Mac's 'Hood

Mac, once again, your Sim antics are such a delight to explore!
I can't get over all the celeb Sims you have in your game.
Here are a few captions that brought a smile to my face or made me giggle:

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... (the world needs more hunky male teachers) ...

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BTW, I've noticed that the I.T. field seems to be full of geeky guys and gorgeous women...

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He's Gamer/Games (doh) and she's Dance/Dance (doh again).

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Emma and Hermione really get into the swing of things at this roof-raiser reception.

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And Kostos had heard that weddings were a great place to pick up girls. Baaaaad choice, guy Next time check out the ring finger!

Due to popular demand, I'm reactivating Lady Sugah and Keanu Reeves earlier than normal. I'll probably be playing them for 20 days - a full year. They will have an offspring (see below) and I will probably play until the offspring is a toddler, maybe a child. Anyway, here Keanu (who's already living with Sugah) proposes marriage. As you can see, she's delighted! Lady Sugah is Family/Cancer Sims2Creator/Arts while Keanu is Family/Virgo Adventurer/Fitness. They have 3 bolts!


Here they're married. BTW, Sugah has never looked lovelier than in her wedding dress.


Keanu toasts his bride. Present are Jack Sparrow, Ari's Kachina Ahol Mana, SimPlyEdward's Duey Houghton, and Rowena MacAyle (a SimTr beauty). One problem with having a wedding in the winter - the guests arrive in winter coats and keep them on throughout the party


It would have been nice if Sugah could have kissed a chimney sweep for good luck (a British tradition - but now some Boston sweeps are offering the service ) , but none were available. Just maybe, kissing a pirate will work as well...


Sugah and Keanu have their first dance as a married couple - much to the amusement of Jack Sparrow


On the first night of their honeymoon, they woohoo - and hear the chimes at the end!


A romantic breakfast by the ocean the following morning


And here's Crystal Sugah. Lady Sugah had her while Keanu was at work doing underwater demolitions. Fortunately the maid (male) was there to panic. Picking names... If the baby had been a boy, he would have been Kane Sugah, but Crystal Sugah is such an er.. refined name!


Keanu comes home and meets his new daughter.


and Sugah, to celebrate the end of walking around like a duck, makes a snow angel.


That's it for now, I'm going to continue playing them and watching Crystal grow up - at least to a toddler, maybe a child.

Oh, Mac! I love, love, love it!
Thank you so much for giving Keanu and Sugah a little extra playing time.
I was thrilled to see them together and now there's sweet Crystal Sugah!

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Sugah has never looked lovelier than in her wedding dress.

It's a lovely gown and I thank you for it.

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Just maybe, kissing a pirate will work as well...

As a matter of fact, that was Sugah's preference: To kiss a pirate (she gets a big kick out of Jack Sparrow, you know ) rather than a chimney sweep.
Well chosen back up plan for the happy bride, Mac.

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A romantic breakfast by the ocean the following morning

SIGH.

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If the baby had been a boy, he would have been Kane Sugah, but Crystal Sugah is such an er.. refined name!

Clever! I like it!
I love the pic of Keanu with his new baby girl. So sweet!

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I'm going to continue playing them and watching Crystal grow up - at least to a toddler, maybe a child.

YAY! Can't wait!!!

Eeee! :3 yay Keanu & Sugah!!! Aww what an adorable little girl & Mac LOL on the name selection tho it makes total sense. More soon I hope.

Also Jack Sparrow? XD yep perfect party guest to have at a wedding

The continuing saga of Lady Sugah, Keanu Reeves, and Crystal Sugah. Crystal's now a toddler.


The party continues... Keanu is dancing with Hermione Granger, Kachina, Jack Sparrow, and Rowena MacAyle, who seems to be getting a lot of his attention


... and while they're partying, mom's being a mom...


But what's this??? Where are Keanu and Rowena going???


Uh-oh... That's not cool (Keanu does have 3 bolts with her, too - but still...)


Just what's going on here???


You stay away from my husband!!! (actually, Lady Sugah has 2 bolts with Rowena, but this is beyond the pale!)


But, after Lady Sugah tells Rowena to leave... NOW, she and Keanu make up.


Pirates sometimes aint' got no class!


I had to get a tender picture of Lady Sugah and Crystal before Crystal becomes a child.


...and dad was playing peek-a-boo with Crystal at 4AM, even though he had to go off to work at 9.


The day after the birthday party, a mysterious box arrived - addressed to Crystal. It was a present from Uncle Jack! Arrrrrr!


