Playing the mod conflict smack-a-gnome game. Something is preventing my sims from using their tablets to raise skills and that must not stand.

Richard Epcar and the mystery woman were finally alone after the Canadian part timers left...then he came along.

Daisuke Jigen appeared and started his attempts to usurp the mystery woman's affection from Richard.

The mystery woman, identified as Kymchee, would not let Daisuke steal her away from the older man who was kind enough to take her in for the winter.

Daisuke had nowhere else to go. So winter has the two men, one of which breathes life with his skills into the other and a mysterious woman who is trying to choose between a dream and the real deal.

(Jigen attempted a Heat of the Moment Kiss, but Kymchee spurned him)

What's happening in my game? Sims 3 is what's happening, and how!

I'm blown away by how well this new laptop is running the game: smooth animation, no stuttering or freezing, no more slow rendering, CAS a pleasure to use, and saves that load in two or three minutes, rather twenty or more. I'm falling in love with TS3 all over again!

My only problem is what to do first - so many places to go, so many sims to meet.

But in the end I decided to drop in on the Darke family in Neverglade...

On and off I've been studying my Sims dreams trying to figure out how the A.I. is using the icons to convey not only the Sim's emotional state but what's going on in their life within their virtual mind. See even The Sims (2000) was based on psychology among other studies, as well as The Sims 2 (2004). However as far as I can tell, the dreams in TS3 actually serve a purpose than just random imitation.

For me, initially it was difficult to understand how the A.I. was using the icons to communicate a story. So I focused on body language, facial expressions, actions and reactions and the why for what makes a Sim do what they do in relation to their behavior based on high free-will with little to no player input. And because of those many observations with the many varying Sim A.I.'s has been good practice in becoming more accurate in figuring out the psychology behind the scenes. Because of this, it means that it makes it a bit easier to figure out how each icon is being used to reveal the psyche of the Sim. I'm more reliable at picking up on emotions, behaviors and motives and use that to match the story I'm seeing play out with little to no input from me, to their dream world.

"The primary function of dreaming, according to Jung, is psychological compensation. Dreams help maintain a healthy, dynamic balance between consciousness and the unconscious. When the waking ego becomes too one-sided, or if it tries to repress a part of the unconscious, dreams will emerge to highlight the imbalance and guide the individual back on a path towards becoming a more integrated self." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...s-reappraisal-0 (FYI my personal thoughts about the function of dreams is excluded and this is rather an investigation of what I perceive as matching philosophies between Carl Jung's work and the dream world within a Sim A.I.)

Sims reveal a lot about themselves and it is possible for a player to gain insight to either help, ignore or intentionally play in a way that is against a Sim's goals, which they can set for themselves in how they want to live their virtual life. Personally, this is a huge part of what has attracted me and kept me playing The Sims (2000) because Sims are not marionettes and do have their own desires and all that outside of what is presented in the U.I. (TS2/TS3 wants-fears/wishes gameplay features)

So yeah, basically I'm getting closer to understanding the Sims language through icons. This way I'll be a lot more helpful in guiding my Sims through life, but of course this is an interactive soap opera after all.

I met someone's sleep paralysis demon today in CAS

- Don't you worry. Get in. It's not gonna hurt...

- Not at all...

Oh why, why, why, Delilah?* It seems she can't stay out of trouble for five minutes!

Also, why did that sim have to choose that precise moment to grab a picture?

And this, BTW, is the first time one of my celebs actually did pee herself in public: usually it is just base lies put about by the paparazzi. But I guess the haunted house was too much for her delicate nerves, and now she must endure the jeers of the mob. And just when she was beginning settle in, make friends and progress with her career.

As expected she got publicly disgraced and lost all but three of her friends, including that bloke in the black shirt, who'd till then been making amorous advances and sending her love letters. He dropped her like a hot brick after this. Well, screw him! And screw the rest of them too! Lousy ingrates!

But Delilah, as usual, soon bounced back. I sent her down to City Hall to sue for slander and she actually won her case - which doesn't seem quite fair really, since there were witnesses. But never mind, after legal costs she was around 1000 Simoleons up on the deal.

And after that the good citizens of Santa Lola couldn't get enough of her, they were inviting her to parties, taking her photo (when she was doing things other than peeing herself) and begging for her autograph. She made six new friends in space of a day...



