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One of my sims got really sad and got an imaginary sad friend dressed like a bunny. The imaginary friend stood in a doorway and cried so my sim couldn't leave the bathroom and just died because they were trapped in the room
Snitch chickens - something annoying in balder's gate 3: a rogue in your group steals something perfectly sneaky. They send the stolen stuff to the strong person in the group to avoid being overloaded, someone can see the strong person and inituits that they have stolen goods in their bag and accuses them of theft
Favorite self-made Sims story in recent memory is in Sims 4 with the Cottage Living expansion. I named foxes, rabbits, and chickens after different Game of Thrones characters and just watched their drama unfold while knitting from the porch in a rocking chair. The Stark foxes did NOT care for chicken Cersei. Not at all. I've also been playing since its inception(over 24 years now holy scrotum), and I still have the PC Gamer magazine somewhere with the original The Sims game review! Played all the old MAXIS games as well, like SimTown, SimTunes, and SimAnt. Freakin antlions, man... Thanks for another great video.
Reminds me a bit of the original Monster Rancher game on Playstation. If you mistreated your monster, it would bust up your ranch and run away. If you treated it badly enough, it would die, and curse your new monster, which you could fuse to get a ghost. Similarly, if you dropped the popularity of A Monol (a monster that looks like the monolith from 2001) it would get grafittied by fans, and you could fuse it to get a doodle
Riding with the dead body of a clown would be the worst. I would never be able to shake the feeling that it'll just get the fuck up and do something spooky.
19:00 The Sims has one of my favorite tropes: The Eldritch Clown Sunny the Tragic Clown can only be banished from your lot by making all your Sims *very* happy, calling the clown catchers (Men in Black types that chase the clown across the lot until they shoot him with a sci-fi trapping gun) Or you can catch the painting on fire. Sunny will burn *with* the painting Kingdom of Loathing has awesome clowns too. The Clownlord Beezelbozo is the boss (queen?) of a quest involving a fun house of horrible clowns.
(I have proof of this story to all those who won't believe it) - I once went to 'ffear fforest' in Wales for Halloween. And as you could obviously tell, there were clowns. My Mum is absolutely terrified of clowns, but I never got that trait. I found clowns to just be odd and funny. Basically what happened for me was the clowns would help you park up and they did just that. They helped my Dad to his parking spot in full clown uniform and my Mum was in the passenger seat. Next thing we see is a clown trying to get into someone else's car, so my Dad instinctively locked all the doors on the car with a push of a button. However as we had just been driving, he had accidentally unlocked the doors. I (sat in the back seat, currently eating Tesco sausage rolls), had my door opened by a clown and they tried scaring me, I just looked up at him calm as day, and said "Oh hey man, want a sausage roll?", to wit the clown took my sausage roll, ate it and just walked away confused as to what just happened. To sum up my point, if I were in a train carriage with either a clown or a body, I think I'd offer both a sausage roll and continue on my merry way.
Why is Karl saying he's ugly? He's handsome, funny, and successful. He seems like a great person to know, whether as a friend or lover. Also, 100% there's many Fact Fiend fiends who see him and think "would".
16:48 Those are some giant Guinea Pigs. 22:22 I distinctly remember watching my aunt play the sims 1, and the (ingame) computer cought fire. Now I put fire alarms above every single electronic because of that. A different is a personal story. Was playing the Sims 1 (no expansions) on the families old Win 95/98, computer, I was about 13-15 years old. I had just enabled the move anything/build anywhere cheat to sort things out on the lawn. Got a little curious and picked up the work vehicle. Suddenly boom! The game cd exploded into pieces! More or less destroying the old computer. Before I opend the cd tray, the game loading screen showed up in spanish, before I just shut down the computer and got hold of my parents. One can say that was my most traumatic gaming experience, and most costly one one as well, pre graduation. It has been many years since I last though about that incident. Has gotten me to be a lot more carefull with all of my CDs, incase that was the reason.
