Weird Pics, funny posts or something new?

[RaiaDraconis]

I've seen it! Appaloosa Plains, somewhere in the trees. I think that it's mentioned in a couple of threads on the official forums as well.

Kind of like those creepy eyes peering out of the mine in Sunset Valley. Makes me wonder what other fun "easter eggs" are hiding in the worlds.

[Swirl-Girl]

So, I was watching this video of before The Sims 3 came out, a bit ahead of where we are for the Sims 4, and I was comparing it to what we've seen for The Sims 4. So, one of the first things I noticed was a mini telephone booth they had in their office with a striking resemblance to the LLAMA! I also noticed that they portrayed a scene with these fangirls and one of them just fell over backwards, I think she was fainting, you can't do that animation in TS3. So I realized that the over-exaggerated animations I was excited about in TS4 trailers may not make it in. They were also showing off the CAS, and the interface looked totally different, it worked the same way, but all the coloring ad the way the tools appeared all changed before the final release. They were doing like interviews, and instead of showing the interviewee, they showed us little clips of the producers interracting with each other, and I identified the "Hopeless Romantic" "look into eyes" animation. It was strange, seeing a human do it. Find the video here.
(I posted this here because it's more about TS3 than TS4)

[Trip]

I've seen it! Appaloosa Plains, somewhere in the trees. I think that it's mentioned in a couple of threads on the official forums as well.

Kind of like those creepy eyes peering out of the mine in Sunset Valley. Makes me wonder what other fun "easter eggs" are hiding in the worlds.

I keep hearing stuff about a jackalope in Twinbrook, but I still can't find it.

[Twinmum]

There are three cut-outs available in buydebug. The camel from World Adventures, the jacklope from Ambitions and the bigfoot from Pets. I've seen the camel in game in Egypt, but haven't seen the other too. There is also a cow. I've seen it in game and was sure it was in Riverview, but now I can't find it and it's not in buydebug (unless I'm just missing it lol)



*edit* OK, I found the cow in Riverview, but still can't find it in buydebug

[SadieHamming]

I've seen the cutouts under community decorations when you edit community lots. There's also a dinosaur thing, I don't have a picture yet. I'll see if later I can go in game and get one.

[HopeAlive]

how did you add that to the photo? 
 
It looks as if a cardboard cutout was added to the photo. 

Besides I just can't believe that there is a Bigfoot running around in AP and no one else has seen him.

I did not do a thing to the picture. I found it in my game. Trust me on that.  If you do look closely...It is a cut out cardboard of him!

But I didn't photoshop it.

[azokka361]

I don't know if it's ever been mentioned, but Gobias Koffi looks exactly like Tobias from Arrested Development! Their names even rhyme! AND they have very similar traits, most notably Never Nude.

Edit: There's a quote from Arrested Development: "Gobias Industries. As in, Gobias some coffee.

Gobias:



Tobias:

[_Annika_]

If you sort the decorations section and use the 'all' tab, I think the cow shows up there. I had a lot of trouble finding it a while back, too.

In Appaloosa Plains, if you have the beach at the bottom of your screen, and the fishing spot with the water tower at the top right, the bigfoot is roughly in the trees to the east beyond the road that runs south-west. That's without looking.

[Swirl-Girl]

Quite the striking resemblance, I'm pretty sure they put in Never Nude because of a TV show. Maybe it was to make a Gobias/Tobias sim. They did it with Twilight, just that Twilight is more identifiable.

[RaiaDraconis]

The Gobias/Tobias connection is clearly not coincidental. Someone at EA apparently loves "Arrested Development."

It's definitely not the only connection with television and movies. There are the references to "Twilight" as Swirl-Girl mentioned, and I'm fairly certain that the Alto family in Sunset Valley is loosely based on "The Sopranos", the Bunch family is a loose reference to "The Brady Bunch", and wasn't the Goth family (at least how they were portrayed in Sims 1 and 2) meant to be a reference to "The Addams Family"?

[Swirl-Girl]

Yes, that all sounds about right, Raia. I've heard the Alto/Sopranos mentioned before. As well as the bunches. The Twilight one is definitely the most prominent tough.

[Turoskel]

I remember reading an article about how they came up with traits once, wish I could remember where I saw it, might even be on this forum somewhere, but basically they had a whiteboard that they wrote names on of their favourite tv characters and picked traits that described them.

Gobias Koffi is indeed the person you mentioned, the evil trait was got from Mr Burns from the Simpsons, there were others mentioned that I forget now.

One name that stuck out to me on that board was Roz, having just watched some episodes of Frasier again recently if she wasn't the inspiration for flirty commitment issues I'll be very surprised 

EDIT: Yay for google 

http://www.raymazza.com/1/post/2013/05/designing-character-traits-in-the-sims-3.html

[Serenity S.]

Something weird happened in my game a few days ago. I was playing Lincoln Porter, who was soon joined by his ghost wife Marianne. They had three children, Douglas, Azure and Coral.

Marianne and Azure were home, and Azure was in basement and Marianne in the first floor, I directed Marianne to teach Azure to talk. I supposed that Marianne would go to the basement and so I was very surprised, when Azure streched like how toddlers do when they age up. You know, with those long limbs and stuff. She climbed the ladders like a child and at 1st floor she just shrank back to look just normal Has this happened to anyone else?

I stared at my laptop's screen, mouth open, and I'm sure I took a picture, but seems that I've lost it. If I find it, I'll upload it as soon as possible.

Sorry for spelling mistakes, not very good in English...

[bubbles]

Welcome to the forum Serenity! Your English looks just fine to me, you seem quite fluent. That is very strange. I'll look out for that!

[Snufflesxx]

Something weird happened in my game a few days ago. I was playing Lincoln Porter, who was soon joined by his ghost wife Marianne. They had three children, Douglas, Azure and Coral.

Marianne and Azure were home, and Azure was in basement and Marianne in the first floor, I directed Marianne to teach Azure to talk. I supposed that Marianne would go to the basement and so I was very surprised, when Azure streched like how toddlers do when they age up. You know, with those long limbs and stuff. She climbed the ladders like a child and at 1st floor she just shrank back to look just normal Has this happened to anyone else?

I stared at my laptop's screen, mouth open, and I'm sure I took a picture, but seems that I've lost it. If I find it, I'll upload it as soon as possible.

Sorry for spelling mistakes, not very good in English...

That does sound weird! And it is a strange coincidence that in a DecaDynasty of mine, two of the girls were also called Coral and Azure!