So, Sims4 recently had a sale because of a new expansion, and I haven't played the sims since sims2, and I knew I shouldn't, but here we are.

I'm doing a goofy little lineage challenge where I'm trying to play a single household through 10 generations, and each child has to inherit one trait from each parent (except I'm not really a fan of marriage/dating in the game, /laughs in aroace/, so all my kiddos are adopted, and I just have two traits that are "family" traits that I try to raise them

into) and one of the family traits is the "good" trait, TBH not because I care about their moral compasses but because when they have the Good trait, they're more likely to clean up their dishes when they're done eating.

ANYWAY. I have my progeniture who I started off as the Ideal(TM) Sims character - no job, painter, writer, gardener... You know, just Doing Things. Adopted a kid who came with the creative trait, which was great because she could just follow in her parent's footsteps and be a painter!

So she grows up to become a painter with an actual painter's career. She's got the Good trait, it's going well.

I adopt the NEXT kid, and SHE'S got the kleptomaniac trait. I mean, that doesn't mean she CAN'T ALSO have the Good trait, but it is hilarious to watch this kid grow up nicking books from school everyday and coming home to play the violin in the evenings.

This kid grows up to have an athlete's aspiration, so that's fine. She can work out and be a personal trainer as a career and play violin on the side. Sure.

Now she's an adult and she's this super fit woman and loves her job and her mom paints in the evenings and her grandmother's ghost pops in now and then to clean things and mentor her on the violin, and it's great.

On occasion, though, she comes home having nicked things from work. Now that she's not in school, it's not just books! SHE COMES HOME WITH BOXING EQUIPMENT. Just tucked the whole damn free-standing punching bag in her pocket and comes home!

sflel her grandmother's ghost pops in to clean things and teach her the violin

OMFG

As a personal trainer, I sometimes take her to the local gym and have her mentor people there. She met a girl, got talking, girl asks her on a date. Start getting to know the girl and it turns out this girl HATES PAINTING.

AN ENTIRE PUNCHING SET UP

omg hates painting

welp, that's that. Not going any further with that girl! Can't be in my household and not love painting. That's like. This whole house's thing. None of that bad juju in my house. Only stolen punching bags.

(We have 4 punching bags. I have bought 0)

snortgiggle

Anyway, that's it, I just wanted to laugh about how goofy this lineage game got, and I'm only 2 kids in.

(sometimes she brings home dirty dishes from work as The Thing She Nicked, and somehow that's also hilarious because it's like, she stole someone's lunch and took the tupperware home)

SHE BRINGS HOME DIRTY DISHES

/collapses on the desk snickering

Give gramma something to do when she comes to visit

I realize that TheSims is not exactly... like... a hard or Gamer's Game(TM), right, but it really can create some hilarious and fascinating stories out of it.

Oh please, you don't buy the Sims for competition. You buy the Sims to decorate houses and make sure your people stop peeing themselves

I begged Death for Gramma's life when she died, and Death didn't grant it, which is fine, because in the end, it turns out you can invite the ghost into the household, and then they just... Live with you All The Time. And their go-to thing when you haven't given them something to do is to possess objects.

It's particularly funny with this lineage challenge because anytime I adopt a new kid, they have to meet Gramma and they always get scared because, you know, ghost. But after a while of Gramma just hanging around, they don't get spooked when she possesses objects.

But OTHER people come visit and absolutely still get scared, and I love the idea that there's this whole family that watches their coffee pot fly around and tells their terrified datemate, "Don't worry, it's just Gramma. You'll get used to her."

lsdfkjleslkjer possess objects

"Gramma, put down the vase, please. I promise I'll practice violin afterwards."

EXACTLY

But it's not just small objects! The carpenter's bench, which is lorge and hefty. The Shower, Just 'Cause. The rainbow banners on the outside of the house (yes, I have rainbow banners hanging outside my house, why the fuck not)

Anything she can get her ghostly little ectoplasmic fingers into

snortgiggle

I really love that. What a fantastic thing.

Oh my god, she stole a computer.

My kleptomaniac got high enough in her personal training career that she completed a life aspiration, and asked to go into a different field, so she's a computer programmer now.

She stole a $4k computer.

Painter-mom passed away, and we've adopted a new kiddo. The assigned trait that she came with is the Mean trait, so uh, hrm. That rather conflicts with the Family Good Trait, so I'm going to have to see if I can raise her out of that inclination...