Swamp Sim

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First Impressions

Hi there! I’m Jess. Long time lurker, first time Tumblr-poster. No one in my real life understands my addiction to this franchise, so here I am! The Decades Challenge has made this game a million times more fun, and now I can’t stop. I don't use custom poses, I don't write stories, and I love glitches.

I'm trying to finally learn how to create custom content, probably poorly! Wanna see? 

I have some EA edits here!

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To kick off her challenge to paint portraits of her whole family, Rita painted the most cursed rendition of her first born son possible. Haunting.

We have a lot to do, and not a lot of time to do it, so Morose and Rita got right back to it. Again, pregnancy in this game is hilariously fast.

About 20 People Minutes later, a new son was born and named Avarice, and Covet aged up to Toddler. Like, stupid fast.

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Morose and Rita are actually a bit of a power couple, and with Rita's help in the garden, Morose even sometimes has the time to bathe before he makes the whole house smell like garbage and his pregnant wife vomits.

She loves being a Gen 1 Legacy wife. The poverty, the stink, being forced to live like it's the 1920s when the neighbors probably have a TV. She just loves it.

And pregnancy in Sims 3 goes way faster than Sims 4 pregnancy I think, and I had apparently blocked that out. Morose tried to take his wife to the diner for one last night out before the baby is born, and boom the stupid baby is born. Rita went into labor right outside the very diner where she and Morose agreed to ditch her husband and get married.

Apparently not wanting to give birth in the rain outside, Rita then left the date and walked all the way home. Then into her own backyard.

And there, outside in the rain, Gen 2 has arrived. I gave the color wheel a spin, and we got green! Which is commonly associated with greed or jealousy. Baby 1 is a boy who we've named Covet.

AND WE'RE OFF.

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Morose and Rita had a small, private wedding in one of their shared favorite places, among all the dirt and and fish-fertilized plants in their garden.

Rita was given a Gen White 1920s makeover, because her former outfit/makeup was definitely a choice. And now we know all of her traits, and she's not only a Green Thumb (+1 for the challenge score) who Loves the Outdoors and has Commitment Issues, she's also a Clumsy Artist. I switched her LTW over to the Artist Track, so we can start racking up points there too!

Rita moved in with $4000, so we used that to build her a little sitting room/art studio.

They wasted no time getting started on the next generation, whose color I'll roll for when the first kid pops out.

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In one afternoon with Rita, Morose learned three things; she's Clumsy, Loves the Outdoors, and has Commitment Issues. Easy money. He spent one afternoon becoming her friend at the festival, and invited her on a proper date the next day.

It only took an hour and a meal to have them both out back behind the diner, having Commitment Issues together. Then he asked her to leave her husband, which she loved.

Not even two minutes later, Morose proposed, so we can get this thing moving along.

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First things first, Morose got to work on his first two days planting, fishing, and having severe routing issues going to and from his house.

It's getting pretty weird and I'm 99% sure we'll be copying and pasting this house into another lot, and soon. When I feel less lazy and entertained.

The women of Roaring Heights are dimes by the way, wall-to-wall genetics that any sim would be proud to found a legacy with. But most of them are kinda older and not at all what we're looking for in terms of traits. UNTIL:

While studying gardening in the very sparsely decorated and kinda disappointing EA library, Morose ran into this fox with regrettable makeup, Rita Davis-Welles. These are the genetics we need to bring in. Just as soon as we get rid of her husband.

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The founder for my new lil Tourmaline Hix Lepacy is Morose Tourmaline, named after the emotion I feel when I see things that are only white or gray. He's a Green Thumb, an Angler, and he Loves the Outdoors, so he's perfect for Gen 1, but he's also a Brooding Loser because perfect is dumb.

He'll be starting in Roaring Heights, representing the 1920s generation!

He has a little house, appropriate for the times, with a little garden plot. But I didn't want him to be too comfortable, since he's super poor, new to town, and I hate myself, so I put him on a new little lot waaaaaay off by the ol' mine.

Which isn't connected to the road in any way, by the way. Should be fun!

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I did it. After years of trying to really fall in love with Sims 4, I've uninstalled and gone back to Sims 3. I got it running flawlessly, with zero crashes and almost zero lag, and I'm having the best time. Seeing that there's still very much an active community for Sims 3 was like water in the desert, and once I discovered the Hix Completionist Challenge and the LePacy Challenge, I feel reborn in the year 2010 and it feels so good. And so now I'm playing:

The Tourmaline Hix Completionist Random-Rainbow Decades LePacy!

Tourmaline is my favorite stone, and comes in a wide variety of colors. I love and desperately missed the generational rainbow playstyle, and I am a slut for the decades playstyle. So I'll be doing ALL OF IT >:]

Some notes about the way I'm playing:

I am completely randomizing the color per generation using this wheel, except for the first generation, which will be white/grey because it's so boring that if I were to roll it on a wheel, I would cry.

Sims born into this family will be named after emotions that correspond with their generations color. ex: yellow is typically seen as the color of happiness, red of anger, blue of sadness, so on so forth.

I'm starting in the 1920's, because it's just too much damn work to remove everything modern from the whole entire open town, and with Roaring Heights the 20's are a breeze.

My playstyle is VERY hands-off and I let the wants they roll lead the way. Arguably, to a fault. I love drama.

I turn off several autonomous actions completely just to make it more immersive or less annoying for myself. No one is allowed to open the fridge, forcing them to all wait until dinner time at 6pm. No one is allowed to prank the toilets or build random igloos, just some random things like that that don't make the game any easier for me, but do make it more fun.

