The Creepy Lore Of The Sims 3

[@faithu.5028]

There was a time when my vampire Sim almost died from being outside for too long. When the Grim Reaper came to turn her into a ghost, my dogs (that my sims had since they were born) attacked the Grim Reaper, causing him to let my Sim live. I couldn’t believe what I was watching lmao

[@Kaitou1412Fangirl]

Now that's what you call "man's best friend"!

[@seomews]

RIGHT? i saw bits and pieces about the sims 3 and when i played the sims 4 i thought the gameplay was pretty boring so i mostly stuck to cas or building. when i finally bought the sims 3, one of the first things my sim did was go into a randos house and immediately start a fist fight with them. i was _floored._ i did NOT tell her to go in there, i did NOT tell her to get into a fight with the dude, IN HIS OWN HOUSE, i was completely flabbergasted. immediately started playing more sims 3 and abandoned sims 4. honestly, i hope the sims 5 has the graphics of the sims 4 but the game mechanics of the sims 3. it's so much cooler to just let your sim do whatever they want and see what weird shit they do

[@Kairos_Akuma]

That's intended. When Pets love the Sim very much they interfere. Cats can aswell.

[@housewilma4904]

sounds like something right out of the grim adventures of billy and mandy.

[@juliefarrell6688]

My vampire sim wanted to go to Egypt. My first thought was "LUNA ARE YOU TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE"

[@princeapoopoo5787]

Can't wait for her video on the horrors of Sims 4: an hour and 20 minute epic on microtransactions and stingy expansion packs.

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

And all the times the game accidentally allowed for stuff like incest or sexual assault

[@CluelessDorian]

i will be surprised if she even gets 20 minutes material…. without mentioning mods lol the 4th part is so BLAND

[@CluelessDorian]

@@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 or racist behind the scenes of making hairstyles and abusers on the team

[@reyrats]

If she made it a sims 4 lore video it would only be about four minutes long LMAO

[@DreemyDreemz]

Oh my god dude I want the expansions so much, but they're SO, EXPENSIVE

[@sanrusdyne73]

"Impressed by the chocolate fountain" has the same vibe as "an extra hour in the ball pit"

[@antoniavera9106]

truer words have never been spoken

[@SuperanonymousUhhuh-pc1li]

One reply for such a hilarious comment is a sin.

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

"Impressed by the chocolate fountain", "an extra hour in the ball pit", and "happy hot-tubbing!"

[@bluejay5044]

​@@theMyRadiowasTaken this is the same vibe as nfts i can't explain it it just does

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

​@@bluejay5044that doesnt make any sense but also i agree entirely

[@TheFlirtMeister]

me: i hope this youtuber knows what they're talking about izzy: here is a handwritten cheat code note i made as a child me: excellent, we're in safe hands

[@marljusweety]

😂 So true.

[@enbykeith]

That’s the great thing about this channel. I 100% trust that Izzyzzz knows exactly what they’re talking about. No matter what. They’re an all knowing entity.

[@OBEYTHEPYRAMID]

@@enbykeith "they" ?

[@astronights]

@@OBEYTHEPYRAMID Yeah, Izzy uses they/she pronouns (as seen on her twitter)

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

Thanks for the helpful information! @@astronights

[@DZZLL]

Agnes Crumplebottom's partially finished nursey gets me in the feels every time

[@stellersjay332]

7

[@Sotha_Sil]

@@stellersjay332 8

[@chaoluv041]

I always rekindle her relationship with her husband and then have a ghost baby. She deserve that happy ending :')

[@Jimz729]

@@Sotha_Sil 9

[@babygurleatsshickennuggits4201]

@@chaoluv041 how do you have a ghost baby?

[@AceWolf456]

Ok but I genuinely love that the imaginary friend "grows up" with a sim and if that sim is dedicated enough they can turn the imaginary friend real and marry them. I think that's really cute, because that takes a lot of commitment.

[@chocomelo454]

yeah LMAO usually my imaginary friends end up becoming the human Sims highschool sweetheart or something because of how strong their bond was as kids. (and because hey I like how my imaginary Sims look.)

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

In real life people go from friends in preschool and wind up getting into loving adult relationships so, for me, the imaginary friend turning into a lover later in life isn't creepy. From a certain angle though I can see where it might creep some people out, because the imaginary friend can be viewed more as a sibling than something separate from blood relationships. Isn't it weird how fluid connections between people can be between different folks?

[@ma.2089]

@@ChristopherSadlowski it could be kinda the fact you willed something into existence. Since you created the imaginary friend, you basically are like their parent. So you’re now marrying your “child”. There’s also the idea that it’s a fake person so besides the creepy implications of “fake humans”, you have fallen in love with a person who isn’t real and indulging in fantasy to the point to the point of delusion. Like engaging with a hallucination. Kind of like when that Japanese man married his virtual DS girlfriend. I don’t necessarily find it creepy but I can see why others can’t stomach it

[@clairepettie]

But that's also a demon. One over-clingy or codependent quirk in your doll-come-to-life's personality, and you're definitely describing a horror movie.

[@Wizardofozzy114]

@@clairepettie it could also just be manifestation in a way. You obsess over the friend so much that it becomes real. But yes could be a demon 😭

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Izzy: *trying to take the perfect dramatic shot of the graveyard* Random jogger sim with a rainbow umbrella: Haha, ripzo! 😀

[@feykingjulian]

LMAO

[@_Unoffical_Norahhh_]

“Shout out to this sim for ruining the shot”

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

Ripzo?

[@CheeseThePurpleDragon]

@@Most-sane-deltarune-fansimlish

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@CheeseThePurpleDragon For what?

[@thewaterfairylexy5127]

The only thing that shocked me in sims 3 was that I was playing a family and suddenly a huge shadow was over my sims house, in the end it was a huge meteor that killed almost my whole family and destroyed my house…I still remember the one sim that stood outside and witnessed this tragedy.

[@prosauce119]

That is some top teir angst lmao

[@katharineball585]

Which member was it

[@thewaterfairylexy5127]

@@katharineball585 I don’t remember it was many years ago

[@katharineball585]

@@thewaterfairylexy5127 ok

[@ReiCaixa]

Damn, that's why the first thing I try to do is put Death Flowers in everyone's inventories.

[@dandelions6192]

the "swimming in grass" glitch scared me so bad as a kid. one of my sims died from it while i was home alone and i actually cried lmao

[@kittikat4124]

I had a sim drown in grass, too lol confused the hell out of me so I abandoned that save and made a new one

[@commanderkittin1873]

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who wasn’t creeped out by the imaginary friends😂 I loved getting them bonding with them and then having a cute little love story between the friend who only existed for the sim, and the sim who loved them enough to bring them to life lol.

[@avawetzel3408]

SAME i've never understood the imaginary friend hate, i've always thought they're so cute. i guess it's annoying that you can't get rid of them if you want to, and their walkstyle is slow which is a bit annoying, but i've always thought they were such a nice touch

[@Awoosa]

They were alarming when you encounter them for the first time while playing blind (or if you have a phobia of full suit clowns). But once you understand why they're there, they're not that bad. 😂

[@jongdae8952]

SAME OMG I thought they were really cute 😅

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

I am not ashamed to admit that imaginary friends was the first time young me did not cry upon seeing the clown style costume

[@davidkonevky7372]

exactly! I found them really cute

[@Live_Laugh_Loathe]

Izzzy talking about how much she likes the Sims for an hour straight is my favorite type of content

[@z0mbiem0shpit]

HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE IT WAS AN HOUR LONG,,, I was genuinely so invested that I just didn't realize 💀

[@chillfactory9000]

she just like me fr

[@vibingtbh876]

@@z0mbiem0shpit me with every izzy video

[@babyleafsaladd5322]

(I think they use they/them pronouns FYI!!)

[@Twixdoesstuff]

I THOUGHT THEY WERE FROGS FOR SOME REASON

[@asdlom]

When I was a kid, my parents didn't want me to get the nightlife expansion with the sims 2 because they felt the idea of a nightlife was "too mature". So instead, I just asked for the Sims 2 deluxe--which they got me, not knowing nightlife was built into it. So happy goth tween me got her vampires after all.

[@adaon2282]

Lmao very clever! Did you ever get caught?

