The Sims Online / FreeSO / Sim Nation and the rest - Are you kiki?

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→ Page One - The Big Drama ←
Page Two - People and Events of Interest
Page Three - Sim Nation and the Rest
Page Four - Select-A-Sim

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The Sims Online was a game that ran from the early 2000s through 2008. This online game is based upon The Sims, which is a life simulation where players assume the role of various people (known as sims) and guide them through the world as they develop a life, a home and relationships. The online version of the game includes hundreds of other real people; this means that interactions can be entirely open-ended and when combined with the slow burn of building your sim's resources and career, the game has its moments.

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This thread will largely focus on FreeSO (site - archive) and Sim Nation (site - archive); these are custom game clients released years after the original game shut down in 2008. The drama in these online communities is about what you would expect. Several of the players in this small universe of games have known each other for decades; marriages and divorces have come about and there are children in the world because of The Sims Online. The individuals who get really into it actually treat their online sim as a extension of their mortal self.

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The Five Ws

Who: Who plays The Sims Online? A lot of retirees and welfare recipients from all around the globe, a few wannabe streamers looking for a small pond to splash in and some random gamers are sprinkled in here and there.​

What: These games focus on social interaction and light competitive gameplay.​

When: The Sims Online completed its original run back in 2008. In 2015 a successor called FreeSO appeared which ran until December 2024, after which most of the community migrated to Sim Nation.​

Where: The Sims Online and FreeSO are done and in the books. Their servers have been turned off and we can no longer connect. But Sim Nation is a very popular alternative at the time of this posting. There are several other smaller custom servers as well.​

Why: Why do people play it? Probably to pass the time. The social nature of The Sims Online adds a clear addictive component though.​

How: Good question. Check out the FreeSO GitHub repository for yourself and get the information direct from the source.​

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Acronyms

TSO: The Sims Online - online version of The Sims, defunct.​

FSO: FreeSO - very popular custom TSO client, defunct.​

SN: Sim Nation - popular custom TSO client, fork of FSO.​

Lots: The word "lots" refers to a player's home or their parcel of land.​

Greening: Sims have needs, measured by a green indicator bar that turns red as it depletes. The process of "greening" is doing whatever actions are needed to refill your sim's needs.​

Skilling: When a sim is at a lot in order to increase their skill levels, it is known as "skilling".​

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Other Stuff
This thread was put together by a handful of players of these games. Contributions are welcome! But please ARCHIVE EVERYTHING! because the members of this community will delete fucking everything the moment they find out they're being talked about in an unapproved fashion. Getting involved is easy enough but be perfectly honest, doing so will likely require you to play the game, which will require time and a lot of autism.

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Growth
It is important to know the informal breakdown of the player base; the groups that formed during FreeSO have largely endured and carried over to Sim Nation. When we roll back the clock to examine The Sims Online, things are a bit murky. That said, a general analysis of that community based upon our collective memory leads to agreement on three essential topics:

The Sims Online​

• very tight-knit community
• extremely dysfunctional
• generally large enough for most of its life to hide the weirdness

The Sims Online was a strange place and attracted a lot of people. But massive online games were still new at this point in time, so there were many normal people looking to enjoy a new experience. Nowadays these sorts of games are a dime a dozen. Enter FreeSO, the free re-implementation of The Sims Online.

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• very tight-knit community
• extremely dysfunctional
• never achieved a large community or a popular following

The difference is subtle. Since the community was no longer large like it had been, it led to some standouts among its most dedicated players.

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Within FSO there are normal sorts of interpersonal drama, domestic arguments and addicts having outbursts between their NHS checks; but this community has ways of getting itself all twisted up into knots. The Sims is somewhat unique in terms of its reach: people of all ages play The Sims, which a huge number of older and retired individuals. Toss in a healthy dose of "political echo chamber" and garnish it with a liberal sprinkle of LGBT-plusses and we're sitting on a powder keg of trannies, alcoholic cat ladies and government sponsored autists.

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There are the common complaints which can be leveled toward the community's administrative team, as well as further blame to be placed at the feet of the community itself. Many of these people take their sims very seriously and their place in the community is a reflection upon how well they are doing in life.

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Leadership
To really understand why FSO became such a disaster area, we need to get to know the core of the leadership team. The lead developer and administrator is a man named Rhys Simpson, who mostly went by the handles Rhys, burger cop and riperperiperi; next was the community manager named Véliocasse; lastly is a moderator named Nodster. There were others, but these three ended up being the most common visitors on any given day.

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Whenever a moderation event or some kind of drama would crop up, a user could expect to be passed around the moderation carousel. First you would get notice of your pending punishment (oftentimes by regular users that were friends of the staff, not the staff themselves), then you could try to prove your innocence and then once the team was done toying around with someone a ban would be levied and the issue closed. This method of game administration persisted up until the end of FSO.

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The FreeSO moderators are quick to remind users that they are being given the service for free; something that picked up in frequency after the issues encountered with Electronic Arts over the team's mobile port of The Sims 1. Ultimately keeping their agreement with Electronic Arts proved to be the wise choice, but it clearly stung to be denied by EA over what was legitimately good work. For more information on this, see the Forks in the Road section in the third post.

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Community...?
Ultimately the players that remained settled into factions that we have categorized into three major groups, each with a lot of time on their hands:

• the people that love the game parts of the game
• the people that love the social parts of the game.

Each are fundamentally necessary for the entire ecosystem to work; after all, there is a semi-functional economy under the hood that is propped up by the players producing objects and selling them. But an equal portion of the game's players also find themselves drawn to the individuals they are interacting with. While most can function with this dichotomy, some just can't help themselves.

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The conflict between the two groups led to most of the "game" people going off to their own lots and playing the game amongst themselves. Which meant that the social butterflies all found themselves bottled up with one another against a backdrop of their hidden Discord channels. A noteworthy wrinkle within all of this balkanization of the FreeSO community were the religious people. Despite the game largely being a left-wing echo chamber, there grew a small but successful group of religious zealots that always had time to remind us that Christ is King.

But there was a third group made up of two sub-groups. A sort of two-part adhesive that holds everything together. This third group has caught the ire of the other two; and while the game players and the social players are at odds, they can mostly agree that the third group sucks donkey balls.

Spread Your Wings
Please say hello to Angel Mist:

If this woman weren't so completely bonkers she would be the most successful poster on The Kiwi Farms. Seriously. We've downloaded her Discord channel for you all to enjoy... enjoy [2.19GB]. Her dedication to smashing and stomping out all of the people that have wronged her and continuing to do so when she is pushing the age of 60 is downright impressive. She posts almost weekly and has done so for years in order to debunk and criticize anyone that crosses her. She has a community of followers that are all-in. Even after being banned from the game she only became more focused on the sins of the FSO people and their evil administrators. To that end, she would probably agree with some aspects of this OP. However, Angel Mist wants you to know that she's onto you and knows your tricks. Think this is a joke? She has lore and lingo about this forum and uses this forum's existence as a means to further denigrate her trolls and detractors.

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What Angel is describing is a covert group of trolls that call themselves "Kiki" and they have modeled themselves after The Kiwi Farms in order to terrorize the game her. Look at this Discord menu and understand that each category is chock full of weekly posts and Bible analysis to convey the seriousness of the demonic fervor overtaking FSO. She even brings up the Cloudflare drama in her rants.

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Angel Mist is the sort of player that spent literal months worth of time building up her sim and cultivating relationships and otherwise being a valued member of the community. Then she decided to run for mayor of her neighborhood... uh oh. And after her victory, she took to the neighborhood community lot that she now had control over and built a really cool town hall. Yeah it's actually neat.

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Check that out! There's even a lighthouse. And none of this avalanche of success in any way went to Angel Mist's head. And it definitely didn't result in her losing re-election and having her lot design changed by the next mayor. And this definitely did not cause Angel Mist to go completely insane and get herself banned from the game entirely.

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The ban hit Angel pretty hard. She went on several tirades, recorded a bunch of podcasts and even engaged in some good old fashioned heart monitor posting. Not to say that Angel Mist isn't the only nutcase in the larger TSO community, but she archives it all. Thank you!!

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Even though this thread is not all about Angel Mist, she is a pivotal player in FSO; her name is known by nearly every person in the extended community. And as much as she may deny it, her attention-seeking nature has gotten her exactly what she wanted. She was a normal player and at some point in decided to start hosting and catering to other players. People in this position can become very prosperous but at the cost of their free time. If you want to get ahead in TSO, you're going to have to put a lot of work in; we're talking hours of sitting at the computer while you listen to lofi and snort Adderall... or maybe in Angel's case, listen to Christian rock and crack open a few bottles of gas station red.

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Once becoming mayor, the validation began to inflate her ego. The result was an extreme amount of paranoia about everyone and everything around her. Angel is absolutely certain that she is seeing symbols in the tea leaves.

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The first image shows the Angel Mist Rules, which are so-called procedures that the staff of FSO and their cronies abide by to bully Angel. She speculates that there are likely more rules than these, but she cannot dedicate the resources to figure out what they are. But there is proof, because after Angel Mist was doxed by her cat, several community members publicly endorsed a post about the existence of a bot designed to erase her posts... by clicking the thumbs up button. Ultimately Angel was banned for acting like a complete fool, but this only reinforced the conspiracy. And she still rants about it to this day. Let's check that out!

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Any good points that Angel has to make are totally overshadowed by her presentation, serving up accusations like fresh home cooking. Remember that town hall she built while mayor? And the lighthouse? Angel loves lighthouses. She has a whole subsection about them in her Discord. After she had lost the title of mayor and that title went to a player named Felicity, the lot was torn down and rebuilt. This was when Angel severed all connection with reality. And with her behavior becoming extremely annoying and disruptive, people became much less willing to give Angel the benefit of the doubt. Still, she persisted and actually became mayor again and took back the town hall from Felicity. The good guys had won!

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Like Angel says, it doesn't matter if you think her personality sucks. You can't ban her for it! And you're pushing her to LEVEL FUCKING FIVE. Hypertension city is straight ahead and it is all your fault. It doesn't matter how she treats you, only how you treat her and you had better figure that out sooner rather than later. Sadly though this story has a bad end. Because despite clawing back and becoming mayor of Spiral Cove once again, Angel Mist was struck down moments before completing her final great work, the last lighthouse.

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After all that, Angel got herself banned. No consolation prizes for that one. And ever since then she has stalked the community, looking for the people that wronged her and finding them everywhere. Angel Mist is a cautionary tale of what happens when you take a game way too seriously and don't have proper outlets for your energy and emotions in the real world. Check out her Discord if you want: you can obtain an archive of her Discord channel here (MEGA) [2.19GB].

A Date with Angel Mist​

Feel like livin' large? How about a house party? Or maybe you want to get ready for a hot date. In The Sims all of these things are possible. And today we can offer you the complete Angel Mist experience. Just grab a seat and take a listen.

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Don't worry, we are going to break these down one episode at a time. The one golden episode is marked in gold. If you have to listen to one, make it number eight.

