Benny passes away almost immediately. Easy come, easy go as they say.
Business isn't going great in the shop either. No one seems to like Felica, meaning her love life isn't going great either.
But what she lacks in results, she makes up for in efforts. She will stay up all night practicing her craft. She's actually been rolling more wishes to do pottery, or talk about it than flirt with anyone, which is surprising for a romance sim. It's not even her one true hobby or anything.
Through her dedication (and having a sale) Felica gets the shop back on it's feet, and even finds time to flirt.
Uh well, I'm glad you are excited about cooking, but can you not stand right next to the fire, also wtf is going on with your hands?
Y'all, that was a close one. I did not think she was gonna make it.
To celebrate her survival, and the start of spring, Felica goes to the newly opened pool, and didn't pay for it. She finally roles the want to go on a date.
Doesn't matter if it's karma, or if Felica should be glad she didn't pay for the pool, it starts raining. Despite that, the paying guests still enjoy themselves while dancing, and Felica finds someone to flirt with.
Annnnd he runs away before I can get his name, damn. At least Henry seems to be having a good time, looks like he's probably about to go home and have some of whine and cheese with his wife he loves very much. I hope he has a great time.
Considering that the only other people at the pool are old men, and the owner who is married, Felica gives up and goes home.
To add insult to injury, when she is at the pool Elvira Kumar asks if Felica can watch after her two kids and feed them since her and her husband are going to be out late (or at least that's my narrative explanation for why I had a teen come over and become my sims best friend, even if it was actually because Felica wanted to be Tina's best friend, and I needed to fix her abysmal aspiration.
I end up leaving this household with Tina blocking the stairwell with her jump roping while Felica is passed out on the first floor.
Oh, and a burglar is here. Great.
(As a side note, so far none of my sims have bought any cars, which we will get to probably around week 13. If a sim doesn't have a car, I don't let them go between sub-hoods, don't let them order a cab, and try and be reasonable about what is walkable and what is not, which is the main reason she ended up going to the pathetic pool to try and find a date.)
Little Footprint Toilet Recolors + Texture Replacement + CEP Extra
This is a neat little toilet, right? Here are recolors in Lunamoth metals (look best with Extended StandardMaterial Shader) and Sugar Rush colors, and seats in @morepopcorn woods. Or grab a default replacement using the colors show in the first screenshot, plus the rest as recolors.
The seat-specific recolors are meant to go with the CEP Extra I made that separates the seat and bowl into two recolorable subsets, plus a third non-recolorable subset to keep the handle shiny. In addition to the usual two CEP Extra files, there's a third file in there that needs to go in [TS2 Install Folder]/Fun with Pets/SP9/TSData/Res/Overrides/. Thanks so much to @picknmixsims for helping me troubleshoot! Enjoy!
Does anyone know why Cora is so obsessed with Cecil Merph? She just keeps talking about how much she loves her; I mean like, me too girl, but cut it out, you are a child. She started talking about Cecil, not Ethan.
Cora gave Francis another shot. (Maybe because I forgot I didn't want these two to keep seeing each other, maybe because I believe in giving love a chance. Who really knows?) And it did not work out.
Despite her sassy childhood, Cora is really turning out to be a good student, and a happy teen.
Business is going so well that Sally hardly works, and when she does she is wearing her pajamas. Good for her.
Ethan came home from school with Cora, and after Cora finished her homework, Gloria showed up! Sorry Ethan, no one will be paying attention to you.
Can y'all not do that in the bathroom? Like I am glad you are hitting it off, but this is just weird. I mean, I think Cora is only really into Gloria because she is Cecil's daughter, but we don't need to dissect that right now.
Gloria has that infamous Merph flu still, btw. Cora caught it too, but at least they are girlfriends now!
Awh, They didn't totally ignore Ethan!
I totally forgot these two are besties, which is extra cute. I like to think they are joking about young love. I wonder what happened to Cora's dad?
She ended up asking her mom if she could go shopping with Gloria instead of her. Young love is so fickle.
