Detangling Squiggly Lines in The Sims 2

Squiggly lines in thought bubbles are a known symptom of corruption in The Sims 2. But should you really be worried about them?
(spoiler: no)

[@caesumisrude]

"A 90s kid who grew up in Poland" is such a powerful statement only slavs can understand

[@AbandonedVoid]

It's kind of horrifying that, when a Sim goes missing, the very memory of them that other Sims have is distorted and warped beyond recognition. They aren't forgotten, but nobody can remember them clearly, even if it was their best friend, their lover, their parents, or even their child. Like their whole existence is a repressed traumatic memory.

[@justaperson4656]

Well that's a terrifying concept, thank you

[@Schnort]

I think there's a Vampire Diaries episode about that lmao

[@LueLue_2763]

Well that’s dark

[@chocobear4078]

God that's a nightmare

[@jonatanborowicz]

I love that though. Gosh the sims 3 and sims 4 could never implement anything like that.

[@Foam_Woa]

"hey, some dude pissed himself" "who" *Its all just a burning memory*

[@nickylaraiso9328]

*Heartaches Intensifies*

[@clamoringrisotto]

"Remember the time when.......... that time when.......wait, who pissed themselves again?"

[@ravenID429]

“Remember when *ħ ǐ łņ æăå ŷū ė?* ”

[@bleudemethylene2330]

"Here is Brandy Broke, itching to tell everybody that non existent Don Lothario has, in fact, pissed himself" is honestly the greatest thing I've heard in quite a while.

[@davidvelasco4423]

She must be disgusted with the youth of today, even if she's hallucinating one.

[@sassycatenthusiast]

You ever laugh so hard that your non existent drink shoots out your nose? Well April managed to make me do that, then your comment reinforced it 😂

[@Joshyfied]

you and marticore are the two polish sims 2 scientists we desperately need thank you for your service

[@aawarian]

the marie curie-sklodowskas of simology. nobel when?

[@Marticore]

HAHAHA ♥ Black-Nowakowska is the new Sims 2 scientist LOL

[@user-ik7vm1kt6q]

the very first seconds of this video i thought just this! "wow, lots of polish simmers huh" bc of marticore 😂

[@valumtimes]

The fact that gossip can spread through the neighborhood as uninterpretable iconography *AND* is benign is extremely funny to me. This is Lovecraft reimagined as comedy. Like yeah, your Sims are granted forbidden knowledge beyond comprehension. But it's about a neighbor in an alternate timeline pissing themselves.

[@aldeywahyuputra5719]

😂🤣😭💀

[@JoBot__]

This is the best comment I've ever read. XD

[@NotsoFocused]

April to Sims wiki: i'm about to end this man's whole career

[@cxloke_]

Let me just tell you that I love how Don pissin himself is what made the whole experiment lmfaaaaao I love it

[@thejoydespretofficial]

the mother is back

[@Schnort]

the mother is back

[@acromatic0000]

the mother is back

[@h.c5824]

Where is mother? Here she is

[@Filthma]

8:54 The most important thing I learned from this video is that if I piss myself for literally no reason, I'm probably about to be deleted.

[@anongirlfrompoland]

When I played Ultimate Collection in Strangetown, Johnny Smith would often look out the window and these "squished needs icons" would pop up above his head. My assumption is that he "saw" something invisible through that window, and to this day I wonder what it was 🤷‍♀

[@SpiffyDot]

Probably a “regular” occurence in Strangetown. The sims must see a lot of things 👽

[@davidkonevky7372]

Don't they look out the window when the weather changes? Maybe it has to do with that

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

That's why I love Strangetown - you can create your own explanations lol

[@aprilblacksims]

My speculation is that they could represent invisible pedestrian and car portals :) There's quite a few invisible portals on every lot, maybe they are getting picked up by this interaction.