1. Angel introduces us to David Webster and Vicky. Vicky is Angel's real life friend. They make a point to mention that none of them are a player named Malo. To briefly explain, there was a player named Malo that was very similar to Angel. The community thought that Malo was Angel and began going after them. Eventually Malo went postal and got banned.
2. We learn that a player named Lizbeth is Angel's daughter. They played during 2020. Angel dislikes Second Life, a positive point in her favour. She begins to talk about her in-game persona, describing Angel Mist as "me, but better than me." Angel was doxed on May 27, 2020 around the time she was suddenly ditched by her boyfriend Bigby, who was younger than her. Would you be surprised to learn that Angel, like so many other FSO players also has a real life partner? One in the game, one in real life.
3. After the dox, "large scale attacks" began and Angel was banned from many lots. She talks about wanting to move in with a player named Hella but that it fell through. His roommates did not like Angel. Despite these road blocks, Angel and her new roommate Zoe became number one. Angel dares you to ignore the bullies.
4. After closing her skill house and opening a welcome lot, the Milton drama began. Angel returned in 2023 after a break to do her thing. Angel claims that all was well until people said there was a fake feud between Angel and Felicity (another popular player). Angel also insists that "I earned that mayorship for her", suggesting that the only reason Felicity could become mayor in the first place was because of Angel. The lighthouse is torn down. Love dies. Angel is banned and she says you must read revelations... the channel in her Discord, not the book. She talks about clawing back after a ban, being mayor and then getting banned again. A petition goes out to find out why Angel was banned and gathers 40 signatures; FreeSO admin Nodster vows to investigate everyone on the list according to Angel.​
5. David talks about going into the Kiki Discords and trying to find out why they were stalkers. Angel cuts in and brings up someone named Xander, the person she believes is her doxer. People had blamed Hella for the dox, but Angel is certain that Xander is the culprit. This all happened just before Bigby mysteriously left her. Angel says that Hella was innocent. She wants you to read her Discord.
6. Angel told her friend Vicky about FreeSO for 12 hours on a road trip. Oh boy. The admins are out to get Angel's family. Vicky decides to start playing at some point and Angel mentions that Vicky is in direct contact with Malo, possibly to form an alliance. After Malo went nuts and got banned, Vicki also got banned. Angel reveals she works for Wal-Mart.
7. Vicky monitors the chats. She recounts several mean memes and jokes which you can see around the thread. They complain about Kiki and a guy named Emil getting Angel's age wrong, likely on purpose. The Bible says to obey authority unless it is abusive. Fight the power! Fight the FreeSO admins!!
8. Angel reaffirms that her friends are here for her. Angel then says that cyber bullying is rape. Yeah. Vicky jumps in and backs Angel completely. Angel starts to discuss how she ran a bed and breakfast and on the day she was banned from FreeSO she had a pair of guests asking her all sorts of questions. It is starting to sound like gangstalking at this point.
9. Vicky recounts going to a lot called The Piggy Bank and asking about Malo. Things turned into a complete shitshow and feelings are hurt. Angel is upset that someone posted her blood pressure pictures. If you listen to this part in the podcast you can hear how viscerally angry she is. Heart issues kill more than cancer so Angel is super special. As a Christian you need to apologize to the FSO admins.
10. Some talk about multi-simming. Admins use multi-sim bans as a easy way to get rid of people. Vicky says her banning was unfair, but funny. Angel says this proves how bad the admins were. Vicky goes on to discuss all of her alts... she is really into this. What is Vicky getting out of all of this? Angel brings up a player named Daniella who is long-thought to have inappropriate ties to moderator Véliocasse. Apparently Angel keeps records on every new person that joins, stalks people in the game while at work and takes screenshots whenever she can.
11. Audience questions. There is only one audience member, a former FreeSO staffer named ARIES_OPERATIONS. He says that they were banned because the staff didn't like them. He also says that of the staff, he was one of the only ones that actually worked and that the others were barely adults.
12. David says that the reason he is there is because Angel is a decent person in real life. He says it is up the the admins to find a resolution. Angel is the symptom, mismanagement of the game is the problem. They briefly talk about FSO admins banning people for discussing Sim Nation.

Hopefully you enjoyed your date with Angel. Now then, it is probably best to turn the coin over and see what lies on the other side. Angel is only one part of the third group of players. Prepare to meet Angel Mist's archenemies and the foot soldiers of Satan himself; this is the group known only as Kiki.
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Kiki are or were and may still be a group of FreeSO players that banded together and enjoyed talking about the people they played the game with. While the composition of the group has changed somewhat over the years, the main names that keep coming up are Annabelwatson, BrandonSJ, Coughin, DanK, Emil, Hoku and Sun; plus their own personal Brutus who is a guy named Hella. Their main targets of interest include players like Angel Mist, Milton, and the administrative staff of FSO.

To say the members of Kiki are obsessed with Angel Mist would be an understatement. These people spend hours coming up with theories about why Angel Mist is so crazy and following her around, cataloging her deeds. Several of the members of Kiki used to consider Angel Mist a friend, but that all changed when Angel Mist waited eight hours to disavow a pedophile instead of doing it after two hours like almost everyone else. And once that snowball started to roll, it never really stopped.

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Kiki are yet another collection of terminally-online individuals who each have dubious amounts of time or money and spend years complaining about a random alcoholic on the Internet. Though maybe the calls were coming from inside the house all along. Let's find out!

One big takeaway from Kiki is that they are a bunch of whiny brats that have no idea what they want. The early days of Kiki are of little note other than to say that DanK (that is Dan K) is largely considered the founder of the group. Users like Annabel, Coughin, Emil, Gurra and Hella are considered early entrants into Kiki, though after a falling out the user named Hella has become persona non grata; in fact if you scroll all the way up to the first post, one of the very first images in this thread lays out Kiki's opinion of Hella... something about a brick to the head. Lovely people. Cheers!

Jumping ahead we arrive at the Milton saga, which you can and should read about in post two. To quickly summarize, Milton was outed as a convicted sex offender and the FSO community found itself thrown into turmoil. Because Milton was close to Angel Mist, the members of Kiki focused in on her. Just how poorly did Kiki handle the fallout from the situation though? Well, considering these posts range in date from approximately May 2021 to... four days ago, take a fucking guess. But make no mistake, the members of Kiki are so tired and exhausted by all of this and just want Angel to leave them alone and stop bullying them!! First up is the letter A, so Annabel come on down!

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We're going to be playing a little game of Cluedo as we go down this list of Kiki people in hopes of figuring out FSO's most important and riveting question: who doxed Angel Mist? Get your paper and pencils ready!

Annabel Watson​

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Meet Annabel Watson. Maybe that is her real name. All we know is that when she isn't moonlighting as Belle from Beauty and the Beast, she is from New Zealand, has at least one sanpaku eye and is the quintessential girl of the group. She has been around since the start and her influence on the group is apparent, even if her post frequency is somewhat low. In public Annabel will happily carry on whatever crusade is placed in her lap while privately crying and whining about the mean words being sent her way.

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She has a good memory of TSO and her involvement with the original game is not in question. Annabel isn't so pathetic that she has to pretend she was there for the original game. One of the funny quirks of every custom TSO client is that everyone you ask was totally there for The Sims Online, for real no lies. If you ever decide to play one of these games, keep that thought in your mind.

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When the Angel Mist episode began, Annabel was in a prime position to take advantage of the drama. She is present in every chat. Just make sure you play nice or else there is going to be hell to pay. But also it is totally cool if Angel Mist catches COVID and fucking dies. There is an interesting duality within Annabel which is probably why she can look in two directions at once.

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Her direct contributions to Kiki beyond chatting are mostly mundane. She isn't the one that doxed Angel Mist, though her ability to keep confidential information secure is definitely in question. Apparently Annabel enjoys spending her time at work creating fake images of things in FreeSO... with client and employee information in clear view of the camera. Our sympathies go out to Cheryl Regan, but at least that 580,000 sale price is a winner; oh wait, those are New Zealand Dollars so the zeroes at the end are meaningless. It is okay though because Kiki has already been both exposed and dragged through the mud. These pictures are already out there... because she posted them.

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Enough laying into Annabel though. She's completely exhausted with the Angel Mist crap; so exhausted in fact that as of mid 2024 she is still talking about it and nearly self-aware. All of that despite the need for some serious rehab to wash away the taste of Angel. This will be a common theme with members of Kiki: a constant refrain of being "JUST DONE" with all things Angel, but an inability to shut the fuck up about her.

BrandonSJ​

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It's Brandon! Get used to this guy because he keeps showing up. His inclusion as a member of Kiki will probably catch many by surprise and he would definitely deny it. But if it complains like a member of Kiki and feels persecuted like a member of Kiki, it is probably Brandon.

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The dead giveaway of Brandon's malfeasance in FreeSO would be the number of "deleted user" accounts he leaves behind. Thankfully most of this Kiki stuff was archived, so piecing together which deleted users are which is a trivial task; moreover, the only two deleted users of any real note are Brandon and Aries_Operations and neither of them doxed Angel. The two images above prove enough but Brandon's identity will be re-confirmed in most subsequent images to keep things easy to understand.

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Brandon is not a founding member of Kiki but he is integral to most of its biggest moments; furthermore, Brandon was a major player within the game itself. Above we can see Zander complaining about Brandon starting problems within the Kiki server and that he was actually a part of Angel's crew. What makes this especially funny is that he kind of was a part of Angel's team but only after being forgiven by the woman herself. This was a huge mistake on Angel's part because as long as she kept Brandon around, information continued to leak out and nothing ever seemed to go right. Indeed within the Kiki servers Brandon also caused ripples of chaos every time he made an appearance. Let us now explore the many facets of BrandonSJ.

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On the left we have Brandon attacking Angel in the Kiki server. During this exchange the members of Kiki were arguing with Angel's attack dog and on-again off-again simp, DavidJWebster. Their discussion surrounds the events of the Milton saga and Angel Mist's slow denunciation of Milton. Brandon, not being one to miss out on some good drama spent a lot of time in the Kiki servers during this period. Like Brandon says, "pedos stick together"... birds of a feather and all that, just like Kiki. Additionally, Brandon has long been considered a cheater by many of the game's players but his clout gave him a sort of protective status.

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Rumors of Brandon's "protected status" became so bad that the game's chief moderator Nodster actually had to step in and publicly deny it altogether. And coming from a team that is known to play favorites with their users, this reassurance definitely helped quell any concerns. What a look.

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And what of Brandon, the warrior for Angel Mist? He acted as a go-between so that Angel could contact Kiki and others. Placing himself into the middle of a situation seems to be Brandon's thing. On the left we see Brandon is now encouraging Angel Mist and offering support and on the right we can see how Brandon is now antagonizing members of Kiki inside their server. Brandon was clearly playing both sides against one another.

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These two images show how Brandon instigates the two groups. Each screenshot represents a piece of proof that caused those that received it to change the way they saw their reality, facilitated in some way by Brandon. First is the "evidence" from Brandon that Angel Mist was well aware of the exploit she was using which she claims got her banned and which she also claims she was unaware of at the time. Second is Angel Mist lamenting that one of her dear friends has erased all mention of her. What are the odds that both sides of this stupid conflict received pivotal bits of information from the same guy? It really activates the almonds.

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Lastly, some recent screenshots. Brandon has gone out of his way to announce loudly and proudly that he is back. He wants Angel Mist to know this. And Angel Mist seems to be pretty happy. At this point don't call it a grave. Good luck, Angel; you're going to need it with Brandon.

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This fellow is none other than Coughin, the spiritual leader of Kiki... or spirit animal, his role is sort of ambiguous. Unlike most of the other people mentioned here, Coughin is smart because he knows how to keep his mouth shut. He doesn't say much and rarely interjects, though when he does it is usually just as vapid as any of the things the others say.

