Details on thought bubbles?

All depends on the situation. I think sometimes they're topics. Sometimes it's reactions to situations. I remember one time my sim was talking to his husband in the bathroom when his daughter came in with her homework to chat. He got a thought bubble with her face and a "no" sign as if to say "Get this kid out please."...lol.

I think romances can happen organically as it were, althoug in my case, I do try to help a bit. Fav one is to get my sim flirty with a steamy shower and hit up a public area to see if they pull any flirty introductions. My sim from last night hit on the local bartender. I didn't even know she was into women, although it could have also been a ruse to try for a free drink...LOL

I like looking at the thought bubbles sometimes, but I don't know, I think they sometimes don't mean anything.
I had a kid talk about her favorite animal and Jellyfish would pop up, then another animal would come up and she'd wave her hands in a gesture like "they're okay," then jellyfish would come up again and she'd continue talking. I like to interpret that as something kinda like "Jellyfish are pretty cool. Bears? No, Jellyfish is where it's at." :D
Sometimes when you see new people on the sidewalk, they'll have a hand truck in their bubble, so it's like they're saying or asking if they've moved in. The most common one is definitely when they talk about bills being a thing, because a stack of papers/the icon for bills comes up as they complain about them.
The only instance where I'd like to believe thought bubbles meant something out of interactions was when a sim of mine had his ex swing by when he invited his current significant other. To be told, they never really broke up, just sort of drifted apart (so his pink bar was like 0).
With his current lover, he had a son who just became a teen at the time.
His ex came by and kept yelling at him, even though he wasn't in an angry mood, or have any traits that'd encourage those actions. (He was Insane, Perfectionist, and Romantic.) What was pretty cool was that his bubbles kept having the icon of a bassinet, a dresser, and a garbage can as he yelled at him. I like to interpret that as "Did you think I wouldn't know you had a kid? Tell me or I'll throw all your clothes away in the trash," or something along those lines. It was a pretty intense fight. :D They ended up not breaking it off cleanly still, but he just never associated with him afterward either.

There are some times where I don't think it means anything, though. I was watching some sims once, and one persistently had a garbage can icon when they were talking, and the other would be like heart, following the icon for "morning sim," then the garbage can guy had that "loves outdoors" icon. What.

This made me think about the time in watching a Let's Play that a lady Sim was Sharing The Big News with an old BF. He had the bat icon in his thought bubble, so I took that to mean it was driving him batty. Still stuck on her, eh?

There's a lot of different types of thought bubbles. There's one type that shows the sim's aspiration, so it could be an indicator that they want to do something pertaining their aspiration.

There's another one where there's another sim's face on it, meaning that sim likes that other sim, and another with a "no" sign over that other sim, meaning the sim doesn't like the other one.

So, I'd say most of the thought bubbles are how your sim is feeling at the moment.

It's pretty fun to imagine what the sims are thinking about with those silly topic images haha

Once my two sims had an awkward moment, the 2nd sim had a thought bubble of the 1st sim crossed out ( looks like they don't want to interact with them anymore )

I thought about the thought bubbles, too.

There are thought bubbles when a sim is sleeping. Those thought bubbles show what they're having a dream about.

Hehehe. 'Rawr, I'm gonna eat you!'
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"ShuffleJ;879688" wrote:
Has anyone dissected the thought bubbles? I'd love to understand more about what they mean. Are they OVERALL feelings or like the game itself, are they simply how Sims feel at that moment? Are they both? For example, when a Sims is talking to a good friend they get the Yellow Heart. I assume this means friendship - but does that mean forever or just at that moment? It can be interpreted two ways: 1) Having a good conversation with a friend and 2) I like you as a friend and not in a romantic way. It would be nice to know for sure. It's clear Sims have "wants and desires" and are attracted to other Sims for various reasons. Yes, you can force a relationship, but I like to play organically and let my Sims guide the way.

Unfortunately in this particular game they seem to be random which is bizarre. In past Sims games like Sims 3 and 2 the thought bubbles related to what was actually happening, the sims traits, or their mood in that moment. In this game the algorithm seems to just be random. It was one of the things that really bugged me when the sims 4 first released. Something as simple as thought bubbles they couldn't even do right.

http://i.imgur.com/AuEtENx.jpg
It shows your sims traits or sims thought at the moment
picture explainig)
A guy in the left tried to flirt to one girl in the right (see heart bubble & his facial expression)
He wanted to have hot romance(see sun bubble) but she keept saying in bubble thought
'you are a loser' or 'You are not my type'(you can see her body language too)
And he is waving his hand with awkward facial expression on her back cuz she left him.

> @s1mszzang said:
> It shows your sims traits or sims thought at the moment
> picture explainig)
> A guy in the left tried to flirt to one girl in the right (see heart bubble & his facial expression)
> He wanted to have hot romance(see sun bubble) but she keept saying in bubble thought
> 'you are a loser' or 'You are not my type'(you can see her body language too)
> And he is waving his hand with awkward facial expression on her back cuz she left him.

but I'm as hot as the sun! bahahha

I think it is 50/50 they do mean something but it also depends on our interpretation.
My boyfriend always gets irritated when the tank bubble comes up, but when we had a conversation about the state of some parts of the worlds are in right now, I told him see now the sims game would show a tank in our speech bubbles and it doesn't mean I want to kill you. He is cool with that one now XD