LTW, and supposed lack of doubt in terms of morality, probably stems from his troubles as an orphan.
Jodie and Jason Larson are also probably orphans. Their parents most likely had them late in life. Perhaps Elise had trouble conceiving throughout her life, and Alvin, being a family sim, bugged her to take fertility drugs. Since they were born so late in their parents lives, their mom and dad probably died in the twins' late teens. They had a funeral, and noticed that a lot of people felt sorry for them. Sad people are easier to manipulate, so they threw more parties and used the orphan card to get sympathy and cash. Then, since they didn't have the money that Malcolm had to pay the mortgage, they were foreclosed on and kicked out.
Chester Gieke's story probably was a lot less sympathetic. He was adopted at a young age by Carl and Lucius 'Lucy' Gieke. Lucius was a transexual, which would explain the male voice when you resurrect her. Carl was a lot older than Lucy, so he died Chester was probably a child. Knowing Chester, he probably lived as a NEET for a very long time. Lucy was tolerant of Chester's laziness at first, but then her hair started graying. She got more and more fed up with him, until one day, she was yelling at him about the basic need to bathe. Then, halfway through the argument, she had a heart attack and died. Since Chester couldn't mooch off his parents anymore, he left the house.
So, that's a little of what I think makes these characters interesting. Just got to be creative.
Liv Lukas
28th Jul 2012, 6:59 AM
I find this thread to be deeply amusing.
The only irrational hatred I have is for Counselor Troi, from Star Trek. HATE HER.
But for my Sims? I severely disliked two characters in my last custom hood, but that is because they were assholes. So it was quite rational.
One was very fond of hiring hookers and fighting with his ex-girlfriend and one was a gun runner, drug dealer and sniveling little toady.
Gcgb53191
28th Jul 2012, 8:15 AM
I don't think I've ever hated one of my sims. Sure some can be a bit boring but I usually find a way to fix that :)
Their time will usually come where I can find their 'thing' :D
TychoH
28th Jul 2012, 9:30 AM
I hated Wessel. He was so perfect, did good in his job and had great skills, was a great parent and a great husband. He just was too good. I was happy when he died of food poisoning, although the other Sims in his household - his family - cried about him. To be sure I forget him, also his wife died. His daughters were fine to me.
His uncle, Eilan, who was living in the same household, was the same. Perfect, good in his job, urgh. He died in the influenza epidemic, which caused the dead of at least four Sims in his household.
RowenaLupin
28th Jul 2012, 11:25 AM
This is why I would never in my life make a self sim... imagine hating yourself... talk about self esteem issues. I've made a couple 'friends' and even 'enemies' but then come to find out that I liked the enemies better than the friends.
I actually like really difficult tots. It gives a lot of back story if done right. I had this one, he was the middle child, and so freaking adorable. It was the first time I used the pet beds because no matter how hard I try his motives kept tanking. His sleep, hunger, hygiene. I think he is a Taurus, and although he was potty trained he always ended up not making it to his potty chair which was a few feet away. I felt really bad for him, and one of my sims had to quit their job because not even a butler was helping. Actually, I think the butler was hindering because he'd put the kid in the high chair, give him food, and before the kid could even eat it the butler had him out of the high chair and on the floor -.-
However, I like the Travellers but I do not like Trisha. She rarely ever seems to interact with either of them so I usually break their ties and move her out to start her own life. I think Trent and Trish are better off as siblings or best friends. I made them siblings once, went into SimPe and took out the memories. In several of my hoods Trent seems to be more fond of guys than girls as well.
smorbie1
28th Jul 2012, 1:42 PM
I find this thread to be deeply amusing.
The only irrational hatred I have is for Counselor Troi, from Star Trek. HATE HER.
But for my Sims? I severely disliked two characters in my last custom hood, but that is because they were assholes. So it was quite rational.
One was very fond of hiring hookers and fighting with his ex-girlfriend and one was a gun runner, drug dealer and sniveling little toady.
I'm glad you said that about Troi. She's the reason I never could watch TNG. She was just useless.
xptl297
28th Jul 2012, 2:09 PM
I hated Brandi Newbie because she was such a crap mother. Then I found out that All family sims are programmed to be crap mothers.