[@darthestar8791]

I was somehow able to get Latenight no problem, no worries about it being “too mature”

[@valeriereed7654]

When I was a kid, I was only allowed to play the first game. I wrote my mom a letter saying I should be allowed to play Sims 2, because I know what she was worried about. “Woo hoo” is already included in Sims 1 with the heart bed in the hot date expansion MOM 😂 She couldn’t refute that. She handed me her dics 5 minutes later. I think she still has the letter!! Thanks for the memories 😂

[@asdlom]

@@adaon2282 I think years later I told her about it, but she's probably forgotten all about it now

[@y2kboris186]

I think that we were the last generation that was able to get away with game-tech parent(s) illiteracy, as in my folks didn't, and they still don't have a clue about technology. They lack the expertise to understand why a game may or may not be appropriate for a particular audience (eg kids, teens, vs adults etc). Even if they thought something was immature, barring simply banning computers altogether wholesale from the house they had no way of stopping either my sister, myself, or my friends from pretty much doing (or playing / watching) whatever the hell we wanted when we were younger (on the internet, when it comes to videogames, TV, movies, all of the above etc). My parents are still simply ignorant about technology. They didn't understand how parental controls work, even if they did try to use them they were super simple to crack, they had no clue about computers, how to set passwords or restrictions, or use any kind of software to stop games, porn, other kinds of illicit content. We were soo bad as kids. My friends and I started playing Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, DOOM, Quake. Wolfenstein when we were only like 13/14 in middle school, we snuck porn on the internet, gruesome real life happenstance videos like disaster vids or people getting struck by trains, cars etc. It was bad; and yet somehow we didn't turn out half bad. If you want proof that violent video games don't ACTUALLY cause violence in the real world, look no further. p.S. related to the Sims we downloaded ALL SORTS of mature auidences only content as well, if my parents only knew... lol

[@NadNatto]

never realized how scary the muffled screaming under the water was until now... sounds like a hidden footage of a missing scuba diver

[@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy]

Ironic how a horror game like Silent Hill2 removed lots of disturbed sounds and effects, mind you a game that covers really disturbing psychological themes and is adult only yet here we have a kids game that is more broken and morbid then most horror games out there ...

[@DEFxRECON]

Thank you for being our Vergil guiding us through the layers of hell that is Sims lore, Izzy.

[@hamburgermealdeal]

@Don't read profile photo bot my beloved 🥰

[@BestGodBeanOfficial]

I doubt yt is doing anything about the bots tbh

[@TheCreatorO5]

@@BestGodBeanOfficial yea

[@katrichards505]

as a classicist i approve of this comment

[@missm2925]

@@katrichards505 I thought that said “as a classist”

[@Strawbebbyy]

The scariest part of sims 3 is when I planted way too many trees on my lot and the leaves started falling. My maid was only racking leaves all day every day and my house was a mess. So I lined the perimeter of my lot with bonehildas and woke them up at the same time. It was amazing to see an army of bonehildas racking my leaves. But then my laptop started slowing down and eventually just shut off. It never turned back on 👻

[@thatswhatisaidsodiumchlori5370]

in exchange for the army of bonehildas, they took your computer’s graphics card and memory as penance

[@shiannafoxx]

@@thatswhatisaidsodiumchlori5370 Lmao

[@billblaski9523]

Uh ok

[@leelasmoochie]

Lol my maid always left stuff behind

[@shiannafoxx]

@Evening Clouds I think you mean Sims 3

[@nana3gc6gh8x]

about lolita: you forgot to mention that gusmao's wife has an toaster in her inventory, lolita died from electrocution, gusmao is anti electricity and in his house theres no television and etc. so it leads to think that cornelia killed lolita to be with gusmao

[@disdiot2995]

no waaay, i completely missed that, thats a great detail

[@cryforhelp7270]

Woahhh

[@talb.1805]

What are you talking about? ts3 doesn't have toasters 🧢

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@cryforhelp7270 You: "Woahhh" KZbin suggestion: Translate to English Me: *clicks Translate to English* Your comment now: "Woahh"

[@CommanderWiggins]

The creator of the infamous haunted doll was actually a well known custom content creator named Rebecah. It's thought that the corruption was a result of some of the early modding tools for the Sims 3 being pretty scuffed, combined with the game's absolute mess of spaghetti code. There were other pieces of custom content that caused a similar issue on a smaller scale, at least from what I've heard. Rebecah is actually still active in the community to this day, and posts custom content on Affinity Sims. She's also a 70 year old great-grandmother who started making custom content when she was around 55, which is pretty badass if I do say so myself!

[@KeikoKeepSmiling]

Underrated comment. ❤

[@milesrn2312]

Imagine having a great grandmother that make custom contents for games

[@shintaruGT3]

@@milesrn2312coolest great grandma in history

[@sarkisianhavens]

How can you prove this?

[@Gender_Ascender]

@@sarkisianhavens Did a quick google search. Affinitysims seems to be a mod forum for the sims, and Rebecah's profile has a lot of uploads and votes for their content. Also shows their picture as an old woman and the birthdate listed is in 1952. Either it's a very devoted character or an actual old woman. Either way, their content sound like it's genuinely liked.

[@RoboHearts]

One of the creepiest Sims 3 moments for me was this one glitch that happened as part of story progression. I had a family that had a simbot as a part of it, and as they grew up slowly they all moved out to start their own families. One girl and the simbot remained in the original house, and because of story progression they ended up married. Weird since the robot was kinda like a nanny to her, but whatever. And because they were married, story progression had the have children…. Despite the fact that simbots cannot have a children. I think because it was I myself didn’t make them have children, the game did, that him being infertile was overlooked that result in their children. The kids looked like normal human boys, however whenever they moved they used robot animations. The only problem was, robot animations were made for an adult frame, not a child. So they would stretch (like the stretching toddler glitch) every time they moved and immediately go back to normal when they stopped. Unfortunately I stopped playing that file shortly after so I never found out what happened when they grew up, but the memory of those two kids have been haunting me ever since lmao

[@summrn]

omg i need to try that

[@eepyknight]

HOLY SHIT LMAO that's kinda interesting though

[@marianasobrenome3316]

It's almost like that Robin Williams movie based on the Isaac Asimov tale

[@marianasobrenome3316]

Just remembered the name: The Bicentennial Man The robot butler does end up falling in love with the family daughter and strives to become more human with the use of advanced technology Beautiful but also kinda weird and sad

[@Gulamaja]

If you look up "hybrid" on the sims wiki, there is a part that mentions exaclty this glitch!

[@jojoslameerrand9305]

Olive Specter's Unlucky trait makes her unkillable. If an Unlucky sim passess from anything outside of old age, the grim reaper will bring them back. Maybe that's how she ended up falling for Grim

[@slurpwis]

YOOOO

[@straenmusikant7402]

yeah. found this out when i was trying to kill off someone in my family.

[@chocomelo454]

Oh yeah LMAO it's because he thinks their misfortune is funny. I tried having an evil sim keep some random Sims hostage and kill them off with fire. Didn't work because the last one was resurrected, because his suffering makes everyone else go teehee

[@anusername8350]

Too unlucky to even die.. damn

[@taylorslade961]

@@chocomelo454 ....bruh

[@emiik03]

i will never forget when i was playing with my sims 3 family on the Wii and i made my child walk to school instead of taking the bus. As she walked to school, i got a game message that she was kidnapped by some weird scientist?? My child was removed from the family and she never cane back. Safe to say I was devastated 😭

[@mikeyreza]

WHAT

[@almondsandrevolution]

wait ive played the sims 3 for so long but ive never heard of that what😭😭😭

[@emmettdonkeydoodle6230]

I’m certain that’s a mod

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

​@@emmettdonkeydoodle6230>on the Wii reading, bro, its important

[@kianadhx]

@@emmettdonkeydoodle6230how can you do that on sims for wii

[@mortober]

I can't believe the pie faces weren't mentioned. Randomly, sims in my worlds would participate in pie eating contests and then get a massive dark red blob over their mouths so it would look like some zombie just got into fresh flesh but no, somebody just had some pie. Gave me a few scares many times.

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

This happened a _weird_ amount of times when I played it lmao it legit looked like a zombie apocalypse

[@valeriekohoutova7618]

FOR REAL! It looks like blood! Or also in university pack your sim can become aware of that fact that they are a sim and you are a player and they break the 4th wall by looking at you. SO CREEPY

[@talb.1805]

I thought it was cute! Nice attention to detail. It comes off as soon as you shower lol

[@mortober]

@@talb.1805 It is a nice detail though often random townies will be out and about before having the chance to shower.

