In my opinion the Sims team did Native Americans dirty in the horse pack. Outside of a few pieces of clothes there was nothing else, no new music, no foods, no new traditions, EA diversity is a JOKE,
@sleepy_mushr00m5 ай бұрын
Fr(i’m unable to make stuff with my own oc’s because of the Sims lack of representation)
@pianopuncher5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately american lives and perspectives have always been the forfront of the sims... and we all know many americans opinions of native americans 🙄
@AnInsideJoke5 ай бұрын
@pianopuncher Hell, EA doesn't even get the NON-Native portions of the American builds right. Everything's always upscale and uber-clean, like if it's not suburbia or Silicon Valley cities that have only existed for less than 30 years, they don't know how to make it. All decently-sized cities are at least a century old and have a bit of a hodge-podge kind of feel where the various prevailing cultures have left their mark. Ex: I live in St. Louis, a city that's not considered particularly "diverse" by a lot of the rest of the country, and you can STILL see the impact in the various parts and neighborhoods. You've got The Hill, full of descendents of Italian Immigrants, thanks to Little Bosnia all local supermarkets have an Eastern European foods section, and we've grasped at least the correct pronunciation of many Balkan words and names. There's Soulard, where you can see the city's OG French influence, and where there is a HUGE Mardi Gras celebration every year (one of the largest outside of New Orleans itself), and, for a Midwestern city, a large amount of Mosques from the influx of an ever-growing Muslim population from various countries, etc. EA "cities" are nothing but bland, homogenous upper-middle-class Whitebread disgraces that don't even bother to put in a single small family run ethnic/international foods store.
@Zandalorscat5 ай бұрын
There were several new foods though
@eveonite5 ай бұрын
They just put some sage plates in the furniture and called it a day.. just ugh
@PigeonPlays-zf3mq5 ай бұрын
EA: “We embrace diversity from all parts of California!”
@cthulhucult32305 ай бұрын
They couldn't even make an accurate trailer park
@Clay-qq5vb5 ай бұрын
@@cthulhucult3230this made me giggle fr
@Agathasbootlicker5 ай бұрын
Ah yes, the vast world of the United States
@beom32705 ай бұрын
Not everything can be represented to the way everyone wants.
@ashleemarie87795 ай бұрын
@@beom3270then they shouldn’t make claims they can’t fulfill
@trezalkapeliskova21215 ай бұрын
As a Czech the Polish apartment complex made me tear up a bit. I have so many memories made around these buildings. EDIT: Seeing the residents of the former eastern block gather under this comment warms my little heart.
@mrkf1cka5 ай бұрын
Real
@kaja85065 ай бұрын
fr, im polish and those disgusting playgrounds literally raised me lol
@trezalkapeliskova21215 ай бұрын
@@kaja8506 those metal globes! Literally the best playground ever.
@ajsvajs5 ай бұрын
As a Slovak, I can feel the same. Literally, those old buildings where I used to live with my grandparents, and with neighbors that are like other families because they knew too much :D
@d1skr0t5 ай бұрын
As a Bulgarian I totally relate
@CarolinaNaiade5 ай бұрын
I hate that my country is represented by a clothing kit (Carnaval Streetwear) that represents just a fraction of what Brazil truly is 😔😔😔 Anyway, I love seeing another cultures that are different from mine!
@ismdejour5 ай бұрын
and there's only brigadeiro and pão de queijo as Brazilian reference. we have so many other great dishes.
@xtakeitisisx5 ай бұрын
I think it has churrasco too. Also i'd love to see a Brazilian building on one of FFG's videos, please someone build it, i don't have the game so i can't ;-;
@myself63605 ай бұрын
Então né! Kkkkkk mas eu espero que a equipe do The Sims, com o tempo, lance mais objetos e receitas do nosso país e cultura
@kayynnnn5 ай бұрын
They failed even in representing the Carnaval right. No parades? No Samba? No Samba School's tacky t-shirts?? I'm sorry buy they created "gringo comes to brazil for s*x" clothing kit
@brendalima52925 ай бұрын
It has acarajé as well
@dreamcolorzz15705 ай бұрын
LET'S GO POLAND MENTIONED 🎉🎉🎉🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
@HolsomWasHere5 ай бұрын
POLSKA GÓRĄ RAHHHHH!!!!!!
@UrDad0005 ай бұрын
I was gonna build something too but I gave up lol
@marleo91975 ай бұрын
🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
@nataliasliwa70065 ай бұрын
@@UrDad000 same, I wanted to build an old dworek but I don't have that many expansion packs lol
@idk.98765 ай бұрын
POLSKA💪💪💪💪
@pitrku1755 ай бұрын
I think that Slavic culture is very aesthetic. Yes, maybe we live in Soviet concrete blocks but if you dive deeper into the beliefs of old Slavic people and our traditional clothing there is so much color in this. In every piece of our culture, there is a deep connection with the animals and nature (mostly woods and fields filled with flowers) In every piece of our culture, there is a deep connection with the animals and nature (mostly woods and fields filled with flowers). There is this traditional butter-making activity that they could add to the game (we had this in sims 1), traditional "drowning of the Marzanna" at the beginning of the spring, to chase away the winter, traditional Slavic dance and folklore music and not to mention - tons of traditional food. They could do that. I, and - I think most of the Slavic people - would be happy even about such a small thing but they are just lazy and the diversity in this game is just about the biggest cultural minorities in America. They don't care about the world. The rest are just "vacation" or "heritage" for them
@camiomilla5 ай бұрын
As a felow simmer outside of USA with an underepresented culture (I am from Brasil/Latin America), I feel you, the part about "vacation" and "heritage" is so true 😢
@olgaskawinska33775 ай бұрын
Not me being actually emotional beacuse Poland is included and that build is sooo accurate, i feel like most of polish people grew up like this, and żabka is perfection
@lu71135 ай бұрын
I don’t know if the person who made the Taiwanese build speaks or understands French but the fact that their username literally means “son of a dog 1234” (fils=son, de=of, chien= dog) which is technically an insult is killing me😭 I really hope they are onto the joke PS: I’m French that’s why I understood it
@PrinceGrenouille5 ай бұрын
La prononciation de ffg m'a tué d'ailleurs 😂
@celestialg1rl01015 ай бұрын
great video, just a note though, the "ice cream parlor" is actually a Boba tea shop, as Boba originates in Taiwan and is very popular there :)
@samuelzachariev5 ай бұрын
I love the amount of love people put into builds from their cultures. Also as a Czech, seeing the old Polish apartment made me think of my grandparents’ apartments 🥺
@d_emo_nica92995 ай бұрын
As a Polish woman I can confirm - we all have gnome Grim Reaper riding on chicken in every apartment in Poland #confirmedinfo 🤔❤️
@MyNameIsSamarka5 ай бұрын
i love the polish one!! very czech core also. yes we slavs are white but very different than western europe, and very little things in game actually resemble my central european life. also cool to see more czech people in the comments here!!