[@kellowstone]

I have no idea why but the "Squiggly lines are interesting. Let's talk about squiggly lines" delivered in such a serious tone at the beginning cracked the hell out of me. I'm watching the video for the third time and I can't stop giggling at this.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

Squiggly lines! ~･⁠ ⁠〰⁠ ⁠･~

[@anti-usernamesaltaccount3623]

It scared me

[@deltaboogaloo633]

To be honest, it did seem April was touting a Mona Lisa smile when she delivered that line, suggesting that she could barely hold it in herself. So I would not be surprised if she snorted at least after the cut into the intro.

[@TylerYoshi]

When you deleted Don Lothario's files, the only thing I could think of was "he got sent back in time to Riverview!"

[@Marticore]

I didn't even care about those lines enough to know there are different ones 😂 Thank you for the video! I can't imagine how much time it must've taken to check all of this 😮

[@xarzneimittel8220]

Marticore 💜

[@JoBot__]

Oh, hello there! Can't say I didn't expect you to be in the comment section somewhere, but this was still a pleasant surprise. ^-^

[@Romanticoutlaw]

ah the sims 2, an era where modding the game was easier than installing it

[@rowan404]

I find it mildly interesting that the food and drinks that give sims squiggly lines are typically exclusive to vending machines.

[@aprilblacksims]

You are right, I didn't even realise it!

[@daesplays8737]

I love how the myth of corruption is so deep rooted in the Sims 2 community, that people have made entire supposedly "fixed" versions of the base hoods that are supposedly free of corruption.

[@Lee-dm7xm]

15:05 So now I know why Lilith Pleasant has been showing up bald in the loading screens. I just didn’t investigate it because I thought the combination of her bald head and sulky expression was funny.

[@goatplague344]

Mary-Sue Pleasant: How are you doing, my ungrateful daughter Lilith Pleasant: I don't care/I don't know/I'm bald/Other option

[@lbchaos]

"A 90s kid who grew up in Poland" I'm starting to suspect that entire sims 2 community is just 3 poles in a trench coat

[@guriertghuirgtrjhtrthtrhjtjrh]

merta (also know as marticore), april, and me (i love the sims series, and im polish)

[@BlackBloodCombatClub]

Man, I still can't believe [REDACTED] pissed himself

[@relash1345]

Its very refreshing watching videos about this topic, but not the regular "this is all corruption", but an explanation of what it actually is and when they appear ingame. Thank you so much for these videos and talking about this hot topic in the sims2 community. You are probably helping much more players then you think. 🥰😇

[@ketaminepoptarts]

its wild how theres so many rumours about things that cause corruption in the sims 2, at this point it seems like people think any minor glitch means they have to reinstall the entire game

[@NawiTheCore]

I'm really loving this series. It's like MythBusters but about The Sims. I hope eventually you start debunking some of the myths surrounding The Sims 3 because there's a ton of misinformation about all aspects of the game.

[@marijanina]

like what? that's so interesting

[@nerdychocobo]

oh really? I am super curious bc I've not heard much personally (although as a kid I remember hearing about a save error that was patched out in WA or smth but I was for some reason still terrified...) I do think it's interesting how casually ppl talk about neighbourhoods in sims 3 becoming corrupted with nowhere near as much paranoia than about sims 2 corruption, even tho as far as I'm aware there's much less information about how it is caused in sims 3 (and the game is wayyy less stable than sims 2)

[@Lemony123]

Maybe about the Mysterious doll?

[@crossthekira99]

I haven't played sims 2 in like... 15 years. I also know nothing about game coding. This video, on all accounts, should be gibberish to me but the way you explain things is both earnestly inviting and easy to follow along. You're great at your work here, and I hope you get recognition for it.

[@Fuzzy_Spork]

I've played TS2 since release, and that base game Pleasantview I played for 11 generations. I did all the "bad" things! Deleted graves, binned occupied houses, etc. It took until generation 11 before Sims started randomly disappearing out of the neighborhood. And then very quickly it just wouldn't even load again. I was heartbroken. 😅

[@qualifiedarmchaircritic]

"The game is too powerful for your computer" honestly the game is too powerful for all of us 😔

[@Lunarlakes746]

“Squiggly lines are interesting, Let’s talk about squiggly lines” I will never understand how she kept a straight face while saying that! 😂

[@TrekkieMae]

I've been avoiding getting invested in The Sims 2 because I didn't want to get attached to a neighborhood and then lose it. I know how to manage TS4, but TS2 is a different animal entirely. I am quite relieved to have found a human who can so thoroughly explain to me how this game works so I don't break it. Thanks and kudos to you for all of the time and effort you've put in for the community!! I appreciate you, April!

