We actually do need to know the real reason Bella Goth is missing. It is quite important

the relationship meter altered my autistic mind . like when i see relationships im like "im at 74 with this person and im at 87 with that one" like it makes pertect sense to me

I like that you made your own version. it’s so much more pleasant to look at than the tiermaker ones :)

blessed: the beautiful, eye-pleasing colors of this tier list cursed: the hair with croissants at the ends

I remember playing the Sims 2 at the ripe age of 8 years old and my heart would start racing when they started playing the creepy robber music 😭

theres still nothing funnier than jessie putting a "im a snape anti now" on her cutboard stand of snape

tbh plumbella has altered my brain chemistry, giving you the handshake hen

The baby cooked in the barbecue in TS2, then eaten by the family, genuinely changed my life negatively

I’m a dedicated Sims 2 player and it took me a long time to start playing Sims 3. When I finally got around to it, I played Agnes Crumplebottom, romanced and married Eric Darling (ghost) and had twin daughters. I had just decided which twin was going to be the legacy and one day I had her (Jessica, no lie!) out harvesting the garden in the neighbor’s yard and she got hit by a meteor. I was shocked and devastated. And then a miracle happened. She gave the Grim Reaper a flower and came back from the dead! I had no idea either of those things were possible. I laughed and cried at the same time. She went on to get an epic tattoo to commemorate the event, traveled the world, became a ghost hunter, and eventually moved into her own house where I put her meteor on display in the front yard. That first night a burglar came and stole it. 😂 I love the Sims. I’m still playing Sims 2. I’m trying to learn to love Sims 4 but it’s hard. It’s really hard.

When my youngest was around five or so, she used sims concepts to vocalize her own needs and wants. For example, one night when she was going to bed she told me that her fun bar was in the red and she needed fun. It was so interesting how the game helped her communicate.

I was in my thirties when Sims 2 came out. My husband would complain at the cost of playing, and I would reply that it's a cheap psychologist. I swear it kept me sane. It gave me a way to explain to my husband that you have to have a high enough relationship with someone to have a dirty joke go over well. Lessons galore.

sims 4 really just needs more chaos and suffering just in game this time

I'd love to know why Bella's missing! I'm fully prepared to have my heart broken.

I just love how passionate Jessie is about the Sims. An absolute authority on the subject. Now all I want is a plumbella video about the Making Magic pack because it sounds so fun!

I never had a Twilight phase so Caleb and Lillith Vatore genuinely changed my life, my sims always end up marrying or woohooing one of them

i was talking to my partner the other day about how i genuinely think playing the sims as a little kid w undiagnosed autism has affected the way i interact with the world lmao. like every time i drive on a new road or go somewhere i haven't before i'm like "oh huh there's more world past where i usually go and not just a blank void"

Idk whether pink hair just suits you the best or whether I like it so much on you because it reminds me of Plumbella 2020 and honestly your channel carried me through the first months of quarantine. I CAMPED on your channel in hopes of new videos.

I can't look at the Makin' Magic pack or hear the music without losing it. I just want to be transported to that moment in my life, discovering that pack for the first time. I'll never forget the feeling I had looking at The Sims 2 leaflet and watching the teaser for it on the bonus CD. It changed my entire world for the last two decades. 😭💚🔷

The hot tub gives me a more positive vibe cause I didn't have the pack that gave us a hot tub so I was just glad to finally have a hot tub lol but I get it

i love that color palette so much, so nice on my eyeballs 😭

as a brazilian, i've studied in schools with uniforms and no uniforms. not having uniforms often meant more classism, more bullying, etc etc. however uniforms here are usually like ugly ass sweats and a white tee with the school logo embroidered. if i knew there were countries where kids wore these cute pleated skirts and shirts and blazers i might like. mail myself to the uk in a box to have them

I remember spending hours and hours reading those stories on The Sims 2 site but remember absolutely no details, just how much I loved them

Vidcund has unironically altered my brain chemistry. I'm coping and therapize so much through that character, I feel like I'm transforming.

This tier list was so amazing!!! And please make a video about the Bella Goth disappearance, I'd love to be in on the drama!!!

