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  • [jazzed-out jazz music]

  • Finally, a stuff pack that’s precisely what I always wanted!

  • The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff, where your sims are shrunk down to a fraction of the size

  • due to a mishap involving a baseball and a broken window, and then -- what?

  • -It's about tiny homes. -Aw man really?

  • I guess that makes more sense, sigh.

  • All right so yeah, the pack’s called Tiny Living Stuff, but instead of awesome shrunken

  • adventures, it’s all about living in a relatively undersized home.

  • It costs $10 and is the sixteenth Sims 4 stuff pack to date good grief what the balls.

  • And I gotta say, even though I’d be way more into a pack about miniaturized sims,

  • I was still intrigued by Tiny Living here.

  • Because yeah man, I’ve been rather tiny-curious for years now, immediately sucked into all

  • the YouTube channels and reality shows focusing on the Tiny House Movement.

  • And the whole idea is to make the most out of a small space, rejecting the concept of

  • buying a multi-thousand square foot home.

  • I myself live in a house that’s about 800 square feet or 74 square meters, and while

  • objectively nottiny,” it’s certainly a lot smaller than I couldve chosen and

  • that was very much on purpose.

  • I’ve enjoyed the challenge of trying to make the most of the space I have without

  • piling a million things on top of each other, so the chance to do so virtually in

  • the The Sims 4 is absolutely my cup of nitro cold brewed coffee.

  • The first thing youre greeted with on installing Tiny Living Stuff

  • is a message about living in a tiny house and stuff.

  • A pre-made tiny home has been provided to plop down anywhere you like, acting as an

  • example of what exactly constitutes a tiny home in The Sims 4 universe.

  • In case youre unaware, a real life tiny house is generally considered to be one under

  • 37 square meters or 400 square feet.

  • This example home in The Sims 4 is composed of 32 tiles, and if we assume each tile is

  • a square meter, then weve got 32 square meters or 350 square feet, a bit below that

  • of a tiny house IRL.

  • However, Tiny Living Stuff lays out three different tiers of tiny house, each with its

  • own perks and requirements.

  • The smallest being the Tier 1 “Micro Homeat up to 32 tiles in size, Tier 2 is a “Tiny

  • Homeat up to 64 tiles, and Tier 3 is a “Small Homeat up to 100 tiles.

  • The most fascinating aspect of these tiered home sizes is that when you meet the requirements

  • on a lot designed as a Residential Tiny Home,

  • youre provided a number of generous rewards for living there.

  • Things separate from lot traits, like faster learning, greater comfort, happier sims, healthier

  • plants, and better relationships.

  • So the less you do with doing more, the more youre rewarded for doing more with less!

  • Er, by that I mean that, as of now, there’s incentives to go small and a kind of odd punishment

  • for having a huge house.

  • Makes me wonder if theyll balance it out with a mansion-focused pack in the future.

  • Heck they could even call it The Sims 4 LivinLarge, I’d be down with that.

  • Anyway yeah, this is a stuff pack packed with stuff so let’s unpack it and stuff!

  • First is an allotment of hair, accessories, and clothing for pretty much everyone this

  • time around, including the younginz.

  • Fitting right in with the overallhyggetheme of living in a warm little cozy home,

  • there’s a bunch of warm, cozy attire.

  • Regardless of how much I want some of those sweaters for real though, that’s just the

  • garb and garment goods.

  • Let’s get onto the main event, kicking off with an assortment of single-tile desks and

  • tables, suitable for all manner of desking and tabling.

  • Followed by a few decorative yet functional items, including a lamp, readable books, and

  • lighttable candles in a cluttered tray.

  • Three chesty wardrobe shelving type things for holding various objects and clothing.

  • A patterned rug for plopping down in the middle of the backyard or wherever.

  • A pretty standard toilet and a sink that handily works off-the-grid.

  • Two TVs, one standing and one that attaches to a wall, each pulling quadruple duty by

  • also acting as a display shelf, a bookcase, and a stereo.

  • Various other wall-mountable items are here too, including a mirror, a door, two shelves

  • of random thingies, four potted plants strung together, and a plant-inspired piece of artwork.

  • Three sets of hanging light bulbs, each with their own varying degrees of droopiness.

  • An ottoman, that isn’t an ottoman I guess, since it’s a pouffe?

  • Whatever it is cats love it.

  • There’s also a standard bed and a standard loveseat.

  • As well as this lamp that should provide storage space according to its description, yet it’s

  • totally unusable as such. It’s just a lamp.

  • Seriously, why tout its supposed dual purpose as a shelf

  • and then make it so you can’t set anything on it?

  • At least it makes for decent kindling, so I guess it does serve a second purpose after all.

  • And finally, you also get three new chairs, although two of them are slightly confusing at first.

  • This dining chair doesn’t actually function with the new dining table.