@Trassel2425 ай бұрын
The new kitchen stuff pack made me really happy to see, as I’m Swedish and a lot of the things in it are things you often find in Sweden. One thing I miss from TS3 at the very least is the maypole, which is a holiday tradition in Scandinavia and some other European countries, centred around celebrating plant growth, greenery and the beauty of summer. I just hope and wish that the entire world can get at least a little bit of representation, it’s so unfair that the games have been so focused on a very specific part of American culture/life. If EA doesn’t really know how to represent certain parts of the world, they should ask and hire people from those places so we can get it done right.
@Space0fox5 ай бұрын
Well.. We are white, thats why they dont want included European cultures. And sorry, thats all.
@guadacaram5 ай бұрын
The architecture nerd in me wants to say "actually that's not a casa chorizo, that's a specific typology with two to three patios" but. It's so beautiful. I know like three houses exactly like that. The boy's room doesn't have enough futbol paraphernalia though. Y EL ASADOR ME MUEROOOOO. so good
@rockbellmakeup5 ай бұрын
Gracias por la aclaración pero si, me vi bastante limitada por el juego para hacer una casa chorizo real, pero espero haber capturado la idea general... la parrilla es funcional pero no en la versión de la galería pues me di cuenta después. En Curseforge la tengo full funcional. Puse todo lo de futbol que encontré, EA debería ponerse las pilas y agregar un poster de Messi o algo
@Alduh.3 ай бұрын
@@rockbellmakeup SOS UNA GENIA, te amo, es lo suficientemente chorizo para que me despertara toda la nostalgia del mundo, gracias 🙏🏻😭
@rockbellmakeup3 ай бұрын
@@Alduh. Awww que lindo, gracias!
@Chella9725 ай бұрын
I love the fact that I've never been in any of those countries, yet those builds are the more relatable thing I've ever seen (irl and in TS4)
@hox62875 ай бұрын
I'm happy to see Slavic representation, not Polish myself but I am absolutely happy to see more Slavic representation that isn't just Russia.
@nellitheretrogamer86664 ай бұрын
I'm Finnish and I really appreciate how in that last one, the pond seems to be filled with leaves and other crap that the owners haven't bothered to clean up. Yeah. That is very accurate. Especially because properly cleaning lakes and ponds sometimes involves heavy machinery that the owners of course don't own themselves, so they'd need to hire someone to do that, but since the cottage is in the middle of nowhere, the machines can't actually get there very easily, and it costs too much anyways... Easy solution: just ignore it. Let your kids deal with the problem after they inherit the cottage.
@katbee81205 ай бұрын
The Taipei build reminded me so much of the side streets and smaller districts in Shanghai. That was my every day for six years and I miss it.
@Mizuru0075 ай бұрын
TO! THIS! DAY! I believe that it's WRONG to make people pay money in order to experience cultural representation. ALL of the content that's delivered that is meant to represent a culture should be FREE.
@jovanarosic36065 ай бұрын
Yes that's like saying to someone's face that they are EXOTIC
@patchedpocket5 ай бұрын
Part 2 plss I need to see all cultures ❤🥺
@selemat84025 ай бұрын
i wanna see you review more of the submitted builds! its just so cool to see all the different cultures and im sure there are many more that people submitted :)
@adris4325 ай бұрын
Slavic pack could be very aesthetically pleasing if they took inspiration in other parts of the culture as well, besides just post-communist architecture. :D (Even though that's also a part of it, and it can feel very homely as well!) For instance, I'm from the Czech Republic (a Slavic country) - and I would definitely call our capital Prague "aesthetically pleasing".... :D
@CryanneOfficial5 ай бұрын
As a slav myself, it makes me laugh when EA thinks of themselves as diverse 🙃
@citrusbutter77185 ай бұрын
I'm good at improvising and imagining a specific culture.... What's really missing in this game is different styles and aesthetics. I can always pretend a sim is Chinese, Ethiopean, Māori, but that's not as important to me because like i said, in my mind those characters are those things, what annoys the hell out of me is that all the sims feel the same as far as the types of people they are, what they're into, their personality, what type of clothes, house they live in, person they are. I need more styles and aesthetics outside rainbow hotdog water clothes! All you get from this damn game is cheesy and cornball between the clothes, hair, and the characters themselves, nothing but goofy overly zany characters all wearing the same goofy basic style clothes. I want characters walking down the street being completely different and the option for me to make anyone any style i can think of. Anything from corporate, to street bum, to cute country, to gangsta! I want stuff like that and it feeling authentic and not half assed like they tend to do when they're forced to do something outside making ugly rainbow pattern basic with stupid prints like pizzas on them and every clothe and hair options looking like they're all meant for one person! I want to play characters that happen to be from a certain culture but i also want them to actually have a personal style and personality too, christ.....