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Coughin harbors an extreme dislike for Hella. You all know about the brick thing. But on the rare occasions that Hella comes up, Coughin almost always breaks his silence and starts bitching. Remember too that both of these grown men were founding members of this drama group. Their breakup had a severe impact on their own mental well being and on Kiki at large.

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Coughin's demeanor dictated a lot of the direction that the group would go in. His cynical and angry nature colored most of their operations and its users would often launder information through one another to confuse and otherwise hide their activities from the larger FreeSO community, many of whom at the time (and even now) considered the various Kiki members to be upstanding players.

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One of Coughin's skills is his ability to create the most perfect MS Paint artwork. Whenever you see stuff like this floating around the community, it probably came from Coughin. To this end, it is important to note that Coughin is merely a compiler of and rarely, if ever goes out to do the hard work himself; Coughin did not dox Angel Mist.

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Here are Coughin, Sun and Sid Rennie (deleted user) discussing the attempts to alert FSO administration to the pedophile Milton, who was making sexual advances toward anything that moved. Sid mentions that she had told most FSO admins about Milton; she also mentions that she told another admin named ARIES_OPERATIONS later on and apparently ARIES had no clue. This means is that the admin team were not sharing information with one another and kept the incident under wraps from members of their own team until they had no choice. Coughin is a good facilitator of information within the FreeSO community. We can only hope he is as good at facilitating a memorable customer service experience during his day job at The Home Depot.

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This section will be pretty short because as the founder of Kiki, Dank is by far the smartest of the bunch. Dank says very little and so in turn there is very little to say about Dank. He doesn't even play the game! And yet, much like his acolytes, Dank has a way of positively jamming his foot straight into his mouth when he does pop up to say something.

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And boy does he do it better than the other members of Kiki. Notice how back in 2021, he was among the first to clip and share screenshots of Angel Mist's posts from her Discord server. Many of these screenshots still circulate among the community today. But two years later in 2023, Dank is complaining that Angel has bullied him. Imagine that! The founder of Kiki crying foul about being bullied by Angel Mist of all people. Then on the very next day he runs a small victory lap over Angel Mist being banned. For someone that does not play TSO, Dank sure seems to know a lot about what is going on.

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Not to be outdone, Dank wanders into the territory of outright defamation as he casually throws around the claim that Angel Mist dates preteen boys. Kiki sure have some serious issues when it comes to remembering numbers. How old was Angel Mist again? Was she 50? Or was it 63? Who can say? Certainly not Dank or Kiki. One thing we can say for certain though is that Dank did not dox Angel Mist.

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Don't worry Dank, we're working on it. Deleting your server didn't quite go the way you thought, did it? You just relax because your part in this story is about over.

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If one were to look up the definition of "Internet tough guy", they would see Emil's picture. Emil is a legacy member of Kiki and one of its most prolific posters. He is a major source of information for the group. Because apparently it is too hard for them to join her open server and read it for themselves.

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He resides in Denmark and unsurprisingly is cynical about his outlook on life. His disdain for Angel Mist is unrepentant and he wants you to know about it. Somewhere along the line Emil must have crossed a few wires though because the lines between Angel Mist and Emil blur substantially. One minute he will be celebrating Kiki's victories and the next minute Emil will lament the torment he is under from the constant bullying eyes of Angel Mist.

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Emil also really really hates being compared to Kiwi Farms; which hopefully years later we can put to rest because, well... here we are. Speaking of putting things to rest, please recognize that Emil did not dox Angel Mist.

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As far back as 2021 Emil wants to claim that Angel Mist is a narcissist and addicted to victimhood; however two years later in 2023 he is still fighting with Angel's pet retard David and crying about being gaslit. He says that David is being toxic and destructive, as if Emil's problems in life are not Emil's own damn fault. A year later in 2024 he's still talking about Angel and claiming the he loves it! Wait what about the gaslighting and toxicity? Is Emil smelling his own gaslights? And then a couple days after that he makes a point to mention the date of Angel Mist's banning... as if he has it marked on his calendar or something.

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Like Emil says, Kiki will stop when Angel Mist stops. Angel can't stop though; neither can Kiki. This specific image is about a half hour after Emil cried about David's behavior. Emil seems to be taking a lot of this very personally even though he wasn't doxed and suffered very little actual loss.

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To really drive this point home, take a look at this excerpt from the same conversation. David raises a valid point about the server members continuing to discuss Angel for years on end. Emil decides to relent and claims he will apologize for any insults he made toward Angel Mist in the server. He mentions his poor coping skills and then asks for the apology from Angel Mist... except Emil never actually apologized to Angel Mist. And then miraculously a short while later Emil complains that Angel Mist doesn't apologize for anything and just talks around subjects to avoid them altogether. Now wait a minute, Emil... no. Emil, no!! If what he says is to be taken at face value, then his own claim can be turned right back around on Emil because he also failed to apologize and just went on to talk around the issue. Clearly any apology from Emil is a waste of time and should not be taken seriously.

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And when you see that Emil is in fact proud of everything he has done, why would his words be worth anything? He doesn't care one bit about his own integrity and uses notions of apology and forgiveness as mere tools to knock someone off their guard so he can get in close and attack.

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Lastly, Emil sure likes to sling shit at resident pedophile Milton (no complaints here), but he also really likes Roblox and has played it since he was a child (uwu??? uhhh...) and as an adult (great.) and now it's all getting a little weird and maybe sinister because if you aren't aware of the kind of stuff that goes down in Roblox, consider yourself lucky. Let's just say that Emil already has a history of projection and maybe he needs to find a future in a therapist's office.

Hoku​

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Of all the individuals in Kiki, Hoku or Chanel stands as one of the strangest. Their actions within the server are somewhat limited and Hoku mostly sat back and observed. There is not a ton to say about Hoku besides the fact that they are a long-time member of Kiki. Hoku will surface in post two during some unrelated drama. Otherwise, Hoku's deeds in-game were more impactful than anything with Kiki, but their place in this minagere is worth mentioning. Another thing worth mentioning is that Hoku did not dox Angel Mist.

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There is this gem however. Here we see Hoku saying the quiet part out loud. And that is that the player by the name of Patience is in fact a multi-simmer. Why does this matter? Because Patience is one of the game's most prolific hosts and she has a dedication to the game that would make Angel Mist blush. Because of her status, Patience is absolutely considered to be a protected player; so much so that her lot miraculously won the award for best lot in the entertainment category for five years in a row. It became a bit of a running joke in the game that the admins cared more about her winning streak than the community itself. Talk about priorities.

Sun​

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Sun. Where to go with this one... Sun, also known as Mila talks a lot. A whole fucking lot. Sun likes to say really dumb stuff and usually gets extremely emotional when doing so. She is an "activist" and hates Nestle and she has put pen (and name) to paper and written diatribes about them. Much like her friend Emil, Mila is in a perpetual state of arrested development and just can't. She really. Just. Can't. Angel is all that Mila sees and she desperately wants to cleanse her mind of Angel's horrific influence. How well do you suppose that went? Probably about as well as her activism.

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Mila's place in this puzzle is that she used to date Milton in FreeSO. Wait what? ... Yes. In her own words, Mila and Milton were an item at one point before the sexual assault revelations came about. And after their falling out, Mila made it her personal mission to never let the issue go and never ever allow herself to find any closure whatsoever.

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Pictured above from 2021 you can see Mila complaining about her fatigue with Milton and Angel. Setting aside the fact that she and the rest of Kiki would spend literal years relitigating every detail of the issue, it is pretty clear that a prerequisite for joining Kiki is a complete lack of self-awareness. You can see once again the volume of content these people churned out even though they were so tired of this drama. And that is just the main drama channel. There are multiple channels that Sun is a part of containing public and hidden Angel Mist sections. To give two examples from larger channels, a party lot called Hooters and the FreeSO Veterans channel have hidden Angel Mist sections! Take a look. [1.21GB]

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Seeing as Angel's friend David made regular appearances in the Kiki server, Mila began to hate him. She would lash out at him regularly but then minutes later complain that Angel and David spent too much time quoting the Bible instead of reaching out to the people that needed to be reconciled with. And actually none of that matters anyway because days earlier Mila made sure to let David know that Angel Mist is bullying Kiki. Yes that's right, Angel Mist is the bad guy and Mila is the poor victim.

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At one point Angel Mist came into the Kiki server to try to talk with the group but of course they piled onto her immediately. Obviously nothing was accomplished by this exercise and everyone left more annoyed than when they had started.

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When you look back over Mila's history with Kiki it clearly did not do her any favors. She was heart monitor posting back in 2021, years before Angel Mist made it cool. At one point Mila mentioned that she was losing a significant amount of hair due to the stress of it all. Mila even suggests that she would like to contact law enforcement to help remedy the situation. Thank goodness Mila isn't the one responsible for doxing Angel Mist, otherwise that interview might have become a bit awkward.

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By late June of 2023 Mila has finally had enough. She was exhausted of it all. The entire group shared this sentiment in fact. They were all sick and tired of Angel Mist and David and the old drama that never ends. A couple days later and she was still on this tirade about the whole thing ending and her overall fatigue. Though if you check the two archived channels listed in the paragraph above, you will see that as of May 2024, Mila is still active and talking about Angel Mist. What the heck? Weren't you sick of it all, Mila?

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And to really bring it all full-circle we come to this amazing post from way back when. Mila challenges people to threaten her. She dares them. She's compiling everything into a document! Mila has the receipts!! Maybe she will even create a giant Discord channel full of the proof of her lived experience. When Mila grows up she is going to be exactly like Angel Mist. Keep compiling those lists, girlfriend. You got this.

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Oh also, both Mila and Brandon have played Roblox for quite a while. Yeah. That makes a few more things make a bit more sense. And that about covers the core members of Kiki. But... wait a moment! There is one more person that probably needs a little bit of attention.

Hella​

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This is a name that has popped up here and there in this thread. Hella is a long time player of FreeSO and also a founding member of Kiki; he is very likely the second or third member of the group. He was there right at the start with DanK and Coughin. As you can see in the image above, Hella is no longer a part of Kiki and most of its members have an extraordinarily negative opinion of him.

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Throughout the years lots of rumors have been concocted about Hella, specifically with regards to his relationship with Angel Mist. For the record, no, the two did not date. After all of the initial fighting calmed down, Hella broke with Kiki and attempted to reconcile with Angel Mist, which she allowed. Even their claims that Hella and Angel Mist are no longer friends does not appear to hold water. She really did follow through with forgiving him.

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Still, like lovers scorned the members of Kiki have spent years complaining about their former friend when there is nothing else to talk about. From 2021 all the way up until today they just can't get him out of their heads.

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Painting Hella as an entirely sympathetic or misguided figure is not correct either. He has a nasty habit of leaking pictures to various people and of various people, including some rather intimate shots. This has led to a largely negative opinion amongst those in the know.

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But Angel Mist is even willing to forgive things like leaking nudes so long as a person drops to their knees and begs for her forgiveness. She is aware that Hella keeps some questionable company and is very aware that he leaked the nudes of at least one other FSO player, but even then she will forgive. The two share an interesting dynamic with one another.