Then I started to hate all family sims. Very seldom I choose this aspiration.
SimMegaptera
28th Jul 2012, 3:41 PM
Yyyyeah... all romance sims. I don't trust them. I think they're all sleazeballs and I'm just waiting for one of them to do something stupid. I haven't made a romance sim in ages. But I started playing the Ottomas family and it turns out Peter is one. He's gonna walk out on his wife and her umpteen kids, and leave his son and his mother as the breadwinners, isn't he? D:
Family sims: actually, I like them a lot! I like that their LTWs can be independent of their careers, so I can give them careers that are rarely rolled as LTWs and then work them towards something else, like marrying off X kids or having a golden anniversary.
Dizzy-noodles
28th Jul 2012, 3:41 PM
I made a sim, Shelley, that I hated when she was a child, she was difficult to keep happy, she was always throwing tantrums and would never do what she was told, and wasn't much to look at.
When she grew up to a teen, however, she blossomed into a really pretty girl, started being more friendly to everyone, and got good grades for the first time, and a boyfriend.
As an adult, she had a daughter, and got married to her boyfriend. Now she is a fantastic mother and a nice sim, and I'd even say she's one of my favourites!
miss.pink
28th Jul 2012, 4:06 PM
I had a sim i think her name was lina rose i hated her for ruining my game,and i also i hate some sim named kitty in sims 2 uni because she kept flirting with castor who was at the time my sim fiance so i killed her she deserved it
mirjamsim2love
28th Jul 2012, 4:38 PM
I do like familysims the most and if they have knowledge as their second aspiration it is even better. Especially because I want them to fill the neighbourhood with offspring and while they're at it get some skills too.
Don't have ány dislike for sims, not yet anyway, I make them myself. Maybe that helps? ;)
But you could say I just do nót like the Sims that come with the game or that do get generated by it. I know that people don't agree on that but I just can't get warm for playing them. It's just a personal feeling.
They just in general annoy me when they come home with one of my 'selfmade' Sims from work. So you could say I irrationally dislike EA/Maxis made Sims. ;)
maxon
28th Jul 2012, 5:06 PM
No ... no, I don't think so. My dislikes are entirely rational.
Fivey
28th Jul 2012, 5:17 PM
Yyyyeah... all romance sims. I don't trust them. I think they're all sleazeballs and I'm just waiting for one of them to do something stupid. I haven't made a romance sim in ages. But I started playing the Ottomas family and it turns out Peter is one. He's gonna walk out on his wife and her umpteen kids, and leave his son and his mother as the breadwinners, isn't he? D:
Heyyyy, not all of them are sleazeballs. I've had many Romance sims that kept loyal (or mostly loyal) for their entire marriage. Theo only had one affair memory, and it was because a curious teenager flirted with him once. Nothing came from it. Sure, Theo fucked around in college, and impregnated a woman there, but he changed dramatically after he found his best friend of a cousin attempting to date a few of the girls he slept with. He got out of that house, got his son back, married a slob, made two more sons, and lived happily ever after.
Though I am beginning to have an irrational hate for his son, Ponsonby. Well, not completely irrational. He is a sleazeball, even though he is a Fortune sim instead of a Romance sim. He own a few businesses, is spectacularly good at it, and often cheats on his wife and three children with a few of his customers. He's also going after the maid's skirt. I liked him in the beginning, but then he just spiraled out of control and cheated on every partner he ever had. Blegh.
maxon
28th Jul 2012, 5:36 PM
My romance sims are all sleezeballs. Best thing about them, IMO.
Ponsonby sounds like my sort of sim, Fivey. I treat the fortune sims as merchant bankers too. 'Spiraled out of control' eh? Oh yes?
Fivey
28th Jul 2012, 5:55 PM
My romance sims are all sleezeballs. Best thing about them, IMO.
Ponsonby sounds like my sort of sim, Fivey. I treat the fortune sims as merchant bankers too. 'Spiraled out of control' eh? Oh yes?