[@katlyndobransky2419]

@@valeriekohoutova7618wait what? Imma need some context lmao

[@megazorzz]

Love the description of pools being "nerfed," as if drowning Sims were the main objective. Love the retrospective as always!

[@orionning]

I kept waiting for you to mention how dogs sometimes would use a sim animation rig instead of a pet one and be able to stand upright and walk around like a person with spindly arms it always TERRIFIED ME as a kid

[@testerwulf3357]

I once saw a gif about that of a dog standing up and hugging a child!

[@absurdum-the-artist]

@@testerwulf3357 me too omg!

[@talb.1805]

EXCUSE ME WHAT

[@atanaZion]

Lmaooo

[@beeb2761]

one time I aged up a toddler to an adult and the adult rig was stuck in toddler animations it was awful

[@y2kboris186]

The craziest thing that's ever happened to me in the Sims 3 was I got that super rare event where in University if you let the science students dabble around long with the Group Science Experiment Object, they can accidentally cause an orbital strike on your neighborhood. My sim was just peacefully going about her day, ya' know just tryin' to earn her college degree when suddenly I got a popup notification in the upper right "Something is uncharacteristically dimming the sun, what could it be?". Next thing I look at my Sims moodlets and one is marked "orbital strike imminent", I was like OH SHIT! I'd heard about this happening before in Sims 2 but never saw it. Suffice it to say I told my Sim to leave class early and run randomly around the foothills on the edge of town. Figured if I didn't just stay in one spot the likelihood of her getting killed would be less. The asteroid came down, right in the middle of the campus, exploding over the science division. It started a bunch of fires all over randomly, space rocks were strewn all about everywhere as well as several of those really big asteroid pieces you can sometimes find in the world while watching via telescope. Everyone ran out of class and half the townies died instantly of a heart attack while charred. The other half farther away from the epicenter burned to death in like 30 sims minutes lol. Only silver lining at the end of all of it, was that many space rocks were worth alot of simoleons lol.

[@petepeterson5917]

Stonks

[@Da_Rivulet]

moral of the story: even if a lot of innocents die, the bigger the meteor the bigger the profits

[@alimica]

that shit happened to me as a kid, id left my computer on running my game accidentally because my mom was rushing us to go to the store and when i came back half of my sims were dead and there was a big hole in the fkn lawn with meteors around it lmao. sims can be brutal ;-; i didnt have uni tho it didnt exist yet, it was ambitions im pretty sure bc i was playing in twinbrook that was my favorite one back then

[@fumikoh6231]

What the fuck…

[@yokohashiguchi6309]

There was a huge meteorite that hit my Sim’s colleagues and Boss! They passed 😭 but my Sim survived.

[@eelguttz885]

The only nostalgia I hold for the Sims franchise is by watching my sister play it without playing it myself, I think that's peak younger sibling energy

[@user-nr6uh3ld3m]

Same lol I used to watch my brother play

[@fakeemail6815]

me with minecraft, I had my own account I just liked watching my sister play it. I actually had a little checklist of things to do with my best friend and one of them was just "watch [sister] play minecraft"

[@atanaZion]

Me when my sister used to play Black

[@atanaZion]

@@fakeemail6815 Lmaoo

[@Kh-bs7mg]

I felt this comment

[@misstressfoxtail05]

The normal gnomes can also start their own families if you have more than one. They also age from baby to elder and then die, leaving a little gold gnome statue on your sims lot. ETA: Vampire gnomes can also bite any teddy bears on your sims lot and turn them into vampire gnomes as well.

[@katemartin113]

i believe they can start having families in generations (the objective best pack btw) otherwise they just jump around causing chaos

[@themyofmy]

this is truly one of games ever created

[@sneakycatto3886]

And don’t even get me started on the horse gnomes, I have at least 14 on my lot, like, hhhh, there’s so many

[@randomstuffs7648]

what pack are vampire gnomes from

[@misstressfoxtail05]

@@randomstuffs7648 I believe they came with either Late Night or Supernatural.

[@noraunhappy]

I took a short scroll through the comments and didn’t see anyone mention your earrings. And honestly? They’re the most cursed thing in this whole video and I love them.

[@chilledlynx1952]

I was looking for comments abt this!! So glad someone else noticed too, they're fantastically cursed

[@ChicaneryBear]

I don’t think most people bear that cursed knowledge, thankfully.

[@BentleyS6336]

Omg now I can't stop looking at them

[@bubbletea1985]

she needs to leave them on the radiator for a while for the full effect

[@ha_des]

I didn't get it at first. I was looking without realizing until I deciphered the silhouette of rainbow dash and understood. help

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

Twinbrook is clearly a reference to Lovecraft's Innsmouth! The fish-people town. It explains the "murky lineage" and the green skintones on ghosts.

[@pavladavlas]

My favourite new feature of The Sims 3 was my sims *actually being able to visit eachother.* Before, you could only ever call someone over or meet them on a community lot; your sims couldn’t go to someone else’s house while you were playing their household. Being able to visit other sims just added so much realism. I don’t know why they didn’t make it a thing sooner.

[@Arthaius]

- What's worse is, they removed that from Sims 4 because of BS reasons, I am so glad I never bought the Sims 4 - I'll stick with #3 thanks.

[@pavladavlas]

@@Arthaius The Sims 4 base game is free on Origin now. And I bought it at launch and I’m pretty sure sims were still able to visit eachother…? (It’s been 8 years since that and 3 years since I last touched that game, though, so I might be wrong.)

[@Arthaius]

@@pavladavlas - From what I understand, you can meet sims at lots in the Sims 4, but it's similar to the Sims 2 in that it involves loading screens to take you to the new zone, hop in a cab, then ~poof~ you are at a new location - in Sims 3 you could literally just walk to any other house or town location and run into any citizens along the way, or maybe in the park, or at their house - in Sims 4 you can't walk directly, you just "Appear" at the new location, and have to leave the same way.

[@tythus654]

I'd speculate that in 2 each household is a separate savefile with its own progression, and all sims are tracked on a separate file; trying to visit other households would mean loading another savefile, and these could be hardwired to controlling the sims that live there; in contrast, Sims 3 probably tracks the entire city as one savefile.

[@damian4590]

Creating a sort of monster wife through science and having it end with a fire burning down the lab sounds like a Frankenstein reference

[@rustyhowe3907]

Even the sickly pale skin of the proposed recreation images really give off that vibe too.

[@Zyzarda]

I feel like you haven't read Frankenstein

[@damian4590]

Our class read it in highschool and also watched the first 2 movies. Idk why it would be a stretch to make this comparison

[@alicethemad1613]

@Zyzarda this literally happens in Frankenstein (the fire is usually in adaptations I can’t remember if it’s in the novel)

[@ladakaplan]

So, once I created a sim with some ✨drama✨ in mind and it came out crazier than I anticipated. Without going into detail, my sim had a child with a guy, then dumped him for a girl next door and married her. So that girl became child's step mom, it was reflected in the family tree and all. The thing is, it turns out that in the case of such families if the parent that is actually related to the child dies, that link in the family tree disappears. So when my original sim died (accidentally, btw, i didn't plan this), her wife wasn't related to her child anymore. I wouldn't have found out, but the second my original sim's daughter became a young adult she started flirting with her step mom💀

[@sophiathefurbst]

oh my god-

[@eileenconway2966]

Get them on Maury

[@oiytd5wugho]

😳

[@Material_melody]

Wtf…

[@fleurala]

wild ass game bro I swear..

[@zapdog_]

The Visceroidal Nausea moodlet is especially creepy because in Command and Conquer, tiberium rapidly spreads across the planet causing cataclysmic damage to the planet. And your sim just dug up an entire crystal.

[@UKman945]

Wonder what implication that gives to the military career in Sims 1 and 2 since they're later in the time line, turns out your actually joining GDI to fight the Tiberium Wars because some idiot in The Sims 3 found the crystal

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

"And your sim just dug up an entire crystal." Probably to put above their heads when they feel ill and or/run out of medication/cures.

