The custom walks annoy me SO much because they're such a good idea but they're way too over the top. If there were some very very subtle alternative walks to indicate, for example, someone who is a bit shy, someone who is confident, someone who has arthritis, I would use them all the time. I do use the feminine walk for my highly feminine sims because that's the only one that's subtle enough to work.
A stride, a strut, a sashay, a dawdle, a limp, a nervous fast trot, a shy hunched-ovwr walk etc would all be decent, but yeah, they tend to be kind of unusable.
No because you need cakes to age up so the white cake and the chocolate cake should stay basic cooking. A lot of times you dont develop baking skills so keeping the 2 basic cakes in cooking is best (like people who cant bake but use packet mix). All the rest of the cakes could be in baking I agree.
Since styled looks exist, I think it would be great if Randomized NPC outfits were picked from there by default because I've seen so many fashion strocities in my game, especially with CC
@@bookcat123 @dreaminmist3766 OMG yessss, you're both right, I also thought about it. It would be so cool to just save an outfit you designed yourself and see random Sims wear it instead of eyeball ring and mesh top 😵. But no, we have to buy High School Years to design outfits...
@@cattsythekitty this is actually possible with the style influencer career after reaching a certain level! it definitely alleviated a lot of my fashion nightmare grievances lmao
- When I click New Game, I want to be directed straight to the world. I don't want to create a sim everytime I start a new save. - I use the pre-styled cas for the townies. I just can't be bothered to tailored every single townie but I want them to look good. - One thing about University pack, I thought when you move into the dorm with the pre-made townie, it would be regular dorm system with guaranteed slots for the townie. Why did they get added into your active household.
@@glxmrockssI do the same thing but when I first did this I just made a new copy of the "original" save and left it there. So now everytime I want to start another household I just create another copy and start playing, without having to go through the hassle of creating a sim and moving them to a house everytime.
That's why I have a "sandbox world", where I have one unplayed Sim. It's where I do character traits or change stuff (like using MCCC for changing occult status).
For someone who isnt a confident builder after all these years of playing, THANK YOU for showing the window by room feature. My windows never vibe with eachother lmao
Dunno if it helps, but I usually focus on making the window placement look nice from the front of the house (since that's the part most will see when visiting/passing by). For the rest of the house, I focus on how the windows will look on the inside. There's also a TH-camr (Simsie maybe?) who focuses on making the windows look nice on the inside first, then adjusts them to look nice on the outside as well.
@@agnescopperfield9677I never care about how the windows on the side of the house look like cause in real life, the side windows are high key look "randomly" placed from the outside
I think that looking at the windows on sides of houses has made me much more confident with my building, because in real life a lot of houses windows are meant to look nice on the inside. And if they can do that, well so can I
I feel you on the in laws. My dream mod is selecting a descriptor (like ‘snooty’ ‘hippie’ etc) and it auto generating decent outfits onto my sims based on those
I thought it was the sweetest thing, but def not expecting. Here in the States, you have to be a man to join. If it's the same in the UK, that could explain the rejection.😅
It really gets annoying, especially when for the rest of their lives theyre tense from the sprites. Unless you want a premade cult then it sucks. HOWEVER. Getting the care free trait from the lifepoint rewards fixes that problem, and you can then choose whether or not you want to engage in it at any point without a constantly stressed sim. Its what i did and it worked fine for me.
I do use the feminine walk feature on some of my sims, if it suits their character. It's the only usable one for me, though. The others are too cartoonishly over the top, even for the sims.
In san sequoia my sims kept fishing and only catching voodoo dolls so I started using them, and I used the cupcake machine to make voodoo donuts! It was actually something I've never done, and I loved it
Technically you can, in fact cook frogs. If you've got a frog in your inventory and level 7 of the cooking skill, you can make Boiling Frog Hot Pot which makes your sims energized. Also, with get to Work, you get the Baking skill which does allow you to make more things on the cupcake machine.
i recently discovered everything attached to the scientist career in s4 and im shocked ive never used any of it before. the simray has so many weird little functions. and i didnt even know sixam was an actual location you can go to. its amazing how much there is in these games that youd never touch without being told about it.
Which is absolutely a failure of the game. I say it all the time, but the game should be designed in a way that encourages players to use these features. I shouldn’t have to be told that it even exists. It should be part of natural gameplay of the pack.
I agree ! Hadn't touched the cupcake machine or bothered baking skill since it first came out ... but after downloading this mod suddenly I was doing a rags to riches "Bakery edition" and had so much fun making a (very) succesful bakery from scratch... I set up my bakery shop in glimmer brook because I NEVER play there... (I was so bored of the sims that I played a whole play through of things I never ever do and it was FUN)
I have srslysims's cooking overhaul that moves the cupcake baking interactions into the baking menu for the oven and so much more, can't live without it
I actually love the pre made outfits in cas because I can just make a quick selection and then customize the look from there it makes the process so much easier when I’m making a sim that has multiple outfits or when I’m doing MULTIPLE sims that also have multiple outfits each oof that can take sooooo long!
