How Corrupt is Strangetown Anyway? (Part Two) || Sims 2 Corruption Chronicles

Hi! I'm Tanic Sims 2 but you can call me Tanny and welcome to Part Two of the third instalment of the Sims 2 Corruption Chronicles. Join me as we seek the answer to a question as old as time: just how corrupt are the Sims 2 premade neighbourhoods anyway?
In the first part, we covered the corrupted dead sims in Strangetown - now it’s the living residents’ turn. They can’t all possibly be borked too, surely? Well… let’s just say that, if they weren’t, this video would have only needed to be one part long.
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SOURCES AND RECOMMENDED READING!
↳Correcting Strangetown DNA, DNA Development, Singles Birth Crashes: www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf...
↳DNA Development, Singles Birth Crashes, Patch: www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf...
↳BBC News Article: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology...
↳Sim DNA Unraveled, Strangetown Missing Genetics, Singles Birth Crashes: modthesims.info/t/19921
↳Alien Genetics: sims.fandom.com/wiki/Genetics
↳Hidden Nervous: sims.fandom.com/wiki/Nervous_...)
↳Abhijeet Cho: sims.fandom.com/wiki/Abhijeet...
↳Esther Tse: sims.fandom.com/wiki/Esther_T...)
↳Bella Goth: sims.fandom.com/wiki/Bella_Go...)
↳Avoiding Corruption: sims.fandom.com/wiki/Game_gui...
↳Networking: sims.fandom.com/wiki/Reputation
↳MONI’s HoodChecker Tutorial: • How To Fix Errors and ...
↳Anti-corruption Mods: tanicsims2.blogspot.com/2020/...
meetmetotheriver's Clean Strangetown: meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/p...
Dorsal Axe's Clean Strangetown: modthesims.info/d/641841/fixe...
New Friend Fix by Cyjon: cyjon.net/node/239
SimPE: modthesims.info/d/30839/simpe...
HoodChecker: modthesims.info/d/456523/hood...
MUSIC & SOUNDS
↳Kristen Dez - Come On Come On (Intro & Outro)
↳Sims 2 Theme
↳Sim Time Sim Place
↳Depeche Mode - Suffer Well (Simlish)
↳Oops A Sim
↳Good Evening Bella
↳Sims 2 DS - Aliens
VIDEOS
↳Sims 2 Official Trailer ( • The Sims™ 2 Official T... )
↳Friday the 13th ( • The Sims 2 PC Gameplay... )
MORE SIMS SHENANIGANS!
↳Twitter: / tanicsims2
↳Blog: tanicsims2.blogspot.com/
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00:00 Intro
00:40 MIA DNA
04:36 Nervous Subject(s)
07:20 Strangetownies
10:42 Schrödinger’s Bella 2: Electric Bellaloo
14:14 We are Family
16:41 Checking the Hood
22:29 Verdict
24:59 Outro

[@MayLina]

let me just say that alien baby being born cut scene alone has more life, emotions and story than the whole Sims 4

[@tanicsims2]

i have never played ts4 so i can neither agree nor disagree... but this did make me go OOF 🤣

[@malloryknox6802]

@@tanicsims2 I played it only once when it was released and never touched it again lmao

[@shakespeareangentleman]

@Tanic Sims 2 let me do a very quick recap. Only moodlets. No memories Fears are terrible and some of them you can't delete and are annoying. Babies can't get out of a bassinet. No little details No cars Ect.

[@aliveslice]

@@shakespeareangentleman terrible humour. I always loved Sims 2/3 objects description (store/build). In Sims 4 it literally makes it unplayable for me. I just hate them.

[@shakespeareangentleman]

@@aliveslice same I'm with you

[@fishsona]

The worst thing about Bella is that out of all the townies she should be the least buggy one, as the devs would expect players making her playable. Instead she's a walking timebomb

[@solanita222]

Everybody is a Curious sibling.

[@tanicsims2]

maybe we are all curious siblings...

[@skarpevindkast]

@@tanicsims2 this makes me curious 🧐

[@justanotheranimeprofilepic]

The real treasure are the curious siblings we made along the way

[@so_qp]

Benjamin Cho: **works 24 hours each day** also Benjamin Cho: 👍👍

[@tanicsims2]

he lives for the grind 🤣 he loves it!

[@Honeywell888]

It was so funny'' He is employed in a job that doesn't exist and works 24 hours per day... and then that smile! Omg... I am crying from laughters

[@lulaellie]

My child self going up to Bella Goth as soon as I spotted her in Strangetown: 🤡🤡

[@Pan-oy2ck]

And my child self literally trying to summon every NPC via the mailbox and boolprop

[@LindaZoheetik]

My childself befriending Bella Goth, having her move in, having her moving out to her own lot and then moving that lot to Pleasantview to reunite the Goth family: 🤡🤡

[@funlover163]

@@LindaZoheetik oh I did that lol Oops

[@kitkatboard]

@@LindaZoheetik Me moving adult Alexander to Strange Town to reunite with his mother and realizing the game doesn't recognize them as family and it leads to... weird stuff 🤡🤡🤡

[@KatJustice97]

Every time I see the footage of Nervous getting crushed by the satalite, I just imagine him regularly getting into near-death situations so he has an excuse to see his dad

[@SofiaH]

for some reason these corruption videos freak me out even when nothing freaky is happening? love the slightly unhinged vibes of sims 2. and i know nothing about coding or making video games but the way they made the game is so interesting to me!

[@tanicsims2]

the ‘slightly unhinged vibes of sims 2’ got me 🤣 for me even the word used to describe it - corruption - is absolutely terrifying. so even when we’re talking about less creepy things like, say, missing family ties it just feels so eerie and weird. it gives me the same vibes as terms like ‘lost media’ even when the lost media in question is as innocuous as a missing children’s tv show pilot lol honestly same here - i’m no computer expert and my knowledge of coding and programming only goes as far as knowing how to write ‘hello world’ in basic html lol. but somehow this game makes us all experts with all the work we have to do to fix it hahaha

[@AlexisTwoLastNames]

exactly same for me. lol if i watch these at night, i have to look over my shoulder every once in a while

[@HH-xl9xx]

@@AlexisTwoLastNames lol same even though in hindsight it’s pretty ridiculous to be looking over your shoulder for a SIM of all things to attack you 😂😂😂

[@nerdychocobo]

this is something I get in general with game breaking glitches, they fascinate me but they give me this horrible pit in my stomach...maybe it's something to do with the idea of a game being fundamentally broken and it being unavoidable for players?

