{"id":55444,"date":"2023-04-21T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55444"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:32:20","slug":"sims-4-overthinking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=55444","title":{"rendered":"Sims 4 Overthinking: The Baby Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorretta and Michael only have two weeks left, and even that hinges on Kelly not going into labor before her due date. It’s Kelly’s first baby, meaning that Lorretta is hopeful they actually do have that long, if not a bit longer.<\/p>\n

In that time, they have to finish the nursery, and ideally Lorretta would like to put in a new washer and dryer. The current appliances are rattling in an alarming way, and the washer is leaking water at random intervals with seemingly no correlation to what happens around it. If it only spat water when overloaded, or when put on a certain setting, it would be easier to live with or even implement a rushed fix. As it is, it’s simply dubbed temperamental, and will need replaced.<\/p>\n

We haven’t been furnishing the house so far. I usually don’t furnish in these projects until I land on whatever the houses ‘current’ state is, that’s when I put in furniture and actually make the sims that live there. But…there’s new baby furniture I want to check out, so let’s do it.
\nLorretta is having Kelly look at pictures of the space and pick where things go from afar. So let’s look at this through Kelly’s eyes.<\/p>\n

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The room is a pretty odd shape, but lends itself to a nursery pretty well. She’s thinking that where Lorretta is standing in the picture (behind the camera)\u00a0 would make a good place for a built-in wardrobe space. She sends Michael to IKEA equipped with measurements for some inexpensive shelving to install there. She wants the crib on that far wall, the only one without a window or door in the way. Changing table would go beside the wardrobe for ease of access. The area under the windows would be for a glide rocker, and toys. Let’s see how her vision plays out in reality.<\/p>\n

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Well that <\/em>was an infuriating forty five minutes. I hate that I love this game. A few things were a problem here. I guess glider chairs all simultaneously exploded in 2002 in this universe, The Sims 4 only has rockers. The changing tables are all gigantic, presumably to make room for the accompanying animations, so, fine. Also, they haven’t provided any baby clothes to be hung in the closets, so the ones you see here are all adult clothing which I’ve sized down.<\/p>\n

Oh look, its a Bethesda baby.<\/div>
Oh look, its a Bethesda baby.<\/div><\/p>\n

The new toys are incredibly limited, I have one of almost every single available baby toy in that room and it still looks bare. I can’t wait to ‘buy’ seven expansion packs to fix that.<\/p>\n

The other issue is of course the color-picker. The baby furniture is some of the worst I’ve seen when it comes to variety. The d\u00e9cor and toys all come in overly vivid, bright colors and the furniture only comes in super limited naturals. Plus, the fabric of the changing table and cribs all change with the wood, and unlike many other pieces, don’t have several options of wood to fabric. When choosing an adult bed, for instance, you usually have black wood as an option, and then with the black wood you can have the pink blanket, the yellow blanket, the blue, and the green, and then repeat for every other color of wood. It’s a horrible system which I imagine takes up an insane amount of storage, but the baby stuff has managed to find an even lower bar and only have a single color per type of wood and none of them match. Gah!<\/p>\n

Whatever, what am I gonna do? Stop playing The Sims? And even if I did, it wouldn’t help anyone or fix the broken system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorretta and Michael only have two weeks left, and even that hinges on Kelly not going into labor before her due date. It’s Kelly’s first baby, meaning that Lorretta is hopeful they actually do have that long, if not a bit longer. In that time, they have to finish the nursery, and ideally Lorretta would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesimsoverthinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55444"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55452,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55444\/revisions\/55452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}