@antoninapiast59935 ай бұрын
OMG POLAND YEEEEAH!!! Instant serotonin 💖 Also, I need a Slavic Disney princess
@tommywarlington73255 ай бұрын
POLAND MENTIONED Honestly I was smiling so much at the Żabka, it's so well done. The entire build is just incredible, it's like I'm actually there, oh...
@kuflowe_mocne_fanpage3 ай бұрын
no, as polish ppl we don't have chicken cult but that was so funny. ps. you pronounced everything so well!!
@piratsnygg2 ай бұрын
The "sticks" in the Nordic pack look like Swedish lawn game kubb. The whole build has a more Swedish than Finnish vibe to me, but since it says Finland, it could be kyykkä.
@Absoliguess3 ай бұрын
The Finland lot would fit in really well in moonwood mill if it wasn’t so dingy for a nice build
@emri17835 ай бұрын
That Polish build wow brought me back to my Romanian village, i'm sure all my slavs out there can relate that those commy cities all look the same lol
@miakk3294 ай бұрын
i love sarah saying “the words are written in simlish but the numbers are in english.” i didn’t know numbers could be written in a different language 😅
@jahanshadi19345 ай бұрын
The average polish block is quite accurate too in France. We have so many ugly apartment blocks (without the giant gnome cult of course… I guess ? XD) And the Italian house is really accurate and pretty similar to traditional Nice (the French town) Houses, I don’t know how translate it : houses from Nice ? Nician houses ? lol provençal houses ? Reminds me our family house built in 1954 in a little town next to Nice. But we had to sell it sadly… 😢
@elie_l5 ай бұрын
I wanted to say that! Each part has a specific architectural style for the old houses, but most big town have those areas built in the 70's where the less rich live.
@lorrainethomas2415 ай бұрын
Oh, please do a part 2 (or however many are required). These builds were so great, and I know they only scratched the surface!
@sunshinelittlemiss7843 ай бұрын
Nordic builds wooden blocks is game called mölkky. It's a bit like bowling, you toss wooden blocks at wooden blocks and more you got, more points for you. If there would be nordic pack I'd imagined it containing Vikings. Finland also has interesting old mythology and religion, before Christianity. Our elfs where different then nowadays in films and movies
@Bieski55 ай бұрын
5:08 looks exactly like my grandmas bathroom. Like exactly same layout and everything. So excited that a polish block was included🌼🌼🌼
@rafajnel2 ай бұрын
So, I have to comment the polish block because i literally live in a one xD. Żabka store is absolutely accurate and the only thing missing is the hot dog maker. Also, not every apartment doesn't have enough room for 2 bedrooms but if it existed in the sims, the couch in the living room would be unfoldable so they just unfold it for the night (my mum literally lives in the living room just with this type of sofa.
@M3A0W5 ай бұрын
I've always wanted a "summer house" (mökki 😍), but my parents r divorced and not that rich, so I've never been to a real summer house. Being at my grandparents' house has been awesome too, but I'm craving for someone to take me on a trip to their summer house and have the best days there 😍😍
@MarcyMus4 ай бұрын
There actually a mod out there, they makes an area of the base become athens form Greece. Form the music. To buildings. To the photo of the area. Everything. Even mods the npcs
@SarahKochera3 ай бұрын
The posts in the nordic house might be for Kubb or "Viking Chess" which is really simple, you stand up the pieces, which there is usually a king and some other stuff (we just play with king and pawns) then you stand on the other side of the yard and huck spears ("wooden batons" they're spears, shush) he who knocks down the other king wins. easy
@kale_likethevegetable65643 ай бұрын
An upsetting part about being native is that the sims team will probably never add real aspects of my culture into the game, probably because of fear of misrepresentation because of the amount of tribes in just America.
@mctul5 ай бұрын
thank you so much for noting how slavic culture is misrepresented, im "half"-slavic on my mom's side (russian, ukrainian, and a bit of polish, among many other things) and holy shit the amount of characters who are Evil and seen by creators and/or fans as being slavic is sickening. I do not want another post that says "Oh by the way my mad scientist OC is actually slavic
@grossogretoes4 ай бұрын
i love this video! i feel like i actually learned a bit about people’s upbringings and cultures. i find other cultures so fascinating. never thought i’d learn anything from the sims
@Pearakeet_Arts5 ай бұрын
❤❤❤ This was so wholesome! I hope the Sims Team looks through this hashtag for inspiration. More representation should be a standard in a game made to model life.
@entersandmanlml5 ай бұрын
The grill outside in the argentinian house is a parrilla, in there we make asado 😊🇦🇷
@niffry5 ай бұрын
Can confirm that the final one is pretty dang accurate to Nordic summer homes....mainly because there are at least 5 houses that look just like it in my Swedish neighborhood.
@AntoniasUniverse5 ай бұрын
As a Bulgarian, the Polish block hit home ❤ So glad you made this!
@GummyDaCow4 ай бұрын
As a Polish person, I can confirm that an average Polish block does look like that.
@tr-st_me_bro4 ай бұрын
21:22 As a Swede that’s so realistic hello??
@TheratsintrenchcoatАй бұрын
I'm Slavic, and I love that you mentioned all that about Slavic representation. Most people don't seem to realize we have our own things that we do and our own culture. Thank you. ❤️🇵🇱
@laura.garay.melero2 ай бұрын
Yo even made room for Spain representation with your explanation on why you are able to correctly pronounce chorizo with the castillian spanish neutral pronunciation.
@nyxtheking17815 ай бұрын
Nordics mentioned!!! Honestly tho if they made a Nordic pack and didn’t add risgraut and or references to trolls or nøkken or something I’d riot
@WindowPains5 ай бұрын
I would totally watch a part 2 of this type of video where we just look at more builds!
