#for the record I also love setting up mods for Stardew and troubleshooting when I get an error

[mildlysaltysim]

Finally bit the bullet and started playing Sims 2

(after years of holding on to Sims 3) and it's quite interesting. Trying to make a 20 year old game function smoothly in the current year is an absolute ride (shoutout to r/sims2help for documenting and compiling all that) because I'm fully convinced that any minor irritant presented by the game has a fix out there already and I just have to dig deeper into the internet and follow rabbithole links until I find what I'm looking for.

But now I want to play around with making CC because I can't find one specific thing I'd like to have in my CAS and the amount of tabs I've opened just to get simPE to work as mentioned in a tutorial from 2006 and to look for a package file is hilarious (twenty, for one problem).

I'm starting to believe that the setting up the game to be optimized with the PC, digging for CC and mods, going through x-amount of pages of lovingly made documentation from such a passionate community is part of the Sims franchise. Would the amount of googling and double checking forums and updating graphical details (I spent the other day combing through the internet for default replacements I liked until my eyes hurt - and even then I wasn't really happy with all that I got and I only finished toddler and children clothing) have been better spent actually just playing the game itself? Probably. Am I enjoying the digging and fiddling and internet swimming until I find what I need? Well, absolutely yes sksksdjskfj. Plus it's just a reminder of how much bloody love and work people have poured into these games as a community.

Like I could open up a different game from my Steam Library, spend four hours playing it, and go about my day but I dont find that fun. /genuine