Looks like The Sims Mobile is the first casualty...not that I will miss it. EA is shutting down The Sims Mobile share.google/dHBy425usaT7...

Well, I feel dumb. Been trying to figure out all day why my Alexa/Echo devices aren't working, and it turns out there is an outage on Amazon's end.

Since this Sims 4 event is focused on children, I'm playing it with my daughter's Simself. I still don't care for limited time events, and I'm only doing it to get the trait.

Found out the hard way that cats like corn on the cob. 🤦🏿‍♀️

Time to wrap up warm and get cozy with Museum 🍂 Our 2025 roadmap is packed! 🔧 QoL changes ❄️ Winter update 🌀 A new Digiverse rift... And the biggest news... our second paid DLC launches this winter! 🔗 A creator & looking to get involved? Come chat with us: discord.gg/twopointstudios

So far, Two Point Museum is Game of the Year for me. Now is a great time to pick it up, especially if you enjoyed Two Point Hospital or Two Point Campus.

For those of you wanting a multi-player experience, it is now available in Coral Island. The dev team also recently added full cross-platform support to the game.

This really sucks. I don't want to put money in these people's pockets. I understand this group has already been invested EA, so my point is moot, but I didn't know it until now.

apnews.com/article/ea-e... gamer Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest-ever private equity buyout

I will catch up on Sims news over the weekend. Work has been incredibly draining. A critical team member is out on medical leave, and we're going through a re-org. My brain is mush in the evenings, and feels too fried to read or even play a game.

No spoilers, but yesterday's episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty was rough for me. Not my favorite episode at all. It was made worse coming off me watching Julie and The Phantoms, a show that handled its love triangles maturely.

Just put my kid on the bus for the first day of fifth grade. This is also the beginning of her last year in elementary school. Bittersweet feelings this morning.

I need to put the Kijiko eyelashes back in my game. The EA ones just aren't doing it for me.

Mittens and Boots joined our family thirteen years ago today. They were three months old then. I am grateful that they are both in great health. They came to us shortly after a devastating setback in our trying to conceive journey. I wasn't in a good place, and I believe these two saved my life.

My vanilla TS4 save loaded fine with the latest patch. It's a relatively young file, though. I'm not even halfway through the first Spring, and I'm only playing one household. If I'm feeling adventurous this weekend, I'll update my mods and try to open my rotational save file that I started in 2020.

My cousin has a no Pumpkin Spice Latte before Labor Day rule, so please don't tell her I got one this morning. 🙃☕️

I was trying to park at my salon which has a small lot to begin with. There is a free spot but the dude who parked next to it was over the line. He was still in the car, so I give him a look like, "Buddy, are you going to fix your parking job?"

It's gotten to the point where I don't open YouTube until I've watched the latest episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty because spoilers are all over my feed.

It doesn't matter what the game is, I despise limited time events.

The EA launcher is refusing to launch TS4 in offline mode and is forcing me to update. I don't feel like updating my mods today, so I guess I'll be playing Two Point Hospital and Two Point Museum.

I love that my two science nerds autonomously choose a telescope as their first woohoo location. Tierra Sterling-Rico is studying Physics, and Jasper Harris is studying Computer Science. If their last names sound familiar, it's because they are both descendants of Evergreen Harbor pre-mades.

People on the Coral Island Discord have been feral over this update. I don't care about multi-player, but I am excited for the Romance updates. I may hold off jumping back into my save until the 1.3 update is released later this year because the babies and kids will finally grow up.

School starts four weeks from today. My kiddo is not ready, and neither am I. Can't believe it will be the last year of elementary school. To put it in perspective, in-person schooling for her Kindergarten year was delayed three weeks because of the pandemic.

I think EA needs to tune the Get to Work illnesses along with the Ailments. For one thing, vampires shouldn't get sick.

Had my first Microsoft Teams meeting at work that included an AI participant. It was an AI note taker bot. I'm a software developer, but even still I was uncomfortable with an AI in the meeting.

My Sim has the High Maintenance trait, so she gets Angry for no reason at times. Couple that with living in an apartment with noisy neighbors, and bam she dies of Cardiac Explosion at the age of 18. I care about her too much, so I exited without saving.

Went for a Swedish massage yesterday, but my therapist ended up doing deep tissue because my hip joints were tight, and I've been feeling sick to my stomach ever since. She must have gotten my lymph nodes too and they probably had a ton of gunk in them. 🤢

Stefan and River are one of my favorite couples. While he's a vampire and she's a human, she's always had a mystical feel to me. So, the Mystical trait in the new pack will be perfect for her, and I also want to turn her into a fairy.

The ending of that Nature Event was very lackluster. The payoff was nowhere near worth the effort. If you're like me, and you want the items, then do the event. But if you're doing it for the story, I wouldn't bother.

So glad the fix for the pregnancy bugs is coming tomorrow. Now, I can finish the Nature event on my vanilla-ish save and get back to my main save...that's if I can tear myself away from Transport Fever 2.

Could everyone please spread to make sure that bug reports can get to the Sims 4 devs asap. This involves: - Make sure to test without mods/cc - Make sure to STATE if you use mods/cc - Provide your platform - SEARCH the forum and use the compiled list before creating a new thread.

I had to speedrun unlocking Peter Pan in Disney Dreamlight Valley so that I can complete the Star Path. I'm ignoring the summer event. The second half of Storybook Vale dropped today, and I've barely started the first part.

I miss my main Sims save, but I don't dare open it until the pregnancy glitches are fixed.

Played a little bit of Transport Fever 2 this morning. According to Steam, I hadn't touched the game in nearly two years. Time really flies because it doesn't feel like it's been that long. I'm looking forward to TPF 3 coming out next year.

This is not Sims-related. Over the past week, I saw spoiler for another game and a spoiler for a TV show while I was scrolling my YouTube feed.

I am really getting annoyed with YouTubers who put spoilery info in their video thumbnails.

I was looking for a chill evening tonight, so I'm glad early access videos for Enchanted by Nature are starting to come out. Just what I need to kick back.

I'm playing my mostly vanilla Pack Legacy Challenge until the expansion drops. I'm only using UI Cheats, which I knows needs an update, but I can play without. What I want to know is if default eyes and skins have been affected by the patch? I'll play without them if I have to, but I'd rather not.

Just saw that the patch broke XML Injector. Don't update and go offline if you want to keep playing with your mods.

It's been so hot here (heat index in the 110s) that the heat is warping a draw bridge on a major artery road in my city.

Maybe it's time to take a vacation, preferably somewhere far from all these naval and air force bases.

Not my child saying she bored on the first day of summer break...

The school year is over. I officially have a 5th grader now. Wow, last year of elementary school, here we come!

Me: Why are they even going to school on Monday and Tuesday? They're half days. It's not like they are going to do any real work. Also me (After hearing my kid has to give a presentation tomorrow): Why are they giving the kids assignments on the last two days of school?

Dear Mother Nature, you ARE allowed to rain on this parade.

So the livestream for Enchanted by Nature is AFTER the launch? That's concerning.

Gosh, work has been so busy that I totally forgot about the Sims 4 trailer dropping. Going to grab my lunch and watch.

Yogurt. Automation. Unicows?! You’re not dreaming! In Autonomica, you can start your own yogurt production line. ///a

I can now count the number of days remaining in the school year on one hand. The last three days are half-days, so tomorrow is the last full day.

There is a couple in this trailer that has to be a nod to Bob and Eliza.