@selenswirydziuk29 күн бұрын
It's crazy that we have so many towns based on american ones in TS4, but just 3 (Windenburg, Henford on Bagley and Tartosa) that look European and 0 (!!!) African.
@yandereconnoisseur2 ай бұрын
THE FIRST ONE (polish building) LOOKS LITERALLY LIKE MY GRANDMA'S PLACE WHERE I BASICALLY RAISED UP I'M GONNA CRYYY
@Miss7ilacАй бұрын
Windenburg is based on Germany and as a German I was so excited about this and then the Pack didn’t include any German traditions, cultural events, clothes or dishes. I think it's relatively impossible to represent all cultures in a video game, but even if they choose one, they're not doing it right.🥲
@saimiv3 ай бұрын
FINLAND MENTIONED! TORILLA TAVATAAN💙🤍🇫🇮 also i loved all buildings they were awesome!!
@emilaycloud5 ай бұрын
Thanks for reviewing my polish block. EA probably wouldn't do this so it feels good to be represented in your video :)))
@alicjaz27715 ай бұрын
Twoja budowa była zajebista!!!
@kaja85065 ай бұрын
żabka i rodzice śpiący w salonie on point, gratulacje!
@claudb71095 ай бұрын
I m still mad they made for rent not Eastern Europe themed.... if i think of apartments i think Eastern Europe ...
@dariarussu6865 ай бұрын
Thank you for the build, it's awesome!! So much nostalgia, even though I never was to Poland, but we seem to have the exact same apartment blocks
@sorgius015 ай бұрын
@@claudb7109 I get what you say, we have lots of apartment buildings. But the percentage of home ownership is thankfully pretty high (at least where i live), so not the best match.
@Hallasammal5 ай бұрын
Omg they even put the gnome in the sauna!! In old Finnish folk belief, we have "saunatonttu" or "sauna elf?" that's basically a little fae that lives in a family's sauna and takes care of it. Also, the wood blocks on the outside are a game called Mölkky :)
@UnassumingLlama5 ай бұрын
A sauna elf sounds so cute and friendly awww, thanks for the learning moment!
@ssaintdolli5 ай бұрын
that’s so cute!!
@rosvokisu5 ай бұрын
Torille
@ГукетловаФатима5 ай бұрын
@@UnassumingLlama in slavic folklore though these homely entities were creepy and unfriendly
@t00sa5 ай бұрын
YES Mölkky is the best game ever lol. For anyone wondering: it's kind of like bowling but instead of rolling a ball, you hit the pins with another wooden block.
@vrnki5 ай бұрын
they created an entire world based on the Mediterranean, AND DID NOT MAKE A SINGLE MEDITERRANEAN DISH... that entire game pack was so lazy and disappointing smh
@gadol69715 ай бұрын
OMG WHAT, WHICH ONE??? I'm Mediterranean, I never noticed there even was one 😭 (goes to show you how bad of a job they did with it, I suppose...)
@vrnki5 ай бұрын
@gadol6971 EXACTLY, you can't even tell! It's this wedding stories game pack. It's pure bs, and it's only based on one Mediterranean country, Italy T_T but idgaf tho, I made it Greek
@gadol69715 ай бұрын
@@vrnki OMG MY WEDDING STORIES, SERIOUSLY?? Aaaahhhhh that sucks so much 😭 hell yeah for making the best of it though, you inspired me to try my hand at it! ❤
@vrnki5 ай бұрын
@gadol6971 I'm glad :D I built an Orthodox church, a tavern, a beach, and a couple of houses. If you or anyone else is interested, I can give y'all them
@onyxraven34555 ай бұрын
Same with Willow Creek being Louisiana/ New Orleans and no southern dishes. I know Gumbo is there when you add outdoor retreat and fried catfish is in base game when you reach level 5, but no beignets or jambalaya in base game
@Paulo-go5vo5 ай бұрын
To this day I still don't understand how the game doesn't have a single world based on Africa and only Selvadora based on South America
@gameoftomes145 ай бұрын
I would kill for a world inspired by Nigeria, specifically the city of Kano.
@yee83325 ай бұрын
I've heard a theory part of it is because of Seasons. They can reuse the North American and certain European weather templates over and over again because neighborhoods for those regions already exist in the game, but they'd have to put in more effort to set up the appropriate weather and seasons for a new African or South American area to live in.
@onidaaitsubasa41775 ай бұрын
They really should've added more residential lots to Salvadora and made it a residential world, cause it's a nice place to live in, I have a household living there with a mod that makes all Worlds residential, also it's a great place for an archeologist to live.
@onidaaitsubasa41775 ай бұрын
@@yee8332we already have the weather for South America, but I can understand an African based world cause isn't it like the desert but also gets snow in winter?
@zoeyc58515 ай бұрын
They probably dont think theres cities Africa
@limefry65945 ай бұрын
OH MY GOODNESS, THAT’S MY BUILD!! Anyway, others already mentioned the mölkky & sauna elf BUT the logs at 21:31 is a more personal detail. Our family has a tradition of collecting small birch trees for midsummer decoration. Us kids would sit in the back of the truck, holding tight onto our braches as we drove on the forest dirt roads. Ah, the memories… Thanks again for sharing my build! I loved looking at all the other beautiful and diverse builds in this hashtag. Would love to see a part two!
@Cora.Corazoon5 ай бұрын
As a Norwegian person THIS IS SO GOOD OMG? WHEN K SAW IT I IMMEDIATELY WENT “THAT LOOKS SO GOOD, ISTG IVE SEEN THAT WHILE PÅ TUR” BRO I FELT SO NOSTALGIC SEEING YOUR BUILD OMG THAT WAS AWESOME 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@Crabby._.5 ай бұрын
I thought it was a mölkky game and I was so excited
@edwater.35 ай бұрын
as a norwegian guy i love your build!! my family used to go to finland pretty often, so your build brings me a lot of nostalgia. Keep up the good work!!!
