simnostalgia:

Fun fact: A pretty big part of The Sims 2’s marketing was about how Sims were reactionary and were more capable of reacting in context to certain things. In fact, a photo was released in development with all stand-alone emotions Sims are capable of showing.

While the sims are capable of making other faces to indicate emotion, those facial animations are dependant of an a full body animation they are performing. This list shows all of the facial animations independant of the rest of their body.

This is why Sim’s faces in TS2 get stuck sometimes. One of these animations got “stuck” to the sims face.

“Oh… Oh my watcher, Heather. I had no idea.”

“Martin’s such a good man, and I… and I…”

“Heather…”

“I just took him for granted!”

“Shhh… Sshhhh…”

“He never stopped me! He never stopped me, Brittany!”

“I know…”

“Wh-Why? Why did he never stop me? And now I just…”

“You just…?”

“I don’t deserve him! I don’t deserve anything!”

 “Oh, Heather. I’m sure you can fix that-”

“Don’t even try to comfort me, Brittany. Nothing will work.”

“What are you talking about? All you need is to apologize to him, and–”

“You don’t understand!”

“What don’t I understand? It’s so simple! You feel bad for hurting Martin? Just go back to just him! Back to normal!”

“I can’t do that!”

“Well, why the hell not, Heather?”

“Because it could kill him! That’s why!”

“Wait–”

“I made a big mistake, Brittany. So big, I… I can’t…”