[@tATuCentral]

It’s unreal how much I enjoy watching these videos about how a 20 year old game works. Thank you for making these! Super excited for the new Hood Checker as well!

[@tillydavvers]

All praise Bella Goths secret love child for all her work to relieve us peasants of our corruption fears.

[@TeaAddict]

Yep - I most often see squiggles in my Ultimate Collection relating to cc food - when it gets put into a restaurant menu, as the Sims are looking at the menu thinking about what they might want to eat 🤷 honestly never really concerned me 😆 Thank you for another super detailed and interesting video!! Can't wait for the one about NPCs 😁

[@armpakornable]

I would like to also learn about the technical details of "game corruption" (i.e. objects.package corruption) caused by interactions with object NPCs. A video on this subject would be good :)

[@aprilblacksims]

There will be a video on this subject! Can't say when though, I'm still investigating it and I wouldn't be surprised if it'll be as long as the hood corruption deep dive :)

[@dogedogego]

Absolutely fascinating and captivating-I grew up with the crappy cream computer and very much can relate to the “90’s kid in Poland” (except I was Asia). As a fellow programmer, I appreciate the comprehensiveness in this research!

[@davidkonevky7372]

Your videos are single-handedly changing how the community views sims 2 corruption. If that isn't mother behavior I don't know what is

[@phoenixedgeworth]

i'm so beyond grateful this appeared in my recommended videos. i didn't expect squiggly lines in a game that came out when i was 1 year old to be so interesting

[@xinus2286]

I dunno if anyone pointed it out yet, but that last bugged icon is actually some random letters squished vertically, specifically LNSCNESAC, it kinda looks like somebody used the windows snip tool and just picked a random spot on the screen.

[@Skul1ManEXE]

4:03 Babby April vibing to death metal got me in stitches Great video

[@WaterLemon147]

I used to have apartment life and ikea stuff but not garden and mansion or freetime back when i had my vista up until 2018

[@Tiny_Koi]

Fun fact when the sims 2 came out I accidentally tricked my mom into buying dlc because I didn't know that you needed the base game on a seprate disc. I was so upset when Bon Voyage didn't work by itself that my mom took me back to best buy to get the base. I remember the same employee was there and he kinda had this look on his face like "this kid lol".

[@aprilblacksims]

Lmao one of my friends did the same thing, just with University :D

[@ElWaKa69]

I just wanted to say that I love how you use the sims 2 music as the bgm for the video. So many memories from when I was a kid and I literally listened to the songs in the music options menu because they were that good

[@GiovanniScorpio777]

It's amazing that there's been this coverage of sims related content popping up the last few years. I'd love to see you cover Glitches and code in the console titles.

[@sonicflower]

OMG the university expansion would ALWAYS act up when installing! always! core memory unlocked

[@shushuda]

YES, more videos, woohoo! I absolutely loved your hood corruption one, I'm so happy to see you're making more stuff!

[@kahvipaputyyppi]

I love that you had so much enthusiasm, determination and time to do all of this and solve the mystery! Like really REALLY much respect to you! I have only seen those last bugs and I can confirm that I don't have the Freetime but I do have the Apartment Life on that laptop. :D

[@Graknorke]

I respect the drive you have for proving strangers wrong on the internet

[@MrsBiaFerraz]

I've just binged all your videos and I'd like to say it's great to find someone with the same hyperfocus as me and that also plays at 3x speed

[@rowan404]

Relatively recently, I was playing Ultimate Collection and one of my sims couldn’t reach the fridge because 2 other sims were playing kicky bag in the kitchen. Upon watching this, I wondered why I didn’t see the squiggly lines despite the sim complaining several times before they stopped playing. Luckily, 14:39 explained it. Thank you!

