Sunday, January 25, 2009

Like watching dysfunction in a fishbowl.
























Alex has established himself a new Sim family, the Nices. The patriarch of the household is an elder Sim, named Earnest. His life aspiration is the romance option, which makes him one “silver fox” according to the game. He lives with his adult son, Stanislaus, a science-minded Sim who has really bad luck with the ladies. And then there is Stan’s son, a teen named Thadius. Thadius aspires for popularity, but he is a bit of a dweeb, and as you’ll see, he doesn’t have the greatest influences in his family.

Early on it was clear that grandpa Earnest couldn’t be happy without frequently dating, or at least hooking up with, a female Sim. Stan, whose day-to-day wants rarely have anything to do with other people, only skills and knowledge, tried to give the old guy a hand by having parties in the house to get to know more Sims. It works out well, but Stan winds up being the one with multiple girlfriends, eventually leading to quite a scene at the public park in which both women confronted him and beat him up in front of the rest of his family. One of the women and her sister had become roommates of the Nice family, but she promptly moved out. Dina, the remaining sister never had eyes for Stan. She had the hots for Earnest. Despite the marked age difference, this May-December affair is working out wonderfully. They aren’t married yet, neither seems too interested in that commitment.

So Stan is alone. Grandpa Earnest has himself a blond bombshell. What about little dorky Thad? Well, at the moment he has himself two girlfriends. He frequently can be found lounging in the hot tub with one of them at 3:00AM. Apparently teen Sims have a bad sense of time. Thad still desires many friends and parties a lot at home with Earnest. But, the kid still gets straight A’s, so Stan doesn’t appear upset about any of it.

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