Hey! It's PuddingYeah!

[HeyYeah]

TS3 HeyYeah

She's a YA, I named her Hailey Yeah, 'cause I'm original like that. She looks like this:

In CAS



And in game (and in 'jammies)



Voice is set at the high end of 3, possibly the low end of 2. Whatever it is you can mess with it if you like. People say I have the voice of a 12 year old boy so make it sound like that if you want some accuracy.

Traits:
(She should come with)
Computer Whiz
Couch Potato
Evil
Loner
Vegetarian (for the record, I'm actually not, but I am a very picky eater and this is the trait that captures the feeling the best)

(add-ons/substitutes)
Artistic
Dislikes Children
Frugal
Mooch
Natural Cook

Lifetime Wish: Emperor of Evil

Favorites:
Color - Spiceberry
Music -  Electronica
Food - Mac and Cheese or Waffles

I think that covers everything relevant.

[J. M. Pescado]

[HeyYeah]

Love you, too, Pescado. Love you, too.

[kiki]

Why is your sim a YA if you're a 12? 12s are TEENS.

[jolrei]

Well, that's easily fixed in CAS.  We can rebuild her.  We have the technology.

[soozelwoozel]

HY, you're a known 12 - why on earth did you make yourself a YA?

[Tsarina]

In meatspace books and stuff marketed towards people in their late 12s are labelled "for young adults". Were I a little older 12, I'd probably make my selfsim a YA as well.
I'm not sure about TS3, but TS2's 12s looked like young 12s, and making an accurate sim that'd grow older in a tolerable fashion was difficult. If you tried to stick a face on that looked older than how old the game intended sims that age to look, the result would be kinda fugly once the sim levelled up to Adult.

[J. M. Pescado]

That is because 12s don't like being 12, and reading material allegedly intended for 18s makes them feel smart. But they are STUPID and 12.

[soozelwoozel]

In meatspace books and stuff marketed towards people in their late 12s are labelled "for young adults". Were I a little older 12, I'd probably make my selfsim a YA as well.

Eh? That seems really wierd to me. If late 12s are suddenly Young Adults then what the hell are teenagers? As an 18 I guess I saw myself as a YA more than a teen, but by then I could drink, drive and was on my way to uni. 12s are definately not young adults, despite what marketing departments might try and tell you. Just because they label teen lit as Young Adult in order to make 12s feel all grown up doens't mean the 12s actually are.

[Tsarina]

Eh? That seems really wierd to me. If late 12s are suddenly Young Adults then what the hell are teenagers? As an 18 I guess I saw myself as a YA more than a teen, but by then I could drink, drive and was on my way to uni. 12s are definately not young adults, despite what marketing departments might try and tell you. Just because they label teen lit as Young Adult in order to make 12s feel all grown up doens't mean the 12s actually are.

It was simply my understanding of the reasoning behind HeyYeah choosing to make her sim a YA. I'm don't know precisely how old she is, but I could see why a 17-year old would make a YA instead of a teen, at least in TS2.
My arguments about the game's limitations and quirks are more or less invalid anyway - I have no experience with TS3, so I guess you guys can continue flaming now

[chaos]

My reasoning is that YA is the default in CAS, and she forgot to change her sim's age.

[kiki]

In meatspace books and stuff marketed towards people in their late 12s are labelled "for young adults". Were I a little older 12, I'd probably make my selfsim a YA as well.

Eh? That seems really wierd to me. If late 12s are suddenly Young Adults then what the hell are teenagers? As an 18 I guess I saw myself as a YA more than a teen, but by then I could drink, drive and was on my way to uni. 12s are definately not young adults, despite what marketing departments might try and tell you. Just because they label teen lit as Young Adult in order to make 12s feel all grown up doens't mean the 12s actually are.

YA's are able to boozehound, IMO. I class YA as 18-30, just like Contiki does. If I'm eligible to vomit my ass stupid drinking my own weight in tequila in a foreign country on a Contiki tour, I'm a YA.