itasca00 wrote: Sat Dec 22, 2018 6:31 pm Okay, Day 2 of Dilmas. I got to watch this one in an airport, which is why this post is a day late. Unlike some other videos of The Sims, I was never bored watching this video, but I don’t think it was anything exceptional. Still, I feel like I have to try to savor every moment! Here are my highlights:

• [0:00] Yet again, Dan’s starting the video off right with some cute alien noises.
• [1:05] This was a stretch, Phil.

  D: Look at that. It’s just the two grey parents--
  P: Two grey parents--
  D: --a pink dog, and a--
  P: --and a--
  D: --an angsty alien teen.
  P: --big D. He’s got bigger.
  D: *grimaces* D for delete.

• [1:59] Dan and Phil say that the thing that immediately happens after an older sibling moves out is the younger sibling taking over the older sibling’s bigger room. I was wondering if this applied to Dan and Phil’s lives, then Phil says he “bagsied” the bigger room when he was a child, implying that there was no need for him to change rooms when Martyn moved out.
• [2:55] Dil starts destroying one of the snowpals. This is Phil’s observation:

  P: This is brutal! Straight in the balls!

• [5:09] This back-and-forth perplexes me.

  D: What does shoveling snow mean?
  P: I don’t know.
  D: Isn’t that, like, getting it out of your driveway?

• [5:40] What are you implying, Dan?

  P: I think that should be Dalien’s bed now.
  D: A teenager with a single bed?
  P: Yeah.
  D: If you’re gonna be a teenager with a single bed, it better be called “The Eminence”--
  P: It will be.
  D: --have a five star rating, and look like a space pod.

• [6:33] Dan rolls his eyes. I like it.
• [7:43] Interesting insight into Dan’s younger self:

  P: Any spiderwebs is totally emo.
  D: Yes, exact--So green spiderwebs.
  P: Yes!
  D: There we go. Yes!
  P: Amazing!
  D: That’s like, “I’m 14, and this is style!” Okay. No offense. I’m just talking about myself.

• [9:41] Dan imitates Nuki in the most attractive way possible.
• [9:59] Sometimes I wonder if Dan actually still does this.

  P: Oh, he’s glowing with blue.
  D: Same, honestly. Wow.
  P: He needs to do a face-down lie on the floor like you, Dan.

• [10:15] “Choke us to death.” Right.

  D: And oh, my God! Pause!
  P: What?
  D: People are gonna choke us to death.
  P: Why?
  D: How long has this video been? It’s been, like, several minutes so far. HIs mum sent us a frickin’ letter in the--I am so sorry we forgot about that. Right.

• [10:59] Dan repositions himself in his chair and rubs shoulders with Phil in the process.
• [11:32] Dan and Phil both stick their tongues out. It’s very cute.
• [16:00] Dan and Phil both agree that there should be an alien of each color in their club.
• [16:09] Black hair and glasses...yep, looks like Phil!

  D: Which of these three strange adult men looks the least creepy?
  P: I think Derrick looks the friendliest.
  D: He’s got gla--He looks like you!
  P: I know! That’s why.
  D: That’s literally you.

• [16:35] Dan wants us all to know that Phil would love to be probed by an alien.

  D: We have to all be aliens and WooHoo.
  P: You can make a s--alien sex club?
  D: Oh, it’s one of those clubs. You can make a Woo--And unlike grilled cheese, Phil would join that.

• [17:28] Again, I can’t help but wonder if this applied to Dan and Phil’s real lives at some point.

  D: We hate viewing art ‘cause that’s what my lame older brother does.

• [18:34] Thank you, Dan! I wish my friends knew this cold, hard, objective fact.

  D: Or the Discotheque Pan Europa.
  P: Maybe.
  D: No, you can’t have a conversation in a club.

• [19:18] Dan and Phil read out some club handshake options. While they’re doing so, they also imitate some of them. It is excellent content.
• [22:00] Dalien and Derrick do a secret alien handshake. Afterward, Dan and Phil imitate a portion of it by touching fingers. It is, once again, excellent content.
• [22:44] Phil notices an option to “Scare With Probe,” and Dan is upset by this option. At [22:57], we get to see Dan and Phil’s reaction to “Scare With Probe” in action:

  P: Oh!
  D: Oh, my God! I just got whisked. Oh, d--Oh--Oh, my--Du--d--d--It’s a duck. Really frickin’ Sims?
  P: I did not know that was a thing.
  D: Is that was they did--Is that how Dil got pregnant?
  P: Stuck--
  D: Is that how Dalien got made?
  P: Got the duck straight in there.
  D: Frickin’--Wow, he got quacked in the crack.

• [23:48] Life advice from Dan:

  P: He’s going as an alien?
  D: Look.
  P: Is that an issue?
  D: He’s living his truth. You cannot introduce yourself t--to people as somebody you’re not. You have to show them who you are--
  P: Okay.
  D: --and then if they love you, then that’s how it works.
  P: Sure.

• [24:33] Interesting trivia about Dan and Phil:

  P: Would you have the power to read people’s minds if you could have it?
  D: Um, no.
  P: I think it’s very dangerous.
  D: I--I don’t wanna know what kind of creepy crap you’re all imagining.

• [28:13] Dan and Phil play with Drago:

  P: I wonder if he’ll open his eyes.
  D: If that happened, I would literally just poo on you right now.

• [28:22] Drago opens his eyes. Dan is fully jumpscared. This moment was a wonderful early Christmas present.
• There is only one set of social media links this time, which is a relief. Individual merch links point to shop.danielhowell.com and amazingphilshop.com. I find this questionable while the combined shop is in operation, but I won’t complain.