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hey! this is a snippet of a post from my dreamwidth. click here to read there, or at the bottom of the post! thanks!

so, i'm trying out the high school pack and... woof, what a beast. i still can't decide if i like this pack or not. it added so much shit that we were missing and yet falls so flat in other places that i'm just.. left feeling so confused. anyway, here are some moments from the last few days of playing, presented with much annoying commentary.

i primarily wanted a teen girl sim to play as because that's usually my default way to play (it has been since i was a kid, heh.) but to be honest, once i started making her family i ended up liking them a lot.. ended up taking a bunch of pics of them too.

the hernándezes; ariel, roy, michelle, and jay

despite being mortal enemies with this game's autonomy system, i did manage to capture a lot of adorable moments. i like to at least give the game a chance before it disappoints me (which it inevitably does but., you know). i get a lot of enjoyment out of just watching them do their thing. it also helps me not rip my hair out over having to micromanage every little thing these motherfuckers try to do.

i have no idea what kind of food that's supposed to be

before playing, i never actually looked at what the pack added to the game. i usually tune out big update news to avoid dumb takes and everyone's collective disappointment because it depresses me, lol. anyway, i dressed ariel up in the most gen-z of gen-z attire and set her off.

me too, girl

for reasons the game didn't bother to explain to me, when i pull up everyone is wearing a uniform shirt that explains what club they're in, i guess? i thought it was kind of cute, but for some reason on the next days of school they would wear regular clothes and on exam day they wore uniforms again... not sure if that was intentional or not but i like it. it would be way more convenient if they did it for your active sim too but, whatevs.

this is such a guess the anime protagonist ass moment

so i just let her walk around, seeing how well the game's autonomy works with all the new shit in the school. she actually managed to use the bathroom and wash her hands before getting to class on time, something that never happened in discover university lmfao. so i let the class run and it ends up being pretty fucking boring? i was hoping for more shit to do but i just kinda sat there and watched her write in her notebook. also all the kids pull out their books at the same time and its really funny. keep an eye on homegirl on the left in that last pic; after class she hits ariel up by her locker. i thought this was cute, i love when npc sims initiate conversation on their own. they hit it off super well, so this is definitely gonna be her BFF.

i'm very bad at screenshots if you couldn't already tell, but i'm hoping the more i post here the better i'll get at it. hopefully. anyway they just keep talking - mostly because of the "try to make friends" mod. they took a quick break from talking to let ariel decorate her locker

which came out super fucking cute, by the way. this is the "preppy" option and i love the lil black lady in the bottom left. anyway they keep talking and i decide yep, theyre gonna be besties and i have ariel join cheerleading. then the rest of the school day happens and aliyah ends up inviting her to the park afterschool. fuck yeah! i haven't mentioned it thus far, but i gave ariel the admired icon aspiration from the new teen category. basically i'm trying to make her the most popular girl in school. getting invited out by a cheerleader on your first day is some serious sitcom shit and i'm kinda living for it. and surprise! she brings another friend along.

so are you guys like...?

and it's a guy named reid. now, i move like an overzealous grandma when i'm looking for a partner for my sims. i'm always scanning everywhere like a motherfucking hawk. and when i see a sim that i want for my girl: that's the sim she's gonna get. and when i saw that guy i was like.. yeah that's the one. and oh so serendipitously, they manage to actually hit it off. part of me got scared that that would be aliyah's boyfriend, sort of like what happens in discover university (i keep having to compare these packs, lmao). but nah, he was just a friend, also on the cheerleading team. yeah... they're kinda meant to be.

no? ooh okay cool !

they just kinda chill and talk, and the friendship bar is just filling and filling. so things are going well! eventually it's around 9 and they have to start saying goodbye. i click the button to send ariel home and as she's walking she's pulled into conversation by these two chavs.

do y'all think they've explored each other's bodies

so they stop her and just go on to have a normal chat. honestly it's really silly that sims can't straight up hit on each other. like initial interactions are almost always pleasant, never flirty. i wonder if there's a mod that can make that happen. especially because i'm doing a popular "run", i would love to be able to turn people down. kinda like when you can turn down sex with wicked whims with the funny flavor text. anyway, they talk sans flirting which makes me sad. but whatever, they added ariel on social bunny so at least she's getting more popular. also, peep ariel's cold weather fit. i think its super cute, i adore that new base game hair so now that's her canon hair texture.

i don't fully know what a chav is, but i swear these two have gotta be

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aaand that's it for tumblr. for the rest, which is more than double the length of this post, please check out my dreamwidth

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so i realized, i pretty much made this blod at the worst time... i work part-time year round, but during the summer i switch to full time. why, oh why did i start this blog right before that !!

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working on my first official CC release....... i really don't like posting WIPs because i never finish them if i do so.... only posting my models in the fugly maxis clothes for now. (because they're adorable and i like looking at them)

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*gestures tiredly*

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got my first matriarch for a classic legacy challenge ....... oh boi im excited

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i forgot how funny this game is holy shit..... the way dancing triggered her pregnancy. the way the grace didn't even bother to stop to check on her mom. the way huang Also didn't bother to check on her and instead joined IN on the dancing.

WHAT A GAME

EDIT: OMG i didn't realize the botw stream i was watching got caught in the audio capture... hahaha please ignore the man speaking english and not simlish in the background thxxx

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it took forever but babey we did it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

well..... it's progress !

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well..... it's progress !

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the weekend is here and i've decided i will be spending these two and a half days learning how to make CC.

modding was actually pretty easy to learn so i can fumble my way through that, but blender literally makes my head spin. wish me luck !

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testing this again !

testing this again !

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this is a test

this is a test

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maddison and drew, together 5ever

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has anyone else noticed how stupid and ugly the lounge animations are?? this looks like a wicked whims pose and not like.. how normal people sit on lounge chairs lmfao