#thathorrorbat

I’m so jealous you have a stop that’s reachable from your bed!

Living right by the park where the neighbourhood’s junkies hang out has brought me nothing but joy over the years, weirdly enough (?).

Don’t worry; I intend to post some random gameplay pics from the isolationist neighborhood, too. ;) But in the meantime...

thathorrorbat replied to your post “A few replies. :)”

I have two male cats and one female at. The female cat is just a friend's cat I am watching until she finds a stable living situation but she is VERY chatty. I don't know if it's her breed (half Siamese, I know those are very chatty cats) or her gender(I've only had male cats) but I really enjoy it. My older male cat, Zuko isn't as chatty as the younger one, Iroh but we still have conversations.

Yeah, Siamese make a lot of noise, but it’s not always directed at people. I had a part-Siamese 25 years ago or so, and she’d just wander around randomly making noise, especially at night, not directed at anyone or anything. Just...noise. Often loud noise. Having conversations with humans is something they learn, though; it’s not something they do amongst themselves. I’ve had a lot of cats in my time, and while there’s been the occasional chatty male who’ll do it a bit, the really good “conversationalists” have always been female. 

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “Game-loading time replies, as usual. :)”

Rumschpringe!

I know! I’m trying to figure out how to do a proper Rumspringa-like thing for the first-week teens in this neighborhood (second-week teens are independent teens, and I treat them the same way as adults), as part of teenhood is “deciding” whether or not they’ll stay with the community, just as real Amish teens do. Part of the problem is the religion mod; it removes interactions that you set as “against the religion” from the pie menus. Or at least it does so when the Sim’s faith/zeal is high...and given that this is a small, close-knit community, they’re constantly shoring each other up in that, by interacting with each other. I kinda wish it only removed autonomy for those interactions rather than removing them from the pie menus of affected Sims, but...

Anyway, so far all I’ve come up with is to add a second “religion” that’s really just something in which nothing is disallowed, so that the Sims who are assigned to that “religion” will behave as they normally do, and then at least temporarily assigning teens to that religion. And then maybe I’ll move them out into...I dunno...a Rumspringa lot or sub-neighborhood or something, where they can have all the things they’re not allowed to have otherwise, kind of like how Amish teens will move to the city for their Rumspringa. I can do this easily enough; what I haven’t figured out yet is exactly how this will affect their “decision” about staying with the community or not. And also, I’m not entirely thrilled with the idea of moving them out, either, because they can be useful around the house, too. So...I dunno.

nixedsims replied to your post “nixedsims replied to your post:crystaldollhouse replied to your...”

But BHAVs are fun! You should totally give it a try. :) They won't bite... not hard, anyway. They almost never draw blood. ;)

It is something I want to learn, yes, because there are many things that I want to tweak for my own purposes, and it just can’t be done without having an at least basic understanding of how BHAVs work. I’m not really afraid of them; I’m OK with just making an extra copy of something and screwing around with it in SimPE and then throwing it in my creating user account’s downloads to see if it still works at all, much less works how I want it to. I actually learn best by doing that sort of thing. It’s just kind of...overwhelming, I guess. Probably because my brain just doesn’t think in computer-y ways. 

nixedsims replied to your post “nixedsims replied to your post:crystaldollhouse replied to your...”

Yeah, that sounds like the BO we've all come to know and love. :/ He can't take anything that might possibly be construed as criticism of any kind, however mild and polite, and you ALWAYS have to stroke his ego up, down and sideways. (I don't like him very much, can you tell? :P He IS good with BHAVs, though, I'll give him that.)

Yeah, so I gathered. :) People -- especially male people, I’m afraid -- who have to be handled with kid gloves because they can’t take criticism (especially from wimmen-folk) and need constant ego-stroking just irk the piss out of me, and I confess that I will go out of my way to poke at such people just to watch them react because I’m kind of an ass that way. So many people in my profession are that way, so I garner a lot of self-entertainment by taking pins to people’s inflated egos, I’m afraid. :) And if you’re going to get all self-important just because you can mod a game....Well, you’re going to become a target for me, I’m afraid. ;)

thathorrorbat replied to your post “A conversation with my 17-year-old...”

I love this! I have conversations with all of my cats all of the time. People who say cats have no personality have probably never met a cat.

My Simblr Crushes ♥

～ @speakinginsimlish ～ @lesyasun ～ @thathorrorbat ～ @javapixels ～ @deedee-sims ～ @simper-fi ～ @eulaliasims ～ @hambergersims ～ @simburgerr

Lmao my fish always die because no one ever feeds them.

Now I'm wondering if there are reylos who ship thramsay, they seem like they'd cross over. Shit like that is why I no longer even log into my fandom blog, I just followed all the rare ones I still enjoyed on this blog and my life is better for it.

Of course they're a Ramsay Bolton stan. Of course.

But the poor baby is just misunderstood. He hunts people like animals because he was alone as a child and daddy didn’t love him :((((((

I'm sure you know this but you can get them back!

Oh thank you for reminding me! I ran the HoodChecker and those tombstones are sent to a “safer” place. ♪