Playing with fridge

[eevilcat]

I had a weird thing happen in my game recently where on of the teens in my legacy household climbed onto the fridge door and started swinging on it. I have never ever seen this before and I seem to remember that her fun was really low in a post-homwework stress sort of way. It got me wondering whether there were any other odd play with interactions that I've missed/yet to see.

[phyllis_p]

Have you seen grouchy Sim kids rub their feet on the carpet and give their parents (or others) a static shock?

How about toddlers watching the fish in the fish tank?  I don't usually keep fish and saw that for the first time over the weekend.

[Ellatrue]

Have you had a sloppy sim child scavenge in the garbage can yet? If they are sloppy and there is no food on the lot, they will also eat out of it.

Have you seen the playful sims playing in the tub?

[jsalemi]

My favorite is when one sim is taking a shower, and another flushes in the same room -- the showering sim jumps out and gives the other one hell.

[Zazazu]

My favorite is when one sim is taking a shower, and another flushes in the same room -- the showering sim jumps out and gives the other one hell.

I love that one, it took me forever to figure out why the showering sim was so upset!

I love when twins grow up from toddler to child. Often they look right at each other and hop with surprise, which I translate as "OMG, I have a twin!" moment (since they never really acknowledge each other before then).

Other did you knows:
toddlers can dance to the piano or stereo
red aspirationed kids will smash urns, despite having a high nice score, and despite fearing that the particular urn will be smashed
visiting sims will giggle at tombstones of sims they didn't like

[J. M. Pescado]

Silly Sims Playing
With Inappropriate Thingies
Dumb Sim Behavior

[Zeljka]

I still love toddlers eating the chocolate spilled from the candy machine,
and 'steal bottle' which I have only seen them do once autonomously.... 

(that's right, I starve my toddlers then drop one bottle between them to watch them duke it out )

[Orikes]

Howabout mean children playing cops and robbers? The 'winner' will run up and kick the loser.

[Scratch]

Yesterday, I had a teen sim doing yoga, he was trying to do the balance on 1 finger thing and he fell on his face    ... i'd never seen that before

[Marhis]

Very lazy sims can veg out cookies and stuff from the couch.

[Li'l Brudder]

Ewww...

[morriganrant]

i heard somewhere that kids in aspiration failure will smash urns. haven't seen that one personally though.
I have seen them get off the buss and go stomp the flowers though.

[Alie]

Cats will watch the fish tank, too.

I heard that dogs will play with the water wiggler, but I don't currently have any in my game, so need to check that out.

[phyllis_p]

Oh, I remembered another one. Teens with low grades or low aspiration will kick over their own trashcan.

[Magicmoon]

Have you seen grouchy Sim kids rub their feet on the carpet and give their parents (or others) a static shock?

Is it just grouchiness that allows that? I've only seen it done by one Sim in the game. That's her in my avatar. She got stuck in that position and walked around with her brows furrowed and pointing at everyone she was interacting with. I've been trying to reproduce it ever since. I keep all personality types in my game. Some even have no niceness at all. IIRC, the girl in my avatar had about a 4 niceness.

Very lazy Sims can veg out cookies and stuff from the couch.

I have 2 very lazy families in my hood right now. Some have zero active points. But I have never seen this. Do you mean they search under the couch cushions for leftover snacks?

I'll have to keep a better watch on the cops and robbers kids. I'd like to see the kick.

I like fish tanks, but I don't put them in houses where the toddlers are extremely playful or all they will do is stand around and watch the fish all day.

Get a water wiggler for your dog and you never have to bathe them anymore. They'll take care of it themselves when their hygiene is low enough.

Now I'll add my own observations:

Have you seen your bird freak out when a wolf is in the room? Cats don't seem to bother them like they did in Sims 1, but have a wolf where they can see it and they go nuts.

I didn't see anyone mention the Sims that go around the house washing the windows.

Hungry dogs not specifically trained on pet food will either knock over the trash can and eat the garbage, or will eat the flowers. It doesn't harm the flowers as far as I can tell, and it satisfies hunger.

