If you got here to the Notes portion of this Substack, welcome! You just got into the most obsessive but also noteworthy part of my hyperfocus on the Sims, that extends for over barely 26 years at the point of this introductory note.

Here is where you’ll get the more longwinded and sometimes blabbery part of my thought process involving my gameplay and, most of all, my Harris Legacy. They are the reason any of y’all got to meet Roge Sims and for that, I love them so dearly.

I guess first things first, then?

I’ve already kinda talked about what this legacy is, where it came from and why I call this a “Reboot”, but I guess since I chose to have this longer text form, why not give you also the longer answer?

All started with this first photo, my first on my now abandoned Twitter account, which was created to share my little sims’ lives, first to an empty void, just because I thought that story should be told, and slowly but surely for a bigger and bigger group of simmers that became a community in which, still today, I feel warmly welcomed to. I first wrote in my native language, Brazilian Portuguese, but eventually jumped to English, where I could reach a larger group of players looking for stories to be enchanted by.

When I first started sharing the Harrises lives, I didn’t play much with poses, or Reshade, god damn it, I didn’t even know how to frame shit properly LMFAO, but it gave me so much joy being able to share that with other people who loved that game as much as me. It was very simple but I already loved them so much!

I guess that’s why I stuck with them in the ways I could through all these years; I started playing with them in January 2021 and since then, I had countless saves with my legacy break, I’d been burned out with the game, bugs had made me want to quit. One time or the other, I always had that itch to come back to them, gen by gen I fell deeper in love with them.

This legacy had already been through a “soft reboot” of sorts, circa June 2022, a year and a half after I started with them. My legacy save was beyond broken at that point, and with that I came up with what, still today, is one of my favorite narrative moments in my Sims gameplay ever: the “intersave” travel, which essentially gave me carte blanche to change whatever I wanted in my current gen, no questions asked. Maybe one day i can talk more about it in another one of these.

In between starts and restarts, I got to YA adult Gen 3 before I reached a point where I just couldn’t advance anymore.

But anyway, point standing (I said this would be a lot of talking) is that the Harris Reboot is my third time throwing my hat in the ring and trying, this time, to have my legacy go the way I have always intended to, but be it for game limitations or lack of my own skill at the time, I couldn’t.

This time around, I decided to stop being so careful and trying to pull justifications out of my ass to just pivot from corners I put myself in.

The Reboot is exactly what the name is supposed to make clear: I’m resetting the whole show, I’m going back to square one, where everything started but more than that: I’m taking everything I loved about their story and making it even better, fed by my grown love for them and all I learned with them and with all the amazing simmer friends I made through telling their story.

So, instead of starting with a recently off camera married couple with a toddler before infants even existed, I’m going even further back in time and I bring all the context missing from their story to explain how they got to the point they started in the first picture: a young couple with a child, living in the Evergreen Harbor suburbs.

How will the story change and how I came up with everything? This will HAVE to be something for another talk. I have already talked my ass off this time around.

If you, if anyone, reached this part, congratulations, your tism is just as strong as mine LMFAO I guess this is my way of saying goodbye, for now? I hope this was insightful for you; or maybe I just smoke too much, we’ll never know!

-Roge