Do You Like To Premade Sims Or CAS
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I tend to gravitate towards three different pre-mades:
1. River McIrish (Base game)
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My altered in CAS version of her
2. Bebe Hart (Base game)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjbnvDU8HwNCOdXJvH8YaCqL2yhUPc-dXbQjQiH8O2TYP7BDsKi4G8FF0Kas4omkt3TtHrdOhM8H9jVlTaVhv3LI6IJb-0ovL7bcB51nnnSdXAiVQfKgRCtta1-m6CgF6A2C8aZK7woPzUYBNdB9iHGLvF5f2oPsuxPeBm__xzjk74-RDwenLokfNVqA
My altered in CAS version of her
3. Samantha Gray (Ubiversity EP)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpE3nsO-ps4t8qDLv_eq3Ykp62tGPiS151mXFpT75NHmfp1jfX_NBXxNQe4EHK_i-pRhN64N_eeNM8DG4XRVYjhUmZeFhoQ_Y5iIlMa3z7CzNIx7-bpvvRyL5lE4TtsIn0MnmLvmXqQ2X4hejUKLc3Dm9gvkz1m-WjCi1mL2Q6Dh2xjoYfJUxjiuPHyA
My altered in CAS vers- I think you get the picture… ?
All the rest of my Sims are CAS created sims. It’s not that I don’t like using premades, but in order for me to get a decent story out of them, I need to feel a certain affinity towards them - (make them “mine” so to speak.
If I can’t feel connected to a premade sim, the story just doesn’t turn out well - I won’t be able to put my whole heart into my story.
That’s why I use CAS to tweak premades into something I can work with.
I’ve said before that the background story for River McIrish mirrors the same backstory as my RL wife of 22 years. Single mother raised her, lived with another single younger parent with a daughter. Mama’s husband decided to bail as did the husband of younger single roommate who was a mother with daughter. The Single Mom’s Household could have entirely been lifted from my wife’s experience - There’s quite a few families with that very same experience in RL So it’s nothing new. But for me, personally, since my wife had that experience, so similar to River’s; well it speaks to me on a visceral level.
So now you see why I want to give River that “happy” family story, it strikes “close to home”. My wife is American of Irish descent - and the last name of River is an indicator of a “stereotype - McIrish”. That’s why I’ll always choose her to be my sim:Haruo’s spouse. Also gives me a good reason to pummel that other premade, Parker Langerak.
My RL wife in Sim form:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAf8-hd1Rbb-147dq2PTZBLkeJUtwIGBLoVfXoTN0BRqBnuWXq8zgSQSdBzikOtDy4K3qka6DpVjIkh7_xFEsorGumhOqPqKtJ7sPy3XieAbfF1ZQJsPFSqfWrD6Q-NUW4O2Irb9av5G736Dtw6cB1qJOmxWEV6Q_0NyLxlttf--EW8ZHPeUoAdQEnqA/s1600/3947533D-F31D-4549-AFC7-F21026B8B1C6.jpeg
Bebe Hart is the cute girl in school and well, I like her for the genetics and the fact that she is the polar opposite of who I match her up with: Haruo’s fictitious cousin who is studious and diligent (going to medical school - something Haruo isn’t).
Samantha Gray reminds me of the college crushes that I had in college. Artistic and tough. She’s quiet, more of a wallflower kind of girl, but still has a substantial head on her shoulders. Placed her with a fictitious cousin.
CAS for me is a means of tweaking premades to how I want them to look in my stories.
I wrote fanfiction for JAG on fanfiction dot net before I started playing the Sims so my background with writing is extensive. Hence my Sims stories start to look like 110K word novels by the time I get to Chapter 10. I rarely get to play a free-play game without one of my “plot-bunnies” jumping up and shouting “WRITE ME!!!!”
Coupled with 52 years of life experience on my part and a writer’s imagination, my sims stories tend to get weighty. So stories are more my bag than playing challenges. I play more for story ideas than play the game for the game. And as a relative newcomer to the Sims, through a health problem in Dec of 2016 that if had not gone favorably would have me being a roommate to cadavers enroute to being planted and long convalescence period, it hooked me nearly to the point of addiction - there was nothing else to do but sit, eat, play The Sims 3 and try to recover.
So that’s my long-winded answer.
