strangetomato | Yet another reason I adore ACR...

As much as I love working out intricate plotty reasons for pairing up certain Maxis characters, and finding those hidden connections myself, sometimes I just can't be arsed. You know what I mean? There are all those bin sims and Bluewater Village characters that I don't really play with much (yet), but I want to have them living lives out there in the background, and ACR helps me to set them up in story-like situations quite easily.

I like Tara. I want to keep her single with tonnes of cats. That's just her destinty, I think. She's also a baby-hungry family sim, who hasn't completely redirected her motherly instincts to her cats, so I figured it was single mom time.

Enter ACR. Tara has some bolts with various sims she has met (including Cyd Roseland, who'd make an okay match), so I started calling them up, and enabled her to try for baby for outside of a relationship. May the best man win!

The best man is local stud and bakery owner, Gilbert Jacquet. It's just too perfect when a swinging romance sim has an oopsy baby out there, and can you imagine a more odd scenario? He has a kid with the weirdo cat lady.

The facial genetics are very Face Two and not too thrilling (Gee, I wonder what the baby will look like. Answer: BOTH of the parents. They're twins), but Gilbert actually has blond hair, so at least the recessive genes will be interesting.

So, do you have any good ACR success stories to share? I could go on and on about how much better this hack makes the game. It's awesome.

Also, I think I'm still on track for the next chapter, if you consider that I missed some time with the long weekend. I'll try to catch up a little this weekend, but I probably won't update until next week at the earliest. I also started a new job last week and caught the knitting bug really badly (I'm making a scarf out of bamboo yarn - really nice stuff), so there are distractions everywhere.