  • For that you have to use these high chairs, and once I realized that it was pretty awesome,

  • letting me really cram in a buncha seating in a super small space.

  • Finally, the headlining new items of the Tiny Living pack are Murphy Beds,

  • with and without a built-in loveseat.

  • And at first this seems pretty useful, since you can fold them away when not in use and

  • those wardrobe shelving units attach to the sides for a clean-looking modular design.

  • But really, Murphy Beds are... confusing.

  • While I applaud the addition of new sleepytime snuggle zones, the usage of them in this pack

  • doesn’t make much practical sense.

  • For one, they require the exact same 3x2 tile floor space as a normal bed.

  • You get a loveseat on one of them, sure, but it still leaves tiles of unusable space underneath.

  • And since sims can’t get into bed from the front, only the sides, you need another set

  • of tiles off to the left and right at least half a tile wide.

  • The worst part though is this stupid animation that plays out far too often, where sims try

  • to pull down the bed then fail in spectacular fashion.

  • It’d be fine if it happened one out of every 20 times or something, but nope, sims fail

  • like every 3 or 4 times you open the dumb thing.

  • [bed fails, sim gets owned]

  • Making this worse is the fact that this far-too-frequent animation

  • comes with an unusually high risk of killing your sims!

  • bed fails, sim dies]

  • Now, okay, I’m all for new ways to take

  • out bothersome sims, that’s just good times.

  • ButDeath by Murphy Bedseems a bit silly, and again, it’s tied to an unskippable

  • animation that happens rather often.

  • Yes, there are now bed upgrade options in the game, accomplishing things like increasing

  • comfort and preventing it from getting stuck.

  • So you can alleviate the issue but still, I’d rather it wasn’t so prevalent to begin with.

  • And in my opinion, these repetitive slapstick failure animations

  • stopped being cute like fifteen packs ago.

  • So yeah, can’t say I’ll be using Murphy Beds in my tiny builds going forward, since

  • the way they work is annoying and their inclusion in this particular pack

  • is questionable in the first place.

  • Why not add them in the Discover University pack, that wouldve made a ton more sense

  • in my book, more so than a pack about itty bitty 32-tile houses.

  • I really think bunk beds wouldve been an ideal addition to the Tiny Living pack instead,

  • seeing as bunk beds actually do free up room, providing two beds in a single 3x1 space.

  • For that matter though, why not add better loft options?

  • Lofts are a staple of tiny home designs, and making them in The Sims 4 means adding a second

  • story with a cumbersome full-sized staircase.

  • Ladders are used all the time in real life tiny homes,

  • but nope, nowhere to be found in Tiny Living.

  • Even spiral staircases would be more space-efficient but those still aren’t a thing either.

  • For that matter, why not add steeper, narrower normal stairs?

  • Or at least provide some storage options underneath them, which again, is something that you see

  • all the time in actual tiny houses.

  • Not that it matters too much I suppose, since sims all have an infinite household inventory

  • that hides as many items as you like within a magic unseen void, hrm.

  • Still, while I’m on the topic of things I wish were included instead of murphy beds,

  • why not convertible futons or pull out sofa beds?

  • Under-the-counter mini fridges or in-wall ovens and microwaves?

  • How about portable induction cooktops?

  • Or over-the-sink shelf units and other kinds of stackable knickknack storage things?

  • Heck, composting toilets, solar power, and rain catchers wouldve been nice, seeing

  • as weve already got off-the-grid lots.

  • Instead we get cumbersomely large homicidal beds

  • and storage lamps that don’t store anything.

  • At least they took the time to add Baby Yoda to the game, so I guess that means it all

  • evens out in the end, right?

  • Heh, ahh now I’m just being grumpy, when in reality Tiny Living

  • is not the worst stuff pack by any means.

  • In fact, I think it’s one of the better ones for my playstyle.

  • It’s just that this daggone game’s been around for almost six years now, and after

  • sixteen stuff packs, I’m more than a bit fatigued.

  • There are a number of disappointing aspects to Tiny Living Stuff, no bones about it, and

  • I know theyve couldve added just a bit more in terms of useful objects and quality

  • of life improvements.

  • But they didn’t, and that’s just kinda how it goes, we all know that.

  • Still, I’ll personally be using a number of the items added here going forward, along

  • with building more tiny houses for the challenge it provides and the rewards it unlocks, so

  • you can glean from that what you will.

  • [gratuitous fiery sim death]

  • And if you enjoyed this look at the Tiny Living Stuff pack, then maybe check out my let’s

  • play that I did over on my other channel from what I was just playing this and getting my

  • thoughts together about the pack in the first place.

  • Or just stick around, there’s more videos coming up every week on this channel.

  • And as always, thank you for watching LGR!

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LGR--《模擬人生4》小小生活用品評測 (LGR - The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff Review)

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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