When Ponsy was dating Calvin, he was also dating Levera. When Levera broke up with him, he started flirting with Holly. Then, when he was dating Calvin, he was also dating Holly. Then Calvin found out, and broke up their engagement. Then he was just dating Holly, then Ponsonby got pissed off when he saw his younger brother trying to go for a fifty first dates LTW by dating Holly. So he was single for a while. Then he started running businesses, and soon had lovers Beverly, Patricia, Self-Sim (not my idea), and someone else I forgot the name of. Then he met his current wife, the Diva, Anna Smith. Even though they are triple bolting, Ponsonby would continue fucking the customers listed above. Then self-sim found out he was married, and stopped banging him. So now, he has wife Anna, and is sleeping with Beverly, Patricia, and whatshername, and is flirting with the maid.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/swallowmeup/snapshot_9cee9be4_dceea476.jpg
Don't smile at me, you douchebag.
maxon
28th Jul 2012, 6:31 PM
Hmmmm - yes, he looks entirely too pleased with himself.
labellavienna
28th Jul 2012, 6:35 PM
Minus the 5' 0 clock shadow....i'd hit it
tallyb
30th Jul 2012, 2:46 PM
I can't bear Angela Pleasant, she so dull and smug. Or rather she was, I bought a box of throwing axes and got Lilith to hurl one at her.
Willow's Tara
31st Jul 2012, 1:25 AM
Yyyyeah... all romance sims. I don't trust them. I think they're all sleazeballs and I'm just waiting for one of them to do something stupid. I haven't made a romance sim in ages. But I started playing the Ottomas family and it turns out Peter is one. He's gonna walk out on his wife and her umpteen kids, and leave his son and his mother as the breadwinners, isn't he? D:
Family sims: actually, I like them a lot! I like that their LTWs can be independent of their careers, so I can give them careers that are rarely rolled as LTWs and then work them towards something else, like marrying off X kids or having a golden anniversary.
Ironically in nearly all of my hoods, Samantha is the one who does the walking after having the babies and running off with Priya Ramaswami, I am not sure why but I am always making up different situations for them.
Speaking of the Ottomas, for some reason I just always make Dora seem like a bad person or a bad grandmother, I am not sure why but I picture Samantha running away from her, perhaps she just reminds me too much somehow of a strict and goody shoes grandmother (Yet I have no problems with most oldies in the game.. Except you know, Miss Crumplebottom. Wait no the coach from the University! I hate that guy, breaking into my sims dorm or home and forcing them to exercise when they are in the middle of something.).
So yes I don't dislike many sims that much, except Dora Ottomas for some odd reason.
And the coach from the University for being an ass and irrupting my sims to make them work out (In a legacy family, my sim was in University and he harrassed her like 10 times over the entire course of it. So I started making her eat chips and cookies XD, in your face!)
Miss Crumplebottom but that isn't really irrational. Not only is she annoying, date ruining, makes me not go Downtown, but she is a deadly corruption waiting to happen, if she gets bitten, neighborhood goes bye bye (I got the fix for that though). Deleted? Corrupted, mess her around and move her into the hood to make her suffer? Corrupted. Yeah not irrational at all.
Oh the Cow Mascot! I swear, he only flirts with my sims if they have a girl/boyfriend and have three bolts, it's usually the sims I plan on having never cheat on each other, being in love forever with three bolts. Then Cow Mascots ruin it, so he/she dies. (I cheat to make the two sims love each other again, but it doesn't remove the red part of them being furious or the memory >.>).
frankokomando
31st Jul 2012, 1:58 AM
Yeah, all the time. I usually dislike them because their face doesn't look the way I want it to look. =\
Peni Griffin
31st Jul 2012, 2:02 AM
Ms. Tara, you can get them back in love with normal play - the cow mascots do indeed pick on the most stable, passionate couples - and the cow mascot gives you interesting storylines. The course of true love not running smoothly. And sometimes, though there's a "caught cheating" memory, the blame is placed where it belongs and the relationship doesn't suffer at all, which is a very warm fuzzy feeling. If you think of them as opportunities, they can add to your fun.
If that's not a kind of fun you're up for, the Visitor Controller takes care of them.
All the sims I started off disliking I've come to love. The trick is to find something interesting for them to do. Wrecking that Alon Livingston's relationship with Sparrow Hawkins turned out to be fascinating.
Tga Kiwi
31st Jul 2012, 4:10 AM
An irrational dislike?...No..then again...Maybe.
