#buzz grunt

[oleafia-art]

the sims 2 strangetown premades in my cartoon style!

sadly i’ve never played ts2 but i became obsessed with these guys after watching plumbella’s lore videos on older sims games and wanted to try drawing them in my silly cartoon style

let me know if you’d want to see other sims 2 or even sims 4 townies in this style!

[capricornsims]

Believing The Strangest Things - Loving The Alien

The Curious brothers witness a UFO crash land into the desert, but quickly run away before the military can arrive.

When General Chip Grunt gets to the crash site, he quickly discovers that the pilot is missing! With the aid of Strangetown's finest scientist, Glarn Curious, they need to work together to locate and neutralize this alien threat.

Little do they know, this alien has been hiding amongst them, learning the ways of humanity and falling in love with Jenny.

Will Pollination Technician #9 Smith be discovered by the military? Will Jenny sacrifice everything for extraterrestrial love? Or is there a greater enemy threatening the town?

Spoilers, she does!

[crossingsj]

To me it's so important that none of the Grunts realise that Lyla's actually dead.

I feel a lot of people overlook it but it adds to the misery that is their household.

Like all three of her sons are hoping she'll come back for them...

Tank is hoping she comes back so he can be himself because he remembers how soft she used to be with him and he's idolised his mother to this near perfect human being. To Tank she's something she never was.

Ripp is hoping she comes back so he can stop fighting. He doesn't want to argue with his dad but knows if he doesn't put up a fight against Buzz's expectations no one else will. Ripp believes his mother will fight for them so he can just be a teenager again.

Buck is hoping he can get to know her. She left when he was so young he barely remembers her and wants her in his life. He remembers her as the only parent that cared for him.

Tragically none of them will get what they want, the only one who does is Buzz.

And Buzz is terrified Lyla will come back for their sons. He's spend the better part of a decade trying to mould his sons and control them. He might not like Tank, but Tank has met some of his expectations, Tank's desperation for Buzz's approval will have him joining the military in the blink of eye if it means Buzz will be happy. And Lyla could come back a ruin it all, for all he knows Lyla's spent years getting her shit together so she can win custody of them when she couldn't initially.

But because she's dead she never will, so Buzz can keep being Buzz. Buzz can keep torturing his sons physically and mentally because they just need to "toughen up." And the boys just have keep dealing with it until they're old enough to get out of there (but if the Sims 2 for PSP is to be believed, they never will).

[daminini]

drill sergeant who totally did not murder his wife and his sons who totally believe that he did

[lifesimautism]

my poasts

[its-cassney-simtch]

What If… The Sims 2 Was An Early 2000s Drama Movie?

I asked that to myself today and did some fake stills related to the lore with the help of Bing AI! Some of these turned out so good (IMO) that I couldn’t help but imagine how a real movie adaptation of The Sims lore would look like 😭

Will probably do more some time soon!

[slumber-sims]

It wasn't about the doll.

I was thinking about Tank Grunt's secrets in TS2 on PSP;

When Ripp took the doll from him, knowing that Buzz has 0 interest points in toys, and it being a doll, I imagine Tank must've been too afraid to ask his father to tell Ripp to give her back to him...

The doll was only one of the ways in which Tank tried to be in tune with his feminine side, all of which were either taken away from him or turned into a negative association

Him wanting to go into ballet but being forced to follow his father's footsteps is another example, and I personally find it lovely to see that in contrast to this, in TS2 on DS and on GBA he wears the pink shirt 🩷

And then there's the face paint...

Note that in TS2 on DS we find out from Tank that his face paint apparently is tattooed on and doesn't come off... I could be wrong but was THAT the punishment?

Think about how his face paint looks identical in TS2 on PC, PSP, DS as well as GBA and even in TS4 he appears with his family, where we can see that his father no longer has the lines on his cheeks, but Tank ... still has the face paint U.U

Honorable mention: in TS2 on GBA one of our first interactions with Tank is regarding him thinking that we are going to judge his apparel, presumably the pink shirt mentioned above, and this makes me wonder if his father's 0 interest points in fashion as well maybe made him view fashion (let alone the color pink) as something 'too feminine'...

...especially considering Tank has all the same interest points as his father

Buzz never allowed Tank to express himself

[just-ornstein]

Character sheets for a story I still want to tell sometime (though I may slightly redo them if I will, some info is a little outdated).

Some context: The Lyla on Buzz’s sheet is NOT his dead wife, it’s his alien daughter named after her. Lots of story stuff, may get into it someday.

Mystery Sim is essentially the Player Character you play as in most of he Spin-off games. They’re purposefully vague for a multitude of reasons, but one of them is that everyone makes a different Player Sim. They’re the Watcher’s creation! :)

Callisto is the alien child Vidcund will have if you play out the scripted event at the start of the game. She died very young because her alien and human DNA was incompatible. It’s based on how Vidcund’s possible alien baby is never acknowledged in any future instalments or spin-off games.