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HOW MY BOYFRIEND RUINED MY
FAMILY
By Harrie Bailey

By Harrie Bailey
On my annual launch of The Sims 3, the same routine applies each time:
create family, motherlode, motherlode, make out, try for baby.

F

rom this, you can obviously

was time to progress on expanding

from outside the hospital (because

tell that the possibility of your

the Bailey family. This didn’t take

of course we have to keep our

characters being able to search the

long to put into action after my

characters privacy under lock

newspaper for first time jobs and

realisation that I’d forgotten to set

by denying us vision inside the

climb the social scale doesn’t really

my Sims age to “Young Adult” and

hospital), and soon enough my

appeal to me. Decorating and fitting

that they would be turning to elders

sim popped out with a baby girl

my characters mansion with the

in just fourteen Sim days, which

after a somewhat unrealistic

most expensive electronics is the

only accounts to five real life hours.

labour time of one minute.

peak of my Sims 3 experience, this

A few evident occasions of morning

Seeing the joy on my face when

was further heightened when I was

sickness later, I received the heart-

my Sim left the hospital with a baby

confronted with the option to use my

swelling notification that it was

of my desired gender, the boyfriend

new selection of “high end loft stuff”.

time to take my Sim to hospital.

decided to whack his hand down

After an hour and a half of

I called my slightly bored and

on the keyboard and with a not-so-

dedicated renovating (and a not-

unenthusiastic boyfriend over

mutual decision, we had our baby’s

so-happy boyfriend left to fend for

to the computer to watch the

name, srg2346urdfg. (Luckily, EA

himself on The Walking Dead), it

emotional experience unravelling

must have had me in mind when

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