{"id":50101,"date":"2020-02-05T05:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=50101"},"modified":"2020-02-05T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:22:48","slug":"after-20-years-of-the-sims-gibbering-everyone-gets-a-hot-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2020\/02\/05\/after-20-years-of-the-sims-gibbering-everyone-gets-a-hot-tub\/","title":{"rendered":"After 20 years of The Sims gibbering, everyone gets a hot tub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sims is twenty years old. You can celebrate in The Sims 4 with a free hot tub in-game item in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/the-sims\/news\/patch-2420\">birthday update<\/a>. There have been ups and downs. Parties and tragedies. That&#8217;s twenty years of simlish, twenty years of crying over gravestones, twenty years of walling little people up in closets, twenty years of kitchen fires, twenty years of pixellated sex, twenty years of missed work rides. Throughout two decades of The Sims one universal truth has emerged. Pooping and showering takes too darned long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sims is twenty years old. You can celebrate in The Sims 4 with a free hot tub in-game item in the birthday update. There have been ups and downs. Parties and tragedies. 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