[@bandfan27]

same haha

[@helenaww]

how the hell did they actually manage to fuck up this many parts of the game? and how did i manage to have a 10 year old strangetown hood with next to no problems?

[@ViniZiello]

I guesd because you play with caution or not messing with what you shouldnt. A pinch of luck too

[@ravenID429]

Cause most of these are myths and misconceptions

[@maxhadanidea]

the second nervous subject might be grim going "no" after he dies

[@karoublue6589]

I don't think nervous having no ties to Olive was a mistake. I think the developers didn't want players to know right away that nervous was olives son. It's not until you dig through memories that you learn, so it doesn't show up in the family tree. So the dead nervous is the one tagged as olives son. And the playable nervous isn't so players can learn later when they start reading characters memories

[@byanca96]

I consider not listing Chloe and Lola as Curious siblings, a feature and plot device, not a bug lol. The Curious brothers are really into aliens, heck two of them even pregnant with one. Learning that their hot alien wives are actually their half-sisters, really thickens the plot lol.

[@therotryzit]

The more i think about it, maybe the Curious Brothers weren't intended to by related at all, or at the very least Vicund and Jenny weren't supposed to be related to Pascal and Lazlo. Apparently the Curious Brothers were a reference to the Lone Gunman, who weren't related to each other. Adding to this Vidcund and Jenny look nothing like Pascal and Lazlo. Probably they were hastily rushing the family relations in Strangetown before releasing, since they didn't bother doing it for most of the development phase.

[@tanicsims2]

that actually makes sense! really the only thing i can think that could refute it would be the storytelling image with jenny, vidcund, and pascal as children/toddlers (if i’m remembering the image correctly, kitty is pregnant with lazlo in it) but that could be explained as a last minute photograph too... in the psp game, they really ramp up the lone gunmen/x-files references and they retconned their relationship. sinjin balani from the kine society mentions lazlo is his cousin, which would imply pascal, vidcund, and jenny would be his cousins too... but there’s no explicit confirmation of that. plus the brothers just refer to one another as something like lab partners. wouldn’t they say brothers?? i know the psp game was released after ts2 and has a few discrepancies but it still makes me wonder if this arrangement was the original plan. it wouldn’t be too out of the ordinary either for them to all have the surname curious - it would be like the singles household. honestly the curious-smith family is so bizarre it’s worthy of a stand-alone video where literally everything weird about them gets covered... but i think there was definitely some rushing when it came to their family ties. we know that strangetown went through many stages of development without being updated so a lot of outdated data remains - i can believe the shoddy family ties are a result of this

[@shyhistorian]

I had the weirdest experience a few years back, where I married Vidcund to Chloe and then Lazlo to Lola (not realising that they were actually siblings) and both produced children. Even more bizarrely was the fact that the “cousins” didn’t even recognise each other as family. Yikes.

[@solanita222]

In my current Strangetown, Bella Goth works in the military career, and when General Buzz brought her home from work and wanted to become best friends with her I was like "ehm no thank you, I'm fine without that corrupted lady"

[@tanicsims2]

🤣 if you’re using a clean template she should be absolutely fine! but even then i understand why you’d be cautious. corruption aside, her entire story is very spooky!

[@fernandaa7334]

The same happened in my game but it gets wrost: she was dating Buzz AND was Tank's first kiss, so ewwwwww

[@tanicsims2]

Fernanda A ...please tell me tank wasn’t a teenager when that happened 😭

[@fernandaa7334]

@@tanicsims2 no, he just turned adult and worked in the military career too.

[@wingsofzero5732]

Unrelated to the corruptions, but oh no, my head hurts from reliving the Curious/Smith family tree. That's some TV soap opera stuff that Jenny just straight up married and had kids with her father's lover, ensuring that she became the stepmother of her half-siblings and Johnny and Jill both having their aunts as their half-siblings too. Only in The Sims 2 lmao On the Nervous theory, I like to take the path of least resistance and say that both the hidden Nervous and the playable Nervous are the same person. My only justification is that the devs applied this logic to ST and PV Bella; even though they obviously look different, canonically they're the same. If you wanted to weave some messed up lore into it, you could say that Nervous was revived after the 'Friday the 13th' video but had to go through a face reconstruction due to the accident. That's why everyone, even the Beakers, has memories of the old Nervous because no one else had seen him after the surgery (assuming Nervous had met Pascal before it happened). I like the clone theory though (and I think it was a minor plot point in 'Strangetown, Here We Come') because it seems more mad scientist and totally what the Beakers would do just for shi's and giggles.

[@raffit958]

Okay, it's actually so interesting that Strangetown Bella Goth is considered a Curious sibling by the game : in the french version of the Sims 2, Strangetown Bella Goth is actually named Kathy Lalouche (to my knowledge, the french version i's the only version where her name is different in Pleasantview and Strangetown). And in the french version, the Curious family's translated last name is... Lalouche. So french Strangetown Bella Goth has the same last name as the Curious siblings !! Coincidence ? (God I love this broken game)

[@existenz_1]

These corruption videos are so interesting

[@tanicsims2]

thank you! sims 2 corruption is oddly fascinating 🤣

[@blackthornbark]

as dangerous to game as all of it is, it really adds to the strangetown's spookiness 👀 very interesting part, with some things in part one i was already familiar, but the broken trees are completely new information! i wonder what secrets you will uncover in next towns!

[@tanicsims2]

agreed! i even remember the days where we weren’t so clued up about corruption yet so we really did just think it was strangetown being strangetown 🤣 hehe i try to cover absolutely everything from the well-known to the more obscure. even though we’re always told to use clean templates because the premade hoods come corrupted already, personally i’ve never found a cohesive list detailing everything that’s broken about them. the information is all kinda scattered or not super in-depth... so i thought i should change that and potentially help other curious players who absolutely need to know the ins and outs of everything 🤣

[@blackthornbark]

@@tanicsims2 yeah, i had sims dissapearing and sometimes reappearing again around generation of grandchildren of curious brothers and because it was the time my friend from school got bon voyage for her birthday and let me borrow it i blamed it all on the aliens AND some curse of sacred temple in the woods :D it was quite fun while it lasted!

