Idk, this sounds kind of silly, but I like it when people embrace the raunchiness of the early Sims games. The 2000s had a really unique culture, where raunchiness was acceptable and even encouraged (for the most part).
So it's a shame that TS4 has been scrubbed clean of any risqué content and even removed burglars, ffs. This seems to be ever more prevalent in modern media, where people are pushing for safe content. However, I think that this takes away a part of the Sims' identity. The Sims has always been a little edgy, and that's part of what made it so fun and popular, and why I personally love TS2 and it’s community.
Now this isn’t to say that I agree with everything in the series. There is some problematic content that is best to be left in the past, and that’s reasonable. But I’m sorry, these games were never intended for children. It was always T+, and let me tell you, teenagers are not. fucking. stupid. I feel like ts4 is so condescending it’s funny.
Lena wasn’t sure why she’d stayed at the gala. Maybe it was the free alcohol or the pit of guilt making its home in her stomach, but she felt rooted to the ballroom. Unable to process what faced her outside its walls. Max’s retribution had been swift. They’d blocked Lena’s burner and iphone. It was admirable, even if it did make Lena feel like a massive fuck up.
To a layman, this thing between her and Max would seem pathetic. Someone in Lena’s position, putting so much trust, time and energy into a virtual stranger. It had been little over a month since their first meeting, but neither person had been able to get the other out of their head since the moment they’d met, regardless of the reason. If their place in each other’s lives was so insignificant, why had the instability driven each other to drink?
Lena may have been making her home at the ballroom bar, but Max had a lifetime supply of free booze right where they lived! Their entire cab ride home had been spent muttering curses under their breath. How dare Lena doubt them? When had they ever been anything but honest? To their detriment one might add! This entire night had felt like a perverse humiliation ritual. Max was at their limit. Fuck anyone who didn’t believe in them. They’d get by fine on their own.
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(BARTENDER #1): Last orders folks!
(LENA): Ugh.
(LENA): [Slurred] Are you about? I need to see you.
not to get into hashtag discourse but i can’t get over some of these character brackets banning mcrp characters for “crossing the line into rpf” yet nearly always have some sort of dnd character in their polls. do you not see your hypocrisy. do you not see how those are the exact same thing told through different mediums.