And that about wraps up our exploration into the other side of make believe. Kiki is a strange and interesting group of observers, antagonists and candidates for frontal lobe removal. They make a perfect pair along with Angel Mist and the two groups really do seem to deserve one another. Let's just hope they all get the help that they desperately need.

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Thanks for reading along so far. Hope you have enjoyed yourself so far.
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[Demon Mist]

Tea for Two and Two for Tea

Table of Contents : Click to Navigate
Page One - The Big Drama
→ Page Two - People and Events of Interest ←
Page Three - Sim Nation and the Rest
Page Four - Select-A-Sim​

Goals
The purpose of this section is to catalog the antics of several of the individuals that have stood out over the years in FreeSO and to outline some notable events. Besides those mentioned in the OP, there are a few standout individuals that manage to make fools of themselves in all kinds of new and interesting way. Since we went heavy on Angel Mist in the OP, let's start off with one of the cohorts that talk the most shit about Angel Mist.

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Queen's Money Island

The Ban List:​

Welcome to Queen's Money Island, for a time the premiere money-producing lot in FreeSO. The way this game works, you spend time at "money lots" and produce specific items depending on the day of the week. So on Monday you are making gnomes and on Thursday you're writing short stories for cash. Queen's was founded by a sim by the name of "Rach Shores" and her associate Meowlody or Meow. Together these two operated a very successful money lot that was highly lauded by much of the community and always at the top of the game's top ten charts. Despite an outward appearance of a welcoming and fun house, Queen's had a not-so-secret bit of dirty laundry: their ban list was comically long and contained enough names to fill a six car train the Poland. And seeing as the Queens gang love to hurl shit at Angel Mist, we put together a small clip that outlines the ban list situation.

If there was any one thing that could be said about Queen's, it was that they cultivated a very agreeable and discriminating group of regulars. The main host was a player named Meowlody and as far as anyone can tell is a proud recipient of some sort of disability or assistance and is able to be online for eight hours a day, every day to host for anywhere from four to 12 people. Opinionated and highly critical of anyone with actual life experience, Meow will fly off the handle at anyone that seems as if they might disagree with her; either that or she bans them. This short temper and quickness to cause trouble has also led to some drama over some rooftop artwork. Before we get to that however, remember that this is the place that claims to be welcoming to all and the place to go if you're looking for a good time; and yet these people talk mountains of shit about the other players of the game. And just like the resident angel, Queens has their own group of heavies to go around laying down the law.

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Years of hatred and paranoia have conditioned many of these people to immediately have a negative response to anyone from the opposing team. The second picture in particular represents a good example of this. Meow has appeared in a lot (note the year, this was only a couple months ago) and has simply seen Angel Mist, someone who she has not had to see for a long time. Immediately she's in her Discord server, sharing notes with her people.

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Meet Meow!​

Let's take a small detour and talk briefly about the star of Queen's Money Island. She is a user that goes by the name Meowlody Pond and if you've ever been to the lot, chances are she is the one hosting.
A few of us had a suspicion that Meow was completely consumed by a lot of what was going on in this thread. After all it is in her nature to be totally self-absorbed and she was already mentioned once. Within the last few days in early June of 2025, she attempted to lock down her server and reform it into a sort of family group or "ohana", but that effort is mostly futile. There were only a few bits worth sharing anyway, so this won't take too long.

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Meowlody Pond is your typical always-online, always-high stoner with a heart of resin and an opinion about everything. And before you get too hasty, just remember that you are probably always going to be wrong. She's got the answers we all need to hear. As one of the other posters in the thread mentioned, Meow is a woman that wears many hats... or hairstyles. You could see a dozen pictures of this lady and come back with two dozen interpretations of what you are seeing. She is the primary host of a popular lot known as Queens Money Island. If they're open, odds are she is there.

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Weed and smokes are a big part of Meow's life. She puts a lot of time and money into her habits hobbies and even got into 3D printing to accentuate her buzz. If killing brain cells were her only fixation she might be a bit more tolerable, but this is a legacy TSO player so buckle up for the crazy.

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We've mentioned before that many TSO players spend a lot of time in the game and Meow is no exception. In fact, Meowlody is a veritable portrait of this sort of player. She is usually in-game all day, every day. And when we say "all day", we mean it. Hosting at her lot for 12 hours is the norm. Pictured above she mentions that she had been hosting for 17 hours straight. That is a massive commitment of time for a game that is essentially pointing and clicking. And given that she is prone to being high, that doesn't bode well for her employment options. Either she has the best job in the world where she can do nothing and play The Sims Online all day, or she sits at home and plays video games (because TSO isn't all she plays) on the taxpayer's dime.

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We know that she calls Germany her home and lives in an attic flat and, at least as of a couple years ago apparently does not have access to air conditioning. The roof leaks on occasion which raises a whole bunch of other questions about her living situation. And she has a child... yeah. The picture coming together here is a strange and potentially troubling one to say the least. With so much time spent in just this one video game, how then does Meow find the time to make money, raise a kid and buy hair dye?

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By her own admission, not all of her time is spent indoors however, only most of it. Meow does step outside to see the sights on occasion and apparently even has a window in her attic flat that she can use to look out onto her domain. Presumably she has to leave the house at least a couple time per month to buy hair dye, which evidently they check ID for in Germany. If you've seen her picture lineup in the main post, you can see that she spends a significant amount of time styling her hair and nails and whatever else she can find.

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A couple more odds and ends. Apparently on one occasion she got so high that she started slicing up her straw to be included with her salad. There is no other explanation for this. Additionally, Meow makes a point to mention that her server is for adults only and that all will be well as long as you don't insult other users. This is pretty funny because if you remember, Meow hosts one of the biggest ban lists in all of FreeSO and regularly kicks and maligns users for even the simplest of disagreements. Just play nice and do exactly as Meow says and everything will be okay.

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Just a tip for anyone planning on playing along with Meow and her friends, make sure not to bring up vaccines or anything like that. Regardless of your opinions and even if you agree with her, it is best to just avoid the subject altogether because it will set her off like nothing else. You might think this is old news, you might think this is insignificant; but Meow will go thermonuclear on anyone that has the wrong opinion about this specific subject. And for good measure you probably shouldn't bring up politics from the United States because even though she lives in Germany, her heart is in America... or something. It's weird. Really weird. Don't end up on the ban list.

Roofgate​

During the Summer of 2022, a new player was going around creating roof art for many of the larger houses around the game. For the uninitiated, the top floor of a house in The Sims Online can be covered in floor tiles to create images or advertisements that can easily be seen from the world map view and the selection screens. Doing this takes time and so several players offer their time and talent and execute these projects for lot owners. One such lot owner was contracted by a lot owner to make a roof for her lot called Rebal Reefer Paradise. Their spelling.

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The creation of this roof by user Kid Cannabis set into motion a series of events that catapulted one faction to a bright height and a spectacular implosion and sent Queen's on the path to their steady decay. Meow became so enraged at the creation of this roof that she started a crusade against the racists that produced it. Except instead of going after the lot owner that commissioned the art, Meow went full bore against the artist Kid Cannabis. The rift created by these actions caused a year of drama that drove many of the game's older players away and diminished the appeal of the game to newcomers and streamers.

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Stoner Island
This segues nicely into the Stoner Island crew led by Kid Cannabis/8Xplicit/Cheech/Chong/Oscar who attempted successfully to take over one of the neighborhoods in the game. With the mayor's seat in their possession, this group of individuals proceeded to half-finish their lot and quit the game before their term was finished. Short-lived though they were, this group had a profound impact on the latter portions of FreeSO's life and caused a great deal of ill-will toward many players and the administration alike.

Oscar, picker of eggs and smoker of the stickiest icky.​

Roofgate and Hats​

Here we are again with the rooftops. So this is the guy that made the Confederate flag rooftop and inadvertently set off a shit show across FreeSO. After the initial shock wore off and the Queen's crew made their case, Kid went on a messaging spree to the game's admins flipping out. The following messages reflect a common pattern and represent the larger flaw in FSO's administration which is that this group of players had much greater access to game admins than others. As such, we have these messages between the player Kid Cannabis/Xplicit and a member of the administration named dotequals. But also don't forget that admins suck and are simps, as we see in the second image.

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What you will also see are adamant claims of unfair treatment. A trait shared among many of the game's players. And while the moderator reiterated the rules time and time again, nothing was good enough. This image also reveals a mention of the phrase "multi-sim", which is a contentious issue within The Sims Online and one you should be aware of.

Spoiler: Multi-Simming: An Aside

The concept of multi-simming is straightforward. One person playing more than one sim at a time is a multi-simmer. That does not mean one person cannot have multiple sims; they are simply not allowed to play those sims simultaneously. Simultaneous play of multiple sims by one person is multi-simming.
-Multi-Simming was strictly forbidden by FreeSO and was an immediate ban.
-Multi-Simming is not forbidden by Sim Nation and is one of its large draws.

Eventually the ripples from Roofgate settled, but the groups never reconciled after this event and the game remained deeply fractured until its final days. Cries of multi-simming are one of those weapons to use against people you really hate; especially if you had friends in administration, a multi-simmer could expect to be banned immediately. Trying to stir the pot to get a quick ban against an enemy would become one of Kid Cannabis' go-to maneuvers. In good gaming tradition, here we have a grown man arguing about hat pulls.

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Hat pulls are a pretty big deal in TSO. Basically you tell your guests to wear one of the hats from the rack, then randomly draw the name of one of the hats. Whoever has that hat on wins a nice prize. So it goes without saying that any sense of fraud in this process could be very disruptive to a homeowner and a lot host. Pictured are Kid and one of his (on again, off again) buddies rolling through, tossing around accusations against rival lot owners.

Daniella is a Stupid Whore and Kid's Eggs are Cracked​

The other standout within the Stoner Island crew is a woman named Daniella that also goes by the names Glitzy or Ella. Not only does she have an absolute habit for showing up for drama like Quarter Pounder chasing Metokur's ambulance, but if you play your cards right she'll show you the goods. Even the game's administrators, in this case Nodster can barely tolerate this woman that they know is a complete cracker jack.

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She got her start with a skill house several years back and casually made her way up into the hosting arena, making several successful lots of her own. But ended up finding it so hard to function as a digital host that she nearly went catatonic and started heart monitor posting like the others. More on this in the next section. Back to our friend Kid Cannabis or Xplicit or Cheech or Chong, there are the two minor details of his career as an "egg plucker", which more or less explains itself and his um... gay trans Mexican kid? Or something?

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Just remember that (in-game) money is of no object to this man and he regularly makes and spends huge volumes of currency. He might not be able to keep a stable job, a wife, a car, an apartment or his child in the real world, but he's definitely got this Sims angle completely figured solved. Dumping huge amounts of time into video games is definitely not related to any of the existential problems in your life.

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Hoku
Hoku/MissAmericana/Chanel is one of those people that can't keep themselves out of trouble. Be it multi-simming or stirring the pot, this dude has his fingers in deep. And yes, the word "dude" is used under advisement. Do not let Hoku try to lure you in for a good time, no matter how desperate he may appear. Hoku used to own and operate a lot known as the Wonderland Skill Chalet and during the height of its popularity, the Chalet could expect to see a full house from dusk til dawn. In addition to being a popular lot, it was also a very well-crafted lot. One of the interesting things about Hoku is that while he gets himself caught up in a fair amount of drama, he has an absolute talent for drawing other people in as well.

