Sims 3 logic vs real life

"Anthonydyer;c-16271996" wrote:
Regarding the vegetarian thing... you both are right.

Some people go vegetarian because they have to. This may be due to an intolerance or dietary need.
Some people choose to go vegetarian. They do it when eating meat otherwise would not harm them.

I did find it a little odd that vegetarian sims throw up after eating meat.

What I'm saying is even if someone isn't naturally intolerant to something, if they don't eat it for a long time, they will get sick until their body gets used to it again. I assume that's why the creators did that. :)

Source: I was vegan for 5 years, I am not naturally intolerant to anything animal product wise (just gluten sensitive). Still got sick when I went back to eating normally.

You can put a car in your inventory. You can walk around the city and your car will be in your possession.
The fact that everyone works the same shift. Hospitals don't have 24 hour coverage for nurses, doctors, etc.

"Anthonydyer;c-16272011" wrote:
You can put a car in your inventory. You can walk around the city and your car will be in your possession.
The fact that everyone works the same shift. Hospitals don't have 24 hour coverage for nurses, doctors, etc.

There are overnight shifts in the Medical career. If we don't see any sims at the career levels that have those hours on-screen, we have to just assume that they are there working away and staffing the place anyway.

"polrbear;c-16272002" wrote:
Regarding the vegetarian thing... you both are right.
What I'm saying is even if someone isn't naturally intolerant to something, if they don't eat it for a long time, they will get sick until their body gets used to it again. I assume that's why the creators did that. :)

Source: I was vegan for 5 years, I am not naturally intolerant to anything animal product wise (just gluten sensitive). Still got sick when I went back to eating normally.

I've been eating veg only (not vegan) for over 30 years now by choice. I know what you mean and do agree, but have to take exception to the notion that I've been eating "abnormally" all of this time. It's normal for me. Even if there weren't a medical reason to be ill upon eating meat now, I would still certainly have the nausea moodlet if I did so and then realized it. :)

"igazor;c-16272033" wrote:

"Anthonydyer;c-16272011" wrote:
You can put a car in your inventory. You can walk around the city and your car will be in your possession.
The fact that everyone works the same shift. Hospitals don't have 24 hour coverage for nurses, doctors, etc.

There are overnight shifts in the Medical career. If we don't see any sims at the career levels that have those hours on-screen, we have to just assume that they are there working away and staffing the place anyway.

"polrbear;c-16272002" wrote:
Regarding the vegetarian thing... you both are right.
What I'm saying is even if someone isn't naturally intolerant to something, if they don't eat it for a long time, they will get sick until their body gets used to it again. I assume that's why the creators did that. :)

Source: I was vegan for 5 years, I am not naturally intolerant to anything animal product wise (just gluten sensitive). Still got sick when I went back to eating normally.

I've been eating veg only (not vegan) for over 30 years now by choice. I know what you mean and do agree, but have to take exception to the notion that I've been eating "abnormally" all of this time. It's normal for me, now. Even if there weren't a medical reason to be ill upon eating meat now, I would still certainly have the nausea moodlet if I did so and then realized it. :)

Woot! Go Igazor! I've been trying to go back to veg, but. ..let's just say another interesting fact:

Milk contains morphine. My dad is allergic to morphine so he gets sick when he drinks it. The morphine is in nature meant to help the calf bond with its mama, but nowadays, it just serves to help humans bond with their cheese :D making it harder to let go...

Anyway, back to the sims logic!

My furniture appears out of thin air, into places it could definitely not be placed, any time I want to buy anything! It takes 0 minutes for all of this to happen.

"igazor;c-16272033" wrote:
I've been eating veg only (not vegan) for over 30 years now by choice. I know what you mean and do agree, but have to take exception to the notion that I've been eating "abnormally" all of this time. It's normal for me. Even if there weren't a medical reason to be ill upon eating meat now, I would still certainly have the nausea moodlet if I did so and then realized it. :)

I'm glad to see we can still be friends.

Okay, vegans, I'm only kidding. It's just that I've met a few who were completely unbearable on the subject of their superior diets. Of course, I may be conflating correlation with causation, since those specific vegans were also totally insufferable about almost everything else.

