Art only in the Sims 1...

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Always wanted to try this - RIP Jebediah Dingleberry I, Jebediah Dingleberry II, Jebediah Dingleberry III, Jebediah Dingleberry IV, and Jebediah Dingleberry V

[@dolphinturtlekin6282]

Have you considered playing any Unreal World on stream? It's great fun and might be right up your alley

[@chocolatelover20XX]

they were necessary sacrifices.

[@dad.b.y]

F

[@askthepizzaguy]

Where did the new generations come from without the wife and kids? Are the Jebediahs a species of bacterium, perchance? Are the Jebediahs all daughters of the first seemingly male monocellular Jebediah? Could the Dingleberry line all be a strain of nasty, short lived, dirty, bowel-dwelling bacteria?

[@fahr]

Jebediah Dingleberry I, who begat Jebediah Dingleberry II, who begat Jebediah Dingleberry III, who begat Jebediah Dingleberry IV, who begat Jebediah Dingleberry V

[@dwarfbard6226]

I think Death was the real artist all along. The canvas was the family of Dingleberries. The works painted with a brush made of suffering dipping into a paint can labeled "Futility".

[@dariushine416]

All craftsimship is of the highest quality.

[@RevanRA]

Oooh, I wasn't thinking about this during my post. I applaud your comment and wish I could like it more than once. You are very wise and observant.

[@Gregorio416]

I read this in ambiguousamphibian’s voice

[@Steelface97]

@@dariushine416 craftsdwarfship

[@Zedryx69]

The bard's taking inspiration, I see.

[@Gravijahz]

Not going to lie, I thought this was going to be a philosphical deconstruction of pieces of art that only exist in The Sims 1.

[@blarg2429]

Me too. But this is also good.

[@chickenstripsp4222]

Yes me too !!!!

[@PixelBrushArt]

Same

[@Bonde7280]

Im guessing none of you knew about ambigious before watching this video 😂

[@blarg2429]

@@Bonde7280 I've been watching for a year or two, I'm just dumb lmao.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Jeb the fourth was the most relatable for me...

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Everyone felt that

[@bimaaji9773]

Heyyy it's RCE

[@prohunter717]

Ayy, what a pleasant surprise.

[@neoclassic09]

the only one without dreams of being an architect

[@eklectic497]

The SimCity 4 music really fits your style, I love it

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Jerry Martin's soundtracks were incredible - still hum them around the house even decades later, haha

[@AxxLAfriku]

@@ambiguousamphibian Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear am

[@s_callahan]

@@AxxLAfriku brainlet lmao

[@pilotsayshello1758]

The sims 2 music as well

[@itzblitzyv3664]

Bro this sounds like the music from the film snatch..

[@panqueque445]

I love how this went from a struggling artist to an art sweat shop with child workers. Steve Jobs would be proud.

[@MouseGoat]

implying that this is not how it always goes lol

[@shawnbay2211]

Implying that this is exactly how it goes

[@TheSultan1470]

No?

[@panqueque445]

@@TheSultan1470 Yes he would, considering his phones are made by slave child labor in China.

[@MysticBGaming]

I love the deep dive into all the old classics you've been doing lately AA. All these perfect games for videos that came out a decade before KZbin videos were possible.

[@planetsec9]

I smell a new trend....

[@jamesbriggs9014]

I did the "start with $0 challenge" in the Sims 4 and it just doesn't have the same difficulty curve that earlier Sims does. Or the Slacker career. Although there was a period of time that Irma Ho'Mlessmann lived off of glasses of water. Turns out water in the Sims spoils really fast.

[@glittery_cucumber]

Rags to riches in Sims 4 is a joke, they just won't die!

[@nickthompson1812]

haha yeah, it’s a joke how easy it is to get money in 4. Gardening makes the money cheats redundant.

[@DatHarlequinOni]

As soon as I saw that sims name I fucking busted a gut laughing

[@TheDarkFiddler]

To be fair, if I let a glass of water sit for an hour I won't drink it anymore.... maybe the Sims are on to something.

[@dharmallars]

Killing them in 4 is harder than keeping them alive. That’s why most of my save files just devolve into me trying to make them so angry they drop dead from rage.

[@dustinrose9727]

Well, this challenge escalated quickly into a repetitive cycle of death.

[@106640guy]

very based playthrough

[@rafilalif]

Very realistic tho

[@PaleGhost69]

That's life, man. No. Literally. That is how life works.

[@SirDistic]

Welcome to AmbiguousAmphibian. Pretty much what he does in each video.

[@ekki1993]

Don't all challenges do that, though?

[@bionicdragon5]

As someone from a household whose only source of income is my father's art commissions, this is very accurate.

