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I like how she calls the toddlers “it.” Gives them so much personality.
I do it subconsciously 😭😭😭 even irl and then people are like "why did you 'it' my child"
@@MidnightSimmer 😂😂😂
Ikr
Like TS4 toddlers had any personality to begin with lol
I’ve been watching Kayla for about 4 or 5 years now every night before bed. I’ll just put it on and fall asleep. But calling babies “it” is so engraved into my brain now because of her. My friend had a baby I’ve been calling it “it”
"I'm just a criminal hotdog, raising my little devils." -Kayla Sims, 2021
I read that as she was actually saying it lmao
Best thing Kayla has ever said
Best quote of year
The sims has never emulated reality so hard until childcare cost twice as much as the parents wage.
As a mom of 3 kids ages 5,3 and 7 months.... hearing Kayla ask , how many times a day do you feed kids, do I have to bath them everyday? Makes me feel so much better as a mom.
But what’s the answer to the questions? I’m curious because my nephew is gonna be born in early April and I will babysit him while my brother and his girlfriend are at work(during summer break)
@@DoIcareSaveUkraine Babies eat every 2-3hrs.... usually. My kid ate every 45 minutes the first six months. Once they're toddler usually 3 meals and 2 snacks. You only have to bathe babies ~2x a week if that. Once they start solid food/playing outside you'll probably need to give more baths because they get gross. Also even if they aren't gross a bath with toys is a good way to entertain a toddler for 30-60mins.
@@ZenSmiling so weird to see a different culture perception of this topic 😅 Here toddlers take baths every day
@@RayssadaPenha im sure it depends on the weather too! my brother's 2yo twins bathe every few days but in the summer they had to bathe every day because they sweated so much (and got dirty easier since they wore short sleeves and all)
She forgot all the snacks tho, I'm sure we keep Costco here in business just from snacks
I'm here for a Stanley spin-off series where he's a part of each Scenario, with the occasional side characters of his children, Weenie 1, Weenie 2, and Weenie 3 (or Ketchup, Mustard, and Relish).
And as soon as Ketchup turns teen, they change their name, because only kids put ketchup on hot dogs.
@@DarkAudit my dad would disagree with your statement
@@DarkAudit False.
Kayla being calm and collected
*Not even 4 minutes into video*
Kayla: "YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!"
Calm,,,**
@@emerson3669 Thank you I did not realize my mistake
@@EpicAlytra33 realise*
@@lennyattew734 uhh no, don’t try and trick me buddy
@@lennyattew734 realize*
Kayla: doesn’t potty train the toddlers
Also Kayla: wonders why they’re so stinky all the time
Yeah, I think it does require so many more baths, which are time intensive, that it defeats itself. It seems easier to just spam Go Potty once they get Level 2. However, as well as Hygiene, baths do increase Fun for sure, and Attention, I think, tho, so there's that.
@@LivinInSim I know I'm a bit late but I often also don't potty train my toddlers and if you catch one using their diaper an adult can come and change it and then the hygiene will decrease as if they went to the toilet
@@LivinInSim Agreed, but I wouldn't have put the potties all in one room, I always get in weird jams where I can't reach the toddler that smells the most, because it's playing in the toilet behind its siblings...
I wish they had “difficulties” that you could set to make the scenarios easier or harder. I feel like that would appeal to everyone in terms of whether or not a scenario seems too easy or too difficult. Like with too many toddlers, maybe the harder difficulty means that you have 5 or 6 toddlers, maybe you have to max all of their skills, etc.
yeah i did this challenge today and if you just slap them into a tiny home i finished in like 20 minutes with double skill gains. it would be nice if there was more restrictions on lot type too
@@fruitiimuttii Dang it! I should have thought of tiny houses! It took me 30 minutes, including starting the game and the scenario, CAS(okay I just randomized everything) and preparing the house. I need to try this again later today with a tiny house.
EDIT: I just finished trying it with a tiny house and... It took me 10 minutes and 27 seconds from starting the game to finishing the scenario. 23 hours in sims time so not even a full day. But I used the house I had prepared yesterday, so without the preprepared house it would probably have taken around 15 minutes.
I was thinking that too!
I have a feeling this is not the full potential of senerios. There will probably be updates to it, more senerios, difficulty levels, that sort of thing. The sims team is really good at hearing out what simers want and doing their best to implement it in the game.