Probably mentioned elsewhere, but the secret society DOES help with grades. In my experience, it's basically impossible to fail classes if the sprites like you lol. Also, if you check in with them when theyr happy with you, like when you've been giving them a lot of stuff and fulfilling the society goals, they can give you pretty powerful bonuses. Sometimes it's just an extended positive mood let like focused or something, but it can also, like, turn off some of your needs for a day or so, so you won't need sleep for a bit for instance. Very useful if you wanna stay up all night and still do well in your exams 😉
I think honestly my main issue with the nannies is that afterwards they will NOT leave your family alone and also never die so you're just cursed with having them show up at your door several times a week? Like in my current family (who first had a son, and then triplets...) I hired a nanny to help out with the triplets bc it was too much for the parents. And then he asked the dad (Kiyoshi Ito) to be best friends, which I rejected twice, so the nanny felt hurt by the rejection, and Kiyoshi felt uncomfortable around him. Yet, the guy keeps showing up and I keep sending him away bc he will not take a damn hint
I had a similar glitch 😭 worst thing is the nanny kept bringing MORE WITH THEM. I tried so hard to kill them in a pool but they just wouldn’t die. Ended up adding them to my family and making them move into a doorless and windowless lot as far from me as I could make them. They finally left me alone after that
i only use the cupcake machine for a specific family. they own a "bakery" but its technically a retail store. they just sell all the stuff you can make in the cupcake machine bc its really fast. some of the items sell for hundreds of simoleons once you decorate them. really wish it was smaller though
I never use the shoe-removing sign from Snowy Escape because it adds an animation that slows my sims down every time they come in and out the door. I do, however, give my sims socks with every outfit 🤔
I’ve got a mod that removes the swirly shoe animation so it’s just instant. And another that puts the settings from the shoe sign onto the base game shoe rack as long as you have Snowy Escape installed.
I learned that the cupcake machine still functions sized down it just looks weird baking. But I’ve actually used it a few times since finding that out 😂
I don't like using the nanny because sometimes they are very useful and other times they just go in my kitchen and start 48728292 meals. So I hire them see how they do and if they are annoying I will lock the doors so they are on the lot but can't mess up my house. Usually do it if my sims have too much money
i recently discovered you can put crystals into the celestial crown that comes with get famous and you get a bunch of boosts and a lot of them recharge most of your needs! i had NEVER seen it before
Something I don't hear people talk about much in TS4 is the multiple outfits system hidden away by the little arrow button above your currently selected outfit category in CAS. You can have up to five outfits per category and it really blew my mind when I first learned about it. Something else about CAS that I didn't know about for a long time is the randomization options, also accessed by a little arrow near the (game lol) die button at the bottom of the CAS menu under the sim iirc. You can choose to only randomize certain things about a sim, such as all the clothes in their current outfit or their makeup.
For anyone who doesn't already know - Ravasheen made a cupcake mod where its a really small like piping bag you set set on the counter and you just click on it and can make cupcakes - SO USEFUL if you want to bake more but don't want that giant monstrosity in your kitchen
I think walk styles used to be randomized back in the start of the game, but they stuck the default on everyone now so most don’t use it. I check out the styles looks whenever a new pack comes out and will use them on occasion. I also miss the children’s play stove from TS2, so kids could gain cooking skill making little cupcakes and it was small. Too many comically large items.
A feature i dont think people use enough is aspiration traits, mainly the free services one. It used to be only single use services were free but its been updated and you can now get a scheduled maid for free! I think its great for big families so i dont have to worry about picking up every little mess
One of the biggest things in my game is unlocking the ones that helps with needs not decreasing Really feels like a good reward after a long game play (Also a LIFESAVER for some challenges)
If you have a nanny come once or twice when the parents are home (just long enough for them to befriend the nanny), you can invite the nanny over as a guest and they'll do the childcare for free while you lounge about or whatever. Very useful for sims who don't like children.
Honestly i LOVE your idea for the cupcake machine being an interactive cooker where you add various ingredients and see what comes out. If you add in what mood the sim is in mattering, it would actually really add gameplay and emulate early iterations of the sims
the moodlet said to entertain sprites by interacting with other sims, not the sprites themselves that's why it wasn't an option, and there is more stuff you can do by getting the sprites to affect other sims in different ways, still underdeveloped though.
I like to use the story mode in cas when i start a new save I make a quick sims to drop in a house, then can start working on making the save how i want before getting to the characters. That first sims becomes a bit of a nice thing to spot then
There are actually more than two dozen non-cupcake recipes for the cupcake maker that came with Get-To-Work & the baking skill. But hardly anybody knows about them because no simmer has ever placed down that machine unironically.
There's actually a mod that allows you to cook the cupcakes through the stove, it is a really nice mod to have. There's also a mod to remove the no oven restriction in the university's, I feel like if your sim is living in one of the houses on campus they should be allowed to have an oven especially because you get negative mood-lets if your sim eats to many "snack foods". Also, this never happened to me but I saw videos that talked about it, apparently in the Sims 3 if you hire a nanny there was a glitch where the nanny would pick up the kid and run out of the house and off the lot.
