Mini rant about Snowy Escape

"crocobaura;c-17790363" wrote:
You can get your sim in a rock climbing club and they skill faster in a club meeting.

Thanks, I'll try that! I already have an extreme sport club that would be perfect for it, I'll just change their gathering place into something with a rock climbing wall nearby and add that to their activities.

"ACruelButLovingGod;c-17790387" wrote:
I found Lifestyles to be so utterly borked that I turned them off. I tend to make my sims fairly well-rounded, and the mere fact that (a) even a sim that gets outdoors a lot still spends most of their time indoors, especially when it rains, (b) a lot of career advancement at least indirectly requires use of a computer, and (c) I don't like my sims to be slackers but calling them "workaholics" is a bridge too far...

...you begin to see why I finally just threw up my hands and decided that feature was far more trouble than it's worth.

Yeah, it just seems a little extreme. I felt the same way about the celebrity quirks in Get Famous: Nice idea, but some of them are too easy to get because all they require is for sims to do normal everday things like eating food that isn't terrible, others are nearly impossible to get because playing the game normally almost never puts you in a situation that would trigger them. My celebrities usually trigger the food and mirror obsessions at some point, and there's nothing I can do about it, because, well... sims need both food and mirrors!

"Babykittyjade;c-17790424" wrote:
I think it makes sense kids can't do professional level snowboarding. Is there any (8) year old that can? That would be strange I guess ??

It's very uncommon to take cats hiking even if there are some who do.

I reckon there are kids like that, yes, but even if not, I don't know any vampires in real life either, yet I do enjoy having them in my game. Not everything has to be about realism, and it isn't anyway, because how is it realistic that children can make dipped candles, but not watch them dry, which is basically everything older sims do when they make cylindrical or rectangular ones? I could go on for a very long time about all the things children, cats and other sims can't do in the game that they could in real life, so yeah, real life doesn't really matter here.

One time one of my sims got emotionally mindful in the past I loved the control you have over their emotions. And in the case of the painting you can make them have any emotion you want to paint. That's the idea of it YOU are in control.

Except I'm not, because that silly moodlet tends to come up at the most inconvenient times and override everything else I've done to get into a specific mood up until that point. And I don't mean the strong version of the moodlet that lets you choose an emotion, I mean the basic one that comes first and requires you to do even more emotionally mindful stuff before it goes away, and as I explained above, I don't usually have time for all those steps.

With the rock climbing skill people keep asking for challenges saying stuff is too easy and the devs are trying to add more difficulty per simmers request. They said it in the paranormal livestream.

There's a difference between "challenging" and "annoying" that the devs have never really understood or cared about. There is no challenge in watching sims take twice as long as they usually would to build a specific skill, it's just more boring.