Sims was a place i never went down. I got it. Micro management of lil tiny people. But then i feel bad for tiny fake people and try to make weird stuff with owen piettes falling sand game.
I watched Will Wright's giving speech on his game, he said that he wanted to add illness since the first game came out, but it was hard to implement so he skipped it. Then came the first expansion that the team put that in without telling players, so evil. lol.
Me at 12:00 - Awh, even with the option to give in to the intrusive (potentially sadistic) urges allowed in The Sims 1, there is an adorable story to be heard years later. Me less than 40 seconds later - OH COME ON, NOT DIGIBAPH! Edit - To truly know what candid perversion The Sims allows, just watch Lets Game It Out's videos of The Sims 4. Heres a pre-emptive candle for Randy. 🕯 Edit 2 - My brother and sister-in-law have 5 guinea pigs who know, with unnerving timing, when their breakfast/lunch/dinner is and will absolutely let you know if you are late. I think I would rather the unidentified plague than their unambiguous judgement. They're not angry. They're angry AND disappointed.
Hey Karl, you dont have to age in sims... Go into settings & tweak aging rate. Pretty much stops time from killing you but everything else can still getcha lol
This was a fantastic discussion and since my earliest experience with The Sims was with the sequel, it was nice to learn more about some of the fun things within the original
@@AltonV I love those games where you can fall down a rabbit hole with them and even the frustrations of some technical limitations are worth it because of the experience it gives you.
I haven't actually played the sims in a while, but the last time I did I was actually running unethical experiments about the effects of the rodent plague such as how many times one sim can be infected and cured. What a great game
The only thing coming to my mind that could straight up top the U.N. would be on the ISS or something similar around earth worn by an Astronaut there. That or some future Moon base mission. The Shirt being worn on the outside somehow while being outside would be giving extra points (though it might also not be too good for said T-shirt, so... eh who knows) okay what else? Inside a fighter jet or a submarine, while doing kite gliding otherwise I think? Or also just while doing stunts in the air or doing impressive acrobatics with it... So what could top the U.N. ? Basically whatever the hell one thinks could top it I guess. More often than not just stuff that probably does involve doing some other extremely cool thing at the same time.
I was a circus performer. I’ve worked with many clowns, from painted face to Charlie Chaplin style…. The painted face ones were all creepy as fuck behind the paint. The Chaplins were the loveliest people
I don't know what Sims 1 your all talking about, I got my city nice and built then I accidentally hit the natural disaster button and godzilla destroyed half my city!
1 thing Im not so good at in the sims is making interesting stories, or rolling with what the game gives me I was playing sim3 supernatural 1 of my sims got loved charmed by a witch and I did all I could to "fix" it, instead of playing it out, like my second gen sim could have had a magical affair love child stepsibling and a reason to hate one of the nabours
I am… well aware of the rodent thing unfortunately, but am very curious as to how it can take 28 minutes to discuss. There has to be more to this and I am seated
To me, the main point of The Sims was to have multiple families interacting and to create replicas of real life clothing to make your Sims as accurate as possible. Sims 3 removed multiple families and the ability to create and import skins and clothing. So that was when I stopped playing.
MY ex-gf is a Massive Sims gamer. and she was very hardcore about it ofc. so when the Sims 4 Came out and she downloaded it illegally like any good gamer does. and started playing it. Anyhow, We're sitting in the living-room at the house we lived in at the time and I said. "Careful so you don't burn your Sim to death in the kitchen" Her response was, fuck you that's never going to happen. Literally 5min later, her Sim and the neighbor sim had Burned to death in the kitchen of her Sim house. she just sat there in a Semi-shock state not knowing what to do. because I had called it 5min before. Sims is some of the best games out there tbh. just for the comedic value alone.