I usually play on the long lifespan, it's a shame they didn't include that in the challenge, that would definitely change the difficulty- Toddlers have 32 days in long lifespan, 8 in normal, 4 in short. Add in different lot challenges or bonuses (tiny home vs off grid/ simple living) and you're going to have very, very different experiences.
He’s like Gru, raising 3 kids and being a criminal… 😅
LMFAO
Stanley having to quit his job because child care is twice his paycheck is why the U.S. needs paid family leave.
Periodt
seriously I'm a foreigner and I was so shocked when I heard about US having only unpaid leave as mandatory
@@lamedumbjoker It's not mandatory actually. Many people in the USA can't take maternity or paternity leave
AMEN.
If you can't afford to have kids, maybe don't have kids. We have it in my country, but I think it should be removed.
Oh yeah this is what we really need, SCENARIOS WITH TOO MANY TODDLERS WHAT COULD GO WRONG
I have a PC and a console and I played with this scenario on my brothers PC and I lost my mind and took out my anger with the murder mod.
@@yuhhbiscuit LOOOOOOL
@Nailah J. omg you’ve got the same cat profile pic as the TH-camr Beluga I’m pretty sure. And I don’t know what the Simsie fandom or fans are called.
For those trying to increase toddler skills for any legacy challenge, here are the ways to increase each skill the fastest
Communication (Best Emotion/Happy) - Spam the babble/talk option on the teddy bear. If they're happy, it increases even faster
Imagination (Best Emotion Playful)- The Playhouse from Dream Home Decorator increases imagination skill almost hilariously fast. If you don't have that pack, get a dollhouse and have them play with it.
Thinking (Best Emotion Happy) - This was the hardest to me until I found a faster way. Spam the "watch" interaction on an adult sim (pause the game before you do it so you can spam) this way it actually increases the thinking skill buy watching what they're doing.
Movement (Best Emotion Energized)- I've been informed in the comments that the slide from the Toddler stuff pack is the best for gaining movement skills. Make sure they are energized from the "get excited" interaction from the pile of presents(Seasons)
Potty - If the toddler isn't independent, have the parent help them until they're level 2. Afterwards just have them constantly potty (I'm sorry but that's the fastest way for them💀) until level 3
for movement - the slide from toddler stuff is the best
I never realized that emotions played a part in how fast they'd build their skills; that makes so much sense! thank you!
@@arlothe_ariel I actually forgot about the slide💀 I forgot toddler stuff pack exists
@@DragonFoX23 oh wow really?? I would always do that but I thought it didn't incredible thinking skills. Thanks for that!
You are my hero. Makes me feel so much better
I did this today too. Took 4 in game days, was a little underwhelming honestly 😅 I wish you got more than satisfaction points. Maybe your toddler's get a quick learner trait if you complete it? Just Something a little more unique
That's the issue with making some scenarios like this be time limited. It'd be a bit awkward having a trait be only available for a limited event. Of course the obvious solution to this is just make the scenarios permanent lol.
The happy toddler, for all skills at 3 of more, do improve skill acquisition a bit. Then, there is the Top Notch Toddler for all skills at 5 (3 for the potty) that is equivalent to Quick Learner. Quick learner adds up on it. Both are permanent.
Then, as a kid, take the Scout «job». It have 5 levels, and completing it gives you a permanent boost at building all your skills.
Also, each kid aspiration give a boost for the related adult skills.
ALL those boosts are cumulative. It make it quite possible for a Sim with the musician aspiration to compose something for the violin, guitar, piano and DJ station for the third stage with relative ease and relatively quickly. I do it for every of my Sims who take that aspiration. JUST for the added challenge.
Tiny living will be a big help with raising toddlers in terms of skills.
Same and my sim was a loner, mean and hated children. Another proof that traits don’t mean anything
I just deleted the file afterwards. I only did it to prove I could. It was so easy. I wasn't stressed at all. I do mostly play with toddlers so I'm pretty good at keeping them all in line on a schedule.
I did this challenge and my storyline was that the parents died in a tragic fire and big brother has to now take care of his younger triplet siblings. I got him a job as well and though I finished it in 6 in game days I had fun doing it and it was hectic. I would like to see like different lvls a difficulties. Like say have 3 toddlers/5 toddlers/7 toddlers. I am guessing they are looking at feedback from players and will change things accordingly. I am looking forward to seeing what else they come up with!
@@BusyBusyPanda Louie*
Or easy level 3 and hard all maxed
They could also incorporate different life spans for more levels of challenge. Like short, normal, and long since you have to do it before the kids age up. I mean you could still do it, but it's not part of the scenarios I don't think
For seasoned players, this is child’s play
No pun intended
Yeah, this game is pretty un-seasoned.
no pun intended. 😂
Can we add more than 3 toddlers in the scenario?
