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#76 Old 25th Aug 2010 at 12:36 PM
Oh this reminds me of when my sister was younger.

When I used to let her play The Sims 1 she'd do really weird things, like once she threw a party, and trapped all the party guests in a room with nothing but several toilets. When I asked about it, she said "It's a toilet party!"

Then when I got the sims 2 for PS2, every time we passed the blender in the catalog, she would yell "It's a BLENNNDA!"

Then when I got The Sims 2 for PC around the BV days, we made a family using the ugly sim glitch. Oh, the good old days...

Now she is almost 13, and has since lost interest in the game.
Sometimes I would give anything to be able to have just one more day with her as a child.
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#77 Old 26th Aug 2010 at 11:54 AM
My brother's 14 so I don't really have a problem with that - although all he's interested about in the sims is the different cars! Saying that, I remember the Sims Bustin' Out was quite inappropriate because it had that vibrating bed and he was about 10 or something when I played it..I made sure never to visit Casa Caliente or buy that bed whenever he was watching.

I find it worse when my mom sees the sims 'woohooing' because although my brother's used to games now my mom had no clue what was on the screen haha! But I don't have any nudity hacks or anything (really don't see the point) so I've had few embarrassing moments.

Quote: Originally posted by parrot999
Now she is almost 13, and has since lost interest in the game.
Sometimes I would give anything to be able to have just one more day with her as a child.


I feel the same with my brother - when I had the sims games on ps2 and he was younger he was interested in playing (though like I said mostly for collecting the cars in Bustin Out). I liked showing him how to work it. Now I can't pull him off COD for a conversation! I loved when he was in awe of things and I had to show him how to play, I think I've lost my big sister role a little haha

What I found when he used to create families though, and what I have to remember sometimes, is that it is actually a game designed for fun! Like he would create crazy characters with weird names and they'd be hilarious to play. I find that now sometimes I don't make something because it's not realistic or won't fit in with my neighbourhood and forget it's just a game and should be fun and wacky!
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#78 Old 26th Aug 2010 at 12:15 PM
both my brother and i used to play the sims 1, and the sims 2 when it came out. i think we got up to 'nightlife' and 'holiday pack'. while i was getting the newer expansions and whatnot, my brother had completely lost interest in the sims 2. and due to the sims 2 release, i had stopped playing the sims 1 as well. it was funny though, my brother would always make a man and a girl, and then move them into the small cabin house in pleasantview. i think they had a baby at one point, too.

but in 2008, when the sims 3 was announced, we were both excited for it. but by the time june 2009 rolled around, my brother had no interest at all so he never ended up playing it. (he might've played it /once/ like he's said, but i've never seen him).

i also have another little brother, though. and he is turning 8 next january. i've tried to make him become interested in the sims, and he's watched me play various games on occasion. a year or two ago, i even installed 'the sims 2' on his computer, as well as all of the packs up to seasons.

we even started a sims 3 family at one point. we play together, but the only problem is he barely knows how to read- so getting him to understand the interactions would be kind of hard, if he played by himself. NOW, though, he mostly likes playing with trains, and my nephew comes over often, so they are always in his room playing. he said to me "i don't like the sims!".

don't worry, it isn't the end of my battles to get him interested. all in all, i'm the only one of us who has kept with the sims for the amount of time that i did. i started playing in 5th grade (the sims 1 deluxe was actually a present. i love my parents, sometimes ), with the sims 1. and now i'm going into 11th grade this year.

it just goes to show my dedication, i suppose. i think i'll be one who likes the sims forever.. but i don't consider that to be a bad thing, haha.
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#79 Old 26th Aug 2010 at 11:40 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Ghost sdoj
Having to explain why "family" is a better aspiration than "Romance" for a married couple. After she had already made the mom a romance sim because the mom would enjoy candlelight dinners and flowers...


That was my line of thinking at age 18 >_>; I thought the mother would be more romantic and was sad when she rolled wants to cheat on her hubby.

Quote: Originally posted by jodemilo
1. Remove ACR from the game.


Agreed. I don't know if it was ACR or her older sister meddling (she swears she didn't play her sister's game, but I dunno...), but drama I didn't mean to happen did happen to my 9 year old godsister.

She was living in an apartment and decided to just move in her sim-self's roommate with sim-self and her husband (Corbin Bleu xD), thinking that the roommate's daily salary would help them out more than just discounted rent (I was really surprised how she came to that point).

Well the next time she came over to play I noticed the roommate was pregnant, and I assumed my godsis had found a boyfriend for her, so I didn't bother to look up the pregnancy details when really my godsis had no idea who got her pregnant.

