Entertaining Tales

  Bring your sims to life with Meaningful Stories’ redesigned mood and emotion system for The Sims 4. Shake up your gameplay with this subtle, but impactful mod: Roburky’s Sims 4 Meaningful Stories Mod! Now you can take control of how Sims’ emotions and moodlets function. In the end, Sims seem more realistic and their lives more meaningful. Meaningful Stories is a mod that makes Sims more realistic, adds variation to moodlets and emotions, gives depth to emotional traits, creates true happiness, and more! The more realistic they are, the bigger the challenge! This mod is not instantly noticeable, but it’s impact is substantial! Summing up, what we love about this mod is the depth it creates in the game. No more moods that bounce around constantly. Depressive episodes can last a week unless you do specific actions to stop it. Emotions like happiness don’t happen constantly and certain events can cause true happiness. Another subtle feature that we enjoyed is the effect of emotional ...

  The Bogey-Beast The Bogey-Beast  is a delightful fairy tale about how luck is all relative. From  English Fairy Tales , retold by Flora Annie Steel (1922), illustrated by Arthur Rackham. This story is featured in  Children's Stories . There was once a woman who was very, very cheerful, though she had little to make her so; for she was old, and poor, and lonely. She lived in a little bit of a cottage and earned a scant living by running errands for her neighbours, getting a bite here, a sup there, as reward for her services. So she made shift to get on, and always looked as spry and cheery as if she had not a want in the world. Now one summer evening, as she was trotting, full of smiles as ever, along the high road to her hovel, what should she see but a big black pot lying in the ditch! "Goodness me!" she cried, "that would be just the very thing for me if I only had something to put in it! But I haven't! Now who could have left it in the ditch?" And she l...

  ESTABLISHING SHOT EXT. APARTMENT COMPLEX - MORNING We reveal a nondescript apartment complex in North Hollywood California. It is not nice or ugly. It looks like every other pleasant -looking apartment complex in the valley. INT. APARTMENT - MORNING ANDY STITZER, a boyish looking forty year old man, is asleep. His clock radio goes off. It is playing oldies, which now consists of rock ‘n' roll from the mid eighties. MUSIC UP: "Heat Of the Moment" by Asia. Andy sits up in bed. Not happy, not unhappy, just another day. INT. LIVING ROOM - MORNING Andy is doing his morning workout. He is doing bench presses. He lifts an enormous amount of weight. His face is very kind, and vulnerable, almost emotionless, but his body is ripped. On a book shelf Andy has an impressive array of action figures and comic books, all in their original packaging, None of his vintage toys have been opened. EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - MORNING Andy steps out of his apartment and unlocks his bicycle. His ...