Jesse’s sims family that she always makes sounds a lot like the Dunphys in Modern Family

The tier: she's a beauty - stunning - aesthetically pleasing. Plumbella vibes: unmatched. My need to be entertained: pleased. Thanking you hen for your ongoing quality videos. 💞

Thank you Jesse! You always make me feel more positive about my autism. This community wouldn't be the same without you, and I cannot express how grateful I am for your videos. Love you ❤

Sorry but "genuinely negative emotional and physical response" Hearing this as an autistic person the FIRST sims trope I think of is them calling me to ask if they should marry their partner, me saying 'do what feels right' and then them getting mad at me for not making the life altering decision for them and saying I'm good for nothing 😭

I would love to hear the reason Bella really went missing! I love theorizing but I'm a fiend for the truth, no matter how painful

My mom and I also have death trauma! Like ever since my dad died a couple of years ago, we've always just had a thing about it. Like we're ok, but I also stress an abnormal amount about random ways the people I love can die. But like I'm ok

i want to be able to talk about myself the way you talk about The Sims: Makin' Magic because i'm not gonna lie i teared up

I'm with you. I couldn't bear to leave behind my fairy rockstar & his human husband in Sims 3 so I didn't start playing Sims 4 until 2017. And that was only after I found a ton of band/stage/music studio CC, and recreated my whole pantheon of sims in Sims 4. And here I am, in 2023 STILL WAITING for rock bands and fairies. AUGH! Yes to Caleb 💙 Speaking of vampires in books, most people recommend Anne Rice (which YES, I loved the first 4, after which, Anne sorta goes off the rails), and I liked the first 2 Twilight books, but for me, the series I've loved most were The Southern Vampire Series by Charlaine Harris (the one True Blood was based loosely on. Ok WAY too loosely. The books are SO MUCH BETTER.) Besides the vampires, I love her depiction of fairies as beautiful and deadly. So good. I've read some of the books in the series four or five times, and the entire series all the way through twice. LOVE. Just sayin'. :)

Sims 2 changed the way I thought of myself. It made me think about, how I wanted my life to be. I was 10 years old when it came out.

The most iconic Sims story imo was strangetown here we come (creator strangetomato), don't remember if it was on the Sims 2 exchange ever though when I read it was on livejournal. Never got into fortune and romance, but skell (creator) is still number 1 necessary cc creator for maxis match Sims 2.

Makin' Magic was a work of art. I also miss that feeling that only existed while playing it and spent so many hours playing it. Like, thinking about that game fills me with so much nostalgia!

I JUST NOTICED THE "I AM A SNAPE ANTI NOW" THATS FUCKIN HILARIOUS ILY

Your experience with Makin' Magic is the EXACT SAME ONE I had! I'm so emotional about this expansion!!

The making magic part was just amazing 😭

weird compliment but the thumbnail ate so hard babes xx

jesse i’ve been binging ur videos recently, and i just want to say thank u for being such a lovely human. i’ve been going thru a bit of a rough patch and ur videos bring so much comfort

"Made Magic" would be a perfect phrase on a headstone. So many questions, few would know, but everyone would think about it and therefore think about you

the way my heart would DROP when i was playing the sims 2 and the burglar music started playing

Making magic is the ultimate nostalgia. I didn’t have it but my best friend did, and I remember going to hers after school and sitting in the “computer room” for hours just making one family and then playing the next day etc 😭

I had the same emotional response to makin magic as a kid. And it completely surpassed all my expectations for what it could be. I miss that feeling of thinking magic could be real and just childhood dreams

I loved this so much! It makes me happy, seeing you happy... and the chaos... I live for it. I have a weird thing with the Sims 1. I remember the point bar things when creating your sims, I remember Sims Superstar, even owned a copy of it and played with... but I have no memory of the Sims 1 itself.

I have never commented here, but I love your content and personality! The community wouldn’t be the same without you ngl

OMG, I could so relate when you went off on Makin' Magic. Not so much about the pack itself, but about The Sims in general. I have been playing since the beginning as well, and the game is my one and only. It touches me so deeply. I'm a designer who also happens to be a control freak, who loves telling stories. It just hits all the notes. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone irl who shares my passion. I turn to you, and other KZfaqrs, who truly understand. When you were talking about MM and the Pastel Pop Kit, I could really feel your deep love for the game, and how much it has literally changed you. Me too babe, me too. 🥰

Yes please do a video on the Bella Bachelor/Goth mystery

In my sims 2 years I thought I was being SO scandalous and chaotic for playing with the Smith family and Pollination Technician. Tween me was truly shook to her core by their storyline.

Jessie!! You are not alone. I fear when anyone has to drive somewhere, when we have to fly somewhere, when we go to sleep. Anxious thoughts are exhausting! We're in it together.

The Sims Makin Magic is the reason I love french accordion music. That soundtrack is iconic and I love it so much

okay im late to this but THE MAKIN MAGIC PART YES. i have never related to anyone this much the way that making magic just shaped everything…it was the blueprint. the absolute ecstasy of playing it. i just want her back

The pastel pop kit is literally one of my favorite packs I’ve ever gotten from the sims franchise. So much fun to build with, you did such an incredible job! ❤

I love your videos so much! ❤ They bring me so much joy and comfort.

