My mind always goes to my long running Sims 4 save file that’s somehow lasted about 3 years despite the hundreds of mods (many of which are abandoned and a couple by a mod author who sadly passed away) and countless game updates in that time.

I’ve mostly played with mechanics as they exist in the game and mods but I’ve gone to cheats when it better helps the overall story I’m going for, or just I’m getting bored with a given branch of the family tree and want to move it along