[@jackieattackie101]

Living vicariously through these sims videos because my parents didn’t let me have any sims games and I love mine now. My mom thought it was too violent/inappropriate and let us have roller coaster tycoon 2 instead where we killed people in different ways lmao

[@owlchick3015]

But how a sims game can be violent ? It's killing me 😂

[@jackieattackie101]

@@owlchick3015 listen my mom heard they died from another mom and she was like nope you’re done 😂😂😂😂

[@lilymasters2863]

God those were my parents views too! I literally didn't get to play Sims until I moved out

[@stevegoatman1049]

I wasn’t allowed to play the games either growing up because they were “too adult.” Plus my gay cousin was like obsessed with them so I wouldn’t be surprised if my family was just doing some weird, stupid association thing of “sims makes you gay”

[@abbie_joan]

bro I used to play a little bit of Sims but my vice was Zoo Tycoon I had serious anger issues when I couldn't afford stuff for my zoo

[@lerchik-perchik]

I'm not from a country where homosexual relationships were openly talked about during my childhood (or ever talked about at all), but Sims 3 became a discovery for me in this regard when my girl sim showed sympathy for another girl. I was so gentle with these relationships, and saw so many opportunities for them to exist in the world. I will never forget how I thought, looking at two girls kissing: I like it, it's beautiful. And then I created myself :D

[@KottyaaK]

Надеемся не запретят ✌🏻🤡

[@bugsonblades]

That's so cute!

[@lenacarey2333]

This is beautiful, I hope that you’re living in an accepting environment with people who love you now 💙 The Sims was important in my own self discovery as a lesbian, but I live in the States. I can’t imagine how hard it would’ve been for you, and how comforting seeing people like you in a life simulation game would be.

[@lerchik-perchik]

@@lenacarey2333 This game makes sense, doesn’t it? I think there are people everywhere who were raised to be rude, but now learn to look beyond imposed stereotypes. Of course, there are exceptions, but their limitations are their problem. I hope you’re surrounded by people who love you and sincerely wish you happiness!

[@hrisavgikondilis1787]

This is so sweet

[@nicolej5929]

The creepiest thing that I remember from the game was how zombies would randomly pop up in my sim's yard and would stare at them through the windows if they weren't covered. It use to really freak me out.

[@heliodotust]

i used to be horrified of zombies as a kid. i kind of grew out of it when one asked to be buzzed into my apartment

[@-memoria-2136]

I remember turning off the lunar cycle because I was super freaked out by them as well. I missed out on a majority of the content in Supernatural that way lmao

[@kiriohs]

@@heliodotustthis made me cackle

[@xMichiko]

​@@-memoria-2136I think you can just remove zombies in settings, and leave the other creatures and cycle intact. i remember doing this a few times as i hated the zombies

[@Akira_of_the_Fae]

I mainly hate that they eat all my hard grown plants i wish i could make them stop besides gateing off the entire garden

[@mitsota101]

Fun fact: Tiberium is actually the main currency in Command and Conquer, EA's RTS game series. It spreads across the ground like a fungus and consumes nutrients from anything it contacts, including humans and animals. Hence, if your sim holds onto some for a long period of time, they get sick.

[@ha_des]

oh I knew I had heard it somewhere

[@AxelLeJeff]

Basically look into it and the creepiness of it goes up by 10x. Too bad you can't make your sim be a Nod fanatic or research it. 'Visceroid' is a kind of blob made of mutated human tissue caused by tiberium.

[@ChaplainDMK]

Also starts horribly mutating living beings

[@montyr2083]

Brotherhood. Unity. Peace.

[@MoonlitEmbers010]

fun fact, it used to be called Tiberian before EA butchered the series

[@danimoeller420]

I have a deep need for her to cover the lore behind the Sims 2: Castaway spin off game. So much nostalgia and love for that game.

[@wu-ren]

For sure, it would also be incredibly cool if she covered Sims: Medieval. Kinda quirky but lovely in its own way.

[@Vale-qw9rr]

Eyyy, it's your lucky day.

[@Fawnfreckle]

​@@Vale-qw9rrwhere did the video go 😭

[@uneconqueambulante2094]

Ayooooooooo

[@Kathbunny2]

I always thought the imaginary friends were cute, an ideal cute childhood romance. When I was a kid, I'd always try to make them real by making potions for them. Once both are teens, they have a cute romance and go to prom together before eventually wedding as adults.

[@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa]

Awwww, I've had the inaginary friend turn real but never get married! You're making me wanna go play Sims 3 again ☺️

[@lunasmith9367]

I will always 100% defend imaginary friends, I had a sim in a Cinderella esque story where she only had her imaginary friend and at the end of the story brought him to life and they fell into a cute gothic twist love story and moved to Midnight Hollow together < 3

[@DizzyBusy]

My imaginary friends are always old when they get turned, hahahaha

[@ashm2338]

That's so cute bro omg

[@alloriavarner8304]

How is everyone getting nice imaginary friends? Mine were always bullies that would constantly violate the privacy of my child sim. They were never able to use the bathroom or shower CAUSE THAT FRICKER WOULD TELEPORT THROUGH LOCKED BATHROOM DOORS TO BULLY THEM.

[@itsgeegra]

33:59 "believe it or not the Goths are related to the Crumplebottoms" As someone who knows nothing of Sims lore this really made me howl, thank you

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

I know nothing about the Sims either, but at least the names are just family names.

[@corinnebrownlee3153]

the ability to scuba dive was literally the single biggest thing i loved about sims three, almost all my sims were scuba divers, I'm now actually getting scuba certified irl lol it left an impact on me i guess (:

[@Schlgrl_]

The best sims save stories always come from the perfect mix of game mechanics, AI and glitches. I had a single mum sim who would somehow glitch out around bars and get stuck on a loop making and drinking nectar while leaving her toddler on the floor. I almost got teary seeing the daughter later grow up and take on the parental role for her siblings, finally raising enough money for the household to celebrate Christmas together.

[@Forgottensnapdragon]

British 🤢

[@EternaMidnight]

Oops! Alcoholism.

[@MyssMiserie]

One of the earliest creepy things I've noticed in my early days of playing in 3 involves the grave of the Tragic Clown in the Sunset Valley graveyard. Which wasn't what bothered me, but the fact that he's buried right next to a little girl that wears face make up that seems to reflect birthday party/clowny themes makes me think this clown and this little girl died together. They both died by drowning as well which would be an odd coincidence.

[@CaitlinKoi]

Your series on the Sims franchise has reignited my passion for the games, and after learning the backstory behind Agnes I am determined to include her in all social gatherings my Sims have and eventually create a love interest for her to give her the family she's always wanted.

[@georgenoodles1387]

YOOO CAITLIN KOI

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

I played her once ! She had a ghost baby with her former husband, then turned the child into a proper human, thanks to the help of her wife (Kate Pistachio). It demanded a lot of commitment to them, but they succeeded. Then they move together to Isla Paradiso, raised their son and a dog. When Raphaël (the son) became an adult, he moved to Apaloosa Plain to raise horses. Agnes and Kate stayed in Isla Paradiso, bought a house-boat and lived a peaceful life.

[@freehugsfromaunicorn]

i loved the imaginary friend part of the generations expansion when i was a kid, for some reason that was always my favorite non-human type of sim, i think it was their goofy designs or their funny walk

[@akechimimi]

me too!! i completely forgot about them until izzy mentioned it! Generations was my first explanation pack too so i just loved it

[@justaperson4656]

I just love the goofy designs

[@HalfPastTwelve-uv8lv]

Same

[@balesplace]

If you ever do this for the sims 4, PLEASE cover the lore of Princess Cordelia! I always stop to read the little descriptions of her related furniture items and it’d be great to hear about her in a video :))

[@beekid5167]

Well now im rly invested😭😭 Mama lets research

[@jarodjohnson763]

yes.

[@raspberrylemonade]

Plumbella has an old video on it if you want that itch scratched lmao

[@gothcsm]

I actually think the idea of a child growing upside their imaginary friend and then being with them when they become real is super cute 😭 it’s kinda like growing up to marry your childhood best friend… idk

[@DizzyBusy]

You can also do that with someone you went to school with, you know, the average way. Those imaginary friends are creepy and they always go to the bathroom when I'm showering!