The one condition of Cora going without her mom was that she show off what she got once she got home, which ended up being a dress and a pair of shorts. Forgive the walls down screen shots.
Seems I waited too long to buy Cora new clothes, and the camo pants got to her.
Don't rag on Sally, she gained some charisma skill today and she is the first person in this town to actually turn a profit from their business.
Cecil just showed up at Pineview Pets to mog on everyone, I love her. Everyone loves the Merphs.
Anyways, it's Saturday, you know what that means?
Free teen labor, which means more TV time for Sally.
"It's not child abuse, it's character building!"
Alright, whatever you say, Sally.
Sunday means date day, yes for both of them this time.
Sally goes first, bold as always, off to the park looking for someone who wants a MILF in their PJs.
She has no success, but at least she has fun playing in the puddles.
Cora goes second because she had to sleep in after getting the flu, again, after sneaking out with Gloria.
I'm genuinely just praying they will fall in love this whole date because if they don't I have to accept she is truly meant to be with Gloria's brother. It didn't happen on this date, so we only have three more days to make it happen.
My contribution to the GOS July/August themes - Animal Kingdom & How Low Can You Go
Trayless Orb Cat Toy - repositoried to the OFB Tray O' Orbs sculpture because if you leave orbs sitting around the cat is going to steal one to play with. It's cloned from ATS' cat ball and works like the catnip mouse. It should pick up any recolors you have for the orb subset, poly count is 224
tdyannd's Pampered Pets Litter Box repositoried to the BG Cinderbooks bookshelf, it should pick up any recolors you have for the shelf subset. This is a clone with a new guid, it wont conflict with the original. Poly count is 138
6 Recolors for the FT Formidable Formicarium - I always forget the ant farm exists, maybe having more color options will remind me to use it. Here's some fun 2-tone colors
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Charlie moves out of his parent's house and into the most garishly designed house I have ever built. I also decided to give him a small garden next to the house since he has a high nature interest and the first thing he did when he moved in was bird watch. I also haven't played with any farming in years, so this will be a good refresher before I start a true farm in town
He's doing great at his lawyer job which is good news because he killed his whole garden already.
He also really quickly became besties with Sally, which I was not expecting. I think every time I have seen her when playing a different household, she has been pregnant.
Adam-Rue Family
They adopted this old smashed face cat when I wasn't looking, and you know what, good for them. Less good, of course, is the amount of child neglect in these big families. Thank goodness these little guys are just pixels, they really be going through it.
Seeing this series of notifications is always such a relief.
Until this one popped up. UGH I there are 10 sims in this house, they are going to keep passing this flu back and forth forever. Epidemiologists HATE this family.
"MOOOM I thought you weren't sick! Get out of my way and let me puke!"
I would think Isabelle would have seen this happen enough times that she would know what it means, but I guess not.
That was fast
Dawn and Cora go on a dream date, I think they bond over their zits. While they were pretty cute and have crushes on each other, I don't think it's going to be long term. Mainly because I see Cora getting married to one of the Merph girls. That said, if they do fall in love, I will let it happen, a little love triangle never hurt anyone.
Even though it's not at all reflected in their relationships, I also imagine the Adam-Rues and Merphs having an unspoken rivalry about who will contribute the most to the population of the town, and therefore end up with the most political power through shear numbers.
There are a lot of reasons I love the sims 2, but just how easy it is to get all of your sims to sit down and talk over dinner is way up there on the list.
Francis tries to go out and find a date, but the only people at the library are adults or elderly, so she just ends up playing video games alone.
Well, other than this freak with the bear.
Leslie and Leo age up into cute kids
And let me tell you, this house is packed.
Francis ends up also taking Cora on a date. A little love square never hurt anyone. Despite what you see here, the date went just alright.
Alexander publishes a great paper all about frostbite. Good for him.
Tina comes over after school with Dawn, and yes. This is the couple I want. They immediately hit it off, and I think they look super cute together.
They of course go on a date to the graveyard, I love them. Another reason I need to get a polyamory mod. These two are so cute together, but both of them really want to date other people. (Tina is a romance sim and Francis is a popularity sim)
And Hilary is a teen, so we have yet another potential victim of this small town drama. She is playful, active, and outgoing so I made her a pleasure sim as well, just like all of her degenerate siblings.