1. River McIrish (Base game)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJb_z-Ml3U5sB9HJHuvyOw4LQ085Aqki-YuLiOJbQKVy-7kixXH2Kh_3V2OZoN7GaKJYhpaYamG9Q8Jg_-tb-XPcr5MEcSavy28ySIf_cbjGpDTy6ff3b8LiiWrFqG4O7dpXLozYvVqC890hhPfNXovq5Yff9_41P2OEUMQKcKfV5XKphHROJxN0brvA/s1600/B88CFFA9-5CA1-4E9C-94F0-6212982FE3B5.jpeg
My altered in CAS version of her
2. Bebe Hart (Base game)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjbnvDU8HwNCOdXJvH8YaCqL2yhUPc-dXbQjQiH8O2TYP7BDsKi4G8FF0Kas4omkt3TtHrdOhM8H9jVlTaVhv3LI6IJb-0ovL7bcB51nnnSdXAiVQfKgRCtta1-m6CgF6A2C8aZK7woPzUYBNdB9iHGLvF5f2oPsuxPeBm__xzjk74-RDwenLokfNVqA
My altered in CAS version of her
3. Samantha Gray (Ubiversity EP)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpE3nsO-ps4t8qDLv_eq3Ykp62tGPiS151mXFpT75NHmfp1jfX_NBXxNQe4EHK_i-pRhN64N_eeNM8DG4XRVYjhUmZeFhoQ_Y5iIlMa3z7CzNIx7-bpvvRyL5lE4TtsIn0MnmLvmXqQ2X4hejUKLc3Dm9gvkz1m-WjCi1mL2Q6Dh2xjoYfJUxjiuPHyA
My altered in CAS vers- I think you get the picture… ?
All the rest of my Sims are CAS created sims. It’s not that I don’t like using premades, but in order for me to get a decent story out of them, I need to feel a certain affinity towards them - (make them “mine” so to speak.
If I can’t feel connected to a premade sim, the story just doesn’t turn out well - I won’t be able to put my whole heart into my story.
That’s why I use CAS to tweak premades into something I can work with.
I’ve said before that the background story for River McIrish mirrors the same backstory as my RL wife of 22 years. Single mother raised her, lived with another single younger parent with a daughter. Mama’s husband decided to bail as did the husband of younger single roommate who was a mother with daughter. The Single Mom’s Household could have entirely been lifted from my wife’s experience - There’s quite a few families with that very same experience in RL So it’s nothing new. But for me, personally, since my wife had that experience, so similar to River’s; well it speaks to me on a visceral level.
So now you see why I want to give River that “happy” family story, it strikes “close to home”. My wife is American of Irish descent - and the last name of River is an indicator of a “stereotype - McIrish”. That’s why I’ll always choose her to be my sim:Haruo’s spouse. Also gives me a good reason to pummel that other premade, Parker Langerak.
My RL wife in Sim form:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAf8-hd1Rbb-147dq2PTZBLkeJUtwIGBLoVfXoTN0BRqBnuWXq8zgSQSdBzikOtDy4K3qka6DpVjIkh7_xFEsorGumhOqPqKtJ7sPy3XieAbfF1ZQJsPFSqfWrD6Q-NUW4O2Irb9av5G736Dtw6cB1qJOmxWEV6Q_0NyLxlttf--EW8ZHPeUoAdQEnqA/s1600/3947533D-F31D-4549-AFC7-F21026B8B1C6.jpeg
Bebe Hart is the cute girl in school and well, I like her for the genetics and the fact that she is the polar opposite of who I match her up with: Haruo’s fictitious cousin who is studious and diligent (going to medical school - something Haruo isn’t).
Samantha Gray reminds me of the college crushes that I had in college. Artistic and tough. She’s quiet, more of a wallflower kind of girl, but still has a substantial head on her shoulders. Placed her with a fictitious cousin.
CAS for me is a means of tweaking premades to how I want them to look in my stories.
I wrote fanfiction for JAG on fanfiction dot net before I started playing the Sims so my background with writing is extensive. Hence my Sims stories start to look like 110K word novels by the time I get to Chapter 10. I rarely get to play a free-play game without one of my “plot-bunnies” jumping up and shouting “WRITE ME!!!!”
Coupled with 52 years of life experience on my part and a writer’s imagination, my sims stories tend to get weighty. So stories are more my bag than playing challenges. I play more for story ideas than play the game for the game. And as a relative newcomer to the Sims, through a health problem in Dec of 2016 that if had not gone favorably would have me being a roommate to cadavers enroute to being planted and long convalescence period, it hooked me nearly to the point of addiction - there was nothing else to do but sit, eat, play The Sims 3 and try to recover.
So that’s my long-winded answer.