[@zoeb3573]

This is what I did with my very first imaginary friend when I first downloaded the pack. I had this whole plotline that the girl and her imaginary friend were in love since childhood and so her inventing potions since she was small was her desperate attempt to be with him while keeping it away from her dad since he couldn't see her friend and would think she was crazy if she told him. I even set this deadline that I had to make the potion to turn him human before they turned into adults or he'd be stuck as a doll forever (I'm pretty sure that's not actually a thing in the game). Then when he turned human I made him a chef because I loved the idea that he had never been able to eat food before and as soon as he was able to taste it he was in love with cooking.

[@Naixatloz]

@@zoeb3573 That's so cute omg

[@gothcsm]

@@zoeb3573 THIS IS SO CUTE

[@gothcsm]

@@DizzyBusy well I mean obviously but my point still stands

[@evilcat9014]

The newspaper story about a mysterious illness in Strangetown always scared the hell out of me as a kid. I've always had a fear of illness, so way back when, it scared me for that. Now, it scares me for both that, and also reminds me of the early news stories about COVID when it was still first spreading in China. The idea of a town being quarantined, and that being Strangetown, a place we know, and have been and played in. And how mysterious it is... so scary.

[@morena9900]

One time I used cheats and did the "edit sim in create a sim" action on a raccoon because I was curious as to what would happen. To my surprise it was sent to the room where you would edit human sims, not the barn where animal sims are usually edited. This also meant that the game tried to treat it like a human and stretched it out like crazy similar to the toddler glitch. The raccoon was absolutely fucked once I left the editor as well. I was genuinely so creeped out. I do kinda love the fact that we all encountered these sinister glitches at one point or another. It adds a whole new layer of community when you realize that there are tons of people out there that share these obscure and traumatizing moments from your childhood all connected to the same game that brought you hundreds of hours of fun.

[@h.f6364]

i tried changing a fowl's coat with cheats once and it made the, now adult sized horse, stretch inwards to fit with the small animations. i decided to put it out of its misery and shift click > deleted it

[@tinybutdeafeningbird1225]

@@h.f6364 that exact same thing happened to me so much 😭 i remember its bottom lip would stay in the same place but the head would squish so it just had this weird spoon lip, my horses used to do it constantly but just for a second and then they would go back to normal and it was so freaky lmaooo

[@melo9916]

i used to renovate all of the sims houses one by one when i played. i vividly remember entering one lot and seeing an abandoned, half-finished nursery and when i saw a single old lady lived there it made me so sad. i ended up leaving her house as the only untouched one. i thought about her now and again over the years and i half convinced myself i made it up. i had no idea what her lore was until today.

[@Tevi_L7151]

Ah yes, Agnes. She was supposed to be the victim of my first female golddigger, but they have a happy time together and adopted two kids. I was never good with construction and renovation, so they left her mansion with her fiance's grave and that unfinished room and moved to another. When I played it the second time without my sim I resurrected Eric with Ambrosia

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

I always had her adopt

[@noplace3571]

Not to be "that guy", but the whole "owning land in Scotland and be a Lord/Lady" through Established Titles is dodgy. Obviously it goes without saying that you don't own the land, you're effectively sponsoring it (like you don't own the dolphin or donkey you sponsor through charities), and you can't style yourself as a Lord or Lady officially, because you're not one. They don't make that clear. It's kinda like how companies tell you you can "name a star". You can't. You're paying for a piece of paper that tells you you have, but it'll never be officially recognised. Obviously it's up to you how much that bothers you, but that should always be made clear by the company, except it never is. Also, the environment sector in Scotland has been very critical of the work Established Titles is doing (or not doing, rather) with the millions of pounds they keep in an offshore account. It's also a very culturally sensitive issue. The idea of people being able to "own" land that should be public upsets a lot of people, and it can be seen as a form of neo-colonialism. Scottish MPs and environmental experts alike have been critical of the schemes. Lots of people have styled it as a scam, because you don't own anything, you're not suddenly made a Lord, and the company isn't really doing anything with the money they're making. It's like buying an NFT, but somehow worse.

[@odester]

i was thinking the same thing :/ at this point i’ve chalked up all these “buy a [insert novelty thing that isn’t really purchasable]” programs to be scams

[@sobrazy451]

you wont be a lord the land you buy, by scottish law, is too low for you to be classified as that

[@mosstits]

Are you familiar with this scam called Earth 2? People "buy" virtual land based off locations of the planet that they'll be able to own when the metaverse game "releases". The sponsor kind of reminds me of it.

[@maleermoo4388]

Yeah its definitely a culturally sensitive issue like you said, many Scots - myself included - find the idea of selling titles ridiculous, and plain insulting really.

[@shwing1428]

Can confirm as a Scottish person, pointless and 100% a scam.

[@m.a.9648]

My favorite glitch was my werewolf sim who, instead of turning into a werwolf at the full moon, would turn into a thicc plumbot with a floating bob cut. Damn. I love the sims 3

[@wynneb6163]

I had sims 3 pets and was terrified by just the “create your sim” page, especially when I woke up in the middle of the night and realized I never turned off my Xbox. Something about a 2012 emo sim staring at me all night was horrifying.

[@yukezquizo]

💀

[@atanaZion]

Lmaoo

[@mochaphile895]

Since we're on the topic of Lolita Goth, I'd also like to add another, lesser known member: Rebecca Goth! I used to play the Sims 3 Console and wondered who Rebecca exactly was. Apparently, she's _likely_ the great granddaughter of Timaeus Goth aka the founder of Sugar Maple Coast, which is the neighbourhood you're in in the game. Since she's a young adult in the game and Sunset Valley's Bella's a kid, I've always thought of Rebecca as like, the 'black sheep' aunt, considering how she (and Timeaus, who's then a ghost) is the only Goth in SMC.

[@velvet561]

NO WAY SOMEONE WHO PLAYED TS3 PETS ON CONSOLE ?? I loved Rebecca man she was one of my fav sims in the game idk why i just thought she was so interesting

[@deliahummin8005]

Omg when I first started watching lore videos I was so confused because I've only played sims on console. I didn't realize how different they were on pc and I had no idea why they hadn't mentioned any of the sims I knew from console sims 3 pets. Thank you for this small bit of lore ^^

[@chillfactory9000]

TS3 PETS FOR CONSOLE MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

TS3 Pets on xbox! Whoot! Another person who played it! man i loved it and played it until the disc gave up

[@alixon5009]

There's really no way to tell if Rebecca is older or younger than Bella though. There's not enough evidence to prove when the timeline of Sugar Maple Coast takes place. The game lacked descriptions that would suggest the timeline and no familiar faces are seen. The same can't be said for Sims 3 for consoles though. Malcolm Landgrabb of Sunset Valley appears in Moonlight Bay, having the same traits as he did in the PC version and his bio saying that he moved out of Sunset Valley. So Moonlight Bay would've been taken place around the same time as Sims 2 as the Sims in that game are adults or turning into elders very soon, which Malcolm will very soon become an elder when you first play the game. That's just my observations though, I'd love to hear what others think.

[@silverbullet7691]

Imagine you’re a sim who’s estranged cousin sent a toy to your child, your child becomes unusually attached to it, it appears in different places, and one day your child introduces you to their new eccentric sweetheart. They’re uncomfortably familiar in a way you can’t exactly pin point and they go by what seems like a nickname that you swear you’ve heard before

[@Corium1]

the fact tiberium is in the Sims and can just be kept casually around like a trophy is absolutely funny and terrifying

[@f-22raptorlandingzone30]

Better hope they've got a home security system that keeps out flame tanks

[@Corium1]

@@f-22raptorlandingzone30 and hopefully enough power for said security

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

It's more like "IN CASE OF PERSONAL SICKNESS BREAK GLASS". As in, if a sim gets sick or unwell, and their house is absolutely devoid of medication, they might replace the crystal above their heads, if they were desperate.

[@Gadreth]

I think the negligence moodlet is terrifying its a teddy bear shedding a single tear, it gets more dark when you find out that that moodlet appears when kids Stop Living

[@arieltales8952]

It's creepy not being able to see those kids again. I wonder where they are taken.

[@wizardlizard55555]

I thought kids just got taken away in the TS3. Like, by child protective services

[@DizzyBusy]

@@wizardlizard55555 they don't get taken away. In my game, I found the child still living in the same city, but with a different family and using their family name 😢 the feels. I befriended that family and moved in with them as a "live-in nanny"

[@arieltales8952]

@@DizzyBusy I have never had a child being taken away. I've read you can't see them again and I didn't want that. Which version of the Sims franchise are you referring to?