We also have new babies in the house! Welcome Nancy, Oliver, and Oscar to the family, and congrats to Alex and Sandy, proud parents of ten!
Friday after school, while I wasn't looking, this happened.
Dawn is going to be aging up into an adult at the end of the week, so I don't know how this will go. I guess once she is an adult we can reintroduce her to all of her high school sweethearts and see who she picks.
Jessica grew up into a toddler and I'm not gonna lie... She's kind of ugly, even for an alien. Hopefully she will grow into her face a little. She does have her grandma's nose, so that's adorable.
Good thing we have another shot with baby Malory, who also has her grandma's nose, and I think has a better shot at having genetics I actually want in the gene pool. It's the sims, I swear I am only doing virtual eugenics.
On another note, with baby Malory being born, we are half way through the alphabet already! If you don't know, I am naming the babies born in Pineview in alphabetical birth order. Multiples get the same first initial. (Which is why Blake is up next) I think I will put a full list of all the sims born in town at the end of this post to celebrate this milestone.
This is how Bennet has been sleeping while he avoids work by constantly going on "maternity leave" and taking his strangely copious days of PTO. He seriously got away with not going to work the whole week, and still has PTO left over. It's good news for him, because there still aren't any baby sitters in the town of Pineview. By the way, Bennet how are you feeling about getting abducted again now that you have spent a few days sharing a room with a baby and a toddler?
"I'm good, actually."
Good. Oh! I see the girls aged up, how are they looking?
Uh, well, they both still have time! I swear it's not just that they are aliens... At least I think so.
Bennet not working also means he's also not getting bonuses, which means the sleeping arrangements aren't great. The kids are going to be a lot too. Jessica is max Neat, Outgoing, and active, serious and grouchy. She is going to be hard to make happy. Malory meanwhile is sloppy, active, playful, nice, and middling between outgoing and shy. It's going to be an interesting relationship for sure.
And I see Bennet is answering "Where do baby's come from?" so I am going to leave him to explain where she came from.
Merph Family (Blake and Chloe)
Ah, fuck. I forgot this was the damn cat breeding family. (This is 2/3 kittens, for a total of 3/20 total animals we will have to breed, and find something (hopefully ethical) to do with.) *Sigh*
I also forgot they had twins. I didn't have enough room to talk about them in the last post, which is how I was refreshing myself on where I was at in the playthrough. (The main reason I post these ngl) These are babies Kevin and Katherine. I also apparently built the five cats their own room, but shoved the babies in their parent's room. gotta lock in
These parents aren't about to be dead beats, at least the cats need to get jobs. Humans, your task is figure out how you can profit off the kittens.
"We should just call over a neighbor and sell it to them."
You know what Chloe, I am starting to warm up to you. Let's start the towns first business rivalry with two pet sellers, why not?
The pets will be going by the same rules as the rest of the babies in town, so here is Abe taking a quick shit before being the first kitten sold off. A townie named Melisa Fancey paid 399 simoleons for him. This is certainly not worth the effort, but I am in for it for the wish based game play because I live for the chaos.
Allan (left) went to another townie, Makoto St. Julien. I want to save at least one cat for one specific sim once I can get Chole to meet her, so for now, Ariel (right) is staying with us.
Good job, guys!
Extra good job to Sapphire for getting a promotion the same day she had two kittens! Say "hello" to Burnt Toast and Bendy Straw!
And say "goodbye" to Burnt Toast! He got sold to some townie called Shelby Barrett. Then say "see you later" to Bendy Straw. She got sold to Bennett, because of course he needs something else to take care of. If you have been yelling at your screen, I am so sorry. This was the moment I realized that in order to fulfil Chloe's lifetime wish I needed to let them grow into adults first. I am going to be less dumb going forward.
Ariel grew up into an adult, and she looks so dumb, she's adorable. She has a job in showbiz, of course. We now have a corrected 1/20 pets raised by Chloe.
