Good morning, my friend, dear reader of this present post! I want to wish you a happy Thursday! How are you, today? How have you been? Hope the weather is pleasant in your end? As for me, I am okay. Concerning my hobbies, I decided to revisit, painfully, the wretched dollhouse simulator aka Sims 4, the slop that overstayed its welcome, if any. And why? Maybe just morbid curiosity, they did release their new dlc. I went on a cruise to the caribbean, and in such tepid waters, I also used the occasion to try some mods for this title, hoping for less woke crap in it, and a bit more life, a bit more personality. On that front, so far I've failed. The fact this game does not have an open world like its predecessor is one major handicap, you are heavily "encouraged" to stay at home, given the visit of other localities is inconvenient and comes with many loading screens. In contrast, Sims 3 is much more intuitive on that front, it invites you to see the town, hang out, go to the library and the groceries. I much prefer Sims 3 normally, even if in the end both titles suffer from, though in different degrees, of "lack of stakes". Sims 3 is much better in at least trying to give the game, well, the feels of a game, rather than a sandbox sim. Sims 4 does not try, it even is proud on this shameful classification, of being a dollhouse dlc heavy experience, souless at that. Its makeup is applied on different areas of the face, and that makeup's quality is lower, and its amount much heavier. I returned for this, hopefully, short season, I think, out of gamer's block. At times, you just want to look at the pretty floor tiles and the slightly more polished furniture. The woke crap hurts what could have been a deeper immersion. The forced "positivity", the "diversity" as subtle as the walls of China, and as natural as the city of Beijing in winter. Any spark never lasts too long. Because of the "novelty", this title returned to my "next option" catalogue, hopefully for a quick and short stay. It mostly depends on my gamer's block.
I find out that, I do have moments where I vent on the publication, I complain, I call it "my moment of pettiness". I don't like that I have the need to do it at all, but it is what it is. Here, I am just doing another short critique of Sims 4, years after my first session in it, and in comparison to the other famous title of the now ailing franchise. On this note, I can only thank you from the bottom of my heart for sticking around, if anything. We should write about other things instead, even.
Overall, I am trying to find fulfillment, and at moments it is very hard to achieve a good point of rest, where I feel safe and on a comfortable enough spot, in my quotidian life. I did notice, even with the immense tides trying to bring me down, not anything personally, just the tragedy of September, as an example, and the economic woes of trying to pay my credit card dues, that 2025 has not been the worst year ever. In fact, it was a mid-to-above average one, concerning joy and even some achievements, on the personal side. In the world, the phrase that a wounded animal is the most dangerous one could not be more accurate. The left has been pushing the volume of any conversation to a point of causing deaf. Many on the different sectors of the right, myself included, are wearing head gear to help us with such surge in violent rhetoric, and even violent acts. By that, I mean: ora et labora, an expression I use as to mean "live your quotidian life and do your best to thrive". Unfortunately, many on other secrors of the right have been accepted their deaf-leaning frame, and are doing all the wrong moves, such as "owning" their bad words, taking as many red pills as to overdose in them, and so have brain death paged. Jacobins are everywhere, seems to be the lesson, the most important one, of 2025, and as on the left, the sans-culotes of the right are as stupid and as dangerous. A bad chimera has been poked, we should pray it does not go on another rampage.
To wrap up today's piece of journal, that I should never take for granted, the energy and desire to write, I should say I again applied for a job, but again, I don't think I am getting this one either. It was a very basic telemarketing position, but given how fruitless has been looking for work, I was thrilled to have this chance. I don't think it is this one that will officially introduce me to the functional job market, though. There was a typing exam on the selective process, and I only was entirely made aware of it too late, by that I mean, I was doing the selective process at my phone, and at that point, thriving. The typing one, because I was at my phone, and I was not aware I could save the piece to do on the computer. Frustrating is a word, perhaps weak, to describe me now. It is what it is, though. A job would be such an welcome thing, but anyway... There will be my turn to find a good income, I can only move one day at a time. Just getting most of the basic stuff correct, just failing at the typing not due to incompetence but due to a logistical issue, that is already a boost on my confidence, a very welcome and needed one.
With all of that said: Sims 4 unwelcomed return, the fact Sims 3 is the superior product but still with its own flaws, gamer's block and a tepid mood, that I aknowledge is better than a manic depressive one, I think we are ready to wrap things up for today, only because I don't like posts that are too big, it defeats the point of a blog-journal. No worries, though! I should be back before too long, if I can help it, either by the weekend or the beginning of the next week! Well, until then, I wish you the best, my friend! Make sure to take any vitamin you must, keep up the good work, see you once more real real soon!!
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