[@DizzyBusy]

@@arieltales8952 Sims 3. The child is erased from the family tree, like when someone dies. But as I said, I found the same kid (same name, same traits, sam hair, etc) in the neighbourhood, just adopted into another family.

[@Cyberlucy]

Damn this make me realize how much I didn't actually get to in the years of playing Sims 3. What an amazingly detailed game.

[@camila_f_]

Same! I've played this for a decade, but never used a single premade family, apart from Sims 1 Newbies and Goths. All of this is new to me.

[@qwerkyqwerty5241]

Sadly I missed that train :(

[@cherry1858]

I remember when my sims 3 file ended up glitching out while playing with island paradise; I had a wedding for two of my sims and, when it was over, everyone had left aside from one sim. He was stuck clapping and cheering for the newly weds until his unfortunate demise. I didn't know the cheats to reset him, as I had no internet back then to look it up, so I had to watch as this man cheered and cheered until Grim came to take him away. His wife and daughter even came over to visit him, too, any interactions they had with him couldn't get him unstuck, despite going through. It was heartbreaking and terrifying

[@ChelseaanneGray]

I bought my sims game second hand and one lot had two people just frozen in their house but apparently the lot was always for sale because if you moved a family in then they too became frozen. There are probably soo many sims still stuck on that lot 😂

[@HighlightCat]

I was able to reset, but I had a frozen fireman in my house

[@sidiwvwhi]

modern version of the dancing plague

[@brinadreams]

LOLLL helpp why is this so funny but sad at the same time?💀

[@Paidnotspaid420]

Olive living with Nervous Subject unexpectedly broke my heart. The sims didn’t yet know that his life would become so shit :(

[@RainbowFilms25]

The universal experience of your parents thinking the Late Night cover was too racy Also I'm not sure you mentioned it but if you were mean to the imaginary friends they could lock you in your room, possibly starving the child to death.

[@Arthaius]

- Ha! Good thing there is an Entity watching over the world who can magically place a door, or remove a wall any time to release a trapped Sim.

[@kinashy8863]

Wow, i didn't even think about being mean to them

[@feykingjulian]

as they should

[@jeslybarillasmeraz880]

@@Arthaius Or, you know, watch in amusement instead

[@catz_circus]

@@Arthaius But who would do that though

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

My big sister often played The Sims 3 and our little sister and I sat beside her watching her play. It was always so much fun.

[@terminator572]

Kino, unironically

[@kiddert]

Same! We watched the first let's plays before they were called let's plays hahah

[@SleepyWitchTea]

A glitch I remember finding but never saw anyone else talk about was accidentally creating hobbits. I had two child sims celebrate their birthday one morning but they didn't age up before getting on the school bus. Then halfway on the journey to school they get kicked off the school bus, have their age up animation but stayed the same height of a child despite being teenagers

[@Blossomhills]

I had this glitch too when my kid sims were out past curfew and were caught by the police on their birthday, they never stopped being a kids height. Really corrupted that save file haha

[@roxanne410]

As someone who has OCs, one of my fave things was to imagine the imaginary friends were OCs of the character come to life and it was my fave story to play with

[@jesterabbit]

Gosh your fashion taste is top tier. The rainbow dash jar earrings, the amazing makeup, and the sweet shirt giving y2k vibes, I live for it

[@ffs6969f4u]

Do you know the joke behind rainbow dash in a jar? It's VERY NSFW

[@jesterabbit]

@@ffs6969f4u Oh yes , I’m aware, it’s extremely cursed but hilarious with the earrings 💀💀💀

[@ptrd4111]

@@ffs6969f4u thats what those are? Oh god...

[@rotgutted]

I thought there was a blue gorilla in the earring lol

[@wd.werifesteria3808]

I know this has nothing to do with the sims. But this video single-handedly broke me out of my adhd paralysis and I managed to clean my depression mess after like 3 weeks of the mental state. I do thank you for your amazing content worthy of cleaning to!!!

[@faithsspam]

yo me too lmfao djdhdkdjdj

[@creaturenamedalistair]

Good job! That's actually really awesome

[@pamcakesplease]

This vid gave me the motivation to finally do my hair. Proud of u ❤

[@Ciorstaidh]

literally idk why lore videos make me do shit ive been meaning to for months

[@rae615]

on god i relate to this too much. adhd paralysis is god awful

[@letsalllovelean478]

I feel bad for the girl doll dressed creator. Imagine taking time out of your day to make a custom doll for your sims, feel proud, upload it, and then somehow get the internet to think you're a monster who can haunt a sims game.

[@qvelium]

Is your pfp Princess♂ ??

[@letsalllovelean478]

@@qvelium Mhm!

[@nida4602]

If it makes you feel better, the creator was a 50-ish woman at the time who still makes content. I forgot her name, but she's pretty well known in the community. :D

[@ComradeMercy]

She's still in the community btw!! She's an elderly woman :)

[@letsalllovelean478]

@@ComradeMercy Aww I hope she's doing well! I'm glad she likes the sims still.

[@luzzyluz67457]

I was listening to this video while taking a nap and I had a dream that Fluttershy (who was my old friend for some reason) wouldn't stop talking about the sims 3 no matter how much I tried to change the conversation

[@strawberrychangeling]

why is that kind of in character tho

[@BismuthBorealis]

sims but they're all cute animals

[@maddieb.4282]

@@BismuthBorealisanimal crossing

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@maddieb.4282 Exactly! Or the monsters from Undertale and Deltarune, or the Darkners in Deltarune exclusively.

[@Zerostealthman]

Literally screamed “YES!!!” In excitement when i got a notification you posted. Your videos make life much more tolerable for me; thank you for making this excellent long form content!

[@Brigeb20]

Yess I would've done that if everyone wasn't still asleep lol

[@ha_des]

exactly same lol I m gonna finish my commentary fast so I can enjoy 1h of pure delight

[@opalfroggy-2156]

SAAAAME I’M SO HAPPY

[@SaintxGlobal]

SAMEEE

[@SailorMya]

Right, I was excided for a video from them then it is about one of my favorite guilty pleasure! LOL

[@ashessakura7518]

Talking about moodlets, my favourite that I stumbled across is when your vampire sim drinks from a fairy sim and the moodlet is all about how refreshing a fairies blood is and has picture of the vampire moodlet sim with sunglasses, it made me laugh the first time I saw it bevause it was so unexpected

[@sacrosanctharlot6482]

Would the release timeline of the Sims 3 match up with TrueBlood? Vampires in TrueBlood get high off fairy blood and can walk in the sun.

[@bunny-we6xn]

this almost made me cry... i got the sims 3 as a birthday gift from my mom in 5th grade and became absolutely addicted to it, especially since i barely had any friends, i could spend hours on it. u could even track my interests over time as i went from making generic characters, over characters from my favorite anime and manga, to ocs... :,). it even helped me discover my identity, i still remember the first time i made a sim have a gay relationship, it felt so SCANDALOUS to me xD. it even got me through the death of my grandpa, who was my father figure and whose dementia had gotten deblitating over the summer holidays between 4th and 5th grade. i also bonded with one of the sweetest and funniest girls i ever met over the game, we would spend hours after school sitting in front of my shitty old laptop, making sims while eating candy from the gas station that was near my house (sadly she changed schools shortly after, jula if ur out there... hi :)) ok that was a lot of personal stuff sorry the sims 3 was THE comfort game of my childhood next to minecraft pocket edition, pokemon, animal crossing and tomodachi life (i also have an unhealthy attachment to tomodachi life and even hearing the music makes me cry, i would never dare delete my save file bc it still has the mii my grandpa made of himself on it)

[@idaandersen3505]

Sometimes the best memories are made from such simple games. This was honestly such a sweet comment about such a nice memory :´)

[@SUME1234]

I genuinely hope that you’re doing better ❤

[@cinderstar4377]

What a beautiful story may your grandpa rest in peace and may you have a good life 💕

[@angelic.process]

i'm sorry about your grandpa :( mine is my father figure too, he's still alive but he also has dementia thats been getting a lot worse recently & cancer that they can't treat because he's too old :( i'm scared to lose him but i'm glad im not alone in that

[@HeavenlyMercury2800]

The sims head turning whilst pausing happened in the sims 4 for a while too. It scared the absolute shit out of me at first, but when it was announced that it was being removed, I was actually a bit dissapointed, as I actually liked how creepy it can be

[@jitterbuggs]

the Imaginary Friend feature ironically reminds me of a fanfiction i used to read some time ago about the main character having a secret unseen power to bring their imaginary friends into existence, albeit very gradually and over many years. the story kinda time skips throughout the boys' childhoods and as the imaginary friend grows older he becomes more corporeal. the fanfic actually does delve into that existential horror element of someone existing as an extension of someone else's imagination and struggling to figure out if he actually EXISTS in the same capacity as the person who created him. i think about that fic from time to time and even tho it was never finished it was such a field trip.....