I have a sim who seems to be a little annoying...can a sim become an attention seeker?
If one sim is talking to another, attention seeker decides they want to talk to them too, then there's the game of kicky bag, yes it wants to play also, along with the water fight and every other game.
Am I just paranoid but this sim seems to pop up out of nowhere, even hanging around outside the other sims homes...creepy or just weird?
vhanster
31st Jul 2012, 5:42 AM
Mortimer Goth. Because, despite having Knowledge aspiration himself, he couldn't seem to understand my Uni students' study pursuits (they are both Knowledge Sims too), and would come to irritate my poor Sims whenever they try to look into their telescopes.
I mean, come on, Morty, these two are dating each other, why would they want go peeping toms on you, especially since you(r body) don't offer anything good to look at? :rolleyes:
Orilon
31st Jul 2012, 6:02 AM
If they're looking during the day and you don't have a no shoving hack, he will shove no matter who it is.
General Buzz Grunt is the one Sim I really dislike. He irritates me by the way he treats me when his sons are teens and when one is an adult and moved back in he usually tries to get in their way of parenting. (General Buzz kept getting in Tank's way when he was trying to take care of his children.)
He is lucky that I don't kill off Sims.
Peni Griffin
31st Jul 2012, 6:08 AM
And he isn't necessarily shoving them for spying on him. He may have gotten it into his head that they're spying on Cassandra, or be defending the privacy of the sorority girls...Just don't ever "look through." Always "stargaze," "search for constellations," etc. If you get the "look through" option, it's too light out for using the telescope legitimately.
My Buzz just breaks my heart. He keeps rolling wants for his kids, but he can't get them to accept interactions, and when they try, he refuses them. This whole family needs counseling. Obviously he used to leave all the emotional work to Lyla, and now that she's disappeared he has no idea how to deal with the fallout because he doesn't have a rulebook that covers it. The thing about military men is, they tend to believe in following rulebooks. It's hard for them to understand that their families can't be run that way.
Willow's Tara
31st Jul 2012, 7:34 AM
Ms. Tara, you can get them back in love with normal play - the cow mascots do indeed pick on the most stable, passionate couples - and the cow mascot gives you interesting storylines. The course of true love not running smoothly. And sometimes, though there's a "caught cheating" memory, the blame is placed where it belongs and the relationship doesn't suffer at all, which is a very warm fuzzy feeling. If you think of them as opportunities, they can add to your fun.
If that's not a kind of fun you're up for, the Visitor Controller takes care of them.
All the sims I started off disliking I've come to love. The trick is to find something interesting for them to do. Wrecking that Alon Livingston's relationship with Sparrow Hawkins turned out to be fascinating.
Ahem, you do know I am a guy right?:P. I know you can do that but that wasn't the point of most storylines, some of them is meant to be true love going smoothly (It's a game, why bother making it more realistic eh?). So I just make them fall in love with Insim so I don't have to be bothered with something, sometime it is okay, most of the time though, no the Cow Sims need to leave those ones alone.
Don't think I could ever like the mascots, they are just annoying.
Fivey
31st Jul 2012, 8:30 AM
Ahem, you do know I am a guy right?:P. I know you can do that but that wasn't the point of most storylines, some of them is meant to be true love going smoothly (It's a game, why bother making it more realistic eh?). So I just make them fall in love with Insim so I don't have to be bothered with something, sometime it is okay, most of the time though, no the Cow Sims need to leave those ones alone.
Don't think I could ever like the mascots, they are just annoying.
Hey, a cow mascot was my second generation legacy heir's wife, and she contributed nothing but pure awesome. Don't knock them until you've had babies with them. :rofl:
There's nothing more amusing than a toddler going 'GRANDMA!' to a cow mascot. Well, there are probably a lot of things more amusing. It just happens to be amusing. I even have a picture!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/swallowmeup/snapshot_fcb09239_fcb09b37.jpg
NOTE: This picture is old. You can tell, because that's Toddler Casper, and Casper's son is a college sophomore right now.
