Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Freakalicious!

Most folks who love playing The Sims never tire of seeing videos and pix of strange and freaky happenings in the game--and Lord knows, there are plenty of them! Some of them are just things that are programmed in and happen regularly (like the car, below), some are things that happen when a certain set of circumstances occur (like stuck baby syndrome) and some happen because the game has been corrupted, the player has used to many cheat codes, there are bugs in the software, etc. When your Sim lives in a cul-de-sac, this is how he gets to work--right into the hill.




Here we have stuck baby syndrome, but not in the classic sense. This poor grandma was taking her grandson to go potty and ended up with him embedded in her chest. Notice how the baby's lower parts are pixelated? That's because he was on the potty--and when you go to potty in the Sims, your nether regions are pixelated for priv-a-cy. :) I've only had this happen this once.

Here, we have classic stuck baby syndrome. The only time when the player can not make a Sim grow up to the next stage of life is when the Sim is an infant. So there is always a family member who comes to help when it is time for the baby to turn into a toddler. But frequently, things go wrong, and both the baby and the helper get stuck. If you delete them from the game (using a cheat), save and exit the game, and come back in, this is how you'll find them--the helper standing on the curb by the mailbox and the baby hanging sideways in the air nearby.



One of the funniest things that ever happened in The Sims for me was when the gardener arrived one day; instead of just ONE gardener getting out of the pickup to trim the hedges and water the flowers, they kept coming and coming (despite the fact that the truck only holds 2 or 3 people). In all, there were about a dozen gardeners. They made themselves at home--watching TV, eating the food, using the hot tub, etc. I laughed myself silly as they kept pouring out of the truck and invading this poor family's home. I used it as an opportunity for making friends. :)

Then we have the category of woohoo freakiness--wow, I've been seeing a LOT of that lately.


Here, while Cynda is frozen in the cuddle position, her beau is melted halfway into the bed, upside down, with his head DOUBLE upside down. That looks like it hurts, dude.









These two ladies were in the hot tub when they got "in the mood"--hence the bathing suits--but Miss Blue Bikini looks like something they found out in the desert on CSI, and Miss Sensible Suit is stuck in a forever embrace--i.e., the cuddler stays locked in that position while the melter has woohoo by themselves. Dang, dude!
This is a similar melting situation as the one above, except with 2 dudes. They both got onto the bed fully clothed but, when the melting begins, the melter loses his clothing somewhere.



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