I Think The Pleasant Twins Look So Cute

I think the Pleasant twins look so cute <3

✨💖 Stan Dina 💖✨

I was setting up the DeBateaus and one of the slobs move into the apartment building. How is Grayson affording this place? lol

(Also if you noticed that I haven't put in the sky or the skyline in Belladonna yet... ✨No you didn't✨)

I've had Don woohoo Nina + Dina. And now he's started a fling with Melissa. Good thing she's also a romance sim. So there isn't another of Don's lovers we have to worry about getting jealous when he's being... well Don .

📅 What's with the March 2005 Tag? 📅

In my game I have dates, each rotation lasts an in game month. I will be tagging gameplay with the in game month and year so that in the future I will be able to look back at what happened in a certain round.

This first round takes place in March, 2005. March because it's the first month of spring and I like to start in spring. 2005 because Bella is said to have disappeared in the summer of 2004, and I want it to have been a little while since her disappearance.

Plus I just like the early-mid 2000s. :)

She is simultaneously star-struck and stunned, because A. She's a big Bella fan and GirlBoss Icon Bella Goth wants to be Besties! And B. A renowned missing woman just casually called her up to foil her get rich quick scheme and take back her hubby. What's a girl to do?

Dina:

This reminds me of that whole Mandela Effect thing that trended. Where people thought a more reasonable explanation to why some things were different to how they remembered them is because our reality had swapped with a different timeline were things were different.

Instead of you know.. misremembering.. especially visual memories... because our brains aren't cameras and memories are stored as concepts. And our memories our scientifically proven to be VERY unreliable, because our brains are always looking for shortcuts for processing and recalling.

Also you know... schemas being a thing... were depending on your environment and the media you're exposed to, you begin to associate different concepts and traits with each other. Like birthday parties + cakes or eggs + spring or you know... moustache + top hat + monocle.

Also with the classic example of the eponym himself. If Nelson died in prison in our "original timeline". Then who was the president of South Africa between 1994-1999?? Because the people who believed in the whole Mandela Effect thing always seem to fail to mention that in this timeline Mandela became president after he was released. So the people who "shifted over" from our original time line remember Berenstain vs Berenstain but not one of them know how was the president of South Africa in those years?? NO ONE who shifted over lived in South Africa??

Believing you changed realities rather than believing that you misremembered something is already impressively egocentric enough. But the cherry on top of it all was seeing mostly white American teens and young adults, when confronted with the fact that they misremembered a key aspect of recent African history, instead of being like "Oh oops I must have got that mixed up, my bad" instead go "Oh MuSt HaVe ChAnGeD TiMeLiNeS BeCaUsE tHaT DeFiNiTeLy hApPeNed!!!!🤡🤡🤡". I don't blame the teens so much because cringe is in their nature, it's what your teen years are for. (Not me saying "the teens" like I'm grown when I just turned 20 last month) But being an adult and believing/spreading that?? (Slain "Blackface" Dalton 👀)

Anyway rant over, that's been bothering me since 2017 and those posts just reminded me of it. There's a concerning trend of tweens online being pulled into conspiracy theories, the whole idea that what's real is just how you perceive things to be or what you want things be, over what is actually proven to be and just a whole anti-scientific view of the world in general.

I’m glad ppl on tiktok are doing ok