I LOVE chaotic tier lists. Talk about doing something to my brain lol, my whole mood lit up when you pulled up that tier list!

Caleb really be out here reinvigorating everyone's love for vampires. Any time I create a new sim and Caleb shows up at my door I'm just a mess ;3; Makin' Magic STILL holds top tier in my heart, it's my favorite expansion ever released for sims. Nothing has come close to it yet~

i was thinking about it and i think the things that really made an impact on me was the lore of the sims 2 when i was a child. literally was sitting on our trampolin and was just talking about the households and what i want to do as if my neighbours wouldn't see or hear me in the garten lol. i was just living my life talking shit about don with myself. i think it greatly influenced my love for lore in general not just the sims. then we have the caliente burglar in the sims 2, mummies in the sims 3 (played it with a good friend of mine and since the pc was in our basement room the shock when a mummy came, while we were exploring, was just priceless :D). the launcher actually traumatized me bc the amount of times my game had starting problems and this one constant error message, it just sucked the whole energy of my day. the sims 3 exchange was a big one, bc it was the first time i was introduced into cc and stuff. the 20th anniversary thing is just a joke to this day, the disrespect with that one was big ngl. honestly it is just crazy how much my friends and i grew up with the sims 2 and 3. a good chunk of what we were talking about in school, on the way to school and back was concerning the sims, when my friends could go home before me bc their french teacher was ill and i still had latin class, they sometimes left me notes/sketches on my bike featuring gunther, cornelia and the whole drama of gunther having an affair with vita whilst cornelia had one with the butler (obviously i still have those drawings) and so it just brings me back so much joy and nostalgia. edit:/ also, sims 2 machinimas, there are some really disturbing ones out there

"I'm forever chasing that feeling" - yeah, I feel that.

4:10 it’s an octopus on her head also the intro relatable after the loss of my grandma last Saturday and the fact my meds having had a chance to work so my mental health is bad bad but like ohhh well love you plum

I remember every thing on this list. We have the exact same feelings about making magic. Was so special to me I still have it on my shelf

Hey I just wanted to share that I suffer from bad chronic illness breakouts atm and your videos help me a lot coping with it! You always make my day💚

When you said that no matter how hard your life was, the sims was always there for you, I felt that so hard. 😢

Odd video to say this on, but I really love watching your videos! Your relationship with the sims gives me a lot of solace - I've a few video games that changed my life the way the sims changed yours, and a lot of people tell me that I needed to stop "rambling on" about it and get out and do other things besides play video games. I've gotten better at balancing the virtual world with real life, but I can't deny that these games "alter my brain chemistry" like you say here. The fact that you're out here making videos on the sims years later and even COLLABORATED with EA to make maybe the most beloved kit in the game is awesome - makes me happy that there's love out there for people who are "too obsessed" certain games. Thanks for making your content and sharing it with us!

Oh the sims 1 music sting for the burglar scared me so much! And i completely forgot about the Sims 2 stories until you mentioned them! I didn't read any fanmade ones tho

Totally misheard Eco Lifestyle as The Sims 4: e.coli Style and just.....didn't question it, like yeah sure everything's a pack now.

I was terrified of house fires from being taught about them in school (they made it sound to me like it'd definitely happen to all of us at some point) so when I had my first fire in The Sims I literally started to cry. Also my very first encounter with a ghost when I didn't know they were a thing in game startled me so badly that I had nightmares that night and couldn't play in the Goth household for a while xD

I'm with you on the Makin' Magic.... I genuinely look at it and get so nostalgic it hurts. I was in my early 20s when it came out, but I STILL want to go back to that time so badly! I listen to the Sims 1 music and reminisce all the time 🥰

The feeling of chasing the emotional state of playing The Sims 1 is something that is SO specific, but SO powerful. I don't know if I will ever be able to experience that kind of wonder and obsessive joy again in my life.

When I was in middle school, my younger sister and I got grounded from the sims 2 for a year because we had constant nightmares about our house catching on fire lol

I still have my Sims Makin' Magic guide!! It was my favorite pack and i am never getting rid of that guide

that whole sims makin magic rant made me resonate in a way that reminded me that i should go back to therapy. i absolutely love your videos, never change lol

The wolves in Siims 2 Pets changed my brain chemistry.

I miss TS1 and TS2 stories. I made some as a kid and it was a lot of fun! There was one specific TS1 story I was really obsessed with and can’t find archived anywhere.

