Poisoning Is Bad (Patreon)

I have a hard-line stance against modifying food to punish food thieves. I do not think being able to say "Well, I did it for me! I put laxatives in it for myself!" and having plausible deniability makes it okay to literally poison people. This is something that I really, truly, genuinely hate. I hate how often this is given as advice against food thieves. I hate the fetishization of revenge booby trapping. I think this kind of behavior is reprehensible not just because it's morally wrong to do, but because it's surrounded by this aura of "I legitimately think it's okay to do bad things as long as I can reasonably pretend that I didn't mean to". It's so scummy and nasty and I really, truly hate it.

So when I saw that one of the school chance cards revolves around poisoning a brownie with intent to harm, I immediately closed the game and changed it. The new strings imply your child has frosted a kitchen sponge and the other sim will simply be surprised by trying to bite into a sponge, and not literally confined to the bathroom due to a vigilante poisoning attempt (the successful buff referred to "spending a few hours in the can").

This is just a string change.

Notifications:
The mean kid swipes {0.SimFirstName}’s brownie, as expected. But today will be different. Yes...today will be different. {0.SimFirstName} thinks the mean kid will be very surprised when they bite into a frosted sponge!

The mean kid swipes {0.SimFirstName}’s brownie, just as expected. But what the bully WON’T be expecting is a sponge covered in chocolate frosting! Unfortunately, before {0.SimFirstName} can enjoy a self-satisfied chuckle, {M0.he}{F0.she} sees the mean kid offer the brownie to the principal in an effort to suck up! Oh no!!

Buff:
Chocolate-Frosted Sponge
Like the feeling when you think there's an extra step on the stairs, maybe biting into a brownie and getting the sensation of teeth-on-sponge will teach that kid not to take other people's food!