I. Am. Addicted.

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I'm regressing mentally to a simpler time, I've reinstalled The Sims 3

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Sure, I could try reviving the Decades Challenge that I got really bored with because I've done it so many times.

OR

I could start remodeling an entire save file to start my first History Challenge when the new pack releases c:

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Funaria Decades - 1890

The Petting Farm continued to grow, and now these hard working animals are pulling in at least 1000 Simoleons every day for their family. The babies even have cribs now. If it wasn't for the animal exploitation on this farm, the kids might be dead by now who knows.

Eliza Pancakes is still our best customer, still shows up when the farm opens and stays ALL DAY. She set her LITTLE BABY IN THE MELTING SNOW, FOR HOURS. I felt bad and had to mccc her into a warmer outfit. When Eliza finally noticed her baby crying in the damn snow, she just kinda...

flipped 'er right on over.

Alma ended up asking to be introduced to little Sandy Pancakes, so she could pick her up and take care of her while Eliza gets her fix outside. For three days now, Alma has had a fourth baby to take care of all day long. It's great.

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Funaria Decades - 1890s

The petting farm business is growing, although slowly, so once Amos and Agnes aged up, the family is now Babies Sleeping on the Floor Poor.

I was also Today-years-old when I learned that if a baby is being held when it has a blowout, it just shits all over whoever is holding it? Awesome.

And even though the petting farm is STILL designated as a SHOP, the farm stand itself never, ever sells anything. Nothing. Their entire income is ticket sales, and it is a shop.

Michael Bell did definitely bring his stupid smelly baby, to pee on the floor right in front of it, which definitely helps.

If you decide to go the Petting Farm route, just know to harvest your stuff every morning before you open. Because they will just STEAL ALL OF YOUR EGGS.

Lettie also aged up, and also smells like crap. And these kids bathe. I don't get it, did they make sims more disgusting? It's all farts and pee puddles.

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The Bog Witch's Kitchen

A Quick & Dirty Selfish Recolor

I recolored the Rustic Range kitchen, specifically for my SimSelf. But then it was a lot of fun and I decided I need way more colors, with and without stained glass (but mostly with.)

I ended up with 7 paint colors, 4 wood colors, 6 different shades of stained glass or wooden doors with no glass, and 5 different countertops. ALL glass and countertop options are available for all colors, or however else I should word that to make it less confusing, for mixing and matching. An absolute shload of combos available because honestly, I'm a slut for options. All the black metal has been changed to a nice natural brass, and there are slots all over (including atop the cabinets) for decorating.

They aren't perfect, but they make me happy.

Bog Witch Kitchen Counters - Colors

Bog Witch Kitchen Counters - Woods

Bog Witch Kitchen Cabinets - Colors

Bog Witch Kitchen Cabinets - Woods

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Funaria Decades - 1890

Well, somehow, a crazy man let himself into the cabin. Luckily, no one was harmed, but what??

Alma gave birth for the second time, giving us NATURAL TWINS because this game hates me. Introducing Agnes and Amos!

But things are getting CRAMPED. The farm stand makes almost no money, so we haven't been able to expand at all. Something gotta change. And then a stroke of genius.

WELCOME, to the Funaria Petting Farm! For just 24 Simoleons a pop, the townspeople can now clean, feed, and generally care for the animals here on the farm, a scheme that would take rural America another 100 years to think up. The farm stand is still there, too, not that anybody cares.

Some people like it more than others. Eliza Pancakes typically likes to show up when we open, and not leave until we close. Our first day saw 13 paying customers, and we're on our way to making room for all these stupid kids.

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Funaria Decades - 1890

Lettice aged up, and within about an hour, Alma and Henry were pregnant again, because we gotta get all these stupid babies out of the way so they can help with the farm/business.

And the business, by the way, SUCKS. Is anyone else experiencing this? 23 customers and 2 sales? Seriously, they sell almost nothing.

So we took some drastic measures. Alma set up a sales table, and started a yard sale. They FINALLY have an inflow of cash, pretty much just enough to buy little Lettice a crib, but at least that means she won't have to sleep on the floor (which was the original plan.) AND Sims can have a business open and a yard sale going at the same time, so suck on that EA.

It got weird. Vladislaus showed up, and Alma and Bella Goth (both pregnant) ended up autonomously flirting with him, which made Henry VERY uncomfortable, which made their marriage strained, and what the hell why.

And then, he burned up, right there at the yard sale. Now they have a shitty vampire grave to pass down through the generations. Just great.

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Funaria Decades - 1890

Alma soon found herself very pregnant, which cut into some of her constant canning time, and caused a few floor peeing episodes due to their outhouse occasionally forgetting that it is an outhouse.

And while Alma was growing a baby, Henry was working hard to slowly expand the product inventory on their farm stand. Still, they do almost NO business, with Bella Goth and Landgrab stopping by to stink and pee all over the ground, but purchase nothing.

And along came their first child, a girl named Lettice, which is a TOTALLY REAL NAME that I found on this baby name website, so while it's super hilarious to me, it's also historically accurate!

SEE????

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Ingenius Retail Shelves w/ Slots and Colors!

EA gave us this shelf, able to hold 2 small items and a medium at the same time, or something. So I added dozens upon dozens of slots and 10 more colors, to make them more useful.

REQUIRES BUSINESSES & HOBBIES I THINK

Ingenius Retail Shelves