Real life dorms don't have ovens, just in the common rooms, that's why. It's a fire hazard, esp with many students having the cooking skill of the average Sim. 👀
You and stepho are my unhinged faves of the sim please don't disappear [found steph a few months before she took a different path] --also there's Kevin but like he's not just sims
Totally unrelated but I just realised that I’ve Pavloved myself into being hungry when I watch your videos. I normally eat dinner when I watch + when I clicked on your video I immediately felt super hungry lmao
I love when even the Subtitles have "?" for Plumbella having such a unique way of speaking on top of her accent. It just amuses me so much. lol She said "Fry them up" not "Plate them up" :)
honestly, voice changer is my least used (aside from the WACK walk cycles). i only really listen to the game audio if i'm streaming the game to my friends, otherwise i have music cranked up or a podcast on while i play and i either have the game entirely muted or i literally just don't notice the voices. i think the only time i've adjusted a voice in the last few years was when i updated my selfsim and fixed the voice since i forgot about it the previous time due to aforementioned blasting literally anything but game audio.i appreciate that the voices are all detailed, there are great music cues, and etc but i just tend not to listen to the audio in games i play even if i do enjoy it. when i play minecraft i blast hyperpop, when i play stardew i listen to mbmbam, etc.
there’s now a food item you can make with frogs!!! I believe it’s called Boiling Frog Hot Pot and you need lvl 8 or 9 cooking skill. It gives a pretty sizable, long-lasting energized moodlet!!
They should definitely organize styled look by category. I use them for random townies that walk by looking CRAZY. They should also let you create your own styled looks, that would be awesome. The cupcake machine should be a regular stand mixer (I love Ravasheen's mod) or a hand mixer. I love changing sims voices. I started to use it when I had a full household and they all sounded the same and group conversations drove me nuts! So I used cheats to change their voices and I've been using that feature ever since😅
I actually use walk style on ALL sims that I make or edit 😂 they do be looking funky, but if I have a vampire I’m putting them on that goofy ass walk style for sure. I’ve styled so many in-laws, friends, etc with styled looks, I almost always use the same swatch so I’ve got plenty of sims with the same outfits, I kinda wish we could also randomize those too. I always call the nanny right away since they are born, because I mostly play either very career oriented sims or full on freelancer rags to riches, and they cook you a family sized meal as part of their job too (bless them, lifesavers) so I keep my sims busy buildings skills all the time, so the kids develop very good relationships with their nannies, some come to birthdays and even weddings 😂 and there’s bad nannies, lazy nannies, but there’s also really good ones that parent the children lmao, they encourage them when building skills, help them with homework, the have been a blessing in all my save games 😂
Speaking of nannies, I had this one glitch that happened where I tried to fire a nanny, and they not only came back the next day, but they brought ANOTHER nanny with them and I had to pay BOTH of them. And then they never left. And more and more nannies kept showing up, even though all my children were school age by then. They were bleeding me dry of my money, so I started trying to kill them. Some of them I guess just have super resilient needs? I had one nanny in a closed off pool for 2 IN-GAME WEEKS and her needs weren't even yellow. I ended up adding them all to my household, moving them into their own house (well it was technically a windowless and doorless box on an empty lot), and they FINALLY stopped coming over and bringing MORE nannies.
The only custom walk I've used is the creepy walk on an orca mermaid I created (with cc tail) named Max Inux. She's absolutely unhinged. I love her. She lives in the shipwreck and has a pet raccoon.
I almost never use the whole baking skill. When sims eat desserts they don’t get full like with other foods and it’s a little annoying sometimes to make them eat a meal and then a dessert. Also on the rare occasion I do want dessert for a party or something the cooking skill already has some desserts like cakes and pies and scones I can just use instead.
I had no idea about that secret society but I am SO using it now! Also, have you seen Ravasheen's cupcake maker mod It turns that ghastly machine into a little icing bag or sprinkle bag that fits on a shelf in the kitchen, and now I use it all the time!
I really wish you could save your own styled looks, and browse them like you do other CAS assets. I would get so much mileage out of that feature if I could just save outfits I like. I use MCC to do it, but it's a bit tedious.
I also have a deep fear that I could be indoctrinated into a cult very easily, and yes it’s also because the routine sounds like literal bliss, so thank you for representing us
I don't use the walk styles too often, but every now and then I create a sim with a big enough personality to justify it and I'm always glad of it because I think it's a pretty cool feature. Probably once every 10-20 sims or so.
I use the random clothes button all the time. I’ll pick a color or style or whatever on the filter and then I’ll randomize until I find something I like/that fits the personality of the sim. I just do not care enough about CAS to go to a lot of trouble with that. I also use the styled looks for toddlers and children a lot. Oh, and I unclick the randomize sim stuff for everything but makeup and click that until I find something that doesn’t look bad.
i'm always asking for new styled looks, they make dressing up random sims you regularly interact with so much faster! like when your child sim's friends age up to teens and theyre in the worst outfit you've ever seen in your life
tldr: my kids just didnt go to daycare one time and nearly starved i use nannies as well as daycare depending on if my kids need to build skills or not (can ask the nanny for help) but ive had more problems with daycare than nanny... nearly got my kids taken away bc they just didnt go to daycare and all the adults were at work ive only ever used nannies when the pop up asks if i want to send them to daycare or hire a nanny so maybe thats why ive never had problems
Omg I use the premade outfits for like 50-70% of my sims outfits idk how you live without it. I get so bored in cas trying to make outfits for a whole family for every occasion
I always use the walking animations, I think it adds to the character of the sim with the preppy, energized and the slouched walk. I mainly play in CAS rather in-game so that may be why I use the animations more
I recently contributed knowledge on those special University computers and the experience was... uncomfortable, lol. I don't want to describe the noises my Sim made. It did actually turn out to be quite profitable so that was a plus!