I have to give Chloe and Blake some credit for their dedicated cat training, litter box cleaning, and food bowl refilling. This isn't a way of earning cash I would normally go for, but that's one of the best parts of playing a challenge like this. That said, it was time to take that even further and get some dogs to breed!
Lady the great dane, and Sausage the Borzoi.
Despite the odds, my happily married family sims aren't having any wants to have more children, thank goodness.
They just want more puppies. Welcome to the world Centrifuge (female,) Cartoon (male,) Cauliflower (male,) and Catholic Schism of 2026, Catholic Schism in game for character limit purposes, but I want to be clear his name is in reference to recent events.
Ruby and Sapphire also have Duster, Depression, and Denial.
Thank goodness it's time to move on to a different household.
Here that list of babies born in Pineview, a total of 18 from 13 pregnancies:
Alexander Rue (now Adam-Rue) Bennet and Blake Merph, Charlie Merph, Dawn Adam-Rue, Ethan and Evan Merph, Francis Adam-Rue, Gloria Merph, Hilary Adam-Rue, Ian and Isabelle Adam-Rue, Jessica Merph, Kevin and Katherine Merph, Leo and Leslie Adam-Rue, and Malory Merph.
Okay, I think I need to make up for how much I have been ignoring Amin, so we start with him this week.
Bro has been sleeping his way through town like before, and is quite pleased with himself.
"Retirement means more time for boning!"
I really should get a mod to allow for ethical monogamy because I'm starting to get tired of my romance sims always being villains. Where are the mutual one night stands?
Okay, but regardless, this one is messed up. Jennifer is a family sim! Don't mess with her heart like this!
*sigh*
"Don't blame me, there are only so many women in this town, and I only have so much life left, I have to do this!"
Merph Family (Cecil and Henry)
"Blake, always remember an hourglass is about thiiiis big."
"Uh, okay mom."
The adult kids have been coming by to visit a lot, it's very cute.
I'm not going to lie to y'all, I did save scum because even though I had life elixir on hand, I completely forgot to keep an eye on his age, and he was suddenly dead on Wednesday the first time around. I save scummed back to Monday and actually kept him alive this time. I have no shame, look at how heart broken Cecil is!
"I'm glad to be back, I want to spend more time with my kids before I go."
I'm glad; I'm also glad that you are mentally capable of handling the extensile crisis of being save scummed' out of your own death and being aware of it. Also, I didn't even think of this when I made these two sims, but I genuinely love that they both have such unique nose shapes and each kid has their own version. I really hope the extreme nose shapes stay in the family over the generations. I think it's so cute when you can see the relation between ancestors and the youngest sims in a town.
These two both have saved wishes to have 10 children, so they are breeding like rabbits. We have Dawn, Francis, Hilary, Ian, Isabelle, Leslie, and Leo all at home. Dawn and Francis, the two teens, do a lot of the child rearing, like you might expect.
At least they are being good sports about it.
At one point, There were two infants and two toddlers, and that is likely about it happen again since Sandy is pregnant again. I need to get around to installing a triplets and quads mod to speed the suffering period up in the future.
Isabelle has been spending more time with this stray dog, Stinky, than any of her siblings. I am sure she will grow up to be well adjusted. Surely this has nothing to do with the fact she is child number five out of seven.
Stewart Family
Gloria came home with Cora after school, and they got along like a house fire. I can't wait to see what shenanigans get get up to.
Cora Grew up into a teen and wanted to get some new clothes. Her mom agreed to take her shopping, as long as she worked a shift at the pet store. Which she did, and it went quite well. They still need to go out shopping, but I think Cora is going to be helping her mom out at Pineview Pets more often in the future.
Sally finally learns how to cook so that she can avoid Amin, who owns the only restaurant in town.
Valery Household
Felica moves in and starts a knick-knack shop in hopes of banging tourists. I wish her the best of luck.
She also apparently bought a dog of her own free will. I didn't know that was something that could happen.
But I love Benny the elderly corgi, and he gets to stay around, even if he is constantly pissing on the floor.
