Garden Of Shadows - All Custom Content
I've successfully scraped all of the available Custom Content that was linked on GOS from Mediafire, Box, and SimFileShare. (Mirrors on 4shared not included)
Of course, I can't go back in time to retrieve things that are already long gone but here's a .zip of 49 GBs of content. This is everything from the beginning of GOS to September 2023.
If you saw HugeLunatic's post, my response is here.
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Ah, now after reading some of 'Garden of Shadows' I feel so sorry for Olivia. I mean I also hate her for abusing Chris, Cathy, Cory, and Carrie. But oh my god do I sympathize with her so much.
Malcolm is such a pos. I fucking despise his character. I also find it really creepy how much he apparently hates his sons, but really wants a daughter. I know a little about 'the origin' and I know for a fact he has a thing for his daughter.
So Corrine Marrying his half bother didn't upset him because of the incest. It was because he wanted her to himself.
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Just finished rewatching Flowers in the Attic: Origins
Olivia will always be my favorite character, book or movies otherwise. This scene here where Nella (honestly, I love that they made her character here) tells Olivia that she doesn't have to replace one abuser over another.
Olivia, who had been ridiculed her whole life for not being feminine enough, not being beautiful enough, and acting too much like a man I fear will always try to find acceptance from men. I know that in the books and movies she distinguishes herself as strong independent woman, and yes, maybe she could have achieved that.
But at the end of the day, she is a crippled woman. She tries so hard to stir things into the right direction, she tries so hard to do the right thing. But in the end, it was never for the right reasons and she ended up straying far from being a good person. And she knows that, she knows that she's not a good person, but god how hard she fucking tried. She tried so fucking hard to be a good person that she fell into anther controlling man's arms because she thought she could be saved.
And I think at the end of this all, I think that's all she wanted. To be saved. She had tried so hard to save herself so many times, but in the end, she doomed herself. It was from her own choices that she doomed herself.
I love her as a character, she's so miserable and she can be so pathetic at times, but she covered it all in a face of looking strong and in dependent. When I first read Garden of Shadows, I loved her so much. She's so tragic and I know she wanted to love the children as much as she could, but she didn't allow herself because she allowed herself to be controlled by a man who she believed spoke from the word of god. The first man that controlled her told her of love, the second man told her about god. Two powerful things that many people believe in and she fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
I have so many things so say about Olivia Winfield Foxworth. But all in all, I love the tragedy of her, she could never be herself and be free because in the end, she chose to be chained down.
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@hugelunatic Hi, it's me, the person who scraped GOS! Sorry I couldn't reblog the original post so, here is my response.
First of all, I wanted to say. Thank you for everything you do for our community. You've really been a major part of The TS2 community from the beginning!
Second, you'll stop me from archiving when you pry the archiving software out of my cold, dead hands.
Do you know about Plumb Bob Keep? That's a real question because as the TS2 modding community gets ever smaller and becomes more and more insular it gets harder to know who is on what moderation team and who co-runs what. However, if you do know Plumb Bob keep you'd know that recently the owner died. Which meant that suddenly the entire community had to scramble.
Fortunately, they were able to get in contact with the family (in their time of mourning) to ask "Hey, sorry about the dead girl, can I has password please? I need my fix of virtual doll clothes"
I don't blame them for this. They'd obviously put a lot of time into this and the reason I know that is because I got approached to see what I could do when the site was offline and they were still trying to figure out what to do. Unfortunately, when a site's only existing documentation exists in the WayBackMachine that makes it basically impossible to scrape.
And this isn't even the first time this happened, when Yahoo Groups shutdown, ArchiveTeam had trouble talking to MOST older simmers because they were so fucking touchy about their content. Literally our community has a reputation for being obnoxious about TOUs and 'rights' to the point where they'd basically given up trying to archive anything that had to do with The Sims.
So if you thought that this was because I was concerned that you were running into the ground. Rest assured, I'm doing this in case you get in a fatal car accident so we don't have to call your mourning loved ones to ask the very cringe question: "Do you know about the forum from 2008 that your spouse/son/father/sister/daughter/mother ran? Can we have access to it please. I have recolors that I'd DESPERATELY love to get back."
As far as bandwidth goes, I do my best to make sure that I scrape with as little intrusion as possible and your load is lighter since you don't host any of the actual CC or even 75% of your own images.
Now, we could talk about what this really is: a pissing contest. But don't worry. I have no real interest in encroaching on your territory of running an alternative style sims 2 forum from 2008. I love GOS, or I wouldn't have made sure that it didn't fucking disappear into the ether.
But believe me, no one is choosing to look through a list of 10,000 zip files without images or descriptions as a replacement for a fully functional forum with like... images of the items. My archive of GOS is pretty much only for creators and people who know EXACTLY what they're looking for.
And that goes similarly for everyone worried about their precious TOUs in the comments of the original post. No one, and I mean no one, prefers to dig through an entire fucking ass ton of files labeled shit like "[POOKLET] SKYSIMS MESH 007 - UNNATURAL COLORS"
In fact, I've had several creators thank me because the scrape unearthed some shit they'd thought they'd lost. And if you don't like it, or me, get in line. I assure you there is metric fuck ton of people from patreon who hate me far more.
However, I would like to say that whenever you / or any other creator who is mad about this / literally any simmer, is searching for a dependency because someone got in some obscure internet drama and deleted all their cc or Mediafire got shut down by the RIAA or whatever the fuck.
You, for as "annoyed" as you are, will remember the big ass zip file and CTRL + F your ass to what you're looking for. And I'm going to say it now, for when that moment comes:
You're welcome. No hard feelings.
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Charmful shared the gifts I made for them as their Secret Santa, so you can get them too! There’s some new workout clothes for EF Sims on a basegame mesh, various themed recolours of the TSS Bullseye rug for hobbyists, some curtains, and some cooking-themed deco recolours. You can read more about them and download everything over at GoS!
... I’m also regifting. So sue me.
Another part of charmful’s gift was two new eyebrow bases, which I presented with a base of Io’s textures in Volatile because... they don’t play a Maxis Match game, and I am terrible, no good, very bad with realistic hair textures and colour actions.
So, I’m being super cheap and reusing these eyebrows with some new Maxis Match textures as today’s Madvent gift. Tis the season!
Download Audrey (top) and Wispy (bottom) Brows, Binned and Maxis Match @ SFS
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