With no warning my mom sims died of laughter. I am so mad.

Yeah, they place far too much emphasis on emotions in this game. I'd prefer to see more interesting game play than these silly emotions ruling your character all the time. Another one I really never understood was getting angry over watching a bad movie. Really? Angry? I've been disappointed after seeing a bad movie but never angry. That seems a bit mental.

Couldn't agree more. A Sim can get Beaten UP without limit, like as many times as you care to try, and they only get the same Dazed moodlet you'd get from taking a second dose of cold medicine. Can't die from having the tar beaten out of you repeatedly (without mods) but you can die of embarrassment? Laughter? Well then, how come you can't die of being grungy? I mean, it could cause a skin condition or an infection that could kill you, potentially, right? But you literally cannot die of embarrassment no matter how much you might wish to. Farting in math class, brings on that kind of wish, but death is no rescue in that case.

I hardly ever notice this feature. Avoid the goofball trait and send your sims to a mirror to calm down if they become very playful. It gets critical if they become hysterical. Also, pay attention to any items with enabled emotional auras. Emotional deaths have been a thing for a very long time, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they can happen.

This is a tricky one. If you have too many happy moodlets that are boosts, it will make one playful moodlet affect all of them and thus, making the sim hysterical.

Going back a month or so ago, Travis Scott died at the humor and hijinks festival in one of my playthroughs. it was far too easy to build the playful moodlets. it was the only death that i've recalled that was way too easy to get in short order (by way of jokesters). I've had the occasional hysterical moment from laughing, i mean to the point what was funny quickly turns into the need to breathe and your sides is starting to get painful or your head starts going as red as a cherry.

i haven't died from laughter when those things happened. Sometimes the moodlets don't make a lot of sense in that way, because one random thing is possible to set someone off laughing like a mad man, it has been known to happen. for all the attention put on the emotions, there isn't enough of certain specifics that can get your sim giggling for what seems totally odd and out of the blue.

I agree that dying from laughter is stupid and happens way to fast and often, especially when it is so hard for sims to die from just about anything else that actually should kill them - like getting electrocuted. In one of my games - both parents died at the same time - they had toddlers and were having a wedding party and the playful/happy buffs added too fast for me to even be able to get them to a mirror in time to calm down. It happens a lot with toddlers because they get that playful buff from the toddlers being cute - so toddlers are deadly! I would not mind these emotional deaths so much if they at least gave us a bit more time to try to save them if we want to - like calming down with the mirror. As soon as a sim hits very playful - you have to get them to a mirror really fast to calm down or they get hysterical and die.

i must be doing this wrong, emotion deaths are extremely difficult for me to achieve ;-;

This happened too me :D I find it funny now but at the time I went away from the screen and cane back and a message popped up saying my sim was dying of laughter!! I tried getting him to stop watching comedy but he was a goofball, had the hysterical moodlet so he had no luck :| He just got married and was a father oof.

"DeKay;c-17358362" wrote:
This is a tricky one. If you have too many happy moodlets that are boosts, it will make one playful moodlet affect all of them and thus, making the sim hysterical.

I've had this issue in some of my more prosperous households. The Sims are always so happy from high needs and nice surroundings moodlets that a toddler telling them a joke sends them into Very Playful. I keep an eye on the background colors for my Sims' icons and if anyone goes that pinky-purple color, I send them off to a mirror or to take a nap.

Moodlets used to be worse, but they changed them up a little. When Sims 4 first came out, moods flashed back and forth a lot. I don't like the mood deaths much, but it's so hard to die on accident in Sims 4 that I can't really complain.

I turned off emotional deaths with MC Command Center. It's such a dumb design choice to me and I don't want it in my game.