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Sims 4 Infants - Good Idea, Horrible Implementation

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The addition of infants in the Sims 4 is a great idea. You can tell tons of planning went into the infants mannerisms, interactions, and level of awareness. Unfortunately, just like the recent implementations of packs in the past three years, the addition of infants in the base game is riddled with bugs. The most annoying is that when you go to manage world and return the game places the infant out in the world far away from the home. Every SINGLE time. And secondly, if you leave the infant on the home lot with another parent the infants needs aren't met. So, clearly two very basic things the Sims team did not ensure was done wasn't. They did not include staging for the infant, so the infant loops the world when you are not actively controlling her/him. And when you leave the infant home the sims team did not ensure the infant's needs were met. I would give the sims team grace if this was the first time they implemented a little life state, but they did the SAME EXACT thi

Building Tiny Homes in the Sims 4 from Actual Architectural Plans

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Hi Everybody. Welcome to a new feature on my blog. I am jumping into tiny house building in the Sims 4.  I'll be using actual architectural plans to create my builds , that you can download from the Sims 4 Gallery, user id troshalom . Tiny Living Pack I just purchased the Tiny Living stuff pack . I initially didn't plan to purchase the pack as I wasn't into the whole "Tiny House" builds thing, although I enjoy watching on television Tiny House builds. But, I wanted some of the items in the pack & decided to purchase it.  The first thing I did was plop down a lot from the pack, it is a Tier 1 Micro Home, which is a max of 32 tiles, and I was mortified.  Why didn't they use a 20x15 lot for the Tiny house? They put a microhouse on a 30x20 lot. It looks ridiculous. I plopped the house down in Newcrest, which is one of my favorite worlds, leveled the terrain and made some adjustments. The next thing I did was build a large tiny house, that is a Tier 3 Sma

From Newborn to Infant - Sims 4 Infants Update

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The Woods Family newborn just grew into an Infant! Squee. And baby Kree's big sister Heather adores him.  This is part two of the live play. In part one we saw the new interactions EA created for babies, renamed newborns. Now let's explore this new life stage INFANTS.       Small Creators The success of my indie  YouTube channel  depends on you. Please support this small creator by liking my videos, subscribing to my channel and building a vibrant community.  Leave a comment here, on the  video page  or tweet along with me here:  Tweet to @TLogicProducti1 This blog isn't sponsored If you enjoy reading the posts and watching my videos consider supporting my creative endeavors by donating via my  PayPal Me  or  Buying Me a Cup of Tea/Coffee .

Sims 4 Infants Update - Live Play 1

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The Woods Family have a newborn and a Toddler, dad works in the military in Strangerville and mom is an entrepreneur / stay at home mom. So what could go wrong?     Small Creators The success of my indie YouTube channel depends on you. Please support this small creator by liking my videos, subscribing to my channel and building a vibrant community.  Leave a comment here, on the video page  or tweet along with me here: Tweet to @TLogicProducti1 This blog isn't sponsored If you enjoy reading the posts and watching my videos consider supporting my creative endeavors by donating via my PayPal Me or Buying Me a Cup of Tea/Coffee .

Sims 4 Infants Update - New Items

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EA has dropped the latest new life stage INFANTS! Included with this drop are enhanced babies now reclassified as newborns and loads of build/buy items to support the new infants. In this video I do a quick walkthrough of new items as I update the Woods family home in Strangerville to accomodate an infant and a toddler.    Small Creators The success of my indie  YouTube channel  depends on you. Please support this small creator by liking my videos, subscribing to my channel and building a vibrant community.  Leave a comment here, on the  video page  or tweet along with me here:  Tweet to @TLogicProducti1 This blog isn't sponsored. If you enjoy reading the posts and watching my videos consider supporting my creative endeavors by donating via my PayPal Me or Buying Me a Cup of Tea/Coffee .