@thatweirdkidontheinternet70095 ай бұрын
as a swede you did such a great job! even if not everyone has a sauna in the summer houses gere in sweden, everything else is spot on to our houses as well! 😩😩👌👌
@FairFeline2 ай бұрын
Your place was amazing!
@RedHatMeg5 ай бұрын
Ha, Poland is first! So cool! The demonic gnomes are probably a reference to Wroclaw's krasnals. There was this whole action in Polish People's Republic era where Wrocławians were painting gnomes/dwarves around the town as sign of resistance. I think this might be it. Edit: Also the third apartment is supposed to be more in line of "old granny" vibe. The furniture is very old-school, but I remember all my older relatives having this kind of decor.
@SugarMasochist5 ай бұрын
Fellow Polish?
@sarahloo22955 ай бұрын
the meblościanka in the last room brought me to tears
@RedHatMeg5 ай бұрын
@@SugarMasochist of course!
@NatashaRomanoffRoses5 ай бұрын
the third apartment looks exactly like my grandparents house!
@chesirecat29695 ай бұрын
The creator of the Vietnamese house here and I'm so excited to be featured. Anyway, to clarify some things: 1, There were more clutter and terrain paint when I uploaded the build so I guess TS4 deleted them. 2, The 2 "raised platforms" in the main room of the main house are beds. They are also functional as beds in game as I hid tiny beds beneath them so just click on those beds and it would work. 3, The dining mat is actually placed in the same room as the altar. 4, The reason the fences around the chicken coop are so high is not to protect the chickens but to keep them in. They may not be able to fly but they can climb trees and glide. 5, Kinh is pronounced as King.
@PrinceGrenouille5 ай бұрын
Well done, your build looks so real ! I immediatly saw the beds and thought that it's look so accurate ! I love your work, so great !
@steggopotamus5 ай бұрын
I loved that build
@Coralikespie5 ай бұрын
THEY CAN CLIMB TREES???
@celestecv74525 ай бұрын
When I saw the platforms, I knew those were beds! Traditional Filipino homes in my youth had them. Most houses now, even the ones in the provinces adhere more to the Western style. And Kudos that they have beds underneath to make them functional. Great build!
@chesirecat29695 ай бұрын
@@CoralikespieProbably not the way you are thinking. It's just that they can jump decently high and have strong enough grip to hold on to the tree and its branches.
@frankisnot11485 ай бұрын
You're telling me other people don't have gnome shrines in their houses? Here they're mandatory, along polish flags and pictures of John Paul II
@alexf2255 ай бұрын
And a Maryja picture
@kayynnnn5 ай бұрын
D you guys also have bottle gnomes to buy and keep as a pet??
@karbage85365 ай бұрын
My grandma literally has a copy the last supper in her living room lol
@frankisnot11485 ай бұрын
@@kayynnnn that would be unethical. Every gnome is free range.
@aenilies3 ай бұрын
@@frankisnot1148 Oh, so I'm the only one who keeps them in my aquarium 😔
@IsisChevaunne5 ай бұрын
Willow Creek is based off of New Orleans and the game does not feature one single Cajun/Creole dish let alone soul food which is CRAZY, lazy, and inexcusable.
@29.11plum5 ай бұрын
To me it looks nothing like New Orleans either lol smh….especially with the snow during winter
@elliscrawford70264 ай бұрын
If you told me to guess New Orleans I would not have, it looks like Michigan
@Applesouce5 ай бұрын
15:56 “i think i can see argentina from here” yeah i hate when it happens i wake up look outside to see what the weather is today and all i see is Argentina 😔
@KD_Oliveira5 ай бұрын
I can confirm that. Being a Brazilian, it's a super freaking struggle for us to have Argentina as neighbor. (especially during world cup times)
@entersandmanlml5 ай бұрын
@@KD_OliveiraMUCHACHOOOOOOOOOS 🇦🇷😎⚽️
@CarolinaNaiade5 ай бұрын
@@KD_Oliveira ai nem me fale 😂😂😂
@santinodeagustini5 ай бұрын
As an Argentinian, every day I wake up and look through the windows I see Argentina *(I live in a village)*
@Koda_Grey5 ай бұрын
Paraguayan me is amused. Haha
@heroicznywrobel5 ай бұрын
As a person from Poland, I regret that the Sims still doesn't have any pack based on Slavic culture. I think it has potential, which can be seen, for example, in local traditions, regional bands or Slavic folklore in general. Even if there are small chances for it, I still believe that one day EA will announce pack inspired by Central and Eastern Europe. (Maybe another tourist pack in the style of a Snowy Escapade or adding cars to the game).
@Space0fox5 ай бұрын
Yeah, unfortunatelly there is no single Slav person in EA team and we still for them are "Just Russia"
@ЛюбительФруктов-г3д5 ай бұрын
Да
@lavkabg40764 ай бұрын
@@Space0fox True 😭😭😭
@mrmistyeyes43384 ай бұрын
I’m Macedonian and Slavic and Balkan representation is so just horrifically done in most media and as much as I want that representation in TS4 I am *so* worried about EA butchering it
@schnapapoo3 ай бұрын
Fellow Slav here! Sims 3 had two small clothing/item packs: "Mother Russian" and "Bohemian Garden" but I think from those names it's obvious that Slavs were not really consulted or intended to be the main customers :(( It sucks that those might be the closest we've gotten from the series
@ugh78135 ай бұрын
wait, this video is so wholesome, can we have a part 2? I'd love to see other culture's home. I got pretty emotional when I saw the mate in the Argentinian kitchen, the only representation we have in this game is an awful t-shirt with no simlish on it😂
@UnassumingLlama5 ай бұрын
I second a motion for a part 2!
