#selfsim shenanigans

Hear ye, hear ye! Ladies! Gentlemen! Both, and neither! 🗣️ Please join me in wishing @biffybobs the very best of birthdays! 🎂

So it turns out monarchies aren't really her thing but besting my ass in chess and stage combat sure is! The crown is yours for the taking if you want it, babes! 👑💗

A February birthday inevitably means sweets overload — and now I'm a part of the problem! 🥲 I set out to create a nostalgia-rific birthday celebration for you, @biffybobs (but like, in the Sims 4... because Mac...) and naturally realized I should include the Surprise Birthday Cake.

What I didn't realize (or just plain forgot from way back in the '00s!) is that the Surprise Birthday Cake is, in fact, cake — and not just a deco prop for a super fun surprise dance routine that I should only play on the computer when parents aren't in the room. 🫣

A day after meeting the Gomes family they invited themselves over as houseguests — and in what is technically a 3-bedroom starter, how could I say no? If I had known they meant to stay for almost an entire week perhaps I would have thought better of it...

There was also an infant called Bill who would have been a stay over guest as well if not for still being a newborn object baby.

What's worse is that Radwan and Tziporah decided to get into a physical altercation while guests in my home.

Zelmira did not seem particularly troubled by this but I was deeply concerned.

No it was not Neighborhood Brawl day!

I asked them to move in permanently as a roommate (thinking, let me help this teen escape what is clearly a bad situation) but they declined, stating they already had a home. Well, what kind of home can it be, Zelmira, when your father has no issue beating your mother in front of his own child? (Not even to mention his host / neighbor!)

So I had to do the next best thing and:

immediately write Zelmira into my will

temporarily become a ghost and use my ghostly powers to rid them of their negative emotions via the cutest hug ever 🥹

regularly drop in on their home to keep a close eye on Radwan 👀 (and also check in on Bill!!!)

betrayed by the one cat I can rely on to not jump on the counter in real life — but delighted that cats actually react to the new mixer

we came, we saw, we... used a stand mixer to process faux meat and vegetables? 🤷🏼‍♀️

overall I'm quite pleased with this, but to me it kinda seems like a food processor was in development for this pack as well, but then to cut corners they decided to shove it all into the stand mixer.