Who doesn't dream of the perfect life?
Sadly, the real world is often uncooperative when it comes to our dreams and wishes, but
if you work hard and persevere, you may not get everything you want out of life, but you
can get most things.
But working hard?
'Aint nobody got time for that, especially when we can just simulate our perfect lives
with tools like the ever-popular Sims franchise.
Today we're once more turning to our trusty guinea pig and your favorite Infographics
staff lab rat as we challenge him to build himself the perfect life in The Sims 4- and
as a special treat, we managed to rope 'the girlfriend' in on it too, whom isn't charging
us an arm and a leg for challenges as long as it's just her playing video games!
BOYFRIEND: So as far as challenges go, this one is definitely the most mild one I've had...
maybe ever?
I just have to sit and play The Sims and make a perfect life for myself in-game.
It sounds suspiciously simple.
I admit, I've never played any of The Sims games, so I have no idea what I'm doing.
I heard you can accidentally kill your Sims though?
That's already way more virtual responsibility then I'm ready for.
So I've been asked to simulate my real life within the game, and then make it 'perfect'.
The first step was creating my sims, and hey, The Infographics tells me you guys have been
howling for a face reveal- well sadly, we're just not willing to do that because you know,
the internet and the people who inhabit it can be terrible, terrible people.
That's why we haven't given our names or social media out- sorry guys, but just take a look
through the comments section and you'll see why we prefer the anonymity of being animated
and having a narrator!
However, making our sim characters is probably the closest we're going to get to a face reveal,
and I'll admit, I have zero artistic talent when it comes to making avatars.
The sheer number of customization options on these things is overwhelming- you can tweak
and pinch and pull and stretch flesh every which way to make the perfect look, I saw
someone on youtube recreating celebrities on The Sims and it was eerie how close they
came.
I am definitely not on that level, but you know what, I feel I did a decent enough job.
GIRLFRIEND: My boyfriend's latest challenge is to create the perfect life for himself
in The Sims 4, and I thought that sounded fun so I agreed to hop in and give my two
cents.
The more I watched him play this game the more I kind of liked it, so I started playing
it when he was not around.
For once, a challenge I not only don’t mind him doing, but one that I kind of think is
fun.
Beats him having to live off the land in the wild or whatever silly nonsense The Infographics
has him do next.
He created our characters without me so I got no input on the matter, which is kind
of annoying.
He gave himself a goofy look and I guess I see the resemblance, especially now that he's
grown his beard out, but I still feel his sim doesn't look like him at all.
As far as my sim, I really feel he definitely spent way more time working on that one than
on his own, which I guess is... kind of flattering?
I don't know how I feel about it.
Have you ever heard of the phrase uncanny valley?
It is used to compare things like robots or animations to the real thing, and there's
a place where they approach realism really closely, but ultimately just don't seem quite
real and that makes people feel really weird about it.
That is exactly how I feel about my sim.
Or maybe I just don't like the thought of being recreated digitally, it is a creepy
feeling.
I do love the dress he gave me, and he tried to dress himself like a total doofus.
Luckily for you the viewer I made him get some normal clothes too- though of course
he made his character walk like a total creepster.
The worst part?
He has started recreating that walk around the house, and yesterday he did it in public
until I punched him in the arm.
BOYFRIEND: I think I have a crush on my girlfriend's sim, which I guess means I have a crush on
my girlfriend which is definitely a good sign!
Anyways, I guess there's an option to start so you're already in a relationship with another
sim, but I wanted to challenge myself so I made my and the girlfriend's sims be just
roommates.
I am out to win her heart in sim-land and make the perfect life, which I really hope
is a thing I can do.
Like I said, I barely know what I'm doing in this game.
I learned the basics from the tutorial, so I know about peeing and eating and sleeping
and socializing- you know, all the basics you learn as a baby.
Which I guess is another thing you can do in this game?
You know, have a baby.
That... is terrifying.
So me and the girlfriend are digital roommates now, and I decided to start with a custom
built house that used up almost all of my starting 20k cash reserves.
Twenty thousand for a fully equipped two-bedroom house, now I definitely know I'm living in
fantasy land.