[@melskunk]

Hope you're prepared to get haunted

[@bionicdragon5]

@@melskunk Oh, we're *omega* haunted. That ship has sailed.

[@Jjgm69]

​@@bionicdragon5Was your grandfather or a relative who was also an artist ?

[@meerbee2910]

I trapped my wife in the basement, then painted the entrance door. I titled it "Entrance to the hostage room" and sold it for 500 dollars

[@dad.b.y]

go back to heaven you beautiful beast

[@magusperde365]

Me too! By the way what is that "sims" game ?

[@1907-q6z]

Jim Pickens is that you?

[@meerbee2910]

@@magusperde365 I've never heard of it before, why is everybody talking about it in the comments?

[@bergine8834]

@@magusperde365 haha youre joking right? Right?

[@reginaldsafety6090]

"I'll show you, Dad! I'll be a starving artist!" **Starves**

[@MysticBGaming]

You turned the Sims 1 into a rogue-like.

[@DiagonalCoff33]

LMAO

[@crzyprplmnky]

Underrated

[@SangwiSigil]

Literally Rogue Legacy.

[@OddGamerPlays]

Gnomes are broken. At mechanical 10 you pump out dozens a day at 100 each if I recall right. It's how I ended up playing most of the time Edit: wrote LV 100 instead of 10.

[@TruFalco]

I looked it up. It paid §100 at max mechanical, and only took 25 ingame mins to make. Way more than any painting because of the rate you make gnomes.

[@PrimeGamator]

I did that with gargoyles. You get so much more money than you could in any job. Maybe apart from being a top celebrity.

[@lurchgurk7824]

first painting he ever did was a perfect photorealistic picture... sold for 0 simoleons lol. also --> cassandra blew-it

[@alansquared]

I remember one of my Sims had a successful career as an author with a series of books called Gun Violence. He did some others but Space Wank didn’t ever do as well as Gun Violence or Gun Violence 2: Reloaded.

[@julianpourdanesh3339]

This is going to sound weird but I have extremely bad insomnia and your videos legit help me get sleep at night. Thank you so much for being such a great content creator

[@SweetSerenadeXyWem]

Must be very annoying to have insomnia, hope you'll get better :). But his voice is relaxing in a way indeed.

[@itsNep_]

If it helps at all you can check out his VOD channel for longer length soothing amphibious talk!

[@MrsMeowMeowWoof]

I am actually in a similar boat. It's 3 am and I'm trying to sleep 😴 these videos are somehow v relaxing

[@kf10147]

I find journey to the microcosmos to be the perfect channel for sleepness nights!

[@SomeKindaSpy]

I've literally known people who kept "art goblins" in their Sim's basement. Yes this is literally possible.

[@GuardianTam]

They're just making a modern animation studio is all.

[@randybob275]

I had a bunch of family members make gnomes.

[@Duplicitousthoughtformentity]

Can confirm. Considering trying the same thing but with a musician, ergo a mixtape goblin.

[@djraptorthetrashraptor7701]

it's me, i'm the art goblin

[@kf10147]

Ah the classic of making a painting club then locking them up and selling their paintings for your profit

[@ivanleal4432]

This video is a perfect mix of nostalgia, curiosity and humor. Not everyday you stumble upon a person that experiments with old Maxis games and narrates such funny stories, I wasn't able to hold my laughter by the half of the video.

[@Rushexe]

"and for three days I boxed out child protective services whenever they attempted to confiscate my infant" - Josef Fritzl, struggling artist.

[@lmnop29]

I didn't even know you could do that, wish I had thought of it. 😂

[@Raikkox36]

I swear on Jesus I lost it in that part.

[@FenNick1994]

Austria sure has had a fair share of struggling artists.

[@DerpyUniverse]

“The easiest way to make money as an artist is to sell furry porn on Twitter” -Sun Tzu

[@GrafRamolo]

As a someone with an MD in art I must say that this is is most accurate description of a life as an artist I ever seen.

[@voided_sun]

Except the first artist who starved to death had more money than you.

[@nickthompson1812]

An MD in art? Was this the joke?

[@GrafRamolo]

@@nickthompson1812 i wish

[@bradleypitt7294]

You caught my attention with the Rollercoaster Tycoon video, reeled me in with The Sims Starting with $0, and have me completely sold with this starving artist. Love these videos!!

[@ignaciootondo8732]

Haha same!

[@wangdangatomictango]

I dont know if it would've failed the challenge, but I always make my sims 1 sims start with randomized skills. You do this all in create a sim via making a child, then edit the child to be an adult. Repeat for every sim intended to an adult. Once you finalize the household, all adult sims created with the method will have a randomized set skill points allocated to them.

