do you play with sound on?

I thought I was just weird for playing with the sound off so much. It's cool to see a couple other people play the same. I will sometimes turn it on with the sound effects and voices only. But most times I play it either on weekend mornings before the kids wake up or weekday nights after they go to sleep. And after all the effort to get them to go to sleep in the first place, I'd rather play in silence than risk waking them up, even if I wouldn't play very loud.

Fun story: My son likes to use "you're being too loud" as an excuse to get up past bedtime, so last time he tried it, I was happy to reply, "I was not being loud. I literally had the game muted."

I think playing with no sound sometimes lets me get into the characters' heads a bit more, too. I can take the serious moments a little more seriously when I don't hear my Sims babbling nonsense. I'm more likely to play with sound on when something funny is happening. Once, when I turned it up, I realized I had a Sim I'd created without listening to her voice... and she had a husky masculine voice. Opps! ^_^;;

I do enjoy the toddler voices, though. And they'd be babbling nonsense whether it was English or Simlish.