WendelHousehold:
Jennifer is a romantic, and opened her florist shop in this small town in hopes of finding The One. Very Hallmark of her. So far she has had very little luck in the realms of business or love.
Kumar Family
Elvira and Omar moved their children Tina and Jeana to the new development of Mt. Sequoia ready to become a part of local history. Omar started a job as an oceanographer while Elvira started the town's first pool.
It ain't much, but it's wet.
With their parents working so hard, Tina is the main one taking care of Jeana. They are pretty adorable together.
I've changed things around, so we are no longer starting these posts with the first household in the rotation, but my current favorite. This week it's the Merph's. I won't go on too long here about how cute elderly Cecil is here because I made a whole post about it already, but I mean
She's so cute
It was Charlie's last week at home, which will make him the third Merph child to start his own household. He's a popularity sim, and my goodness he can full it off.
Even Evan think's he's beautiful. Plus he's good with kids? What a catch! He wants to reach the top of the lawyer career. I don't know if I want to give him family or romance as a secondary aspiration, I guess I will see how he behaves once he is out on his own. As you can see in the background, Ethan and Evan both grew up into teens too. They are both huge boring knowledge nerds. Maybe now that their handsome brother has moved on they will have more of a chance to shine.
Well, not if Gloria has anything to do about it. She grew up from a toddler to a child, and oh boy she was a lot, immediately.
The first thing she did was jump up and run in front of her dad to answer the phone. The call was for him and I told him to get it, but no, that's how max outgoing sims are.
"No father, I will not take off the dragon costume."
Good thing I am actually the one in charge here. I mostly let my sims wear whatever they want (I mean have you seen Alexander?) but this is a step too far.
Merph Family - Bennet
Bennet realized he needed to make friends in order to become the city planner he has always been dreaming of becoming, and immediately starts trying to summon aliens. (Knowledge sims, am I right?) When that doesn't work, he realizes it's probably too bright out and tries again at night, to immediate success.
"I wanna get abducted again."
Dude you just got back, its Tuesday Goddamit! (Knowledge sims, right?)
DUDE already?
"What? It's Wednesday now."
Goodnews is the sun rose before he could summon anymore aliens, bad news is...
"What do you mean bad news? I've always wanted to be a father!"
No, no you have not, but I'm glad you're happy. (Knowledge/family sims are the worst.) Welcome to the world, baby Jessica.
DUDE
AGAIN? Like dude, I don't want to kink shame, but this is just straight up irresponsible.
"I don't care, I'm not going to reroll that want. My parents will take care of the kids."
They endorse this???
Let's go check on your brother, maybe he is less crazy.
Merph Family - Blake
By 2pm on Monday, Blake had already convinced his high school sweet heart, Chloe, to marry him and invited his whole family to their small home.
Blake: "Welcome to my wedding, did you hear our brother has an alien abduction kink?"
Bennet: "Dude, I'm right here."
Charlie: "Yeah, so who is watching your alien daughter?"
Meanwhile, the parents of the groom are playing hanky panky in the corner, I love them.
Goddammit Charlie, please don't say anything weird.
"I'm not my brother!"
Which one? I don't even want to know.
What a beautiful ceremony.
Much better!
The dance floor is open! Very sweet of Henry to dance with the orphan.
They had a great wedding, and Blake was egar to consummate it.
"I need to have more babies than my brother."
Excuse me? Do push ups until the urges go away. You are a gumshoe now, and you will need that fitness to earn money in your career if you want kids that bad.
Let's look at what Chloe is thinking about
Oh HELL no.
Sally: "Don't you love kissing your pets on their little heads?"
Chloe: "I do, I really do."
Fine, you get one pet.
"But look! Sapphire and Ruby are a bonded pair! You can't seperate them! Please?"
Fine. I guess it will be okay as long as they are both girls.
"Ruby's a boy, and I already signed the paperwork."
Then they both ~got fired on exactly the same day.~ Wish them luck.
Sims Household
Amin has been working hard again... So hard I forgot to take screen shots, again. So you just get this picture I took while making this post. He's standing in front of his still money-losing restaurant, Sim's Eats, in the dark.