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As the owner of one of the most popular skill houses in the game, Hoku had a large crew of roommates to assist with the daily operations of running a skill lot. As such, you need the type of person with a lot of free time and a love (of some kind) for the game and its community. These people are worse than forum moderators. And who did Hoku pick but Daniella, our friend from the previous section. And seeing as both of these people are needy, codependent addicts it was only a matter of time before sparks started to fly; and fly they did!

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This is the event alluded to in Daniella's brief introduction. She had decided to play for FOURTEEN HOURS STRAIGHT hosting for people all day at the lot operated by Hoku. Hoku, being a fat, disgusting slob was too busy getting drunk and high to be a useful helper and so Daniella was "stuck" there alone all day. Now, on the one hand it is extremely shitty for a lot owner to let down their roommates in this fashion. Running a lot takes a significant investment of time and hosting a full house is work. With that said, there is no reason why Daniella couldn't have taken some sage advice and turned the computer off and gone outside. There was no reason to sit there for so long that she worked herself up into a state of exhaustion and over stimulation. Regardless, this domino set off a small series of events which led to most of Hoku's roommates leaving in solidarity with Daniella. The revolution was a success and all was well.

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Except for the people left behind due to time zones and work/life balance issues. It would seem that another mutual friend of theirs, a woman that goes by the handle Ryk wasn't available for the initial action and upon seeing everything that had happened decided to take the logical next step and make it all about her. Fake tears on top of fake tears. Daniella is upset because she was too stupid to walk away from her computer when her body was telling her it was time for food; and Ryk is upset because while she was not available, her friends decided to make a decision based upon a time-sensitive event.

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Neither of them are willing to see their own part in the stupid game they're playing and both decide the better answer is to blame Hoku. Truly masterful work from someone that sat on their ass, got high and passed out.

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GaySO

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You knew it had to happen. Why wouldn't it? Of course FreeSO contains gratuitous pandering to the community. Rather than waste too many words, have a look at some of the pride items and the in-game messaging.

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Of particular note are the first two items: the lockbox and the flag pole. Contained within the lockbox is a set of rainbow costumes and accessories that are sure to bring nightmares. The flag pole allowed the user to select from a nauseating number of pride-related flags and at no point did any of this strike the developers as excessive. However they knew their audience, for what it is worth; players could be living in absolute squalor with barely four walls and a toilet on their property, but they sure as hell have all of their rainbow stuff lined up.

Speaking of really gay shit, let's talk about FreeSO's mentor program. This was a pilot program that did see some limited release into the game; but the general idea was to cultivate a group of community members that would be willing to teach people how to play the game in an official capacity. Unfortunately the program never really took off and ultimately was rendered useless by the game's "welcome lot" system, whereby a new account gets seven days of very nice skill and money bonuses if they spend their time at a lot in the "welcome" category. This older system ended up functioning better and more reliably and was less of a popularity contest. Somehow we've gotten the questionnaire from the old mentor program, so enjoy.

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Those of you that have made it this far into the thread have probably figured out that a large part of this community are sexual deviants and that isn't even getting into the pride stuff. It should have been clear as crystal when the words "Second Life" came up; recall that when The Sims Online closed its doors, the most ardent fans of the game mostly went to Second Life.

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BrandonSJ, Sin and the hNotwife

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This guy is Brandon. In the FreeSO extended community, Brandon is kind of a big deal. At least that is how it would appear if you never looked into it. Brandon is a longstanding member of the community and played FSO for years. He was deeply involved with the 3D meshing project, which was tasked with making all of the objects in the game look decent and not like some sort of horror from the deep; results ranged from really good to highly questionable. He's an experienced host and knows the ins and outs of the game. And throughout a lot of that history he was paired up with a woman that goes by the name of Sin. Sin is also kind of a big deal in a parasocial, niche community sort of way. She is also all over the game and well recieved in most places and her outgoing (kinky sex fetish) nature meant she had a lot of friends. But true love was not to be and it led to Brandon doing some weird shit.

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Alright, so they break up. Truthfully nobody remembers which breakup these are all from. It happened a few times. But these pictures are near the end. Brandon didn't take the breakup very well and started acting like a sperg every time he was around Sin. Really weird stuff like pretending they are still together (second picture, "Hubby" is Brandon) and doing that thing where he brings up awkward topics with her friends to get them to talk to him about her. The guy was a complete wreck. Not that it was the first time that Sin was involved with havoc in other peoples' relationships; this is another one of those general themes in FSO and games like it, which is that there are a lot of people with "irl spouses" and "game spouses" and things get pretty blurry.

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Speaking of blurry, have a little bit of Sin and a lot of a giant closeup of some chick named Abi. This first image is a real doozy once you start to realize what is being discussed. The two players in the chat itself are Sin and some dude that doesn't really matter; the people being talked about aside from Sin are a couple that go by the names Abi and JonWayne (second image). But let's go over this first image. Sin is discussing an in-game wedding between herself and a JonWayne. Here's the fun part: JonWayne is married to Abi and they have kids, but he and Abi are polyamorous so it's cool. Abi is bored of Jon or whatever, but that's cool because Jon wants Sin and Sin wants Jon.

But then Abi decided she's a lesbian and Jon is cut out from any romance at all, which makes him jealous. Sin, attempting to have a relationship with Jon becomes annoyed because Abi and Jon are now trying to draw this fourth woman (the lesbian) into the mix, and Sin doesn't want to be involved with that much of a mess. Anyway it was all for nothing because eventually Jon ditched Sin and he and Abi went running back to one another. This story repeats itself over and over again on FreeSO and its extended community of game clients, often with the same individuals. Somebody please think of the children, because there are stories of whole families being uprooted and dragged around the planet to satisfy some of these online flings. One last thing about Abi, at some point in 2022 or 2023, she got her nipples pierced. Why do we know this? Because whether sober or high, Abi was barging into every chat room and every DM begging people to look at her new piercings. And when you told her you didn't want to see that, she would send you the pictures anyway. Just lovely! It would almost be unbelievable if there were not multiple accounts from different men and women claiming the exact same behavior.

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One last bit (for now) on our boy Brandon. He comes off as somewhat of a useful idiot. Part of the reason he ends up being involved in so much drama is because he will happily go along with whoever is in front of him with a smile at any given point in time. Pictured above is Brandon working with a guy named Muerto (read about him in post three concerning Free My Land Reloaded) to shill a new custom game client that was never going to take off and when you consider who Muerto is, was probably just a honeypot to steal nudes and information anyway. In closing, Brandon isn't exactly a bad guy and he does have a few talents; but Brandon is generally too nice for his own good and lets people lead him around by the nose. Or so one might think... make sure to tune into the section on Angel Mist's demons because Brandon is secretly one of the game's biggest shit stirrers.

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Milton

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Considering everything that has come before, it was only a matter of time before an actual child molestor appeared. Meet Milton Wayne Hope II, literal manlet. Milton was the sort of guy that liked to play FreeSO and pick up dates with anyone and everyone. When it came out that he was more than just a really skeevy weirdo and actually on the books for molesting a child, the community understandably went a little crazy. Milton was removed from the game and a lot of the information about this event was purged from history.

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This is one of those events that still comes up from time to time and depending on who you ask, the response to all of it may come up different. To some, this event was a clear indication that the administrators at FSO were not only incompetent, but borderline criminal with their behavior and allowing such a terrible man to play the game. Still others would say that they handled things as best as they could have and ultimately they can't pre-screen everyone that registers for their niche life sim game.

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A couple final thoughts on this subject and we can wrap it up. Here is one of the original Discord images that was spread around during the mystery solving phase of Milton. Once he started getting really creepy and weird, people started looking into him. And thankfully he, like most people are completely willing to post unique identifying markers in public Discord chats. Also there is a twinge of irony in warning people about Milton because "FreeSO is a game that has children playing it", when you consider that lewd, public displays of sex and degeneracy are the norm. But hey, one less pedophile is a win, so good work! And lastly, Angel Mist got herself tangled up in this entire mess when she decided to come out in full support of her good friend Milton. This did not go over well with the rest of the community and did very little to help with her overall situation as her own drama started to unfold. After the fact, Angel Mist would attempt to revise this ripple in the timeline and claim that the Milton stuff was all a work.

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RomaS

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Every game has a RomaS. He is the misunderstood troll and the guy that is banned from any and every lot. RomaS or Rom or Quinton is the sort of troll that never actually does anything outwardly bad; but who refuses to conform to the rules and norms of the game, which drives most of the players crazy. At the end of the day Rom comes out being way more normal than most of the people on FSO or SN or any of these variants. There isn't much to say about him, but his inclusion here will make a few people blow a fuse or two and that is well worth it.

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Addicted to CODE and Other Gameplay Oddities

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Let us take a moment and talk about the addictive habits of the average player of The Sims Online. Large segments of gameplay revolve around building skills and making money. These tasks are accomplished by interacting with objects. It is pretty straightforward. A chessboard raises your logic and books can teach you to cook or repair things; then you use those skills to solve math problems or build garden gnomes, which you can sell. These activities are performed on single money objects like chalkboards and work benches. But what about group money objects? There are several devices like the code machine or the pizza machine that let multiple players work together to make large amounts of money. Now let's check in with our friend Sin for a moment because she shines a bit of light on how the game works.

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The big secret with The Sims Online, especially nowadays when very few other people are playing is to simply play the game by yourself. Yes, that's right; forget everyone else and play alone. With the advent of accessible custom clients in 2025, some users are even compiling their own custom TSO client and playing the entire thing by themselves or with one or two others. And now that multi-simming is legal for the larger community, the doors are wide open for solo play if you're dedicated enough. Sim Nation allows players to do the sort of thing they only ever dreamed about in the previous versions of the game: you can play group money objects all by yourself. Take the pizza making game, for instance; all you need is to have four instances of the game running, get all four of your sims to the pizza machine, get your ingredients listed and start churning out high-value pizzas. Fun, right? But that is chump change compared to what the pros play. Let's get into some code, because code addiction is very real in TSO.

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Say hello to code. Code is a simple three-player game in The Sims Online in which three people occupy a machine and communicate their letters to one another. As you can see, the community have come up with several spreadsheets to streamline this process. Since code is effectively a solved game, it means that multi-simmers can very easily use a single account (each account has three sims) to fill a code machine and print money. If you play Sim Nation, you will see people parked at these mini games for hours upon hours, raking in gobs and gobs of cash. And the spreadsheets make it extremely easy to do this. If you aren't playing code with a spreadsheet, you're selling yourself short. For a detailed description of each group money object you can find more here at TSOmania.

The video above does an excellent job of explaining the game of code and offers a nice glimpse into FreeSO back when it was alive. There are entire houses built around just this one mini game. Very few things in TSO grab people like code and it is a major draw, especially now that it can be played solo. Along those lines there are also "jobs" that players can take on, which add separate instances within which players can wait tables at a diner or be a DJ and these are able to be played alone or with other people. While it is somewhat popular to play these games in groups, a lot of players also enjoy these activities alone and rarely interact with the larger community. Many online games share the quirk of having a bunch of players that don't actually play the game online; if their Internet connection failed and the game could still be played, they would never notice the service interruption.

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Mixed Nuts
This area is for the people and events that don't really have enough going for them to have their own special section. There's some funny one-off material out there that we want to show you.