I'm sure this is a very interesting video but unfortunately i am unable to watch and enjoy. Your guest's mic makes it sound like she's right inside my ear speaking and can hear a lot of those small mouth sounds. I am listening through earbuds and those sort of sounds are highly unpleasant for me. I am sorry, I'll still give a like
Lost my daughter (24) in just two days because of a sick pet. On Monday or Tuesday of her last week alive, she lost a pet rat, hamster, gerbil; we're unsure. On Thursday she says she's not feeling well. No one makes the connection. She said she felt run down. Friday is kind of a "meh" day for her. Saturday morning we take her to an after hours clinic (she walked in a little woozy, nothing we hadn't seen before). This is what most people do. Afternoon of day one, your child feels ill. They miss the next day of class. Morning of the third day (just two days after initial symptoms) you take your child to the doctor. The clinic cannot get a BP reading. She's rushed to the hospital. She's gone within an hour of arrival. By the time we knew she was seriously ill, it was too late to ask her about her past few days. Took the coroner 4 months of talking with the CDC, labs in New York, and the Louisiana School of Veterinary Medicine to only get close to what took her life. It was a bacteria that is common to rodents and typically non-lethal. Somehow, it got into her bloodstream and attacked every organ. She was 24. This video is kind of a reminder of that. I'm not complaining about this video. I'm cool with it. I'm just telling a related story of how a sick pet can actually take your life in two days. Killer Guinea pig kills you in two days? I wouldn't doubt it. PSA: Parents, buy term life-insurance on your children. 50-cents (USD) a month or less will get you great coverage. Your child will almost certainly age out of the insurance plan and outlive you by many years. However, for a pittance, you can rest knowing that should the unimaginable happen, you won't be crying at your child's coffin and wondering how you're going to pay for the funeral. That was a blessing for my wife and I. We could focus on our grief. We paid $14,890 for a funeral and used the $15,000 we got from the life insurance. It's a great relief to write a check for nearly $15,000 and say "whatever".
Shout outs to today's guest, N'jaila. A renowned human rights activist I brought on to talk about The Sims.
Check out - njrua.org/
Or donate here - givebutter.com/R1UHPf
Karl Karl Karl, don’t be so down on yourself, you’re a handsome fella.
Ya Karl, makes us real ugly mf feel even worse lol.
That's the gimmick
Karl I’m so glad you decided to bring fact fiend back, literally lights up my heart getting em on my homepage again
RIP Karl not knowing you can turn off ageing in the settings
Not in TS2, you can’t. You need to whip out cheats for that.
@@nekolalia3389 Aw man that’s a shame. I’ve only played ts3 and ts4 so I assumed it was throughout the whole series
One of my sims got really sad and got an imaginary sad friend dressed like a bunny. The imaginary friend stood in a doorway and cried so my sim couldn't leave the bathroom and just died because they were trapped in the room
Was your sim named Donnie Darko
Snitch chickens - something annoying in balder's gate 3: a rogue in your group steals something perfectly sneaky. They send the stolen stuff to the strong person in the group to avoid being overloaded, someone can see the strong person and inituits that they have stolen goods in their bag and accuses them of theft
I know Karl was just joking about himself being ugly, but i felt it when she didn't bother disagreeing.
Favorite self-made Sims story in recent memory is in Sims 4 with the Cottage Living expansion. I named foxes, rabbits, and chickens after different Game of Thrones characters and just watched their drama unfold while knitting from the porch in a rocking chair. The Stark foxes did NOT care for chicken Cersei. Not at all.
I've also been playing since its inception(over 24 years now holy scrotum), and I still have the PC Gamer magazine somewhere with the original The Sims game review! Played all the old MAXIS games as well, like SimTown, SimTunes, and SimAnt. Freakin antlions, man... Thanks for another great video.
The unhinged product descriptions in the Sims is one of my favorite parts. It is interesting to find there are reasons behind some of them
N’Jaila is awesome! Great discussion as always, guess I need to get a guinea pig for my sims now
Glad yall are still actively making videos. Wish I had more time to catch up on them all
I'd expect this from Dwarf Fortress...okay I'll bite, hopefully the guinies don't.