[@sabinasabino141]

This is “100 years of Solitude” but with less incest. Great book.

[@dharmallars]

Almost anything has less incest than 100 years of solitude. Except game of thrones.

[@Shurbss]

That book traumatized me 😭

[@notsosadbart6343]

Gotta say, your style of editing and narrating the challenge instead of live commentary is hilarious! Subbed!

[@KetsaKunta]

The struggle of an unfulfilled artist is one humanities most virtuous tragedies. To put yourself totally into your work which you value so much, dying for appreciation, dying of depression and starvation, dying not for mere attention but careful eyes and ears. That is true commitment to the arts. Commitment means you come back to your values when you inevitably fall short in your journey, the artist, we live in a society.

[@TheSultan1470]

Oh my God

[@ryansspace]

Dude the level of effort this guy puts into making these videos is unmatchable. I have only played The Sims like twice and now I am obsessed with SimCity 3000 because of this guy. His jokes are so well thought out, the little edits of other gameplay the video cuts to sometimes for eye candy id genius. This guy is brilliant and hilarious and he also gives genuine tips about the game as well! Awesome

[@Reverse_PolarityRBLX]

THIS WAS MY FAVORITE WAY TO PLAY SIMS 1! I was so bummed when they didn't let you sell garden gnomes in future entries in the series.

[@notaplasticexistence]

Always something great about going back to these older games and proving they're still so full of potential and fun.

[@GhostofTradition]

I remember flipping the right expensive paintings playing the sims and actually making good money because certain paintings increase in value over time

[@catwald0]

I've watched this like 4 times in under 24 hours. The sims 1 nostalgia and your soothingly morbid monologue make for a perfect combination.

[@Jibbzz]

Wonderfully philosophical and classic gamerific. The pitiful lives of the Dingleberries and their fight from the bottom of the art scene to the apex was very engaging. Your editing style is really getting solidified and smooth. Good work as always mang.

[@Poedoco]

they are always old white men 😭😭😭

[@NuclearPoppi]

No one wants to be the person that, when talking about their art collection, throws in 'Oh, and I bought a Dingleberry too! Wanna see it?'

[@benjaminvanderbroek6016]

A true joy to see another The Sims 1 video from ambiguousamphibian.

[@scdu]

I love that you use sims music as the background for your sims videos, it's so nostalgic for me.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

This reminds me of the legendary Sims 3 series by Robbaz, The Redneck Brothers. Bertram the Butler was the "art goblin" of the Redneck household, and it made them thousands upon thousands. Of course, Clyde Redneck was also a professional thief (and murderer with a modded gun), so that came in handy as well. King Redneck was the inventor, he also planted ambrosia to keep everyone young and alive indefinitely, and bring the dead back to life. Great series, heartily recommended.

[@Spar_kie]

God... I haven't thought about that series in years. I think it's time for a rewatch. Thanks for reminding me of it.

[@archerj2010]

It, Al Chestbreach's "Duggart" Family, and Call Me Kevin's Jim Pickens series are all wonderful.

[@Manslayer-eo1nh]

It was the longest running series from Robbaz. I miss his regular uploads

[@1337-Nathaniel]

@@Manslayer-eo1nh we all do

[@nfaisnfgay]

@@archerj2010 AlChestBreach… aye… that’s a name i haven’t heard in years

[@baltoslelijos]

every few weeks i get this urge to binge watch/re-watch all of your videos. I love your voice, ideas and perception of life. I find it very comforting and it makes me feel less lonely... thank you

[@arifalrashid8183]

God Tier Naration, and yes keeping away child protection services is an important step towards intergenerational wealth 😄

[@emilynelson4747]

Love being transported back twenty years - and also seeing stuff from expansions I never had. I didn't know I needed this channel so much.

[@yellowice0]

Honestly I feel like everyone who has played enough Sims-1 has done this, the answer is yes

[@lordandhalwim628]

No wonder, why squidward ate his paintings. Not only because nobody wanted them, but also so he wouldn't starve to death. Greetings Dhalwim

[@moonday5521]

I love coming to my AA meetings. Pleasure to be back with you all again.

[@missingindy]

Hey, I have an idea for you: make a vault in Rimworld, and I’m talking about using the tribal DLC so you can make a fallout vault, this came into my head after seeing some mods adding weapons from fallout (so you could install those mods to enhance the experience) and I think it would be interesting to see if you can pull off this challenge and pull off what the Vault Tec motto says and create a better future, underground.

[@schwiblschwibl3302]

Sims series seems to cather more towards classic "shady ORGANisation" amphibian that I, personaly, love and miss.