[@pinkcatacombs]

Although the fact that Chloe and Lola and the curious brothers being attracted to each other is probs just an oversight by the developers, I like to just tell myself it’s part of the storyline. The curious brother’s father had these secret alien twins that they don’t know abt… soooo the brothers don’t know the alien sisters are their sisters.

[@tanicsims2]

oh yeah, it definitely makes sense as a storyline! it also explains how jenny does recognise lola and chloe as family, however she treats them as her step-daughters instead; she might know lola and chloe are pol’s daughters, but might not realise her father gave birth to them/that they are also half-siblings. i can’t remember right now how johnny and jill treat lola and chloe but if they recognise them as siblings rather than aunties then this also helps the theory that the curious bros and jenny are unaware of their half-sisters. sure, this is most likely due to limitations of the game - it probably just can’t process more... complex relations such as double-related...ness. but purely from a storyline perspective i definitely agree with it! i guess it just won’t ever stop being weird that they could potentially date and reproduce together, probably just because we as players are aware that they _should_ be related even if the sims themselves aren’t 😅

[@pinkcatacombs]

@@tanicsims2 I actually just revisited my strange town and apparently pascal and Chloe had a little romance together 😵‍💫😵‍💫 (they were both elders tho… so at least no risk of sibling cousins makes it a little better…. I guess LOL). Also, the family tree is all kinds of weird bc when I first entered the household I had just placed a now graduated from uni Jill in town and pascal rolled a want to flirt w her (secondary romance)…….. and I was like WTF??? For some weird reason he didn’t recognize Jill as related to him which is odd bc he did recognize Jenny as his sister and usually uncles and nieces are recognized even in the vanilla game. He also obvi didn’t recognize Lola or Chloe as his sister. Sooo strange. I’m not sure if the other curious brothers recognize Jill as their niece but I know pascal’s alien son DID recognize Jill as his cousin and so does Vidcund’s alien son 😵‍💫😵‍💫 which also made me realize that the alien boys are brother cousins bc they have the same alien dad and their human dads are also brothers LMAOO. Oh and last but not least the already inc3sty alien brothers were going steady with the Beaker’s set of twin girls. So if they hypothetically stay together as adults then they’ll be half brother cousin and brothers in law? And any kids with the twins would be cousins by both their moms and dads. Insane!!!

[@dinealone0]

i heard the weird clones were because the original story for strangetown was that aliens crash landed and took on human forms, and you would have to figure out which ones are aliens.

[@karinahernandez6892]

:0

[@tanicsims2]

that is the absolute coolest theory ever! i remember when we weren’t so clued up on corruption so we would blame weird bugs in strangetown on aliens but i’ve never heard this theory before. when i finally get around to playing strangetown again i kinda wanna -steal- borrow this as a storyline 👉🏻👈🏻

[@dinealone0]

@@tanicsims2 RIIIIIIGHT? I think I heard it from Marticore (if that's how you spell it 😭) orrr another KZbin who does corruption investigation (I can't remember but I think she does blightville?) I've only just started playing in the last year that's so funny y'all blamed it on aliens! The stories in Strangetown are so good it's a shame it shipped so buggy. I'm sooo glad you have a new storyline to work with now 😎 it's really what I think works best with everything, especially considering Bella Goth!

[@donotryon9389]

This unlocked a core memory for me for some reason!

[@dinealone0]

@@donotryon9389 omfg yay!!!! I love when that happens haha!!!

[@RedxRiot]

Can’t wait for veronaville, I feel like no one really talks about that neighborhood???? 😅

[@EnigmaticLucas]

Same. The only Veronaville corruption I know of is Olivia Monty not actually being pregnant, so it will be interesting to learn about other ones.

[@tanicsims2]

i have pretty much the whole list of things i want to cover ready to go! there’s a lot to come 👀 some well-known (like olivia monty and the typical borked ancestors) but a lot of other things too that i can’t wait to talk about ❤️

[@dundee6402]

@@EnigmaticLucas I would love to see what happens if you make her actually pregnant

[@EnigmaticLucas]

@@dundee6402 From what I’ve read, nothing out of the ordinary

[@Gulamaja]

Why is the sims 2 so hilariously broken 😂

[@tanicsims2]

if it weren’t, would it still be the sims 2 we know and love? 🤔🤣

[@Gulamaja]

@@tanicsims2 That's true! The fact that it's so broken is half the fun 🤣

[@tanicsims2]

Wolf i get a real adrenaline buzz out of loading my hoods wondering if anything’s gotten borked and if i’m gonna open it to find all my sims missing 🤣 nah i’m a pretty careful player who’s terrified of corruption, but somehow making these videos has made me relax and just accept that it’s broken by default so you gotta just... go with it 🤣

[@Gulamaja]

@@tanicsims2 I like that attitude! I also love how random the game is. I have had so many odd and hilarious thing happening in mine because of corruption and having an old and slow computer. The highlight was when Mrs Crumpelbottom got bitten by a vampire (which I now know is a no-no) and she turned invisible! I could only see her bag and knitting! I still find that so funny! 😂 great video btw!

[@tanicsims2]

Wolf sims 2 corruption is either horrifying or hilarious - no in between 🤣 its signs and results are just so arbitrary as well. i’m guessing that the game just can’t process the changes to her mesh since she’s not a real sim so instead she turned invisible - it kinda reminds me of how seth zaidi turns invisible if he becomes a zombie because of his corrupted appearance according to the wiki. i’ve only ever heard about the dreaded event of a grand vampire autonomously biting mrs. crumplebottom but i’ve never actually heard what happens after, so this was super cool to read! probably not super cool at the time though hahaha. and thank you so much!!

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

i love the fact that without any mod fixes, bella can hypothetically introduce your sim to a fucking rc car??? thats iconic behaviour good for her

[@diamondinthesky4771]

i feel like the original Nervous Subject was killed off (as seen in the beta footage) and they realized that was probably bad of them to do since they hadn't programmed resurrection at the time, so they had to haphazardly recreate him and pretend it never happened.

