📩 Simblr question of the day: You can answer one or both parts of this question! 1️⃣ Part one: If you make Story posts, what do you do for scenes? Do you build them yourself, do you download lots from the gallery or do you download them from someone online? 2️⃣ Part two: If you make Gameplay/Legacy posts, what do you do for a house? Do you build it yourself, download a home from the gallery or do you download them from someone online? Additionally, do you build onto that home or demolish it and rebuild the house when needed? (E.G When another child enters the picture or someone moves in) ❎ If you do none of those for either half, what do you do? Do you use someone else's save file? (WIndbrook by Folking, Willow Creek + Magnolia Promenade by Theneighborhoodsave, Silent Pines by Silentpinessave... etc)

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it's rare that i do an entire build by myself, especially for this is the fall where everything is enormous and opulent absolutely NOT. i'll decorate certain rooms though!

i don't post gameplay, but when i do occasionally play the game, i almost always just use the gallery and don't even redecorate lol

Ok you know what, I put waaaay too much in the tags of the last Oceangate post I reblogged, so here's the gist.

I never expected to feel empathy for a bunch of billionaires who died doing something dumb with their blood money, but *Josh Peck voice* I do not control the situations in which my brain experiences hyperempathy. My brain likes to latch onto specific individuals' experiences and go "okay, now imagine in great detail what it was like to be [Oceangate victim] in the moments just before and during the implosion."

Tbh any story I see on the news will do this to me, so the reason I'm honing in on this one is because of the media coverage. If you wanna give me all those types of details about any other recent tragedies, my OCD will latch onto them next and do the same thing. But please don't. I don't particularly enjoy my OCD's horrific little movies.

There's also the fact that my dad's friend was supposed to be on that sub. No, he's not some shitty billionaire. My dad works in the tourism industry, and his friend knew some of the victims through that. He wanted to do a report on Oceangate, so he was invited to go for free if he wrote a story (assuming a positive one, but guess what? The stories he's writing now are more like "here's all the things they did wrong in building this thing"). He was gonna go along with his friend, Hamish Harding - who ended up being on the sub that imploded - but he couldn't make it last week. So he's alive (thank goodness), but his explorer buddies aren't.

And I guess that gives me a similar feeling to knowing that yeah, there was some innocent person on there: a 19-year-old who tagged along with his dad, who in all honesty is probably the one who took the place of my dad's friend, who would have also been an innocent tag-along. Just a news reporter who saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity being offered to him for free and wanted to take it. And that's much sadder and scarier to me than a ship full of people who were fully prepared and seemingly content to die on this trip.