@CyanCurry7765 ай бұрын
Hay Asado y choripán también, pero estaría bien tener más que una remera y comida xd
@ugh78135 ай бұрын
Mala mía, uso tan poco la parrilla que los olvidé por completo 🤣
@melon44285 ай бұрын
Sarah, thank you for this opportunity to share. It has been an honour to participate in this competition.
@vexywexypoo5 ай бұрын
The football t-shirt, right?
@thete69715 ай бұрын
Omg the polish one was SO ACCURATE! The first one was probably the typical "help we got kids now and no money no space" with no trashcan visible (its under the sink) and the second one i literally could see anywhere where a grandma lives. I myself have caninets like those and i hate so much the fact they dont make the ones im used to in the sims 4. Also the fact they weren't able to put slavic curtains and instead had to go for the red ones was just sad to me. THE ZABKA WAS VERY ACCURATE AND I LOVE HOW YOU PRONOUNCE IT RIGHT (my mom always told me people might have a problem pronouncing ż bcuz not everyone has that sound)
@Trassel2425 ай бұрын
I know that we’ve got some kind of European representation with Windenburg, but that one has so many different parts of Europe squashed into one place that it ends up looking like nothing at all because it tries to be so many things at once. I’m in the beginning of the video and the Polish flat block looks a lot like where I live, in a small, kind of boring town in Sweden (no evil gnomes though!). I grew up in a flat myself, sharing a room with my little sister until I moved out. I forgot about this build challenge thing but would have loved to participate!
@Space0fox5 ай бұрын
Saying that Windenburg is European representation is like saying that Mt. Komorebi is Asian represenation
@melizabeth5555 ай бұрын
yeah, and the only differentiation they seem to make is henford on bagley which whilst i’m not exactly complaining about the “lack” of british stuff by any means but literally nothing about that world looks like anywhere in the uk, sure there’s thatched cottages but the actual world looks really jungle-y which is just stupid, like they can’t even get that right let alone non english/american ish places right 😭 the closest place that it looks like is what tourists probably think the cotswolds look like which doesn’t reflect the uk as a whole in any way
@Stettafire4 ай бұрын
Hard agree. Also it feels very stereotypical and not genuine.
@ssophua2 ай бұрын
*Western European
@boygirlАй бұрын
@@melizabeth555 also, that pack is supposed to be 'british' but if you want a kettle you have to get another pack
@blondeee5 ай бұрын
Can we appreciate Fgg spelling Żabka almost perfectly?!!! ... Btw, the last apartment gives me PRL vibes lmao. 😂😂😂
@hellgix5 ай бұрын
It should! A lot of poles, especially the older gens have the same furnitures they had in the prl era
@gab_just_gab5 ай бұрын
I love how the Italian house has the obligatory sun on the wall. That's how you know it's genuine lmfao
@CiaLaVirago3 ай бұрын
Literally why we love to stick suns on every single wall 😭
@فلسطينحرة-ث9ض2 ай бұрын
agreed, but the house doesnt look that realistic to me.
@MH-fb7hh5 ай бұрын
22:14 The logs are actually part of a popular finnish summer cabin game called Mölkky! You toss a ball and try to knock over the pins, or try to toss a ring onto them (I've played both versions, but my family might just be weird) And the naked gnome is a refrence to the fact that we go to sauna naked :)
@NoahGooder5 ай бұрын
i mean when you go the sauna the most people wear if not naked is a towel.
@MH-fb7hh5 ай бұрын
@@NoahGooder True! Although in some countries (what I've heard from friends and family) people go to the sauna in swimsuits AND towels. That might have been Germany... I've also heard people get mad when you toss water onto the sauna stove (Like that isn't the point? XDD). It's weird how much a tradition changes when it's introduced to other countries and cultures. From a kinda-sacred place of healing and relaxation to some spa-exclusive fancy schmanzy thing :]
@TezziMonstah5 ай бұрын
I think the most traditional OG way to play Finnish Mölkky is that you throw one "mölkky"-log at the pile of others, kinda like bowling with other logs being pins that you try to knock down with the throwing log. It's really giving bowling in a forest ✨😂 It's much fun and some people have their own house rules for it for example the mölkky have numbers on them so you can try to hit the biggest numbers to claim them as yours etc. I literally screamed at loud when I saw the logs and went " THAT'S MÖLKKY!" very Finnish very wow #torillatavataan
@ninteney97775 ай бұрын
@@MH-fb7hh hi I'm from germany and we also go naked into the sauna. However there are some where clothing is allowed but it's not as common.
@d8rain5 ай бұрын
I’m Native American and my tribe does “sweat lodges” which is basically a medicinal sauna and some ppl go in with little clothes as well 😅
@Jedrekzpolski5 ай бұрын
Polish guy here, yeah, yeah, the build is spot on, had to make sure I didn’t open camera app by accident cause it looks just like the one outside my window, but… Girl, do you know how perfect is your pronunciation of „Żabka”? I am in awe.
@duartsy4 ай бұрын
14:37 “sims will write in simlish but the numbers are in English?” 😭😭 girl numbers are pretty much universal to all languages what do you mean by English numbers
@elih60872 ай бұрын
Took me too long to find this comment. English numbers lmao they're Indian (even though people think they're Arabic) and it's not like every language has their own numbers anyway.
@AstronomicalJellyАй бұрын
arabic has its own numbers, as well as roman numerals. there are a lot of different numeric systems
@rockbellmakeup5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for touring my build and for creating this challenge! It was so special trying to represent Argentina in a build and, as you said, it was made with a lot of love. I also enjoyed the other builds SO MUCH. Love to see all the details and the different styles...