I just realized you could create multiple outfits, like, two years ago (after playing this game since 2014!). So the Styled Outfits option has been a lifesaver. Often I use them as a baseline and change parts out that I don't like.
In the sims 3, if you're playing the parent and leave the kid at home with a nanny, you have to click on the children's needs pannel, so that the needs will then be taken care of, doing this will make the nanny useful. Sort of tricky.
I feel like I wouldn't have used the Nanny feature at all if I never tried playing with a single mother sim. I preferred paying for a nanny while she was at work because I wanted to be able to see him as the day passed. And in fairness, I also got Logan Erving as the nanny, and she seemed to do a decent job just being there for the baby when he needed smthn. What I didn't expect tho was for Logan and the mom to then spend every short moment they could when they saw each other to just.. flirt nonstop. Long story short, the baby boy has two moms now.
"You don't need to put a performance on when you going for a shit. You know that walk to the fridge? I don't need you" she says as she put on a performance from getting coffee (yes I know she meant in the sims)
I downloaded a really interesting slightly creepy vampire from the gallery, she was really pale and dressed all in white. I didn't notice she had the creepy walk and i went "aaaaiiiggh!"
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The custom walks annoy me SO much because they're such a good idea but they're way too over the top. If there were some very very subtle alternative walks to indicate, for example, someone who is a bit shy, someone who is confident, someone who has arthritis, I would use them all the time. I do use the feminine walk for my highly feminine sims because that's the only one that's subtle enough to work.
desperately need the arthritic walk style for my simself 💀💀💀
Would love a shy walk
i use the feminine and swagger walks so occasionally, everything else is a joke 😭
I use them from time to time, I just wish the feature was updated.
A stride, a strut, a sashay, a dawdle, a limp, a nervous fast trot, a shy hunched-ovwr walk etc would all be decent, but yeah, they tend to be kind of unusable.
They should delete the cupcake machine and just add cupcakes to the baking function. Also move all cakes from cook to bake 😂
No because you need cakes to age up so the white cake and the chocolate cake should stay basic cooking. A lot of times you dont develop baking skills so keeping the 2 basic cakes in cooking is best (like people who cant bake but use packet mix). All the rest of the cakes could be in baking I agree.
@@beckawilk if you could buy or order cakes that would be cool I think!
@@beckawilk The basic white cake should be level 1 baking.
There is a mod just for that,
@@Vladimira92 Yea, but in build/buy but ordering, nah never again😹. It took years (about 6 sim hours) for it to make it to my house😹.
"so this is how i do my fringe" immediately followed by "i fear i'll end up in a cult one day" absolutely took me out, love u jesse
12:50 i laughed so loudly, love them
Exactly, "JUST FOR THE ROUTINE, HONESTLY" I had to laugh out loud
And just casually saying she tried to join the free masons but got rejected and jumping straight back into the video HAS WRITTEN ME OFF
i felt called out bc that’s me
She's so me fr
Since styled looks exist, I think it would be great if Randomized NPC outfits were picked from there by default because I've seen so many fashion strocities in my game, especially with CC
It would be great if we could a) save styled looks the same way we save lots and households to the library
B) force townies to pick a styled look
Townies wearing random CC is annoying though but the sims 4 studio program let's you disallow townies from wearing cc
@@bookcat123 @dreaminmist3766 OMG yessss, you're both right, I also thought about it. It would be so cool to just save an outfit you designed yourself and see random Sims wear it instead of eyeball ring and mesh top 😵. But no, we have to buy High School Years to design outfits...
@@bookcat123 This is exactly what we need! There's a way to do this with MCCC (via MC_Dresser module), but we shouldn't need a mod for it.
@@cattsythekitty this is actually possible with the style influencer career after reaching a certain level! it definitely alleviated a lot of my fashion nightmare grievances lmao
plumbella: so we need crystals to offer to the statues
plumbella: fills her inventory with elements
I thought I was trippin at first cuz I was definitely seeing elements and not crystals lol
Correctly finds a crystal. Decides to make brownies instead
- When I click New Game, I want to be directed straight to the world. I don't want to create a sim everytime I start a new save.
- I use the pre-styled cas for the townies. I just can't be bothered to tailored every single townie but I want them to look good.
- One thing about University pack, I thought when you move into the dorm with the pre-made townie, it would be regular dorm system with guaranteed slots for the townie. Why did they get added into your active household.
Hard agree with the first one!
what I do is: I create a sim and buy a house for them, then I delete the household and I have free access to every world w/o a sim
@@glxmrockssI do the same thing but when I first did this I just made a new copy of the "original" save and left it there. So now everytime I want to start another household I just create another copy and start playing, without having to go through the hassle of creating a sim and moving them to a house everytime.
the first one should be an option, like when you click new game it comes up "enter CAS" or "enter Manage Worlds'
That's why I have a "sandbox world", where I have one unplayed Sim. It's where I do character traits or change stuff (like using MCCC for changing occult status).