When the baby finally arrived, the first thing my godsis did was go to the family tree (they made one in school and now she loves the idea of looking back at family history) and low and behold the father of the roommate's baby is... Corbin Bleu! We were literally shocked into silence for like 10 seconds, me freaking out internally (oh no, how did this happen? How do I explain this??) and my godsister just shocked.

And then she says, "That low-down, no good husband of mine!! Oh no, he has to GO right NOW! " Turns out one of my godmum's friends was going through something like that and my godsis had heard her venting at their house.

The sad thing is that even after she kicked Corbin, the roommate, and the baby out, after a few more plays she was going through the dilemma of staying mad or forgiving and taking Corbin back since she still loved Corbin Bleu. I just didn't want her to go through this kind of angst at nine!
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#80 Old 27th Aug 2010 at 12:15 PM
A couple of you are talking about your younger siblings (I believe both 13 and 14 were mentioned), and the younger sister I was referring to is 13 also, and she loves it. :P. Each to their own.

Sorry for the off-topicness of this message, but I thought I'd straighten that out.

@lg135: LOL so much. That darn Corbin and his man whoring ways. :P
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#81 Old 27th Aug 2010 at 1:12 PM
when i'm about to play with my brother, i move absolutely all of the custom content. i even use AGS so that it won't affect /my/ game that i have. if AGS fails to work, i create a new user account on my computer, and start the sims 2 or 3 up from there.
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#82 Old 28th Aug 2010 at 5:42 PM
Quote: Originally posted by jodemilo
Oh he only does it for a giggle. He's mature and intelligent enough to realise it's just a bit of pixel violence and means nothing. Actually he's far from aggressive in real life, enjoys chess and swimming!

Look at "Tom and Jerry", for example - highly violent when you think about it yet no parents ever complained when we watched that as kids and neither did we turn out to be axe-murderers.


I am totally with you, and did not mean to imply anything about your Nephew. Why, I do not even know him. My point was that sometimes people put the wrong, so to speak, priorities. They will complain about nudity or whatever else you might think, and yet it seems perfectly alright to electrocute Sims to their death.

However, I should admit that the first time my significant other caught a glimpse of a Sim taking a shower (with no censor blur) I felt completely embarrassed and hastened to raise the walls. Even though he does not qualify as a "younger member".
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#83 Old 28th Aug 2010 at 6:08 PM
I have the Censor blur diasbled hack, and i was about to delete then my 6 year old cousin came round, we went up to play on sims later and we gave them showers, she saw the daddy having a shower and said "Why do boy sims have no winky?", I minimised and said the game had crashed. Then she brought it up at the dinner table. Everyone laughed and I was off the hook! But no mistakes like that shall ever be made again.

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#84 Old 29th Aug 2010 at 4:58 PM
Quote: Originally posted by MaydayParade
I have the Censor blur diasbled hack, and i was about to delete then my 6 year old cousin came round, we went up to play on sims later and we gave them showers, she saw the daddy having a shower and said "Why do boy sims have no winky?", I minimised and said the game had crashed. Then she brought it up at the dinner table. Everyone laughed and I was off the hook! But no mistakes like that shall ever be made again.


When you think about it, witnessing the "barbie" version of a sim in the nude is no different to, say, playing with Barbie's Ken or an Action Man as a kid and pulling down their pants to see if they had any "appendages". (And yes I did do that as a child).

It's slightly different when you're niece insists on creating a family in CAS and you're desperately trying to remember if there are any nude male mannequins (with appendages) showing in the catalogue. Actually when she did see one, BOTH of us were quickly covering the screen!

I think children/teens will be interested in that kind of thing when they're good and ready.

Oh God, I now have memories of when I was about 6 or 7 and my older sister and I were allowed to go to the corner shop for the first time on our own. It just so happened that day that a man in one of the houses that we passed decided it would be entertaining to stand at his window fully naked (he was standing behind net curtains but you could still see everything). The memory of me pointing at him saying to my sister "hey, look at that!" while my sister hastily tried to move me along will remain with me forever!

And I will always remember a boy at my school (I was 8) running into the classroom while I was quietly doing some drawing or something, running up to me and pulling down his pants to show me what he had. I was shocked (and a bit scared actually - he was pretty well hung even by 8 year old standards)!


Maybe that's why I'm corrupted now.
Lab Assistant
#85 Old 29th Aug 2010 at 11:31 PM
Love all of your points but its no point in disabling censors since they are barbie like! Its normal. Just yesterday I heard some things said about me by a family member and it was a quite sexual convo between me and my 15 yr old brother. My sister sat there and laughed. I got annoyed and made me tell her what she knew cause personally I thought she didnt. Oh she did know. She is 10 yrs old. She told me what her friends told her. So I personally wouldnt stop her from making sims woohoo - just her. If it was my 5 yr old brother yeahh but dont think kids are so innocent and dont know. And after all its a game...not porn...or the singles game!