I always thought that the vegetarian sims' nausea was as much mental as physical. I do know that the body will stop producing enzymes it doesn't need anymore. On the other hand, I've seen the same reaction in people who selectively avoid certain kinds of meat (like maybe lamb and veal, out of an opposition to slaughtering baby animals), even though there is no biochemical reason why they couldn't tolerate that particular food. It also makes sense that if someone is a vegetarian for philosophical reasons, eating meat would be psychologically upsetting, which could easily cause a psychosomatic reaction. Furthermore, since the nausea sets in immediately both in the game and IRL, I'm not convinced the meat proteins have even hit the bloodstream yet in sufficient quantities to cause a reaction. Full disclosure: I definitely don't know what I'm talking about.

But on the subject of this thread... It's understandable that vegetarians would never cook with meat or fish. But until a patch was released (I think? I updated and installed mods at this same time), meat-eaters couldn't learn any of the alternative recipes. So if you had a spouse or child who was a vegetarian, you had only a few low-quality options for making a dinner that the whole family could eat. Guess what, everyone. I made lobster thermidor! It took me an hour and a half, but it was worth it to see all those beautiful perfect meal moodlets. Except for you, vegetarian. I think there might be some autumn salad left over from when I was still learning to cook. But be careful; I just used normal lettuce from the neighbors' garden, and who knows what they might have sprayed on their plants.

LOL, @puzzlezaddict you know more of what you are talking about than you give yourself credit for above. And yes, insufferable people are just insufferable no matter what their dietary restrictions are.

I only rarely hand out the Vegetarian trait to sims now because to me it isn't really anything all that special or worth making a huge fuss about. But for the households I rotate through, it does annoy me to see them eating "regular" food on their own when they are on-screen and not controlled by me, so that is reason alone to dole it out at times. I'd forgotten that non-veg sims didn't get to learn and prepare the more veg-friendly recipe versions at one time. That must have been long and many patches ago and would have made hosting home cooked meal type dinner parties also very challenging, in much the same way that I try to accommodate vamps by including a special dish for them that uses plasma fruit in the recipe. I think that might have been where I began using large collections of food and recipe related mods myself. :)

@igazor I never pick the vegetarian trait because it's easy enough for me to tell each sim what to eat. (Generally when everyone's in bed, I just go down the list and start assigning breakfast. All the good little girls and boys get baked angel food cake, and I try to have everyone else's favorite foods on hand.) But since I've never seen it either way, I was wondering if you knew: Do pregnant vegetarian sims get a craving for cheese tofu steak instead of cheesesteak? Or spaghetti with veggie sauce? Most of the rolled cravings don't involve meat (mac 'n' cheese, grilled cheese, cookies, key lime pie, cobbler with grapes or watermelon, autumn salad or goopy carbonara at the park... wow, I might really be a TS3 addict), but I wonder if any of the EA developers paid enough attention to adjust these wishes for the vegetarians.

As an aside, I think it's kind of cute that non-vegetarians can now have a favorite food that uses tofu. I mean, if it really does taste that good, then why not? Plus, it has to be healthier than that store-bought steak that mom has been carrying around in her unrefrigerated inventory for two weeks. Speaking of sims 3 vs real life.

I avoid the vegetarian trait, because the throwing up thingy annoys me. My sims eat mostly vegetarian, because I´m a veggie (not vegan, although I try to avoid milk) for about 10 years now. I want that tofu lobster, please! :D
It is quite funny to give a vampire the trait.

Because it´s really cold outside: If you stay too long in the cold, you freeze into an ice block. But fear not: a simple hair dryer can save your life.

"puzzlezaddict;c-16272988" wrote:
But since I've never seen it either way, I was wondering if you knew: Do pregnant vegetarian sims get a craving for cheese tofu steak instead of cheesesteak? Or spaghetti with veggie sauce? Most of the rolled cravings don't involve meat (mac 'n' cheese, grilled cheese, cookies, key lime pie, cobbler with grapes or watermelon, autumn salad or goopy carbonara at the park... wow, I might really be a TS3 addict), but I wonder if any of the EA developers paid enough attention to adjust these wishes for the vegetarians.

Not certain, but I'm pretty sure my pregnant sims who actually do have the trait roll cravings for veggie-specific recipes as well as the general ones you listed.

On the subject of vegetarian sims, I could never work out why they make their pancakes and cobbler without fruit.