#olivesplum06

[simsllama]

Can you please, please post floorplan and some more pictures of your Curious house makeover? It looks amazing!

Thank you! Luckily, I’ve got a few floorplan screenshots saved in my OneDrive pictures folder on my laptop so here you go:

Sorry it’s not that much! I’m afraid I don’t have indoor pictures at the moment but I can take some more when I get back to my student hall if you are still interested.

And in response to @olivesplum06‘s comment:

Beautiful! Would you mind putting it up for download?

I can do that but there’s a problem - I’ve gave this house a makeover while the Curiouses were living in it. I thought it shouldn’t be this problematic but I’ve heard some people were having issues with stripping all dangling character information off. Is there a tutorial on this sort of stuff? At least I can provide some disclaimer though. I only have my laptop with me as I’m visiting my hometown at the moment so I’ll be reunited with my gaming computer in a couple of days so I should be able to do something about it. :)

[grimbunnies]

The toy box is part of a 2t4 Parenthood conversion. It’s here. It’s just decorative, in case you’re wondering. And I’m not sure if you also wanted the race track (which is cloned from the dollhouse), but I’ll share for anyone interested. It’s here.

[kaylynnlangerakk]

@olivesplum06

I just did that, and they gave me the Ultimate Collection! The person I talked to was so kind and helpful :D

[deedee-sims]

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twofee replied to your photo “I have some more rugs for you! :D No surprises here, because I love...”

loooove thiiis

mdpthatsme replied to your photo “I have some more rugs for you! :D No surprises here, because I love...”

CUTE! ♥

Thank youuu :3

olivesplum06 replied to your photo “3t2 Little Anne Dress (requested by @didilysims) I was eyeing this...”

Yes yes yessssss omg

Hehe, I’m glad you like it! :D

nekosayuri replied to your post “I'm recently getting back into the sims 2, but I don't know where to...”

I would do defaults first, then definitely hair and clothes, after that, SOME makeup and accessories, then buy/build add-ons, rather than all-new + some clutter. But like really, I would check all those SS and such on GOS and end up just getting everything. xD

Oh, yes, that's it! These places are really dangerous... so many amazing stuff! D: :P

[dramallamadingdang]

Time for replies!

Some of these go back a bit because I’ve been a bad, bad blogger...

For @olivesplum06, @jellybeanery, @getmygameon, @penig, @holleyberry, @littleblondesim, @mustluvcatz-reloaded, and @elfpuddle...

olivesplum06 replied to your photo “Another day, another A+. *snooze* And it was time to give Sharon a...”

What mod are you using for the custom UI sim portraits?

It’s one of the ones that @hexagonal-bipyramid made. I think it’s this one, specifically, but they’ve made a bunch of different ones with different poses, so check out their downloads page. :) 

jellybeanery reblogged your photoset and added:

Eeeeee thank you so much for doing this! ♥ I can’t...

You’re very welcome! Let me know if you have any issues with it. I didn’t thoroughly test or anything. I’m particularly unsure of snow on the roads. It should be OK because I used CuriousB’s as a “template,” but you never know... :)

getmygameon replied to your photo “And Sharon rolled up the same “Talk to a Relative” want the next day,...”

Well he looks like he's saying 'you've got a nice setup there ma'am' XD

And he’s not wrong! She does! But then, all female Sims do until they hit elder and then it’s suddenly sag city, as if good bras haven’t been invented in Sim-Land. :)

penig replied to your photo “VOOOOO, GERBITS!!!! Yeah, as if you actually care about the sports...”

A good cheer is a poetic performance, though, so she's appreciating literature.

Well, if you say so... :) I’d call it a “bad poetic performance,” personally, but then I’ve never really gotten poetry anyway. :)

getmygameon replied to your photo “A tree exploded. No one cared.”

Damn right. When does anyone give a damn about a burning tree? :p LOL!

Only if it’s in their own yard, really. Or threatening their own house. It’s all me, me, me. ;)

penig replied to your photo “Dawson, for some unknown reason, decides to express admiration for...”

She assumes he's making fun of her.