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#86 Old 30th Aug 2010 at 12:09 AM
At the ball park, my son (then 3) asked me if he could have a little brother and I said "No". After having watched me play TS1 on PlayStation, he confidently announced loudly, "Well, all you gotta do is kiss daddy..." I was mortified and had to quickly explain to an entire stand of spectators that he got that idea from a video game! So, I try not to play TS2 on my computer with my kids around, considering the fact that I have searched out more realistic, adult additions to the game.

I think that the sensor and not being anatomically correct is silly. I think the concepts of woohooing with 50 different sims as a lifetime want is much more offensive than seeing nipples or any other part. I may see my Sims with all their business, doing all their business, but I can tell you, it is extremely rare that my Sims cheat on their spouses/girlfriends/boyfriends, even if they act like they want to. I find that to be a concept that children really do not need to know/understand. I wouldn't tolerate it in real life, therefore I don't act it out in my game.

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#87 Old 30th Aug 2010 at 3:07 AM
Quote: Originally posted by dadebabe09
I think the concepts of woohooing with 50 different sims as a lifetime want is much more offensive than seeing nipples or any other part. I may see my Sims with all their business, doing all their business, but I can tell you, it is extremely rare that my Sims cheat on their spouses/girlfriends/boyfriends, even if they act like they want to. I find that to be a concept that children really do not need to know/understand. I wouldn't tolerate it in real life, therefore I don't act it out in my game.


I agree with that. Actually I find the "20 sim woohoo'ers" and "50 dream daters" pretty shallow (and fairly boring) in my game. When I first started playing in fact I didn't want any playable romance sims (or pleasure ones) in my game at all as I really couldn't be bothered to fulfil their promiscuous wants.

Strange how nearly a third of my playables are romance sims now though. I think that's probably because since putting ACR in the game it's a lot easier to achieve the 20 woohoo want so I do let a few of my sims get their permanent platinum aspiration that way if they roll it.
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#88 Old 30th Aug 2010 at 9:36 AM
I have never had a sim achieve any of the woohoo/date/lover LTWs. When I first got the game, I was pretty sure there had to be a way to disable that, considering I'd never fulfill it. Later, I became more relaxed about it if a sim wasn't married, engaged, or living with a significant other. They just never reached platinum. I had a lot of those sims at first.

Eventually, I let a couple of my sims cheat on significant others, but not my married sims. However, I've been playing a community lot and witnessed my sims cheating in the hot tub many times while I wasn't controlling them. But while I do allow them to be more promiscuous than I used to, I'm sure none of my sims ever had that many woohoos their entire lives, except with their specific partners. Bianca Monty may have been the exception, only because I enjoyed playing her so much that I never let her become an elder.

After I learned which mods allowed me to change or re-roll their lifetime wants, I haven't had to worry about those LTWs at all. However, it does really annoy me that those are usually the first LTWs chosen for my new or just-aged sims. Sometimes I have to roll several times to make it give me something decent.

My favorite LTWs are make 10 friends, max 5 skills, or most of the career ones. The criminal one still gives me pause and I've never had a sim reach the top of that one. Usually a sim will work in that career just to get some money in while saving to start a business or build skills for another career.

That's one of the reasons I sometimes like to do something different, like make houses instead of playing the game. If I didn't, some of the things the game (meaning developer decisions) can really be annoying. Even though I know it's just a game. I get away from it for a while and they don't seem like such a big deal. I made more than 10 houses the last couple days. Some may never get played - I delete a lot of houses when I make them without a specific sim in mind because I rarely am able to put my sims in a "generic" house. But it is just as much an outlet as playing the lots. In my new custom hood, I'm not allowed to delete, so we shall see how long that rule lasts. I was building in Sim State Uni that I just attached to my new custom hoods I could feel free to bulldoze if I want.
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#89 Old 30th Aug 2010 at 3:09 PM
Cheshire Kat - Thats exactly why I never play Romance or Pleasure. 10+ Woohoos is just crazy. And I am not crazy about the criminal career and most of my Family Sims are either in the Education Career or be at home all the time with the kids and then Fortune/Knowledge are mostly career orientated. Lawyers, Doctors, CIA etc etc...

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#90 Old 31st Aug 2010 at 2:41 AM
I like the "Romance Sims the game would be a bit boring without them after all who will keep the whole neighborhood in a big uproar ? There will always be cheating husbands, and cheating wives that the way of the world ( in real life ) so why not in the sims world. I say let them get busted for doing so, get slap in the face until they see stars, have a big fight.

