David Tennant pissing off the Prime Minister bc he told government officials to stfu over their anti-trans bigotry and Michael Sheen literally poisoning himself investigating corporations dumping toxic chemicals in underprivileged areas is NOT the energy I expected from 2024 but oh man am I here for it.
This challenge is inspired by, but not the same as, the 100 Baby Challenge!!
Abstract Goal: Your goal is to keep a sim in the Young Adult stage as long as possible using the gameplay mechanic which stops sims from aging during pregnancy. This is not a mod or a cheat - it's just how the game works - so anyone can do this!
Concrete Goal: For your ONE pregnant sim to have had 100 babies with 100 different sims during the Young Adult life phase only, before aging up into Adult. This goal is accomplishable using regular lifespan.
The Eternal Youth Challenge is different than the 100 Baby Challenge because you do not have to keep the babies in your active household for a set amount of time. You simply have to have each baby, and you are welcome to move out babies/children at any time, as long as you keep at least four kids of any age in your household.
Once you start having babies, implement a 5-sim household minimum. You must keep at least 5 sims in the household (the pregnant young adult + four children) at any given time. However, these children can be any age. For example, you could choose to keep babies 1-4 as they grow older and then move out baby 5 as a newborn or infant; or keep babies 2, 5, 7, and 8 while moving the others out.*
Though you are welcome to use a nanny, maid, etc., you are not allowed to have any other young adults, adults, or elders living in the household with you. For this reason, you may choose to keep some of your babies until they age into teens so they can help take care of the babies. Once your baby ages up into young adult, though, you must move them out.
How it's similar to 100 Baby:
When it comes to aging up your babies EARLY, the 100 baby rules apply. Personally, I just let the children live out the whole life-stage and don't worry about trying to age them up faster. But as a reminder, those 100 Baby milestones are:
Infant: at least 3 milestones
Toddler: reach level 3 in all toddler skills
Child: Earn an A in school
Teen: Earn an A in school
Remember, though! You can move out your babies at any point in their life, so it's totally fine if you just let them age naturally, and/or don't think about the 100 Baby milestones at all.
If your computer performance can handle it, this challenge is the most fun when you keep all the babies in the world instead of deleting them from existence.
A recommendation: Though not a rule, I recommend that you create one extra household to begin with (you can choose to move them into a lot, or not, up to you!) where you will move the babies when you need more room in the active household. For this, you can create a relative of your pregnant sim (for example, their parent or their sibling), or any other adult guardian of your choice, who will "care for" the babies. This is important because you won't be able to move a baby or child into their own household without an adult present.
Once you have more than seven babies, you'll have to create a second household for the next set of babies. I recommend simply using one of the older babies who will has reached teen or older by then.
Tips for success - NOT Required
Give your pregnant sim the Serial Romantic aspiration, and complete it as you begin this challenge. The rewards are helpful! Although I personally like playing this challenge with no cheats, I do use the reward point items (like the Moodlet Solver potion) when needed.
Once your sim is pregnant, start lining up the next donor! (Gender is unimportant - this challenge only requires the "get others pregnant" option for "donors," and the "get pregnant" option for your pregnant sim.) Even better? Have your sim invite the next donor over when they go into labor. Then, immediately Try For Baby after giving birth. Getting pregnant on the same day that you gave birth is the key to winning this challenge.
Name your babies after their donors (for example, Bob Pancakes's baby could be Bob, Bobby, Bobbie, etc.) to help you keep track of who you've had babies with.
AND/OR, keep a list or spreadsheet of each baby and their donor. This will help you keep count and avoid accidentally duplicating a donor.
Too hard?
Remove the 5-sim household minimum (and/or)
Permit ONE other adult, preferably one of the oldest children, in addition to the pregnant sim (and/or)
Give yourself both the Young Adult and Adult phases to have all 100 babies
Plan stayovers with adults, such as donors or friends. You can have these adults help out around the house, and/or use this feature to ensure that the next donor is ready to woohoo, even if you go into labor in the middle of the night
Too easy?
Require yourself to have a baby with all of the townies who can "get others pregnant" and/or everyone on a specific list of favorite townies (and/or)
Start your game with §0 (and/or)
Require that your pregnant sim have a full-time job (and/or)
Require your sim to not earn money through art, crafts, writing, music, collectibles, gardening, etc. (and/or)
Require that your sim earn money only through dating and/or the "Ask For Loan" interaction. That is, make your money by selling the flower or VIP Bucket reward items after a successful date. (and/or)
If that isn't hard enough on its own, limit yourself to ONE date or loan per NPC (and/or)
*Implement a 5, 6, or 7 sim minimum household size! (Pregnant sim + 5 or 6 children.) You can't require an 8-sim maximum because this will inhibit your sim from getting pregnant again.
ENJOY!
If you play this challenge please tell me how it goes!!
RIGHTHTHTHHT What does it mean? I didn't make it through the last few hours of EXU Calamity because I was WEEPING too hard but I figured it ended ... and like, ended-ended, because it's CALAMITY after all but WhAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa
Someone in Chat said that Bells Hell's new alignment (during today's LA Live Show) was "Chaotic Horny."