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Like this guy named Marty that would go around the game telling everyone that would listen or who was within earshot about his penis, which was apparently not very impressive. Is this another humiliation fetishist at work? Probably. The person in this chat by the name of "You" is believed to be Felicity the Vampire, who you may remember from the Angel Mist saga. Small world.

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Thanks for reading along so far! We will add people from time to time as more events get written up.

Up next, enjoy news and info from Sim Nation, plus deeper looks into other custom clients and projects!​

 

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Bem-vindo ao Brasil - Sem Reembolsos

Table of Contents : Click to Navigate
Page One - The Big Drama
Page Two - People and Events of Interest
→ Page Three - Sim Nation and the Rest←
Page Four - Select-A-Sim​

Goals
The purpose of this section is to provide a general outline of and keep continuous updates on Sim Nation, the largest TSO server at the time of this posting. With the reunification of the TSO Brasil and FreeSO communities, all sorts of people are once again swimming in the same pool. Already there are concerns about sources of income and intellectual property (all of which you can read about) and the same old drama is bubbling up from the depths. So stay tuned because this is where the new stuff will be organized.

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Sim Nation

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FreeSO is dead! Long live FreeSO! Actually, Sim Nation was up and running long before FreeSO ever announced it was closing. There had been several minor migrations of players from FSO to SN as the drama began to ramp up in FSO; but until the closing of FSO forced people to move, most did not. Therefore, Sim Nation remained largely untouched by the English-speaking part of the community and stayed within the Brazilian sphere. After FreeSO closed down in December 2024, all of that changed and people were forced to move to the Sim Nation server or simply stop playing. Yes, there are other servers they can attempt to run but most of those have very few players.

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So, Sim Nation is now the place to be. All the cool kids are there. All the nerds are there, too. They even have all the old villains from the past except now some are using new usernames... and some aren't. There are a few major differences between FreeSO and Sim Nation, some of which have caused ire within the larger game and development communities. Each are compelling in their own right and a few are likely to end in some sort of legal settlement. What are some of these issues facing Sim Nation? Let's start with the easy ones.

Design Disagreement​

If you recall an aside from the second postabout multi-simming, you will be aware that playing multiple sims at once has long been a contentious and bannable issue in TSO and FSO in general. Sim Nation takes a different approach and both allows and encourages multi-sim gameplay. This is interesting in that it frees up many people to dedicate a sim to each skill and make the early game less of a slog. On the other hand, this wreaks havoc with the player count and community cohesion; imagine entering a skill lot that is currently hosting 37 other sims, only to realize that those 37 other sims on the lot are split among six people, five of whom are too busy to actively play the social component of the game. The disagreement over these issues has caused a great deal of debate within the community.

Design Dishonesty​

Okay whatever, so some people are arguing over the minutia of the game and how it impacts the gameplay loop. How about something more serious? How about fucking with Nintendo and Electronic Arts? Yes, it turns out the Sim Nation people have decided to take a few swings at a pair of multinational software giants. Those with a keen eye will have seen the screenshot from Patreon posted at the heading of this section. And that number has been hovering around $900.00 American for a while now. Sometimes it goes up a bit and sometimes down, but it's consistently the sort of number that draws attention.

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Right away alarm bells should be going off in the minds of any rational individual. If we recall back to the first post in a subsection about Forks in the Road, there was a point in time when Electronic Arts took notice of the work on FreeSO. A mobile version of the FreeSO client was very near to release and was supposedly extremely functional; Electronic Arts put a stop to that, but made a point to let the FSO team know that their project could continue so long as there was no profit motive. Simple stuff to remember and follow. There was even a subsequent fork of FSO in 2024 that went bottom-up extremely quickly after the development staff caught the attention of EA so it isn't like this stuff is a distant memory.

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Still, Sim Nation insists on running this Patreon and pulling in a large sum of money each month. And there is no telling how much extra comes in from these special, separate purchases that function outside of the monthly subscription model. Just so you understand what you are seeing, you can buy mystic trees in packs of six for thirty bucks American. Skill locks used to be cheaper as seen on the right, but as of today they're up to forty bucks American. During special events you can even get rare pets and objects for cash rather than playing the game to earn them as rare drops. And while it doesn't necessarily matter how you play the game, the fact that these transactions are happening has put strain on both the game and the development communities.

It gets worse though! We still haven't gotten to Nintendo, the most litigious video game company on the planet that will cut off your head and shit down your throat to prove a point to your children. FreeSO really pushed the envelope when it came to seasonal events, which had become a popular thing by the modern era of gaming. For players of SN, these seasonal events are expected and they had better deliver something decent and a little different than last year. You are about to see two images, one from Sim Nation's Easter event and the other from Animal Crossing's Bunny Day event.

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Feel free to try this test at home! Sim Nation's seasonal items guide can be found here (archive) and the list of Bunny Day items from Nintendo's Animal Crossing can be found here (archive). It doesn't take Inspector Gadget to notice the similarities between the assets being used in these games. And while FreeSO may have been able to get away with their Mario 64 event (archive), Sim Nation is drawing a significant annual profit from the game via their Patreon and that should be cause for concern for backers, developers and fans alike. Why though?

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Well because apparently the secret is already out and has been since the end of last year. And with friends like these, who needs enemies? Sim Nation looks as if it has enough trouble in front of it dealing with the merger of the FreeSO community with the preexisting Sim Nation community; that doesn't even scrape the surface of its own community turning the eyes of Electronic Arts and Nintendo in their general direction over a few thousand bucks and a bunch of stolen Easter eggs. Sim Nation and its operating manager Henrique have some times ahead of them, that's for sure.

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Design Dilemma​

This all rolls itself up into two giant problems, one for Sim Nation and the other for the TSO development community as a whole.

• Sim Nation: This group faces significant troubles if and more likely when Electronic Arts and Nintendo figure out who to send letters to. Not only are they running a Patreon that collects monthly subscription fees and has a cash shop, they're going to be liable for past income from that Patreon. Hopefully they've been saving it all away. But the sheer foolishness in using (in such obvious a fashion) licensed objects from Nintendo of all places is just asking for trouble. Keep an eye on this angle.
• The TSO Development Community: This group is going to find itself in an awkward position if Sim Nation manages to get itself sued into oblivion or handed an unmovable cease and desist order. What the SN development team are neglecting to recognize is that as the largest game in town, their fuck ups could put the entire community in a bad spot. Sim Nation is not the only custom client and we are about to cover several others several others. There are more custom clients in the works now that FreeSO's design documents are public. All of this is put into peril by the selfish actions of the Sim Nation staff.

Moving along, some funny things happened with Sim Nation the other night which are worth looking through. We wrote the third post with the headline: "Bem-vindo ao Brasil - Sem Reembolsos", which translates to "Welcome to Brazil - No Refunds." When you're right...

Bug Day!​

Combine the hype surrounding a much-anticipated update with cold hard cash and mix in a little homicidal rage and you've got yourself a recipe for Sim Nation. Basically what happened is that the new season of Sim Nation rolled out and a major aspect of that update involved treasure hunting and challenges. It was a cool idea and a refreshing splash of content for the game and people were understandably excited. Fast forward past the usual delays and excuses and the update launches on the second full week of 2025. Everyone celebrates and logs in and starts hunting for treasure.

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Or not. Maybe treasure hunting was off the menu. Apparently as the event got into full swing, users began noticing that they could not join any of the lots. It was as if they were locked out of the game entirely. And in order to get the treasure, players needed to be able to get onto lots to complete tasks to get the gold. So what the heck happened here? Too many players for the server? Connection issues with the VPS? In reality the problem was a little simpler than that and for what it is worth, given the size of the community over the years, it was easy to overlook.

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Fifty lots. That is the issue. The game was coded to limit the maximum number of open lots to fifty. And Salem isn't entirely out in space by suggesting that it never really came up before; the community is small and until this event and its specific design, the game worked just fine and nobody noticed a thing. Fair enough, just get in there and fix it. But by this point in time a large portion of the community have become exhausted with the constant stopping and starting with updates and features and one guy in particular completely loses it.

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This is where an interesting point comes up. Homicide mentions that he is a paying player. How are the administrators going to respond to that? If you guessed "not very well", you would be correct.

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And there you have it. No refunds, ladies and gentlemen. Pack it up and go home because you're not getting your money back, you're not owed anything for your monthly contributions and you're just going to have to wait longer. Clearly Homicide is acting a complete fool, but Salem isn't exactly helping out the cause. Opinions around the community were split, but there were several people in support of the administrators during this dust up.

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Advising to exercise patience is probably good advice and they did end up fixing the game several hours later. But the idea that the game is free and therefore the admins don't need to tend to their players' wishes begins to strain credulity; especially when you consider that people are in fact paying large amounts of money to the developers of Sim Nation and are doing so on a monthly basis. Especially when you consider all the crap that the SN team throws toward the FSO team for being bad at their jobs. And then on the left side of the above image the one guy almost seems to be getting it and then blurts out that he was thinking of "giving them a couple bucks" and so much for any hope there was for this community.

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Chris here gets the gold star for thinking the issue through and landing on the right answer. How does this lot limit work if people can multi-sim? Furthermore, as the next person says when you go into some lots you'll see five or six sims being run by the same player. And then consider that each person can own two lots, so that means that 12 people with two sims each and a house for each sim could lock out the entire game for the rest of the players. How about that? After things were fixed and tempers cooled down, the community largely returned to normal. Though Homicide's backer status is now in question.

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Moron Communication and Updates​

As alluded to, the communication from the Sim Nation team is not so great. There is a lot of "hold on" and excuse making to paper over continued delays and server struggles. Compounding all of this is an update schedule that more than a few players have scratched their heads at. Complaints span multiple servers and friend groups, with a common thread between them being that the staff of SN don't really know how to deal with it.

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Your game server has shut down and the players in your Discord are confused. Every time there is a big update, schedules begin to slide. Whenever a number or date can be twisted or made to have meant something else, it is. The first image is of the CoolSO Discord (keep an eye on this image and always remember that CoolSO is a Discord channel about aspiring to make a game, CoolSO is not a game) channel discussing what they thought was a server outage and the next screenshot after is from Sim Nation's own Discord channel. Backers, "super players" and some normal users are quick to jump in and remind you that there may be some issues understanding the language. But language issues every time? Each update running into a hiccup? Girl, please. Their response has become a bit of a running gag, made even funnier by another complaint that SN's team often get...

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We have the same two servers once again, CoolSO (the server about thinking about making a game) and Sim Nation (the server about a game). Both are griping about the rate at which the SN Discord server likes to ping its users. And herein lies the paradox of the whole situation: while Sim Nation's team are unable to keep to schedules or even reliably communicate when their servers will be up or down, they still manage to over-communicate with their players to such a degree that it is a common annoyance across the base.

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Just remember not to push the point too much, because once Henrique is done with an issue, he's done. You have got to marvel at user "adore on SN" prompting Jennifer even further before immediately collapsing into line behind Henrique and telling Jennifer to stop answering her own damn question. And adore on SN isn't even a backer, they're doing this for free. One other guy even jumps in to offer some support and a similar story, but again Henrique has deemed the issue closed. Thank you for your report. Shut the fuck up please. Besides there is a new update on the way you should be focused on that. How about a riddle? I'll give you a glitched houseplant that hard locks your lot if you get it right.