For someone who isnt a confident builder after all these years of playing, THANK YOU for showing the window by room feature. My windows never vibe with eachother lmao
Dunno if it helps, but I usually focus on making the window placement look nice from the front of the house (since that's the part most will see when visiting/passing by). For the rest of the house, I focus on how the windows will look on the inside.
There's also a TH-camr (Simsie maybe?) who focuses on making the windows look nice on the inside first, then adjusts them to look nice on the outside as well.
Thank u sm 💙
@@ilovebellagoth No problem! 😊
@@agnescopperfield9677I never care about how the windows on the side of the house look like cause in real life, the side windows are high key look "randomly" placed from the outside
I think that looking at the windows on sides of houses has made me much more confident with my building, because in real life a lot of houses windows are meant to look nice on the inside. And if they can do that, well so can I
I feel you on the in laws. My dream mod is selecting a descriptor (like ‘snooty’ ‘hippie’ etc) and it auto generating decent outfits onto my sims based on those
That would’ve been an amazing feature with ThrifTea! I totally agree!
"Jess tries to join the Freemasons" was not on my 2023 bingo card
I thought it was the sweetest thing, but def not expecting. Here in the States, you have to be a man to join. If it's the same in the UK, that could explain the rejection.😅
@@johannasegura5159 LMAO afaik you also have to be a man here in the UK too - it's basically like a rotary club full of old men lol
the secret society is so cool in concept but does literally nothing in reality 😭
Was hoping a modder would improve and expand the cult gameplay though 😢
It kinda does, the sprites are really useful
It really gets annoying, especially when for the rest of their lives theyre tense from the sprites. Unless you want a premade cult then it sucks. HOWEVER. Getting the care free trait from the lifepoint rewards fixes that problem, and you can then choose whether or not you want to engage in it at any point without a constantly stressed sim. Its what i did and it worked fine for me.
Not interested in university but this might get me to buy it. Cult Sim sounds fun
I do use the feminine walk feature on some of my sims, if it suits their character. It's the only usable one for me, though. The others are too cartoonishly over the top, even for the sims.
In san sequoia my sims kept fishing and only catching voodoo dolls so I started using them, and I used the cupcake machine to make voodoo donuts! It was actually something I've never done, and I loved it
Voodoo donuts? I am today years old 😂
@@love4allpplz1 I knoooww, same here 😂
Technically you can, in fact cook frogs. If you've got a frog in your inventory and level 7 of the cooking skill, you can make Boiling Frog Hot Pot which makes your sims energized. Also, with get to Work, you get the Baking skill which does allow you to make more things on the cupcake machine.
The cupcake machine could have easily been the size of a toaster oven. It would look really cute on the kitchen counter, giving only 1-2 desserts
i recently discovered everything attached to the scientist career in s4 and im shocked ive never used any of it before. the simray has so many weird little functions. and i didnt even know sixam was an actual location you can go to. its amazing how much there is in these games that youd never touch without being told about it.
Which is absolutely a failure of the game. I say it all the time, but the game should be designed in a way that encourages players to use these features. I shouldn’t have to be told that it even exists. It should be part of natural gameplay of the pack.
Since Ravasheen made the "A-dough-able cupcake maker" I NEVER used the ginormous machine! It's a AWESOME mod, I can't recomend it ENOUGH!
I agree ! Hadn't touched the cupcake machine or bothered baking skill since it first came out ... but after downloading this mod suddenly I was doing a rags to riches "Bakery edition" and had so much fun making a (very) succesful bakery from scratch... I set up my bakery shop in glimmer brook because I NEVER play there... (I was so bored of the sims that I played a whole play through of things I never ever do and it was FUN)
I have srslysims's cooking overhaul that moves the cupcake baking interactions into the baking menu for the oven and so much more, can't live without it
I’m so invested for someone who’s never even touched the sims
I only started playing the sims in 2021 after watching sims videos since 2017
I wonder what it’s like on the outside 😂
I only played the first game. I had all the expansion packs but never moved on to 2. At least it looks like I saved a lot of money😅
How do you end up here, no judgment
You guys should try the sims 2 if you ever want to start
I actually love the pre made outfits in cas because I can just make a quick selection and then customize the look from there it makes the process so much easier when I’m making a sim that has multiple outfits or when I’m doing MULTIPLE sims that also have multiple outfits each oof that can take sooooo long!