Nah, I think she just doesn’t do people. Which is weird because I think she has a good amount of Outgoing points. Most of the family does. But I’ll have to check again. If I wanted to make an actual “story” out of this trainwreck of a neighborhood, I’d probably characterize her as autistic or at least an extreme introvert. While her parents and all of her full- and half-siblings were busy interacting with each other and their barging-into-the-house guests and just generally being strange, she was off in her room reading. She’s still like that.

holleyberry replied to your photo “And she immediately plopped down on her ass to do an assignment....”

Woohoo Sharon. Lots and lots of woohoo.

Well, *I* know that, and you know that, but her? Hell, she hasn’t even had her first kiss yet. I’d almost say that she doesn’t know what kissing is, except that her parents were fond of making out in the kitchen on a regular basis, so it’s not like she hasn’t been exposed or anything... Maybe she was too exposed, now that I think about it. :)

She’s in for a rude awakening, though. Her “destiny” is marriage, so if she doesn���t find a spouse in college, she’s going to find herself assigned a random one. Because I’m mean that way and someone needs to be procreating in this neighborhood, after all...

littleblondesim replied to your photoset “Sharon’s dormmates, in order of their appearance on the lot. These...”

Lots of cute sims in your neighborhood!

I can’t take any credit for them at all. My game generates all my Sims. I just default and townify things and let the game do its thing.

mustluvcatz-reloaded replied to your post “I have a creating project to do, that I need to get done. I’ve done...”

Tom Selleck is still pretty hunky for his age - just felt that needed to be said. :)

Yeah, he’s gotta be in his 70s now, and last time I saw him, he was still lookin’ pretty good. I totally crushed on him in the 80s. Watched Magnum PI just to ogle him in his shorts and nothing else. I know he’s where my chest hair fetish comes from...                     

elfpuddle replied to your photoset “A nice summer day off with Sage GilsCarbo.”

Doesn't everyone daydream about their bathtub?

I certainly do! I just got out of mine a few hours ago. Yeah, that was an excellent bath...

penig replied to your photo “And then….. But don’t worry because… They were just taking a...”

Yeah, that'll look good hanging in the police station!

Well, it’s certainly more attractive than mug shots! :)

elfpuddle replied to your post “i think my highest cc problem is bedding,walls,and flooring cause...”

As someone who has all of those walls in her game, I can confirm that they, at least, aren't the problem with my game. #ElvesHaveDownloadIssues

You don’t have “issues,” my dear. You’re just nuts. ;) 

getmygameon replied to your post “littleblondesim replied to your post: Sorry if...”

Oh god...ACR >>;;; oh boy, the shit that program has caused me in the past. I can imagine how hellish it'll be to me when I get this going again XD

Ah, but I just cannot imagine the game without it. It would be not nearly as fun. It totally did something tonight that has me LMAO. ‘Course, it might gross out other people, but *I* think it’s insanely funny. :)

[mikexx2]

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Living for all the drama!

flowyfan replied to your photoset “I think the snuggling animations are much sweeter in reverse.”

I love when sims are snuggling. *-* it's just so cute.

IKR, it’s one of my favourites! cafesimming replied to your photoset “Not gonna lie, the Tinkering hobby actually terrifies me.”

*shoves entire arm through counter into dishwasher* this will end well

I could have handled it more if someone had been there to save him, but at that time he lived alone!

tamtam-go92 replied to your photoset “It took a moment to sink in, but when it did Dieter (and Daphne) were...”

Daww that poor Guy. Dieter is so sweet with his huge ears                    

He really is! The ear sliders are my favourite <3

tamtam-go92 replied to your photoset “Not gonna lie, the Tinkering hobby actually terrifies me.”

Me too. Always have them repair only showers, sinks and tois.                    

He has reasonable mechanical skill, and required a point for a promotion so when the dishwasher busted, I thought I’d have him try fix it to save some cash. I guess mechanical skill and tinkering enthusiasm are independent of each other?

littleblondesim replied to your post “Dieter: So, I was thinking a summer wedding might be nice, or maybe we...”

What's Susann's aspiration?                    

She’s a textbook romance sim (per her creator’s original stats), and a knowledge secondary.

[stellaterrano]

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olivesplum06 replied to your photo “Idk why, but Brigit is CONSTANTLY making this disgusted face when...”

Lolol neat sims do that when they watch sloppy sims eat. I love it!

NO WAY! I’ve been playing this game for 11 years now and I’m still learning things I never knew before. Thanks!

[nerianasims]

olivesplum06 replied to your photoset: .