“Caribbean tradition broken by pet rock”
The discord notifications in the background got me a few times...
Reminds me a bit of the original Monster Rancher game on Playstation. If you mistreated your monster, it would bust up your ranch and run away. If you treated it badly enough, it would die, and curse your new monster, which you could fuse to get a ghost. Similarly, if you dropped the popularity of A Monol (a monster that looks like the monolith from 2001) it would get grafittied by fans, and you could fuse it to get a doodle
Riding with the dead body of a clown would be the worst. I would never be able to shake the feeling that it'll just get the fuck up and do something spooky.
I hope you realize you could upload yourself literally taking the piss and 20k people would still watch, much love glad ur back
Someone get in contact with any of your astronaut friends at NASA. We need to get a Fact Fiend shirt into space.
19:00
The Sims has one of my favorite tropes: The Eldritch Clown
Sunny the Tragic Clown can only be banished from your lot by making all your Sims *very* happy, calling the clown catchers (Men in Black types that chase the clown across the lot until they shoot him with a sci-fi trapping gun)
Or you can catch the painting on fire. Sunny will burn *with* the painting
Kingdom of Loathing has awesome clowns too. The Clownlord Beezelbozo is the boss (queen?) of a quest involving a fun house of horrible clowns.
(I have proof of this story to all those who won't believe it) - I once went to 'ffear fforest' in Wales for Halloween. And as you could obviously tell, there were clowns. My Mum is absolutely terrified of clowns, but I never got that trait. I found clowns to just be odd and funny. Basically what happened for me was the clowns would help you park up and they did just that. They helped my Dad to his parking spot in full clown uniform and my Mum was in the passenger seat. Next thing we see is a clown trying to get into someone else's car, so my Dad instinctively locked all the doors on the car with a push of a button. However as we had just been driving, he had accidentally unlocked the doors. I (sat in the back seat, currently eating Tesco sausage rolls), had my door opened by a clown and they tried scaring me, I just looked up at him calm as day, and said "Oh hey man, want a sausage roll?", to wit the clown took my sausage roll, ate it and just walked away confused as to what just happened.
To sum up my point, if I were in a train carriage with either a clown or a body, I think I'd offer both a sausage roll and continue on my merry way.
The sims franchise is so weird but we love it 😂😂😂 great vid!!
4:31 HOORAY, DIGITIL EUGENICS!
Why is Karl saying he's ugly? He's handsome, funny, and successful. He seems like a great person to know, whether as a friend or lover. Also, 100% there's many Fact Fiend fiends who see him and think "would".
Yeah I feel like talking about the looks of a youtuber is a bad road to go down in general, but I have to agree he's crazy to say that lol
@@renfish fair point, I just worry when I see others also dealing with self loathing issues, even if it's minor
I'm gonna go with it probably being due to his British self-deprecating humour. It's part of our culture that we are often the butt of our own jokes.
16:48
Those are some giant Guinea Pigs.
22:22
I distinctly remember watching my aunt play the sims 1, and the (ingame) computer cought fire. Now I put fire alarms above every single electronic because of that.
A different is a personal story.
Was playing the Sims 1 (no expansions) on the families old Win 95/98, computer, I was about 13-15 years old.
I had just enabled the move anything/build anywhere cheat to sort things out on the lawn.
Got a little curious and picked up the work vehicle.
Suddenly boom!
The game cd exploded into pieces! More or less destroying the old computer. Before I opend the cd tray, the game loading screen showed up in spanish, before I just shut down the computer and got hold of my parents.
One can say that was my most traumatic gaming experience, and most costly one one as well, pre graduation.
It has been many years since I last though about that incident. Has gotten me to be a lot more carefull with all of my CDs, incase that was the reason.
Sims was a place i never went down. I got it. Micro management of lil tiny people. But then i feel bad for tiny fake people and try to make weird stuff with owen piettes falling sand game.
I watched Will Wright's giving speech on his game, he said that he wanted to add illness since the first game came out, but it was hard to implement so he skipped it.