Probably mentioned elsewhere, but the secret society DOES help with grades. In my experience, it's basically impossible to fail classes if the sprites like you lol. Also, if you check in with them when theyr happy with you, like when you've been giving them a lot of stuff and fulfilling the society goals, they can give you pretty powerful bonuses. Sometimes it's just an extended positive mood let like focused or something, but it can also, like, turn off some of your needs for a day or so, so you won't need sleep for a bit for instance. Very useful if you wanna stay up all night and still do well in your exams 😉
I think honestly my main issue with the nannies is that afterwards they will NOT leave your family alone and also never die so you're just cursed with having them show up at your door several times a week? Like in my current family (who first had a son, and then triplets...) I hired a nanny to help out with the triplets bc it was too much for the parents. And then he asked the dad (Kiyoshi Ito) to be best friends, which I rejected twice, so the nanny felt hurt by the rejection, and Kiyoshi felt uncomfortable around him. Yet, the guy keeps showing up and I keep sending him away bc he will not take a damn hint
I had a similar glitch 😭 worst thing is the nanny kept bringing MORE WITH THEM. I tried so hard to kill them in a pool but they just wouldn’t die. Ended up adding them to my family and making them move into a doorless and windowless lot as far from me as I could make them. They finally left me alone after that
Genuinely SLAYED the Shania Entrance, this is the content I'm here for
I was so nervous she was gonna pour that coffee EVERYWHERE lmao
Only with Plumbella you watch a video to remember useless Sims 4 things and then you learn she tried to join the Freemasons xD Never change please
i only use the cupcake machine for a specific family. they own a "bakery" but its technically a retail store. they just sell all the stuff you can make in the cupcake machine bc its really fast. some of the items sell for hundreds of simoleons once you decorate them. really wish it was smaller though
I never use the shoe-removing sign from Snowy Escape because it adds an animation that slows my sims down every time they come in and out the door. I do, however, give my sims socks with every outfit 🤔
I’ve got a mod that removes the swirly shoe animation so it’s just instant. And another that puts the settings from the shoe sign onto the base game shoe rack as long as you have Snowy Escape installed.
@@bookcat123me too! Mine is from lotharihoe
I learned that the cupcake machine still functions sized down it just looks weird baking. But I’ve actually used it a few times since finding that out 😂
They should let us save outfits in the premade ones !
I don't like using the nanny because sometimes they are very useful and other times they just go in my kitchen and start 48728292 meals. So I hire them see how they do and if they are annoying I will lock the doors so they are on the lot but can't mess up my house. Usually do it if my sims have too much money
i recently discovered you can put crystals into the celestial crown that comes with get famous and you get a bunch of boosts and a lot of them recharge most of your needs! i had NEVER seen it before
The first time I used a nanny, he aged the kid up with nobody else in the house, i was outraged
Something I don't hear people talk about much in TS4 is the multiple outfits system hidden away by the little arrow button above your currently selected outfit category in CAS. You can have up to five outfits per category and it really blew my mind when I first learned about it.
Something else about CAS that I didn't know about for a long time is the randomization options, also accessed by a little arrow near the (game lol) die button at the bottom of the CAS menu under the sim iirc. You can choose to only randomize certain things about a sim, such as all the clothes in their current outfit or their makeup.
this might be crazy. but as someone just finding my relationship to autism your content is so relatable and safe. Thank you. 😅😅
me too !!
For anyone who doesn't already know - Ravasheen made a cupcake mod where its a really small like piping bag you set set on the counter and you just click on it and can make cupcakes - SO USEFUL if you want to bake more but don't want that giant monstrosity in your kitchen
Love this! You have not lived until you’ve seen the Flower Bunny outfit with the creepy walk… thank me later 😊
I think walk styles used to be randomized back in the start of the game, but they stuck the default on everyone now so most don’t use it.
I check out the styles looks whenever a new pack comes out and will use them on occasion.
I also miss the children’s play stove from TS2, so kids could gain cooking skill making little cupcakes and it was small. Too many comically large items.
I had an intense therapy appointment today and listening to Jesse sing Shania Twain was EXACTLY what I needed. Love you 💗
Unrelated to the video but i am SO thankful for the kit you collab'd on. That wallpaper is stunning IRL and in-game.
A feature i dont think people use enough is aspiration traits, mainly the free services one. It used to be only single use services were free but its been updated and you can now get a scheduled maid for free! I think its great for big families so i dont have to worry about picking up every little mess
One of the biggest things in my game is unlocking the ones that helps with needs not decreasing
Really feels like a good reward after a long game play
(Also a LIFESAVER for some challenges)
Free Services is one of my most used traits. Free help is basically OP.
If you have a nanny come once or twice when the parents are home (just long enough for them to befriend the nanny), you can invite the nanny over as a guest and they'll do the childcare for free while you lounge about or whatever. Very useful for sims who don't like children.
Honestly i LOVE your idea for the cupcake machine being an interactive cooker where you add various ingredients and see what comes out. If you add in what mood the sim is in mattering, it would actually really add gameplay and emulate early iterations of the sims
losing ur breath making coffee bc you were dancing Shania Twain = same energy as 2020 u having an asthma attack groovin to Nobody’s Perfect 😂
I use the premade styles for 90% of my sims since I like building and gameplay more than create-a-sim. Ironically, I also use the walk styles a lot.
the moodlet said to entertain sprites by interacting with other sims, not the sprites themselves that's why it wasn't an option, and there is more stuff you can do by getting the sprites to affect other sims in different ways, still underdeveloped though.
The cupcake machine does more if you have higher baking you can do more recipes 😁
im pretty sure u can also make frog/fish pies as well😬
yess i remember that
I like to use the story mode in cas when i start a new save
I make a quick sims to drop in a house, then can start working on making the save how i want before getting to the characters. That first sims becomes a bit of a nice thing to spot then
1:20 that “wooo”! Jesse did was so cute! Love her vibe in this video, it’s classic Plumbella! Chaotic energy and all!
