The Atherton (not really) ISBI - Part 1.
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tigeranneWelcome to my first attempt at playing a Sim-challenge, with the intention of actually posting the results. I've got a long and questionable history of abusing and experimenting on my Sims in both Sims 2 and 3, but that's another story.
Here are the members of the Atherton clan, just dropped off in front of their new... lawn.
Here is my controllable Sim, Williana. She's got Popularity as her Aspiration.
I chose a teenager as my controllable to give myself an extra challenge. This is not a real ISBI, since it's only one generation and aging is off. The challenge is more to see if I can keep them all from killing themselves, and have them gain enough money to build a proper house.
Williana: Got ya, Mom! LOLOLOL!!!
Here is their grand mansion. With a full family of eight, I started with a lot more money than a legacy would. But after having put in the bare necessities, I sat their funds down to 1000 Simoleons. They need food until they can become self sufficient, but everything else will have to be earned.
This is how it looks on the inside. More than good enough, I'd say.
Let's meet the family!
This is the family "matriarch", Vanessa. She's married to Morris, and is the mother of Williana and Wilandra. I think she's a Knowledge Sim?
Wilandra, who's got the Romance Aspiration. Can't wait for her to kiss the mop. >:)
I forgot to take a "portrait" of their father, Morris, but he's the blonde man. His aspiration is Pleasure.
This is his younger brother, Henry, who's got Knowledge Aspiration.
Henry's wife, Milena, who was going to be the controllable. She's a Romance Sim.
Their oldest child, Alexandra.
And because of the amusing effect raising babies has on my other Sims, I wanted a toddler in the "ISBI". This is Evie. Her life sucks.
With a sore lack of techology around, they're forced to create their own entertainment through interaction. They all get along almost boringly well.
It's now up to a 16-year-old with questionable cooking skills, to keep the family from starving to death. Oh yeah!
This picture serves only to get a look at the kitchen.
Wilandra: Hullo? Not enough chairs!
Garden Club dude: I represent the more artistic division of the Garden Club, and something about this plain, unpretencious stretch of grassland really appeals to my sense of irony. Roses are for squares, anyway.
Look at this! Morris and Vanessa got up by themselves in the early morning to go to the jobs I got for them. I was sure at least Morris was going to be fired on the first day since he had to get up at 4am.
Also, autonomously taking out the trash! I suspect there are some very high neat points about. Oh no, this is going to be much too easy! :(
The kids even went off to school, despite having been up all night. Yeah, that's Milena going to work. They all got out on time.
I was SO HAPPY when the nanny wasn't Karen!!!!!!
Hmm... I suspect that Vanessa's got a little inner exhibitionist, leaving the door open so the nanny got an eyefull. In that case, she's gonna love living in an ISBI house! :D
It was best to have someone teach Williana to study, before all the adults lost their marbles. She's their only hope, after all.
I was a bit worried that the Compulsion skintones would look weird with SimCribbling's, but I think they look OK.
Milena: Oooooh... One Direction are so dreamy!
Vanessa: I'm changing to History Channel in five minutes. Don't want to miss Ancient Astronauts!
Milena: Awww, but Paradise Hotel comes on after this. :( :( :(
Move over, Winnie the Pooh! The Toilet Story is an eternal classic!
Williana: Oh good mercy, the clothes those poor Sims 3 people wear are hideous!
It's not often the married couples manage to find the double beds.
Awww, Milena. You tried!
The nanny didn't actually make that puddle, just FYI.
Poor Evie. This happens a LOT! :)
Wilandra: Dear diary... I hate this house, I hate school, I hate living in the middle of nowhere, I hate my aunt's cooking, I hate not having any dates, I hate not having my own room, I hate not having any friends.
Williana: Hey, Alex... want me to help you with your homework?
Alexandra: LOL NO!
Wow, that was soon. To be honest, their fridge is full of leftovers, but those are for emergencies.
