Do you AI girlfriends know about each other? You could be in a lot of trouble if they find out you've been cheating on them if you're not honestly and openly polyamorous with them.
Players of The Sims video game try to maintain multiple wives in different bedrooms, romancing and woohooing them behind closed doors, so they didn't get angry at each other.
After developing The Sims at Maxis and releasing it into the world in 2000, I made some tools to enable players to create custom content, and worked with some indie Sims fans to make the Simprov Wedding Playset for The Sims 1. We wanted to "woke it up" to support same sex marriage and non traditional customs and ceremonies, before Maxis/EA officially supported it in later versions of The Sims.
It includes a "Cupid" cheat object that helps you instantly and effortlessly fall deeply heads-over-heels in love with any other Sim in your neighborhood you wanted (including dogs and cats)! That made it much easier to get on with the next steps in planning your dream wedding, by fast-forwarding over all that pesky romancing and dating and getting to know one another nonsense. Cupid puts the heat into cheat.
The Cupid was based on reprogramming and reskinning the original phone, so clicking on it popped up a pie menu of every family in the neighborhood you could call, with submenus for every member of each household (including the pets) you could fall in love with.
To stress test it, I systematically fell in love with one person after another.
Selecting a Sim first invites them over. They immediately arrive on the lot, and you have to greet them. Then they walk over to the Cupid, which makes them instantly fall in love with you.
Then they walk over to you, give you a passionate kiss, while a sting of romantic music plays, and hearts and "plus relationship" icons flash above each of your heads, showing that you've each just fallen in love.
What happens next is up to you the player, or the autonomous characters themselves, if you don't interfere with their lives by clicking from pie menus to control them. It's like a pinball machine with pie menu flippers and multiple hearts in play.
So I continued to stress test the Cupid by inviting one Sim after another over to fall in love with me. If I didn't wait for my previous lover to leave, or lock them in a room and remove the door, or tempt them into the swimming pool and remove the ladder, and then fell in love with another Sim in the same room right in front of them and they saw us kiss, cheating in front of them piss off the previous lovers, and they queue a "Slap in Face" interaction, which decays our relationship.
The ultimate effect of falling in love with one Sim after another is that all your previous lovers would hang around getting madder and madder at you, and each time you kiss a new lover, all your previous lovers in sight would line up to slap you one by one (they're programmed to be too polite to all slap you at once, so they queued and take turns). So your relationship with your first lover decays from the most number of slaps, and so on, up to your perfectly head-over-heels relationship with your most recent lover.
The challenge is to see how many consecutive slaps you can get from scorned lovers. (Hint: put out a buffet table and lots of port-a-potties so they can eat and shit and don't have to go home. Or use the Buddha cheat object to keep everyone happy with their stomachs full and bladders empty, which makes long drawn out wedding ceremonies go smoother.)
One solution to this dilemma is to install the ZombieSims expansion playset, and zombify your previous lovers before moving on to the next.
>Heather and Steve were both early Sims 1 fans who each published their own popular web sites with downloadable objects, met through the Sims 1 modding community, then eventually moved in together and got married, and now they've combined their extreme art and programming talents to make an intricately intertwingled collection of Sims 1 Zombie objects, with a whole lot of original artwork and programming!
>Check out some of the crazy menus that pop up -- this demo barely scratches the surface!
Here is a video of Simprov (unfinished but playable with programmer art and sample text), and the zip file with a huge collection of The Sims 1 objects, including the Cupid and many other Simprov Wedding Playset objects, so you can try reproducing the results of my experiment in the privacy of your own home.
>(In Professor Farnsworth's voice:) Good news everyone!
>I asked Heather permission, and she says it's OK for me to give away the huge collection of custom Sims objects I have that includes an archive snapshot of many classic SimFreaks objects, as well as all the unreleased SimProv Wedding Playset objects that Heather and Donna and Steve and I created years ago but never finished and released, and a whole bunch of other stuff like the Transmogrifier object that randomly changes your body, the Dumbold voting machine that sometimes makes you accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan, Satan who shows up when you're depressed and offers to buy your soul, the Crowd Sitter that makes everyone gather together and sit down on chairs, and the Cupid that lets you instantly fall in love with anyone in the neighborhood, and the Buddha that makes everyone happy and not piss themselves and fall asleep in their own puddles of urine during parties.
>I don't have time to actually support and debug any of this stuff, but at least I recently updated the Cupid to be compatible with the Pets expansion pack, so it now lets you fall in love with any pet in the neighborhood. (You just can't actually marry them -- not that there's anything wrong with marrying cats and dogs, but we didn't have the animations for that!)