[@smellypepperoni768]

These are great. Doing these challenges on our old childhood games has just the right taste of humor, intrigue and nostalgia

[@subira8518]

Anyone remembers the fact that the game keeps firing you after you reach career lvl 10. God I hate it.

[@NewWaveEnthusiast]

Loving the Sims videos lately!

[@7ylerD]

My Sim was able to retire through painting in Sims 4. The OG game is clearly a whole different animal…

[@everwhatever]

Man what great music the sims had. Nothing but bangers and I still remember them note for note and still love them after probably thousands of hours in the games.

[@oothatguyoo7643]

How to turn Sims 1 into a depressing roguelite

[@christophergrennan4485]

This was like watching Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure, I would get attached to the main character only to watch them die and be replaced by the next generation. Art really does imitate life, and life is a simulation.

[@VanBourner]

This explains why the greatest artists are always a bit odd fellas

[@Ricekhrispy]

I have NEVER seen a bad video from you man! LOVE your stuff!!!! Keep up the good work!

[@archerj2010]

The sims 1 videos are great! I WISH the game and its packs were digitally distributed on steam or something.

[@dharmallars]

It’s pretty easy to find and get running on a modern pc. Actually watching one of AA’s sim videos was what inspired me to do it. I found it on old games download for free.

[@ruairim2283]

This was amazing. 'Casandra Bluitt' and the blocking out of CPS was hilarious. The whole last third of the video was so unexpected and entertaining

[@idontknoq4813]

I love that you're making Sims 1 videos now.

[@MKarl4]

This is pure gold. Enjoying this waaay too much. Would you kindly do more of this stuff?

[@polywomple]

as an artist I can say this is pretty accurate

[@sniperfosho]

So happy to see you making multiple sims 1 videos. I was hoping the last one wouldn't be the only. Thanks buddy👍

[@Three_seals_and_a_dog]

This hits differently when you're an artist.

[@lilbrandon1987]

It's funny to hear you go from just normal commentary in your older videos, to the way you commentate now. It's actually kinda soothing.

[@TOM7952]

The best meta in Sims 1 is making and selling gnomes.

[@Jazzybreaks]

loving the nastolgia stuff! now i want to go back and play all of those again!

[@taylorrage]

Just discovered your channel; it's my new favorite. Love these classic games and the challenges. 😊

[@visassess8607]

Jeb 6 "I don't like painting, I'm going to sell this easel."

[@DonkeyScourge]

This really says a lot about our society

[@brodika]

This hits harder when you're listening while painting

[@Vinchester87]

Nothing to inspire a budding artist like graves of his starved ancestors right next to his easel!

[@bennyboi5953]

life is really hard at the moment but your videos always manage to put a smile on my face. thanks dude. God bless you

[@maiden-of-ren]

I love how their beds are outside with their easels 🤣

[@demo2823]

The best time-for-money job is selling butter at top Cooking skill, btw.

[@LindseyTyler]

Love the Sims 1 content! :D

[@paulverse4587]

As a kid playing Sims 1, I would have several people working in enclosed rooms at the back of the property with the barest stuff in there, making them paint nonstop to sell their paintings. My main character would live in a luxury house and go on vacations nonstop from the profits. Good times.

[@LadyIno]

Sir, you should be writing stories for Hollywood or Netflix, seriously. This is the very first video I've seen from you, but I'm already in love with that creativity. This story sounds like it's straight out of a horror movie: A rather poor but genius painter meets an attractive and cold executive lady who likes his paintings but doesn't care much about him at first. He nonetheless tries to win her over, while the audience roots for him and feels his sadness each time he gets rejected. Then, finally, she says "yes"! Everything is going so well and it feels like a happy film about love and a never giving up mentality with a (way too soon) good ending for our hardworking and likeable protagonist. Half the movie in, the setting suddenly changes. They get their first baby and the husband starts to act... strangely. He changes. Everyone around the family sees a loving dad that inherited his skills and talent to his two daughters, practicing with them and encouraging them to follow their dream to succeed as artists, like he did. Only the mother notices that he changed. Someday, as the teenage girls got interested in other things than painting, the man snaps. Horrible things happen in that house since then and the man finally showed his true face. His mad plan to "repay" his ancestors, no matter the cost, drives him to extreme violence, over and over again. The honest and friendly man really never existed, his entire personality was all a lie... and while being at home, he will never pretend to be a good dad and husband again... Gosh that story could go so many ways from this point on. A thrilling life or death situation at the end would be interesting, where the father tries to kill his wife and daughters and rather start a new family than to let his daughters quit painting. And while his daughters are way too scared, helpless or even crippled by their dads torture so they can't defend themselves, at the end it's the mother and maybe a boyfriend of one of the girl who kill the mad painter at the end. Um, sorry for escalating a bit xD but the setting is just so perfect for a horror movie. The plot twist could be just as good as the one from the movie Parasite, which also started as a comedy but turned to horror in the last 30 minutes.