Including legendary film director Otto Schuhorne, who she's been chasing all over town, and finally tracked down to the South Beach board walk. It's rather a precarious sort of friendship - they're both a couple of firecrackers with short fuses - but at the moment she's good friends with him, which raised her celeb status to Level 4. That should help her career along a bit.

So, all in all a, good day. Keep it up Delilah, have fun and try to be nice. Just keep away from the haunted house!


(* Well I was always going to work that line in sooner or later.)

Had a lot of fun in Sims University.

Delilah finally made it to the top of the film career, which was her LTA. I used the resulting lifetime happiness points to give her the Inheritance reward, which enabled her to move into this modest little abode. I built it especially for her and it is closely modelled on a house in Beverly Hills once owned by Ronald Reagan. So far it is very sparsely furnished, so she can have all the fun of furnishing it in a style befitting a screen goddess. Although she already spent half her budget on that nippy little sports car. Well, it was high time she had her own transport.

I wonder what is it about Kanyin that has some of the Rumbaa's fixated on him. I mean I did want a Rumbaa x Okotie-Eboh union but this is ridiculous, lol. So long story short, Kanyin's ex-friend Jules wanted to be more than just friends, which Kanyin began to distance himself from him. However, Jules was quite aggressive with keeping in touch and not allowing the relationship to die even though it did a few times but he kept reviving to Kanyin's annoyance. There were enough subtle and not so subtle happenings to alert me to how Jules was feeling toward Kanyin, like walking in on him in the bathroom and then thinking about that astronaut. Or watching him as he sleeps and day dreaming about him...stuff like that.



I moved Kanyin to Bridgeport to catch up with his older brother Tendai and for a change of scenery away from Jules. Now in my other save in Sunlit Tides, Choice had been having difficulty in finding love with Daichi, Ken'ichi, Israel or anyone else really. I thought it was because she wanted commitment...well she does but not in the way I initially thought. Back to Bridgeport, I had Kanyin eventually become the next door neighbor of Hunter and they both live in the same apartment building with their own apartment. I started picking up vibes that Hunter was liking Kanyin a little too much by his behavior but like his younger brother Jules, was being subtle initially and then not so subtle.

Fast forward, I move Choice to Bridgeport thinking she might be a good compatible match for Kanyin since they both have been cheated on before and maybe that could strengthen their bond. Plus they knew each other since they were teens. Well, when Choice came into the picture, Hunter her twin, would then start the not so subtleness towards Kanyin and according to Kanyin's behavior didn't appreciate it and kept ignoring Hunter's advances. And Choice disapproved of Hunter's antics of trying to seduce Kanyin. She also was trying to seduce Kanyin and it's so funny watching the twins fighting over Kanyin's attention. What is going on, lol. So their sibling relationship is almost non-existent and they don't even like each other much anymore. Great, another pair of Rumbaa twins that don't get along. Oh! Speaking of twins, Jules is the twin of Velvet, and Velvet and Kanyin had a fling when they were teens. Eventually Velvet will be moving to Bridgeport too...but last I saw she was flirting with other women so...I don't know.


Kanyin and Hunter has been close friends before when they went to an university scholarship course and then university together. I'm starting to wonder if something happened between those two and I didn't notice then. Or it could be just Hunter coming to terms with who he's attracted to. I guess Andreia was a total turn off and other women in general because no matter how much they flirted or was throwing themselves at Hunter, he wasn't interested. Well, I know why now. Even though in the past, he was really into Andreia at one point, but I notice some of my Sims change. Like I said before, the A.I. is dynamic so there's always something new developing or changing and why I'm never bored.


Anyway, back to Choice. I found out she wants Kanyin to agree with having friends with benefits with her, but according to Kanyin he doesn't agree with that. Or at least for the time being, he could change his mind. It seems Choice wants a long-term committed FWB than a one night stand which she consistently refuses. Oh by the way Tendai, Kanyin's brother, keeps trying to get with Choice but she keeps denying him, lol.