Where are you planning on putting the twins once they’re born? lol I have like a 5 bedroom place for this family and people are still sharing rooms lol

CC baby bassinets that are smaller than in-game cribs are a wonderful thing ;).

[wickedjr89gaming]

olivesplum06 replied to your photoset “The Hart Household! Valentine, Candy, Rhett, Faith, Goldie Valentine...”

Candy looks beautiful with that lipstick and hair style!

Thanks :) Though the lipstick goes to Peni G as I didn’t change her lipstick, I agree it looks great on her so I didn’t change that. I did change her to that hairstyle though :)

[andrevasims]

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“Esther Mendel”

Where is that beautiful hair from??

it’s from here :)

[audreysims14]

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Hey everyone! These replies are super late since I’ve just let my queue run while finals were going on. But, finals are finally (wink) done, so I’m going to work on filling my queue back up since it’s already down to just one post. However, the amount of replies I’ve received were heartwarming, and brought a smile to my face. (Replies under cut)

nonsimmer: They whant to hav babies hdjbejehj (x)

Not quite yet, but I’m sure soon!

olivesplum06: What mod is this? (x)

Monique’s Hacked Computer, it’s on MTS, but there are lots of recolors so you can use different computers too. Find it here

holleyberry: Aw! They are so cute!

annegirl13: Hey, Holleyberry!  I was going to say that! ;) They are sooo cute!

(x)

I think so too!

silverbelling:yep. good way to keep your jump-off from kicking over the trash can . . .until the next time they kick over your trash can (x)

Interesting! I wish I knew that before, but it’s a fun little addition I suppose!

annegirl13: That's a little harsh, Betty.  Wow... (x)

Well, I’ve been watching a lot of Revenge on Netflix. That show is basically a soft soap opera, so my sims were due for some over dramatic plots.

didilysims: I'm surprised they don't start out as witches already, but I guess the game wanted to teach us how to make that happen. (x)

I assume so, because they’re obviously meant to be witches!

didilysims: Aww, what a sweet setting too. :) (x)

Thanks! I thought I might as well put some used to some of those downtown lots.

didilysims: Not that you're complaining. ;) (x)

You know me too well! I’ll rarely complain about a cute sim baby addition.

[simper-fi]

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For @olivesplum06, @ofgodsandllamas, @shastakiss, @mikexx2, @holesoulsims, @crystaldollhouse, @dramallamadingdang, and @arielle-celeste  ❤

Is if up for download?

It’s not up for download at the moment, but I have a clean copy in my test hood (along with the other houses I built from floor plans) and I’d like to put them up for download soon!

ofgodsandllamas replied to your post “WHY DIDN’T ANYONE POINT OUT THAT SONYA ISN’T A TODDLER YET lmao that’s...”

HAAAAH omg. i carried on like nothing was amiss lmao

I think everyone just has toddlers on the brain and it’s the FIRST THING we think about these days!!

ofgodsandllamas replied to your post “More replies <3”

i find branching out in kitchens to be SO HARD. i know i keep reusing the same cabinets and colors even the shapes and it's driving me crazy D: lmao even when i look at picture inspo somehow i slip back into my comfortable blues or yellows lmao aaaahhhhh. i really want to do a dang Scandinavian style kitchen sometime too! all the same LOVE YOURS

Ugh Scandinavian style is one of my favorites! <3 I tend to look up modern/urban kitchens and a lot of them use clean lines and monochrome colors (as opposed to mission-style or craftsman kitchens with wood finishes). I need to branch out as well! I also look up inspiration from IKEA a lot (but that’s also to get ideas for a future apartment lmao)

shastakiss replied to your post “Aaaand some more replies <3”

shiftable lights :) https://sims2artists.com/index.php?topic=4082.0

YOU ARE MY HERO ❤

mikexx2 replied to your photoset “Have

 I mentioned that I really love this lot? No?”

You should- it is stunning! <3

holesoulsims replied to your photoset “Have I mentioned that I really love this lot? No?”

Sooo beautiful!

Ahhhh thank you both so much! ❤❤

crystaldollhouse replied to your post “WHY DIDN’T ANYONE POINT OUT THAT SONYA ISN’T A TODDLER YET lmao that’s...”

