Was Multitasking worth the loading screens?

"Sofmc9;c-16290842" wrote:
Ehh.. I'm not sure I follow you. Looks natural to me the way sims drink while reading. And while the sim was drinking milk I notice she still glanced down at the book..

My point was, your sentence was contradicting and just goes to show how that "holy-moly it's so amazing" mechanic fails to prove it's worth of being something when it actually it isn't. Your sim didn't read and drank milk at the same time. In the time stamp of 00:06-00:21 she read, in between looked up away from the book in the next second, later in 00:23-00:26 she interacted with a milk, then idle while sitting gazing or watching paint dry in the last remaining seconds of the video.

That's not multitasking. However, she did two things that confirm the ability being demonstrated:
1) sat while reading.
2) sat while sipping/drinking.

I'm just disproving that she didn't do what you claim and declare that sim child was doing. Otherwise, If she did the visual would be something like on of these examples:
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/GC5XKH/young-female-reading-dieting-book-while-drinking-beer-in-a-pub-garden-GC5XKH.jpg
http://cijiware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/stock-footage-woman-drinking-a-coffee-while-she-is-reading-a-book.jpg
http://freedesignfile.com/upload/2017/05/While-drinking-coffee-while-reading-girls-Stock-Photo.jpg

Now compare any of these to your simulated version:
https://i.imgur.com/9CfdBaK.png

See the difference between the two examples of RL and TS4 concept of multitasking. That child isn't even trying to look at the book while consuming the diary. Animation wise, for your multitasking criteria to live upp to its definition, her head would have to tilt down and eyes open at the written material (with maybe a little detail of them drifting from side to side to simulate that she's reading quietly in her mind). And I putting bets that her motives hunger and fun (If that's does happen while those queued interactions are in action) didn't increase simultaneously at once.

In TS4, multitasking isn't that astonishing If you think about it, because most forms of it existed in past games already, and it doesn't even help at her when it was promoted in unique examples that are pretty ironic (e.g. sims mixing a drink, but takes a quick break to talk to buddies nearby, than later shuts up and continues to mix: where do developers find multitasking in that???).

"Sofmc9;c-16292488" wrote:


https://i.imgur.com/v2MCBud.png

https://i.imgur.com/0gDOoLR.jpg

Now in this one, the woman holding the baby while talking with other sims is multitasking. Thought bubble, moving lips, the kid in her arms: all shown at once in a screenshot.

"JoAnne65;c-16293040" wrote:
I think they may mean talking on the phone while holding a baby/toddler.

http://i.imgur.com/NepOt0a.png

ETA: read back and people aren't saying this is not in Sims 4, but rather that it already existed in the earlier games, that it's not new.

Anoter great example of multitasking.