I'm finally at Generation 10 of my Riverview Legacy from the original Joy family. Things are not going well. I engineered Christina since the few age appropriate lesbians for my heir Brenda were not interested. I've never done an engineered baby, so I don't know if that's normal but she got Insane and Evil. And Grumpy on aging up to child. This one might get interesting. Or very frustrating. I'm imagining an evil insane lonely inventor here.
After she gets to Elder, I will stay away from Riverview for a while.
I've never gotten this far with a legacy for one reason or another and I managed to keep most of the the family tree with some branches cut off when portering to a new version of Riverview. I'm quite happy I made it this far.
Time to play a different world. I started a Random Legacy in a Twinbrook remake, I think I will continue that one next.
ETA: So, my adult sim of my final generation has: Evil. Insane. Grumpy. No sense of humor. Loves the heat.
Really probably the worst combo of traits I ever had. And I always randomize.

Scot Macklamoor is thrilled he finally found a Sim who could appreciate how hot he is after days of heavy lifting.

I reinstalled the game and started a new one; I decided it was appropriate, after all this time, to start once more in Sunset Valley. I created a Sim, gave him a beard and made him a writer; after he finished his first book he got an offer to take it to France so now he has a mission to go there - not only to sell his book but, above all, to bring back Brave Margot. The problem: he is rather poor ATM and has nowhere near the 1900$ needed.

To be continued. - But I must add that this game is really beautiful and far richer in content than I remembered.

The next day I finally remembered that there is a lot of stuff to be found around the criminals' hangout; my Sim went there and he sold enough to get the money to travel to France. (Here goes the honest hard work theory.) He delivered his book but could not find Brave Margot anywhere; in desperation, he made friends with Blair Wainwright, just in case, had a fling with a French paparazza and then, on the second evening, he learned that Margot went steady with a French dude. Luckily, you can click on notifications so he made a beeline for the dude's house and started making friends with her straight away. (The dude was hanging around all the time, not pleased at all.)

The next morning my Sim learned that Margot and the dude had a fight (I wonder why) and this time, she was to be found at the bookstore. Now, the problem with her is that she is not flirty at all and has no sense of humor, so my Sim had to besiege her on friendly level. which took him most of the last day; in the evening, he finally conquered her and they immediately went steady, got engaged and got married - I did not want ta take any chances because the dude, suitably pissed off, was hanging around once more. Then they ran to the bed as quickly as they could but before they reached it, the game dispatched them back to Sunset Valley.

That was a hard task, harder than any tomb, but all's well that ends well. (Not for the dude, of course. The next day he too appeared in Sunset Valley so the newlyweds kept to their house for a while and obviously, he could not find them.)

P.S.: I intend to play the rest of the game as conventionally as possible so there will be no further updates, unless something really interesting happens.

My sim's cousin is stalking three different women....

In case anyone is interested in my Joy Legacy that I finished.

1. Norman Joy, widower, lives with his daughter Elaine Joy in Riverview on The Homestead.

2. Elaine Joy: has two children with two different men. Doesn’t get married. Raises her daughters with help from her father. Works part time and creates the Joy fortune by having a 5 star resort. Norman supports them with his gardening.

3. Heir: Mariane. This supernatural skeptic thinks she can do it all. Has a son with a fairy, forces her husband to become human, they have another human daughter and things are not going well in their marriage. Their children move out together as soon as possible. Mariane spends her days trying to become mayor and developing a potion to cure every Supernatural in Riverview. It’s not going well and on the day she takes the gravestone of her estranged husband to the cemetery, she dies as well, unfulfilled and bitter.

4. Heir: Tina. She ends up with a child by the man who ends up marrying her brother. So, her brother moves out and the relationship doesn’t recover. Mariane’s pointless efforts caused the Joy fortune to diminish somewhat. Tina raises her son and a pair of twins by herself, has a wonderful garden. A lot of money goes into supporting the university studies of those twins. Her son is the heir.

5. Heir: Joseph has five children with Lisa. Gay Alexej and his sister Anja have quite a close bond. Alexej is commitment phobic and dedicates his life to taking care of his sister Anja who is unlucky, insane and absent minded. After her death, he finds love late in life. They accumulate quite a bit of wealth.

6. Heir: Aletha is much younger than Alexej and Anja and looks more like her mother. She is gay and lives with her sister Alicia in a small house. The Joy fortune is no more. Aletha cannot find a partner but has a son with a woman who is not interested in a relationship nor her son. Aletha’s son grows up determined to find wealth again and writes a book about getting cheated out of an inheritance. What happened was that Alexej from the previous generation married a man late in life who also had a daughter. When Alexej died, his husband and daughter inherited the Joy fortune. Benedict, Aletha’s son got nothing.