>If you want to express your appreciation, then please subscribe to Zombie Sims for a $9.99 lifetime membership, and then you can play around with inviting lots of Zombies to your weddings and see how that works! (Or don't invite them, and they will crash your wedding anyway!) But no guarantees or warranties that it doesn't devolve into a bloody mess!
>Here's my special collection of Sims 1 downloads, including the unreleased and not quite finished "SimProv" wedding Playset and handy "Cupid" that lets you instantly fall in love with anyone in the neighborhood (including pets)!
>To find the Cupid and other Simprov items, go into buy mode, press the last icon of three dots for "Miscellaneous", then press the first icon with a pool table for "Recreation". The main item of the Simprov wedding playset is the "Hope Chest", which has a "Help" item that explains what to do next, and it summons a wedding consultant (who you can dismiss and call back if you don't like her hanging around in your bedroom forever). Then you can click on the hope chest to make other objects like the Cupid, and click on the wedding consultant to make catalogs of other items (most of them are just placeholder programmer art right now, but some of then configure things like what kind of wedding you will have and who will officiate it), but the idea was that you could order lots of items through the catalogs that you couldn't get through the normal shopping interface. But for now most of the wedding items are still in the build mode shopping catalog. The Simprov Wedding Playset video above walks through how to use most of the objects!
>Also be sure to check out Donna's beautiful wedding beds, the luxurious buffet with ice dolphin sculpture, gold inlaid glass dining table, fancy dollhouses, elegant dolls, and many other premium objects identified as Simprov, SimBabes, and SimFreaks in their catalog descriptions.
Ah yes—as the saying goes: “keep your friends at the Bayes-optimal distance corresponding to your level of confidence in their out-of-distribution behavior, and your enemies closer”
Players of The Sims video game try to maintain multiple wives in different bedrooms, romancing and woohooing them behind closed doors, so they didn't get angry at each other.
After developing The Sims at Maxis and releasing it into the world in 2000, I made some tools to enable players to create custom content, and worked with some indie Sims fans to make the Simprov Wedding Playset for The Sims 1. We wanted to "woke it up" to support same sex marriage and non traditional customs and ceremonies, before Maxis/EA officially supported it in later versions of The Sims.
It includes a "Cupid" cheat object that helps you instantly and effortlessly fall deeply heads-over-heels in love with any other Sim in your neighborhood you wanted (including dogs and cats)! That made it much easier to get on with the next steps in planning your dream wedding, by fast-forwarding over all that pesky romancing and dating and getting to know one another nonsense. Cupid puts the heat into cheat.
Speed Dating with Cupid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVUP9OXmHTM
The Cupid was based on reprogramming and reskinning the original phone, so clicking on it popped up a pie menu of every family in the neighborhood you could call, with submenus for every member of each household (including the pets) you could fall in love with.
To stress test it, I systematically fell in love with one person after another.
Selecting a Sim first invites them over. They immediately arrive on the lot, and you have to greet them. Then they walk over to the Cupid, which makes them instantly fall in love with you.
Then they walk over to you, give you a passionate kiss, while a sting of romantic music plays, and hearts and "plus relationship" icons flash above each of your heads, showing that you've each just fallen in love.
What happens next is up to you the player, or the autonomous characters themselves, if you don't interfere with their lives by clicking from pie menus to control them. It's like a pinball machine with pie menu flippers and multiple hearts in play.
So I continued to stress test the Cupid by inviting one Sim after another over to fall in love with me. If I didn't wait for my previous lover to leave, or lock them in a room and remove the door, or tempt them into the swimming pool and remove the ladder, and then fell in love with another Sim in the same room right in front of them and they saw us kiss, cheating in front of them piss off the previous lovers, and they queue a "Slap in Face" interaction, which decays our relationship.
The ultimate effect of falling in love with one Sim after another is that all your previous lovers would hang around getting madder and madder at you, and each time you kiss a new lover, all your previous lovers in sight would line up to slap you one by one (they're programmed to be too polite to all slap you at once, so they queued and take turns). So your relationship with your first lover decays from the most number of slaps, and so on, up to your perfectly head-over-heels relationship with your most recent lover.
The challenge is to see how many consecutive slaps you can get from scorned lovers. (Hint: put out a buffet table and lots of port-a-potties so they can eat and shit and don't have to go home. Or use the Buddha cheat object to keep everyone happy with their stomachs full and bladders empty, which makes long drawn out wedding ceremonies go smoother.)
