Details on thought bubbles?

I came here to find out what the pink person and yellow ball thought bubble is, too. My sim was using the bathroom and stood up, then gasped and put her hands to her mouth as if in shock, and she got this thought bubble, as posted above in the picture with the pink person holding a yellow ball. It's driving me crazy that I can't understand what this means lol ...any other thoughts? Because I'm quite sure it isn't basketball.

Hmmm..now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it's because the toddler is playing with their food/throwing it on the ground. Cause that's the only thing my sim and the one pictured above have in common. The Mom had just fed her toddler daughter in the high chair, and the toddler threw her bowl to the floor....then the Mom went into the bathroom. I think that might be it!

Sims who have toddler in their household will usually do an autonomous interaction where they watch the toddler playing, or doing something. However, the interaction seems to be bugged and Sims do that when the toddler is in a completely different room. The "yellow ball and a child" thought bubble might also indicate the toddler playing with toys, which is something the Sims are supposed to look at, but aren't due to the bug.

I've been having that one lately too. My cop Sim arrived home and they immediately had that thought bubble, even before their toddler came outside to greet them. Is the yellow item a ball, the sun or a balloon?

I had a sad thought bubble the other day. The cooker caught fire and Clarice (a different toddler) was in the kitchen. She started to cry and her Dad grabbed her and ran outside with her while Mom put out the fire. Later that evening, when Clarice was playing dolls with Mom, a thought bubble of the cooker appeared above her head. Poor little thing :(

Toddlers

"Sid1701D9;c-15858078" wrote:

"rosemow;c-15554246" wrote:

"DeeB424;15553885" wrote:

SimTrippy helped me find this thread - for newbies such as myself this was shared with me to share a pic for now...please "." in the http and it should post. Remove the periods and visit this link. It's showing the pink person and yellow ball. My Sims reaction was after I told her to feed him. The cereal bowl was from earlier. Other times my Male Sim going into the bedroom to sleep did this icon and its was an Oh My Goodness type of response towards the bed where his spouse was sleeping. Other times has been random in the house after reacting with the Toddler.
Anyone who can help define this icon would be so grateful. Can't figure out the reactions.

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That icon represents the sim wants to play basket ball, I just seen it last time I played the sim when I was at the Spice festival, lazy sims had the basketball icon crossed out with the no sign, when they walked past it and active and outgoing sims had the icon throw there heads as they went past the people playing basketball. The people playing basket ball would sometimes display it, in their thought bubble, with other icons of running and outdoor trait because they are outside, the ones that did not have the outdoor trait displayed the no sign over the outdoor trait.

When a sim with that thought bubble makes that gasp sound I've noticed that the action bubble in the queue is "watch" or something like that. I've only seen sim parents of toddlers have it though. For each life stage, there's a little character that represents it (like children have a tiny person with a balloon). Toddlers's have an even tinier person with a ball. My best guess is that the thought bubble/accompanying action is trying to say "my gosh, my baby's growing up before my eyes!" I don't have City Living, so I can't say anything about basketball.

Oh my thank goodness. Ive been going crazy about the yellow stick figure and ball. Ive never seen a sims eyes get so big and frightened. She puts both hands over her mouth. Its also weird that she gets a "watch" action but its a round picture... Of herself.
It has been unnerving me. It makes me wish she could be held.

The only thing i do know is who and what the figure and ball is. Its the symbol for "Critters from the Mauven Forest" in get famous each gig, tv series, film has a picture and its that ones. I also know the critters are associated with the playful emotion. (Playful is like a sweat poison for a sims psyche. Awful business)
I thought perhaps a tv was on playing it. I swore she was looking at something. I tried to follow her eyes very afraid to see what she sees. But im not sure shes reacting from what she sees.
I dont know if im the only one unsettled by this. Ive always been a big wuss so it could be me. But im obsessed at finding the reason. Her wife and her have a toddler. I should add. But alot has happened all st once i got alot of packs at the same time during the sale. So its hard to pin point. Sorry to go on so deeply. And thank you for allowing me to. The very best of luck to you all.

Hi, everyone! I find this thread really interesting and thanks for the insight. I watched my actor interact with the director and prodcucer after the gig (autonomously) and I saw the producer with a red line through my sims face! LOL. Also I saw a sun with a Line through it, the director had a wine glass and cheese, the producer ( good friend of my actor sim) with a rain cloud. The director had a house, a temperature gauge and books. I've also seen other sims talking and gravestones appear. This morning right after my couple woohooed one of them got a green or blue face just for a second. Their relationship is fine with four positive sentiments. Deeply in love, smitten etc... Phew! Trying to work out what it all means. Some are obvious but the last one I mentioned is bothering me with my couple. I hope it was a good one! They are very rich celebrities living at Chateau Peak in Del Sol. Not much should worry them! Thanks if anyone can help me here. I'm now obsessed with watching though bubbles! :smiley:

"Cement;c-14615460" wrote:
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.

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@Dantdmfan I'm chuckling reading your story. Mine have all got pretty calm good traits, so people tend to find my sims obliging and nice. Never had any divorces or drama really. Perhaps my game is a bit boring, but I need my sims to be liked because they're celebrities and need to get on with Directors and Producers. Strangely, I gave him the a different trait this morning and got a few bad signs on other sims' heads! I think I'll send him to his gigs as nice with a confident emotion in future! I don't think he'll be winning an award this week! LOL. One of my sims got an award for being nice and giving 110%, so the traits must be crucial. Sometimes their Moodlets override sad emotions or anger. One of my sims died and the parents' sad emotion was over-ridden by living such a happy life!

Why would Liberty, my Sim Self's wife be showing this thought bubble towards him? There was a apologise interaction before i took this photo and an option to ask "what their problem is?" and she told him she his annoyed by him but i didn't see any interactions before hand to make her feel that way.

https://i.imgur.com/8cjbKsY.png

I love thought bubbles, it gives me a chance to interpret what that sim is thinking. Sometimes it is very challenging when they have the red circle and bar across a family member's face, but I like to think that's in the moment.