Dunne&Ias' Sims 2 Stuff

It is NOT a historical hood. It's just fun. There will be absolutely zero attempts to make anything historically accurate. What it is though, it's a system based on a very strict social hierarchy, similar to older feudal systems. At the top of the hierarchy is a member of the landed gentry who basically owns everything, every bit of land and all the resources and everyone else in the hood has to perform services for this person, like deliver resources every season. Most people also owe this person debts.

The exact numbers would probably be boring to you all, but let's just say I have them and I might have to tweak them. I've very specifically attempted to make it hard to achieve upwards social mobility and not meeting the target quotas is going to be cause for great concerns.

(The truth is, I'm insanely good at this game. No that's not a brag, it's actually a problem for my enjoyment. I know how to play efficiently, and I can play huuuge households, and my sims make a lot of money. So I'm doing this to give myself another shot at a challenge. It's basically going to be a BACC, but with extra flavour. Over the years I've become very accustomed to what restrictions I need in-game and which I can track in a spreadsheet without feeling overwhelmed)

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But before I get to creating sims, I'm going to do some incredibly fun.

I'm going to play an RPG with myself (and you guys, because I'll be posting a bunch of polls and you can answer them to direct to RPG. It's called The Quiet Year, and you can read more about it here:

You can also listen to the Ethersea season of The Adventure Zone and hear them play it in order to create the world they're going to use for their campaign. It's a lot of fun and there is no need to hear the earlier arcs they've done to enjoy it.

So I'm going to play through this game and use it to come up with interesting quirks for the neighbourhood I'm going to create. Specifically, the map, but I also hope some characters will reveal themselves eventually.

I'm playing the pdf-version, which means I'll use a regular deck of cards and some dice. I've also got my regular DnD dice if I ever need them.

I'm starting with a count of 25 sims, but at this point, they have neither jobs, names, nor social classes. This number may increase of decrease as the game goes along.

Anyway, I'll be posting some stuff as I go along, and if you don't want to see it, I'll use TQYTS2 as a tag so you can block it.

Similar to Pescado's money order, but actual resources?

Setting up a new hood maybe, and I'd like the sims to be able to own shares in each others' farms etc that would allow them to get some veg. Stuff like that.

I'm watching Friends, and it's season 8 and Rachel is pregnant and EVERYONE is making suuuuuch a big deal about her and Ross not being married.

It was the late 90s/early 00s at this point. I mean, I know the US is very prudish as a whole, but come on, right? This can't have been such a big deal? It's just the writers wanting to make consistently bad jokes, right? Or they were all young in the 50s and didn't understand times had changed.

Bring is notorious for not actually delivering things, just drive by and pretend they tried, so now my excitement has turned into major anxiety instead.

Her name is Broomhilda.

She cost 90% of my tax rebate. But she's worth it and she's mine now.

Sometimes, some of you will post or reblog things that start with the most indecipherable nonsense I've ever heard and I have to read your entire post just in case it's somehow relevant to our shared interests and it's not until I get to the tags that I realize that you've gained another blorbo and I love you all for that.

AI companies going out of business, or the right losing power in Sweden according to latest polls.

That is all.