In a couple of days, there will be another birthday party as Crystal becomes a child. I don't think Rowena will be invited back! Maybe Jack... if he can keep his clothes on.

Awww little Crystal is just precious! Shame on that hussy tho! Good thing Sugah got rid of her when she did.

*giggles* How nice of Uncle Jack :3 What a good uncle he's being.

Aww nice boat!

It so much nicer than that ugly lama or whatever that Maxi´s thing is.
I wish Jack could send me the link so my kiddos could have some fun too. (hint to Mack)

Ullwera wrote:

I wish Jack could send me the link so my kiddos could have some fun too.

Here it is. It's included in the Wet n Wicked Water Park in MTS2. (Jack sends his very best regards... Arrrrrrr! )


Meanwhile, Crystal is now a child, and Lady Sugah invited Paul to the birthday party and they've reconciled...


Crystal dances with "Uncles" Jack and Paul. In the background are Lady Sugah dancing with Kachina and Keanu dancing with Farah Fawcett, another adventurer who came home with him that day


A family breakfast the next morning


Crystal is only 6 days from teenager, so I'm going to play that far at least. I've noticed something rather curious, though. Crystal is an Aries, and has personality scores 8-10-9-1-1, That adds to 29, not the regulation 25! So far as I know this was not the result of a hack - she came that way. When she becomes a teenager, I'll probably adjust the scores, but still keep her an Aries. Has anyone seen this phenomenon, and can anyone offer any advice???

Aww Thank you Jack!

I have never counted the personality scores on the kids sorry can´t help you with that.

I´m happy Sugah And Sir Paul are friends again.

Where to start?

Congrats to:

Luthien Tinuviel and Beren Erchamion on the new addition...and James and Brittany Murphy on yours.

Janek and Rachel on tying the knot and Han Solo and Chaya! Well done Chaya! Hans Solo is totally dishy! OoooOoo and to Jeremy Gique and Jennifer. Looks like a heckuva party! Bad Kostos! Is he still dating Sim Toni? Bad! Bad boy!

Anyway, congrats to Jeremy and Jennifer on Jeff's arrival.

Yaaaaaay! Sugah got hitched to snackalicious Keanu! Pretty wedding dress. Ummm....about her smooching the pirate. But a baby already! Well done Sugah and Keanu! He's so great with the baby. And isn't Crystal a pretty toddler?!

Not so impressed with Keanu and Rowena. Just what would've happened if she hadn't caught them cuddling.

Ha haaaa on the naked priate! Wow! You sure have played a lot with this family! I'm glad Sugah made up with Sir Paul. Crystal is a pretty child too. Don't forget to grow up some other kids so she can have friends!!

Anyway...back to the congratulating. Congrats to:

Pierce and Safire, Duey and Gwen, and Harry Potter and Vanessa on their engagement and moving in together.

Yay to friendship with benefits Linares and Sharon Stone!

The Harry Potter simmie is a really good likeness!

Loving catching up on the goings ons Mac!

Here's Crystal's teen birthday party. Guests are Kachina, Jack and Jacqueline Sparrow, Hermione, and a (hidden) NPC teen friend of Crystal's


Crystal dances with her new friend


And Sugah and Keanu are having a very romantic close dance - they danced that way all night!


A high-5 from Uncle Jack!


Crystal's just about to head off for her first day at the Simsville High School. She's added a bit of makeup and a new outfit. And the high school boys??? 'Nuff said!


Sugah's at the 9th level of Sims 2 Creator (Master Mod Creator) She's letting everyone know about her promotion. Keanu's at the 9th level of the Adventurer career. (International Sim of Mystery)


I've played Sugah, Keanu, and Crystal for a whole year now. Moving on to the rest of my 'hood.

Holy Cow, Mac, your hood is a hive of activity!!!

Honestly, Jack wouldn't be much of pirate if he didn't sit down to a meal in polite company wearing, well, pretty much whatever he feels like. In Jack's case, that would be nothing at all!!



I consider Crystal most fortunate to have a kindly "godfather" of sorts in ol' Uncle Jack. I realised, as I was reading this, that teenage Crystal is the first to mature in the "population explosion" in your hood! All these adolescents will have to converge at some point and meet each other...

That's what I love about TS2. Sometimes, if I don't "force" things like the omnipotent dictator I'm naturally inclined to be, and I just let things unfold, those teenage simmies make their own connections and suprise me where they end up (and with whom!)

I can't wait to see what's going on with the rest of your gang!

Jayce wrote:

That's what I love about TS2. Sometimes, if I don't "force" things like the omnipotent dictator I'm naturally inclined to be, and I just let things unfold, those teenage simmies make their own connections and suprise me where they end up (and with whom!

