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I had a weird thing happen in my game recently where on of the teens in my legacy household climbed onto the fridge door (http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j136/spacedcat/Alphabet%20Legacy/Fridge2.jpg) and started swinging on it (http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j136/spacedcat/Alphabet%20Legacy/Fridge1.jpg). 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.

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.

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?

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

Silly Sims Playing
With Inappropriate Thingies
Dumb Sim Behavior

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 :D)

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

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   :D ... i'd never seen that before

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

Ewww...

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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  ;D

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 :))

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.  :D

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.

No, it definitely wasn't there in the base game. I'm certain of that. But you're probably right it didn't come with Seasons. Because until very recently I had only played the base game, then bought four expansions all in one go, so I'm still a bit fuzzy on exactly what each one added.  :D

Is that what they're saying! Thank you, Cabelle -- that's too funny!  I have them play Marco Polo quite often -- it's cute, especially when the "polo" person cheats -- but it never occurred to me that the Simlish words for Marco Polo had any meaning  :D

When playing catch mean sims will sometimes try to peg the other sim with the ball, but I don't think they lose any relationship.  It's pretty funny to watch.

I was rather surprised recently to see one of my dogs cue up an "ask owner to fill the pet food dish" action. I'd not seen that before.

Does anyone know if they can break the fridge that way?

The only thing I have actually seen that surprised me was one of my sims cheating at darts :D I didn't know they could do that! I thought they could only cheat at chess.

The playing with the refrigerator thing was one of the first strange autonomous things I saw a sim do - it was a sim teen who's aspiration had gone into the red from a death fear.  And she had wants I had a hard time satisfying at the time.

I just had a cat go watch a ghost that was on the lot.  It had a sim's face in the queue, and when I moused over it the box said "Watch".  The cat went to where the ghost was at the time and watched it drift around the lot, following it for awhile.

I've seen hungry dogs eat snow, and I've also seen cats jump up on the kitchen counter to eat from the serving platter while Sims are at the table.

I had a whole family of Sims that used to do it several times a day. I think it is the playfulness factor. I rarely see it any more though so it may also include low aspirations since I saw it much more often when I first started playing than I do now. Anyway, I kept the same fridge in that house that they started with and nothing bad ever happend to either the fridge or the Sims. The only problem was that whenever someone wanted to cook something, they would complain that they couldn't use the fridge because someone else was swinging on the door. Like you, I kept thinking that surely they would end up breaking the door off. It just never happened.

Yeah, I remember hearing that in one of the designer blog videos for Seasons. It's supposed to be a nod to Tim LeTourneau, one of the original designers behind Sims2. :)

Aww that's a shame :D

I was at that selfish Green mother's house in Meadow Lawns last night to fast forward her to baby time, and one of the guys in her welcome wagon went and swung from the fridge door after about an hour. Grown men, swinging from the fridge.

The 'float on back' thing has definitely been around since before Seasons (I don't have Seasons installed, and I can direct my sims to float on their backs when swimming), and I'm pretty sure I've been able to do this since the base game. The thing that really cracks me up is when visitors with high neat points autonomously do the cleaning and gardening. I have my playable sims make nice with them and invite them over often. :D

I once had an extremely poor sim with a business who was selling jello, and all her customers would obsessively swing on the fridge because there was nothing else to do on the lot.

I love that too, except when I take one of my neat Sims to a community lot, and instead of looking for a date they start doing the dishes at restaurants.  :(

There's a hack floating around called 'NoCommunityPlateClearing' that stops that -- unfortunately, I have it in my miscellaneous hack directory and can't remember where I got it.

Thanks, I managed to find Inge's here (http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Eating.htm), but she's says it's obsolete since there's a better hack somewhere.  :-\

/me goes off in search of this better hack.

Let us know if you find something better. I quit using Inge's version because although it worked, you couldn't clean up dishes on Secret Society lots. If it disabled the autonomous clearing but left in manual cleaning, it would have been ok. But as it is, you can't even direct a Sim to clean up the plates on the SS lots.

The one I have isn't Inge's, though it may be an improved version of her hack, because it has an ' - OFB' in the name, and Inge's isn't listed as OFB-compatible.  I'm pretty sure it still allows manual clearing, but I'm still trying to track down the original zip to find out where I got it.

"But as it is, you can't even direct a Sim to clean up the plates on the SS lots"

I do/did this all the time? Err haven't done for a while now but I have defiantly used a spare SS member to clean this way a lot and it's worked ok? Is this a Seasons thing? Drat.

Cute things…Romance Sims (and others) walking past each other when shopping doing that "Call me!" thing, pointing and mimicking making a call with their hands.

Award for Best Autonomous Action- at a nightclub 8 Sims began dancing the Smusel (?) in time with each other! Better…the songs playing were The Adams Groove, MC Hammer followed by Scoobydoo- The Mystery Mix Techno! Yeah I have a whacked sense of humour but I was very amused by this and wished to God I'd put in Thriller by Wacko in as well!

Award for best coincidence goes to my granddaughters wedding music, A Whiter Shade of Pale, Procol Harum, I forgot I left the rock option on but it was perfect. :)

The hack 'NoCommunityPlateClearing-OFB' is by Blackwiddow [sic] at MTS2.

MyPrecious, it is Inge's version of the above-mentioned hack that caused no plate-clearing at SS lots, not game borkage.

Thanks notveryawesome (I'm sure that wasn't always your name?) Another blonde moment due to 3 Seasons patchs and excessive gaming...excuses is all I have   ;D

I love it when cats do the "watch" thing. I have a cat on one lot that does this all the time. She will even "sing" along when someone is playing the piano.
I also like to see toddlers rock out to the stereo.

Yea, that's the one I have, and there's a Seasons version now too: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=189853

A while back, I had a sim living a rags to riches scenario. His house was a foundation-less shack set on the ground.  One evening, after he'd been relaxing on the bed for awhile, he got up and headed outside.  There wasn't anything outside, not even landscaping. It was after dark, so no walk-bys and he had no gnome for anybody to have stolen...  So I'm thinking, what the fuck are you up to now?

He went around the side of the house and washed the window.

I've only seen it once. The same sim never did it again, nor has any other.  I'm waiting with a finger on printscreen now, though. He only did the one window, then broke off and did the little "I'm fucking tired" thing, as his energy was in the red anyway.

water wiggler?  I don't have any stuff packs.

BTW Didn't these dumb ass sims see the episode of Punky Brewster when the kid got stuck in the fridge and almost died?

I had a teen sim whose aspiration level was bottoming out and he went over to the easal grabbed a paint brush and started slashing at the partially painted picture that was there. He autonomously smash a dollhouse as well.

The water wiggler is made at the toy crafting station from OFB.  The sim needs a gold toymaking badge to make it.