@simsample : Suggested caption to the fourth of those pictures (the woman playing pool): "I'm gonna hit this like an express train!"


Now a few more pictures taken in and around Veronaville:


Ravi mending the sink


Andrew in his bedroom


Tommy making his parents' bed (after sleeping in it with a visiting friend)*

A little oddity about the three boys who have bought these shorts. Ravi, Andrew and Tommy are all Virgos. Ravi and Andrew have nine Neat points each. Not to be outdone, Tommy has ten. Yet all three of them have bought shorts with the pockets hanging down below the hem at the front.

Now I'm not nearly as neat and organised as these three. Andrew says I'm a lazy fat slob, and he's not far off the truth. Now I am quite happy to wear equally short shorts in summer. But if I find the pockets hanging down below the front hem of my shorts, I'll get out the needle and thread and shorten the offending pockets a little, so they’re- not visible. (I'd use the sewing machine if I wasn't so untidy that I've lost it!) So I'm more that a little surprised that these three "neatniks" are happy to wear their shorts like that. Maybe I just have to accept that these shorts are now fashionable in Veronaville.

Note: * Tommy wishes to point out that, even though they shared a bed, neither he nor his friend are gay. Not that there's anything wrong with being gay of course!! He says, "After I asked him to sleep over, my friend got into my parents 'bed, and fell asleep. Rather than wake him, I thought the best thing to do was to get into bed beside him. In the end my parents slept in the spare room, which is where I think we were meant to sleep. In the morning I made their bed very carefully. To look at it, you would never know that Jerome and I had slept in it."

I suppose that, with so many of the local boys being gay, people will just assume that, if two boys share a bed, they must be gay too.

You know, when I finish working and I have free time but not enough to play--or willingness to--, I open my screenshots folder and I go through them, just because I love looking at the recent events from my sims' lives. I haven't shared many pics since November, so I want to show some of my favorites from December and what's passed of January (though I haven't played for a while because my computer was being fixed and I've also been doing other things mostly).

It shows that you enjoy your game, it looks very beautiful and the photos are very nice and well taken.

I like doing this too; I have sooo many screenshots! From Sims 1, 2 and 3- many, many hoods...

I don't consider myself a creative person, but recently inspiration struck as I've decided to take a break from Pleasantview... I've been having so much fun remodeling Strangetown - both by editing lots and by playing the game.


Kirsten made a wish for money (she took 3000 simoleon home) while she was visiting the odd "Kine Dairy Farm"...

Indeed a suspiciously odd place...


Olive got fired before she had the chance to retire, so I've decided to move the graves to the local graveyard and make better use of the plot of land - can you guess what she's growing in there?


Meanwhile Ophelia and Johnny spend some quality time together, although she's not impressed with him stuffing his face!

I only recently learned out of all my siming that you can free the burglar after they've been placed in the car. The teen girl wasn't in a good mood already so she warned them not to come back after doing so. Soon as the burglar ran off, I quickly sent the girl back to her bedroom to sleep before the cop could notice her.. and the cop drove off without another word. And yes, I still got to keep the $500 after.

So I've finally gotten around to playing with poseboxes...

Never knew Dora Ottomas was this mean.



Great Scott just fight back already.





There, all better.

I was really excited for my two new recruits to join the military, but as soon as I hit play and start setting things up, Juliette drops dead! She was already sick back in her parents' house, but I didn't think she'd die!

I never keep track of how many of my sims die each round, because I've never found it necessary, but this round I've had so many in such little time, that I had to count. I've had 6! And only one of them was a death by old age. It's been a round full of accidents and I'm gonna have to come back with a tribute post soon.

Bro does not care lol. Just keeps playing pool.

I'd say I'm 1/10 through my rotation, and I've taken over a thousand screenshots. Here are some standouts:

Andrew Jones-Moltke, Managing Director of Veronaville builders Jones & Moltke Ltd is having talks with Monopolis resident Diana Moltke, about her plans to build a new music venue in Regent Street in Monopolis.


Andrew arrived at Diana's house in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday afternoon. The Sims visible inside the house are Diana's adult daughter Morven Silke. and Veronaville paperboy Sirdar Curtin.


They sat together in the garden discussing her plans.


At nearly 10 p.m. they were still discussing details over a meal of Pork Chops prepared by Monopolis restauratrice Amanda Hunt. Construction is expected to start shortly.

@Justpetro : you may be interested to see that something is really happening.

A pic from my custom neighbourhood's university.

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!



Oscar! Sweetie, we can't see the flambé from here!



Depression.



"So why exactly are you here at 2am eating cakes and pies?"
"Shouldn't you be asking yourself that question?"

I've been taking a break from the game, but while I get back to it, I was playing around with chatGPT, and I asked it to make realistic pictures of my sims I think it did a pretty good job! There were some others that looked a little cursed, like people with 7 fingers and stuff like that, but I really liked this one in particular:

I have no idea how this happened and, frankly, it scares me a bit
(It went back to normal after, but it was still horrifying)

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At first I thought "why did she post the picture twice"...OMG it's a selfie! and how did you get a perfect match of the boy's jacket? Very cool

Lexie Graham isn't going to allow Julio's rude behaviour towards her at the park last week to go unpunished.



WHY ARE YOU BACK





"I'm not taking this from anybody! ...You prick!"

Ooh @k6ka Dramaz!

Some random pictures from my hood this week:

Just like most cult leaders, Icarus Byrd lounges in the hot tub and checks his progress with a pregnancy scanner, while his students do all the work.


Dodo isn't even one of his students. That's his older sister. She's just visiting.

@simsample Where did you get that tire track driveway, or is that just terrain paint on the dirt?

Yes, it's just terrain paint (assuming you mean the first picture).

Canyon Motors, or How Bentley Carr Lagged Creaky Oak Canyon to a Standstill

Janeth, a townie, wasn't offered an after-school snack when visiting her friend so she had to improvise.