twenty-one months? And whose adolescence lasted twice as long as their childhood? There's no sense of proportion, besides roughly doubling each age when you hit the next- okay, reasonably, infancy could last as long as pregnancy, but if pregnancy is nine months, Sim kids start school at the age of. What the hell is that hot mess? You're a teenager for half the length of your adult years, your university career is only two days shorter than it will take you to reach retirement age, and childhood is over in a relative blink of an eye? If you go off to college, that's another twenty-four days, adulthood itself lasts for twenty-nine days whether you go to college or not, and you can be a senior citizen for as little as nine days or as much as thirty. Childhood for eight days, the teen years for fifteen days. Pseudolus, the lyingest, cheatingest, sloppiest slave in all Rome, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Now, she may be the right length, but is she right for me?' 'Don't get me wrong, it's the proportion. There are zillions of ways to extend Sims' lifespans, even without hacks- aging off, elixir of life, murdering hapless townies with your pet abomination of dairy and consuming their essence- so it's not so much that I want my Sims' lives to be longer. It's not that Sims don't live long enough.