[@augustinesim1672]

Tanic : Knut Futa KZbin CC : *cAnOe fUta* 🤦 We do be canoeing in corruption lmao

[@tanicsims2]

‘canoeing in corruption’ i am SO -stealing- borrowing that 🤣 lol, it’s comments like these that remind me i really need to get onto adding accurate subtitles since i rely on cc myself and know how important they are... but at the same time, they’re so unintentionally hilarious that i just can’t bring myself to change them 😭

[@T.T_CenrryTH]

So... Is Bella officially the harbinger of Doom? That's rad as hell

[@pinkcatacombs]

Also Bella being broken makes so much sense. I was actually surprised to find out that she is supposed to be in the business career bc she is almost always high up in the military career for me. In fact, as a kid I remember buzz would always end up bringing her home at some point and I would make them get married lol. Specifically I remember I had them woohoo in a hot tub once and then they were both frozen and would not get out ever again. Also…. In my current game Bella has been involved with both ripp and tank (they’re adults now) …. I knew she could network with the bad sims but I did not know that it still corrupted things when you decline 😟 This also reminds me that I have this chronic issue of Pleasantview sims trying to network and introduce ppl to Mortimer even tho he’s long gone and I decline every time. Makes sense why it’s spreading now.

[@tanicsims2]

somebody else here said their bella was also in the military career, so i have been wondering for a while whether townies’ careers are randomised based on their aspiration however iirc bella is a romance sim and military seems more suited for popularity so i may be completely off the mark here, but i’ve considered it as a theory because it would narrow careers down (thus why bella will often be placed in the military career even though she should actually be in business) though i guess it’s also just a coincidence; if their careers are meant to be randomised (or for example if they are spawned by the game) then only careers from the base game will be used unless you have a mod. so could just be a result of the limited amount of careers available, if there are no other factors such as aspiration at play. your strangetown sounds wild! i love hearing about other people’s game so thanks for sharing! d... did i ghostwrite this... the EXACT SAME THING happened in my pleasantview! a dormie tried introducing my sim to their friend mortimer goth and i was just like... honey the only way you can contact him is via ouija board because he died SIX ROUNDS AGO 😭 i’d heard of townies trying to introduce object npcs to sims (even in clean hoods/with non-bella townies -because this game is broken- ) i had never seen anything about townies trying to connect you to dead sims. naturally i ran to reddit because i was worried and wanted to know if anyone else had experienced this, though i was relieved that it was a valid sim at least and not a universal npc. it’s how i discovered the new friend fix by cyjon and the met sim memories. i wanted to remove all connection between the dormie and mortimer so i went into simpe and found these memories, which i removed mostly for peace of mind if nothing else. it was relatively painless however i am not entirely sure if this would be the case for object npcs. we of course do not want to risk modifying the objects.package files in any way. mootilda mentions in a thread on mts that relationships are stored in the neighbourhood manager file however i am not sure if this is also the case for memories. on the other hand i am also not entirely sure if object npcs having these memories would actually be inherently dangerous, though i am assuming they wouldn’t be good and when it comes to game corruption it’s always best to err on the side of caution!

[@ABMS721]

For 6:07, I believe the reason this happens is because whenever you adopt a pet in a household you're playing, if there are close to no more pets available the game recognizes this and generates random pets to put up for adoption. Since it does that, if you go to SimPE, they will be labeled in a separate household with the same household name as the one you were playing. That's why when you clicked on the Specter relations, they were all there because their household name is the exact same as the actual Specter household. It's easy to fix this though. Just go to Family Households list or something like that in SimPE and find the household name that is duplicated with all the pets in it, and just rename it to anything you want, and you're good to go. If anything, it's more irritating than buggy😂

[@tanicsims2]

i had no idea about this! thank you for telling me. it... makes some sense? well, as much ‘sense’ as ts2 can make. it’s still kind of weird though considering i only use this strangetown for recording (i had the game generate a new save folder separate from my main one) and every time i filmed something i wouldn’t save; the only time i had to save was when i added knut to the household and had to fiddle with him in simpe, so i never touched pet adoption or anything to do with pets since i didn’t need to. if i’m understanding you correctly though... i have clean versions of the stealth hoods in my programme files, which i _believe_ would mean new strays had to generate. because the specter household was the only one i saved, it makes sense given your explanation that this is what happened here. still insanely confusing, but at least i know now it wasn’t my game being weird for no reason and that this is... normal game behaviour (as normal as ts2 can be). it’s no problem anymore because i had to reset strangetown anyway to its default state for this video - seems that bella moves herself into the townie household at some point after the hood is initialised, but her ties to the default household remain - but at least i know now for future so i can keep my eye out for it (and fix it if needs be). again thank you for telling me!!

[@HH-xl9xx]

A few years back EA released every piece of sims 2 from base to dlc for free for a bit. I was excited until while downloading it all I decided to see if I needed any story progression or cleanup mods. Then I found out about neighborhood corruption and immediately noped out. Not even the toddler talk glitch from sims 3 reaches the level of horror that some sims 2 glitches produce….

[@rawrlilbutterfly2265]

Interesting that as a kid I remember making a baby with the retired pollinator hoping I'd get more aliens in my game and getting the incorrect skin tone. It was back when only base game existed.

[@tanicsims2]

it was definitely a bigger issue back with the base game; seems like university changed the overall dna ordering and the uni/NL patch fixed the problems but i decided to include it on the off chance that someone’s still playing an unpatched base game, or just as a sort of history of corruption kinda caveat lol. but yep - that would be due to pol missing skintone genes. even though their missing dna was never added despite any patches it seems the skintone range string is responsible for making this less of a problem nowadays (perhaps this part of simdna was added later) 😅

[@xx_redwood_xx9737]

For the two Townies having memories, maybe they were testing Townies having memories?

[@kortvuxen]

just watched the rest of the chronicles and i just have to mention this cause i forgot in my initial comment: for some reason these videon on sims corruption *scare* me?? or they give me the creeps and i can´t watch em when it´s dark LMAO. it´s nothing scary rly but they just have this eerie vibe and i looove it. patiently waiting for the sub-hoods rn

[@harasen_haras5]

This video has made me associate the Strangetown Bella Both with remote control cars.