[@mostlywholesome]

When the world needed her most, she returned

[@DrawingHoneyMelon]

I actually came across the squished interest icons in my rotational pleasant view (Ultimate Collection, by the way). However, since Hoodchecker came up clean for me and I take good care of the neighborhood, I did not think it was corruption. So, I did some testing in a different test hood, trying to replicate the situation from my pleasant view: a kitchen fire where the stove burned down to a pile of ash. When my sim cleaned up the ash, I saw the squiggly lines. In my test hood, this did not happen until I used the same kitchen cc I had in my pleasant view house. Then, they showed up again. So, just a heads up for anyone, the squished interest icons can show up in the UC in niche situations and won't necessarily mean corruption ^^ Great informative video btw, I loved it

[@kkelly4806]

I've never had squiggly lines in Sims 2. I have them in real life 24/7.

[@OddSauce]

these two videos have been a delight to watch, finally someone who understands coding is dissecting a game I've loved during my childhood and in such a eloquent and digestible form really hoping to see more from you!

[@akinamation]

I remember installing the UC and sometime later trying to install my CD Base Game and some packs. Of course, that didn't work (having them seperate from each other was my goal), but ho boy while not as obvious on the surface it did mess with my game. Squiggly lines was one of it's symptoms.

[@Fupicat]

I frickin love how you can get a conclusion like this out of almost pure detective work, without needing any access to source code or overly technical explanations! Games with quirks like these are so exciting. Surprised this is your second video but I'm subbed with great interest..

[@itamarmedeirosnetto]

I think It is on "university" that the lines on the thoughbubble desapear and i Will Tell you why: On base game you can find the deleted Sims on the "thombstone of life and death" and when you try to add them on the family the game Will show an error message. With any expansion installed the deleted Sims (or ancestral Sims with no thombstone) Will not apear anymore when you try to add a sim on the family with cheats.

[@mdkmen]

So I tried to get squiggly lines in gossip with University only, as I recently found my old discs and going through the tedious process of testing each of them using an old laptop with Vista installed... Spoiler alert: Squiggly lines were definitely removed AFTER University. I managed to get, and spread gossip with squiggly lines. I'm uploading the video of it as I'm typing this.

[@gabrielandy9272]

thanks for the video

[@nicolamortin8399]

I was hoping to see another video, I loved your last one! It's weird how a person can latch on to a theory and all it means in the end is a simple missing icon.

[@liamvautier944]

This This is the type of content i want to see on my feed of youtube Thank you for bringing light to these mysteries of the mechanics of this complex yet amazing game, your videos are very interesting and make me feel safer about playing my favorite game.💖

[@halpyhal]

watching the recent dismantling of corruption myths is so fascinating omg

[@goatplague344]

Your videos are great! Finally someone was able to explain the intricacies of the game files without all this "woooo if you sneeze at SimPE your neighborhood will corrupt in seven days" bs. Would you possibly talk a bit more about the want tree, its triggers and why some wants reappear all the time while others barely ever show up? I've been playing ts2 for 20 years by now and only recently saw the "encourage sim to be nicer" wish. Makes me wonder what else might be there and what causes it to appear (or stay hidden for decades)

[@scrappi2926]

thats so interesting because i had apartment life but not freetime as a child back in 2011 and the squiggly thought bubbles would TERRIFY me 😭😭 coming back to the game 10 years later, i still had the same expansion pack configuration and still got the corrupt chat bubbles but i KNEW there was nothing wrong with the neighborhood since i just made it (in OG 2011 hood i had moved sims from other neighborhoods and done all sorts of crap) after grabbing freetime off ebay for like $8 all the problems went away and were replaced with blank bubbles. thanks for putting it all together in my head after a decade

[@delimelone]

Not to be dramatic or anything, but I truly love you for this series.

[@sariah77]

i have this one very vivid memory of the sims 2 when i was a kid, where i saw those "missing texture" squiggly lines which you talk about in the last section of the video. except in my case it wasn't in a thought bubble, & i had all the expansions including freetime. i remember exiting a lot into the neighborhood & seeing these weird giant "towers" (for lack of a better term) randomly sitting on the lot i just left. they were covered in that same sort of squiggly lines texture & looked super out of place. for some reason it really freaked me out at the time lol i don't remember if they went away or what happened, but i bet it was just my CC somehow exploding again

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

I legitimately love that you used the scientific method to troubleshoot and explain Sims 2 issues.

