Friday Highlights - August 15th

EA_Cath

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26 days ago

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Sul Sul folks!

I hope everybody has been keeping well! I am back from vacation, fully rested (almost) and even though we are still in the summer season, I am already in the-back to-school mood. By the way, did you notice that we are already in the middle of Aug-tober? Halloween is basically next week 🤗

Let’s catch up on the news first:

On Thursday, we revealed our next Creator Kits, Essential Glam and Grange Mudroom that will be launching on August 21st! Make sure to not miss out the traditional screenshot thread if you are tempted to pick up one of these! (I had accidentally typed “Essential Clam” - should we ask for a kit to glamorize our fellow sea creatures? 💅🐚)

Beautiful scenery in Oasis Springs, shared here by Moochellie

Time for the highlights!

Let’s start off with a very summery build by MsDSweets, Let’s Go Camping, which is a campsite lot (obivously…) inspired by a TV show - the build is actually shaped like a real camping tent! ⛺ One side of the tent is completely see-through, offering your sims a beautiful view without having to step outside. Inside, you will find not-so-basic amenities for camping such as a dining table, a couch with a stove, a lounge corner to enjoy a nice cup of coffee or tea, plenty of storage, and a private area with a bunk bed. There is also an area designed to park and protect your car - very fancy! We even have a little backstory where we can see MsDSweets' sims enjoying their romantic camping trip (and surviving a snow storm, so you know that the tent is sturdy). As someone who hates camping, I would actually love to try out this version 🤗
The summer season is the perfect time to play with mermaids, and cchant86 has some news to share regarding mermaid Paka’a and the rest of the family. After marrying fairy sim Celeste, they had four daughters together - two fairies and two mermaids, the perfect balance! Paka’a unfortunately suffered a terrible case of dying of laughter but he still had the chance to say his goodbyes and was reborn in a lovely mermaid family in Sulani. This is an exciting new beginning, I hope he will get to see his daughters (who are much older than him now) in his new life! Let’s hope to an exciting new future for Paka’a, I'm sure he is going to make a splash 🌊
For our history lovers, GalacticGal has been sharing a very interesting project and is telling us all about it 📜 Inspired by family history, the game is set in the 1700s before the Independence War in what we know now as the United States. GalacticGal has decided to remake some of the houses that settlers had built back in the day - including pictures of her ancestors’ habitation and farm! We can see a recreation of two settler cabins (and comparison with a very old picture so you could see what they looked like in real life), and a settler business trading post. Everything looks very authentic with a great attention for details. GalacticGal is sharing very interesting facts about the life of settlers at the time so I encourage you to go take a proper look and expand your knowledge! 🤓
I think it’s time for a new chapter of the Marsden Farm Challenge started by texansky. The Marsdens and the Paynes are dealing with their day-to-day life, focusing on their careers or children and everything seems to be going well. Casey, August and September are enjoying nice family time together, while Phoenix the Magnificent is still thriving in his Magician career. In this chapter, an intriguing visitor comes to the Payne household with groundbreaking news: he is Phoenix’s grandfather! 😮 Those two will have a lot to catch up, but not now as Phoenix was heading on a date and then on a gig where he learned to levitate. 🧙 It looks like everyone was keeping busy in another chapter full of details!
Last but not least, mikkimouse1978 had one of those funny drama moments in the game recently: My sim just had an affair in front of his wife 😶 Nothing out of the ordinary in our Sims worlds and stories, but wait until you learn the full story: the husband cheated in front of his current wife with his ex-wife... AND when the husband was still with the ex-wife, he cheated on her with the current wife… You will be surprised to learn that despite this peculiar behaviour, no one got mad and everybody is acting like nothing just happened - well I don’t see why the husband should get mad, but his two lovers seemed to be taking it well. Good for them… I guess ?? I feel that all parties should try being single for a little while to reflect on everything that happened 😆 Have you ever encountered a dramatic situation that just didn’t bother your sims at all? Don’t hesitate to share it with us!