[@tanicsims2]

IT’S FINALLY HERE!! 🥳 Nothing much to say here -for once- other than I’m so sorry for the wait, and thank you so much for being patient! You guys are the best! Hope you enjoy the second part to How Corrupt is Strangetown Anyway - and hope you have a great rest of the week!! I’ll see you lovelies again soon ❤️

[@eliottbidstrup9611]

I was just about to try and map out the Curious family tree by hand… thank god I watched this video when I did! But really, I enjoyed this video so much! It’s so cool to be able to see how strange Strangetown really is and it gives me a bit more context as to why my old Strangetown world always got corrupted 😂

[@skarpevindkast]

Bella is like her company, corrupt.

[@lulaellie]

Your videos inspired me to install the Sims 2 again, which is kinda ironic given that they're about it's corruption 😅

[@tanicsims2]

oh my gosh 🥺 GO FOR IT!! either you can be the most careful player ever who’s conscious of corruption, or you could know exactly how to effortlessly corrupt the game from my videos! i support you 🤣

[@PDD555]

You should try using clean templates of each of the neighborhoods! They come without corrupted sims and with fixes

[@lulaellie]

@@PDD555 yes yes! I know 😊 Thank you anyway ✨

[@angelicgalaxy4534]

@@tanicsims2 There was some person who commented on a Sims 2 video about what not do if you want your game to be playable. They commented on the video saying,"Ha,you can't tell me what to do,this won't stop me" ect. The person updated their comment explaining that when they corrupted the game or hoods their laptop crashed and when they were finally able to get their laptop working again,they discovered that the corruption from the game actually corrupted their laptop's RAM.

[@tanicsims2]

Angelic Galaxy what?? that’s crazy - i’d really like to learn more. do you remember which video this was (if you wouldn’t mind sharing)?

[@cv7131]

I would love for some of the Sims 2 developers to talk about making the game and answer some of the mysteries!! It would be so freaking cool

[@BandObsessed923]

2:48 The captions say "might have the foreskin tone" lmao

[@tanicsims2]

NOOOO you’re joking 😭 i am SCREAMING

[@BandObsessed923]

@@tanicsims2 not joking, gotta love youtube lmao By the way, your videos are awesome! Watching all the videos about how the game works has inspired me to start making Sims mods. I just got a gaming laptop yesterday that I plan on using for it.

[@tanicsims2]

Libby Wheeler i’ve been thinking about manually adding captions because i rely on subtitles myself, and now i have even more reason to get on with finally doing that 🤣 that’s absolutely hilarious aaa thank you so much!! 🥺 no way... that’s SO COOL! i know if you ever share them i’d be first in line to download them! ❤️

[@natasha5531]

I love Tanic's intro!

[@tanicsims2]

thank you so much 🥺 my failed psp gameplay that was intended to be my first video turned out to be useful in the end! 🤣

[@natasha5531]

@@tanicsims2 It's cute and I love the simlish music

[@floptaxie68]

Nervous subject’s clone is gonna give me nightmares

[@parkouremaster]

That explain why my game always bugged everytime i tried to befriend Bella, it was tempting.

[@emotionalkryptonite1161]

I can't wait for the corruption video on Veronaville

[@tanicsims2]

then i shall get started on it as soon as possible!! 🤗

[@theminisimmer]

Ahhh I squealed at the intro! I love the sims 2 for PSP!

[@tanicsims2]

haha i originally intended for my first series to be a psp game let’s play but i hated how the first video turned out so i just took the cutscene and reworked it as my intro 🤣

[@glanni]

The Curious Brothers not recognizing their alien half-sisters as family is a terrible, terrible mistake. It's the worst place for an oversight like that, in fact. Any person not knowledgable about Strangetown lore is super tempted to ship single geeks with that strong a "go green" attitude with two very green girls that literally have the last name "Singles", reinforcing the idea that they are available for shipping. Why, Maxis, why? 🤣 Edit: I know tons of people said they used to ship them, so it's definitely not just "theoretical"

[@tanicsims2]

agreed! i like the storyline theory that suggests the curious brothers don’t know about their alien half-sisters, hence why they don’t have any flags set. jenny doesn’t have flags for them either however she at least treats them as family if only because the game is recognising them as being her step-daughters (as if their family tree wasn’t convoluted enough...). but at the same time... yeah. if you didn’t realise the brothers were meant to be related to lola and chloe it’s an easy mistake to make, and i imagine it was probably even more prevalent back in the early days like you said. they won’t even show up as related on their family tree so there’s no way to check. i don’t even want to think about how messed up their kids would be 😭 they’d be related to themselves.....

[@glanni]

@@tanicsims2 Oh sheesh I didn't even think about the technical aspect 😨 I also love the idea that they don't know that part of the family exists. It makes the family even more interesting, and gives a lot depth to Glarn. There's also something, idk, aching and sweet about the idea that they're actually a pretty close family that's so interested in aliens, and they don't even know there's two poor abandoned alien sisters who grew up with not even their biological parent, yet everyone would be eager to meet and unite the family if they knew. In a narrative sense it's almost like they're subconsciously not merely searching for aliens and UFOs, but they're unknowingly being drawn to their lost family members in an almost mystical way. Even Jenny embodies that tendency because she literally married the only other guy who's connected to the two unknown sisters. I also love the idea that the 4 have to come to the terrible realisation how dishonest their dad must have been, and what a shitty thing he has done. Not only abandoning his daughters, but also never telling his new family. Oh and I just realized that the 4 siblings actually kind of redeem their dad by taking care of their alien kids. And I can't imagine how Chloe and Lola must feel when they realize they have siblings (who kinda had the family life they kinda missed out on). Egads, sorry for the long comment, I get carried away with stories like that, oof. It's crazy how cool they wrote this, and even if I'm interpreting a lot of emotion into it, the plot and backstory was made by whoever wrote this part of the game.

[@BihMortari]

Thanks God I checked their family tree before trying to make couples hahahaha

[@ZefDavenport]

I once managed to add Bella by normal means into the "alien brothers" (can't remember a name to save my life, sorry), and the game managed to stay "sane" and stable for a while. After a while, it became such a bug fest I had a blast everytime I opened the neighborhood.

[@tanicsims2]

strangetown and corruption go hand in hand! honestly it must be so fun to play if you know it’s going to become wonky at some point so you can prepare for it/not get attached and just sit back and watch the weirdness unfold!

[@ZefDavenport]

@@tanicsims2 To be honest, I wasn't expecting it. I wasn't aware of the neighborhood corruption yet, but when it landed, I just decided to sit back and enjoy. One of the funniest bugs was the fact that almost no Sim knew how to carry a toddler.

