I have a sim who shouldn't exist.

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So I was playing Sims 4 when I noticed a glitch. I have Island Living and the Magic Pack. Which means I have spellcasters and mermaids.

Now, in the Sims 4, when one parent is a spellcaster and the other is a merperson, there is a 50 / 50 chance of the offspring's type (the child is either a spellcaster or a merperson).

Admittedly I have a significant amount of generations, so it's not easy to keep track of everyone.

I stumbled upon a teenage sim with a family of various mermaids and spellcasters. Hybrids aren't supposed to happen, they are glitches. Yet the teenager was a hybrid. He had the menu of a spellcaster but with one major change - the hydration need that shows up in mermaids.

Sure enough, he had options to cast spells but also had mermaid abilities such as changing the weather.

However, he is one glitchy character. If you go into edit mode, he's listed as a normal human (despite having the spellcaster animation) and you can't edit his merman form.

I wondered if putting him in water would make him change into a merman. Sure enough it did, but it also broke the game. When he returned to land, he didn't change back into a human (which is what is supposed to happen). Instead he just... swam through the air.

I tried to change his clothes to fix this, but all of his outfits no longer existed. So I tried to change his clothes in edit mode, but he still refused to wear clothes.

When he went to school, he swam down the pavement.

Sometimes his tail randomly changes colour.

TL;DR due to an error, I now have a gravity defying merman wizard who refuses to wear clothes. I should probably delete him to fix the game, but it is amusing.

Look up "The Spiffing Brit" on YT, for his "infinite money printer" Sims video. It's rather disturbing as much as it is hilarious. (it's based off a glitch like the one you described)

Not dead, which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may die
Drain you of your sanity
Face the sim that should not be

I LOVE Sims! I get so involved with them that it drives my family nuts. I got so obsessed that I would get up very early to play when no one else would be awake and bothering me. Then I had to give up to keep the peace. I was also getting a bit tired of not understanding why the Sims responded the way they did. I wanted to go more in-depth with that line of thinking, but I needed to put it down to keep my family calm. I may go back in to play with the gnomes but who knows?

Thanks for sharing, I loved hearing about your streaking merman! I also love talking about them. Sims that is, not streakers.

you’ve got a funny glitch in Sims 4! Normally, a child of a spellcaster and a merperson is one or the other, but your Sim ended up as both—a hybrid. He has spellcaster powers and mermaid abilities like hydration and weather control. When he goes into water, he stays in merman form, even on land, and swims through the air. He also lost his clothes, and editing him doesn’t help.

Though it’s amusing, keeping him might break your game. Deleting or resetting him could fix the problem.

Ha, yeah, I ended up deleting him in the end because my game just came to a grinding halt. Deleting him did solve the issue.

The Sims 4, as a whole, has to be one of the most glitch prone games I've ever played. They have a habit of not fixing issues and just releasing new content instead. Not that I blame the development team, I know they're likely under a lot of pressure from management.

I think that The Sims has finally run its course. The Sims 5 has officially been cancelled so even the team behind it knows it.

I've since uninstalled and deleted all my saves from my sims 4 game. I'm looking forward to the release of Paralives. Especially the height slider and the ability to mix and match tops and jackets.

I used to play The Sims like crazy but stopped when got my Nintendo Switch with Animal Crossing.

Also when the covid pandemic happened I would feel depressed and anxious when playing The Sims. Maybe because I wanted my Sims to be happy and live long, successful lives and it was painful knowing the real world would never be like that, EVER.

Animal Crossing didn't have the same effect, probably because I play a solitary human villager surrounded by friendly talking animals with minimal contact with other humans.

Also EA Games is just pure greed and evil and everything a game company shouldn't be.