[Replieses] You’ve got the six of them pegged pretty well. By nature of what he does, Sterling has always kept one eye on current events, while Taddy could care less. James and Cindy worry about what it will mean for their kids, and Viola and Calla follow their husband’s lead.
This chapter was pretty bad with generation 5 loses. :(
Weddings come after college but before baaaaaaaaaaaaaaabies. We’re still in the 1940s, after all. :P
As you said, you can’t tell the story of World War II without dealing with the Holocaust. But it is a tough subject by nature, and also because, in the context of the legacy, there’s no direct tie in (as you also mentioned). Throughout the rest of this story arc, I’ll be including more of it, and I hope that the way I handle it will continue to garner your respect.
As with a lot of the WWII history, I’ll be talking about the Japanese American internment camps, but I don’t think it will really feature past that.
No, Alice isn’t planning on working once she’s married. It’s still not “proper” for married women to work, though unmarried ladies are certainly getting more opportunities than their mothers did. During the war, things will be different of course because of the lack of men to do the work. All kinds of women will be working then - there was a whole campaign by the government to encourage it. Nick & Alice’s children and all of generation 8, however, will be part of the feminist movement, and the issue of women working will definitely be at the forefront.
The war will definitely be harder for those who are left at home (parents, wives, and girlfriends) than it will be for the boys who go off to fight. Though once the boys get a glimpse of what war really is, I’m sure they’ll second-guess their initial enthusiasm. *nods* Yes, World War I was a big reason that World War II happened; it’s almost as though it was the same war, with a halftime in between.
Rosalie is something. Gilbert is Pleasure/Popularity, and wants to be a Professional Party Guest like Taddy. He’s a lot like his parents and not at all in a rush to get married or even find a significant other, but Rosalie wants everything to be just so. You’ll see more of this in the next chapter.
Bruce is very interesting. If this were the Civil War, he would totally pay someone to take his place (which was legal). He is not as enthusiastic about the possibility of going to war as some of the others are, but as he said he will do his duty. He and Rosalie will make quite the classic 1950s couple, yes. And you know that I’m going to make one of Rosalie’s kids a hippie, just to mess with her. ;)
Yup! Alice has started on eating her cheese! I’m hoping to make a good dent in the number before she graduates.
Poor Dotty indeed. She will get to travel, eventually. It is good that Danny is planning, yes, but it does suck that he has to plan for something such as a war. I wanted to highlight how, even though they’re twins and very similar in a lot of ways, Dotty and Danny are two very different people.
I was really sad when I realized Jefferson would be the one of the last of generation 5 to go. I can’t imagine that it was easy to watch all his friends and contemporaries go before him, and that it would have been very lonely for him, even with his kids and grandkids around. :( for Victor indeed.
And :( for Jefferson too.
:D I can’t wait to finally get Nick and Alice engaged (and then married)! Yes, Cindy’s new coat will be featured in the next chapter, as will a little something else that James has in mind for her.
Generation 6 will becoming elder soon, yes. I’m adding Di’s aging hack so that I can keep everyone in better proportion with ages (ever since I started messing with “real” dates not having the Sims aging realistic has been bugging me like crazy), so I’ve had to elixir gen 6 to keep them from elderfying until it works out. But yes, they’re all too old to fight but they’ll help the war effort in other ways.
The war comes to Simerica in the next chapter, yes. I promise there will be some good stuff mixed in with the bad too.
You’ve got the six of them pegged pretty well. By nature of what he does, Sterling has always kept one eye on current events, while Taddy could care less. James and Cindy worry about what it will mean for their kids, and Viola and Calla follow their husband’s lead.
This chapter was pretty bad with generation 5 loses. :(
Weddings come after college but before baaaaaaaaaaaaaaabies. We’re still in the 1940s, after all. :P
As you said, you can’t tell the story of World War II without dealing with the Holocaust. But it is a tough subject by nature, and also because, in the context of the legacy, there’s no direct tie in (as you also mentioned). Throughout the rest of this story arc, I’ll be including more of it, and I hope that the way I handle it will continue to garner your respect.
As with a lot of the WWII history, I’ll be talking about the Japanese American internment camps, but I don’t think it will really feature past that.
No, Alice isn’t planning on working once she’s married. It’s still not “proper” for married women to work, though unmarried ladies are certainly getting more opportunities than their mothers did. During the war, things will be different of course because of the lack of men to do the work. All kinds of women will be working then - there was a whole campaign by the government to encourage it. Nick & Alice’s children and all of generation 8, however, will be part of the feminist movement, and the issue of women working will definitely be at the forefront.
The war will definitely be harder for those who are left at home (parents, wives, and girlfriends) than it will be for the boys who go off to fight. Though once the boys get a glimpse of what war really is, I’m sure they’ll second-guess their initial enthusiasm. *nods* Yes, World War I was a big reason that World War II happened; it’s almost as though it was the same war, with a halftime in between.
Rosalie is something. Gilbert is Pleasure/Popularity, and wants to be a Professional Party Guest like Taddy. He’s a lot like his parents and not at all in a rush to get married or even find a significant other, but Rosalie wants everything to be just so. You’ll see more of this in the next chapter.
Bruce is very interesting. If this were the Civil War, he would totally pay someone to take his place (which was legal). He is not as enthusiastic about the possibility of going to war as some of the others are, but as he said he will do his duty. He and Rosalie will make quite the classic 1950s couple, yes. And you know that I’m going to make one of Rosalie’s kids a hippie, just to mess with her. ;)
Yup! Alice has started on eating her cheese! I’m hoping to make a good dent in the number before she graduates.
Poor Dotty indeed. She will get to travel, eventually. It is good that Danny is planning, yes, but it does suck that he has to plan for something such as a war. I wanted to highlight how, even though they’re twins and very similar in a lot of ways, Dotty and Danny are two very different people.
I was really sad when I realized Jefferson would be the one of the last of generation 5 to go. I can’t imagine that it was easy to watch all his friends and contemporaries go before him, and that it would have been very lonely for him, even with his kids and grandkids around. :( for Victor indeed.
And :( for Jefferson too.
:D I can’t wait to finally get Nick and Alice engaged (and then married)! Yes, Cindy’s new coat will be featured in the next chapter, as will a little something else that James has in mind for her.
Generation 6 will becoming elder soon, yes. I’m adding Di’s aging hack so that I can keep everyone in better proportion with ages (ever since I started messing with “real” dates not having the Sims aging realistic has been bugging me like crazy), so I’ve had to elixir gen 6 to keep them from elderfying until it works out. But yes, they’re all too old to fight but they’ll help the war effort in other ways.
The war comes to Simerica in the next chapter, yes. I promise there will be some good stuff mixed in with the bad too.
Thanks for the comment. :)
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