Willow's Tara
31st Jul 2012, 12:44 PM
Actually I believe I did once, it wasn't a legacy I think but someone married a cow mascot, but that was on my old computer I believe and with the lost hoods, so I wouldn't able to track them down (And even then, I changed them out of the cow costume anyways)
Fivey
31st Jul 2012, 12:59 PM
Actually I believe I did once, it wasn't a legacy I think but someone married a cow mascot, but that was on my old computer I believe and with the lost hoods, so I wouldn't able to track them down (And even then, I changed them out of the cow costume anyways)
Aw, yeah! Who wouldn't, really? 8D
I changed Anna out of her Cow Costume too, but she still insisted on wearing it in public, or when she was at someone else's house (like that pic up there, was at her daughter's college residence, since Faith got knocked up by some deadbeat jerk named Berjes). It made family interactions funnier though. Her husband wasn't too happy that she used the shower as a bathroom, since he was a neat-grouchy kind of guy, but he got over it.
I'm getting off subject.
Uhh...umm...
Jonah Powers. He just seems like a giant douchebag to me.
Darby
31st Jul 2012, 2:26 PM
Jonah Powers. He just seems like a giant douchebag to me.
Redheaded premade Uni student? Messy hairstyle? If there's a sim in the game that inspires irrational dislike in me, he's the one! (Assuming we're talking about the same sim, and I think we are.)
I don't dislike many sims, but I took an immediate dislike to this one on looks alone. I figure he must remind me, subconsciously, of someone from my past that I couldn't stand. Notion supported by the fact that my brain insists that this sim has freckles. I do have downloaded freckles, but they don't put themselves on premades automatically, and I only got them recently (relatively) anyway. So whoever this guy reminds me of, he must have had freckles.
I also took an instant dislike toward Circe Beaker, to the point where I'll NEVER use her hairstyle on a CAS sim, ever. (There's one townie who uses it that I like, oddly enough.) I think this is another subconscious association, although it might also partly be the anti mean sim prejudice many of us have when we first start playing.
ella_in_wonderland
31st Jul 2012, 4:20 PM
I've always hated Mary-Sue Pleasant because she looks like my mean aunt.
SingleClawDesigns
31st Jul 2012, 4:40 PM
Jonah Powers (with a slight mouth edit) actually is really fun to play as someone on an immense power trip in the criminal or politics career.
Gunnar Roque is my newest peeve because i never knew how deformed his face was till i extracted him to make him a rock god in a new hood and couldn't do anything to that face to make it better.
Fivey
31st Jul 2012, 8:09 PM
Redheaded premade Uni student? Messy hairstyle? If there's a sim in the game that inspires irrational dislike in me, he's the one! (Assuming we're talking about the same sim, and I think we are.)
I don't dislike many sims, but I took an immediate dislike to this one on looks alone. I figure he must remind me, subconsciously, of some
one from my past that I couldn't stand. Notion supported by the fact that my brain insists that this sim has freckles. I do have downloaded freckles, but they don't put themselves on premades automatically, and I only got them recently (relatively) anyway. So whoever this guy reminds me of, he must have had freckles.
Yes, that Jonah Powers. He just appears to me as that bad-news boyfriend that mom warns you about, with sincere good reason. Normally, I try to get past that, but when I see Jonah harassing Edwin Sharpe...
Simonut
31st Jul 2012, 9:22 PM
Forward to "PleasantView" the first on my I do not like you list is Dina Caliente she a "Money Hungry Fox" her sister Nina I dislike just a little because, she go along with her sister program for rich hunting. ( To get poor old Mortimer Goth into her web. )
Fastward to "Veronaville" I really, really dislike Consort Capp, that rich old butt Sims have money growing out of his old butt. But yet he just love to walk pass all my Sims home in the neighborhood and "Steal" their newpaper, and then he run off. :rolleyes:
Kristin76
31st Jul 2012, 9:34 PM
I am playing the Grey family (Nina Caliene, her husband Corbin and son Nate) and they are just B-O-R-I-N-G they are the last to be played in my rotation and I dont look foward to it at all. Time seems to drag on and on with them -- even at fast foward. Ugh ... 5 more days until Nate moves on to University ... hopefully these last 5 days will go fast LOL
mirjamsim2love
31st Jul 2012, 9:54 PM
Fastward to "Veronaville" I really, really dislike Consort Capp, that rich old butt Sims have money growing out of his old butt. But yet he just love to walk pass all my Sims home in the neighborhood and "Steal" their newpaper, and then he run off. :rolleyes:
I always hope they steal it. Saves my Sims the trip of putting it in the trashcan.
gazania
31st Jul 2012, 11:10 PM
Yes, that Jonah Powers. He just appears to me as that bad-news boyfriend that mom warns you about, with sincere good reason. Normally, I try to get past that, but when I see Jonah harassing Edwin Sharpe...