[@Vincent654]

It would be interesting if you made two series. A corruption series (doing everything not supposed to do until crash) and a super clean gameplay!

[@tanicsims2]

i have thought about it 👀👀👀

[@internetgirl_69]

pls be sure to eventually cover sub hood townies and family bin families as well. i stg every time i use hood checker, most of the magic sub hood townies are broken with gossip about the sub hood magic family bin household bc maxis improperly deleted one of the sims yet again. i don’t even know why, bc you’d think maxis wouldn’t have fucked up that late in development. >: (

[@tanicsims2]

don’t worry - i absolutely will!! i plan to cover every single one of the premade/ep hoods as well as particular subhoods. for stealth hoods i’ll mention them if they’re relevant/borked in the hood they’re associated with (i.e. covering the ottomas family in the riverblossom hills video). the later hoods are in a better state than the base game ones, but honestly... it’s not a total improvement. what baffles me is how obsolete data/game code still exists pretty far down the line. i’ll be covering this in the eventual desiderata valley video but one of the ancestral sims has the power aspiration, and it’s so bizarre because freetime was one of the last (in fact, wasn’t it the penultimate one? just before apartment life?) EPs. i can’t think of any reason why a sim would have an aspiration that was scrapped in development in a hood released almost 5 years after the base game. not to mention how resurrection was now possible, and freetime even introduced a new method of resurrection. unless it’s because she has an unrecognised/broken aspiration which sometimes resorts to the power aspiration (like in the case of many of the sims in olive’s garden), but even then i don’t understand why her data would be so broken still - her gender is also incorrect iirc. it’s also weird to me how the ep hoods get more borked with each release. riverblossom hills will probably have a relatively short video on it because it’s okay. not great but it’s... eh. then we get to desiderata valley and we have problems with ancestral sims reminiscent of olive’s garden. and then finally you get to belladonna cove, which is weirdly the buggiest out of the 3 ep hoods despite being released last. i use the empty stealth hoods by jawusa who also has clean versions if you’re interested/not using them already. this might help your hoodchecker issues!

[@JessicaCheyenneTV]

Really loving the content (I’ve watched your corruption videos twice now and showed my boyfriend just to prove how broken TS2 is! 😂😂😂) and I’m always super excited to find new Sims 2 channels! Please, keep up the content! You’re going to blow up in no time!

[@tanicsims2]

no way! thank you so much 🥺 don’t worry - as long as there is corruption in this game, i will keep making content so i have no plans on stopping anytime soon!! honestly i can’t even fathom the possibility of blowing up like you say; i already feel like i’ve achieved so much just knowing at least one person out there liked my videos (and watched them all more than once... AND showed them to other people ???¿¿¿ 😱). it’s comments like yours that make me realise i’ve made the right decision, even though i was so nervous at first! thank you so much for watching and for being so lovely!! ❤️

[@whydoineedahandleforyoutube]

Just discovered your series and I love it. I've been getting back into Sims 2 out of nostalgia and remembering how much I love this game (my favourite of the series, jank and all), so I'm having so much fun watching your video essays about it.

[@nanofate8662]

When I was younger, I tried to make Ophelia and Johnny have babies. After save scumming several times, I was wondering "Is Johnny really the father? Cause we should have several jolly giants by now". Man if I knew then.

[@tanicsims2]

i have been thinking about ‘jolly giants’ for the past few days. it has genuinely kept me up at night but jokes aside yeah - johnny’s missing the skintone passed on genes so his offspring will most likely not inherit his green skin even though they should considering it’s very dominant. i imagine this is ‘fixed’ to some extent now though even though i didn’t experiment with him (just guessing that the game can now read the skintone range part of his dna and take the data from that, even if the skintone string is still missing...)

[@nanofate8662]

@@tanicsims2 It made me so sad that I couldn't get a green baby. Thank god for clean templates when I knew how to install em. Tho, I wonder what happened that cause sims to miss DNA strings?

[@T.T_CenrryTH]

Hidden nervous was probably the original, but got himself killed (Friday 13th anyone?). The thing I don't understand is why they didn't revive him using dev tools

[@avah3643]

I never got into the sims until I was around 10, and thereafter only played the sims 3, and eventually 4. It's been many years since, and recently I've really wanted to try ts2. Problem being, I only have a MacBook. But for some reason, the App Store has a "super collection" for the sims 2, including various (but not all) stuff and expansion packs. This is both a win, and a loss for me, as you can't mod this version of the game. I get to play the sims 2, but with a chance of eventual game corruption. And of course, the neighbourhood I wanted to play most was Strangetown haha. Oh well! If all else fails and the neighbourhood becomes unplayable, I'll go into cas and make lacklustre versions of the Strangetown characters, and plop them into a new desert town.

[@AlexArt]

One of your videos appeared in my recommended feed, and eventually I've ended up binge watching the corruption chronicles. Very informative and well explained! Keep up the good work!

[@tanicsims2]

thank you so much! i’m so glad you found me 🥺 there’s a shortage of sims 2 build videos on youtube and just when i thought i’d watched them all i find your channel, so it is very likely that i am going to return the favour and binge watch all your videos!!

[@luchirimoya]

Your channel is growing so fast and I love ittttt. When I subscribed you were at about 80subs and now you've passed 400 already!! You absolutely deserve it, these videos are so entertaining, keep it up 😄

[@tanicsims2]

ooo you’ll make me cry 😭 it’s all so surreal. the best way to describe it is like i’m watching someone else go through this from the sidelines - like it’s not actually happening to me. i never anticipated my content would get the amount of support and recognition that it has and i wake up every day feeling so grateful (and wondering if i just dreamt everything, lol). even 80 subs was a massive deal for me and i feel like i’m still processing passing 50 subs. what i love most is that it already feels like there’s this community here and it makes me so happy that people are joining me in my love for this game and all its quirks!! aaaa THANK YOU SO MUCH! i will keep trying my best and improving 🥺❤️

[@nickp1826]

I'm really enjoying your videos, it's noticable that you've invested a lot of time into research. Thank you for making interesting Sims content :D