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The update at the end of December was especially embarrassing for the Sim Nation team as it took several attempts to even get the update working properly, not to mention the patches that would have to come afterwards to fix the update. But now we're going to take the first issue which is a lack of concrete communication about server updates and combine that with the second issue which is an inconsistent update schedule. The big December update was on the way, we're getting it nice and early on the 12th... or... before Christmas, yeah! Wait. Right after Christmas? Or the 28th. Yeah! December 28th is the day. December 28th. Remember that screenshot to remember from up above? Let's zoom in on that one a little...

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Prolific TSO player Lost (very sweet person and is in every server) appears to have been the first to notice, right away; The CoolSO Discord server research team took a couple weeks to catch on. Sim Nation, after all is said and done are pushing out their huge update on a Saturday night. They are pushing their update which will cause hours of downtime on a Saturday night, the biggest or second biggest night to play online games and get autistic. Everyone is home and ready to play. It may be later at night in Brazil, but for their American players Sim Nation are putting the server into detention at the moment their customers would most want to play; it is when they have a chance to be around the largest number of people, not multi-sims. Consider also that a huge amount of SN's funding comes from its English-speaking patrons; not only are they paying to be given sub-par service from irresponsible administrators, but they're paying money to have their game turned off on the best night to play. And one more thing about Sim Nation's update regimen...

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Not to be outdone, Sim Nation's team have come out swinging in the year 2025. Just this past weekend SN's admins pushed out several blast updates, shut the server down once in the morning (according to schedule, for what it is worth) and then proceeded to spend over six hours on their two hour update that landed at 8:30PM EST on Saturday in one of the coldest months of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. Genius planning, people. Good hustle. Throw in a very small loan of §30,000 to bribe the masses even though the money isn't worth anything because the tuning on money objects is much too high and a secret special object! Perfect.

Complaints about Sim Nation​

The last thing you'll see before Henrique gets your credit card number.​

Complaints about Sim Nation are about as common as the cold. Two came up in the Piggybank and Queen's Money Island discord chats recently and they are worth a brief look. The first is about the written rules of SN and their enforcement and the second has to do with the ripple effects caused by multi-simming. First let's head to Queen's.

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The question is asked and rightly so, is Epstein Island allowed in FreeSO? And the point Meow raises is that she witnessed the owner of the game, Henrique walking into her lot to change the info screen because it violated his "no politics" rule. Admittedly this is a hard rule for Meow to follow; if you plan to hang around her, you had better have the correct politics or know how to shut up and let her yammer on about the price of bananas in Alaska. No politics, but pedophilia is a-okay. And as of this sentence being written, the Epstein house is still in-game on the monitor. Apparently Henrique could not be bothered to deal with this one.

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And if any of that is upsetting to you, you should know that it is against the rules to rage quit. Go ahead and look at the image above. It is right there in the rules. Section 4, subsection 2: avoid toxic behavior like flame wars and rage quitting. As the QMI people ask themselves, how exactly does Henrique know if a player has rage quit? Actually how often does Henrique even play the game to know what is going on? It turns out that this also came up in conversation.

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The picture being painted throughout all of this is of a management staff in confusion. They probably need help, but that does not appear to be coming any time soon. This compounds a couple of other problems that the game has; chief among them being the imposter problem. Sim Nation has been around for years by this point, just like FreeSO had been. And long before FreeSO announced their closure there was a small migration to SN from FSO. When the big migration happened after FreeSO's closure was announced, a bunch of people got into Sim Nation only to realize that their names and appearances had been taken and people were pretending to be them.

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Imposters roaming around using the names and faces of other people is so mundane at this point that their conversation about it is downright casual. Nobody seems to consider the dire issue of not being able to tell which user is which user; or perhaps their attitude stems from an understanding that it doesn't matter how much they complain because the staff are not going to step in and help with this one. And sure enough they have not. Unless someone steps way out of line with their impersonation, the imposter gets to stay and you have to deal. And you had better not rage quit or you're banned.

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The Rest?

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You've seen the original game The Sims Online and the first successful custom game FreeSO; with the latter's closure, much of the community has moved to Sim Nation. But what about other servers? Sim Nation existed long before FreeSO even announced its closure and there have always been smaller, niche builds of the game. Let's take a look at some of those now because there are some nuggets to be found out there.

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DramaSO (DSO)​

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With FreeSO in the rear-view mirror, a race began to create the next TSO client. Even with Sim Nation alive and well, a large number of the FSO community disliked the higher skill rates, increased payouts and multi-simming that was unique to that game client; many saw it as making the game too easy. And so multiple teams set out to use the FSO documentation to build their own Sims Online with all of the quality of life improvements that they had always wanted. Several teams used AI to assist, a few hired out others to do the work instead and then a couple people with actual talent also tried. And then that last group was the first one to develop a functional game client and they named it "DramaSO", made a reference to Angel Mist and immediately turned half the community off of the game. Oops!

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As far as any actual drama is concerned, not much is happening at DSO right now. But the game is under heavy development and at least for the early months has been a hotbed of new ideas and experimentation. They have a small but loyal community and are likely the second or third most popular TSO variant right now after Sim Nation. Now let's go back a step and take a look at some of these new developments.

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Okay, so maybe there is a little drama over in DramaSO. We will start from the top first image and work our way to the videos at the end. Right out of the gate, the DSO development team showed up with a bunch of new objects and quality of life changes. They even fixed several existing items that have long been flawed. Around the start of 2025, the DSO team added what is called a "SMO tracker" to their web page; and before you ask, "SMO" means "single money object" or the things your sim uses to make cash which are not to be confused with "group money objects" or "GMO" which allow multiple players to combine their skills to make large amounts of money. This little information display on the DSO website tells players what the item of the day is, which is a handy service. Hilariously, about six hours later the Sim Nation team rolled out their big new update which included this awesome new API feature that allowed users to track skill money objects from outside of the game. The second image details some of the salt from the DSO team.

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Not to be put down, DSO released a purchasing scheme for skill locks as a way to stick it to Sim Nation and their legally-questionable Patreon that allows players to exchange real money for skill locks and in-game items. DSO's skill lock purchasing plan only works with in-game currency and helps prevent players from reaching an undesired plateau in terms of game progression. This is a common thread with DSO's development: they are actually pushing the development of TSO forward in positive ways. This next one has a couple really cool features including Minecraft-like blocks that you can build and create with in-game, something not found in any other custom TSO client. They also allow users to rent roommates to help make their early-game experience easier in light of the fact that there are fewer players; this addresses a longstanding problem that FSO had with player numbers. Further showing that they know their audience, they reinstated an old glitch that forced a sim to walk around a lot naked as it tried to pathfind its way to the bathtub. So there's that, too...

And last but not least, two videos to show their best stuff. First up is a simple one but the sort of thing you would have expected to be repaired years ago. They fixed the traffic jam problem with the dishwashers. Usually if multiple sims tried to use a dishwasher at the same time or if their actions queued up to drop off their plates, it would turn into a cluster. A simple fix solved it but it begs the question: why did it take so long? And lastly we have a video demonstration of the "prims" system that allows Minecraft-like blocks to be plopped around the game. The video posted here is unlisted but this guy goes by ChuggersLR on YouTube (site - archive) and he has some interesting video game content

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Update! It looks like they did one of those community canvas projects over a couple of weeks and they had a a good turnout. In completely unrelated news, Sim Nation has been pushing timelines further and further back when it comes to updates and features. When things do finally come out, it is days or weeks after the fact. It begins to strain credulity when you consider that DSO is being made by a handful of people in their spare time and enjoys regular updates and brand new features, while SN enjoys significant financial backing to the tune of several hundred dollars per month and yet it is unable to achieve goals and meet deadlines.

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DramaSO at the very least has been an interesting look at the potential that this old game still has and how it really didn't take a ton of extra work to provide the community with a bunch of the changes they've been requesting for years. As always, stay tuned to this one. Hopefully it makes good on the promise of its name and delivers some solid drama to us in the future. Or maybe they'll change the name. Place your bets! And if you get yourself an invite or two just saying if you wanted to maybe send one of those this way...

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Serenity​

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The best place to start would be the funniest. Welcome to Serenity (site - archive), the drama-free alternative to FreeSO, brought to you by some of your favorite fuck ups from FreeSO! Serenity rose up out of the ashes of the bad drama of 2022 and 2023 that broke apart large sections of FreeSO's community. They explicitly made phrases like "calmness" and "no drama" part of their branding and even the game client itself is named serenity of all things. No way it could fail. Unrelated, how important are backups when it comes to managing a persistent network with a hundred users? We will get to that answer shortly. But first let's meet the staff (site - archive) over at Serenity.

From left to right: Sean/GayBrat, Oliver Lucas, Kat and Brandon​

This is the team meant to pilot us toward a drama-free future. Sean and Kat are your standard order terminally-online, parasocially-minded individuals, but there may be more on them later. Brandon is his own special kind of exceptional and he and his on-again, off-again girlfriend have their own small section on page two. [pending] And then there's Oliver, the "tech guru" of the Serenity team; in his own words "We will never part, since we are together forever at this time! I am your coder and I am your helper. If you need help just message me and I will help you get up and running." So remember: this guy is a tech guru and will be here forever to help us out. Got it? The following two images are pure cancer until you really know what you are looking at. A proper explanation will be given in the paragraph after.

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Basically, Oliver the tech guru is busy shifting their resources over to a new server and reconstructing all of it and testing and all that. Needless to say the community is excited; the prospect of better performance and more room for future expansion is tantalizing. After a minor hiccup with the installer, the server is swapped and everything finalized and the game put back online. Players begin to stream back in and all is well! Until the glitches start to crop up; innocuous things at first but then people begin losing skill locks which are a big deal seeing as the number of locks a player has to keep their skill gains from decaying are tied directly to their sim's age.

No big deal, Oliver is going to hit the sack and come at it again in the morning with a fresh mind. Except that when he does that, he still cannot solve the problem and suddenly his VPS has gone down and he needs to contact the company to get that all sorted out. Users of The Kiwi Farms are probably finding some of this a little familiar. While the VPS people are on the line and doing their thing, Oliver decides to run a backup. A short while later he reports back that he was nearly finished his backup when the backup failed. Darn!

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Moving along to the next day, the game is still down and the VPS is only just running and Oliver is now fighting over a Windows update that has wrecked everything. He finally sorts that out and gets the OS running correctly again and he's beaten back some people on the Discord that are getting impatient. The server starts up and players join and... the game is no longer saving progress correctly and people are losing their work. Consider that they've been without their game for days and probably played a bunch when it came back, only for the system to fail to reconcile at its daily server restart. Oliver goes back into the machine and this time he can't get the server to reboot correctly. Uh oh. And that's it. Server is toast. The game data is lost and everyone has to start over again.

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But what about the backups? Can't Oliver just use one of his backups? It turns out that his backup, the one which failed with just a little more progress to go was in fact the first backup he had made in quite a long time, possibly ever. This tech guru didn't even think to back up his own data which dozens of people were dependent on for their daily enjoyment.

That's all there is to say about Serenity for now. And if you are in the market for a tech guru, consider passing on Oliver Lucas.