@@lindyl8458 I guess you could. The Challenge should still work, and you could just try for the Skills with all of them. It would technically be harder to achieve.
Wdym? 😭
I'm not gonna lie, at 4 minutes in it went:
Kayla: YOU LITTLE--
✨AD BREAK✨
Kayla: --BRAT!
The timing was perfection 😭🤣
Same 😭😭🤌
🤣🤣🤣
stanley living in a house, that's the dream
I just lock the front door for non family members. Then I hire a babysitter when the adults are at work. That way I control the toddlers while mom/dad are gone, babysitter doesn't get in the way cause they're stuck out front, and my toddlers get skills up :3
But you still have to pay the babysitter right?
@@kyaraxoxo Yeah, to make them leave. I'm not sure if they can die to elements because I've never seen them die in a blizzard or heat wave (to try to get out of paying).
Finding love after a breakup sounds like something to try with the Pancakes
Kayla raging about the toddler breaking the doll house just made my day
"why did you take both the ducks?! you cant have those!" parenting with simsie 101
I started this yesterday and I made the mom lazy, high maintenance, and hates children. Because why not? I'm also thinking of turning on a bunch of lot challenges, too.
Also, the reason one toddler might be behind in a skill is because skill gain is also dependent on traits. Charmers, for example, raise communication skill faster and wild toddlers earn movement skill faster.
Oh yeah, the pink one was fussy wasn't it? While the one who finished first I believe was inquisitive
I knew Simsie would try the too many toddlers scenario and Stanley would be the perfect contender.
What do you think about Simsie building a Mediterranean farmhouse.
hey!
@@mickeylev6494 hi ☺️
@@yuhhbiscuit are you feeling any better?
@@mickeylev6494 yes my ankle still hurts but I’m fine. How are you ☺️
@@yuhhbiscuit i'm fine thanks? did you get discord?
This would be fun to place bets on. Like maybe during a stream,raising money for charity, make the family and have donors place bets on which color toddler they think will win LOL
Kayla: "YOU LITTLE BRAT!" and "My demon children..."
Dan in the other room: "Wut....."
This really should be one adult sim with 7 toddlers lol
I have done the 7 toddler challenge. It was fun so this is just nothing to me. I feel The Sims is just coming up with scenarios that already exists by the sims community.
@@LoriHorta yeah, it might make it more fun if they added difficulty levels to the scenarios that are more challenge like yk?
i'm interested to see what the modding community will do with scenarios
same!
Did the modders do anything with them in the end? Playing Sims for a month yet.
I made my version of this challenge a bit tougher by giving one of the toddlers a custom autism trait, along with an additional communication difficulty trait, so we'll see how that goes.
What I'd like to see is, maybe rather than the Points Reward at the end, maybe some type of special parenthood trait either given to this Sim for this save, or better yet, unlocked for the game as a whole upon completion of the challenge. I think completing the challenges to unlock little extras like that would be a good way to get players to try the challenges, and give a reward for doing so that would affect more than just this one save, especially if the challenges aren't integrated into your main Save. It gives you more of a reason to play it, beyond just trying them out.
Generally I like the ideas of scenarios, but I hate some of them being for a limited time only. It creates a false scarcity. Just like the pre-order bike in Cottage Living.
My computer can only run the legacy version because it's too old soeven though I own the game, but can't get any of the update until I buy a new device. And the Sims basically pressures me to do just that with limited time features. It reminds me of mobile games tbh.
It only took me 4 sim days to finish too many toddlers, but now I’m playing a single mom who lives in a fixer upper apartment with a part time job and is enrolled in “culinary school” university
Kayla: I don't need to potty train them!
Toddlers: *pee on themselves*
Kayla: Why do they all need baths??
If I played this I would give Stanley a job where they can work from home and do the work from home tasks in between taking care of the tots.
That’s what I did when I played this scenario
Ah, yes. The Weenie triplets lol Edit: not potty training them means they soil themselves and more baths will be required. Potty training or bathing, choose your path.
good tip, i feel like all i do is give them baths 😭
Or just let them stay stinky
Or change their diaper immediatly after they sh*t themselves, works best for me!
Yes! Potty training is super important - the poor kids wet themselves and get all embarrassed lol - takes time away from kid skill-building lol.