[@tanicsims2]

aww thank you so much for all your lovely words!! it really means a lot that you feel my research is noticeable (somehow that’s the part of your comment that got me most choked up lol) because i really have just accumulated a ton of knowledge about this super niche sub-section of my favourite thing in the whole entire world and i basically wanted an excuse to infodump. all the nights i’ve spent trawling through forum posts and going down wiki rabbit holes trying to learn every single thing there is to know about corruption actually feels useful now! 🤣 thank YOU for watching! it’s people like you who make me want to continue making these videos, even when i initially thought no one other than me would care 🤗❤️

[@simmehchan]

i love finding out more info about the sims 2, these videos are great! :)

[@tanicsims2]

thank you so much!! 🥺 i’m glad my videos could aid you in your quest for sims 2 information 🤣

[@Aydeeen-]

I finally have some time to watch this video after I wrote a very important exam😅 Since I have watched part one, I looked really forward for part two! As always, can't wait for more!😄

[@tanicsims2]

aww! i hope you do well on your exam! ❤️ there’s nothing more relaxing than a video all about the horrors of the sims 2 🤣

[@rawrmoster9501]

Thanks for these corruption videos, they're really entertaining 😁

[@tanicsims2]

thank YOU for watching and for your kind words! ❤️

[@slepana-haizelney]

Thank you for this, very informative! I wanted to learn more about corruption and your Pleasantview video appeared and I'm really glad I clicked. I actually thought you're some big established channel at first lol Your videos are very high quality and to the point. I wish you best of luck with your channel

[@tanicsims2]

your comment has made my day 🥺 ‘thank you so much’ doesn’t cover how happy this made me!! i’m so glad you clicked too! i will continue to try my best!! thank you for watching and i hope i’ll see you in my next videos too! ❤️

[@Tiina_Talvikki]

You absolutely deserve all your subscribers, and would deserve even more. These videos have been so interesting and I am already waiting for the next one! How corrupted is Veronaville anyway? What about the newer neighborhoods?

[@tanicsims2]

thank you so much 🥺😭 that really means a lot!! veronaville is next up, though it’ll most likely be in about two weeks minimum. i’m going in order from pleasantview to belladonna cove (certain sub-hoods included!) so the ep hoods will be later down the line, but they are definitely going to happen!

[@Tiina_Talvikki]

@@tanicsims2 I can't wait🤩 But take your time, there is no hurry ☺️

[@donotryon9389]

Just found your channel but love it already! Cant wait to work my way through

[@tanicsims2]

aww hi! welcome! thank you so much, it’s great to have you here 🥺❤️

[@fernandaa7334]

I can't wait for you reach the ep. neighborhoods, and I wish sooooo much that there is clean templates with the original townies for this hoods too.

[@tanicsims2]

i’ve been nervous about the ep hoods because honestly for the most part they’re okay so i thought their videos would be boring, but by the looks of things people are excited for them! it makes me excited to do them! honestly same here. i’ve been wanting to play them with clean templates but i can’t find any with the townies and npcs. it’s not a total dealbreaker i guess but it would be really cool! i know there are ways to manually get all the townies and npcs in the clean template, but i imagine it’ll be pretty time consuming and fiddly (makes me appreciate the hard work of people who clean the hoods even more!!)

[@ayamedesuka]

Omg yes I’m so in for the gameplay series idea!

[@tanicsims2]

awesome!! (your profile pic takes me back!)

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

A Wolf (Balin) has a glitched clone - STAY AWAY FROM GLITCHED BALIN IF YOU SEE IT APPEAR ON YOUR SIMS LIST! It's clones portrait in game & Sim PE are both glitched. The other Balin appears normal, but I always chase it off any way. Hit up Bat Box and close game to run Sim PE.

[@saenhar]

Now that's a source of inspiration for Winden in the Dark series ;)

[@antonpetrov1483]

Waiting for Verona. How about corruption in EP hoods like Belladonna Cove,Deseterata Valley and Riverblossom Hills?

[@tanicsims2]

yesss they’re coming!! i plan to cover every premade hood and a few of the more interesting subhoods! 🤗

[@antonpetrov1483]

@@tanicsims2 oh subhoods. It is especially interesting to hear about Tricou family from Downtown. They seem very interesting.

[@batsandbabydollsvods]

Something interesting about ST Bella Goth wrt to the Curious family is that in some languages, she has a different name than the PV Bella. According to the wiki, in French and Thai, she shares a name with Kitty Curious.

[@tanicsims2]

yes!! i thought about mentioning this but decided against it at the last minute. i think i chose to omit it because it still didn’t explain her connections to jenny and her children as kitty was their mother and grandmother respectively, whereas bella thinks jenny is her sister and johnny and jill are her nephew & niece. in hindsight though i really wish i had included it even if i was confused and unsure about it, because it would have opened up some interesting conversations and invited many interpretations. but you’re right - it’s very... strange 🤔

[@batsandbabydollsvods]

Maybe "Kitty" was originally going to be the name of an extra Curious sibling, but when they decided to cut the character, they gave the name to their mother instead? I dunno why it happened, but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would happen on purpose, so it seems to me like some outdated data that was supposed to be changed.

[@Dares9]

I have a pragmatic question: I play Strangetown for 3 months now, no signs of corruption; DID NOT use a clean template, BUT I did download the anti-corruption mods. My gamestyle is slow and careful, and family making-oriented - so I am, and will be using Strangetown characters for baby making. I don't mind minor bugs or glitches - but as far as your experience goes, is there a risk of my Strangetown becoming unplayable? (Through, for example, DNA issues?) Thank you for amazing video, this has been a chilling journey!

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

But... but... I wasn't ready for the video to end😭

[@Martyna00900]

I was also wondering why there's a clone of Bella in Strange Town

[@tarabelle7716]

"id like you to meet my friend: Remote control car"

[@shesholdingcorn]

Finally part 2. Yessss !!

[@tanicsims2]

yesss! it has finally arrived! ❤️

[@caitlin8274]

So you’re telling me that the grim reaper has been a female all along? 😂

[@tanicsims2]

-always has been- seems so. always too scared to poke around and verify it, but pescado confirms it and i trust him. i like the idea of grim being non-binary but i’m also kinda on board with grim being a girlboss 🤣

[@TsunadeSpammer]

You have such a nice voice to listen too :D Gratz on more than 1000 subs now even ;)

[@tanicsims2]

aww thank you so much 🥺 i still can’t believe it!!

