Customizing EVERYTHING. Every. Little. Thing.

Is that a bad habit though? I couldn't blame myself for it, TS3 is a game that INVITES customization.

@GrijzePilion Over customization can be a bad habit because, for me, it's never just making something a different color or pattern, it's making 3 or more recolors and recoloring patterns so they look different and saving things as new presets... then before I know it, I've spent 2 hours in the stylist chair when all I'd wanted to do was give someone a summer outfit.

I do that too to a certain degree. What really helps for me is that the game somehow refuses to save presets. So I can't carry over presets or patterns between saves et cetera. I can save a dozen things and as soon as I go back to Live Mode, they're gone.

To echo what tunafishfish said, it can go bad. It's just a huge time sink. My town has own buildings and addresses, along with freshly created sims. If a premade moves in or a sim ages up, they get a makeover, sometimes more than once. Service sims are taken into CAS. Houses get remodelled and repurposed. Etc., you get the gist... it's to the point where actually progressing the sims' lives takes a backseat. That is why for me, it's probably the worst habit :D

I can't remember the last time progressing Sim lives was a priority for me. Very long ago, if ever. That's not what I personally play The Sims for. I play The Sims to create things. I've never played for longer than a single afternoon without using money cheats. And the last time I played more than a whole Sim day from sunrise to sundown in one sitting....2016? 2015?
So it's really just a matter of perspective. To you that's a bad thing, to me it's how it's supposed to be. I don't play video games for the challenge. Not most of them, anyway. I don't like not cheating, it's boring.

I always know when my sister has been on my computer because she does this...usually in my favorite save.

Give her a save of her very own. With houses that have all been repainted with the gaudiest wallpaper and tile patterns on the exterior, so that her fairies will have pretty houses to live in. And a warning that any of her sims who wander into your saves will be summarily deleted from them.

Oh joy. The disagree fairy found it's way out of the Off Topic groups.

Lookie at the pretty colors under the posts!

They should put me in charge of bans. All this site's problems would be solved by the end of the hour. I'm like the Oprah Winfrey of telling people off.

The disagree button just annoys the crap out of me. What are you disagreeing with?! Just own your opinions, damnit!

What is hilarious (not cool, not "good trolling in a cool way" or whatever makes someone such a miserable person they have to disagree with anyone) is the "disagree" on threads are aren't opinions.

People should be able to post pictures in threads like "Show us your female Sims" without someone being allowed to disagree. Note, the title is "Show us your Female Sims."

But nope, these sorts of people interpret it as "I don't like these people or their Sims or their Sims are nicer than the ones I will ever make so let me hit the old button."

Why are you disagreeing? You don't think they "look female?"

No one says we have to love everyone else's Sims but 'disagreeing' in what is a factual representation of the title is just being mean and spiteful and childish. Then again, some people enjoy that role so more power to them wasting their lives in misery. Take the high road and ignore them.

Why doesn't everyone just Adblock the Disagree button? Out of sight, out of mind.

But then there would be red missing from the rainbow that everybody has been picking up.

(And now I'm getting seriously tempted to start clicking "Love" on every post again... Especially the ones that got random disagrees.)

I'm just stating the obvious here, but anyway:
- most buttons here are for positive feedback, why can't it be balanced with a mildly negative one, like disagree? It's not a "hate", and not even a "dislike" button, and it's ok to disagree with someone's opinion.
- disagree button allows people to, well, disagree without making an actual reply post, and if someone has many disagrees (much more than agrees), it is a clear sign that they've posted sth. controversial/arrogant/rude/wrong/simply an unpopular opinion. A few disagrees is ok though, only very whiny people would get upset about having 1-2 disagrees under their posts. You can't be liked by everyone, and there's always someone who has a different opinion.
- in picture threads the disagree button does function as a dislike, at least that's the only way I can explain why people are clicking this in those threads, as there are almost no opinions there to disagree with. Actual dislike button was never intoduced, so people found their way to show their dislike of pictures without posting anything like "your sims are ugly" or "you have no lot building skills whatsoever", or "you have shitty graphics".

Anyway, running through an entire thread and clicking "disagree" under every post is just ridiculous. These disagrees can never be taken seriously, because it is obvious that someone has just made a lame attempt to troll everyoone, and failed miserably. Maybe they didn't even read the posts.

Why don't people just ignore those stupid buttons, anyway? I never used them, and barely pay any attention to them on any post; be it one of my own or someone else's. It's not like it actually alters where the post is listed or if it's even readable. It's just a stupid button to push that has no real meaning.

I say something wrong... Someone clicks the "disagree" thinking, "That's not right.
Here's how I understand the disagree button...

Why do we always end up talking about the fucking disagree button?

I hoard savefiles with worlds full of builds only, just to restart an empty one and never finish or even look back at the old one at all for that matter. Then at some point I delete them without looking at potential projects.

I'm a fan of critique and discourse. I want to know what opinions that "disagree" is hiding, even if it's "I find big noses unattractive" or "I don't like what you're doing in your game because of my values." If someone disagrees with me I want to know why and I want to know more. A tally of disagrees doesn't give me any insight because there are any number of variables that can be disagreeable.

Well I was taught that there's only two proper ways to deal with bullies and trolls. Either:

1. You ignore them
2. You beat the shit out of them

Either one is valid. The latter is more fun, but not entirely practical over the internet.

(There is also "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Ok, so an ineffective troll isn't really an enemy, and faceless Disagrees are not persecution, but it's good for "target practice" )

I just discovered another really bad simming habit. I got a new computer last November. I still haven't found my serial codes to install the game onto it. So I'm reading Mod the Sims on a computer with no Sims game...

And I just downloaded a new mod for the game.

I'm going to be so screwed when I get back into TS4 and find out I've missed out on 2+ years of mods, and all the ones that I DO have are hopelessly out of date.

I MUST insert one of my pre-existing characters into the game in order to retain interest. Just making up a sim won't keep me in a file for very long.

Speaking of which, I get bored with files before I ever actually accomplish my goals.