Dirty dogs will find dirty puddles to roll around in, as well as the knocked over trash. (If you click it says something like scold/praise for rolling in filth).

Servos will sometimes fix your broken appliances while visiting your lot.

I have a pic in RL where a ghost is coming home from school with her homework in hand.

[phyllis_p]

Have you seen grouchy Sim kids rub their feet on the carpet and give their parents (or others) a static shock?

Is it just grouchiness that allows that? I've only seen it done by one Sim in the game. That's her in my avatar. She got stuck in that position and walked around with her brows furrowed and pointing at everyone she was interacting with. I've been trying to reproduce it ever since. I keep all personality types in my game. Some even have no niceness at all. IIRC, the girl in my avatar had about a 4 niceness.

I don't know, actually.  It had been a very long time since it had happened, and then within the last 2 weeks I saw it happen again.  The child in question only had one nice point, so I assumed that was the determining factor.  He also had full playful points, which makes for a grown-up prankster, so maybe that played in as well.  My assumptions may well be full of crap 

[Arina]

Have you seen your bird freak out when a wolf is in the room? Cats don't seem to bother them like they did in Sims 1, but have a wolf where they can see it and they go nuts.

The birds don't seem to freak simply when they see a cat, but when a cat sits by the cage and is watching the bird (it actually comes up in the queue as 'watch', if I remember correctly), then the bird completely freaks. It's quite funny. I don't think the cats actually hurt the bird, though. (I never let wolves in the house, but a few of my houses have cats and birds, and I've definitely seen this reaction from the bird )

[nocomment]

magicmoon - the kids can only do a static shock with the Maxis rugs. 

It doesn't work with echo's rugs.  I rarely use Maxis rugs, so I rarely see a child shocking anyone.

[J. M. Pescado]

I heard that dogs will play with the water wiggler, but I don't currently have any in my game, so need to check that out.

This is extremely useful because it will boost their hygiene without your need to intervene, making them almost as self-sufficient as cats, particularly if you place it such that it is favored as their primary source of fun. Too bad it doesn't work like that in real life, as the only thing that happens if you try that in real life is that your entire house smells like wet dog!

[jsalemi]

Is it just grouchiness that allows that? I've only seen it done by one Sim in the game. That's her in my avatar. She got stuck in that position and walked around with her brows furrowed and pointing at everyone she was interacting with. I've been trying to reproduce it ever since. I keep all personality types in my game. Some even have no niceness at all. IIRC, the girl in my avatar had about a 4 niceness.

Grouchy kids will do it autonomously, but you can direct any kid to do it if you have a Maxis rug in the house.

[Magicmoon]

So that explains why I never see it. I stopped using the Maxis rugs when they went flat and no longer look like rugs. I sure wish Maxis would fix that. They may be worth using again though just to see stuff like this.

[Miao]

Have you seen grouchy Sim kids rub their feet on the carpet and give their parents (or others) a static shock?

I've seen a Sim-kid with 6 nice points and one with IIRC 9/10 nice points zap other Sims with a static shock. I think it's more a Playful rather than a Grouchy attribute.

[phyllis_p]

I remembered another one.  Have you seen them float on their backs in the pool?  I've never seen them do it autonomously, but I was surprised to discover that it was an option one day. (Not many of my Sims have pools).

[MattyDienhoff]

I noticed that shortly after I installed Seasons, so I'm fairly sure that feature was added in it.

There's also an option for Sims to "Play Marco Polo" with other Sims in the pool, although I haven't tried that out yet.

[cabelle]

I think sims have ben able to float on their backs in the pool since the original game. It's mentioned in the original Prima guide, though I've never seen it myself. Probably because I tend to ignore sims while they're swimming. I have them on Free Will so when they're tired/hungry/need the bathroom they'll get out on their own. The pool game "Timle Tourneau" and the pool slide were the features that came with Seasons. It is so funny to watch a sim with low body skill slide down the pool. 

Recently I had a pregnant sim automously rub her own belly. I'd never seen it before except for pictures in other gamer's stories. It's really cute. It's also cute when they rub their aching backs.