#NPC

[fyreflys]

Yeah this. But also no one can convince me to like Belethor. I boycott this man HARD. Get the fuck out of here with your creepy ass “dooo come back 😉” after I bankrupt you with dragon bones. It’s giving sexual harassment vibes. I murder this man once I’m high enough sneak level to get away with it, and I do it with joy.

Sometimes it’s fun to just hate an npc for no particular reason.

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[cookierungames]

Added all beast yeast episode 1 Secrets of the Silver Kingdom NPC in drive.

[franciscolemos]

Coloring the looter.

[l-1-z-a]

Do you have a favorite Sim from any game and if so, who is it? - Matt Brown’s Answer from the r/Sims3 AMA (May 11, 2025)

And depending on your criteria, my favorite Sim would have to be Goopy Gilscarbo from Sims 2. He's not my favorite because he's an awesome, attractive, lovable Sim (obviously). He's my favorite because of how he came to be. The townies in Sims 2 (random Sims that wander by your house and can form relationships but who don't live in houses in the neighborhood) are expensive to generate. So we couldn't just generate all of the townies in the “townie pool” at runtime when you launch the game. What we did instead was that we generated them once in-game on someone's machine just running the Sims 2 build, and then we saved them out. Then when you install the game you get the same set of townies in that pool that everyone else does. However, we (Maxis) didn’t explicitly make them, and it’s possible we didn’t even really look at them closely.

We definitely didn't hand edit them in most cases. So that outfit, the way he looks, his personality, everything else, those were just randomly generated. I think most people know that his name is a random combination of first/last names of team members (Goopy Rossi and Gabe Gilscarbo in his case), but just the combination of those particularly unique names and the alliteration is just funny in its own right? And the fact that he was such a horrible character who was also a romance SIM was extra hilarious.

So he's my favorite Sim because he was completely randomly generated, but because he was consistent for everyone, he became a “shared experience” for players and the community turned him into a thing that people still talk about now.

And all of that makes me smile :)

Screenshot:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/s/QdIYUZiQ3T

[the-unrelated-theorist]

THIS monster is the reason Noelle hated mice???

[irl-loading-screens]

[vincentdang]

not a morning girl

[topioff14]

Iceheart - Jun.2025

[odi-arti]

I'd steal you the sun- Dear Michel belongs to @velnna 💜 These boys live in my head rent free, even in this economy

[windupiceheart]

Urianger

[ydteus]

Happy Pride! Semi-Study of Leyendecker’s Butterfly Couple

[cookierungames]

Added all beast yeast 3 episode The Awakening of White Apathy NPC in drive.

[franciscolemos]

Cosmonaut in the dark.

[niko-aspin]

• what? spoilers?

• bro I'm not going to wait for u

• just test design for lt au

[yoylefeet]

so we all know the npc jax theory but

what if he didnt know

aftermath

(i might make this into a comic if this gets enough attention)

edit its finally here