In this scenario it is rather irrelevant which path since for many Simmers it will be done in just few Sim days. Though potty trying is a skill, baths are not, making them rather a waste of energy unless the kid is an absolute sewer.
I love how they are called “the pink one” “the green one” and “the orange one” 😂
Stanley... of course poor old Stanley is the adult stuck with this. I see he's taking a break from trying to get rich quick😂
LMAO! poor hotdog stanley
This was his "get broke quick" challenge.
I’ve maxed a toddlers skills in 1 sim day. Tiny house, get parent to teach flash cards/use nesting blocks, read to child for imagination, hug the teddy over and over and then use the slide over and over. Shouldn’t take long. That was only 1 toddler though. Would probably take longer with 3.
Edit: just coming back to say I finished the scenario in 2 days lol
Please keep this scenario!! Let's start a petition!! I rather play that one than the well-rounded one or the surviving the holidays one. Surviving the Holidays sound like something we do every year at Thanksgiving.
Having the toddlers watch either an adult or each other over and over again rapidly increases the thinking skill. When you get thinking to level 5, they gain the rest of the skills faster.
Waiting for Kayla to stick all her toddlers in a dungeon...
Kayla continuously calling the toddlers "it" is really funny lol
Note to Simsie: when you have actual children please remember to feed them every day. 🤣❤
Okay but imagine trying to play this in a tiny home - the skills would increase faster but the absolute chaos of three toddlers in such a small space would be the perfect counter
“I’m just a criminal hot dog raising my little devils” best sentence ever.
From my experience, toddlers seems to get obsessed with their tablets. They can start playing with them straight out of bed until their energy falls to zero and they pass out.
Toddlers DO accumulate satisfaction points, but they stay invisible until they age up. The points are there. You just can't see them.
I have a challenge proposition : Rag to Riches, Hard Core mode. (or Hell mode)
You start without even a terrain. You get some special traits : UNwelcome Everywhere, that prevent you from accessing any residential lot and increase the cost of everything you buy and receive less for what you sell, and a special Curse of Ugliness that also make things cost more for you. You get the bonus traits water proof, used to heat and used to cold to reflect your hardship. After all, you are «used» to sleep outside in any weather.
You need to buy back or get rid of the trait and curse, buy a terrain on witch to build your home, build a fully functional house, THEN have a million funds.
Need to add this : Don't bother with the tablets made for the toddlers. Give them some dabblets.
The toy tablet is of no use once the tiddler age up. The dabblet can be use for his whole life.
The thinking skill is easy, especially with more than one toddler. Just get them all to watch each other. Super fast, never any tears or tantrums. If you continue it long enough their attention meter runs down a little, that's the only downside.
3:15 omg the toddler's dance 😂 I can't
That made me weirdly happy 😄
For this scenario, I'd go with the Style Influencer career, as it has some easy work from home tasks, get Charisma lvl 2 so I can cheer the kids up, speeding up their Comunication and Thinking skill gains, and have a rotational skill building routine, as you'll need your adult sim when practicing Thinking by helping with the blocks or showing the cards, since toddlers learn faster with adults.
Fixing old challenges builds:
Builds which were created in challenges, (for example random pack generator challenges, every room is the same colour etc.) get redecorated. You’re trying to make the build as cute as possible and aesthetically cohiesive. You get to choose 2 out of the options below per room.
1. Change wall paint to anything
2. Change flooring to anything
3. Move the existing walls
4. Add more walls
5. Swap three items
6. Add five items
7. Unlimited clutter/ decor
8. Add up to 5 tiles anywhere you want
9. Add/ change windows, doors and lighting
10. Delete up to three items
love your videos and would absolutely love to see you tackle this it would be soo satisfying!!
Can you do a not so Berry challange for the basegame or one for all the packs ?
“STOP, STOP!!! YOU CANT STOP!” “ The Problem is THEY KEEP STOPPING!”
-Kayla 2021
Kayla Kayla, the real challenge is doing these scenerios in short lifespan. Less than 4 days to get every toddler in 4 skills at level 3 and witha job? super hard
I see we're continuing the tradition of calling toddlers 'it' 😂😂😂
I agree with you that there should be different difficulty, but I wouldn't want to have them be "temporary". Those scenarios are perfect for people who are not active in TS4 community (for exemple, I told my sister in law about rags to riches and she had never heard of it). I think they are going in the right direction!
She called the toddler “it”. I love it.
