Well that was creepy

Oh yeah, Harold Lansing. My selfsim fired him years ago after he got a bit too creepy. He could stand too close to my sim-daughter Annica, and things like that.

Here he is, just before I fired him.

https://i.imgur.com/AwvbEAY.jpg

I'm not sure I read the OP correctly the first couple of times.

Maid shows up.
Athlete comes home and works on "their" relationship (one assumes by reading a little too quickly that this means with the maid).
They are married and making babies before the maid's shift is over. Sounds pretty efficient to me.

Then the story went in an entirely different direction and landed on "yuck" and "creepy." Wait, what happened here? :o :p

Oh sorry @igazor! :D You are correct that I wasn't very clear. My Athlete Sim came home to his soon-to-be-wife lady friend (I had just created and moved them into the house individually so they weren't even friends yet). Harold was nothing but the maid. He wasn't creepy on day two but I wonder if he was designed to be creepy since @Cororon had a similar experience. I will definitely fire him if he keeps being creepy. There is a baby on the way now and we don't need riff raff hanging around the family.

"igazor;c-17276930" wrote:
I'm not sure I read the OP correctly the first couple of times.

Maid shows up.
Athlete comes home and works on "their" relationship (one assumes by reading a little too quickly that this means with the maid).
They are married and making babies before the maid's shift is over. Sounds pretty efficient to me.

Then the story went in an entirely different direction and landed on "yuck" and "creepy." Wait, what happened here? :o :p

It's the feeling you get when something isn't quite right. He is a bit too much interested in the people he works for instead of only doing his work. In the OP's case he seemed to spy on the couple's love life, and in my case he was drawn to my teen daughter. It happened more than once, so I fired him.

I don't hate Mr. Lansing, and he brought realism to the game. There are people like that in real life that just makes you uncomfortable. And it's "just a game", so it's not too bad. There should be some challenges or it wouldn't be fun at all. :smile:

"Rhiannon58;c-17277086" wrote:
Oh sorry @igazor! :D You are correct that I wasn't very clear. My Athlete Sim came home to his soon-to-be-wife lady friend (I had just created and moved them into the house individually so they weren't even friends yet). Harold was nothing but the maid. He wasn't creepy on day two but I wonder if he was designed to be creepy since @Cororon had a similar experience. I will definitely fire him if he keeps being creepy. There is a baby on the way now and we don't need riff raff hanging around the family.

You know, in Sims 2 there were these cow mascot that flirted with students to cause trouble. Maybe Mr. Lansing got his traits to either cause trouble or to quickly become a potential love interest of his employer?

Anyway, take screenshots if he does anything creepy again! :lol:

Upon conducting extensive research...okay, I looked this up on the sims' wiki, I see that Harold and his female counterpart Jane Dotner seem to have much in common and being favorite household servants beloved by their employers doesn't sound like it's among their particular strong suits. Perhaps they should get to know each other and do something else with their lives, other than annoying those meant to be paying for their services.

If they really want to provide services to and annoy paying customers, they might be better off running a Resort on the edge of town or something. Could end up being a latter day version of Fawlty Towers if one wants to play through this. :)

"igazor;c-17277131" wrote:
If they really want to provide services to and annoy paying customers, they might be better off running a Resort on the edge of town or something. Could end up being a latter day version of Fawlty Towers if one wants to play through this. :)

That would have been fun. :smiley: Oh, did you know that John Cleese's family surname used to be Cheese? And cheese is what maids... sometimes have to... uhm... clean up crumbs.... from. Or something. Oh yes! Harold Lansing is drawn to ladies like mice are drawn to cheese! :smiley:

He looks like quite a catch too, if one is into that sort of thing. Okay, maybe more of a blank slate that could be become quite a catch with a makeover and some time spent on the treadmill. :)

Okay, you guys may not realize it but a challenge has been issued. This is NOT my area of expertise, I do NOT excel at makeovers. However, I still see most sims, there will be exceptions, as blank slates brimming with potential before we get our little hands, keyboards, mice, and content on them.

I will shamelessly use CC and accessories, but not skins. Evidence has it that this sim could benefit from some basic lifestyle changes, but I will not be morphing his sliders around to create or sculpt a totally different sim as that is not the point. His basic genetic features will remain intact. Let's review what we have to work with here. Mr. Lansing has been added to my active household.


He has thus lost his position as an NPC maid and seems to be a bit depressed about that. He can't sleep at night so his eyes have become red and puffy, he hasn't bothered to do laundry or take care of himself since then, and I think he found the sizzle baby pro fryer in the kitchen before he found that treadmill.


(sighs) Right. I think I hate each and every one of you now. :/



That was just me goofing around. Harold does have some distinct features or at least in my game he was spawned that way, but he was remarkably easy to work with in CAS, again without really altering that which would be genetic other than weight and fitness. He really just needed a new sense of style about him.


I have some sims who are ready to date him now, or at least get to know him a bit better. I think the creep factor might be gone once he became a proper town resident, but will report back if anyone finds this to not be the case. :)

Ohh, that's an interesting challenge! :D He looks fab now, and I guess he has a blank slate and could swing either way, so it would be cool if he could roam free in a bar for a while. ;)

In the end it might turn out that he wants to marry his car.