That little dog kept coming over to dig through the trash. I don't know who it is who knocks the bin over every day. The Athertons always seem to be in green.
I put up a fence, with a gate set to "household only". Williana also used her aspiration points on some money trees. Surrounded by idiots, you need to take what you can get!
Things finally started going to seed.
And Alexandra started acting like a real ISBI child.
Heatstroke in ten... nine... eight...
YOU LOUSY THIEF! *Builds secret room*
Alexandra: Hey, Couz? Look what I can do!
Wilandra: Please don't break your neck!
Alexandra: Seeeee? Aren't I cool!
I say this a lot, but I love how cute TS2 kids are compared to the ones in TS3!
Vanessa: I just want to tell you that I don't mind you flunking school.
Vanessa: We're very proud of your achievement!
Vanessa: In fact I baked you a cake!
Playing catch in your undies with your daughter, who hasn't been in bed all night, in about zero degrees.
For a while there, I was pretty worried that Wilandra would be the first to fall victim to own stupidity.
The quality parenting is strong in this family.
I felt sorry for poor little Evie, who always complained about boredom, and decided they could afford a llama ride.
Evie: Whoooo! Imma cowgirl!
Peek-a-boo!
Evie peed herself, and her crying woke them all up at midnight. :(
Vanessa: Why, hello there, daughter of mine!
Then it started snowing, and they all ran outside to play.
I love the playing catch animations in TS2.
Mitch Wolonski is one of the stupidest NPCs I've seen in a while. He was apparently incapable of finding his way across an open field to the front door. After walzing back and forth for several Sim-hours, he finally plunked the basket down, took a little walk on the lawn, and went back to his car.
Wilandra: WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GOT AN F???
Wilandra: Why do I suck?
Because she's never done any homework, is why. I've gotten a mod for that, though. It's probably cheating, but the piles of work-books are getting high, and I also want to torment them a bit.
Alexandra-spam. :)
The Athertons are a nocturnal bunch.
The penguin came over to tell Mr. Frost how to protect himself against Sims in aspiration failure.
Wow, Henry made breakfast!
I lied on my TS3 blog. Sims in TS2 don't know how to use tables either.
Wilandra: Helloooo? Need to pee!
The other bathroom was available AFAIK.
Wilandra: Get out I'm peeing myself, here!
Williana: You're blocking the door, Einstein!
Wilandra: I'll pee on YOU if you don't scram!
Whooo! Maybe she'll be looking after her kid better now.
This was on Saturday or Sunday, and probably the first time she'd held Evie since they moved in! (Or maybe I just didn't notice.)
Secret Chef: Greetings, I am the Secret Chef. I've got the ability to pass through doors that are locked for non-family people, and I'm now using them to invite you to join a cooking competition.
She might take him up on it. There could be money in it, after all.
You're thinking too hard, darling. That's your brain boiling there.
That's weird.
That's even weirder. A book can change its cover now? *Deep, philisophic implications go here.*
Penguin: You should have stayed in school!
Please excuse the missing roof! This is just to show that Vanessa is still keeping her job after a week. They have all sort of adapted their day-rythm to what hours they work. I think they're also happy to get out of the house.
The kids, however, have developed a routine where they go to bed right after school, get up around midnight, and stay up all night. That also includes Williana, to some degree.
Wilandra rebuilt Mr Frost.
Now, for a small comparison.
This is a picture of Vanessa in the bathroom, taken with the ingame camera I normally use.
And this is a section of the same picture taken the proper way, using Gadwin. I'm still debating whether the increase in quality is actually worth the hassle of cropping all the images. Maybe if I ever get readers, I'll do it. :)
Here are the members of the Atherton clan, just dropped off in front of their new... lawn.
Here is my controllable Sim, Williana. She's got Popularity as her Aspiration.
