as someone who used to be super into reading apocalypse challenges, everything getting easier and easier as time goes on can be a bit anticlimactic while actually playing it. as much as it makes sense for things to get better over time, the most apocalypse-y part of the challenge is mostly spent on 3x speed while your founder sleeps and works. lifting medicine first in particular turns it into like. okay what if we played a legacy where nobody does anything except play chess and eat rotten hot dogs in an ugly house.
(i have good things to say about them too, but you did ask to be talked out of it, so)
hahahaha, I appreciate the voice of reason here!!! I was actually thinking of doing military first, since i wanna use zombies, but I can see how the career grind would get boring after a while
my ideal challenge is probably some kinda BACC/apocalypse hybrid tbh, with multiple starting families and maybe incorperating the sun&moon sets… but I already have my MCC and BACC hoods! i think an apocalypse challence partially appeals for the aesthetic and partially bc it feels like a more “simple” challenge in comparison 😅 I’ll probably go ahead and decorate a hood lol, maybe doing the building will get it out of my system 😂
This is just One Guy’s Onion and you don’t have to listen, but honestly, the apocalypse aesthetic without the challenge still works for a BACC if you don’t want to do the grindy tedious part.
My deepest gratitude to @simsdaughters for making me such a horrible old bitch (affectionate) and helping me workshop insults! Additional thanks to @asimplevampire and @crvptydgaming for Jude and Eurydamos.
I chose Bluewater Village` as there’s lots of locally owned businesses and places to visit, but isn’t too built up and still nice and green. No dreadful neighbours either. Veronaville is close for aesthetics, but I can’t be bothered with all the drama (I keep that in my games for IRL!). I’d like to visit Takemizu Village for a trip :)
But yeah who’s choosing Strangetown? Isolated desert with a serial killer on the loose and nothing to do but count grains of sand and avoid the neighbours.
Is this “where would you like to live”, or “where would you actually live?”
I voted Belladonna Cove, but Sims 2 doesn’t really have a town that’s equivalent to my Beloved Hellhole. I live in a Rust Belt city that’s got a great cultural scene, but is half gentrified hipster land and half neighbourhoods with more churches than grocery stores. BDC is the closest BG neighbourhood to that, but it still feels a bit too California for me, y'know?
If I had to pick one of the BG neighbourhoods… probably Downtown, tbh. I love Strangetown but I don’t think the climate would agree with me, and I love Veronaville but I don’t want to get beat up by a ginger.
“why do you want to be able to make your trans sims with their assigned sex frames why can’t you just make them ideal post-transition selves”
because i want the sims to look like me and my friends as we do currently. thank u for ur time
The other thing is that… I am my ideal post transition self, but if you were going to make me in Sims 4, if you wanted accuracy you’d have to use a modded bodyshape.
Why? Because I transitioned after puberty. So I have Hips and a Flat Chest and a Tiny Waist and a Beer Gut.
Depending on the configuration of things you wind up with, post-transition, you might need to mix and match. :/
i was talking with my partner (who isn’t a sims 2 nerd) the other day about the tempest in a teapot with simpe
and they pointed out that being Chris Hatch must be so strange
on the one hand, you’re a pillar of the community, everyone uses at least something you’ve made (most likely the baby clothes or the CAS widescreen fix), you’ve been doing some of the most hardcore modding in the game for years and people generally recognize you as an authority
on the other hand, everyone, without exception, thinks you’re the most annoying man alive
