{"id":55079,"date":"2022-12-30T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55079"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:33:56","slug":"sims-4-overthinking-the-great-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55079","title":{"rendered":"Sims 4 Overthinking: The Great Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally! Over a month into the project<\/a> and we’re actually going forward in the years. We started in roughly 1915, with a house built by a clearly upper-middle-class couple of the time. They’ve built it for parties and entertaining, and with all the mistakes a typical couple in their early 20s would make. If we go off of averages for newlyweds of the year, she’s about 21 and he’s 25, her father paid for the house, and they have a cook who they pay very little. Let’s give them a last name to make talking about them easier as the years go on…<\/p>\n

Okay, I googled ‘funny last names 1900’ and I got the results one might expect if an 11-year-old was playing mad-libs for the first time. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I can’t seriously write Mr. and Mrs. Assman 60 times. Uhhh…Smith, whatever, they’re placeholders anyway. Mr. and Mrs. Smith it is.<\/p>\n

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Give yourselves one last look, this will be the last screenshot of the original.<\/div>
Give yourselves one last look, this will be the last screenshot of the original.<\/div><\/p>\n

To jump forward, we’re going to start with twenty years. Our couple had a lot of big ideas for this place, gardening, parties, and some children. Unfortunately for them, this means that they had mouths to feed when the Great Depression hit, 14 years after the house was first built. If they had started a few years earlier, their kids might have all been 14 and older, old enough to go off to find work elsewhere, but no such luck.<\/p>\n

The cook would have been the first thing to go since they could no longer afford to pay her. They’ll be turning the house into a bed-and-breakfast to pay for their needs going forward. Mrs. Smith will take over the cooking and cleaning, and bedrooms will be turned into spaces for renters. Now, they don’t have any money to make changes to the house itself, so all we’ll be doing at this stage is adding the damages that happen during this time that they can’t pay to fix.<\/p>\n

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First, we age the garden. Mr. Smith lost interest in gardening long before the depression hit, but now it’s half-wild with them no longer being able to pay someone else to do it. Next, we plan from the top down where the damage is in the house.<\/p>\n

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Man, if only dozens of builders had told Mr. and Mrs. Smith that the area above the attic they insisted on having ‘didn’t have enough drainage’ and ‘would eventually cause damage’, maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess. Oh, they did? They just didn’t listen? Damn.<\/p>\n

In all actuality, though, there would have been problems no matter what. No matter how clever and thinking ahead they were, they were going to have issues when the money ran out. It’s a shame they didn’t think ahead, but both smart and stupid were all in the same storm at that point in history. Let’s check what is right below that leak…<\/p>\n

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Ah, a bedroom, geez. Well, it’s one of the two bigger bedrooms so it’s where the kids are sleeping, so they can rent out the nicer rooms. Mom and Dad will be in what used to be the study, the smallest ‘bedroom’ they have. The laws for room size and needs haven’t been passed yet, but by the time they have, history will have forgotten it was ever not a bedroom.<\/p>\n

Hold on…<\/p>\n

Uh oh<\/div>
Uh oh<\/div><\/p>\n

I’ve been counting four bedrooms. Shit.<\/p>\n

The top right is the master bedroom, the bottom right is the kid’s room, the left is the study, and…<\/p>\n

Oops<\/div>
Oops<\/div><\/p>\n

That isn’t a fourth bedroom, it can’t be, it’s too small…This is the fifth post in this series and I haven’t put in the toilet yet. Fuck. Okay.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, Mom and Dad aren’t sharing the study, the whole Smith family is sleeping in Casa de la Mildew so they can rent out their remaining two<\/em> rooms. I can totally count. Let’s just…<\/p>\n

Never happened.<\/div>
Never happened.<\/div><\/p>\n

Let’s just pretend I built this twenty years ago like I was supposed to, and move on.<\/p>\n

The awful pink tile is actually an ode to the bathroom in the house I grew up in, built around the same time. For some reason, though, in my house growing up, there were five blue tiles that didn’t match anything else, right by the toilet. I suppose the builders must have run out of the right color around there, but it mystified childhood me. I tried to hit those five tiles in every pattern I could think of, hoping they opened up some magic door with the right combination. No such luck.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine the nightmare of this family, plus renters, trying to share one bathroom, especially in the mornings when everyone needs it, but life will go on.<\/p>\n

Next week, we should hit the 1950s and exit the depression, but for now, the Smiths will just have to deal with it.<\/p>\n

We’ve got something special posting at midnight of the new year, which many of you may have seen the announcement for over on Patreon already. I’m excited to finally go up to two posts a week with the new project, we’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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