The Sims 4 Happy Play Thread :)

@LosaruTaiyo Yay Brody! I love this story the best. :) Probably cause I read all your other ones lol, and know the characters.

So I actually started my own update thread, mostly to help me keep things straight - sometimes juggling four saves is a PITA. So be prepared for a good chunk of typing lol, since I'm just going to quote my posts here. Thread is https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/955091/not-really-a-story-just-updates#latest if you would rather get them earlier than I post here. :)

"WildIrishBanshee;c-16942021" wrote:
Swifts

Flex Main House - Alyssa Flex (nee Swift), Benjamin Flex (son of Marcus Flex) and son Bradley Flex - plus two annoying dogs.

The Flexes finished their rotation, with some promotions and other stuff. Benjamin got promoted to Line Cook, he's going to go into the Chef branch of the Culinary career, while Alyssa got promoted to Head Mixologist, as she is taking the Mixologist branch. When their turn comes back around, which shouldn't take long, they are due to try for another baby. They need 3 after all, even though they already have their heir.

Swift Main House - Adam Swift, Eve Swift, Aeric Swift, Nathalie Swift, Angela Swift, Bianca Swift, and Babette Swift

This is one full house! Fortunately, they currently have room for one more baby, which is all Aeric and Nathalie need...unless it's another girl. But that won't be a worry for quite a bit, and Angela is due to move out on her own soon. Adam retired from his job as an eSports Gamer - don't remember what level he was. Everyone in this house that can be is addicted to the drone and music station from GF, and a few love the video station. So they're all getting some fame! Eve was already a Notable Newcomer, but no one else has much fame yet. Eve signed on with Dinky Beats for now, and Aeric is signed with Maxis Music Machine. I'm sure the rest will be signed at some point lol. Just started on their rotation, so anything goes.

Looking through my other households, I saw two adorable kitties that are not in world. I need more room! I definitely prefer the cats to the dogs in this iteration, dogs are so, so needy!

"WildIrishBanshee;c-16942475" wrote:
Swifts

Swift Main House - Adam Swift, Eve Swift, Aeric Swift, Nathalie Swift (daughter of Katrina Caliente), Angela Swift, Bianca Swift, Babette Swift

More members of the family have been signed to record labels. Adam was signed to Maxis Music Machine, and Nathalie signed with Dinky Beats. They went as a family to the Starlight Accolades, but no one won anything this time. Oh well, there's always next time! Lots of skilling happening, and Angela has been working on her relationship with Enzo Landgraab - who I believe is the son of Geoffery and Nancy. I'd have to peek at his family tree if their ghosts haven't been cleaned out already. He's her boyfriend, and I plan on them marrying when Angela hits YA. Adam needs 20 columns for his second aspiration, Mansion Baron. He already completed Fabulously Wealthy. Might just cheat, though I hate doing it, as I have zero need for 20 columns in their house - or any house really. It's a little ridiculous if you ask me.

Spent part of my morning building them an indoor garden space, and quite quickly found out that you cannot have different sized walls on the same level - even if the changed part is not even touching the house! Which was/is quite annoying. Why is this even a thing? Hopefully, I did it right, but all the plants fit (and there's a lot of them!) including the trees, Patchy, and the rock climbing wall.

"WildIrishBanshee;c-16943257" wrote:
Swifts

Swift Main House - Adam Swift, Eve Swift, Aeric Swift, Nathalie Swift, Angela Swift, Bianca Swift, Babette Swift

Aeric got promoted in the Politician career to Representative. I had to have Adam run over to my cemetery to drop off some urns, as he had been carrying a townie's gravestone and Marigold, the old family cat's stone for quite some time! I had everyone take care of their music label needs - the daily requirement kind of stinks honestly. Eve got an offer to either upload a random video or make a fishing one, so naturally, we did the fishing one. Not that they are exactly hurting for money, they have around 700k in the bank. Nathalie tested out my indoor garden space, and there were no pathing issues at all. It was Rebate Day as well, so I bought them some things they were missing. Wasn't too much, but I wanted to add stuff from the packs I had just gotten.

I had a moment while playing too - saw Brent Hecking in his athletic wear, which is apparently a red hoodie and blue shorts - and my first thought was the coach from S2, cause Brent is currently an elder. I also saw it from a small distance away. Rebate Day was a good holiday for the adults, the kids didn't care. Nathalie managed to harvest all my plants, and do the collecting - got to catch them all! Aeric worked on a mobile app, while Babette worked on her skills mostly. My toddlers usually max them all before growing up. Angela and Bianca have school projects to do, so I made Bianca work on hers after homework. Angela was too tired after work to do anything more than homework. Aeric maxed out his programming skill while working on the mobile app - not sure if I'm going to have him do any more programming after that. Adam, of course, is working on building himself a rocket. Got to get that Rocket Science skill! Plus we need one to get some of the collectibles.

Eve was invited out to GeekCon by Lucas Munch, so she took Adam and Nathalie along with her. The goal: participate in a challenge. All three participated in Hackathon and the Ultimate Gaming Challenge, which Adam passed. Eve and Nathalie, of course, both failed, they don't play many video games. Nathalie decided to wear the festival t-shirt, so of course, I let her. After that they mostly just hung out, waiting for the results of the Hackathon and for the event to end. Nathalie ended up winning the Hackathon, which surprised me since she only has maybe 4 skill levels in it, while Adam maxed his out awhile ago. Finally, they could go home.