He refused to face the camera face on, just like this man won't face consequences. He's still sleeping around town, but he was also the first person in town to ever complete a LTW. Mainly by being a gold digger, but that's not important right now. What is important is he is Mr. #1 Chef.
I'm not ready for a full update, but Cecil aged up and y'all, she's fucking adorable; I love her. I will be supplying these two with potions of youth because I want them to at least meet their grandkids, and they are just so precious.
I absolutely adore playing with elderly couples. My elder sims get a lot more autonomy than younger ones, and I swear every time I take my eyes off these two for a second these two are loving on each other. I'm so excited for their golden anniversary, which is Henry's LTW.
This post was just an excuse to show off adorable elderly Cecil, but I guess I will also tell you a bit more about these two since I don't get the chance as much in the main posts. They were both created in CAS. Cecil is a fortune/family sim and was the main bread winner. Her LTW is to reach the top of the Adventure career, however I still ended up having her retire at level 8 because she is constantly at platinum aspiration just from spending time with her family. (Have I mentioned I love her?)
1- I don't care that she is a slob, that's what her husband is for. 2- the main reason she didn't get further in her career is because she had a hard time making friends. She doesn't mind because she is plenty satisfied with her relationships with her family, especially her husband. (Have I mentioned-)
Henry isn't as cute, but he more than makes up for it in his fatherly duties. A pure family sim, a creative, a chef, a novelist, and primarily a attentive stay at home father. He is BFFs with all of his children and spends all of the time he isn't making out with his wife with them.
But he often combines the two. He has also written an okay novel, and will likely write a few more during his retirement. As mentioned before, his LTW is to have a golden anniversary, and these two have been so purely in love that I think it's going to happen for them. (A first for me)
Also, isn't Cecil's hair jewelry so pretty? (Have I men-)
His dedication to parenthood is especially impressive if you remember he responded to having his second set of twins by having a mental breakdown. I might also have him and Cecil adopt some more kids because he just keeps rolling for another kid, and it would be a good use of the extra life I will be granting him for being a certified sweetie pie. The game can call them both grouchy all it wants, they are constantly smiling.
Just realized I didn't take any screenshots for Amin, but he was busy. He's been working full time at his job as an executive chef, and running the only restaurant in town. So far he is losing a bunch of money by offering his high quality food as cheap as possible, hopefully this publicity stunt will work.
Merph Family
The Merph's finally got their daughter, baby Gloria! It was just in time too. Well, at least in time for Henry, Cecil is still barely aging, and certainly doesn't look like she's had six children
Time really does fly, it was also the older twins' last week at home.
Charlie has also taken Bennet's place in dotting over his younger siblings.
Having a kids in the sims 2 is so much chaos, but I think the adorable animations make it worth it.
Adam-Rue Family
Speaking of which, I am playing by my normal self imposed gameplay rules for when a couple tries for a baby. Every time that at least one parent has a want to have a baby/have ten children and neither has a fear of having children, they will try for a baby. If either criteria aren't met, they won't.
So playing with family sims can be a bit of a nightmare. Sandy had three babies this week. Singleton baby girl Hilary, and twins Ian and Isabelle. This woman is incredible.
The Stewart Family
At first, it seemed like Sally's plan to move out somewhere peaceful to help her daughter really wasn't going to work.
The pet store was struggling, Cora was ignoring her homework, arguing with her mom, ghosts were haunting them, and Sally wasn't getting along with her neighbours.
Until a letter gets sent home from school with Cora, social services are offering their services to the clearly struggling family. Overnight, the two solve their differences. By the end of the week, Cora is caught up on homework and the two are best friends. Everything else seems to fall in place too. She is able to hire an employee and expand the pet store as it grows more popular and profitable.
Next week, The oldest Merph boys start their own households, three new households move into town,
the town of Pineview finally builds a cemetery, and the county grants Pineview the rights to the nearby abandoned subdivision to make a new business district.
This land is zoned for medium density development. duplexes and mixed use home businesses can be built here.
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