7. Heir: Benedict has three sons with his wife Miki. The marriage is ok although both are mean spirited. Neither have a good relationship with their sons, and move out as soon as they both are elders. The sons move out as soon as they are young adults except for the heir Damian. Benedict and Miki kept waiting for his aunt Alicia to die, so there is more room in the small house. His mother Aletha died young.

8. Heir: Damian finally makes some money as a collector and moves to one of the Doghouses in Riverview. He marries Shanita and they have two children. The son, Brendan loves animals and goes to university to become a vet later. He moves out soon after his mother dies from seeing the ghost of his cat. He takes the gravestones of his other cats with him. Damian recovers but never remarries.

9. Heir: Brenda. Brenda is rebellious but her career with her band isn’t going so well. Not a problem since she inherited the businesses of her father. When she turns elder, she starts a career as a Rockstar. Since she has very high musical skills with all instruments, she is quite successful very quickly. Her daughter Christina is a testtube baby since there are no lesbians in Riverview that would like to partner up with Brenda. So, she cheated.

10. Heir: Christina is evil, grumpy, insane, has no sense of humor and loves the heat. I give her all kinds of lifetime rewards to help her at least get laid occasionally before she pisses off everyone around her. She is not interested in a relationship, becomes an inventor and tinkers around the house and the junkyard a lot. She is an adult now.

Conclusion: Love and marriage is hard to find for the lesbians in the Joy family.

I played in a remade Riverview that, now, that I'm done, I'm a bit sad to leave. My next Legacy is a Random Legacy in a remake of Twinbrook.

So earlier when I was playing the Sims 3 I had one of my sims in the medical career & whilst she was at her job & I was playing another sim in that same household my sim left her job (she still had 6 sim hours left before she got off work) & came home only for her to sit at the dining table & drink orange juice from the fridge

Finally back to my Fordyce 'Saga'.

It's taken longer than I'd expected, partly because I needed to be sure the rotational play settings I made with Nraas SP were working the way I wanted. Also the save my new laptop has inherited from my previous machine is a real mess of missing objects, missing outfits, invisible sims and other oddities. For the first half hour of play I was dealing with endless script errors and notifications about un-routeable sims and stuck ageing checks. I found Richard Ross-Fordyce frozen in mid stride whilst running somewhere - god knows how long he'd been there before I reset him, and Christina Marcus, who's school performance was right down in the red, had unfinished homework stuck in her inventory which she could neither do nor get rid of. I had to reset her to get rid of it.

Anyway I think it has all settled down now.

So we turn to Alison's branch of the family. Alison, you may remember, married Christopher Marcus, and as soon as their daughter Christina became a child they moved into their own home. I'd been eager to play this new household whilst Chrissie was still a child. But I didn't want Corina, Jerry and Cosima ageing up any more, before I can get all three married off. Hence the rotational play set up.

No sooner had I gotten everybody settled down for their first night, when this happened...



Alison probably shouldn't have written all those Science Fiction novels. Hopefully these aliens are fans and not critics.

She got back just as Christopher was clearing away the breakfast things. And then, suddenly, before his uncomprehending eyes, she changed ...



... into a rather pretty maternity smock.

It's very gratifying to know that my sims are getting on with the job whilst I've been attending to other business. Indeed, judging by the notifications I've been getting, other couples around Finnington have also been getting busy lately. Thanks to Nraas Story Progression I suppose. So they're finally breeding!

Meanwhile, Christina found the Blue Bird of happiness.



She kept it for a few days and then let it go. I know she could have sold it for over 600 Simoleons but, just like the little girl in the story, she thought that happiness was more important, and that the bird deserved to be free and happy too.

- I haven't seen you for ages. Where have you been?
Me:

Pulled two lovebirds out of the family bin to test out a new world.

Clarice Heron, Praaven's local witch, sells her potions in front of the fortune teller lot. She has to move location every day to avoid getting caught by the crown. Magic within the city itself is punishable by death.


Here she is with her cat familiar Lonnos. Clarice lives alone with him in a burned out building in the small town of Lughaven.

Dawid and Manuela as humans



Their son Artur

Those are some eerily handsome men. What site do you use for those? I do pen and paper RPGs so that would be a really handy way for me to create portraits of my characters or my NPCs when I am the one running the game (generated.photos only goes so far).

There's a Youtube video with a tutorial and link link to the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Kqbm1WirU
Be careful. It's very addictive.