I love the idea of player made scenarios! I’d make my own scenarios for legacy challenges etc for more motivation to finish 😅

you are one of the funniest youtubers ilysm

i used to read legacies on the sims 2 exchange!!!! ahhhh this brought back some CORE MEMORIES

The only childhood sims memory I have is going to an older friends house and having my sim self get sent to boarding school immediately. I was absolutely distraught.

Your manic rant about trauma caused by death is something I relate to on a spiritual level.

i definitely want a video on bella goth

I had the same exact experience with Makin' Magic, I played it literally all the time as a kid and I still think about it today!

11:51 “I’m scared of her” me too bestie. I laughed so much in this video ty 💕

Autistic girls and Bella Goth's disappearance, name a more iconic duo. I was obsessed with her tooooo

I noticed once I got back to sims 3 how much more I travel in that game compared to sims 4,, the loading screens really just create a barrier to doing anything and there's no incentive to explore around

I 100% share your feelings regarding Makin' Magic. It is the best thing that ever happened to the franchise. It gives me such magical warm childhood memories

Things that changed my outlook on life: your Tier list It is so beatiful I love pastels

These videos hit me right in the nostalgia every time 🥹

The upstairs of my condo is pastel so when the Pastel Pop kit came out I screamed and then when I found the out YOU made it I knew it was going to be awesome. Also Making Magic - totally agree. I also liked Sims 3 Supernatural a lot. I played that one so much

Your accent has severely altered my brain chemistry in a positive manner

i am the same with the constant worry about your parents. my dad died in me and my moms arms and while it was traumatic i thank god i was there because he was not alone and it was the 3 of us like it had been for so long. i am even closer with my mom after this of course and i genuinely have no idea what i will do if i do not die at the same time as her because if we don't go together i dont think i could handle it. i wish i had something more comforting to say about the constant worrying about our parents. its been almost 2 years and my brain still tries to deal with it by thinking oh he's just in his room napping, or he's at work. yeah the worry is gone but its been replaced with a different feeling. i know this is an old as video and this is a bit off topic but idk maybe somebody relates or it will help them. the best advice i have is take so many pictures and videos of the people you love that you have space for nothing else because that's got me through a little bit with my bro and dad but it's just not enough but idk if it ever would be enough but ya if anybody else is going through grief like this make sure you see a doctor for some meds even if it's just for a short period to get you through the worst of it

It’s odd because one of my earliest memories is watching my brother play the Sims and CPS teleported in to take the baby after we deleted every door

Loved this!! Always love your videos

My first game job was production intern on Makin’ Magic and it means so much to hear how much it meant to you ❤❤❤

Plumbella: yeah I have a lot of trauma with death Also plumbella: A bunch of sims died in a meteor crash and I liked it a lot Love you girl 😂❤️

I relate to this so much, on so many levels. Re: Vegan eggs, it's all about that tofu scramble! But black salt, imo, is a must. I ordered some from Amazon, it smells like sulfur - which makes sense, given that it tastes like eggs. It doesn't take much, and bc it is salt you don't need any other type... I love mine with sautéed orange and yellow peppers, onions and mushrooms. Mmmmm, so good! Tyfs! Hope you're having a great week! Best of wishes.

“And then I visited Hollywood and it just reminded me of Middlesbrough in a weird way… a hot Middlesbrough.” 🤣❤

Aww I like the effort you made to make it sims themed

the amount of emotional trauma, yet dependency i have for the Sims 2 exchange//launcher is insane. there are so many wacky Sims 2 machinimas i've watched and emo/vampire cc i have in my downloads right now from 2005, that if i lost i genuinely would cry and be upset.

Your sims 1 makin magic soliloquy was so relatable and I feel the same way 😭

The Sims: Makin' Magic also altered my brain chemistry, I totally understand the feeling Jesse described when she was talking about chasing that feeling again. Only I neer got that feeling cuz my computer never loaded the game, it was too much for it so I never experienced it

(I added this video to my Watch Later so only just watched it but) O M G the Sims exchange !!! What sweet memories! I loved those little flip-along stories, so much angst 😭I was an "overmodest orator" on the forum too, I miss that place. If I had my own tier list, I would add that Sims 2 installation mini-game you got (basically playing Snap) and put it in "neutral", because on the one hand it was fun; but on the other, it was a 50/50 chance my game would actually install on my terrible PC, so was a super tension-filled experience waiting to see if the installation would crash or not! Plus I thought that if you played the Snap game better, your game would be better...or something... failed logic there!