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Free My Land, Our Sim World and FML Reloaded​

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Considering that FreeSO had developed a reasonably-sized community, it is no surprise that over the years several other game clients were released. It should also be no surprise to learn that these spin-off game clients were not too successful beyond their initial launch weeks. Using the plot laid out by Free My Land (site - archive) and Our Sim World (site - archive), this is the roadmap you can expect from most FSO-derived game clients:

1. The call of "Hey we've made a new client, everyone! Come on in! There's free shit!!" is sent out to the masses and everyone hurries over to the new game to get in early on the action; this includes item and cash giveaways early-on to jumpstart the economy and encourage growth. Additionally, people want to be there early in case it becomes the next big hit and to have a higher age than everyone else. It cannot be stressed how important your sim's age is; my friends, it is as important as the stickers.
2. People collect all the freebies and enjoy a few days of honeymoon period. Most drop off, some will keep playing normally and several will spend way too much time building their lots and grinding skills and cash. We're talking about people grinding up several skills (well beyond the initial 20 skill locks that a player starts with) and fighting against skill decay for hours upon hours to cobble together enough to fully upgrade their lots and construct their home. For those of you that have not played the game, most casual players will never have the resources to build the types houses the likes of which I am talking about here and the hardcore players will accomplish this feat in a week and a half.
3. Even the normal players have decided to leave the game which is barely a month and a half old and we're down to a dwindling handful of players that have gotten pulled into the sunk cost fallacy of The Sims Online. They've put so much time into building their stuff, they cannot just abandon it!
4. Seven people (non-concurrently) continue to play the game for an undisclosed amount of time and have fun. At least one of them is multi-simming. One or two individuals keep up the vigil over on the Discord channel, sweetly posting "good morning" and "good night" pictures and it actually is kind of wholesome.

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So that about sums up the life and times of a never-was client fork. They're largely quiet communities with a small number of people that kind of hang out and do their thing. To say that they are uneventful would be accurate and it seems as if the players there prefer it that way. It's almost like having your own private TSO server.

5. (hidden path unlocked!) You've created Free My Land Reloaded (site - archive) and all there is to say to you is whoa buddy. Why don't you have a seat? We'll have to crack open this FMLr thing and take a closer look.​

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In the strange and interesting world of The Sims Online, FreeSO and the rest, Free My Land Reloaded holds a special place in terms of retardation. All the better that it was live streamed and recorded. First the details. Just like any other spin-off client, FMLr started with an idea to make a new game and the drive to make it happen. Our main player is a guy named Muerto, also known as iamsickflowz (YouTube channel - YT archive - Social Blade - archive) and a random community member named Mr. V. These guys are the dream team and they're going to make the big one. Pop the champagne because it's already a lock.

You can trust this face...?​

Wouldn't you know it? It was a bit harder than they thought. Before we go further, one important thing to note is that Mr. V was in fact facilitating the use of the server and Muerto simply paying Mr. V to do all the work. They made some early progress and had a launchable prototype that was able to operate a sandbox instance, but the real, playable server was still far off. Regardless, the pair decided to begin setting up a team and putting out feelers to the existing communities for players to join the new server-in-progress. Enter our bit players, a woman that went by the name Kahlua and our friend Glitzy/Ella, who you can read about in the second post. They jump in as staff, along with a somewhat popular player (wait for this twist) by the name of AirRockStar. Reminder that there is still no game yet.

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Now is a good time to bring up the general stance of the FreeSO administrators with regard to rival servers; the FreeSO admins were not going to go after you for making your own custom server, but they were less tolerant when it came to poaching their players. At some point, Glitzy and Kahlua remembered this and Glitzy bailed from the project entirely. Muerto, for some reason decides to create a new sim in FreeSO using Glitzy/Ella's personal information and he catches a ban pretty fast. And now things start to get really silly. Days later a "town hall event" is announced for the new FSOr closed beta client. Because of the incident on FSO was still fresh in the minds of many of the game's players, the town hall was very well attended.
Further explanation after the town hall:

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The most important thing to note in this video is that the person speaking is Muerto and that the person posting as Davisss is actually FreeSO admin Véliocasse. Upon realizing who he is speaking to and who exactly is making the accusations toward him, Muerto freaks the fuck out. The FreeSO admin is telling Muerto that he knows that Muerto could have used his privileged to the FMLr beta server to gain information about Glitzy, which he later tried to leak to the community; that isn't to discount the possibility that Glitzy simply told him, as by this point in time her nudes were floating around, but the community has gone with the former rather than the latter. Either way, the result is a complete shit show on top of a trash fire. Muerto ends his town hall, nukes the entire Free My Land Reloaded server and then (according to former project staff) called up his bank and did a charge back on the money he had sent over to Mr. V to set up the whole thing. Supposedly Mr. V is going to sue for money owed but we all know that story.

Where's my heart monitor...​

It gets a little stupider though! Let's bring back those bit characters of Kahlua, Glitzy/Daniella and AirRockStar. The implosion of the FMLr project left a unique imprint on this group, which had by this time carried on their FSO presence like nothing had happened; all the better that the trio lived at the same house. The only problem is that Daniella is a stupid whore and can't put the crack pipe down long enough to not be a paranoid nuisance. She got so freaked out over the prospect of being discovered as former staff and not just a player of FMLr, that she threatened her house mates Kahlua and AirRockStar with exposure of their roles if they blabbed. Kahlua apparently didn't really care, while AirRockStar decided to capitulate and treat his queen the way she deserved; and wouldn't you know it, since the house belonged to AirRockStar, the other roommies could simply eat a dick. This went over about as well as a lead balloon and because Kahlua wouldn't fall into line, Glitzy got her banned from FSO for her role in FMLr's staff.

AirRockStar's role in this little gay drama is not generally known, so you've heard it here first.

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Good news for the FMLr project! It appears to have been resurrected and there is a client to download for anyone insane enough to grab it from their Google Drive. You can find that yourself if you really want. But check out these staff bios! So many angry, bitchy remarks. You really have to marvel at the hatred these people hold in their hearts over the rigged zombie corpse of a mediocre online game from the early 2000s. They truly hate one another and feel absolutely wronged. Every single one of them takes a shot at one or multiple other TSO fan servers.

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Cape Kare (CK)​

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We can't leave our friends at Cape Kare (site - archive - YouTube) out of the fun, but for them we'll keep it brief because there isn't much to say other than the fact that they exist. This is the definition of one of those smaller servers that bottoms out on the TSO hype cycle. Cape Kare has its dedicated players and not much else, but that is what they enjoy. For the purposes of this thread? It's pretty light on the drama. But CK does represent a long-lasting project that is small but does have enough going for it that the people who are there keep coming back. And for that they get an honorable mention.

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There's More?​

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While there isn't too much left to add, there are a few other clients being worked on. Most are stuck at what is called the "CAS phase", which is the Create A Sim portion of the game's start up during which a player designs their sim. Most people are able to get their client functioning up to the point where they can make a sim, but generally find progressing any further to be increasingly difficult. So assuming any of these groups can get past this filter, there may be even more clients out there to enjoy.

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Thank you very much for your time and attention. Please check back occasionally for updates and additions.
If you have spotted an error or have a contribution, post about it or send an email.

BUT WAIT!
Select-A-Sim mode has been unlocked. See the next post for details.​

 

[Demon Mist]

AirRockStar Presents: Faces of TSO

Table of Contents : Click to Navigate
Page One - The Big Drama
Page Two - People and Events of Interest
Page Three - Sim Nation and the Rest
→ Page Four - Select-A-Sim ←
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This post is meant to be a showcase of the players of The Sims Online and its various offshoots. The pictures here tell the story of a community. They have been harvested from several Discord servers relevant to the game and were provided by the players themselves. Many of these images include startling amounts of information and poor opsec. The range of time is mostly from 2020 to the present day. Feel free to pass judgement and otherwise have fun. Most are pretty normal people but there are definitely a few golden turds in this pile of dirt. Also there are a couple that might be the same person but it was hard to tell, sometimes ugly is just ugly. A few of these people insisted on posting pictures with their children (!!) and in those cases the children have been blocked out.

We have taken the liberty of breaking them up into groups of 20 for the sake of keeping this page manageable. Now then... start the music!

↓SELECT YOUR SIM↓

Spoiler: Sims 1-20

Spoiler: Sims 21-40

Spoiler: Sims 41-60

Spoiler: Sims 61-80

Spoiler: Sims 81-100

Spoiler: Sims 101-120

Spoiler: Sims 121-140

Spoiler: Sims 141-154

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[LolcowsESL]

Good.

 

[crackers breakfast]

the simps online
couldn't handle myself sorry

 

[Shape Rotator]

Great OP, can't wait to read more. Also, just want to point out that the heart monitor results this nutbar posted are perfectly normal.

 

[Hellfire Club]

I can help with Portuguese if still needed

 

[Demon Mist]

I can help with Portuguese if still needed

That would be great. Thank you!

The last update for today (besides some spell checking) just went up. We can talk.

 

[Inside your walls]

I am looking forward to this thread. I am not surprised that the The Sims Online is still full of unhinged people going at each other's throats to autistic levels.

Even prior to its revival, TSO had a rather "interesting" community to say at least. During its OG runtime, The Sims Online even had an autistic online mafia that would extort players and even ran cyber brothels in game.

These are very lengthy videos that discuss these things in detail.

But if you don't want or are unable watch these videos here's the gist of it. During it's hay day TSO's player base was highly competitive to be the most popular and beloved player, this competition was so extreme that popular players would go extreme lengths for it such as sock puppeting to target other players that presented competition, doing gay ops, hiring people to send death threats to these players. This constantly online gang wars led to in-game organizations that would extort players for Simoleans if they wanted safety and avoid being targeted. The cyber brothels were ran very questionably because some former TSO players came out admitting that they started their career in this field as underage teenagers and that nobody really questioned this.

If you're more curious about this there this interview featuring one of the key players behind this whole thing (archived version).


This whole Sim mafia discourse was something so unique that its story even managed to break into 2000s normie sphere (similarly like to WoW's Corrupted Blood Incident) that it even got an article about it in the NYT (archived version) and G4 covering this whole ordeal.

preservetube link

 

[waffle]

This looks great sofar. I refreshed the page after just getting OP and the first thing I saw was the Confederate Weed Roof. My body is ready.

 

[Demon Mist]

This looks great sofar. I refreshed the page after just getting OP and the first thing I saw was the Confederate Weed Roof. My body is ready.

Nobody could have known how much damage that stupid fucking roof would cause... a roof and a lighthouse. Flag on the Moon. How did it get there?

Anyway refresh everything, it has all been updated and read through again.

 

[Shuhalo]

I got fucking flashbanged by the Confederate Weed Roof.

Godspeed Demon Mist, this has potential to be an incredible thread. Niche internet communities are so full of mongcunts, and with its age, there is endless milk here.

 

[THE SUPREME ONION]

the soy sims

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Please ditch the gay colors and fonts. Otherwise it's all interesting.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Nice informative thread.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

This is a very well rounded and thought out thread. Tons of info.
In addition to The Sims Online and aside from the thread in Video Games would this technically serve as the main Sims/Maxis/Will Wright/Bella Goth/etc thread?

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

This is the sort of autism I come to the farms for. Good work.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

This looks like a screenshot from Second Life. Literally. The square grid on the floor, the jaring backdrop. Shit, most newbie-adjacent people on SL are the exact type who'd play Sims. Old, retired, and/or disabled. They'd probably SL more too, given that it doesn't require 50 hoops to be jumped through.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

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Hat pulls are a pretty big deal in TSO.

You know the road ahead goes to good places when we're getting phone pictures of messages on a computer screen.