Good evening, Friends List!

[simgarden]

I hope you all had wondrous holidays and got at least one awesome present. I got several, including a programmable coffee pot that's going to live in my room and a camera that I have been using nonstop (taking pictures of myself when there are no better subjects, anyone interested in tormenting me in their game if I choose to use said pictures to

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[simgarden]

Exactly... I mean, I knew a girl in high school, both of her parents were medium to dark-skinned black, but she was light enough that most people thought she was half if not full white. With her, it was mostly in the facial structure and hair texture you could tell. So... it really doesn't make sense to just base it off of skin tone (especially since some Caucasians, including my dad, would probably be S3s just by virtue of having been out in the sun so long that they have a perma-tan).

Commentarying as I speak!

You too!!! Really belated now since I'm slow.

[unmovinglibrary]

I'm not on your friends list but I'm going to comment because I'm daring!

Personally, I definitely view it as a limited thing. You could make races if you edit facial proportions enough, because otherwise they wouldn't look like the ethnicity you're trying to create. But then it's limited because The Sims doesn't have tons and tons and tons of facial options... so unless you're skilled enough to edit them perfectly from scratch, there are only a few types of actually proper race-looking people! (Oh god I'm terrible with words.) The genetics thing is flawed, too. If you make a black guy and a white woman have a child, they could be like you said - black with blonde hair and etc! It's possible to have races, I suppose. The creation process is wide, so it depends on the effort you have when creating your first breeders. I don't know if this makes any sense to you or not, but it does to me! ;_;

I'm looking forward to the university update, by the way. I wonder how long it will take for you to suicide.

[simgarden]

*waves hand* You count! I shall not ostracize you because of your decision to not be on my FL.

It makes sense to me, too! I mean, I guess with geneticized skins (which I have never used and I have no idea how they work) you could end up with something more natural being passed down, but... it still doesn't make up for the times when you will get a genetic impossibility! And yeah, I personally enjoy trying to edit facial features from scratch, but if it's a Maxis generated Sim it's not going to be that way. The only way to have a Sim with a particular race is by making them.

I got all the YA makeovers done and that was stressful enough! Actually playing it is going to be crazy.

[unmovinglibrary]

(This reply may be late, and it's totally because of nothing silly like, say, forgetting my password. Nope. Certainly not.) Also, I'm on dialup for a few days, so I can't view any new updates, which kills me. -sob- But! Aww. I'd be on your FL but I'm shy about asking such things

[simgarden]

Shyness is understandable. I am plagued with it myself. ^_^ I'd be pleased to be friended though, if you'd like.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was afraid of. You'd not be able to marry anyone in, you'd have to make all the Sims yourself. And then if you wanted to do it in a legacy you'd have to townify them. And that's just a pain, really.

Dude, I cheated my ass off after the first semester. I'm not even ashamed of it... and I totally get it with the dial-up. So glad I had an excuse to cut out of the family visit early. :-p Don't worry about large comments. As I said before, I like them because it gives me plenty of excuse to babble in return.

[simsforaranya]

I remember being confused when I first started playing. Love determined by hair color, but not eye/skin? Then I realized that there really isn't race in the game. Unless you make it. I've seen some neighborhoods that have really good "ethnic" sims, but the person had to make them him/herself.

I do think it is dumb to go all THIS SIM IS BLACK...um...skintone, not race? Besides, most S4s are WAY too light to truly be worthy of the title. XD

[simgarden]

Yeah, I was confused on the hair color but not eye/skin myself... still am, a little, but I guess maybe with skintone it's Maxis avoiding accusations of racism? I have no idea. But with randomly generating, of course they're not going to make ethnic Sims... the templates, skin tone, hair and eyes get thrown together randomly.

Yeah, it's deeeefinitely hard to find defaults that have a nice, dark S4. Most of them tend to skew toward lighter skins, for some reason. I guess it's harder to make darker ones? *is CC-making ignorant*

[simsforaranya]

I seem to remember hearing that it was really hard to make dark skins that weren't pixelly, greenish, or...something that I forget. XD

[simgarden]

That just sucks. Oh well, my darker skins are still pretty, even if they're lighter than I'd ideally like them!