[@Rizzalert69]

Stop that sounds so interesting

[@ma.2089]

Can you tell us the name

[@eveecco]

What fandom was it for?

[@jitterbuggs]

@@eveecco my hero academia

[@eveecco]

@@jitterbuggs 😧Damn, that's really cool!

[@bluedawnflower]

I started this episode thinking "wow, izzy's earrings look interesting" and then I realized

[@bookshelfhoney]

What are they?

[@corvigae]

To make it worse, I realized what they were literally at the precise moment she said the word "jarring" 💀

[@PeachReaver]

OKAY THANK YOU, IT'S NOT JUST ME!

[@crypticcorvid]

@@bookshelfhoney It's a reference to the "Rainbow Dash jar".

[@sungoldened]

it took me so long 😭

[@Game_Erica]

I honestly wish she had talked about ghost babies, I remember discovering them for the first time and being surprised and creeped out. Especially with ghost toddlers that would morph weirdly when doing stuff like walking lol

[@Arthaius]

- I thought children/babies were immune to death and would just get taken by Child Services if you neglected them - didn't know they could die.

[@Game_Erica]

@@Arthaius Well they can't to my knowledge. You get ghost babies by woohooing with a ghost, the baby will have the same cause of death as the parent. Idk if they were an accident (haha) or there's something in the code to make it happen. I recommend looking up more about ghost babies, they're kinda fun

[@Arthaius]

@@Game_Erica - Oh yeah, silly me I hadn't even thought of that, of course I knew Ghost spouses could make babies, I had just forgotten.

[@Memelord-md5hs]

@@Arthaius actually kids can die in the sims 3 If a meteor strikes at a school for instance (from the natural disasters expansion) everyone inside will die including the kids Most often they are taken away by social services but they can still die in the sims 3

[@Tevi_L7151]

@@Arthaius babies and toddlers can become victims of default story progression if you don't manage that family with babies and toddlers, their graves can sometimes be taken from the mausoleum, just like other dead npc's. In addition to a meteorite, elementary school children can burn in a fire or randomly catch fire while working with an inventor's workbench or even get burned during the summer season after a long stay in the sun, I saw a child from the house next door get burned to death. And children can drown in the pool, in one save i had a glitch with sims freedom of will and they couldn't get out of the pool in the community lot without my command and one kid drowned. I left game without saving cuz child was my favourite

[@alexandrakillworth8213]

I love how the Sims 3 is known for being horribly buggy and unplayable at times, but I am 20 and have been playing it since it came out on various devices (including my own laptop) with like 10 expansion packs on and have NEVER had an issue with bugs or broken game issues.

[@TychoKingdom]

Please share your secrets

[@missk.7981]

Damn, I can play for like 2 minutes at once, after that my game freezes for a few seconds

[@reyrats]

Oh my god your Lolita explanation makes so much sense and I’m so relieved she most likely was the same age as him when they married and she died young while he kept aging. Like you said I don’t want to believe the sims is quite THAT dark

[@anilite_]

My first and most memorable childhood Sims 3 horror experience was extremely basic, perhaps even iconic. I was 9, playing the game for the first time all by myself. It was my first ever family, no cheats, small budget, I was just learning the game and trying my best to upkeep my sims, get them a job, start a family, expand the house, etc. The sims were married, had their first toddler just recently and the wife was already pregnant with another one. My house was ugly, taking care of the baby and meeting sims needs was stressful, but otherwise it was going pretty well. But then that fateful night came... wife got hungry in the middle of the night, husband got up to make some mac & cheese..... and then, of course, the cheap ass stove caught on fire along with the man. I didn't have a smoke detector because I intentionally sold it earlier to get enough money for a better TV or something (I think I didn't even know wtf a smoke detector was at the time). No help was coming, so the wife ran to the kitchen in panic and tried to put out the fire all by herself. Everyone's screaming, the baby in the back is crying too, it was a very tense moment that felt like an eternity. She kept spraying and spraying while he kept screeching in agony.... he didn't make it. His charred lifeless body fell to the floor and then... *that* track started playing. The shadowy skeletal figure appeared, took the husbands body and disappeared, leaving the weeping pregnant wife all alone in their soot covered kitchen. That imagery *traumatized* me. Definitely dropped the game for month because I was just too damn scared to return. Also the Grim Reaper's design definitely exacerbated my fear of the dark, I couldn't sleep without my nightlight for years after that because I had that weird ass fear that the reaper will come for me too.

[@NeneSims21]

I had a similar experience when I first discovered sims could die, but it was in the sims 2, I didn't know I needed to buy a fridge for them to eat so the mother of the family collapsed of starvation and 11 year old me suddenly sees the grim reaper appearing, I freaked the f outttt

[@CaitlinKoi]

Much respect for removing the Established Titles sponsor! Now I can rewatch this wonderful video 5 times in a row again without feeling awkward

[@ailoriarayne5086]

I remember one time in twinbrook..I was trying to level my sims guitar level and half the town was watching her and out of the blue I noted a few sims acting weird and I heard a strange sound ..and before you know it a meteor came down and wiped out all but 3 sims. I was so flabbergasted.

[@iamsopure]

The word "flabbergasted" took me out. 😂😂

[@LysolMyFace]

The imaginary friend terrified me as a kid. I remember thinking it was cute and then one day it did or said something so creepy and from then on I never wanted it, if I ever saw it I wanted to kill it with fire. I can’t find what it said but people have talked about how they can become controlling and jealous and mean to your sim and I feel like it must have been something like that.

[@Takejiro24]

Mean, yes. Almost every time I had seen my child and their imaginary friend interacting, they were having a fight, seemingly always on the IM's part. It happened so often that their relationship was always in the halves despite all the effort I went through maxing out their friendship. After a certain point, I had my child Sim just tell their IM to step off and never deal with them again.

[@flutterquake1]

I thought it was a cute addition when I first got the expansions and played with a huge family. It was the first kid in the household, so I had them grow up with their imaginary friend and got them to max the chemistry lab table object until they could make the potion that makes the imaginary friend real. I used it, came up with a narrative, and had them live "happily ever after". However, every single child after that also received an imaginary friend that I could not sell or delete, that would constantly prompt me to "let them out so they can spend more time with [child's name]" even after that sim had aged up to adulthood. Imaginary friends are now annoying to say the least, and creepy at most. They are unavoidable, never leave, and will constantly be in my sim's inventories for fear of placing them down and them springing to life to unceasingly pester and argue with my sims and keep them from completing tasks and complaining when they don't give them attention. In other words, the imaginary friend system became more of a "clingy nice guy" simulator that you can't avoid.

[@zandaroos553]

14:40 is actually a reference to the Command and Conquer series! The main resource in the game is a crystalline parasite call Tiberium that can infect a host like a fungus to leach out its minerals.

[@nicorozner7417]

And is also an alien terraforming tool, apparently. Well that's... cool.

[@Larjus]

I don't remember how many times I've made my sims marry their imaginary friends when their adults and real, but it's many. I just really like imaginary friends and think it's sweet if they marry the sim they were given to. It's like childhood friends falling in love (and that's one of my favourite tropes in fiction).

[@Vazecrow]

Playing sims 3 and its open world is so soothing like when it rains ur sims out in work u watch the rain and vibin on ppl walking on your street doin their own thing its just I never felt that with sims 2

[@cynthtnyc]

As someone who never played and never understood the appeal of The Sims as a game, I love hearing Izzy talking passionately about all the little details that made this series the absolute classic that it is! Thank you for sharing your love for these games. :3

[@ilovechad363]

So glad we get a sims 3 video. This game and Sims2 literally defined my childhood/teen years. Shout out to all the kids who got CC from the exchanged and ended up destroying their games with bad CC like The Boots (if you know you know) and the centaur bottom.