I chose a teenager as my controllable to give myself an extra challenge. This is not a real ISBI, since it's only one generation and aging is off. The challenge is more to see if I can keep them all from killing themselves, and have them gain enough money to build a proper house.
Williana: Got ya, Mom! LOLOLOL!!!
Here is their grand mansion. With a full family of eight, I started with a lot more money than a legacy would. But after having put in the bare necessities, I sat their funds down to 1000 Simoleons. They need food until they can become self sufficient, but everything else will have to be earned.
This is how it looks on the inside. More than good enough, I'd say.
Let's meet the family!
This is the family "matriarch", Vanessa. She's married to Morris, and is the mother of Williana and Wilandra. I think she's a Knowledge Sim?
Wilandra, who's got the Romance Aspiration. Can't wait for her to kiss the mop. >:)
I forgot to take a "portrait" of their father, Morris, but he's the blonde man. His aspiration is Pleasure.
This is his younger brother, Henry, who's got Knowledge Aspiration.
Henry's wife, Milena, who was going to be the controllable. She's a Romance Sim.
Their oldest child, Alexandra.
And because of the amusing effect raising babies has on my other Sims, I wanted a toddler in the "ISBI". This is Evie. Her life sucks.
With a sore lack of techology around, they're forced to create their own entertainment through interaction. They all get along almost boringly well.
It's now up to a 16-year-old with questionable cooking skills, to keep the family from starving to death. Oh yeah!
This picture serves only to get a look at the kitchen.
Wilandra: Hullo? Not enough chairs!
Garden Club dude: I represent the more artistic division of the Garden Club, and something about this plain, unpretencious stretch of grassland really appeals to my sense of irony. Roses are for squares, anyway.
Look at this! Morris and Vanessa got up by themselves in the early morning to go to the jobs I got for them. I was sure at least Morris was going to be fired on the first day since he had to get up at 4am.
Also, autonomously taking out the trash! I suspect there are some very high neat points about. Oh no, this is going to be much too easy! :(
The kids even went off to school, despite having been up all night. Yeah, that's Milena going to work. They all got out on time.
I was SO HAPPY when the nanny wasn't Karen!!!!!!
Hmm... I suspect that Vanessa's got a little inner exhibitionist, leaving the door open so the nanny got an eyefull. In that case, she's gonna love living in an ISBI house! :D
It was best to have someone teach Williana to study, before all the adults lost their marbles. She's their only hope, after all.
I was a bit worried that the Compulsion skintones would look weird with SimCribbling's, but I think they look OK.
Milena: Oooooh... One Direction are so dreamy!
Vanessa: I'm changing to History Channel in five minutes. Don't want to miss Ancient Astronauts!
Milena: Awww, but Paradise Hotel comes on after this. :( :( :(
Move over, Winnie the Pooh! The Toilet Story is an eternal classic!
Williana: Oh good mercy, the clothes those poor Sims 3 people wear are hideous!
It's not often the married couples manage to find the double beds.
Awww, Milena. You tried!
The nanny didn't actually make that puddle, just FYI.
Poor Evie. This happens a LOT! :)
Wilandra: Dear diary... I hate this house, I hate school, I hate living in the middle of nowhere, I hate my aunt's cooking, I hate not having any dates, I hate not having my own room, I hate not having any friends.
Williana: Hey, Alex... want me to help you with your homework?
Alexandra: LOL NO!
Wow, that was soon. To be honest, their fridge is full of leftovers, but those are for emergencies.
That little dog kept coming over to dig through the trash. I don't know who it is who knocks the bin over every day. The Athertons always seem to be in green.
I put up a fence, with a gate set to "household only". Williana also used her aspiration points on some money trees. Surrounded by idiots, you need to take what you can get!
Things finally started going to seed.
And Alexandra started acting like a real ISBI child.
Heatstroke in ten... nine... eight...
YOU LOUSY THIEF! *Builds secret room*
Alexandra: Hey, Couz? Look what I can do!
Wilandra: Please don't break your neck!
