I’ve gotten quite a few new followers recently, some of who I’ve admired in the community for so long, and I wanted to make a cheesy post. I wanted to say that it means so much that all of you took the time to follow me and make me happier than you could know. I do follow many of you back from my personal blog techheaddanie.
I guess I also wanted to share what ended up being quite a lot about myself, and my experience with the Sims, for fun. This is long and rambly but I’ve never talked so thoroughly about my love for Sims so I went a little overboard. Sorry in advance if you do read or just happen to have to scroll a while. 😅

-I will put a read more here on PC tomorrow but sorry for the long post before then-

My name is Danielle, I’m from America, and I’m about to be 22 years old. I’m a Gemini, quite shy, love hard, and struggle with depression. I work in the bakery of a grocery store, and live with my Boyfriend of 6 years, best friend of 2 years, beautiful cat, and sugar glider. I’ve been playing the Sims for over 10 years now and it has to be my favorite thing aside from my living things. I started with The Sims for Gamecube, and played The Sims Bustin’ Out and The Urbz with my older sister. We burned through at least three copies of each from playing so much and not treating the discs so well. I moved to the computer when my mom bought me and my sister’s The Sims Makin’ Magic for Christmas, and eventually The Sims Complete Collection. I remember not understanding the difference between the base game and expansion packs at first lol. My older sister and I used to keep our houses on the same save and fight over who got to play the computer after school but she wood always win, then hog the computer until late and I’d have to stay up all night if I wanted to play. We would get in fights and secretly go into each other’s houses and spend all the funds to place a bunch of turkey dinners that couldn’t be picked up without cheats (which we didn’t know about back then) and then the other would have to spend several Sim days making their Sims throw them all away lol. My last name would always be Gorillaz and I would spend all my time in Magic Town trying to get enough coins to buy a house there. My copy of Makin’ Magic had a preview disc for The Sims 2 and I would put it in and see a little preview of the game and I wanted it so bad. I would watch the trailer where the red haired guy would change from Sims graphics to Sims 2 graphics and it was a montage of his life and family and I was so hyped to get this game. Then for Christmas one year I got The Sims 2 University and my sister got Nightlife and I was so ready to play. Then I learned the difference between expansions and the base game and used Christmas money to buy the base game. I can hardly remember my first experiences playing the game. Just that I would play Tutorial Joe and Tutorial Jane over and over and over lol. I played for years before I discovered Custom Content. Almost all of my copies of the game were used so I couldn’t download things from The Exchange, since the registration codes were used, and I would spend hours looking online for valid codes so I could get in on the community finally lol. I didn’t know about custom content for years and when I found out, I went crazy. My game had no consistency but i didn’t have any idea that there were different styles of CC. I would make terrible photoskinned clothing and be damn proud of it lol. I had a custom town where I tried to make interesting townies and one day I opened my game and several households were missing. I didn’t know that your game could get borked by mods and boolprop cheats used improperly lol. When I was like 12, I downloaded an alien family from the exchange that had a whole family tree of Sims from the game they came from in their info. I spent an entire night trying to write it out and recreate it in my game so I could have the whole family and then I cried because I couldn’t get it right and it was stressing me out. I didn’t get all of the expansion packs as they came out because we were never very flushed with money. For the longest time, I didn’t have Free Time and a few Stuff packs. I looked at every thrift shop and game store we went to for it but never found it. Eventually I learned to sail the high seas of the internet and get it through other means. I was so relieved that I didn’t have to worry about having the requires games for certain CC anymore. When I was 15, my first boyfriend bought be the University Life bundle for Valentine’s Day and it was so thoughtful but I didn’t have the heart to tell him I had all the expansions already. It made my many MANY uninstall/reinstall cycles a lot easier though. When Sims 3 was announced, I was so psyched, I would cut out any articles about it from my game informers and tape them all over my bedroom walls. I bought a game guide before I got it, and read it over and over, and put stick notes all throughout it marking the things I wanted to do when I played. I bought it as soon as I could and found that I couldn’t install it on our computer because it couldn’t handle it. I had to wait until we got a new computer and played for a while. I made my simself and married Gage Brorfy(sp?) and had three kids. I liked it a lot, the story progression was especially a massive relief for the anxiety I get with continuity in my games, but I couldn’t keep up with the expansions as they came out so I was less hyped. I’ve reinstalled it several times since, but I really would love to play it with all the expansions on a computer that can run it decently. I’d love to give all the features a try. I always fall back to Sims 2 though. I have a lot of anxiety surrounding continuity in my game when it comes to progressing all the lots equally. I try my best but I still struggle with it. I really want to just play an uberhood and have fun without worrying about screenshots and trying not to waste my chance to do something perfect with the premades so I stress less, but I only get so far before I wish that I would’ve been taking pictures and posting it because I get proud of my progression and like to share what I have fun with lol. It gets to be an odd situation. Origin making the Ultimate Collection free was like a dream because it makes it so easy to reinstall. I got my boyfriend excited because I love the Sims so much, that he asked me to download it on his computer once. He played Tutorial Joe’s house and made him dance for hours to the Simlish version of Free Radicals by The Flaming Lips, which he thought was so funny that we still laugh about it. Then he set food on the stove and made him burn to death lol. He will never be a long-term fan but I’ll always be happy that he gave it a little try, and that he’s always supportive of my love for the game. A huge pet peeve of mine has always been when people who don’t play the game, save for once or twice, tell me about an experience they had with the game that I know could never happen without mods. Like I had one person tell me about someone whose Sim kept ordering pizzas when they weren’t paying attention, or an old friend who said that their Sim went to a friends house and took their baby home(in Sims 2). I’d look crazy if I want to argue about how I know you can’t do those things and why lol. I honestly don’t know anyone in person who knows as much about the Sims as I do, or even likes it aside from my sister, so finding that there is such an active community online was just the greatest. I had so many years where I didn’t have anywhere to channel my passion for the game because I always felt weird for loving it so much, and like I was the only one who felt this way. I hardly tell people in person that I play the Sims because of the whole “that’s not a real game” or “the Sims is just a girl game” reaction I am afraid to get. I used to make Sims music videos on youtube, and they’re still up, partly because I like to look back fir fun sometimes, and it’s been long enough that i can say “I was just a kid when I made that” and not feel embarrassed lol. Out of people I know in person, I’ve only shown my family years ago, my boyfriend, and my best friend of 2 years. I’ve had so many years where I saved countless screenshots just for me, and forced my sister to hear my storylines over and over again, and having somewhere to post it all, with people who love it as much as I do, is just so wonderful. 💕

I’m always happy to help with any asks, wcifs, requests and problems as best as I can. Anyways, if you read this all, I’m sorry. You know a lot more about me now though, so if you’d like to be friends, or message me and ramble about your random Sims memories, I’m definitely up for it. Have a good night and thanks for being so lovely to me everyone. 😊