[@Seiferboi]

When you play the Gamecube version, you start off living with your mother and have to borrow money until you get enough to move out. I always used the money to buy an easel and earn my own money. I'd also buy other skill building items and get them maxed out before I move out. That's probably just me, though. I enjoy the slow burn element because it's relaxing.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

I miss custom paintings in the Sims 2... In the later ones you need mod packs that overwrite paintings or add entirely new paintings, but making a mod like that is a lot of work. Just slapping custom stuff into a file and the game being like "Yep, that's a thing" was great.

[@chrisw443]

that sim city music hits the mood. Also if you like have a house, and a few bucks you can do this because your paintings sell for good prices after a while.

[@2013Arcturus]

*"He wears a hard hat to shield himself from economic adversity"* This is truer than you realize kids, get a trade skill, fuck college. I legit am buying my first home after 6 years in a trade after spending my 20's languishing at dead end service jobs. It's hard work, but rewarding.

[@garretteverett2613]

Truth. Recessions come and go, but people will always need shit built or fixed. I was a smart kid and needed to go to university because of it and boy do I wish I'd learned to drive a dump truck or use my carpentry skills instead.

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

As I and my coworkers always say "there's nowhere in the civilized world that doesn't need security guards or janitors".

[@wildfirefox1]

Same but with USPS. Hard as fuck but I make an assload of money at 23

[@Kevin-ne2fr]

These Sims and roller coaster tycoon videos are making my day while I'm sick at home. :D thank you

[@cwovictor3281]

The lesson learned here is that life itself is a multi-level-marketing scam. Do not perpetuate it.

[@robertsullivan4706]

I have wondered this for quite some time. Thanks for exploring this idea, because I haven't been willing to actually set up the Sims to try it.

[@RW1A]

A man named adolf was a starving artist once then he went on to leading a country, I say art is a good career path :)

[@KimStennabbCaesar]

You should have waited 3 days to make that comment.

[@RW1A]

@@KimStennabbCaesar how so

[@KimStennabbCaesar]

@@RW1A Then it would have been 4/20.

[@RW1A]

@@KimStennabbCaesar true, but i didn't know the date at the time

[@KimStennabbCaesar]

@@RW1A (4/20 is Hitler's birthday if you didn't know)

[@didiwin78]

I saw the title and thought, oh yeah i've done that. Start watching and realize; no not quite like this though, theres way more moral ambiguity here.

[@carljoosepraave2102]

As an artist I can confirm this is exactly how it works

[@HammerspaceCreature]

Actual Persona 5 villain backstory.

[@Newt2799]

8:53 I love that he named the child “1”

[@katiemalone8238]

I audibly laughed at "boxing out cps every time they tried to confiscate my new child"

[@jessicabalke841]

It was the $1200 dining room chairs paired with cheapest table at 7:45 that did it for me.

[@danielquinn2908]

this takes straving artists to a whole new level

[@supdude1498]

3:33 Ghost reference?

[@katuni08]

I’m loving the nostalgic videos! Anything Sims 1-3 is clicked instantly.

[@FaultyTwo]

From artist struggle, later life and death cycle, and cherry-on-top with children exploitation. You truly are the artist of our time, excluding starvation and dying part of course.

[@Hamdad]

The way you make money with painting in the Sims is to capture neighbors. Invite them over for a party then freeze time and build them into a little cubicle. Only put a toilet, fridge and easel in each cubicle. Keep inviting neighbors over and keep adding cubicles until you max out the buildable area. With nothing else to do except paint, everybody's creativity will max out and your art farm will realize its maximum profit potential

[@jaredhennessy9146]

This is beautiful, poetic and truly insane

[@bobbyfrost2452]

I came across ur channel like 2 weeks ago and by far my favorite channel I've found in YEARS. Love ya man and keep up the good work. (i miss the solo project zomboid stuff ❤️)

[@TheVeryAngryShrimp]

You are truly radiating Sseth energy, it's amazing and I wish you well on your way to 1 million subs.

[@derektan3424]

please for the love of god keep making these dystopian sims 1 videos!

[@canuckster24]

Please do more of these The Sims 1 videos, they're awesome.

[@gilmangabs392]

just want to take a moment to admire your writing. i write scripts for my solo videos on tiktok where i "ramble" about a topic, and it doesn't hold a candle to this