What happened in your sims 3 game today?

This week I've been playing my Homer-inspired, by names only, family in Sunset Valley.

I've tried to recap their background as streamlined as I can manage ...

https://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-3-creative-corner-en/divinylsfans-sunset-valley-family-2025/13067430

This was played on my laptop which had terrible framerates and all the sim hours and days went by very fast. I could never use speed 2 or 3, always speed 1. I'm surprised they got through so much.

Now I have my old-old computer revived from the vault, I'm happily playing them on speed 1, 2 and 3, whatever suits, without any trouble.

You've seen a short snip of Homer's courtship with Emma, one wedding pic of theirs, and a couple of earlier pictures of when the little girl appeared. So I went to pick out some background, context pictures to fill in a few details. There are a few hundred. I'm not going to use a few hundred. That would be madness. So much time. So I've put together some favourites and milestones I guess. My challenge to myself is to make just one more installment of that, and then move forward with the new old-old computer playing.

I've just tried making a sim to start yet another save in Monte Vista, copying off of a statue of Commodus. 

Not sure which hairdo to go with. Probably all of them for different occasions :) 

Trouble with the statues is that they all have the ancient Roman emperors and other leaders with exaggerated, big, bulgy eyes, to symbolise their 'divinity'. And so, some top Google result people who've tried to recreate their faces for real from the statues, have included those eyes, as well as that there was a style for a while for some of their statues to be idealised, and another phase was to make them warts and all, so possibly the closer real look is a hybrid of them, and who knows what the eyes were really like. 

My aim wasn't to get it exact or correct though, but just something different to what I would have made normally.

Here is one of the statues of Commodus I went off of. 

This was one of the recreations from that statue in the search results.

Anyway ...