One solution to this dilemma is to install the ZombieSims expansion playset, and zombify your previous lovers before moving on to the next.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485103
>ZombieSims is a mind-blowing, brain-eating, tour de force Sims 1 fan expansion pack by two of the greatest Sims user created content artists and programmers: Heather "SimFreaks" (who created SimFreaks.com and much of the beautiful content for Sims 1 at http://www.simfreaks.com/index.php including themed play sets like http://www.simfreaks.com/themes/storytime/pirate/index.shtml ) and Steve "SimSlice" (who created SliceCity: SimCity within The Sims at http://simslice.com/Slicecity.htm by programming many interlocking objects in SimAntics, and also many other amazing Sims 1 objects like the weather machine at other cool stuff at http://www.simslice.com/Objects-Electronic.html ).
>Heather and Steve were both early Sims 1 fans who each published their own popular web sites with downloadable objects, met through the Sims 1 modding community, then eventually moved in together and got married, and now they've combined their extreme art and programming talents to make an intricately intertwingled collection of Sims 1 Zombie objects, with a whole lot of original artwork and programming!
https://zombiesims.com/
>Twitch streaming videos:
https://www.twitch.tv/simfreaks_heather/videos
>Highlight: Zombie Sims - Beta - Everybody Dies
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1049524221
>Check out some of the crazy menus that pop up -- this demo barely scratches the surface!
Here is a video of Simprov (unfinished but playable with programmer art and sample text), and the zip file with a huge collection of The Sims 1 objects, including the Cupid and many other Simprov Wedding Playset objects, so you can try reproducing the results of my experiment in the privacy of your own home.
Simprov Wedding Play Set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwt5LJlrMe8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34492255
>(In Professor Farnsworth's voice:) Good news everyone!
>I asked Heather permission, and she says it's OK for me to give away the huge collection of custom Sims objects I have that includes an archive snapshot of many classic SimFreaks objects, as well as all the unreleased SimProv Wedding Playset objects that Heather and Donna and Steve and I created years ago but never finished and released, and a whole bunch of other stuff like the Transmogrifier object that randomly changes your body, the Dumbold voting machine that sometimes makes you accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan, Satan who shows up when you're depressed and offers to buy your soul, the Crowd Sitter that makes everyone gather together and sit down on chairs, and the Cupid that lets you instantly fall in love with anyone in the neighborhood, and the Buddha that makes everyone happy and not piss themselves and fall asleep in their own puddles of urine during parties.
>I don't have time to actually support and debug any of this stuff, but at least I recently updated the Cupid to be compatible with the Pets expansion pack, so it now lets you fall in love with any pet in the neighborhood. (You just can't actually marry them -- not that there's anything wrong with marrying cats and dogs, but we didn't have the animations for that!)
>If you want to express your appreciation, then please subscribe to Zombie Sims for a $9.99 lifetime membership, and then you can play around with inviting lots of Zombies to your weddings and see how that works! (Or don't invite them, and they will crash your wedding anyway!) But no guarantees or warranties that it doesn't devolve into a bloody mess!
>Here's my special collection of Sims 1 downloads, including the unreleased and not quite finished "SimProv" wedding Playset and handy "Cupid" that lets you instantly fall in love with anyone in the neighborhood (including pets)!
https://donhopkins.com/home/DonsSims1Downloads.zip
[...]>Transmogrify Self: A quick demo of The Sims Transmogrifier personified in The Sims 1. Graphics by SimBabes, programming by SimSlice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsTbs7IL5EI
>To find the Cupid and other Simprov items, go into buy mode, press the last icon of three dots for "Miscellaneous", then press the first icon with a pool table for "Recreation". The main item of the Simprov wedding playset is the "Hope Chest", which has a "Help" item that explains what to do next, and it summons a wedding consultant (who you can dismiss and call back if you don't like her hanging around in your bedroom forever). Then you can click on the hope chest to make other objects like the Cupid, and click on the wedding consultant to make catalogs of other items (most of them are just placeholder programmer art right now, but some of then configure things like what kind of wedding you will have and who will officiate it), but the idea was that you could order lots of items through the catalogs that you couldn't get through the normal shopping interface. But for now most of the wedding items are still in the build mode shopping catalog. The Simprov Wedding Playset video above walks through how to use most of the objects!
>Also be sure to check out Donna's beautiful wedding beds, the luxurious buffet with ice dolphin sculpture, gold inlaid glass dining table, fancy dollhouses, elegant dolls, and many other premium objects identified as Simprov, SimBabes, and SimFreaks in their catalog descriptions.