[@LitrlyMeowtooth]

Jesus, how much I was afraid of corruption. I read thru many posts, many blogs, forums, watched many videos about it, and everyone was wrong this whole time. But man, when I first heard about the corruption, I was scared more, then when kid me saw a fnaf jumpscare

[@nerdychocobo]

you're an absolute goddess of sims 2 corruption information!! I can only assume that the devs changed something in the code so speech and thought bubbles just wouldn't appear when the sim is missing

[@leon_atrewo]

The outfit is giving me strong Lilith Pleasant vibes!!! I love it :] Thank you for blessing us with TS2 science 💜

[@wingsofzero5732]

Honestly, watching all these technical dives makes me really appreciate how robust the error handling is in this game Given the amount of things going on in the background at the same time during a regular session, the fact that legitimate softlocking and crashing is rare should be seen as a testement to how damn good the devs made this engine

[@dozzy9984]

I love the video, it's always nice seeing how Sims Wiki gets debunked in terms of their Sims 2 content (especially corruption). And it's really nice to see or learn some technicalities about Sims 2, it seems like it's so much interesting stuff about it. Love the bit about 90s kid from Poland, very relatable. Also, I wonder, could it be that University Life has never been made workable without original CD or later expansion packs? I recall there were some issues with a copy of it I got as a kid, stuff like you encountered in the video, despite doing everything right.

[@MatthewCenance]

Do you have any other favorite The Sims 2 videos debunking The Sims Wiki "facts" that were not correct?

[@cheyenne9081]

You’re easily my new favorite youtuber. Your videos are so clear, funny, informative, and entertaining! Thanks for all you do for our silly little sims 2 community❤

[@lumaelodie]

thank you for all your work on clearing the myths that have been in this community for so long i really appreciate it

[@snr0n]

Wow, this is really great work! I appreciate how thorough you've been in testing everything out instead of just repeating the misinformation that's already out there. I haven't seen your earlier video yet, but I'll definitely be checking it out - I recently installed the Ultimate Collection and I've been so nervous about corruption given that I have a lot of memories of the game being pretty fragile, heh. Looking forward to seeing you dissect the issue in detail, and anything else you make in the future!

[@LosLibrosNosHacenLibres]

Oh my... I was terrified as a kid because I really REALLY thought my Sims had Alzheimer's. It still gives me the chills.

[@outrospector]

I can't believe you only have 2 videos the quality of your content is superb! keep on making this deep videos!!

[@yukika_]

YASSS OUR SIMS 2 QUEEN IS BACK

[@Hendrik_McSims]

I have the Ultimate Collection and I did have those squiggly lines when Sims would be stuck due to an invisible object, so apparently they weren't patched out. I assume it depends on the type of invisible object maybe?

[@pumpkinmaryam5500]

OKAY THIS IS KINDA HILARIOUS BECAUSE I *JUST* WATCHED THE CORRUPTION VIDEO YESTERDAY...What amazing timing I have

[@Pomelheim]

I love how technical you are in your investigations, it adds a completely new layer to the Sims 2! Like they exist, but not really anymore I was wondering if you'd ever experienced the upside head bug in Sims 1? IIRC it was in Unleashed, but I think it's been repro'd in base game (I experienced it in Double Deluxe edition but I also bought Unleashed around that time so could have been that?). I'd love to see if this is caused by something similar - most players assumed it was corrupted save data and game breaking so this one reminded me of that!

[@jljljl1820]

youre the hero we didnt know we needed. keep up the good work April

[@funnygermandoctor]

Wow this got uploaded the same day I discovered my first squiggly lines and I started to panick. Thank you for reassuring us

[@nonamesorry7135]

What people should understand about corruption is that this is not a matter of life and death for the game, but rather just hygiene. Not washing your hands regularly won't kill you but it will make your life harder, and after enough not washing maybe it could actually cause some illness that WILL. So forgetting to wash your hands here and there won't kill you....r game. But not taking care of it can cause inconveniences and eventually make your neighbourhood unplayable just because of how much junk it accumulated.