Also I totally forgot to buy a toilet for a while so my characters had nowhere to pee
for the first day.
My bad.
GIRLFRIEND: I immediately thought that little house was really cute.
I watched him play around with the two characters, sending them to work and having them make
food and socialize, and it was just adorable to see those two as roommates.
I guess it reminded me of our first few months together- in fact this whole experienced really
gave me a lot of time to think on the past, and it was kind of sweet.
We originally met at a coffee shop, which is funny because he hates those places.
If you work in the entertainment industry in LA though, it is where you typically meet
up for business meetings.
I happened to be there on a day off when he came rushing in for a sit-down meeting with
some random client.
I remember he caught my eye because he had brought his dog- our dog now- and he was just
a little puppy back then.
He sat down on a table directly across from me to my left and apologized to the guy he
was meeting, saying, “Hey man, I know this is real unprofessional but I just adopted
my dog and I couldn't handle leaving him home alone- he had a real bad time at the shelter.”
I immediately thought that was the goofiest, cutest thing.
Who brings a puppy to a business meeting?
And who does it because they can't emotionally handle leaving it home alone?
I guess thinking back, I think I knew most of what I needed to know about him as a person
from overhearing that one exchange.
The person he was meeting was not as thrilled and the meeting was over pretty quickly after
that, which was the luckiest thing to happen for me because that left us both there alone.
That cute little floppy-eared ragamuffin came sniffing over towards me and the rest is history.
If there's anything that feels 'wrong' about this whole challenge is that there is no dog
in our little digital house.
BOYFRIEND: So a bunch of people came over to the house when we first started playing
the game for a housewarming, and I decided my sims needed to improve their social life
so I threw a party.
I figured I'd see what the sims do on their own though and just kind of let them go on
autopilot and navigate the party.
I guess there's goals you can accomplish and you get scored for having better parties,
but I'm curious what sims do on their own.
GIRLFRIEND: Our first sim party was 'hands-off' so to speak, each sim did whatever they felt
like.
Immediately his sim went to the couch and just sat there reading a book, and then went
to my room for some reason and started reading a book there.
I cannot tell you how true-to-life that reaction is.
He is the worst at socializing, and when we go to networking events he likes to plant
himself at the open bar until I drag him away.
I keep telling him he needs to always meet new people and show his face around so that
he can sell himself as a writer and photographer, but he always says, “If anyone wants to
see my face they can download my Facebook profile pic.”
Honestly, he is impossible.
Also I don't know why my sim decided it was appropriate to host a party in her workout
clothes.
She had been jogging just before the party and then just never changed.
That is kind of gross.
One thing that was funny though, my sim and another guy sim ended up going into one of
the bedrooms for a conversation.
It made me chuckle and I asked my boyfriend if he was threatened, then I reminded him
that he still had to 'win' me in this digital world, but now it looked like he had competition.
He sort of narrowed his eyes and said under his breath, “I don't like that sim...”
I also realized at that moment that his bedroom had a bed for two people, but mine only had
a bed for one person.
I asked him what the deal with that was and he just sort of grinned at me.
Wow, someone was really confident his sim stood a chance.
BOYFRIEND: So the simparty was a success, I guess.
Some total creep sim went into the bedroom, no wait, sorry, my bedroom, and sat to chat
up my roommate/not-digital-girlfriend.
Who even does that?
That's personal space, buddy.
Anyways, I thought that if her sim got to have a social buddy, then mine did too.
I called over some blonde named Naomi from the party that my sim had gotten into a few
conversations with and we hung out.
I had bought my sim a camera so I took a picture of her, and I don't know if every sim does
this but she immediately struck a pose.
I uploaded the photo to my simstragram and got a bunch of followers, and I even managed
to frame it and stick it on our table.
GIRLFRIEND: I still hate that stupid blonde.
She knew what she was doing from the start, and who in the world takes a picture like
that?
A tramp, that's who.
Anyways, my sim's career goal is to be a bodybuilder, which of course my dear sweet boyfriend picked
because in his words, “It was the closest I could find to the real thing.”, and that
is definitely not true.
I think he was just secretly hoping that it would turn my sim into a she-hulk.