In my game, Edwin graduated early, lost a few pounds, got a makeover, married one of the cutest ladies in the neighborhood, and became quite a wealthy man. In the meantime, Jonah is still a perpetual college student. Living well is the best revenge. :)
Simonut
1st Aug 2012, 1:11 AM
I always hope they steal it. Saves my Sims the trip of putting it in the trashcan.
@ > mirjamsim2love hahahaa funny what you said, I guess that another way to look at it. :rofl: The Sims will not have to use their "Bottomless trashcan."
mirjamsim2love
1st Aug 2012, 8:21 PM
@ > mirjamsim2love hahahaa funny what you said, I guess that another way to look at it. :rofl: The Sims will not have to use their "Bottomless trashcan."
;) The laugh is on me when they ran off with it. Maybe they think they pestered that household but it's the opposite. Thanks for taking it, twerp.
happyline
3rd Aug 2012, 4:46 AM
I can't stand Romeo from Veronaville, nor Cassandra Goth. Cassandra the most...I don't know, her face has always annoyed me, maybe because of her glasses, love for a playboy and dark clothing aha. Her brother is also annoying.
Fivey
3rd Aug 2012, 5:43 AM
OH.
OH.
I KNOW.
Ajay Loner.
He's so boring and plain. His description is plain. His face is plain. Everything about him is just...plain.
tallyb
3rd Aug 2012, 10:20 AM
And the coach from the University for being an ass and irrupting my sims to make them work out (In a legacy family, my sim was in University and he harrassed her like 10 times over the entire course of it. So I started making her eat chips and cookies XD, in your face!)
I wasn't a fan of the coach either, but then I realised that if I got a sim with plenty of influence to tell him to clean or do repairs he could actually be quite useful.
julmoo
3rd Aug 2012, 10:25 AM
OH.
OH.
I KNOW.
Ajay Loner.
He's so boring and plain. His description is plain. His face is plain. Everything about him is just...plain.
Actually in my games he seems to have commitment issues. Every. Single. Time.
You can make a nice story out of this....
Fivey
3rd Aug 2012, 10:34 AM
Actually in my games he seems to have commitment issues. Every. Single. Time.
You can make a nice story out of this....
None of the Strangetown playables are interested in him though.
Well, Kristen had two bolts with him, but she bolted higher with Jason Larson, and Ajay was being a dick. Jodie's married to Buzz Grunt, Lola's with Landgraab. Nobody wants him. He lost his virginity to prostitute Chloe Curious, and that's the most action he has ever gotten.
I might just throw him and Florence Delarosa together, since they have at least one bolt, and I am tired of playing them separately.
julmoo
3rd Aug 2012, 11:11 AM
Haha! Make them a bitter couple that is full of contempt but cannot do any better.
Arguing all day every day.
In my game Lola always likes him a lot. But he doesn't want to get married so she'll go and catch a better fish <.<
Aegagropilon
3rd Aug 2012, 11:23 AM
Ajay has commitment issues in my game as well, to the point where he has more romances than even the unstoppable Chloe Curious. He's not interested in marrying any of his dates, but going home with Ajay after work is a guaranteed home-run for any of his female coworkers. He's like plain instant oatmeal: bland, but so damned easy!
BloodyScholastic
3rd Aug 2012, 5:23 PM
OH.
OH.
I KNOW.
Ajay Loner.
He's so boring and plain. His description is plain. His face is plain. Everything about him is just...plain.
What's happening in my game dedicated to Ajay Loner:
http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/4341/heybabe.jpg
Just kidding... I took almost never played pre-made character then played him once just to make this comic because I was in a very extremely boredom situation ;) He's really that... plain :|
julmoo
3rd Aug 2012, 6:44 PM
How did you make THAT scary face? XD
I have another couple of families I don't like at all: The Kim and Traveller families >.<
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