Then came the first expansion that the team put that in without telling players, so evil. lol.
5:49 why does it sound like Gohan😭
Fuck yes
Me at 12:00 - Awh, even with the option to give in to the intrusive (potentially sadistic) urges allowed in The Sims 1, there is an adorable story to be heard years later.
Me less than 40 seconds later - OH COME ON, NOT DIGIBAPH!
Edit - To truly know what candid perversion The Sims allows, just watch Lets Game It Out's videos of The Sims 4. Heres a pre-emptive candle for Randy. 🕯
Edit 2 - My brother and sister-in-law have 5 guinea pigs who know, with unnerving timing, when their breakfast/lunch/dinner is and will absolutely let you know if you are late. I think I would rather the unidentified plague than their unambiguous judgement.
They're not angry. They're angry AND disappointed.
Truly wonderful stuff, appreciate yall 🫰🫰 be well, N'jaila!
Hey Karl, you dont have to age in sims... Go into settings & tweak aging rate. Pretty much stops time from killing you but everything else can still getcha lol
New idea for avoid social interaction: just go everywhere dressed as a clown
Welp, time to go to Mount Everest wearing Fact Fiend merch
This was a fantastic discussion and since my earliest experience with The Sims was with the sequel, it was nice to learn more about some of the fun things within the original
I have played the first one. The loading time was atrocious on our computer, but that didn't matter because the game was so good
@@AltonV I love those games where you can fall down a rabbit hole with them and even the frustrations of some technical limitations are worth it because of the experience it gives you.
@@pattycakesgrr7394 I absolutely loved the makin' magic expansion. It's literally a rabbit hole to access the magic world
I haven't actually played the sims in a while, but the last time I did I was actually running unethical experiments about the effects of the rodent plague such as how many times one sim can be infected and cured. What a great game
18:20 It took me this long to realize the discord notifications were in this video. I kept going back and checking and it was driving me nuts.
In the Sims 3 and 4 (I don't know about 2) you can turn aging off in the settings
The only thing coming to my mind that could straight up top the U.N. would be on the ISS or something similar around earth worn by an Astronaut there.
That or some future Moon base mission.
The Shirt being worn on the outside somehow while being outside would be giving extra points (though it might also not be too good for said T-shirt, so... eh who knows)
okay what else? Inside a fighter jet or a submarine, while doing kite gliding otherwise I think? Or also just while doing stunts in the air or doing impressive acrobatics with it...
So what could top the U.N. ? Basically whatever the hell one thinks could top it I guess. More often than not just stuff that probably does involve doing some other extremely cool thing at the same time.
Karl you are not ugly that is crazy
I was a circus performer. I’ve worked with many clowns, from painted face to Charlie Chaplin style…. The painted face ones were all creepy as fuck behind the paint. The Chaplins were the loveliest people
As far as i know TS4 also has the rodent disease
this was too short. I was really enjoying is then it was over.....must have more
this video was recorded on my birthday (Jamaican independence day)
Karl coming in with another strong video
I can't believe he put in a clip from fucking Drag Me to Hell of all things. I love it.
As a Caribbean I can say that having a pet eating is true. Rip savanna the bunny
I’d stay in the subway car if it was a Harley Quinn cosplayer instead of a clown
The last fact fiend video I saw said it was ending
Good to see you again, funny video
My girl is a Sim fanatic, and she recently found a "mod" where the characters can have sexual relationships lol, it's hilarious
When did that get removed from the base game?
@@Seal0626 the mod probably expands on what is already in the game
@@Seal0626 He's probably talking about Wicked Whims, which makes the relations MUCH more graphic than the vanilla game.
Hell ya more fact fiend.
Love y’all!!!!
Hello fact fiend! Can u talk about john harvy kellogg?
I don't know what Sims 1 your all talking about, I got my city nice and built then I accidentally hit the natural disaster button and godzilla destroyed half my city!
