Strangetown extras: Ripp is obsessed with his own mortality

[strangetomato]

Now, I know that I've been known to InSIM Ripp into a variety of ailments, and I've even killed him a couple of times to get the shots I needed for the story, but is that any reason for him to become fixated on death? I'm starting to worry about his mental health, just a little. Check out the fear that he rolled during a recent session at the Grunt house...

Hmmm. Does this happen often? I've never seen it before. I mean, it seems reasonable to fear your own death, and maybe a little obvious, but does Ripp have some reason to think that he might actually die? Is it because of the recent trend of deaths in the Grunt family? This doesn't seem very healthy to me.

The other wants/fears are typical. He's been fairly obsessed with becoming friends with both Frances and Nervous, based on his recent interactions with them, and he always rolls wants to flirt with people (that one is a cheerleader - a favourite booty call of his), and to buy various instruments. The only typical want that's missing is "woohoo in bed". Yeah, it's always there and it's always "in bed" (I think he just likes to pass out afterwards, since he's so awesomely lazy). Also, Ripp's not really a freshman. He's a senior. (InSIMing is to blame again.) Don't get the idea that they'll never, ever graduate from LFT. *snicker* I may be slow, but I'm not THAT slow.

Anyway, I thought that it was pretty amusing, so I thought I'd share.

Comments

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

Hehe, that is so very Ripp-like!

I heard that sims fear their own deaths after playing with the handheld game for too much.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. The poor boy... he should probably be in therapy.

Well, Ripp does play with the handheld game a lot, but he wasn't doing it just before this happened. He was playing with the fish, though... hmmm.

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

I've never seen that before. It's always fear of other sims, not themselves. Maybe he's afraid to die, because he just realized that he hasn't been with every woman in Strangetown, and he'd hate to deprive anyone that opportunity? Just a guess. :P

And recent interactions with Frances and Nervous? Oo la la!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's probably as good a guess as any. He has so many things (and people) left to do before he dies.

*snicker* Don't get too excited. These are friendly interactions we're talking about. Just from the scenes with Tank and Frances and the time they spent at the Specter estate. But Ripp is DEAD serious about becoming their friend. Those wants never go away. He's always busting out the autonomous friendly hugs with them too, though they often run away (Nervous did recently accept one, though, which was cute). Poor Ripp. He just wants to be friends.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm not the only one. You haven't had any trouble with corrupted death memories, have you? There is some mention of them in the comments below...

I've seen an aging family sim roll the fear of becoming an unmarried elder. That was interesting and appropriate, I think.

I think so too. It would make sense for Ripp to be thinking about death, given everything that has happened lately.

[franwi.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA! *psst* ...I think he's on to you!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I know! Scary. Sometimes I swear that they have me figured out.

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

He he... I was actually going to comment on how come Ripp is still on his freshman year before I read your comments :).

Well, that fear is not so crazy, keeping in mind what he's gone through, right? Poor guy...

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

:D That's why I figured I should mention it, since people would likely glance over at that. College actually went by too quickly for me with J/R/O, so I have actually been adding some days to them with InSIM, to keep them for graduating too soon. I still have to play the other college kids to graduation, but I definitely don't relate to the sentiment that college is too long. For the purposes of this story, it's definitely too short.

I agree. I think this is very reflective of where Ripp's mental state probably is as a character. I think he should take Ophelia up on her offer to talk about it, since it's not good bottle it up like that.

[kin-thalas.livejournal.com]

I´ve never seen this before. But it´s so Ripp.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I think it's very Ripp-like. All of his wants are about flirting and having fun, but underneath it all, he's afraid of dying. That feels like exactly how he would deal with this stuff to me.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I've heard of other people getting these randomly, so maybe it's just more of glitch thing. To be safe, I will check his memories when I play again.

I do know that I recently moved the graves from the Specter estate, and the Grunts all received fresh memories of their mother's death (where before they didn't have any memory of it at all). Maybe that had something to do with it too.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that seems appropriate given the disappearance of his dad, and the fire at the Beaker mansion, etc. I would start to fear for my life, too. Even if only on a low level.