@fin30625 ай бұрын
boludo te quedó buenísimo el mate
@rockbellmakeup5 ай бұрын
@@fin3062 Gracias! me volví pelotuda
@maitesoto19535 ай бұрын
Te quedó espectacular! Amé las puertas con las cortinas, me hizo acordar a la casa de mis abuelos (no es casa chorizo pero sí de esa época)
@alicemcdonalds114 ай бұрын
Te quedó increíble!! He visitado Argentina varias veces cuando era niña y esta casa realmente capturó la esencia de Argentina como lo recordaba, está hermosa
@FaltronMotors3 ай бұрын
La casa me hizo acordar muchísimo a una película vieja argentina ( no me acuerdo el nombre ahora)
@manyofnine15615 ай бұрын
the polish block made me laugh because the literal first thing I built when I got the landlord pack was build an eastern block like my parents grew up in 😂
@alisayarova49495 ай бұрын
I'm from Ukraine and Polish one is really similar to what we have here. Loved it!
@marketarychtarikova19495 ай бұрын
I'm Czech and same
@spaghettiisyummy.36235 ай бұрын
Boanian & SAME!
@dustin4453 ай бұрын
What is the obsession with ukrainians always comparing themselves to the Polish people?
@spaghettiisyummy.36233 ай бұрын
@@dustin445 Ukraine was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. That, and Lviv, a city in the West of Ukraine, used to be majority Polish until like, the 1930s.
@bananachip96193 ай бұрын
@@dustin445 People like to compare their lives with others' in general, dustin
@ademonys22925 ай бұрын
I live in a polish post communism block and yes there's a little broken playground outside every block, yes there's a small creepy staircase, yes there's a separate area for trash and yes there's a grim reaper in my room
@Qwerty-wk3jy25 күн бұрын
in argentina it's like that too! Without a trash area (that i've seen in the Fonavi close to my house)
@trezalkapeliskova21215 ай бұрын
What I would build for Czechia (if I owned The Sims and had any building skills): - a Moravian wine cellar built into a hill - a baroque church (there's one pretty much in every village) - a pub that was built in the 70's and now looks kinda dingy and has weird smell - a vacation house by a pond - a camping ground by the river with canoes pulled up to the shore - a "garden colony" (multiple private gardens next to each other, usually the only building on the property is a shed)
@Follow_a_bee5 ай бұрын
Yeah I was just thinking about gardens settlements (?), think it would be fun they could add fruit trees (peach,plum), nut trees, more veggies (cucumber, corn) with it. A beer making maybe?
@RedHatMeg5 ай бұрын
Please, do baroque church. It would be EPIC.
@alexrain93165 ай бұрын
as a fellow czech person I really wanna build at least some of these (I own the sims but I'm not sure if I have the skills tho)
@martynauwu33875 ай бұрын
this garden colony thing is also very common in Poland so maybe even in other slavic countries too
@trezalkapeliskova21215 ай бұрын
@@martynauwu3387 it might be connected to the popularity of panel apartment houses? People can't have gardens atached to their homes, so they use the colony.
@dreamscapecircle5 ай бұрын
ARGENTINA MENTION AYO (also a lil tidbit: the mate is actually pronounced "mah-teh"-- it's a type of tea we drink thru a special metal straw that kinda has a filter on one end bc we keep the tea leaves in the cup)
@noahlovesmateco3 ай бұрын
Mate is our own essence of life lol
@janerain135 ай бұрын
i made my grandmother's house since its the most culturally-representative building i know, but as i was building it i had an emotional breakdown and gave up. i still want to do it though, even if it doesnt get mentioned, just to honor my grandma and our history
@Gabby-me6zn2 ай бұрын
it’s been a couple months, but i hope the beauty and emotion of representing your home stays with you both in and out of game! i also really hope you can revisit building your home if it’s something you still want to resume 🫶
@ericmihali90915 ай бұрын
The lack of representation was never a problem for the sims because the first 3 games had a clear design in mind that was based on 1950's america aesthetics.
@Space0fox5 ай бұрын
When I was a child/teen playing The Sims 1-3 it was never a problem to me because I saw it is mostly US but now I see all those cultures that have their own representation EVERYTWHERE and are like 'ah yes... we are just worse..."
@farima23825 ай бұрын
The wooden blocks in the yard of the Finnish house are meant to represent "mölkky" which is a game you play during the summer. :)
@ydnebs5 ай бұрын
Oh yeah slavic rep is definetly lacking in modern media... I also would like to see something that is like, not so russian-focused? Not that russian culture isn't important, I just feel like whenever there is a slavic character is in a mainstream media is always russian and even then its kinda fetishised. Also when it's comes to aesthethics; our culture is way more that those depressing communist blocks. I'm sure EA could easliy made a very green, kinda rural world with big agricultural fields, representing our countryside, with typical slavic, boxy subburban houses, with a church-like museum maybe a pre-ww1 manor house. Idk about the gameplay, perhaps something about discovering local history? The only problem with slavic rep in the sims is that our culture and history is really based around religion, which might not work for the Sims. I still hope they'll figure something out.
@Space0fox5 ай бұрын
Yeah, I always HATE when some people are annoyed they "ONLY HAVE 1-2 REPRESENTATION in mainstream media". Like our representation in mainstream are bad Russians who are bad... I would be crying for even one normal Slavic representation in mainstream...
@ssophua2 ай бұрын
russian culture is 90% stolen from the nations the used to colonize so it is in fact not important. We'd be better off if we celebrated the cultures of the oppressed nations 🤝
@netvoedelo99562 ай бұрын
Russian here. You see, Russian so-called "representation" is used in American soft culture (like games, movies, TV series, comics, etc.) for anti-Russian propaganda. An American would rather pick out its own eyes than make any kind of compliment towards Russian or any other Slavic culture. It's easier for them to hate and lie about us.
@fh90612 ай бұрын
It really bothers me how much slavic cultures are misrepresented in media. Like slavic characters are either villianized or sexualized or both and no one ever calls out how racist that is.