So as part of my career goal I had to take my sim to the gym to exercise there, and I
had her hop onto one of the machines to start her workout.
Suddenly this pony-tailed guy walked up and started coaching her, and it gave my sim a
perk making her workout more effective.
I went on the treadmill and he kept at it- although by this point my sim's hygiene stat
was getting really low.
I decided he seemed to be really interested in my sim, so if my boyfriend's sim gets to
have a buddy, then mine does too.
I chatted up this sim and the friendship bar filled pretty quickly.
BOYFRIEND: Ok, the stupid gym sim- yeah, that's a case of art imitating life.
I can't tell you how many gym rats think the gym is a great place to pick up women, and
the girlfriend comes home with stories all the time.
Seriously guys, girls don't want to chat when they're exhausted and sweaty.
So no, I'm not surprised her sim got hit on by some pony-tailed gym douche.
Seriously, what guy wears a ponytail nowadays?
Anyways, the Naomi girl kept coming by the house, which is a little weird but I guess
sims are really friendly that way.
Like two game days in a row went by and she kept showing up at the front door asking to
visit.
Turns out my sim's becoming a pretty good cook so I had him make food for the whole
household and pushed that cook stat up.
Here art imitates life again, because spoiler alert- the girlfriend can't cook to save her
life.
GIRLFRIEND: It turns out that my boyfriend is as oblivious in a digital world as he is
in real life.
That little digital tramp Naomi kept coming around day after day to our house and asking
to come in, and of course he didn't get it.
In the real world I spot when women are attracted to him at social events we go to, and he is
always completely oblivious.
In hindsight, it did take him a while to realize just how in love I had become with him when
we started dating.
I decided that our sims needed new people in their lives, as in non-Naomi people, so
I organized another house party.
He said I had to invite Naomi because we only knew like six other sims, so I agreed- on
the condition that I got to invite Darren, the gym trainer my sim had met.
He got kind of annoyed but said I could invite Mr. Dumb-Ponytail.
To pick up his spirits though I had my sim flirt with him at the party, and I swear his
in-game reaction to being flirted at couldn't have been more realistic.
He really is as goofy and idiotic in real life.
Especially in public.
Then we let our sims go on autopilot again, just to see what they would end up doing.
I almost peed my pants when his sim started dancing to the radio in the middle of the
party, because he really does dance that nerdy in real life.
Then my sim decided to go dancing with him and... ok, my sim is not a very good dancer
either.
But I swear I am a much better dancer in real life!
BOYFRIEND: After our second house party Naomi came over again- literally the very next day.
I decided, screw it, I'll be a little flirtatious- specially because she was definitely being
that way towards my sim.
Next thing I knew, we were on a day-date, which is totally different than a real date
by the way.
I had to explain that one to the girlfriend a few times.
Day dates are just, you know, friendly.
Not romantic.
Either way, our day date to the museum didn't end up going very well.
I guess I told too many gross jokes.
Either way, pretty sure Naomi wasn't into me anymore after this date.
GIRLFRIEND: If he got to go on a date, then I told him that I got to go on a date.
So I did.
I called up Darren and invited him on a 'day date', which by the way, is a real date.
I don't care what certain people say.
We went to the bar/nightclub and I guess the two sims had a pretty good time.
At one point Darren held my sim's hands, and I know this is not real, but this was the
moment that I started feeling bad about the whole thing.
In a weird way it just felt wrong.
I know they are just digital characters, but I could not shake the feeling of gross that
I immediately got for this Darren sim.
Like any girl, I get propositioned by guys occasionally, and I hate to say it, but this
Darren sim really reminded me of the worst type- the overly confident wanna-be alpha
males.
This is the type of guy that wants to ask for your number when you are grocery shopping
and have your headphones on, blasting your music.
Or the type that when you tell them, “I am flattered but sorry, I have a boyfriend”,
they respond with, “I didn't ask if you had a boyfriend, I asked if you wanted to
hang out sometime.”
Gross.
So, so, so, gross.
Back to our sim life- I called the date off and went home, and then to make it up to his
sim I had my sim flirt with him a bit again.
BOYFRIEND: Ok, things got serious in this digital world when her sim went on a date
with Mr. Awful Ponytail.