And if the sims husband or wife end up getting "Kick To The Curb" oh well I say next in line. Yes I know everyone play their game differently I do have faithful sims with each other, but since there are all kind of personality in the sims game I say let the good times roll do as you please, just watch out for the little ones who may be watching you play your sims game. They may not understand the riot.

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#91 Old 31st Aug 2010 at 6:02 AM
I used to avoid romance sims until I discovered they make better parents than family sims. To me, the complete disinterest in their offspring shown by family sims is deplorable. I rarely had a family sim do one thing to care for their children autonomously like my romance sims will. The game makes raising children an inconvenience - parents have to be forced to care for their children properly, instead of willingly accepting and acting on their responsibilities as parents. That is most definitely an adult concept.

Fortunately, I don't have little kids to worry about ruining my gaming. If I did, I would not ever introduce them to the sims. I think kids are too impressionable and get the wrong ideas, sometimes accidentally. I don't agree with having teen pregnancy, making light of the sacrament of marriage, making light of the seriousness of having babies and raising children responsibly, or being disrespectful of other relationships by only allowing "unions" in lieu of marriage.

One of the things I really do think would be great for kids is the integration of different races and cultures, aliens and supernatural beings. I just wish they hadn't done it in a way that makes people totally obsessed with beauty.

But I do agree that each adult should play the game however they want. Kids always think they are mature enough to handle stuff that they aren't. So I really would disagree that this game is appropriate for children, especially when unsupervised. Under careful guidance, like jodemilo said, kids can be introduced to adult concepts as the family/parents of those kids wish. Sex and nudity are not bad things, but it's not the game that gives those impressions. The "everybody's doing it" attitude about sex extramarital affairs, and child-rearing are adult concepts allowed to exist in a game very popular with kids.

I'm only expressing my opinions as a reply to the topic. I personally would not ever play TS2 with a child, family or not.
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#92 Old 31st Aug 2010 at 9:11 AM
Quote: Originally posted by cheshirekat
Fortunately, I don't have little kids to worry about ruining my gaming. If I did, I would not ever introduce them to the sims. I think kids are too impressionable and get the wrong ideas, sometimes accidentally. I don't agree with having teen pregnancy, making light of the sacrament of marriage, making light of the seriousness of having babies and raising children responsibly, or being disrespectful of other relationships by only allowing "unions" in lieu of marriage.


I'd just like to say its refreshing to see someone both religious(I assume) and supportive of relationships some religious people wouldn't consider right, but I digress. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person like that out there....

But I'm 16, and my little brothers are 13 and we all played the Sims...I don't think they played 1, but I did. I LOVED it....But kids know a lot more than you think, thanks to the internet. I know way too much for my age....I just remember, when I was younger, like 7 or 8, I was playing Sims 1 in my family's living room, and my sim had the cheap toaster oven, and I didn't have a smoke detector....she died, and I was scarred for life. I played again in another hour, and my walls were LINED with smoke detectors. I was weird.

Back from the dead. Even though nobody cares.
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#93 Old 31st Aug 2010 at 11:58 AM Last edited by MrsNervousSubject : 31st Aug 2010 at 11:59 AM. Reason: english fail is fail.
I agree with "LuteFanBoyNick", I mean, are kids really KIDS anymore?
All I know is that my younger cousin knows more about sex, etc, than I did when I was her age.
I think this has gotten a LITTLE off topic, though. xD.
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#94 Old 31st Aug 2010 at 8:07 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Simonut
I like the "Romance Sims the game would be a bit boring without them after all who will keep the whole neighborhood in a big uproar ? There will always be cheating husbands, and cheating wives that the way of the world ( in real life ) so why not in the sims world. I say let them get busted for doing so, get slap in the face until they see stars, have a big fight.

And if the sims husband or wife end up getting "Kick To The Curb" oh well I say next in line. Yes I know everyone play their game differently I do have faithful sims with each other, but since there are all kind of personality in the sims game I say let the good times roll do as you please, just watch out for the little ones who may be watching you play your sims game. They may not understand the riot.


Oh I agree with you on all accounts. But I don't think that people in real life set out to fulfill wants of promiscuity (sp). And of course cheating happens, as it will/and has in my game...but I find it harder to have my Sims cheat than keeping them monagamus (sp again!) What is hilarious is I tried to get one of my most favorite Sims to achieve his LTW of an obnxious amount of woohoos, but it wore me out!!! Just couldn't make it. So I created a lovely Sim, Sonnie, reprogrammed him (as just the right woman would) and now they are the most wonderful couple with two beautiful children. Happily Ever After!