I am excited for the challenges too. This one was too funny! “Eww! It farted!!” It’s an it, lol
Honestly, this is an incredibly accurate representation of parenthood. I remember when my twin cousins were born. One was pretty anxious and shy, he loves dinosaurs and is smart. He’s ginger and was born with a large red birthmark above his right eye. The other, absolute chaos. She has curly brown hair, is non-verbal but very extroverted. She doesn’t really feel pain, (once knocked her tooth out, at the age of 2 and the only reason anyone noticed anything was wrong was when she wasn’t eating right). Short ass attention span, and she doesn’t recognise danger.
The boy was got stuck in the chicken coop and began to cry. He asked his twin to get help, she made it 5 meters before getting distracted by a little toy car in the dirt.
Few improvements I'd like to see.
-Automatically disable mods/cc/console during the scenario (able to re-enable them after the challenge is complete)
-With the above, you could have a leaderboard with times (speedrun catagory).
-Maybe different difficulties (with the toddler challenge, make 3 todders with the 3 skills "easy difficulty", maybe make 5 with 5 skills at max for "hard difficulty"
disable console players?
@@libertycalhoun9210 No, the console commands (ctrl shift C)
I've wanted the ability to customize* the gameplay a bit more before you start playing without having to do a bunch of cheats, and this is the closest I think I'll get to that, so I'm kinda happy with the scenarios.
*By customizing I mean not starting completely blank, but start with a few friendships or relationships or even having some sentiments to other people, and just everything that makes it feel like it's not just a sim that was just created, but a sim that's had a life before we started playing with them
I completed the toddler challenge in four sim days. I knew this would be the easiest one so that’s why I did it. 😄
Speaking as a parent of 1 year old twins, I do not have time to have a life outside of looking after toddlers 😂😂😂
I’m obsessed with how you named all of them weenie 😂
Thanks! I listened to this while outfitting my favorite tiny house and totally toddlering it out!
100 baby challenge players: Three toddlers? That's cute. Try me at 8
stan is such an upstanding citizen. just a crim trying to raise his babies.
im impressed you got him a job!!! i did this with 7 tods and didn't have time to do anything with the parent other than take care of the kids!
My day is not complete until I watch a lilsimsie video
3:16 kayla doing the little dance is my favorite thing
I did mine in 3 days by having alternate sleep schedules, a tablet for the thinking skill and a micro home
“it’s only gonna be around for 2 weeks” almost 2 years later and it’s still here
I really hope that we will be able to make your own scenarios
A fast way of getting the Thinking skill up is to have your toddler do the "Watch" interaction on an adult Sim. Queue a whole bunch up and they fly through it.
For some reason, I wished Simsie named them based on actual sausages. Maybe have Bratwurst, Chorizo, and the last one maybe Hotdog? Lol
Sucuk for the third maybe 🤔
Kielbasa?
I love how she calls the toddlers ‘this one’ and ‘that one’. Priceless. 😀😃
Toddlers are the real enemies in the sims
I'm actually loving the scenarios! It's fun to have a little bit of direction, I always have such a hard time starting a new household.
TODDLERS
I love ur pfp xD
@@urmum1181 thanks
I played the scenario with a single dad and the three toddlers and I gave him the Critic career and just had him work from home while they are toddlers. This way he had a career that he had to maintain but he didn't actually leave the home so he could take care of the toddlers all the time. It took me 4 Sim days to complete the challenge. And I did potty train them. lol. It was a lot of fun and I could definitely see this as a story prompt. I am a seasoned Sims player. Been playing since Sims 2 and I have completed the 7 toddler challenge twice. One of them being the rags to riches with 7 babies challenge and one being with an elder raising 7 toddlers so I'm not exactly the target demographic for this scenario. But it was still a lot of fun and I enjoyed it.
You did this to STANLEY?!?
Wait, of course you did.
3:16 I love you mimicking their moves 😂
hiiii!!!
So much fun. Toddlers. Amazing.
They probably just chose one to make temporary to make people go and check out the scenarios quickly
I also tried this scenario today, it took me 3 in game days. And like an hour in real life. I liked it, but i hope they will include harder scenarios later on. Like a generation challenge or a type of traits challenge. But the concept is great! Just a little easy atm :)
I don't get the hate - as Kayla said, I also think scenarios fun for the average player. I'd love to see her make videos on the other ones
5:08 the first baby looks like he is making a hit list
I only got 3 scenarios….. it seems like you have more. Did anyone else only get 3?