Growing Together New Sims 4 Expansion Pack

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There is a new expansion pack in town and low and behold it is, you guessed it, Generations . Well the Sims 4 team is calling it Growing Together , and now it makes you question what the heck is the purpose of the Parenthood game pack now that they have finally released generations.  You gotta hand it to EA though. The grift is real. They took the Generations EP in The Sims 3 and split it into six, yes 6, you heard me, six different packs. As they say, don't hate the player hate the game. Parenthood Game Pack   Kids Stuff Pack Toddler Stuff Pack Backyard Stuff Pack Highschool Years Expansion Pack My Wedding Stories Game Pack Growing Together Expansion Pack In the Sims 3 Generations cost $40. But in the Sims 4 it will cost you $150 since an EP cost $40, GP cost $20 and a SP cost $10. That's a whopping $110 more than you would've spent in the sims 3 - don't hate the player, hate the game, because EA has taken grift to a whole 'nother level. But don't take

Growing Together With Father Winter's Babies

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Meet the Families There are eight families that have newborns or toddlers. Each of them ready to expand their generations and grow together as a community. The Roommates June Kay and Missy Roomie have purchased their first house in Willow Creek. A small 2 bedroom 1 bath ranch on a 20x15 lot on a canal in the Foundry Cove neighborhood. This working class neighborhood in southern Willow Creek is perfect for young families and young adults just starting their career.  June and Missy grew up in the same neighborhood in the big city. They moved to Willow Creek for Missy's job at the local lounge. Missy felt she could make a bigger mark for herself in a smaller town as a musician, than competing against all of the talent in the big city. And her gamble may pay off; as the ladies threw an epic holiday party that completely woke up sleepy little Willow Creek. But June got more than she bargained when she discovered Father Winter left more than a gift under the tree. Growing Together Foll

New Sims Series - Father Winter's Babies

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Hey Y'all. In 2019 I started a sims series called Father Winter's Babies. I recorded the first three episodes in October 2019. I planned the series primarily because I was curious what a sim baby with Father Winter would be like. What traits and abilities would they have as they grew up. Honestly, I still don't know the answer to that question since I stopped playing the save after I noticed that the videos I was making weren't getting any views in 2021. And on top of that the Sims forum was really toxic. People were sabotaging my channel by down voting my videos and reporting them. I guess haters are gonna hate. Why I Stopped Recording Since it takes so long to play, record, and edit videos and I wasn't getting a return on the investment of my time, I stopped playing. However, with the  new Infants update and Growing Together expansion pack coming out, I figured it would be great to play this save since it is a pretty vanilla game and will give me a chance to play

Mod Fixes Sims 4 Gardening Bug

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Every time the Sims team upgrades the Sims 4 base game they break gardening. This time all plants return to the mound state so you can't harvest your garden or mature your plants. And you can't do herbalism either. It is a nightmare.  Little Ms Sam created a small mod that fixes this bug. You can download the mod from The LMS4 Random Bug Fixes page. It is called the Gardening Work Around Fix .

Freed Babies - Taking a Baby for a Walk in the Sims

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We are all excited about infants coming in 2023 for the Sims 4. So here is a throwback to when babies were free in the Sims 3.

Show Us Your Builds - Willow Creek

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 World Map While playing the Sims 4, undoubtedly the world map has changed from the first time you played. That is true for me in many of my builds. I am a hybrid player. I love to build in the game, but I also enjoy playing. So my builds are typically for sims to live in or enjoy as a community lot. #SimTested Updated Willow Creek The map above is Willow Creek in my latest save BlueBoi Family.  I created the BlueBoi Family to play test my builds in my build world save. I just started a series of building homes from this Home Builder book I purchased over a decade ago. When I play tested the residential lots I built, I fell in love with the family and decided to play them. I saved the family to the gallery and then opened my Base Game save file which has my customized lots, families and clubs in it and plopped them into it, and then resaved it as a new save. This will be my new generations save.  Generations My first generations save, the Landgraabs, was lost June 2019 when a bumbleh

Who is Stub Bub?