There are actually more than two dozen non-cupcake recipes for the cupcake maker that came with Get-To-Work & the baking skill. But hardly anybody knows about them because no simmer has ever placed down that machine unironically.
I’m here for Jessie just ranting about cults and Shania Twain
Fun fact with the cupcake factory, you can size it down once and it's still usable (haven't tried more times than that)
There's actually a mod that allows you to cook the cupcakes through the stove, it is a really nice mod to have. There's also a mod to remove the no oven restriction in the university's, I feel like if your sim is living in one of the houses on campus they should be allowed to have an oven especially because you get negative mood-lets if your sim eats to many "snack foods". Also, this never happened to me but I saw videos that talked about it, apparently in the Sims 3 if you hire a nanny there was a glitch where the nanny would pick up the kid and run out of the house and off the lot.
Real life dorms don't have ovens, just in the common rooms, that's why. It's a fire hazard, esp with many students having the cooking skill of the average Sim. 👀
@@PointsofData Well yeah in real life that makes sense. But this is a game. That's definitely very different from actual real life
8:51 Vixella and Lilsimsie with her rags to riches took that personally
You and stepho are my unhinged faves of the sim please don't disappear [found steph a few months before she took a different path] --also there's Kevin but like he's not just sims
I have literally never used any item from the my first pets stuff.
0:59 you trusted that mug a LIL too much darlinnn
Totally unrelated but I just realised that I’ve Pavloved myself into being hungry when I watch your videos. I normally eat dinner when I watch + when I clicked on your video I immediately felt super hungry lmao
I love when even the Subtitles have "?" for Plumbella having such a unique way of speaking on top of her accent. It just amuses me so much. lol She said "Fry them up" not "Plate them up" :)
9:08 You can cook a frog soup at the stovetop with your collected frogs. Just FYI. Mermaids apparently like eating frog soup.. which I find weird.
honestly, voice changer is my least used (aside from the WACK walk cycles). i only really listen to the game audio if i'm streaming the game to my friends, otherwise i have music cranked up or a podcast on while i play and i either have the game entirely muted or i literally just don't notice the voices. i think the only time i've adjusted a voice in the last few years was when i updated my selfsim and fixed the voice since i forgot about it the previous time due to aforementioned blasting literally anything but game audio.i appreciate that the voices are all detailed, there are great music cues, and etc but i just tend not to listen to the audio in games i play even if i do enjoy it. when i play minecraft i blast hyperpop, when i play stardew i listen to mbmbam, etc.
there’s now a food item you can make with frogs!!! I believe it’s called Boiling Frog Hot Pot and you need lvl 8 or 9 cooking skill. It gives a pretty sizable, long-lasting energized moodlet!!
They should definitely organize styled look by category. I use them for random townies that walk by looking CRAZY. They should also let you create your own styled looks, that would be awesome.
The cupcake machine should be a regular stand mixer (I love Ravasheen's mod) or a hand mixer.
I love changing sims voices. I started to use it when I had a full household and they all sounded the same and group conversations drove me nuts! So I used cheats to change their voices and I've been using that feature ever since😅
Sims 3 I'd call a nanny when I ran a daycare profession 🤣🤣 they actually pulled up when you kept them busy lol
I actually use walk style on ALL sims that I make or edit 😂 they do be looking funky, but if I have a vampire I’m putting them on that goofy ass walk style for sure. I’ve styled so many in-laws, friends, etc with styled looks, I almost always use the same swatch so I’ve got plenty of sims with the same outfits, I kinda wish we could also randomize those too. I always call the nanny right away since they are born, because I mostly play either very career oriented sims or full on freelancer rags to riches, and they cook you a family sized meal as part of their job too (bless them, lifesavers) so I keep my sims busy buildings skills all the time, so the kids develop very good relationships with their nannies, some come to birthdays and even weddings 😂 and there’s bad nannies, lazy nannies, but there’s also really good ones that parent the children lmao, they encourage them when building skills, help them with homework, the have been a blessing in all my save games 😂
Speaking of nannies, I had this one glitch that happened where I tried to fire a nanny, and they not only came back the next day, but they brought ANOTHER nanny with them and I had to pay BOTH of them. And then they never left. And more and more nannies kept showing up, even though all my children were school age by then. They were bleeding me dry of my money, so I started trying to kill them. Some of them I guess just have super resilient needs? I had one nanny in a closed off pool for 2 IN-GAME WEEKS and her needs weren't even yellow.
I ended up adding them all to my household, moving them into their own house (well it was technically a windowless and doorless box on an empty lot), and they FINALLY stopped coming over and bringing MORE nannies.
This really tickled me 🤣🤣
honestly i like the styled looks feature but GOD i wish we could upload styled looks to the gallery
The only custom walk I've used is the creepy walk on an orca mermaid I created (with cc tail) named Max Inux. She's absolutely unhinged. I love her. She lives in the shipwreck and has a pet raccoon.