I was about to comment this, I only have 3 too
I got three I thought you could make ur own tho
@@urmum1181 that is a really cool idea! What would you have as your’s? I would make one like: You have an AWFUL reputation as an elder and you have to try your best to get it up before you die.
@@kellyredmond7004 omg yes! I love that idea!
THIS SCENARIO KILLED MY BRAINCELLS! Like literally I gave the adult sims all the traits to raise the kids and she wouldn't do what I say. I keep asking her to feed the babies and bathe them and she goes into the room, looks at them AND THEN LEAVES.
I absolutely hated it, never been this mad on a gameplay before 😂
omg i’m so early
I work at a daycare in a toddler room. I have 5 in my group. It’s ABSOLUTELY wild but I love every second lol
Telling the toddlers to watch each other is a great way if thinking skill it's really fast
I didn’t think this was too difficult- of course I used a micro home to get double skills. My toddlers were -charmer, fussy, and silly (randomized traits of course). I used the 100 baby starter home Kayak made. I also made sure my sim had a stock pile of food in the fridge so she had time to work on her career. She leveled up once though, so I’ll take it. I even had her work on her aspiration (big happy family). I’ve got one more hour to read to the children and the second part is done.
I would’ve had this thing finished in 4 (sim) days, but it glitched out and didn’t complete it right away. So according to the game, I finished it in 5 days instead after my last toddler maxed one of her skills. My first two toddlers maxed 3 skills and got to level 3 or 4 in two others, and my last toddler maxed 1 skill, 3 or 4 in three other skills, and level 2 in the other skill. My goal is to get as many skills maxed out my their birthday (day 6 since it’s normal lifespan)
Hi there.
I just graduated from university and I'm here to earn an income and not be a burden to my family. I want to be able to take better care of both myself and my family because my parents divorced and we are in a difficult situation. My mother cannot work because she had cancer surgery. Even if 2-3 people out of this many people support me and join our EAL family, it is enough for me to find courage, thank you in advance...
Kayla during every sim challenge: TINY HOME LOT PERKS
Kayla during challenge that requires skill building: BASE GAME
her demonstration of the lil dance. so adorable
“I’m just a criminal hotdog, raising my little devils.”
I’m watching this at work and I just laughed at an inappropriate level . Thank you😂😂
I tried this one the other day. It took me 6 Sim days, but I did have the mom working. I found that having them all read to at the same time was a good way to build their skill (I don't remember which one it was, but it helped). They also had a dollhouse, stacking cubes, a mini basketball hoop (CC), and some other toys besides the toy box, and the Unicorn.
Kayla: I want to play this like an average sims player.
Also Kayla: we’re gonna call you weenie 1,2 and 3
Lol
Okay honestly her doing "THEY DO THE LIL DANCE!" why also doing a silly small dance like made me more happy then it should of
I finished the Too Many Toddlers very quickly. But I did use the Wabbit Tablets a lot (as those you can sit the toddler down and the stay with it until you want to interact with them) and for the first time used the play tent. (Only 2 kids at a time can use it, unfortunately.)
I'm in the middle of the Money scenario because I wanted to try it out. I've got nearly $200,000 now. ( But I'm playing a *lot*.)
However, even if there were "expert" level scenarios, I doubt I'd play them much more than the quickies. I only do "challenges" of any sort when there's been an update and I want to play for a while before I head back to my "legacy" family where I use a lot of CC. (Not legacy in terms of "legacy challenges" but "legacy" the way we've used it since TS2: play with the same family generation after generation until the family has so many generations that your computer can't handle it any longer.)
I'm really surprised that they're putting out so many of the all at the same time. You'd think they'd spread them out (especially if they're going to put some as time limited) to keep people more interested. I think they should have put them out one at a time, with a couple of weeks at least between them. (Although perhaps they're thinking "some people won't do some challenges at all." I know that if the "breakup" one was the only one to come out, I wouldn't try it even if it was the only one for a while. Not my thing. The "well rounded" is far more my thing, because that's essentially how I like to handle my "legacy" play. I'm a polymath so I turn my Sims into them as well! I often have them working on 2-4 aspirations at the same time.)
I love your videos! I haven't watched the full vid yet, but at 6:42 the one kid is not so tired bc they have the wild trait!🤩
Stanley in his family photo with all of his babies is exactly what I needed to cheer me up today.
The thinking skill is actually pretty easy to level up. You just need to have your toddler “watch” and adult sim a bunch of times. It gives a pretty decent boost each time.
Thanks for saying so! Can't believe I've been wasting all my time on the flash cards interaction for years 😅