That indeed is the joy of the game. Kostos tried to score with Emma Peel all by himself, and the planets were so aligned that she had a reaction of horror!

Likewise, Keanu and Rowena going off on their little tryst was unplanned - I just happened to catch them walking out and decided to follow. Sending Sugah after them and her reaction was my doing. Keanu and Sugah dancing all close and loving was all their idea - really quite sweet!

My love, prior to PC games, was photography. I do give my sims some guidance and am always advancing them in their careers, hobbies, aspiration points, and green stuff, but am always alert to a good pic and build my "stories" out of my pics.

Kostos just couldn't help himself, could he?

I sometimes feel that unbearable discomfort with my sims that I get in real life when you see a man in real life ignoring the obvious signals (like wedding rings, Kostos!) and body language.
I have a couple of female friends who will suddenly introduce me to a guy they've been talking to. That's my cue to act like their husband. Meaning, in the space of a conversation, this guy has overstepped the divisible line!!

I'm glad you sent Sugah after Keanu and Rowena! (Especially as you played musical chairs getting those two together!) She was clearly not happy about that scenario at all!!

It's funny, I've noticed with some (not all) of my sims that it really is a case of long-term familiarity - not necessarily engagement or marriage, but just living together - which decreases their interest in other sims they have chemistry with. They stop wanting to "flirt with such-and-such" after awhile, thank God.

I have the "casual romance" mods and all of that, and some of them happily shag around without apparent consequence, but those ones I want to stay together, I want them to "think" faithful!

I'm not suprised you're into photography, Mac.

My gosh, Crystal's grown up already, awww! Isn't she quite the little lady? :) Let's see if dad'll have to go Matrix on any boys that try to come after her

Jayce wrote:

teenage Crystal is the first to mature in the "population explosion" in your hood

Actually, not quite... Simone Broadswood-Smythe was the first. It was the fact that she turned out so yummy that encouraged me to start breeding. Simone and Crystal will definitely have to meet. I hope they like each other.

BTW, Jack giving Crystal the high-5 isn't quite right. After all he was a guest at the party and not controllable. I had Crystal high-5 him to get the pic.

Oh wow, I'm so far behind in commenting, that I've missed all of Crystal's young life so far.

I like the pic of her as a baby with her face squished against daddy Keanu's. Too cute! Sugah's winter garb is really cute too. I love that outfit.

That encounter with Keanu and Rowena was just scandalous! Sugah is a good lady to have forgiven him and I am glad that she was not invited back. What interaction is that where they cuddle on the ground? I've seen that in others' games, but never in my own. Do you know what EP introduced that? I don't think I've ever seen the high 5 interaction either. It's wild what I'm still missing after playing for all of these years! That Jack Sparrow is a trip, isn't he? He's always up to something.

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When she becomes a teenager, I'll probably adjust
the scores, but still keep her an Aries. Has anyone seen this
phenomenon, and can anyone offer any advice???

I believe only newly created sims in CAs have to have 25 personality points. Sims born in game don't seem to be limited in how many or few they have. I've had lots of sims born in game with more personality points than the standard 25. I think it's just normal to the game.

SimEm wrote:

What interaction is that where they cuddle on the ground? I've seen that in others' games, but never in my own. Do you know what EP introduced that? I don't think I've ever seen the high 5 interaction either.

Hi Em,

Thanks for your kind words - also your info about the 25 point limit.

Both of the socials you ask about were introduced in the Apartment Life EP. "Cuddle under Clouds" by day and "Cuddle under Stars" by night. They are located in the basic interaction menu. The high-5 is part of an expanded greeting which can be used when you greet a visiting sim, or as a "Gesture" under the basic interaction menu. There are 5 gestures: High-5 , Earthy Hug , Kiss Kiss Darling , Fake Out, and Tough Handshake.

Sir Mac wrote:

In a couple of days, there will be another birthday party as Crystal becomes a child. I don't think Rowena will be invited back!

Shameless wench! What a hoochy mama! Scandalous (as Em has said)!
Though Keanu must take some of the responsibility in that snuggle fest.
Hmmmph! Sugah Sim turns her back for two minutes ...
THANK YOU for sending Sugah off after Rowena and Keanu (who obviously was not in his right mind at the time ), Mac.
I appreciate that!

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Maybe Jack... if he can keep his clothes on.