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Stub Bub is a teenager living with his elder brother Emu Bub in Oasis Springs. They currently live off the grid in a modest house near the creek, but it wasn't always like that. Why is Stub Bub Angry? Stub Bub is a teenager living with his elder brother Emu in Oasis springs. They live in a small house in the desert off the grid. They are living off the grid, not because they particularly believe in that life style, but because they cannot afford to be on the grid. So why is Stub Bub angry almost all the time? Well it is hot in the desert without air conditioning in the summer and oh yeah, he had a horrible childhood.   The Children's Home Stub is being raised by his Elder brother because his parents died while he was a baby. Emu Bub is unstable, homeless, a thief and has been in and out of prison most of his life.  One day Emu met who he thought was a kind stranger who offered Stub a better life at the Children's home than a life living on the streets, sleeping

Sims Stories are Ending

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 Hi Everyone, In 2020 I started writing and recording five Sims Stories. I released two of them: The Adventures of Kylie and Magnus  and Off the Grid Bubs .  With the saturation of Sims related content on YouTube and not factoring high, heck at all, in the YouTube algorithm, no one was seeing, and thus able to watch my videos. It takes a long time to create the videos. So like with any network, cable, or streaming show low views equals cancelled.  Ending Sims Stories However, in this instance it really wasn't because the shows weren't good, it is because my channel is new and YouTube is not displaying my content to viewers. I have tried numerous search keywords and none of them results in my videos displaying in search results. Thus both shows will end after season 1 without a resolution. I actually stopped playing them altogether due to low viewership and bugs in the game. Stress Relief I started making these videos as a way to reduce stress, well I play the game to reduce str

Q&A - The Adventures of Kylie and Magnus Sims Stories Series

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Q: What prompted you to start this series ? A: Summer and Fall 2019 I spent quite a bit of time reading the Sims forums, especially last fall when the huge inventory bug started and I just couldn't play. To keep my sanity I decided to just immerse myself in all things Sims. I was motivated to read the forums partially for tips on how to play the game and comradery with like minded people and also because I was getting a bit bored and I wanted to add something to my game play.  I don't play with tons of mods, particularly because I want to play the game as the designers intended and mods are someone else's vision. Also, the challenges like 100 baby didn't interest me, although I did play my own version of rags to riches. One day, I just was fed up with all the complaining on the forums. Some people just don't like change and they want all new iterations of the Sims to be exactly like the past. Or they just complain about every single aspect of the game.

Off the Grid Bubs: Ep. 6 - Snake's Potions

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Hey Everybody, Simmers and those who enjoy watching Sim Stories, the next episode of Off the Grid Bubs is live on YouTube. A visit to Windenburg and the retail store Snake's Potions triggers another memory for Stub. Can he escape the nightmares of his past? Emu becomes erratic while at Snake's potions. Are Emu's memories resurfacing? Stub has more flashbacks, this time of the children being taken away never to be seen again. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the T-Logic Productions logo in the lower right corner. This concludes season 1 of Off the Grid Bubs. If you want to watch more Sims Stories, please go to my channel and check out other series. This blog is not sponsored. If you want to support my content creation consider purchasing me a cup of coffee:  https://www.ko-fi.com/tanyaowens Join me by twe

Off the Grid Bubs: Ep. 5 - Triggers

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Hey Everybody, Simmers and those who enjoy watching Sim Stories, the next episode of Off the Grid Bubs is live on YouTube. In this episode Stub is angry about something that happened at school and decided to join his Collector group in Sulani to do some beach combing. But Stub can't shake his angry mood and this trip to Sulani triggers more flashbacks of his childhood at the Children Home. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button. You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the T-Logic Productions logo in the lower right corner. This blog is not sponsored. If you want to support my content creation consider purchasing me a cup of coffee:  https://www.ko-fi.com/tanyaowens Join me by tweeting about Off The Grid Bubs Tweet #OffTheGridBubs

Why is He Naked!?! - Off the Grid Bubs: Ep. 4 - Mayhem

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Hey Everybody, Simmers and those who enjoy watching Sim Stories, the next episode of Off the Grid Bubs is live on YouTube! Whoot whoot! Yeah, so the question is: Why is Emu NAKED? Or should we ask, when isn't Emu naked? Any who here's the episode: Yeah, so If you enjoyed this video and want to see more of the series, please like the video and click the subscribe button.You can subscribe without leaving this blog post by mousing/hovering over the T-Logic Productions logo in the lower right corner. This blog is not sponsored. If you want to support my content creation consider purchasing me a cup of coffee:  https://www.ko-fi.com/tanyaowens Join me by tweeting about Off The Grid Bubs Tweet #OffTheGridBubs