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SteveBridger's avatar
2 years ago

Videos, Vlogs, Fear and the Supernatural

Digging the drone out of a sim's inventory for some experimentation, I found a couple things which seem to be missing.

It is possible to have a sim in a state of terror record a vlog at the video station. They will even carry on and scream incoherently at the camera. The video completes, and can be named, though it strangely has no video type (either emotional or one of the available video types such as a product review.) When opening the video inventory of the station, however, there's no video to be found.

Similarly, you can use a drone to record a seance, but the video type defaults to whatever emotional state the sim was in at the time.

I get that not everything can work with everything else in cross-expansion content, but things like ghost hunting videos for Paranormal Investigators seem like a perfect fit. I suppose you can just live stream your investigations of the supernatural though.

Being able to create art which provokes a state of fear would be funny as well. (I've always thought it ought to be possible to create Uncomfortable paintings, just for the humorous stake of watching people recoil from it as their sensibilities are assaulted by bad art.)
  • I had a medium whose husband loved to take videos and upload on the station. He was able to use the drones to tape his wife during her sessions and even follow her while taking care of the spooks. It was fun but I was disappointed that there wasn't an actual video though he was able to make money from them.
  • You can set a drone to follow Temperance, which she doesn't seem to be too thrilled about. (Not that she's ever happy about much of anything.) Bonehilda doesn't seem to mind it though, I once helped her publisher own Gardening video.
  • "mightysprite;c-18219054" wrote:
    I wish you could record skiing with the drone :(


    Snowboarding too. Extreme sports videos would fit right into the theme of Media Production.

    Some other funny things would be a StrangerVille themed alien abduction video, only creatable as a chance occurrence if you happen to be recording while being snatched by the flying saucer, or video hoaxes created with the Mischief skill.

    There'd be a lot of room for fun expansion.