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Cake day: March 4th, 2026

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  • I would def try out the base game first before committing to purchasing any expansions or kits. Even though the game is old, EA keeps those expansions at full cost. There’s been enough added that it should scratch the itch and give you an idea if you want to invest in more.

    The expansions I would recommend first are Seasons and Get Together - adding weather and holidays helps with immersion and being able to have clubs and control how sims hang out more is a plus. Life & Death and Growing Together are great expansions for fleshing out interpersonal relationships and getting really unique sims.


  • I play with a bunch of expansions and kits.

    The biggest disappointment with Sims 4 is that originally it was being designed to be online-only - similar to Sim City which was a huge disaster and the fanbase got PISSED. So they backtracked and released Sims 4 with a bunch of things stripped from it and it felt really empty.

    Over the years, the base game has definitely gotten better. There’s more unique playstyles that are possible, they added some life states, a bunch more for building, etc. It’s worth it to give it another shot since the base game is free now (I think?).











  • While celebrated in her lifetime, Leyster was quickly forgotten after her death. A posthumous inventory attributed some of her paintings to “the wife of the deceased”, referring to her artist husband, Jan Miense Molenaer. Then she disappeared. Her works were attributed to Frans Hals, other male contemporaries, or, simply, “unknown master”. Those paintings under her name were little esteemed. In the 1970s a major US museum sold one; other institutions left her work unseen in their vaults.

    Now the painter, who has been enjoying a revival for some time, is back in the spotlight, one of more than 40 female artists who worked in the Low Countries during the baroque period to be featured in a new exhibition.

    I love that they’re being brought back now! Such a shame that these womens’ works were attributed to men once they passed, but it’s relieving that we can recover some of that history.