[@molliemartin5492]

Great stuff again, thank you ❤

[@tanicsims2]

aww 🥺 thank YOU! ❤️

[@Lotte.Macchiato]

Great video! I was wondering about something you said regarding the townies. 01:34 "It would be easier to list the sims in Strangetown whose DNA isn't borked in some way. [...] All the townies, plus Ajay Loner, Pascal and Lazlo Curious are fine." vs. 07:28 Where you explain that all the townies are broken too. Did you mean at 01:34 that just their genetics are fine?

[@tanicsims2]

yes, sorry! all townies (and npcs, i’m assuming) in strangetown are fine in the dna department, but not so fine in the career department - by ‘broken’ i mean they all have borked job data lol

[@Celestrier]

Haven't watched the video yet but INSTALIKEEEEEE!

[@tanicsims2]

hahaha i hope you won’t regret liking so quickly! 🤣

[@ravenID429]

17:10 Birth Queen and Colony Drone🤣

[@lampgirl100]

Great video!

[@tanicsims2]

thank you so much!! 🥺❤️

[@samanthawhite2801]

Crystal is considered Lazlo's family? She was always his wife in my games lmao

[@tanicsims2]

it’s a weird case where they’re flagged as ‘family’ but in-game they won’t actually treat one another as family. it might be because it isn’t specified how they’re ‘related’ so instead they just have random family flags that honestly won’t affect anything in-game (unlike the missing ties between the curious brothers and their half-sisters) - thought i’d mention it anyway because it’s just another weird case of sims having random flags they shouldn’t have 🤣

[@lostsilver5469]

stuff like this is why I like to create my own characters and have them marry the townies

[@mesken653]

not me playing the second generation in a NOT clean strangetown i- 🖐️😭

[@tanicsims2]

you may be okay, as long as you have all the essential anti-corruption mods, use hoodchecker, regularly make backups, and of course don’t do any more damage. it’s hard to say for sure since corruption is so unpredictable; some players can go years without even seeing a single sign of corruption even if they’re playing a vanilla hood, or even if they do every vbt imaginable lol. other players barely do anything wrong just to have their hoods disappear in months, maybe even weeks. it’s also difficult to determine what everyone’s individual definition of ‘unplayable’ means - for some, it’s the first sign that something might be wrong like toddlers having inappropriate wants. but for others, they may not care until the hood can no longer load anymore. so, really it’s up to you. if you want to start fresh with a clean template for peace of mind, go for it! but if you want to keep playing this strangetown because you’re attached, it wouldn’t be impossible to keep it afloat for as long as you need it hopefully. best case scenario is you grow bored of it before it even reaches your own level of unplayability. these hoods may be broken, but luckily we have excellent people in the community who have worked hard to develop tools to fix them and clean up mess as far as the available coding allows (for FREE!)!

[@halpyhal]

I feel bad for the people who played strangetown alllll the way back in 2004 who only got a max 1 hour of “normal” gameplay before they couldn’t load the game anymore. Was probably all the incest written into the code.

[@abbysincere3387]

Witch Doctor NPC??? His portrait has me WEAKKK 5:58

[@tanicsims2]

is it the mr potato head picture 😭 i think that happens for npcs who haven’t been generated in game yet. it makes for absolutely hilarious results 🤣

[@timotejgabris9162]

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR PLEASANTVIEEEEW!!!

[@tanicsims2]

AAAAAAAA! honestly that’s all the encouragement i need!! once i find a good place in the round to start recording everything i will begin the series! 🤗

[@QueAwkwardNoises]

Woohoo, new video!

[@tanicsims2]

yessss!!

[@QueAwkwardNoises]

@@tanicsims2 your voice recording has improved a lot!!! The only other tip I have is this: don’t say a joke unless it makes you laugh. That way, we get to learn your own humour as well as hearing authentic jokes. You’re going places !!!

[@tanicsims2]

QueAwkwardNoises thank you so much! audacity has helped the quality a lot and (i think) i’m getting a lot more confident on the mic. i rely on having a script so i was really shocked when i was actually forming coherent sentences without one in the hoodchecker section!! thank you for your advice!! i will take it on board. i think when i’m off script i make more natural jokes on the fly which isn’t that common in these videos since they’re heavily scripted, so hopefully it’ll show more in future videos where i’m not so scripted! 🤗

[@emdrake04]

calling it a corruption party is so funny to me lol

[@Brain_Nerd4Life]

I would like to see your Pleasantview!

[@tanicsims2]

it’s settled then - maybe i should start recording it soon! 🤗

[@nakidragon9937]

gameplay video sound great :)

[@tanicsims2]

awesome! i have recorded a bit of the introduction video already 👀

[@Rekowcski]

these videos are great

[@tanicsims2]

thank you so much 🥺❤️

[@Rekowcski]

@@tanicsims2 i watched them again haha

[@laurabartlett8033]

in the Thai version of strangetown, bella goth's name is "kitty curious" and in the chinese version, her name is "bella curious." hmmmmmm

[@loubailing1999]

Heck yeah 😎

[@floatingeyeofdeath]

5:53 WHY IS MR POTATO HEAD HERE??

[@tanicsims2]

he was olive specter’s last victim 😔 rest in potatoes (serious answer: it’s the witch doctor, who i don’t think i’ve ever seen in-game so they haven’t generated yet... at least i _think_ that’s why lol)

[@floatingeyeofdeath]

@@tanicsims2 rip in potatoe

[@glitchystaticz]

i have no clue how i would up watching a video on sims 2 corruption at 11pm while eating ice cream cookies and great value brand popcorn in bed especially since i haven't touched the sims since i was 9 but this is worthy of a subscription regardless

[@DudleyKetsukane]

Strange town Alabama

[@harasen_haras5]

Strangtown sure is strange

[@kyle8989]

LETS GO!!!!

[@tanicsims2]

KNEW YOU’D BE HERE! I get so excited to see your comment come in faster than the speed of light 🤣

[@kyle8989]

wondering for how long I'll be able to keep this streak going, thanks for the amazing video again Tanny!

[@tanicsims2]

Kyle i think the day you stop beating me to even posting the pinned comment will be the day sims 2 is re-released on origin 🤣 thank you so much! hope you enjoy!

[@floptaxie68]

Strangetown is strange

[@nataliaostanska2317]