[@liamwatchesyt1236]

One time while I was playing the sims 3: pets on the playstation 3 the game was one the loading screen with 3 pets on it and the game bugged out and displayed the pets' entire spritesheets. It was very interesting because I had never thought about the possibility of the pets being 2D images instead of 3D models

[@MatthewCenance]

That would be insane if the pets were 2D sprites in the real gameplay - especially if zoomed in real close where you would most likely see something was up with how the pets looked.

[@alixstar11]

These videos single-handedly convinced me to start playing The Sims 2 again. Thank you so much!

[@liveangel93]

Haven't had my sims own a restaurant yet, but I see the "squished need icons" variant when my sims sweep ashes from a firework.

[@IzanRamos_]

I remember some kind of glitchy lines, clown faces and strange symbols also appeared in the Sims 1 if some interactions had been interrupted or you had deleted a Sim, object, pet or whatever. Besides, there is another bug appearing exactly the same way in both games related to NPCs in community lots. Sometimes NPCs aren't able to do anything in some specific community lots so they just choose to leave, and your Sim always stays there all alone. Has any Simmer experienced this? Lol Despite many possible glitches and bugs, The Sims 1 and 2 are still the best life-simulation games ever created and I humbly think everyone from this generation should re-experience them again! Modern Sims are ok but these were pure magic, unbeatable!😍 The Sims 2 is much better than TS4!💯 Unbelievable after 15 years, but true.

[@mountainshade1]

Really appriciate all the time and hard work you put into investigating and testing, and getting to the root of these oddities of the Sims 2 game. Thank you for sharing it all with us!

[@Swaggerpede]

I can already tell you will be a great sims archive channel that can fill me in with all the sims 2 knowledge I never knew I needed with great editing and a lovely personality. If I may speak for the universe for a moment: this is your sign to Keep making content !

[@__Irene__]

I'm happy to see you've made another video! Your explanations of technical stuff are so good that even I, a person who knows nothing about programming and whose mother tongue isn't English, understood everything. (Hope I worded it correctly)

[@ninjacraftb]

Hey April, I saw you said you’re working on a Bella Goth video, I have some information you may like. Bella has straight up no DNA, every time I resurrect her and have her and Mortimer reproduce, it’s always a female clone of Mortimer’s DNA, meaning the baby has brown hair as that’s what Mortimer carries the gene for, it’s basically Brandi Broke’s pregnancy but in reverse. Bella also doesn’t have Alexander or Cassandra marked as “known” in SimPE, meaning development-wise, she never met her kids. Viewing Bella and Mortimer’s relationship in an untouched Pleasantview shows that they have the default relationship for a married couple, possibly meaning loading the town is what causes the game to reset Mortimer and Bella’s relationship to the default for sims who aren’t married. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but this is what I’ve found.

[@aprilblacksims]

Well spotted with the pregnancy! I actually talk about that in my video, so hopefully I will shed more light onto that issue :) I will also touch on the relationships and the 'Known' flag. The video is about 45 mins long and I am still in the process of wrapping it up, I'm hoping to release it this week!

[@ninjacraftb]

@@aprilblacksims if you want to look more into beta/deleted content, Bella AND Michael both recognize an unknown sim as their sibling, Alex and Cass recognize this unknown sim as their aunt/uncle. I also spoke to Ray Mazza (he programmed object functions for 2 and worked on the graphic design as well as the lore of Sunset Valley and Riverview for 3) and he told me that the reason Mortimer always rolls a Nina want at the start is a scrapped plot where Nina and Dina would try and compete for Mortimer’s money. If you go into the Sim Wants And Fears, there’s a history section in there which shows hidden history data for the sim, like who they were made in CAS with and such, and it shows that all the Goth ancestors were added to the Goth household, married, then killed, as Mortimer, Alex, and Cass have hidden history of witnessing the marriage of Mortimer’s parents and grandparents, and even the marriage of Simis and Jocasta. Something I want to look into is if Alexander and Cassandra are genetically linked to Simis and Jocasta, as they seem to have DNA unlike Bella.

