This is probably my depression talking…
The Sims Bunker began as a way to relieve extreme stress, anxiety, and depression from being a single mom in college, when the original “The Sims” game was released in 2000.
Because almost everything in the world has to be crappy in 2026, especially in the United States where The Sims is made, our beloved franchise has been sullied. Their parent company, EA (Electronic Arts), has been bought out or sold to Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law) and the Saudi fucking government for an astronomical amount of money.
Saturday, November 8th marks my 6th year participating in Extra Life Game Day, the day gamers around the world play video games for 24 hours straight to raise funds for children’s hospitals.
I think it’s important that girls & women play video games. Guilt & shame free. All girls & women. Even busy women & girls with homework. Even moms. Especially grandmas.
A few days ago, I decided to choose a Moody Family Cult household in Brindleton Bay that I hadn’t played yet, essentially starting from scratch. I had pre-made 13 families to move into the town originally and I felt like an easy challenge, so I chose Shelly Moody because she was a single Sim, living alone in a tiny house, and a single Sim is easier to manage than a whole family, especially when your whole town is off-the-grid.
I’ve done so much Simming the past 4 days that I’d love to show you a billion screenshots of, but unfortunately the super fast SSD drive I was using to run the game on and store screenshots, decided to start spitting errors at me instead of Sims, and I had to reformat it, losing all of 2024’s raw content!
We have a new logo! And I revamped the whole site to be more in line with what my original vision for it was! I’m very pleased with it so far! (But I wish I could get off of Twitter/X, still trying out alternatives. 😒)
I’m not sure what it is about warmer weather that makes me want to join a cult, but sure enough, as soon as it got nice enough to open the windows again, I got the itch to play and work on this challenge.
After walking away for a day because I was frustrated about the tub issue, I ended up getting on the Sims 4 Reddit Discord and asking them what to do because my Sims are forever gonna be stinky and unhappy without a bathtub.
So, obviously one of the rules of the challenge is that households are forbidden from purchasing anything from the plumbing category and someone in the family has to raise their Handiness skill to level 9 to be able to build a bath tub in order to fulfill the hygiene need.