This is entirely subjective and varies from episode to episode but I thought I'd give it a go. Would love to see how other people would rank them (or come up with a different x-axis) 😂
sure thing! It’s a fairly mainstream “trans-inclusive” opinion that while sex is still biological (which is to say, binary, “real,” outside of social opinion, it exists in nature), gender is socially constructed. This frames being transgender as having a socially constructed gender that ‘conflicts with’ biological sex. This conforms to mainstream psychiatric models of transgenderism, which frames trans people as having an identity disorder or something psychologically wrong with us that makes us ‘want to have a gender that is different from our biological sex.’ It is a handy way of conceding that gender is social while still maintaining the belief that sex is a real biological thing. It is very common among doctors, cis allies, policy documents about trans inclusivity (the ones I’ve read, anyway), and is also a common opinion among trans people in my experience.
I really dislike this framing for several reasons - one is that it is in fact arguing that gender is biologically based by tying it to our ‘natural sex’ (if our gender ‘conflicts with’ our sex, then gender is still biologically based, and if the reason you want to change your gender is because of mental illness, then a desire to change one’s gender can only be gained through psychological abnormality). It also maintains sex as something that is real, unchanging, natural, and universal across space, time, and culture. It is none of those things -
sex can change (HRT, surgery, and so on changes our sex, in fact it’s called ‘sex reassignment surgery’ and HRT is comminly understood as initiating a ‘second puberty’),
sex is not binary - a belief that it is binary is what constructs the category of ‘intersex,’ ie people who don’t fit this supposed universal sex binary, and this construction produces medical violence against intersex people by positioning them as medically defective/abnormal,
sex is not ‘real’ in the sense that the category of ‘sex’ is a social construction that bundles a complex series of properties of the body (external genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, chromosomes, gametes, etc) together by claiming they always 100% coincide with each other and form a coherent whole (this is not true, ‘sex’ is a spectrum because sex refers to many, many things). You can read the work of Julia Serano, a trans biologist who has published many open access essays on this subject. I believe she recently published a piece critiquing the idea that gametes are binary
The process of assigning sex at birth does not even follow this supposed scientific fact properly, because we don’t run chromosome checks on infants, we don’t do ultrasounds on them to see what their internal organs look like, we don’t measure their hormone levels, and so on. Sex assignment at birth is a social process of doing a quick genital inspection of infants and then writing down their sex on birth records based on that inspection, and if those external genitals don’t conform to binary understandings of sex (eg the infant is intersex), these genitals are surgically altered to fit this binary model. I believe Adamson describes this in Beyond the Coloniality of Gender as preparing children for a life of ‘good heterosexual sex’ (this is a paraphrase, I don’t remember the exact quote)
Because sex is a socially constructed category, it is not universal, because social constructs are dependent on the social context they arise in. I’ve read a number of papers from postcolonial/decolonial scholars in particular critiquing this supposed universalism as a form of colonial domination (María Lugones’ Coloniality of Gender, Sally Engle Merry’s Colonial and Postcolonial Law, Boris Bertolt’s The Invention of Homophobia in Africa, Jenny Evang’s Is Gender Ideology Western Colonialism?, B Binaohan’s Decolonising Trans/Gender 101. These last two aren’t postcolonial works but they’re very instructive for understanding sex assignment as a deeply oppressive and non-scientific practice: Heath Fogg Davis’ Sex Classification Policies as Transgender Discrimination: An Intersectional Critique and Toby Beauchamp’s Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and US Surveillance Practices)
essentially, “sex is biological, gender is social” is a massive cop-out that still accepts the framing of binary sexual biological legitimacy, which is the foundational belief that produces transphobic violence and discrimination in society. I really like Judith Butler’s framing of it Bodies That Matter: if sex is this supposedly biological reality that can’t change, but our understanding of sex is only always in reference to our social interpretation and application of it in the world (eg gender), then sex is also socially constructed
The 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is obviously not without its flaws: its production was not only hell for the actors but it was also, frankly, dangerous, and in retrospect it was definitely not the sort of film Nintendo wanted to attach their flagship franchise to. But much more so than the 2023 film the film understood that film and video games are two completely different mediums and that gameplay as it is shown in a video game is mostly a contrivance to grant players agency over the action. You can't make a film about an Italian man jumping on turtles and driving go-karts because jumping on turtles and driving go-karts are simply means of utilizing the language of video games towards telling the story. A video game movie that simply translates the act of gameplay (down to a progression of "levels") into film simply turns the player into a spectator: the interactivity lost the viewer is reduced to a passive recipient for what would undoubtedly be a fun set piece to play but does not serve any major narrative function,
The bank robber on the phone with the hostage negotiator: Please just send the SWAT team in to kill us all
unfortunately the United States’ position as a global hegemonic superpower and a capitalist nation means that something like narrative cohesiveness is not rewarded, and pretty sparkles and brand recognition are ultimately shameless cash grabs that create a pristine, hollow product devoid of meaning outside of the associative to those that pay attention. the identity crisis of late stage capitalism is that we are so estranged from our own identities that our media doesn’t stand for anything, especially not our own authentic experiences
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