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#95 Old 31st Aug 2010 at 10:05 PM Last edited by Simonut : 1st Sep 2010 at 4:33 AM.
Quote: Originally posted by cheshirekat
I used to avoid romance sims until I discovered they make better parents than family sims. To me, the complete disinterest in their offspring shown by family sims is deplorable. I rarely had a family sim do one thing to care for their children autonomously like my romance sims will. The game makes raising children an inconvenience - parents have to be forced to care for their children properly, instead of willingly accepting and acting on their responsibilities as parents. That is most definitely an adult concept.I'm only expressing my opinions as a reply to the topic. I personally would not ever play TS2 with a child, family or not.



"Cheshirekat" I do agree with you about romance sims I have found that they can be at times very good parents, even if one of their great fear is having children and being married. I respect your opinions ( that your right ) but we keep using the words Kids or child this game was not made for kids it is clearly on EA box the description say T- teen - crude humor, sexual themes, violence, the rating is ESRB.

This is a different generation and time teenagers are not in the dark ages about what going on in the world. And even younger children are aware about what my parents once would call the birds and the bees. They see it with birds and animals and will at time ask the question ( why ? ) this is not just a concept it is about life in it's "natural form" since the beginning of life with man and all living things. Compare to other games on the market today the Sims is a step way below when it come to violence and sexual content reality is reality.

We all just have to use common sense as to what we will buy or not expose to a child, what will you say or tell a child who see his parents kissing or hugging and want to know why ? Life is not an adult concept it is the natural order of things found in all living things on the earth that flows naturally forward. Playing the sims is a fun "game" we are not in church where we have to ask forgiveness for our sins. ( my opinion )

"Nothing in life is a Surprise it just happen to come your way at the time".
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#96 Old 8th Sep 2010 at 3:11 AM Last edited by LyokoGirl5000 : 8th Sep 2010 at 3:13 AM. Reason: Forgot Something
I had an awkward moment with my friend's younger brother. We were building the cabin we staying at and I mentioned that you could woohoo in closets.

He asked. "What's a woohoo?" His mom was in the room.

I had to explain that woohooing was "making a baby" and that the sims were invisible to the player when they were woohooing AND that they were like Ken and Barbie anyway.

He later got the game.

Note to self, remember when there are younger kids in the room when playing the sims!

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#97 Old 8th Sep 2010 at 8:35 PM
UNINSTALL ACR.

Me and my younger sister (She's 8) were playing TS2 Freetime with ACR, and her sims go to Woohoo nude.
The Special event camera came up and the sims were nude, so I quickly changed the window to Ms Paint something. I said to her "Lets go draw Its much more fun than the sims" and she said she wanted to watch the sims. When I finally opened back up the sims, they were done Woohooing.
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#98 Old 9th Sep 2010 at 7:36 AM
Some of these are just to funny.

I had a very uncomfortable day, when my younger brother and his friend decided to watch me play. Sadly, this was before I had head-phones, so every thing that happened was broadcasted across the room. This was also before I knew how to get those annoying movie scenes to stop showing up when the Sims got around to having their first round of 'Fun' with a romantic partner.

Lets just say, when a 5 year old suddenly asks you "Are they hugging?", just say "Yep! Just hugging!"

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#99 Old 9th Sep 2010 at 7:54 AM
Quote: Originally posted by jodemilo
Well, due to me previously forgetting to remove "See Them All", she was treated to an full naked image of her father's sim-self having a shower. I tried to cam away as quickly as possible, but it was too late. She thought it was hysterical. Also I had to explain why I was constantly cancelling out her sim parents' actions to go upstairs to "relax" on the bed. "Ooh, they just want to check out the new mattress" was the pathetic excuse I came up with. Oddly enough the behaviour of her teenage "brother" in the game was pretty much how her brother is in real life - interested in money (he's a fortune sim), playing computer games, and chess.


I've had a bad day and you've just made me laugh! That's the funniest thing i've read all week.

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#100 Old 10th Sep 2010 at 9:49 PM
Oh gosh. I remember just after I got The Sims 2 for PC. I had a hack to remove the sexual things, and all was well. THEN my brother got an eyefull of my CAS Lolita and Don Lothario's spawn, and he wanted to know how I got it. My mom was RIGHT THERE, so I quickly said, "Oh! I called the baby fairy on the phone! Yeah, the hack, it installs a baby fairy that brings babies! Storks are overrated."

*phew* That one was too close... It could've been worse. I could've said it was a microwave (InSIM) and a Flammingo (Child's Play mod) that bring babies... Which they do, in my game. O_o
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