History Headscratchers / TheSims

** That was just a case of shameless product placement. The patch included that wish because the next expansion included Hot Tubs. "Want to satisfy your Sim's wish? Buy the new expansion!". What bugs Me, is that with the expansion installed, my Sims have yet to wish for a hot tub, when previous to having the expansion, they kept wanting that damn hot tub every day.

* Why don't Sims react to certain events? For example, I had a married lesbian couple in one game. One of them had an affair with her wife's brother, and got pregnant by him. ''The wife never questioned it''. Huh? Does she think girls just randomly get pregnant or that her wife got an AI?

*** What gets me is that my Sim was on the computer and his sister walks in and begins to freak out, saying that he was cheating on his boyfriend. Sure, she was an excitable Sim, but still.
* Yes, there are {{Game Mod}}s for this too, but [[Tropers/SlvstrChung this troper]] is annoyed that ''[=TS3=]'' does not support more than 5 Traits out of the box. Seriously, EA, what kind of personality-deficient buffs work at ''your'' office that you can describe them with only five adjectives? I don't know ''anyone'' who can be accurately captured with less than seven. The traits system itself was a major step in the right direction (as opposed to the silly points system of the second game), but you didn't take it far enough.
** I seem to recall at least one interview where the dev team cited Quirks in TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} for one of the things that inspired the trait system; it's likely an artifact of that (Which, in turn, is likely an artifact of the fact that GURPS is notoriously pentaphilic)

** I also find it too short. Especially since childhood is the cutest and most fun stage for me.

*** Additionally or actually fixed as of a patch that came around the time of Generations. My vanilla Sims 3 game (plus mods, none of which affect aging and none of which are used in my main game) now allows a lot of new options, including adjusting the length of life stages (in days) within and beyond the basic lifespan settings.

* Mary-Sue is not a MarySue. There's a very low chance that the creators of the game even [[OpinionMyopia know what Mary Sue means.]] No one I've met outside the internet does. The parody of the "perfect" suburban life is a common trope (look at Series/DesperateHousewives for the same kind of thing) but that is not the same kind of perfection as the MarySue archetype. If they were trying to parody the archetype, they wouldn't have made her a middle-aged lobbyist at level 1 in her career track. On that note, there's nothing in canon to suggest that Angela is the cheerleader who picked on you in high school. It's not her fault that her parents neglected her sister and "patient and dutiful" does not a MarySue make (or a mean girl, or a preppy princess.) She dreams of being a ''fishing boat captain.'' You know who gets turned in a Sue the most in the fandom? Lilith, the special snowflake goth who's soooo much cooler and badass. By the same people who accuse her mother and sister of it.
** Mary Sue is a perfectionist. She probably ''wants'' to be a MarySue. And playing Lilith and Angela is boring for me, since I see Lilith as a JerkSue and Angela as a PuritySue.
*** It's the opposite for this troper. I see Angela as being a StepfordSmiler and Lilith as being a BrokenBird. They're both interesting to raise in game, but a lot of people are too harsh on Angela. Like in real life, two people can have very different reactions to the same situation (in this case, their dysfunctional family).

** I think the creators try to make the game somewhat realistic and well, that is TruthInTelevision. Some parents do envision their kids growing up to look one way and their kid grows up to look like something totally different.
* For some reason it drives me ABSOLUTELY CRAZY that Sims don't pull their pants down/hike their skirts up when they sit on the toilet. I'm well aware that the game [[NoFlowInCGI just isn't built for clothing to shift around on the Sim like that]], but it still causes me disproportionate amounts of annoyance.
** This troper noticed they don't even pee - there's no urine. Also why is their urine apparently clear, despite them never drinking water?

** It's weird, but surprisingly realistic. I actually struck up a conversation with a girl in a bar once. My opening line was, "Hey, I saw you working the coffee machine in Starbucks once". I'd only ever been there that one time.

** [[WatsonianVsDoylist Doylistian reasons]]. Why is Kaylynn a few days into child stage when she's just turned into an adult "50 years later"? Because someone at EA wanted her in. Why does nobody in Twinbrook know each others' traits? Because it's the same expansion that introduces trait-related Profession features and they did'nt want to spoil it if you moved someone in your household. Why are sims not connected on Isla Paradiso family trees? Because time constraint.

** Lions are the national animal off England, yet I don't think there's any lions there. (Except in zoos maybe.)

*** If true, then why can't our SimChild be home schooled, or go to the school with the odd hours?

** Lions are the national animal off England, yet I don't think there's any lions there. (Except in zoo's maybe.)

** I seem to recall at least one interview where the dev team cited Quirks in {{GURPS}} for one of the things that inspired the trait system; it's likely an artifact of that (Which, in turn, is likely an artifact of the fact that GURPS is notoriously pentaphilic)

Lions are the national animal off England, yet I don't think there's any lions there. (Except in zoo's maybe.)

*** I hope that's true, since I named my ''[[{{PokemonBlackAndWhite}} Black]]'' character after Vidcund...
* I forgot the characters name, not having played TheSims2 in ''years'', but I clearly remember that when you go through the memories of one of the characters, one of her memories is doing [=WooHoo=] with TheGrimReaper. Seeing as he's a skeleton....''how''?

* Mary-Sue is not a MarySue. There's a very low chance that the creators of the game even [[OpinionMyopia know what Mary Sue means.]] No one I've met outside the internet does. The parody of the "perfect" suburban life is a common trope (look at DesperateHousewives for the same kind of thing) but that is not the same kind of perfection as the MarySue archetype. If they were trying to parody the archetype, they wouldn't have made her a middle-aged lobbyist at level 1 in her career track. On that note, there's nothing in canon to suggest that Angela is the cheerleader who picked on you in high school. It's not her fault that her parents neglected her sister and "patient and dutiful" does not a MarySue make (or a mean girl, or a preppy princess.) She dreams of being a ''fishing boat captain.'' You know who gets turned in a Sue the most in the fandom? Lilith, the special snowflake goth who's soooo much cooler and badass. By the same people who accuse her mother and sister of it.

** Aliens
*** Nope. Aliens only impregnate males IIRC.

*** I'm revoking your pun privileges.

** It might not even ''be'' the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' {{fanfic}}-inspired definition, but rather the classic use of the name where Mary Sue brought up connotations of a 50s-suburbia style high school girl (''{{Pleasantville}}'' is one work that [author edit: almost definitely coincidentally] combines the two definitions).
*** Exactly. Mary Sue, Skip, Don and Betty are all cheesy old-fashioned sounding names that were also used in the Pleasantville movie. I'd say there's a snowball's chance in hell that anybody who worked on that movie was thinking of the fannish definition though, so no the movie was not combining the terms.

* I forgot the characters name, not having played TheSims2 in ''years'', but I clearly remember that when you go through the memories of one of the characters, one of her memories is doing "WooHoo" with TheGrimReaper. Seeing as he's a skeleton....''how''?

** Well, Sims don't get memories for being pregnant, only for giving birth. Skip probably died while Brandi is still pregnant with Beau