Sims 3 logic vs real life

"Mikezumi;c-16273431" wrote:
On the subject of vegetarian sims, I could never work out why they make their pancakes and cobbler without fruit.

This one I've never heard of. My sims always used fruit in those recipes even before I had the Ingredients Overhaul and Cook with Any Ingredients mods in play. Almost afraid to ask, but what do yours use instead?

When you're in between classes at college and people walk by in the hall and you think it would be cool if people had those name labels that you get when you roll your mouse over a sim. The Sims is on to something! ;)

"Anthonydyer;c-16299854" wrote:
When you're in between classes at college and people walk by in the hall and you think it would be cool if people had those name labels that you get when you roll your mouse over a sim. The Sims is on to something! ;)

As a weak way to protest against forced senseless conformity, a bunch of us in high school used to get annoyed with the student number bar code stickers we were issued to identify ourselves on computer graded mandatory standardized tests (and with the tests themselves). So during testing week, we all went around wearing the bar code stickers on our foreheads.

To be fair, I don't think any of us really amounted to very much after that... :p

"igazor;c-16273463" wrote:

"Mikezumi;c-16273431" wrote:
On the subject of vegetarian sims, I could never work out why they make their pancakes and cobbler without fruit.

This one I've never heard of. My sims always used fruit in those recipes even before I had the Ingredients Overhaul and Cook with Any Ingredients mods in play. Almost afraid to ask, but what do yours use instead?

@Igazor I will put an apple or whatever fruit I want the pancakes or cobbler to be in their inventory and when I look afterwards the fruit is still there and the pancakes and cobbler are merely called pancakes or cobbler with no fruit added to the name.

"igazor;c-16300112" wrote:

"Anthonydyer;c-16299854" wrote:
When you're in between classes at college and people walk by in the hall and you think it would be cool if people had those name labels that you get when you roll your mouse over a sim. The Sims is on to something! ;)

As a weak way to protest against forced senseless conformity, a bunch of us in high school used to get annoyed with the student number bar code stickers we were issued to identify ourselves on computer graded mandatory standardized tests (and with the tests themselves). So during testing week, we all went around wearing the bar code stickers on our foreheads.

To be fair, I don't think any of us really amounted to very much after that... :p

@igazor I wish we'd had the guts to try some form of protest (however meek) against standardized testing. In high school, we were all so terrified of tanking an SAT or AP test and therefore not getting into (insert college here) that I doubt it ever occured to anyone to rebel. That little booklet of bar codes we'd each receive at the beginning of AP season had way too much influence over our lives.

Of course, with typical school tests, our teachers weren't even allowed to use scantrons. I think someone had this idea that we were all such special snowflakes that even implying that our learning experiences could be summarized in standardized test format would crush our fragile sense of our own uniqueness. Not to mention stifling our budding creativity. I actually remember some of the older teachers saying something to the effect of, I personally don't think any of you are worth the extra time it takes me to individually grade your tests, but your parents have convinced the administrators differently, so here we are. But don't imagine for even a minute that this means I actually agree with them.

On the other hand, AP tests meant I got out of taking not one but two separate English classes in college, so for me at least they ended up being well worth the consternation and resentment.

That's one thing I wish at least a few of the teenage sims had—an overwhelming desire to avoid as much pointless busywork as possible. No matter which traits I give the kids, they always seem to want to do their homework as soon as they get home. And while they can "slack off" in school, there's no option to "get into a twenty-minute argument with the Simlish teacher about whether writing a series of essays on Shakespeare is actually helping anyone learn or is in reality only supporting the forces of mandatory assimilation that stifle any expression of dissenting opinions just when students are finally beginning to develop the intellectual tools to form their own opinions." I mean, even Sims occasionally need defense lawyers, and they have to start honing their skills at some point.

@puzzlezaddict Your teachers weren't allowed to use scantrons? That's strange.


