Ta-dah!! I'm learning to convert stuff, finally! It's all thanks to GoS's "Conversion Immersion" theme, so head on over to take a peek. It's a dual theme with "Sim's Best Friend" and so there's also some new stuff there for pets!

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I think one of my favorite creative joys is seeing how many different things people can do with the same concept. give ten writers the same starting point, or basic plot, or set of tropes to use and you're still going to get wildly different end results

the details you focus on, the ones you omit, turns of phrase, tone, and framing, the cadence and tempo of the sentences themselves, all the little fingerprints you've left littered across the prose — how you tell the story matters, and your personal voice is what makes it unique

Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

Yesterday was a really hard day for my son. He was in complete meltdown and I had to carry him all the way home. He's heavy and I'm physically disabled myself, so aside from the emotional aspect it was also a physical challenge.

Admist a sea of dirty looks and judgemental comments I felt a lady pat my shoulder and quietly say "well done".

Moments like that are so, so important. A kind comment or affirmation can stay with someone forever, especially when they're struggling.

fashionably late 🧙‍♀️

𝑰 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆.

so again, I'm rereading howl's moving castle LMFAO and truly diana wynne jones' disdain for in depth sensory description is sooo cool. I think I've arrived at one of the most basic things that fascinates me about this book and that drew me in and it's something about how descriptive language and tone intersect. there's a lot of two-step visual description, but very little of the specific descriptive language I'm accustomed to. I can know that something looks lightweight because of the way that michael is carrying it, or that the slime is green and has a weird reaction when you dump ash on it, or that michael obviously wished he had not spoken, or that from the way howls feet are braced it's clear he is exerting great force, but it's almost rare that there's a plain description of what's going on. even if there is a proper one, there's always an opinion or extrapolation at the end of it: the wind tore at sophie's face so savagely that she thought she'd end up with half her face behind each ear. generally what I find is that instead of inferring how a character must feel based on how they are acting, you get to make up the specifics about a character's actions or experience based on how the narrator tells you they feel about it. the writing isn't broken down into small pieces for you to put together; it's made of big ones. a single description hits about three different ideas, and there's another similar one in the next paragraph, and you have to keep up. it drives the story along at a committed pace as well as makes the magic system feel very unique, and then that uniquely maintained system becomes scaffolding for the story's themes to grow off of

Dream Launcher - The best replacement for EA Launcher by marcos4503

"What is Dream Launcher?

The "Dream Launcher" is a Launcher for The Sims 3. This is a Launcher developed to completely replace the game's original Launcher, developed by EA, in addition to being the "Dream Launcher" for every player who loves The Sims 3, just like me.

Although The Sims 3 is an incredible game, playing it today requires fixing a lot of things here and there, solve compatibility issues or bugs and other things. For example, there is a bug where the game resets all your settings if you update your video card drivers. For those using an Intel 12th CPU or higher, the game won't even open. If you are a gamer who likes to play with mods to deepen the gameplay or change things in the game, then everything becomes 5 times more complicated.

Dream Launcher was born with the aim of making the entire process of leaving your The Sims 3 in the most perfect state possible! Dream Launcher takes care of and manages your installation of The Sims 3 automatically, installing, updating and maintaining bug fixes, patches, graphical improvements and optimization, as well as giving you full control over every aspect of your game.

The goal of Dream Launcher is simple. You install your game clean. After that, all you need to do is install Dream Launcher. And that! With the Dream Launcher installed, The Sims 3 default Launcher will no longer open, but the Dream Launcher will. And with Dream Launcher you will NO longer need to mess with any game files, or spend hours on end installing patches, testing things, etc. You can have your game in the best possible state and ready to play in a few minutes and with a few clicks! Furthermore, Dream Launcher works as a ONE-STOP CENTER where you can do everything you want with your game. ENOUGH OF SUFFERING! :D

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i mean. was worth a shot 💻

4t3 Conversion: Short Curls Hair - Growing Together EP

This hair is super cute. It hasn't been converted as far as I know so I thought I'd do it. I can see my sims getting a lot of use out of this one.

I tried to fit the mesh as closely to the head as possible but it's not perfect.

Details:

custom thumbnail

teen to elder male sims

low poly count: 2600 poly

not enabled for random

scalp textures from "slight scuffle" hair by @sweetdevil-sims

Download: simfileshare / mega

- Secrets Post #853, April 19th, 2024

lina gordievsky

I couldn't pass this little guy up at the shop today. All of the others had their heads on straight, but he has a cute little tilt going on.

🌴Lowedeus' Neighbourhood Skies optimised (reduced texture sizes)🌴

(cleaning my desktop up and want to post this, sorry for the lame preview but i cba lol)

so this is an optimisation of those hood skies by lowedeus. if you encounter pink flashing, then these are for you! these skies are often listed in sims 2 starter packs and not many people realise how much of a toll it has on your game, being at 4k texture sizes. they are a staple for the game tho so thats why i optimised it

a general disclaimer is that if you use custom skies and horizon mods, they are one of the biggest offenders of pink flashing as those use HUGE texture sizes!!

all i did here was shrink the textures to some better sizes, like 1024x512 and 512x512 (the texture sizes here were different so thats why they're not the same)

it will overwrite the original files (these wont work with the others)

eta: these are not for simnopke's skies, but the originals are tagged above

another not eta: the original maxis sky is 512px only, that's what inspired me to do this as there's no reason why other textures can't be that size too

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credits - lowedeus for original files

it's been ages since i made buy mode stuff... so back on the monique'd computers train we go 😎 here are six new pc's for ts2, originally from @lumenniveus's gamergigs collection for ts4! all of course function as monique's hacked computers, and have 2 recolourable subsets 🥰

close-up previews are below the cut, and a collection file is included for ease of browsing - plus a readme. everything is incredibly low-poly, which ik we all love! if anyone has any computers they'd like monique'd, hit me up.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MF 🍎

credits of course go to @lumenniveus for this incredibly awesome set! i can never say no to more monique's hacked computers, and credits for those naturally go to monique herself 🥰

ITEMS INCLUDED

Artist's Setup AR1-3L - $1800, 837 polys Creative Display S1MTiQ - $880, 984 polys Crystallized AERO - $8400, 886 polys MAC Mini - $2800, 649 polys Mini PC AUR0R-4 - $1100. 574 polys Tower PC D4NT3 - $6400, 1182 polys

COLLECTION ICON

THINGS TO NOTE

All of the PC's are animated... or I at least tried to make them animated around the mouse area. LMK if that didn't really work!

These are compatible with screen replacements, as shown below:

if there are any issues that you find with this set, please don't be afraid to let me know! happy simming, and when you download this, do keep in mind,

Love, ~ Ky 🥰

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