If this thing played randomly IRL whilst something dramatic/chaotic happened or started to happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHkvmPOfjuM

More like how hilarious it would be if pets, or at least dogs, can fart themselves. The number of times one of my sister's dogs constantly makes stink bombs near people has gotten pretty annoying, but the way the Sims make a big deal out of bad smells is downright funny.

If sims could brows the web on their cellphones.

Not a happy-fun-time thing, but I would actually really like to see believable structural fires. After all, unless you live in a stone castle, your walls are just as likely to burn as your sofa is! I want burned-out walls and floors and build elements to be a possibility!

You mean they're not? (I guess I really haven't seen enough fires; I just assumed the whole house would eventually burn down.)

No, sim fires are restricted to the room they started in.

Not that I've ever seen, and I've had enough fires that burned right next to a wall for a good long while that I'd expect to have seen it, if it happens! I think if you left it unattended, a house fire would eventually leave you with an interesting version of an empty shell- walls, wallpaper, floors, windows, doors, and roofs all still intact, but all objects (maybe with the exception of the fireplace itself, which is usually what happens IRL too) like furnishings and even stairwells and columns and the like burned away into ash.

You guys should see the end of LazyGameReviewer's review of the Sims 2 base game, when he purposely let something in the oven burn until it ignited the whole appliance. The household lost everything in the kitchen (including the bits of food lying on the floor), poor Duke Nukem bit the dust and LGR's own Simsona (who goes by the same name) went insane after achieving his fear of seeing fire.

Of course the game's piece of logic there doesn't make sense, and here I go comparing virtual logic with real life logic again. XD

Fire affects furniture, objects and Sims, but not the entire house. If it was like that in real life, it won't be easy to replace everything we lost but at least we'll still keep our home.

Not quite true. Fire can spread elsewhere if carried by a sim.

I know this because of the day poor Spring Thyme died. The fire started in the yard from a lightning-struck bush. The entire family went outside and panicked. As I tried desperately to keep them extinguishing each other, Spring ran back inside flaming like a torch, dying in the doorway, but not before the flame spread to the rug and set off the fire alarm at last. No one could plead for her because Grim appeared in the doorway and no one could get at him.

I have also seen (in what I believe was the original play-through, by Fuzzy Spork, of the Trailer Park Challenge) the entire contents of a trailer lot, except for the bathroom and including the entire collection of yard gnomes go up in flames. I believe it didn't spread to the bathroom because Fuzzy managed to lock a sim or two in there to save them - the fire couldn't burn through the door. But IIRC the family lost everything except the bathroom plumbing, which must have meant the fire spread from room to room (possibly by burning sims).

I feel the need to experiment with fire now...

Once in Sims 1, the Sweetheart family experience a terrible fire, and Rainbow died, leaving just her daughter, Rose. The fire took out the bottom stairs. There was no money for rebuilding so poor Rose, who was on the top floor at the time, just had to live there until I finally got tired and sad for her and moved her to the homeless bin where she remained until the inevitable plague of upside-down clown heads forced a reinstall.

It is quite bizarre to see a enormous fire raging outside the house, but never touching it at all..burning up everything (including the road..) in it's path. I've had several spectacular blazes that did exactly that, and I spent a good hour deleting all the ashes from the lot-they're removable with the moveobjects on cheat, and they are worth $1 each.
It's easier to delete them by hand than to have the pixels do it because they become depressed, tired, smelly and are in general just useless in cleaning it up.
Now, if there are pixels around when one breaks out, I keep them inside (lock that door!) have them call the fire department and enjoy the hard work of the fire department guys while they're frantically running about trying to put it out.

One of my more spectacular fires occurred after the telescope was struck by lightning and the stargazing Sim was set on fire. The fire brigade did not arrive in time.

I love on how your comments are relative/inrelative with the thread's topic.... I guess fire is "AWESOME" xD

I guess that under very controlled conditions, playing with fire can be awesome...

Especially when it's on a lot where your pixel has an enemy, and he just threw the firebomb at the house. Revenge is sweet at times..

How exactly are you getting your pixels to throw firebombs at their enemies' houses?

Probably simwardrobe fire bomb.

Sims can throw those things? Or are we just pretending the sim threw the bomb and it was really the Watcher who threw it for him?

I think so, pretending.

It is the firebomb I was in reference to-and it's absolutely conflagration invoking when it's used. I've only used it once, but it laid waste to everything on the lot..except the shell of the house.
Oh, and there were no survivors, except for the arsonist, who escaped by taxi just a few seconds before it went off..