A player of The Sims 4 has discovered one of the strangest quirks the game has to offer after choosing to garden at the worst possible time. In The Sims 4, a player's options will often be affected not only by place, time, personality, and profession, but also by mood. Moods work a lot more simply in more recent games, especially compared to the recently re-released Sims 1 and 2; the series now uses a series of status effects called Moodlets, which influence a Sim's behavior based on their circumstances.
And, as Reddit user Chaseroni_n_cheese recently discovered, Moodlets can make Sims do very strange things, like attempt to water their plants with their tears. This player attempted to interact with a small garden plot they had planted while their Sim was crying, only to see among the usual options "Water with Tears." They didn't go on to say whether they'd actually tried it or not, or what the results might have been - tears may be too salty for some plants, after all - but the mere existence of this absurd option was enough to send the Sims fandom into a frenzy.
While many players were already...