I played a lot of Sims deluxe edition back in the day.
Rosebud my friends.
I clicked so fast
Oh my God I should not be watching this while eating food. I'm gonna laugh too hard And i'm gonna choke
Clown culture? You mean Twitter behaviour?
1 thing Im not so good at in the sims is making interesting stories, or rolling with what the game gives me I was playing sim3 supernatural 1 of my sims got loved charmed by a witch and I did all I could to "fix" it, instead of playing it out, like my second gen sim could have had a magical affair love child stepsibling and a reason to hate one of the nabours
N'jaila is apparently in the good books of Satan, but not her granddad.
off top of my head, only places that could top the UN, the white house, House of commons (in Houses of parliament), the ISS
I am… well aware of the rodent thing unfortunately, but am very curious as to how it can take 28 minutes to discuss. There has to be more to this and I am seated
I learned long ago, the only way to win the Sims is to just stop playing.
dragonballz
To me, the main point of The Sims was to have multiple families interacting and to create replicas of real life clothing to make your Sims as accurate as possible. Sims 3 removed multiple families and the ability to create and import skins and clothing. So that was when I stopped playing.
'the kind of story that could only happen in the sims' Lol I see you've never played Rimworld 😈
MY ex-gf is a Massive Sims gamer. and she was very hardcore about it ofc. so when the Sims 4 Came out and she downloaded it illegally like any good gamer does. and started playing it. Anyhow, We're sitting in the living-room at the house we lived in at the time and I said. "Careful so you don't burn your Sim to death in the kitchen" Her response was, fuck you that's never going to happen. Literally 5min later, her Sim and the neighbor sim had Burned to death in the kitchen of her Sim house. she just sat there in a Semi-shock state not knowing what to do. because I had called it 5min before. Sims is some of the best games out there tbh. just for the comedic value alone.
Bro you havnt been on my feed for a year or so, why is yt hiding you?
Karl my dude you’re pretty attractive
I'm sure this is a very interesting video but unfortunately i am unable to watch and enjoy. Your guest's mic makes it sound like she's right inside my ear speaking and can hear a lot of those small mouth sounds. I am listening through earbuds and those sort of sounds are highly unpleasant for me. I am sorry, I'll still give a like
Lost my daughter (24) in just two days because of a sick pet. On Monday or Tuesday of her last week alive, she lost a pet rat, hamster, gerbil; we're unsure. On Thursday she says she's not feeling well. No one makes the connection. She said she felt run down. Friday is kind of a "meh" day for her. Saturday morning we take her to an after hours clinic (she walked in a little woozy, nothing we hadn't seen before). This is what most people do. Afternoon of day one, your child feels ill. They miss the next day of class. Morning of the third day (just two days after initial symptoms) you take your child to the doctor. The clinic cannot get a BP reading. She's rushed to the hospital. She's gone within an hour of arrival. By the time we knew she was seriously ill, it was too late to ask her about her past few days. Took the coroner 4 months of talking with the CDC, labs in New York, and the Louisiana School of Veterinary Medicine to only get close to what took her life. It was a bacteria that is common to rodents and typically non-lethal. Somehow, it got into her bloodstream and attacked every organ. She was 24. This video is kind of a reminder of that. I'm not complaining about this video. I'm cool with it. I'm just telling a related story of how a sick pet can actually take your life in two days. Killer Guinea pig kills you in two days? I wouldn't doubt it.
PSA: Parents, buy term life-insurance on your children. 50-cents (USD) a month or less will get you great coverage. Your child will almost certainly age out of the insurance plan and outlive you by many years. However, for a pittance, you can rest knowing that should the unimaginable happen, you won't be crying at your child's coffin and wondering how you're going to pay for the funeral. That was a blessing for my wife and I. We could focus on our grief. We paid $14,890 for a funeral and used the $15,000 we got from the life insurance. It's a great relief to write a check for nearly $15,000 and say "whatever".
Sims 4 is terrible.