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[gajastar]

Wow, I went back to see what had happened since the last time I posted, and it's been about a million years, hasn't it? I either need to get better at thinking to post, or just post monthly HUGETASTIC posts, neither of which is going to happen because I know that I'm a slack.

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[gajastar]

I quite like having pretty Sims. :) At this point I think everyone in town is related to my family, so they're all starting to share faces.

I remember seeing that in a video. I think if I'd had a skele, I would have left it.

One thing I quite like about Katie is that she came into the family looking like that. It wasn't one of the (usual, I admit) situations where I marry someone up, get a good look at them, and go '...nah, we can fix this' and tweak a nose or a cheekbone situation or something. I DID change her traits, though, because the ones she had before were kinda awful and not useful for journalism. Kinda funny thing is that when I first had her and Erich go out, I had him 'consider attractiveness' (which is something that came with one of my mods) and he was like 'bleh, 1 out of 10', but then immediately wanted to kiss her. So it's like, dude, you can't really have it both ways. I figured if he wanted to mack on her, though, I was cool with that, so they did and they got married and had kids (as you've seen). After Calpurnia hit childhood, though, Erich started to get the moodlet bump for being around an attractive sim whenever he was around Katie, so his love for her totally grew once he got to know her. <3 (and had a couple kids, I guess)

I 100% love Kyle's hair. It was part of a set I was nibbling at buying that came up for sale, and the WHOLE SET was only like twice what that ONE hair was, so I snapped it right up. It's so floofy! And the little curls sticking out around the edges are super nicely done. I dig it. :D

And, man, Erich and the maid. Like I said, people are starting to share faces. ;) Oddly enough I only noticed it when the new maid showed up and was all 'ooh, we have so much in common, we should get to know each other better' at Katia, and I was like WTF Erich, that is your MOTHER...oh, wait, that's not Erich. DOPPELGANGER.

[steinsgrrl]

I never got much use out of the "consider attractiveness" thing. Like scanning the room, there was hardly ever anyone there that my sim would like. That's really cool that her looks sort of grew on him after a while, though.

People talked about how much sims in 2 looked so much alike, but I see it more in 3 now than I did before. It's funny you thought Erich was making eyes at his mom. There was a glitch in 4 where family could flirt & stuff with each other. Some say there still is, but I haven't seen it in a while.

[gajastar]

I usually would try to get my Sims together with people they found attractive just because I like getting that little mood bump. Thing that gets me about it is that, like, if I have a son and he thinks a girl is lovely and they get married and she moves in, I basically ALWAYS get her being all 'hey, you're hot, too' to his dad and brothers. Maybe I need to diversify my Sim traits a little more.

I know there's a mod out there somewhere where you can make family marriable, but I don't really think I want that. My family tree is enough of a wreath without straight up just making it a stick.