@Follow_a_bee5 ай бұрын
As Czech🇨🇿 I would be ecstatic If they add atleast some Slavic food! And ballet, maybe theaters?🙌
@notamelia4 ай бұрын
omg! i’ve always wanted a slavic inspired world but never could figure out what the gameplay could be but you just made me realise that it would be the PERFECT opportunity to introduce a functioning stage for bands (to make staple pubs with live music), theatre/opera, ballet and even folk dance performances (in traditional outfits)! i would cry.
@onidaaitsubasa41775 ай бұрын
The polish building actually looks like it would be functional with Apartment Living and the home business traits mod, could have the person of one apartment run the store.
@Arting_Through_Life5 ай бұрын
Oh that "white passing" comment is so for real! I'm middle eastern and when people comment on my accessories or my sayings and mention "cultural appropriation" I'm like IT'S MY CULTURE!!!! These were all so amazing!
@Spooky-Sara5 ай бұрын
Are you Persian?
@fh90612 ай бұрын
That sounds really annoying. But being middleastren who's not white-passing is also not fun because people keep asking the most offensive questions and calling you slurs in the street. Unfortunately this is the world we live in:/
@saltlampp5 ай бұрын
ARGENTINA MENTIONEDDDD 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 (its the closet ill get to Chilean representation)
@Lyliizz5 ай бұрын
No, it's not. I say this as a South American living in South America.
@saltlampp5 ай бұрын
@@Lyliizz I mean in the sense that EA tends to generalise whole continents into one 5 lots world
@paulatano17465 ай бұрын
¿Tienen casas chorizo en Chile?
@Qwerty-wk3jy25 күн бұрын
ARGENTINA MI PATRIAAAAAAAAA (suerte la proxima amigaso)
@fff-my1ol5 ай бұрын
as a Taiwanese never thought I would see a real nightmarket on the sims and fgg's channel :0!!! this is actually too accurate. LOVE IT.
@nitzan37825 ай бұрын
It's not "Mate" as in "m8" it's mate as in MA-te and it's a really strong South American tea. My dad's childhood home is similar(he showed it to me on a heritage trip) except it's two-stories and his sisters would always go and smoke on the roof. As someone who currently lives in the Nordic countryside, this might as well be one of my neighbors' houses. Not mine cause mine's not red, the literal only difference.
@henriquebastosbernardoni36305 ай бұрын
Fun-not-so-fun fact: None of the worlds in the game represent a place from the Southern Hemisphere! Maaaaybe you could say Selvadorada for having South American cuisine and such, but I'd say it's much more based on Central America/Mexico, specially the ruins.
@Junephoto70505 ай бұрын
😔
@PrinceGrenouille5 ай бұрын
And you can't even live there since it's a vacation world. Here i crave a north-african world, but i don't think it will ever happen. I really think EA evaluates that our cultures aren't commercial enough to be represented
@Junephoto70505 ай бұрын
There is a mod by Zerbu which allows you to live in Selvadorada
@PrinceGrenouille5 ай бұрын
@@Junephoto7050 Yes, you're right, and i used it. But the problem here really is that EA practices some king of low cost representation, but claims to be inclusive. 😕 It's EA who must create truely residential lots and/or get Selvadorada accessible for residential. Modders and CC creators do a really great job, but EA has to do real inclusivity. For example, they begin to do stuff for trans people, but the binder isn't binding anything, or the choice of pronouns only exist in english (in french, there is a lot of variety of pronuns for non binary persons, but EA does not implemente it) All of this sounds like some "inclusive-washing" (i don't know how you can call it in english, that's not my native language) like pink-washing. They just fake inclusivity, ans that's pissed me of a lot (don't get me wrong, you have nothing to do with that June, of course, and it's great that you reminds Zerbu's mod. I just needed to be mad a little against EA and use your comment to tell all of this. I wish you the best)
@Junephoto70505 ай бұрын
@@PrinceGrenouille thanks! Ou merci! Pas de problème, je comprends! Eh oui, EA doit encore travailler sur la représentation... bientôt j'espère ! Ça me ferait plaisir de créer plein de sims différents! Tout le monde a le droit d'être représenté
@mirelinkk5 ай бұрын
ngl, as a serbian, though the first build was polish, it definitely reminded me of home! i guess many slavic cultures have similar buildings or architecture lol. the sims team really needs to fix their representation problem 🙏🙏
@naeshelle5 ай бұрын
I would love to see more representation of countries from across the Global South. It’s ridiculous that we get ten flavors of white America & a few cultures of color/non-American cultures sprinkled in. If diverse representation is the standard, then it should truly be the standard.
@watchingthebees5 ай бұрын
As a Brazilian I absolutely HATE that the world that looks the most similar to where I live (Selvadorada) is a vacation world, like no one actually lives in South America, it only exists for tourists
@nataliasliwa70065 ай бұрын
POOOLSKAA GÓROOOM!!!🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
@novadearest5 ай бұрын
The Vietnamize wooden beds!! I only know about those from a Vietnamize creator on youtube, but it's sooo cool being able to notice what they're trying to portray in the sims!! Man I love this video. I love getting to take a peek into other people's cultures and lives like this, it's so beautiful, thank you FGG for the amazing build challenge!
@xxxelislxxx5 ай бұрын
I absolutely loved the Polish one! It reminded me of the old school appartments we have here in Czech Republic. I would love some more Slavic representation in the Sims, but I doubt that would ever happen. :')
@haytoo5 ай бұрын
I’d like anything from Subsaharan Africa to be represented in the Sims
@coraholunder19895 ай бұрын
I love that Polish block. It looks exactly like East German blocks. And like Russian ones I guess. The Soviets built those exact blocks everywhere they could. 😂
@adaki85875 ай бұрын
Yup they exist to maximise the space people could live in, not to be pretty xD but in my experience a good chunk of them (at least in poland) are now repainted and have really cool murals on the side :)