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# Pregnant Sims can no longer "Brawl," and other hilarious patch notes from The Sims
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/pregnant-sims-can-no-longer-brawl-and-other-hilarious-patch-notes-sims/
- Published: 2013-02-13T21:30:34.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:57:07.000Z
- Description: People often ask why games aren’t more ambition with in terms of scope. The reason is because things break. A lot. – – – Even with games that give you a good deal of agency, like Mass Effect or The Walking Dead, your path always pivots back into an overarching throughline. And when I profiled Ivan
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, glitches, Humor, sim city, The Sims, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

People often ask why games aren’t more ambition with in terms of scope.

The reason is because things break. A lot.

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Even with games that give you a good deal of agency, like *Mass Effect* or *The Walking Dead*, your path always pivots back into an overarching throughline. [And when I profiled Ivan Belanszky for Issue 6](http://shop.killscreendaily.com/products/issue-6-change?ref=killscreen.com), who has been working on the open-ended RPG *Newcomer* for around twenty years, mostly trying to eradicate thousands of bugs, it became obvious how the complexities can quickly multiply towards infinity.

So when you create a living, breathing ecosystem with millions of potential combinations, there are sure to be couple, um, outlier. And that’s what’s makes these patch notes from dollhouse simulator *[The Sims](http://flatluigi.tumblr.com/post/41443795900/did-you-know-how-hilarious-the-patch-notes-to-the-sims?ref=killscreen.com)*[ so absurdly moving](http://flatluigi.tumblr.com/post/41443795900/did-you-know-how-hilarious-the-patch-notes-to-the-sims?ref=killscreen.com):

> • A faint line is no longer visible on the heads of babies.  
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> • Fish are no longer duplicated in the fridge when moving homes.  
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> • Sims can no longer “Try for Baby” with the Grim Reaper.  
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> • Sims who are on fire will no longer be forced to attend graduation before they can put themselves out.  
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> • Children and Teens can no longer die from motive failure while on a Time Out.  
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> • Pianists will no longer continue playing pianos that have been detonated.  
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> • Sims will no longer receive a wish to “Skinny Dip” with Mummies.  
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> • Pregnant Sims can no longer “Brawl.”  
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> • Sims can no longer WooHoo in the Elevator with a Sim who is on a different floor.  
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> • Fixed an issue that caused Sims to leave their Toddler inside a bar at closing time.  
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> **• The Grim Reaper will no longer be prevented from reaping souls due to band affiliation.**  
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> • Kleptomaniac Sims can no longer steal Subway stations from lots.  
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> • Fixed a tuning issue so that Sims now vomit at acceptable levels.  
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> • The magical laundry bear Abracadabra will no longer block Sims from moving after disappearing  
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> • Tourist NPCs can now be impregnated.

Hear that, *Sims* players? Your Sim will no longer be persecuted for being a metal band. But his parents will still disapprove of it.