Sims logic: Even if the teppenyaki grill is in their own house, it would be so rude of them not to change into full chef's uniform ;)

Huh, @puzzlezaddict is correct. It was indeed the AP exams that provided those fun student ID stickers on the forehead moments I was so fondly recalling and not state level standardized testing. Scantrons wouldn't have been sufficient alone because AP exams require, or at least they did back then, both multiple choice and free answer type questions and the brand name hadn't quite taken off yet.

OMG, those (American/European) History exams. Here are 26 lettered documents to analyze, exhibits A through Z, before writing your essay. As far away from multiple choice, scored strictly by computer, as one can get.

Part of the point of the stickers was to allow the different sections to be scored separately from each other, then the exams needed to be reassembled efficiently with no sections getting lost. And yes, okay there was some value to being able to skip over how poorly Calculus I and II were taught at Uni and jump right into III. Only our precious little feelings of perceived individuality suffered because suddenly we were each reduced to a bunch of numbers like everyone else in the country taking those tests at the same time. ;)

@igazor Wait, didn't you guys pay to take that exam you were protesting, then?

I had to pay up front for all the AP testing.

Seems pretty silly to rebel against a test you spent money to take :lol:

You can upgrade community lots with all-in-one shower units and help avoid random stinky Sims wandering around.

The game doesn't recognize the all-in-ones as a replacement for toilets and sinks.
So if you want to get the benefit of upgrading your community lot (investment wise) without cluttering up you bathrooms ...
You have to build a basement with no access and put toilets and sinks in it.



Edit:
It should be noted that it takes Sims less time to use the all-in-one shower units than the toilets and sinks anyway.

A tip would be to upgrade the units to self-cleaning.
And ... If they ever break ... Have a Sim with the plumbing achievement fix them.

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"polrbear;c-16300657" wrote:
@igazor Wait, didn't you guys pay to take that exam you were protesting, then?

I had to pay up front for all the AP testing.

Seems pretty silly to rebel against a test you spent money to take :lol:

@polrbear Well, it was our parents' money, so...

Besides, after taking an entire yearlong class whose express goal was to get you as high an AP score as possible (as opposed to, you know, actually teaching you anything interesting), and then basically being forced by the school to take a standardized test to prove your worth, whether you cared about the college credit or not, a little rebellion was definitely in order. And if you think I'm exaggerating about the single-mindedness of the classes, after the AP, the teachers mostly wouldn't bother even trying to teach us anything for the rest of the school year. In one class, we watched four different movies (an hour at a time), in a few, we just had a study hall, and once, a teacher gave out a series of assignments that absolutely no one turned in; he actually tried to convince us to do the work for *love of learning* reasons, then resorted to pleading, and finally just gave up. And no, we weren't seniors.

I remember one teacher, at the beginning of the school year, telling us precisely how many of his students from the previous year had scored a 3, 4, or 5 on the AP. He said to us that a 4 or 5 was fine, but if you got a 3, he felt like it wasn't your fault but that he had personally failed you as a teacher. And he was serious. The school would actually prevent students from taking an AP class in the first place if the previous teacher thought they couldn't get at least a 4, regardless of what the students were interested in, or which prerequisites they'd already taken. And then if you were in the AP class, the school would make you take the test unless you specifically requested an exemption. I think there was a whole process where you had to *prove* you weren't ready, but I didn't actually try, as my mom never let me get out of anything schoolwork-related.

"igazor;c-16300425" wrote:
OMG, those (American/European) History exams. Here are 26 lettered documents to analyze, exhibits A through Z, before writing your essay. As far away from multiple choice, scored strictly by computer, as one can get.

I always knew there was a reason I never took AP US History (the class). I had to push back against the school not to (juniors were "strongly encouraged" to take it), but I'm glad I got out of it. My friends were absolutely nuts during the weeks leading up to the test, racing through pages and pages of IDs and random arcane trivia and there's this thing that was a multiple-choice question once 20 years ago so it might reappear and what if it does and how do I write a paragraph on something I barely remember and... One girl had an actual breakdown and needed to be hospitalized; she still wasn't ready to come back to school the next fall.

I'm surprised some of us didn't burn our ID booklets on the front lawn... once the tests were over, of course.