[@avawetzel3408]

oh man, i completely forgot about The Boots, but as soon as i read that it all came back

[@sylveonnn]

THE BOOTS how could i forget

[@keanuk6171]

Omgggg the centaur bottom!! 😂

[@callmemaddy]

I still play to this day and completely forgot about those! I've forbidden cc on my game after having to go through that 😳

[@Chococat1314]

fuck those boots oh my GOOOODD

[@rug4822]

The celebrity lore in the late night expansion is absolutely unhinged. The highlights are the Littler and Belle families. There's also the vampire clan stuff which is equally as crazy.

[@UnkleSanik]

I don't see it brought up too often, but, Tiberium being canon to Sims 3 implies it's in the same universe as the Command and Conquer games, and the Military career events imply the events of C&C are in fact happening at the same time your Sim is just chilling.

[@lisabui1031]

I just realised what Izzzy's earrings are. 💀THE MEMORIES

[@cowboykisser2469]

what are they…. 😳 I think I know but I wanna confirm

[@TearsInOurAkitoyaEyes]

@@cowboykisser2469 rainbow dash from mlp

[@lanalegion2112]

#ponyjar

[@xyobug]

I WAS FUCKING STUNNED Just watching the vid and I paused because I couldn't tell what the earrings were of. 💀

[@maru1247]

I FLIPPED OUT LOL I DIDNT NOTICE SHE WAS IN A JAR 😭

[@ANGELECSTASY]

Dude. I know izzy thought the imaginary doll turning into a person and being able to fall in love with and woohoo with anyone they want, including the person they were given to, but that has like the complete opposite effect on me now that i've learned of its existence. I now NEED to re-download sims 3 just so that i can have a kid and then make the most unhinged childhood friends to lovers slowburn fic ever :] Edit: OH SHIT THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK AND 100+ LIKES EVERYONE i thought the post stopped getting traction a day ago already! Tbf I'm not sure when i'll be able to buy it and i haven't played a sims game in forever, but who knows the unhinged-yet-cute has indeed captured my imagination :DD

[@Copperkaiju]

Her description of the imaginary friend was unintentionally a great advertisement for the game and expansion.

[@sparkledog-husbandy1305]

it better be good lmao!

[@jeslybarillasmeraz880]

I will be awaiting your documentation of the progress on Wattpad.

[@catz_circus]

Please drop the link if you make it

[@nvexe8822]

please calm down a little

[@princesprinkles5823]

I have had so many horrifying glitches in the sims 3. Some, admittedly, are due to a huge amount of mods, but I had what I refer to as "ghost daughter" in a mostly regular save. I only had master controller that I didn't use, and extra clothing. I adopted a baby, and even though I had needs turned off, my sim was always getting a negative moodlet for hearing crying. I checked his relationships and I had a second daughter that just NEVER spawned. She had the same name as my kid, but a totally randomized appearance. I ended up cheating her into my household since she didn't exist anywhere in the town. She was mostly normal for a bit, but she ended up not being able to attend school, get a job, or have a birthday without cheats. I ended up deleting the save because I felt bad for her and was sad about it all the time.

[@bloodyconfetti.mp3]

me when i'm impressed by the chocolate fountain

[@rosswell6884]

I love how creative Izzy is with her makeup, I look forward to seeing what cool new look she does each video. HOWEVER. Those earrings. The earrings...

[@KoWahiKit]

I thought they were plastic bags at first, then I had the horrible realization…

[@Yrrzy]

The identical wives thing just makes me think they're both the same woman - not clones, literally the same woman, cheating on the two friends with each other. A malfunctioning invention simply burnt the house down, killing her, and so she was never caught.

[@Arthaius]

- I did have that thought, except, there are two separate graves - and there is no such thing as an "Empty Grave" in the Sims, since the gravestone was named, there were definitely two separate differently named sims linked to those two grave stones. Also, I may have imagined it, I'm too lazy to go back and check now, but I THINK I thought I saw a beauty mark on one girls face, and not one on the other, so, perhaps that is indicative of separate individuality??

[@june7601]

47:31

[@sophiathefurbst]

@@Arthaius I see it too! BUT it could be makeup or something

[@Tevi_L7151]

It's a great theory, although I'm more partial to two theories - Harwood and Juan, Lacy and Macy are an embodiment of the classic myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, and the second theory has to do with their tattoos. Tattoos are often a symbol of hierarchy in the criminal world and belonging to some gang or mafia family, for example, all senior Racketeers have a family tattoo. Lacy and Macy also have tattoos and may have been from an enemy group that was destroyed by the Racket family

[@ClaireSunshine]

I don't think the Imaginary Friend becoming a lover is all that creepy tbh. Plenty of people marry their childhood friends, this is just a uh... Weird way of going about it.

[@atanaZion]

Marry your childhood friend 🤢

[@arabellascomet]

I agree. I saw a another comment on here labeling it as some type of “grooming”. Like… what??

[@peppymations5379]

@@arabellascomet yeah, that’s what I was thinking! It doesn’t really make sense to me to call it “grooming”, considering that in-game the doll sim will grow up with your child, implying that they are the same age. It’s definitely more of a “childhood-friends” thing, but with a supernatural twist

[@L0rdOfThePies]

@@atanaZion ?? Whats wrong with that?

[@chiefpurrfect8389]

@@atanaZion I wish ppl would stop pretending that knowing someone since you were children automatically means you view each other as siblings or smth like please don't be so terminally online

[@alwayshauntingyourdreams]

i def think the lolita is a hint to the book. it fits so well, the personality traits, the name, the book written w the same name. this is kinda gross to think about but i love how dark sims are.

[@MokohiChan]

Eh, I haven't read the book, just summaries, so maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see it. The name could easily be a reference to Gothic Lolita like Izzy suggests especially since it literally almost reads that exactly, just backwards. The traits also don't make much sense to me since I thought the whole concept of Lolita was that the whole relationship is supposed to be gross and disturbing and only sensual on the adult man's side, not Lolita actually BEING sensual and seductive. Plus, she is a teen and not an adult which is kinda the whole point of the book. I also don't see how the death by electricity would fit in anywhere or even her being dead at all since Lolita doesn't die in the novel. I don't mean any of this as an attack on your theory though! I just wanted to discuss if you feel like it.

[@kaykeunil]

I’ve read the book and it’s kind of a stretch? Not impossible but the traits don’t fit with much of the characteristics in the lolita book and the book is actually a sort of critique of how gross the guy is for going after a literal school-girl. The thing is, I would consider it more possible if she wasn’t named Lolita GOTH, which is literally just gothic lolita. It’s possible the devs were thinking abt the book a little when they created her, but I really don’t think it’s a direct reference/parallel. Also, you’ll notice that Lolita Goth is a young adult, not a teenager or child. The girl described as lolita in the books was very much a child, no older than early high school.

[@oopsierosie]

@@MokohiChan Lolita does die at the end of the book, though. It was said she passed away on christmas day due to childbirth complications.

[@ellencoleman4604]

It absolutely is a reference, the programmers knew what they were doing when they gave her those personality traits. I'm also pretty certain Samuel Goth is modelled after Humbert Humbert from the 1997 adaptation (played by Jeremy Irons).

[@vanillaa_spice460]

Its both a reference to the fashion and book imo

[@tatianamaldonado5624]

I used to be TERRIFIED of the sounds of my sim screaming underwater from a shark attack. Now i think it’s hilarious 😂

[@ameliemaharani3621]

I remember one time I was playing Sims 3 with TONS of downloadable content, making my game super buggy. My sims were in France in that huge creepy mansion, and they all went to sleep. Young me checked on them while super zoomed in on their faces for whatever reason, and one of my sims was just laying there in her bed, eyes wide open yet just white part showing. Never noped out of the game so fast before. It's been probably more than 10 years by now and I occasionally think about it

[@chimenychime]

Actually, Lolita Goth's story where she died as the previous younger Goth Wife could be a potential nod to the book as well-- Humbert Humbert (the main character in Lolita) fell in love at a very young age with a girl who then later died of an illness, which is then revealed to be a driving force towards his nasty actions.

[@NiGHTSIntoMemes]

I didn't know you could actually see the Kraken underwater...Island Paradise continues to be my favorite expansion ever. (Too bad mermaids didn't get skill trees the way vampires and werewolves did in the Sims 4...missed opportunity.)