You know what happens when you direct a teen or older sim with the 'Grow Up' aspiration to use the sensorb? The sim gets grilled! It's a good way to properly initialize the sim's aspiration though, and you can pick one that fits his/her personality the best.

I have just learned that vampires who live in apartments are hard to reach.

They get annoyed as all the other apartment neighbours do when you phone them kinda late at night.
And of course you can't phone them during daytime, because they are vampires.

So... it leaves their friends just a few hours to phone them. Better invite them over soon and chat with them at home!

I discovered
(1) that getting a love tub with your aspiration points fulfils the "Buy a hot tub" want.

(2) that you can get a neat point for a "tidy" date. What this means I don't know, but Chandler got a neat point at the end of his dream date with a Sim who has 2 neat points -- one of those who doesn't bother to flush the toilet after use.

I think I discovered that sims will avoid telling dirty jokes around children.

At least, Rhein being within earshot dancing with her grandpa was the only reason I could think of for inveterate dirty-joke tellers Dixie and Valentine to exchange clean jokes at Dixie's wedding. I didn't know either of them knew any clean jokes.

I also discovered that it really is worth paying for a decent bed for your lazy Sims. Craig Royce, my now-playable slob, and warden of the Teen Townie Hostel in downtown Veronaville, was able to get up at 3 a.m. to work on the novel he's writing, after I gave him a mid-range double bed, to replace the cheap one he used up till now. With the old bed he couldn't get up at 6 a.m., let alone 3! (He has a double bed in the hope -- vain so-far -- that he'll persuade some one to share it with him!)

I discovered that I have yet to figure out, why married sims wears their alliance on the wrong finger. Is there really, any reason?

The presence of children doesn't seem to stop them in my game. Or, at least, it doesn't stop Grimhild from telling dirty jokes.

(I think it just proves that Dixie and Val have better social skills than Grimhild.)

That an adult Sim can push a kid on the swingset. Cute!

I think it has to do with the fact that they are not human. They are Sims. They have their own little universe. Their own language. Their own objects and TV shows and music. At least that's now I see it.

But didja know if the woman proposes to a man (or one man to another man) the proposee will get the diamond ring? I'm sorry but for my hetero couples that is just so darn funny

Last night, I found Alexander Goth in front of an armchair, with a picture of his dad in his queue, and then proceeded to kick the armchair! What cute rebellion!

Sims are a lot less prejudiced than us humans. Noone cares who gets the engagement ring or the last name and gay couples are accepted as normally as het couples.

I modded out the engagement ring, because I rather pick one myself from my collection of rings. Looks a tad weird in the engagement videos, but I prefer it that way.

I always wondered if those engagement, first woohoo, first kiss etc. videos were saved anywhere to rewatch.

They both get engagement rings; it's just that the one proposed to is the only one we see put it on.

Lots of cartoon characters have four fingers instead of five.
Simpsons and the Disney characters and so on.
So Marge and Homer f ex have their rings on the middle finger.
So Sims also resemble cartoon characters so that could be why their rings are on the middle finger (even though they have five fingers.)

I was wondering this too..But then I thought, it is only events....made to use any sims who'd ever find themselves in such situations, performing said animations made for it.
It does not need to be recorded, therefore..it is not.

And about wearing ring...you guys came up with funny answers, me like Though, I'd like to have EA view on this..lol

I discovered that when sims drink espresso, they shudder!

While making the "Beginning Hoods" I found out you can easily change the name of any hood from the hood selection screen.

IE: "The Beginning of Strangetown" to Strangetown Beginnings.

tidy date?

I learned that sims have favourite foods. I noticed before that certain foods pop up in their thought bubbles in restaurants, but thought they were just random pictures. But after playing a family that dined in the hotel restaurant every evening, I think it´s always the same food for a given sim.

Also I always assumed the first child of a couple was immune to Firstborn syndrome. But Ambrose and Tina had their first child today and I swear she is a female clone of Ambrose´s (who was born in the same household). Their stats are nearly identical and she looks just like her dad looked as a toddler. I put her up for adoption, randomized and tried for baby again and the next kid was a much more "believeable" mix. (Sorry, Michaela, I promise you´ll have a wonderful childhood, only not in this family.)

From what I recall of playing the game on its lowest settings (before I discovered how to change them and make them better), I would guess that it's because at it's most basic, the game only animates three parts of the hand: thumb, index finger, and middle-ring-pinky as one unit. Because the ring finger is not a separate unit in that setup, animating the action of putting a ring on the middle finger seems like the easiest thing to do, since it's nearest the fingers that do move independently and would show the most clearly.


That's my guess, anyhow.

da fuq?

I'm playing Pleasantview for the first time and on week 2. I discovered that Mary-Sue Pleasant (who divorced cheating Daniel in my game and is now married to Amin Sims so is Mary-Sue Sims now) has gray recessive eyes. Well I discovered this because her and Amin had a baby, Amin has light blue eyes, expressed and recessive, and their son has Gray eyes.

That the police force in my neighborhood is useless. I just had a burglar come onto Brittany Zeeman's lot and steal about four things. When the police showed up, he waited patiently for the burglar to come down the front steps so he could go up them, then walked into the house to look for the crook as the burglar made his escape...

What bad luck Rose. I just had a visit from the burglar myself, and for once I was almost happy to see him. It was my poorest Sim, an elder that is working her way towards furnishing her tiny house. Just the day before I had invested in a burglar alarm, despite it being all the money she had. I reasoned she really couldn't afford to get burglarized, and thus it should take priority over any non-vital item. And what do you know, the burglar appears for the first time in many real-life months of playing. I think her lack of furnishings confused him, because he didn't have time to take anything before the police came and beat him up. It was nice to see that the 250 sim dollars were worth it.