Omg I noticed but my brain didn't register lmao

Ahahah, I’m glad to know my brain isn’t the only one that wasn’t functioning at 100% at the time LOL 

dramallamadingdang replied to your photo “More toddler!Sonya spam because it’s finally my day off and I did...”

Napping is a daily essential for me. :) 10/10 would recommend. :)

I took one today and it was glorious! I’d take more if those pesky 14-hour shifts didn’t get in the way. Time to live (or at least work) somewhere where they honor siestas. ;) 

arielle-celeste replied to your photoset “Shena enjoys a grilled cheese out on the patio (in much the same way...”

your neighborhood looks so cute!

Thank yooooou! ~ ❤

[aondaneedles]

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olivesplum06 said: What a cute idea!

Thank you! The lot’s actually by plasticbox, I just made it over. Figured it would fit the neighbourhood quite well.

twofee said: feel better soon :)

Thank you! I already feel slightly better after almost collapsing during my oral exam yesterday (I made it! And got a pretty good grade, too, so all’s well!), although I must confess that I took a ton of cold medicine today and feel slightly spaced out. XD

quill-of-thoth said: Two further testing scenarios: Use a hack to increase the number of customers a business lot can handle (my game keeps getting stuck on 3 customers…) or ban your culprits using the visitor controller. It could be that your game is throwing a small fit about conflicting hacks or something has made it think they’re the most “loyal” customers for the owned lots. (Thinking they have 5 stars when they don’t.)

Thank you for your suggestion. I tested both of your ideas, but unfortunately it didn’t work. If I banned Joe and Brandon, the game would send no one else... so weird!

[kaylynnlangerakk]

@olivesplum06: I’ve been quite lucky, all four of Nervous and Erin’s kids have been pretty good looking!

[deedee-sims]

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ilov replied to your photoset “Max… never Maxine”

DAT HAIR!!! NEEED!! <3

I retextured it here, if you’re interested :)

olivesplum06 replied to your photo “Skell’s Bottom Only Io Jersey Dress with Amaryll’s flats for AF and TF...”

Beautiful! Great work!

Thank you so much! :3

landgraab replied to your post “random question, but do you or your followers happen to know where i...”

This was a mistake on my part. I completely spaced on my challenges when I moved unfortunately!!

Oh, I hope you'd be able to reupload them, if you still have them :)

[dramallamadingdang]

Buncha replies...

Because I’ve been neglectful. For @aquilasims, @littleblondesim, @celebkiriedhel, @wesleesims, @kayleigh-83, @olivesplum06, @holleyberry, @twofingerswhiskey, @penig, @taylors-simblr, and @fuzzyspork...

aquilasims replied to your photoset “Yup, subway tile…or some of the colors could also pass for brick. :)...”

darn. i would love to use this in my game but i have a mac :(

Yeah, sorry about that. :( I was going to make a Mac-friendly version, too, but when I sized down the image to accommodate the stretching that happens when a 256x512 texture is used, it kinda messed up the tiling between the 256x256 “blocks” that I initially drew ( so that I could make floors, too, eventually). The tiling between the “blocks” was skewed by like half a pixel (which was really noticeable because the “grout” between the tiles is only two pixels wide) and I didn’t feel like redrawing the whole thing. But now that I think about it, it might look OK if the 256x768 textures in the wall files were sized down to 256x512 which would “flatten” the individual tiles somewhat. Then perhaps the stretching that the game does would re-stretch them to about the right dimensions and not screw up the tiling. I’ll have to experiment a bit, see how it looks...

littleblondesim replied to your photo “And Simon became a Real Grown-up™. He let his hair down and sprouted a...”

Time to be a big boy and get a big double bed!

Well, unfortunately for him the firehouse he lives in now only has single beds, too. :) But it does have couches so, since he lives there alone at the moment, he could bring home some “company”... Or, knowing this neighborhood, company will just barge right in. :) I still don’t know what’s up with that...

celebkiriedhel replied to your photoset “Matching recolors of the cheap counters, stove, and refrigerator, in...”

I can do that - do you want a cabinet with or without doors?

