What are some trivial things that annoy you? (Sims 3 edition)

I feel like some of the store items have their attraction ramped up as well, because sims cant seem to resist them even if it goes against their traits. Like, i have this technophobe sim who keeps using this one game i bought from the store and she keeps getting a negative moodlet because of it. I finally got rid of the thing but i noticed this phenomena with some other store items too, like that basketball machine thingy. I think maybe they raise the advertising value for the store stuff so that you feel you got your money's worth when you see your sims constantly using the stuff, and yes i find the resulting obsessiveness annoying.

The basketball hoop I can’t have because random townies keep wanting to play

I generally lock out all the townies by setting the gates to “family only” mind you, sometimes it mucks up and leaves out the dogs and cats from being able to get in. But at least it keeps the pesky townies from coming in and using your pool and basketball hoop.

A lot of my complaints are really big ones. But taxi boats are not. They make fishing in the ocean a nightmare because it's better to take a taxi boat than to walk around one patch of unroutable terrain?

I’ve been using the Disasters and Blessings mod to specifically target paparazzi.
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Is that a reason why my paparazzi would be terrified? ?

Doing homework on the floor when there is a perfectly working desk or table, often going outside in all weather just to be near other sims

The forced camera zoom, for certain events especially when you are doing something else at the other end of the map

Even when directed, the sims will not move because it is too ‘hot’ but stand there continuously opening and closing their umbrellas but it’s not too hot to go outside to chat to a sim, do homework on the floor or interact with the pets

Autonomously preparing full meals all the time, instead of grabbing quick meals especially when time is of the essence For instance car pool is arriving in 1 minute but they will still opt for full meal preparation

Washing dishes in bathroom sink

A sim cannot just remarry their partner if the partner had been 'resurrected' You have to ask to 'just be friends' and then 'travel' to another world before the 'propose marriage' option appears

I absolutely HATE the "check out new object" after you redecorate. So that's why I modded it out. Same with the "toe tapping" when someone gets in your Sims way AND your sim sometimes falling on their butt because the dresser drawer was too hard to open. :unamused: Those things had me thinking, "Really EA??" when Sims 3 came out.

I also can't stand the endless honking from the carpool car...
(That's why I have the "Disable Carpool" mod. :mrgreen: One of the best mods out there that I won't play without, but sometimes my Sims are poor so they have to carpool...)

I know there's another annoyance, totally on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember it at the moment...

But the one thing that takes the entire trivial annoyance cake is:
When you build this huge, beautiful, open kitchen, complete with large sink and a dishwasher... and your sim STILL takes their dirty plates to wash in the nearest bathroom! :confounded: :angry: I may have eventually learned not to have bathrooms so close to the kitchen after that. :p

When I started playing there were many things that annoyed me and I would hunt down tuning mods that eliminated (or modified) them. When I couldn't find a mod I would simply stop using offensive items. Although I have owned all the EPs for some time, I have yet to add them all. I always play a new test save when adding new EPs or Store content and when I identify anything that annoys, I use Nraas Retuner to eliminate (or lessen) annoyances.

My biggest irritation is some of the routing. One of the biggest for me is on a university lot. My sim will walk to the door (about 5 sim feet away), they will then walk halfway around the backside of the building, only to turn around and walk back to the door they were only 5 feet ways from originally.

An irritation that bothers me about the pets in-game, as cute as they are, is that they sometimes walk backwards or stop walking altogether despite a decent amount of space. It's happened with my sim's dogs a few times.

Another one is when a sim's work outfit causes them to be invisible, prompting me to use mods to recover their outfits, and as a result, all their outfits I've worked so hard on get messed up.