I truly could not be more pumped for this game. If these are the kind of features available in early access, then I can only imagine what is in store for future developments.

I'm gonna probably try touching more grass and working through my Steam library backlog (I swear I will finally finish BioShock this time!)

Anyway... not to be extreme but I uninstalled the EA app along with all my games this morning. I've backed up my folders in case things take a surprising turn and three of my favourite franchises are no longer owned by objectively terrible people, but until such time I'm done

At this point, I'm feeling like I'll just take a pause from the whole life sim genre until Paralives early access comes out in December

From 67 to 45 GB... I truly feel so powerful. I am the master of my own destiny. I can do anything I set my mind to.

... nobody look at my basket of perfectly clean and entirely unfolded laundry from 5 days ago

While the clothes don't strike me as terribly exciting (but absolutely agree they will be very useful) they really knocked the hairs out of the park on this one! Especially the half-up curly hair, which I'm certain will be a new staple for me and the bandana, which speaks to my soul for some reason😂

Upon further reflection, it might fix me but I just know it would be, itself, broken.

Ask me how I know (it's curved walls, that's how I know)

For context that was over 1000 items deleted from my folder. I have yet to tackle my CAS folder which is where the bulk of the content is (~8000 files totaling 34.4 GB) 😬

On the bright side, I'm almost done the first season of Survivor, so I'll be getting some delicious Final Tribal Council drama while I'm splitting hairs about which tuning mods to keep in my game 😵‍💫

Simultaneously so apprehensive and excited about the future of this franchise and I'm exhausted by the two wolves inside of me bickering non-stop

On the other, Adventure Awaits seems like it could be the most well-rounded EP we've been offered in YEARS and could even have enough material to justify the price tag while also finally making children feel like a fully fleshed out lifestage.

I know I'm a pretty heavy CC user, but I actually really like to use official content. Hell, I made my personal save file to only use almost exclusively vanilla CAS (body hair and afro-textured hair notwithstanding) but you better believe I used almost nothing from the BG because it's so damn ugly

"Asset creation teams can't fix buggy code and still need jobs"

Obviously🙄 ... but they COULD be turned toward improving some of the godawful basegame models and textures to be on par with recent releases but that only generates good will and positive PR, not profits for shareholders

But also what an insane thing to be like "we'll take a break from EPs to focus on fixing the game, but worry not for in the meantime you can purchase 5 new kits for $7 CAD each" because we can't slow down the revenue train for even a second to maximize our efforts on improving the existing game