With doors, I think. But then again, without might be good, too; I could see it as a good place to store “cookbooks” and those wouldn’t necessarily have to be behind doors. So, if you’re feeling ambitious, both? :) Or just with doors. Whatever you feel like, really. :) And thank you! You’re awesome. :)

wesleesims replied to your photoset “Pet stuff! Suzy grew up into a basenji. (I love basenjis. They’re one...”

very cute, but not a basenji (; i'd guess a shiba inu? they do have basenjis in the game, too. and yeah, feisty is the right word for basenjis, but despite being difficult at times, they are still one of the best dogs out there! but i may be a bit biased since we have two of them at home ;D

Yeah, you’re probably right. The head’s a bit too bulky for a basenji. I just saw small and curled tail. :) But yeah, they’re awesome dogs. I love their yodel. :) And their wrinkled foreheads. And their feistiness. And their lack of stink. I’m definitely getting at least one when some of my current pack pass away. (8 dogs is enough, when they’re all together, especially because they’re all large!)

kayleigh-83 replied to your photoset “It’s winter! Time to take care of the autumn leaves because I don’t...”

oops trigger happy on the enter key.... try that again... every time I've tried to burn the leaves my Sims have ended up setting themselves or something else on fire, so I gave up on it! LOL I do like getting witches to zap them though!

I’ve only ever had that happen once. I think the key is not to have anything around when you light up the pile. :) Kind of like how fireplaces will light stuff that’s within a tile away unless you’ve modded that out, like I have. (Maybe that prevents leaf-pile fires, too, now that I think about it; it probably uses the same coding.) But then, I think fires are kind of fun sometimes. (In the game, that is! Not in real life! *laugh* )

olivesplum06 replied to your post “I’m bummed. :(”

Have you downloaded felicity island for TS2? It's a copy of the CS island, that along with all the build, buy & CAS stuff it's pretty close to CS!

I haven’t, no. Mostly because I don’t want to play castaway scenarios in TS2. I actually prefer Castaway Stories for that. I like its “careers” and its way-more-logical routing. (Like, Sims can actually talk to each other when standing on a slope; the lack of that in TS2 drives me NUTS! And I imagine that it would be a real problem with that TS2 version of Felicity Island, since that map is ALL slopes.) And I definitely prefer the way CS handles “walkbys.” (No “greeting” needed; they just make themselves at home, gives it a genuine communal tribal feel.) And its want trees are more appropriate for castaway scenarios, of course. And I especially like its things like spearfishing and its swimmable on-lot water (without having to screw around a lot to make on-lot water swimmable, like you have to do in TS2) that also increases hygiene.  

So...Yeah, I definitely wanna play it in Castaway, not TS2. The only downside is, yeah, having to play the stupid story again. But, I can do that in one session, since I just do exactly what I have to do to get to the next “chapter,” without screwing around and with playing on higher speeds whenever I can, because I don’t care about the story at all. I just want to unlock all the stuff. :)

holleyberry replied to your post “I’m bummed. :(”

Oh No! Well, at least you'll have fun setting it all back up.

Yeah. :) And I’m thinking I might see about the possibility of making a completely empty template for the freeplay island, so that there won’t be any “townie” natives or premades. Like the empty Pleasantview template you use when you don’t want the “standard” townies. My biggest disappointment with the first stab at this scenario was that, while I could use the Visitor Controller to prevent the “natives” from waltzing onto my castaway lots, I could only set it in a way that prevented ALL non-household Sims from “walking by” because Castaway doesn’t seem to internally distinguish between townies and playables. That sort of killed the “tribal” atmosphere I wanted. So, I’m thinking that if I can make it so that there are no “townie” natives and premades from the get-go, that would be better than using the Visitor Controller. So...Yeah, it was probably for the best because I was kind of thinking about starting over to address this issue anyway...

twofingerswhiskey replied to your photo “More devastation for poor Simon. At least Sharon was still hanging...”

sleep when you're dead? ;)

Something like that. :) I still haven’t quite figured out the logic behind ghosts being pissy if their bed isn’t there. I mean, why on Earth would they care??!

kayleigh-83 replied to your post “I are sad. My brother and his husband went back home to hell Indiana...”

I sometimes attempt to catch up when I've been behind and I have to say I sure wish mobile was set up like the desktop site, where it will show you on your list of followed blogs when the last time they updated was. Then you can just only click into ones that have been updated since the last time you were on! Sometimes I just wanna lay in bed or on the couch and catch up on the ipad, but it doesn't show you that info! Fix it Tumblr, fix it!