I decided it was time to turn up the heat, I had to win my girl.
You can't just jump straight to asking someone on a date though, so I decided our sims should
have a friendly hang out, and I took her to the park to play chess.
I beat her because I had the higher logic stat- both in-game and real life by the way-
and then we went fishing together.
After a successful friend outing, I knew it was time- so I asked her sim out on a date
the next day, and she said yes!
To be perfectly honest, I was a little afraid she would say no.
I don't know if I could've handled being rejected by my girlfriend's digital avatar- specially
if it had anything to do with stupid Ponytail-face.
But no, she did not reject me, and we went back to the park for a moonlit stroll and
get-to-know each other.
Then, well the dialogue option let me try for a first kiss, so I went for it.
GIRLFRIEND: The first kiss was the most adorable thing I have ever seen.
And of course he had not been taking care of his sim's toilet stat so as soon as our
sims kissed his ran off to go pee!
If you knew anything about my boyfriend you would know that this is typical.
BOYFRIEND: After our first kiss our sims got flirtatious with each other, and after my
sim tried to be romantic and hold her hand, her sim bopped mine on the belly and then
made a chicken impression.
Honestly, this game is pretty realistic.
GIRLFRIEND: So a few days of our sims officially being boyfriend and girlfriend and they started
sleeping in the same bed together, which would have been really cute and romantic if his
stupid sim's walking animation was not set to being a creepy vampire.
The worst part is he has taken to doing that in real life and I told him if he does not
cut it out I am going to make him sleep alone from now on.
BOYFRIEND: Our sims are an item now, so I sold the bed in her bedroom and turned her
room into an exercise room.
Also Naomi has been calling my sim on the phone non-stop and even showing up at the
front door, and it's officially all kinds of weird.
I learned that you can lock the door for certain sims, so... sorry Naomi, but you know, I've
moved on.
You should too.
Also my sim drew a portrait of us two and well, his art skill needs serious improvement.
I worked on upping that romance stat and knew what my sim had to do next- propose.
So I asked her on a date back to where we had our first date, found a nice quiet spot
by some trees, and popped the question.
Honestly, I don't know why I still got so nervous when my sim was going to propose,
but I was legitimately worried her sim would say no or something.
I'm still haunted by that stupid pony-tailed sim, but you know what?
She said yes.
So eat that, pony-tail face.
Our sims are now engaged, only one thing left to do- a wedding.
GIRLFRIEND: The proposal was really, really cute.
I was not around for it so I had to watch the video of it after the fact, and it was
adorable.
In the real world, both of our parents bug us constantly about marriage, but especially
his mom.
We have had to explain to them all that we plan on spending the rest of our lives together,
but just don't need a big ceremony or a government certificate to prove it.
Growing up I was never the little girl that dreamed of her big wedding, and I don't see
what the big deal is.
Next thing our sims did though was get married, which again, was really cute.
Except of course he picked the wedding venue to be a kid's park, in front of a giant toy
rocket because as he put it, “You are out of this world!”
Honestly, he really is an idiot.
After our sims got married he told me he was done with the job, and I was a little sad
to see our time with these two sims be over.
I have really gotten attached to those two, and it has been really adorable watching them
go through the stages we went through in our own lives when we started dating.
But I was confused too because his assignment was to make the perfect life in The Sims.
When I asked him, he just looked at me and said, “I married my dream girl, my sim life
is officially perfect.”
I know my boyfriend can be a huge goofball and/or an idiot occasionally, but sometimes
he says things so sweet I can't help but want to happy-cry.
And most of the time he doesn't even realize what he said, and that is what I love most
about him.
The sweetest, most genuine things come out of his mouth without thinking, and I know
that is how he really feels inside about me, about us.
I told him that since Infographics gave us a copy of The Sims for this challenge that
he should not delete it, I think I want to keep exploring these two sim's happy little
married life together.
BOYFRIEND: Ok, challenge complete.
As far as I'm concerned, I did it.
And the best part?
I got stupid gym douche pony-tail face right there at the wedding.
That's right, I got the girl, now go home and cry into your stupid little ponytail.
What would your dream Sim life look like?!
Tell us in the comments!
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