It's very cute that he wants to be friends with Frances and Nervous. He needs to quit saying asshole things to Frances, though, if he really wants that. It's not very friendly behavior. ;)

There is a possibility you have corrupted memories, I suppose. Do you ever get the conversation bubble that looks like a bunch of vertical lines? That's a sign of corrupted memories, which I believe is passed by gossiping. Eventually it can make your game screw up, I'm told. There's some way to fix it, though... I don't remember where we found the fix but Kirk took care of mine for me, so the answer is out there (probably at MATY)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

There have been a lot of suspicious things happening in Strangetown, so I guess it would be normal to be a little nervous about it.

The fact that Ripp is interested in being Frances' friend probably shows that he learned his lesson at the party, which I think he did, though we haven't seen them interact a whole lot since then. I don't think you'll see him being quite that much of an asshole anymore.

I don't have the vertical lines in gossip about death, but the only death gossip I have seen so far has been about Olive or Ophelia. It's their portrait, followed by a tombstone, followed by the dead person (a normal portrait, or at least the odd portraits that I've been getting - that might be another issue). Based on that, I don't think that this is happening to me.

The solution to the corrupted memories thing seems to be the "nocorruptdeath" hack from MATY, but this just prevents future problems. It doesn't fix any that have already formed, but it seems that SimPE can correct those. The manual explains how to purge them. I'll have to do that if any evidence of this surfaces.

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen that one either.
I did have a sim roll up an interesting death one once though.
I had the father fixing the microwave (he only had like 6 mech points) and he got electrocuted. His teenage son was there and saw it. The father survived but the son almost immediately rolled up the want to be saved from death!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That seems like a more normal reaction in the wants slot, especially for a knowledge sim. Tank rolled the want to defeat the grim reaper after the General died. Those types of things seem to be normal.

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Well, at least it's not in his wants section! My Stella keeps rolling wants for being struck by lightning or being saved from death. Those knowlege Sims (or in her case, aliens) are really freaky sometimes! It is rather fitting, even if it is a glitch though.

Well the only other thing I think it might be was if he has met the other Ripps that are roaming around the place lol.

How come it says he's a freshman? Is that a glitch too?
I was so tired of having selfsim in college so I made her graduate as fast as I could and then made Ripp drop out. He was an art major, which I didnt want him to become anyway. And well, I was really excited to get him into his new house anyway. It's so him and I can't wait to show it off.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do have a good point there. A want would be a very bad sign. I do enjoy those crazy knowledge sims wants, though. They just want to know what it feels like to die... what's so weird about that? *snicker*

There are a couple of other Ripps in the greater Strangetown area, but they are different ages. I don't even really need them, now that I have InSIM, but they're still there. And the Ripp in the fear panel is definitely the same Ripp that has the fear. Oh, Ripp...

No, that was caused by InSIMing too. I had turned him back to a teen for a while for some photos, but I turned him back for this screencap. Maybe the InSIMing had something to do with it. I have no idea.

I can't wait to see how you've decorated his house.

[ownsimscorner.livejournal.com]

Hehe, that`s hilarious! Looks to me like he`s traumatized. ;)

I`ve had Sims with wants to befriend themselves but that just tops it all.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Definitely traumatized. Being friends with yourself is funny too. That's the first step to a healthy relationship with someone else, right? Love yourself first.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Like another comment noted, "he's on to you."

"Please don't off me AGAIN. It's giving me nightmares!"

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Totally. It's like he has a memory of those deaths, even though I didn't save. Those sims are smarter than we think they are. (I wonder is this anything like the plot of that Sims movie they were making?)

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Haha... yep I've seen that fear when my sims are sick or have just recently been sick. I guess they're telling me they don't want me to let them die of disease!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? Interesting. Maybe Ripp actually did get food poisoning when he was eating out of the garbage! *snort* Hint for Ripp: If you don't want to die, stop eating garbage.

[doronjosima.livejournal.com]

I fear for my sanity, because I totally read the subject line as "Ripp is obsessed with his own MORALITY"... and then I was honestly confused by the wants panel screenshot. Mortality makes so much more sense!

... In my defense, it's been a loooong day in the hot, hot sun. ^_^;

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's funny. I'm trying to imagine what the post would have been about if that was the title. His conflicting emotions over being such a slut? *snicker* I get the feeling that he's probably not too hung up on the morals of it all, though you never know...

(Don't worry. We've all had those days. :P I could use a nice day in the hot sun right about now... it's so cold here!)