And if not, as Jayce has said, Jack wouldn't be much of a pirate if he didn't sit around as he dang well pleases from time to time.
We'll give him that, won't we?
Besides, Uncle Jack (the "kindly godfather" as Jayce has described him) DID leave that totally cool boat ride for toddler Crystal.
Like Ulli, I don't recall ever counting kids' (born in game) personality points, Mac, but it does seem I've noticed more than the standard 25 at times.
I haven't gotten to play much for years, so I'm very much out of the loop and quite rusty.

However this sounds absolutely correct if memory serves:

Lady Em wrote:

Sims born in game don't seem to be limited in how many or few they have. I've had lots of sims born in game with more personality points than the standard 25. I think it's just normal to the game.

BTW, like everyone else, I am glad Sir Paul & Sugah have reconciled.

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And Sugah and Keanu are having a very romantic close dance - they danced that way all night!

Crystal has grown in to be quite a pretty teen. I love her big brown eyes.
Way to go, Keanu and Sugah, for reaching level 9 of their careers.

Sir J wrote:

That's what I love about TS2. Sometimes, if I don't "force" things like the omnipotent dictator I'm naturally inclined to be...

I hear ya, doll!

That was fun, as always, Mac.

Crystal is indeed a cutie!

Good to see Keanu remembers where to be directing his attentions!

Em...Apartment Life introduced 'cuddle under the stars'

As to that 25 point thing...I just adjust once I'm playing a lot. You can use a variety of mods like the SimBlender or the Sim Manipulator....or if you use debug mode you can just drag your mouse along the little bars to change personality points.

Be warned though, changing the points can change the zodiac sign, which can affect chemistry.

Strange things can happen when you entertain visitors. Jen's Fin Romance/Aries TechnicalTheatre/Fitness is entertaining Prince William and a couple of women. Don't remember the one, and can't recognize the other under all that armor.


Meanwhile Toni's Neil Family/Scorpio Architecture/Arts has become engaged to Jen's Giada Knowledge/Virgo Science/Science. He'd better behave, or her brothers Marcello and Nico will beat him up. Seriously, they're very much in love and living together. Congrats to Jen for creating a really lovely sim!


Will Smith Popularity/Aries Fitness/Fitness proposed to Hunter's Analize Popularity/Aries Dance/Dance and she accepted


And Mac Knowledge/Pisces Science/Science is getting involved with my own creation Lisa Turner (named after the English painter) Knowledge/Pisces CreativeWriting/Literature. Alas, there's no Maikki sim... yet!


Robert Downey is impressing She Ra with his backrub skills. "Jamba Squee!" They're not engaged or living together yet, but watch this space.


Peeta Mellark Knowledge/Pisces Culinary/Cuisine had 2 bolts with Jen Family/Sagittarius Culinary/Cuisine but despite common interests, they really didn't catch fire


Then along came Lydia Shahan, an NPC sim Knowledge/Sagittarius Politics/Sport and it sure looks like the chemistry is there!


Simon Cowell is doing research for his upcoming show "Simsville's got Talent". Here he's interviewing Hunter's Taylor and Ari's Kristi (Miss March 2010)
So does Simsville have 'talent'??? You betcha!

That's what I love about your hood, Mac: the simple fact that someone comes to dinner dressed in a full-suit of armor!



Prince William doesn't bat an eye and neither do we...

So many beautiful-looking couples!

Neil and Giada are stunning and look like they're made for each other. I think that's what happens when forces combine ie Toni and Jen! Seriously, some sims just look so good together...

I like that Robert Downey Jnr sim has a slightly craggy, "post-rehab" look about him in sim-life as well as real life!

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Alas, there's no Maikki sim... yet!

What would become of Lisa in that hypothetical case, I wonder???

I think Simon Cowell will discover a great deal of talent in Simsville...

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Alas, there's no Maikki sim... yet!

What would become of Lisa in that hypothetical case, I wonder???

You're not the first or only person to ask that...

Oh goodness...the lives your sims live eh?

Question - who made that She-Ra? :D I have a whole cast of them that I found on MTS by Glamour Girl

Ooh :3 More babies soon yes?

butterflyunion wrote:

Question - who made that She-Ra? :D I have a whole cast of them that I found on MTS by Glamour Girl

I did see all the posts by Glamour Girl. I found my She Ra in my archives: A very old MTS2 - MTS2_232107_shotgun_mary_She_Ra (dated Feb 9 2006). I looked on MTS2 but couldn't find. shotgun_mary last posted on MTS2 on Aug 16 2007. Search returned no threads started by her (as a creation would be) so probably purged. I can probably get you the file if you want to add her to your collection, maybe attached to an email.