[@SpecialInterestShow]

Hearing those Sims 2 specs is so wild to me since I know my family PC was SHIT as a kid lol. Tho it took forever to load! Catch my older sister back then waiting an HOUR to load her town. Wanna have your Sims travel? Better be willing to wait 20 minutes What I miss the least though is taking 2-3 days to install just the damn base game. From 2 separate CDs. Wanna install an expansion pack back then? Get ready to wait 12-24 hours. I can't even think of how long installing ALL of the expansions would take

[@aprilblacksims]

Basically an entire day of installing, morning till evening! I've done this so many times back in the day lol

[@霊像子]

I had the squiggly lines once when cc grass caught on fire and my sim was cleaning the ashes up. It didn’t cause any issues. The neighbourhood continued on for years. The only time I had real corruption happen was when I tried to bring sims across from subhoods into a main hood, including their businesses. The effect was instantaneous. But that’s it.

[@yunderaly]

ever since april posted this and the other video, i'm watching it from time to time interchangeably, while waiting for another one and knowing it's worth it 🥰

[@lythacore]

Have you figured out what causes some tiles to turn objects by a 45 degree angle sometimes without the cheat enabled? Thanks for this vid, love it!

[@baticeer_]

Wow! How interesting to finally have the squiggly thought bubbles explained. I've often noticed the blue one with the squished interest icons when sims are looking out the window, which normally makes them think of random objects- I suppose they must be thinking of invisible objects on the lot. I have once in my ultimate collection gameplay seen the no-texture flavor of squiggly lines, but I've never been able to replicate it nor did I take a screenshot, so I'm afraid I can't give you any proof that it can happen in a situation other than that specific one with chatting on the computer without FT 😅 I just distinctly remember seeing it while playing in Strangetown, on the Specter lot, someone (either Nervous Subject, or one of the ghosts on the lot, I can't quite remember) threw it for a second inside of the red angry thought bubble, and I remember thinking "that's the bad corruption one!" But at the time I already knew hood corruption was mostly overblown so I didn't worry about it. I still wonder why that happened - and maybe it had something to do with it being in the angry red thought bubble instead of in a blue bubble. Should I ever happen to see it again, I'd make sure to take a screenshot and make notes of what the circumstances were. It's one of those little mysteries of my gameplay I've thought of sometimes.

[@aprilblacksims]

I tested it quickly and they do think about random objects/Sims outside. The potential invisible objects could be the pedestrian portals and car portals! They are present on every lot on the edges of the pavement, but you cannot pick them up without mods, unlike The Sims 1. I imagine that it's possible the no-texture icon could also appear because of mods! Or perhaps some other bug in the game that we don't know about

[@hookedbycrafting5348]

The angry bubble that ghosts think/ complain about is the aspiration icon...it shows up like aspiration failure. Have you noticed it when your sim goes into aspiration failure?

[@zuzalila3689]

How did I not know you are Polish!! Now all the dots are connected and make perfect sense. So glad I found you!

[@SawsdiLewus]

Even do i have every expansion, but i dont have free time I have never seen this "Squiggly lines" and my sims are chatting on computer everyday so ye it weird

[@amypeggs9606]

You quoted me XD to be fair, I did genuinely think it *was* a known sign of corruption at the time, since that's what everyone said. When I referred to "my corrupted uberhood", I had one of the earlier versions which had used the original Maxis hoods as-shipped. Interesting video. Thanks for the research! And I had always wondered what the stretched image was - it looked like letters to me.

[@denisesofagirls200]

Thank you very much! The world needs you and your research! At least I do. Your knowledge is very precious to me. Thank you for sharing this.

[@blistlelo1700]

The Sims games on my computers are still massive beasts taking over 10 gigabytes on my computers!

[@MayLina]

Bold of you to assume i won’t take your word for 100% truth after watching your corruption video😂