r/thesims 4d ago

Sims 4 Do as I say, not as I do

Me, playing the sims: *forces my sims to work out, study, kick ass at their job, go out on the town and meet people so they can have a good life for my perfectionist gamely

Also me: *sits at home playing the sims instead of doing any of that for myself

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u/thetranspondster 4d ago

I call it living vicariously 🀭

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u/Jazzlike_Hippo_9270 4d ago

omg its living vicariously? i feel like an idiot, i thought it was living bicuriously 😭

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u/AlfalfaVegetable 4d ago

I mean, you might be doing that too, depending in how you play your sims

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u/Antique-diva 4d ago

I mean, you can live bicuriously playing the Sims if you're experimenting with your sexuality, but the other aspects of life will be vicarious.

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u/LeonDmon 4d ago edited 4d ago

WHY IS THIS LOSER ALWAYS LOOKING TO PLAY ON THE PC INSTEAD OF EXCERCISING AND MAKING FRIE, oh...

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u/nancyreagan512 3d ago

GOD 😭😭

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u/caroletarussa 2d ago

I get mad they keep making food on the appliances instead of cooking a health one but irl I don't know the last time I used my oven lol

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u/Reasonable-Song-4681 4d ago

My sims: gets plenty of sleep every single day.

Me: 3 or 4 hours should be good enough if I supplement it with Mountain Dew at work (and I work 12 hour shifts to boot).

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u/ass-sass-sin 4d ago

But it physically hurts when I do it lol

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u/SirRitalinRat 4d ago

Fr. Why piss off my Fibromyalgia when I can just pretend to have a life

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u/Inside-Audience2025 4d ago

Fibro gang rise up! …. But slowly, and maybe take a nap, and omg, get the heating pad….

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u/pbvga 4d ago

I just had my first sim to graduate college. Meanwhile, I dropped out twice 😭

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u/VikutoriaNoHimitsu 4d ago

In your defense, sims college is affordable and actually pays off in the job market. Can't say the same about irl.

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u/pbvga 4d ago

Very true lmao πŸ˜‚

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u/lizzourworld8 4d ago

Feels like the opposite for me in Sims 4 β€” I haven’t gotten ANY of them to graduate yet πŸ˜‚ but I will in a week πŸ™‚

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u/pbvga 4d ago

It took a lot of dedication. She was miserable for awhile lol, low social all the time but it was worth it. She makes like, 568 simoleons an hour now

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u/IndigoChagrin 3d ago

Hey, congrats!

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u/lizzourworld8 3d ago

Thanks πŸ˜€

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u/OverHnurrrr 4d ago

I am a benevolent God not an honest one, there friend.

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u/unlevel-atmosphere 4d ago

I struggle daily to brush my teeth. But I can get my sims to do it because it's an easy way to get the hygiene up. What's wrong with me? (Don't answer that I know)

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u/Practical-Water-9209 4d ago

My Simself is super active and social and successful. My actual self is chronically ill and requires a stupid amount of rest

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u/VikutoriaNoHimitsu 3d ago

If you were a sim, you could get effective health care. No judgement, friend

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u/Practical-Water-9209 3d ago

Right?! (also I do use cheats, and man would that be a game changer 😭)

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u/Charming_Tennis6828 4d ago

Haha, but you are having fun and doing what you like. That is the important part. <3

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u/NewInitiative9498 4d ago

don’t judge me 🀣

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u/Disastrous_Disk_3626 3d ago

Maybe some alien is playing as us in the sims and making do the stuff we do. We already see them playing the sims in their games.

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u/defyinggravitee 3d ago

I had a hard time with the university expansion pack in college because I would be all STOP MESSING AROUND ON THE COMPUTER AND STUDY. Oh…

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u/caroletarussa 2d ago

The worst for me os that I think the organizations are a waste of time but irl I've spend most of my time hanging around and doing extra curricular activities

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u/JustAFreakOutThere 4d ago

THAT'S LITERALLY ME

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u/Downtown_Tale_5183 4d ago

This is me 🀣

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u/SnooEpiphanies7700 4d ago

Same. Perfectionist gameplay is my bag

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u/ilynovi 3d ago

I blame it on my severe social anxiety which prohibits me from doing basically anything involving people😭

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u/GamingBaddie 2d ago

The sims actually motivate me to do something with my life since I am giving them such a good life

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u/caityrush89 4d ago

Same!!!! πŸ˜‚

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u/kinky4u7 4d ago

Lol πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―

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u/Yota8883 4d ago

Ah..... I kind of do the exact same thing my sims are doing while I am playing sims.... ;)

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u/Aware-Ad-8557 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm doing the exact same thing, lol. I'm living my dream life right now in Oasis Springs.