Alexandra: Seeeee? Aren't I cool!
I say this a lot, but I love how cute TS2 kids are compared to the ones in TS3!
Vanessa: I just want to tell you that I don't mind you flunking school.
Vanessa: We're very proud of your achievement!
Vanessa: In fact I baked you a cake!
Playing catch in your undies with your daughter, who hasn't been in bed all night, in about zero degrees.
For a while there, I was pretty worried that Wilandra would be the first to fall victim to own stupidity.
The quality parenting is strong in this family.
I felt sorry for poor little Evie, who always complained about boredom, and decided they could afford a llama ride.
Evie: Whoooo! Imma cowgirl!
Peek-a-boo!
Evie peed herself, and her crying woke them all up at midnight. :(
Vanessa: Why, hello there, daughter of mine!
Then it started snowing, and they all ran outside to play.
I love the playing catch animations in TS2.
Mitch Wolonski is one of the stupidest NPCs I've seen in a while. He was apparently incapable of finding his way across an open field to the front door. After walzing back and forth for several Sim-hours, he finally plunked the basket down, took a little walk on the lawn, and went back to his car.
Wilandra: WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GOT AN F???
Wilandra: Why do I suck?
Because she's never done any homework, is why. I've gotten a mod for that, though. It's probably cheating, but the piles of work-books are getting high, and I also want to torment them a bit.
Alexandra-spam. :)
The Athertons are a nocturnal bunch.
The penguin came over to tell Mr. Frost how to protect himself against Sims in aspiration failure.
Wow, Henry made breakfast!
I lied on my TS3 blog. Sims in TS2 don't know how to use tables either.
Wilandra: Helloooo? Need to pee!
The other bathroom was available AFAIK.
Wilandra: Get out I'm peeing myself, here!
Williana: You're blocking the door, Einstein!
Wilandra: I'll pee on YOU if you don't scram!
Whooo! Maybe she'll be looking after her kid better now.
This was on Saturday or Sunday, and probably the first time she'd held Evie since they moved in! (Or maybe I just didn't notice.)
Secret Chef: Greetings, I am the Secret Chef. I've got the ability to pass through doors that are locked for non-family people, and I'm now using them to invite you to join a cooking competition.
She might take him up on it. There could be money in it, after all.
You're thinking too hard, darling. That's your brain boiling there.
That's weird.
That's even weirder. A book can change its cover now? *Deep, philisophic implications go here.*
Penguin: You should have stayed in school!
Please excuse the missing roof! This is just to show that Vanessa is still keeping her job after a week. They have all sort of adapted their day-rythm to what hours they work. I think they're also happy to get out of the house.
The kids, however, have developed a routine where they go to bed right after school, get up around midnight, and stay up all night. That also includes Williana, to some degree.
Wilandra rebuilt Mr Frost.
Now, for a small comparison.
This is a picture of Vanessa in the bathroom, taken with the ingame camera I normally use.
And this is a section of the same picture taken the proper way, using Gadwin. I'm still debating whether the increase in quality is actually worth the hassle of cropping all the images. Maybe if I ever get readers, I'll do it. :)
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Date: 2014-02-03 04:12 pm (UTC)Your Sims are all very good-looking, and I love your commentary. Only in an ISBI would flunking school be worthy of congratulations! And I agree with you about Sims 2 kids being cuter than Sims 3. I just can't get next to the way any age group looks in TS3, actually, but that's my opinion. XD
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Date: 2014-02-03 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-28 02:46 pm (UTC)Okay screen caps are definitely higher quality than the in game pictures, but it's not a huge difference and certainly not worth the trouble if you're not doing it for yourself. I know I enjoy my little routine with my screen captures, even the cropping, but otherwise I wouldn't do it, in-game quality is quite enough.
(Also high res screen caps with beautiful editing won't make me read something if it's boring^^)
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Date: 2016-03-28 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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