I always randomize my sims' outfits until theyre coherent, so it's kind of like they're picking their clothes
I do that too. Just randomise their top, then pants, then shoes etc until you get a halfway decent outfit 🤣
I almost never use the whole baking skill. When sims eat desserts they don’t get full like with other foods and it’s a little annoying sometimes to make them eat a meal and then a dessert. Also on the rare occasion I do want dessert for a party or something the cooking skill already has some desserts like cakes and pies and scones I can just use instead.
I had no idea about that secret society but I am SO using it now! Also, have you seen Ravasheen's cupcake maker mod It turns that ghastly machine into a little icing bag or sprinkle bag that fits on a shelf in the kitchen, and now I use it all the time!
bro from a distance i legitimately thought your thumbnail had a sims version of snoop dogg in it
The windows-by-room auto window feature is great when you are trying for speed builds. I recently built a house in 1 minute on my channel.
Jesse almost joining a cult is so on brand
I really wish you could save your own styled looks, and browse them like you do other CAS assets. I would get so much mileage out of that feature if I could just save outfits I like. I use MCC to do it, but it's a bit tedious.
I also have a deep fear that I could be indoctrinated into a cult very easily, and yes it’s also because the routine sounds like literal bliss, so thank you for representing us
I don't use the walk styles too often, but every now and then I create a sim with a big enough personality to justify it and I'm always glad of it because I think it's a pretty cool feature. Probably once every 10-20 sims or so.
I use the random clothes button all the time. I’ll pick a color or style or whatever on the filter and then I’ll randomize until I find something I like/that fits the personality of the sim. I just do not care enough about CAS to go to a lot of trouble with that. I also use the styled looks for toddlers and children a lot. Oh, and I unclick the randomize sim stuff for everything but makeup and click that until I find something that doesn’t look bad.
i'm always asking for new styled looks, they make dressing up random sims you regularly interact with so much faster! like when your child sim's friends age up to teens and theyre in the worst outfit you've ever seen in your life
I never play with the Celestial Crown & Sleep pods (GF), the weather machine, bowling and styled rooms.
Shania's best album for the win rn like? I love you.
I feel like Liberty Lee was done wrong with her walking style. I always change it for her in new saves 😂
The anxiety your coffee walk/dance caused me
tldr: my kids just didnt go to daycare one time and nearly starved
i use nannies as well as daycare depending on if my kids need to build skills or not (can ask the nanny for help) but ive had more problems with daycare than nanny... nearly got my kids taken away bc they just didnt go to daycare and all the adults were at work
ive only ever used nannies when the pop up asks if i want to send them to daycare or hire a nanny so maybe thats why ive never had problems
"the outfit is giving inpatient" is exactly what i was thinking but I DIDNT THINK YOU WERE GOING TO SAY IT
Omg I use the premade outfits for like 50-70% of my sims outfits idk how you live without it. I get so bored in cas trying to make outfits for a whole family for every occasion
I had no idea there was even a secret society! I'll have to check that one out!
i wish you could ask a family member to babysit instead of hiring a nanny
I would love if you did a run through of the secret society. I am quite curious about it.
Petey Plays It did a really good tutorial video on that. Helped me out a lot.
I think the only time the cupcake machine is only that useful for running a bakery in get to work but also, making a cute kitchen is fun lol
I always use the walking animations, I think it adds to the character of the sim with the preppy, energized and the slouched walk. I mainly play in CAS rather in-game so that may be why I use the animations more
was NOT expecting to get yoten back to my middle school Shania Twain phase but you know what I'm here for it. lets go girls etc
i always use the voice changers, i make everyone have slightly deeper voices so that they don’t annoy me when i play on triple speed lmao
i like the randomize clothing button in CAS because it helps me use other tops and/or different colors
I recently contributed knowledge on those special University computers and the experience was... uncomfortable, lol. I don't want to describe the noises my Sim made. It did actually turn out to be quite profitable so that was a plus!
I mean.. CAS has that Stories thing I NEVER touch.
I love eco living as an idea but I rarely use the NAPs and NEVER use the fabricator
frog fish banana bread, lovely
I just realized you could create multiple outfits, like, two years ago (after playing this game since 2014!). So the Styled Outfits option has been a lifesaver. Often I use them as a baseline and change parts out that I don't like.
In the sims 3, if you're playing the parent and leave the kid at home with a nanny, you have to click on the children's needs pannel, so that the needs will then be taken care of, doing this will make the nanny useful.
Sort of tricky.
I feel like I wouldn't have used the Nanny feature at all if I never tried playing with a single mother sim. I preferred paying for a nanny while she was at work because I wanted to be able to see him as the day passed. And in fairness, I also got Logan Erving as the nanny, and she seemed to do a decent job just being there for the baby when he needed smthn. What I didn't expect tho was for Logan and the mom to then spend every short moment they could when they saw each other to just.. flirt nonstop. Long story short, the baby boy has two moms now.
3:59 HELP WE HAVE THE EXACT SAME WATERBOTTLE ADSDDHZHAJKSKA
"You don't need to put a performance on when you going for a shit. You know that walk to the fridge? I don't need you" she says as she put on a performance from getting coffee (yes I know she meant in the sims)
I downloaded a really interesting slightly creepy vampire from the gallery, she was really pale and dressed all in white. I didn't notice she had the creepy walk and i went "aaaaiiiggh!"