HAH! Well, you’re better off than me. The Tumblr app for Kindle (my only mobile device) hasn’t been updated in, like, four years. The dashboard on it doesn’t work anymore, and it doesn’t even have messaging. And all looking up your followers does is bring up an alphabetical list of them. The only thing I can really do in the app for Kindle is see notes and look at my own posts/queue. And I can make posts, but I don’t often do that because I hate virtual keyboards. I’m pretty sure the apps aren’t actually made by Tumblr, though, but are made by third parties. So I’m afraid that for this, it’s not Tumblr we need to be yelling at but the folks who make the apps. 

But yeah, because of this I only “do Tumblr” when sitting at my desktop, which definitely cuts down on opportunity. Otherwise, I could do it when, like, sitting in waiting rooms at doctors’ offices....

kayleigh-83 replied to your photoset “Jupiter became a grown-up dog and…uh…well… I swear, my game habitually...”

Hahaha my dogs are the same, my game seems to give me a lot of sorry looking mutts. Lol

What I don’t get is that the small dogs in my game seem to be OK, but the big dogs are just...what? I mean, why would only one dog size be weird? Why not both?

taylors-simblr replied to your photoset “Because you can’t have awesome 50s kitchens like this…...”

I'm pretty sure our new kitchen has that gold lino ha ha

Heh. Well, it WAS a very popular color in the 60s/70s. “Harvest Gold” and “Avocado” were The Shit, at the time. :) Probably not so much in the late-40s-through-early-60s that I’m targeting, but...Well, not having a dark yellow would’ve thrown off my spectrum, man. ;)

penig replied to your post “I are sad. My brother and his husband went back home to hell Indiana...”

It's supposed to be fun, not an obligation. You can always use the archives to catch up on situations involving continuity, at your leisure, and if you miss stuff - so do we all.

I know, I know...I just feel bad because I like to give notes and especially replies and stuff. Tumblr is just so...non-validating, you know? Like, made for the short-attention-span generation. I suppose clicking the little heart shows “enough” appreciation, but it seems like very little, and not doing that at all just feels like shirking. But yeah, I know that’s all on me. I just wish there was more time in a day, is all. :)

taylors-simblr replied to your post “I are sad. My brother and his husband went back home to hell Indiana...”

Same with me except I need to catch up on over a years worth of stuff, tumblr just moved too quick. If you're not on it daily it's hopeless to try and see everything

Yeah, it does move fast. Made for short attention spans, like I said. :) I actually wouldn’t feel bad about it if I was gone for a long period of time, though, like “maternity leave.” I mean, no one could be expected to catch up with a year or more of posts. :) But I just tend to have a few days or a week here and there where I just don’t have the time (or, sometimes, the will) to really keep up like I’d generally like. And sometimes I just scroll through looking to see if the stories I keep up with have updated and don’t even leave any “likes” otherwise. That really makes me feel bad, but sometimes all I have time for is a quick scroll-through looking for certain user names. :( Bad iCad! No biscuit! :)

fuzzyspork replied to your photoset “Sandy made a lot of devastated noises, but… I’m kinda not buying it....”

The sims lack of a mourning period is sometimes annoying. :P Maybe she needs to fill that giant hole left behind in her heart when Goops passed and she thinks there's only one way to do that?

Maybe. Although it’s not like she really had time to fall in love with anyone else, anyway, given that she died like two days after Goopy did. :) Of course, she didn’t “know” that was going to happen. :)

But yeah, mourning in the game is weird. Especially because it’s limited to only the Sims who were in the same household as the deceased. When Goopy and Sandy croaked, the only kid left in the house was Simon. The other two kids didn’t do any mourning, of course. Toddlers get that fear of relatives dying, so they’ll sometimes take a mood hit, but only sometimes and if they, say, learn to walk, that’ll instantly get rid of that bad mood. And even Simon wouldn’t have been in his birth household if I played him how I usually do, kicking kids out when they reach “Inteen 18,” either to college or out on their own. He was only there because he was “destined” for the firefighter career, which only has an adult track, so it didn’t make much sense to kick him out until he was an actual adult rather than an Inteen one.

Anyway, yeah, this is one thing I’d change about the game, if I could. One should mourn one’s parent’s death (assuming that you have a good relationship with them), even if you no longer live with that parent. It’s just weird, otherwise.