Manifesting that the next sims 4 expansion pack will have bands, Solo artists, expanded Award ceremonies, tours, and a collab with a Celebrity like Sabrina Carpenter, just so it can have that same essence as Katy Perry sweet treats.
Oh, we still want those pack refreshes as well thank you honey xoxoxo
Wtf is wrong with EA? I always have auto update off, and I updated my laptop yesterday, took 30mins, and the fucking EA app updated my game immediately after. HELLOO?!?! ALLLLLL those updates for the EA APP, and y'all still don't have it to where a user's settings remain unaffected after the app updates or a pc update. MIND YOU, THE GAME KEEPS YOUR GRAPHIC SETTINGS THE SAME!!!!!
FUCK THOSE KITS! REFRESH PACKS LIKE GTW! START FIXING THOSE BUGS THAT IK YOU SEE US TALK ABOUT BEFORE RELEASING SHIT! 11 YEARS! BE SO FR.
while working on my geography & region logic masterpost, i kept running into something that’s been obvious for a while: there is no sims 4 world that represents any culture below the northern hemisphere. at least not without exoticizing, flattening, or othering it, that is.
selvadorada, sulani, tomarang: they’re beautiful. but they’re not ours. they weren’t built for those of us who live, love, grieve, and dream in the global south or descend from it. they’re not living, breathing homes. they’re postcards and backdrops to someone else’s adventure.
i see simmers building entire saves around resistance, diaspora, reparation. i admire them. i want to be one of them. but i also want more than what the game hands me. more than vacation-only worlds, mystified jungles, lootable temples, or ‘spice festivals’ stripped of language and lineage.
my mother is from a region directly referenced in selvadorada. i’d love to place my abuela and primes there, let them grow crops, fall in love, age into legacy. but selvadorada wasn’t built to hold them. only to be visited, looted, photographed, and left behind.
i’m not asking for perfection. i’m asking for possibility; isn’t that the point of the sims? for culture to be more than aesthetic. for queerness to exist as resistance, community, and context, not just a neutral sandbox function. for our stories to be written in. not added as selling points.
this isn’t a takedown. and i hope it doesn’t come off as whiny or brainrotted by identity politics.
it’s a longing.
that we build worlds where our people don’t just appear, but belong.
now… do y’all want me to talk about how our only african world (north african at that) in the whole franchise, al simhara, is the perfect example of a world you don’t get to live in or love, rather explore, exoticize, and loot? as if africa weren’t cities, villages, families, and futures?
because as a granddaughter of diaspora, mixed, white passing and all, i want to and will. and yeah, extractivist and all, it was fun. maybe even a product of its time. but it’s been over a decade, and there’s still no sign of moving past that kind of rep.
when do we get a sub-saharan world instead of another rich white california and yet six more simfluencer career variants?
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