“Why would you play like that?”

😃 This may get me roasted, but the public needed to know! If you play The Sims for lore and perfectly planned storylines… ooo bestie, buckle up, because I may ruffle a few feathers with this post. There are things about how I play The Sims that immediately turn some people off — and I’m not going to soften them. But maybe there are some of you out there like me… quietly hiding in the shadows, secretly admitting you don’t actually know much of the Sims lore everyone talks about — and simply do not care.

Batman Meme - How it feels to watch sims players get roasted on reddit for the same opinion I have

So here are some things about my Sims 2 gameplay that would make you follow… or unfollow me.

Lore? Never Met Her.

Coming in hot. Maybe this is a flaw, maybe it’s a feature, but I admittedly know virtually nada about Sims lore. I mean, I’ve got the high-level basics: something about Bella Goth ending up on a milk carton, Don Lothario being a gigolo, and the Strange brothers being… surprise… strange. And I know, after 16+ years of playing this game, you’d think I’d know more, right? I don’t know... Call me a fake fan, but the Sims lore never quite stuck with me. You could say it quite literally went in one ear and out the other.

I Fear I’m a Fake Fan

Now, this isn’t to dismiss Sims fans who are truly into the lore. There’s a long-going history of players connecting, building community, and creating endless stories (and love pairings) from the same premade characters for over 20 years. The lore really is that deep and beloved, and I genuinely get why people care. It’s honestly kind of amazing that so many players can load up the same families decade after decade and still feel inspired to tell new stories with them. That level of attachment? Respect. Just like those of us who gravitate toward C-A-S, build mode, or a specific expansion pack, I imagine there’s something comforting about that familiarity. Those premade families feel familiar in a way that’s rare in game, like shared things everyone just knows and it’s probably a huge reason the Sims community feels as tight-knit as it does.

Please Stop Re-Pairing Them in Front of Me

That said… that's where the buck stops, and I'm not apologizing for it. sure some of you can relate to being a little over seeing yet another social media post about the same premade Sims being re-paired for the thousandth time. Not because it’s bad content... it’s just not the kind of content that pulls me in. Instead, something about a good world build, a thoughtfully designed lot, intentional clutter, or a fully functional space can have me sitting at my computer for hours, tweaking every tiny detail until it feels like a place I’ve visited, imagined, or been inspired by.

So if:

If you’re a full-on Sims lore fanatic… you might not fully follow my obsession with building content
But if a well-designed lot makes you irrationally happy… welcome, you’re safe here.

Someone Should Probably Check on Me

Because I laser-focus on building worlds and lots to the point where my mental sanity may need to be questioned. It’s a zone for me. An unhealthy one, sure... but a zone nonetheless. I can spend hours in a deep flow state building and tweaking, trying to bring something to life that’s been fully formed in my head long before I even opened the game for the day.

No snacks. No breaks. Just me, Build Mode, and a questionable number of SCI-FI movies playing in the background that I’m definitely half watching — you know, just for vibes. Can you relate? Once I’m locked in, I’m locked in. There’s something about building and creating that completely hijacks my brain. The second a layout starts to finally make sense, the flow clicks and the vibes start to feel right, you'll have a hard time prying me away from my computer. If this is also you then Hi. Bestie. Don't stress, you're among friends, you can remain anonymous, and our motto here is that we listen and we don't judge.

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If hyper-fixating on a build until it feels right sounds deeply satisfying… you’ll probably follow my content just fine

If It Doesn’t Do Anything, It’s Not Going In My Game

Hey so this maybe a crazy take 😃 but its not going in my game unless its functional.

Décor That Just… Sits There? Jail.

Listen, I love clutter. I live for clutter. Give me plants, books, half-used mugs, random objects placed purely for vibes... I will absolutely go to town. The Sims, Outward, Heartopia, look if I can build and clutter in a game to add realism, I am going to do it. But I am not going to clutter up my downloads folder adding extra CC just to do so. The base game already has so much material to unpack that, if you have an eye for it, you can create almost any vibe you think of: western, sci-fi, Parisian. And you’d be surprised to see that you only need little, if any, custom content to pull it off.

What are my credentials on that? Girl, have you seen The Paris Café community lot I built?

The point is, if my Sims can’t sit on it, interact with it, cook on it, or at least acknowledge its existence in some meaningful way, I’m already side-eyeing it. Perhaps there is some secondhand trauma from growing up with a computer that would literally crash every time I built something amazing in The Sims 2 or 3… but I’m not unpacking that, bestie. It’s 2026 — we can have the aesthetics and the self-preservation.

At this point, a high-poly potted plant feels like a personal threat.

Every extra piece of CC adds up, and a high poly count potted decorative object is just not something I am willing to sacrifice your game or my game for.

If It Came in a Set, I’m Listening

Isn’t there always an exception? The very few decorative items I do have usually came bundled in functional sets I already downloaded for other reasons. That feels like a fair compromise. One download, multiple uses, no unnecessary chaos.

And if you’ve paid close attention, I’ve actually reused a lot of the same items across multiple builds. So much so that I even created a resource of my most commonly used cc, which shows which of my lot downloads share the same CC and where.

So I’ll leave you with this: why are we downloading single décor items when whole sets exist that actually do something? 😔 It’s because it’s cute, huh, friend? Look, like I said, I get it... its art and I do have a few pieces like that in my game. But at what point does art become something my downloads folder has to suffer for?

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