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In Sim news, I've been playing Uni.  I have some ideas for a plot involving at least some of the Pleasantview Sims.  I'm starting to enjoy stories with the Maxis pre-mades, and the gender reversal makes for some nice twists.  For example, I allowed Danielle to cheat on Marty Stu a bit because she already has, and she's clearly supposed to.  But while I feel a bit sorry for Mary Sue (she's within three days of elder when you open the lot, nowhere close to her career goals, about to get fired, and her husband is cheating on her), somehow Danielle cheating on Marty Stu is. . . funny?  That's probably awful and terrible and sexist of me.  

Here's the thing:  I never played the real Pleasantview before, so some of what's going on doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  I figure most of you have, and I thought I'd ask you guys some questions:   I'll use the original names, so it's clearer.

What's up with Daniel and Dustin Broke?  When I invited Daniel(le) over to the dorm at Sim State, (s)her followed Dustin around, cornered (her)him in the restroom, and slapped the cookies out of (her) him.  Why?  What did Dustin do?  What's Daniel's beef?

Is Angela always this passive?  When you open the Pleasant's lot, it's Lilith who steps forward and smacks Angela.  I tried to get them a little less mad at each other before I sent them to college, and I gave up.  And still--it's most Lilith who does the stalking.  Angela slaps back sometimes, but mostly she avoids Lilith and cries.  

Dirk Dreamer seems a bit keener on keeping up the high school relationship than Dustin.  I don't know if that's because I played the Brokes longer than I played the Dreamers and Dustin had more time to do things like bond with his family and boost his grades.  

Frankly, I almost prefer Alexander, Beau, and Lucy, because they aren't such drama queens.  

As a girl, Nina Caliente was nothing but trouble, especially at the businesses.  But as a boy, he's pretty decent.  He was a date drop for Nausicaa, and I thought "no way," but then he hung around raking leaves for hours and then chatted with Nausicaa.  So I began to think he might be all right after all, though maybe not Fifty Dream Dates worth it.  

Anyway, I don't know when I can update next.  The work is going to snowball almost right away.  But I'm making time to Sim and I think I have some nice plot ideas.

Date: 2010-01-05 09:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] profbutters.livejournal.com
Thank you! You would not believe how helpful this is. It verifies a lot of stuff I've seen.

Dirk (Dionne) spontaneously decided to go up to Lilith (Lionel) for a kiss and they fell in love. Personally, I would rather have set Lionel up with someone else, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. However, I've noticed that Dionne seems to be interested in both of them.

Male Nina has relationships with a couple of other Sims, but since (s)he was a well drop for Carmilla, I don't have a lot of problems with nuking the hearts there and giving him (her) a fresh start. Donna seems happier playing the field--she's one of Achilles' girlfriends. We'll see.

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