I watched this with a friend of mine, and if you have Apple TV + I will tell you to watch it. It is simply so good. And all the little bits in this YouTube video are 100 % right. Keep it in mind on a bad day!
"You know, sometimes your mind plays tricks on you. It can tell you you're no good; that it's all hopeless. But I've discovered this: you are loved and important and you bring things to this world that no one else can. So, hold on."
Sorry to all my #Sims3 fans but this is #hockeyseason and in Vancouver, that means religious following of our #VancouverCanucks,
Patrik Allvin, our GM just fleeced the ever-lovin’ shit out of the #CalgaryFlames (sorry to any Calgary, AB simmers
We just stole Nikita Zadorov
from Calgary for a 2024 5th and a 2026 3rd rounder.
Immediate help on our back end. And on top of that he’s a proven top four D. Plus he’s also a big D that can move bodies out from in front of our net.
THANK YOU ALLVIN!!! Man, we fleeced the ever-lovin’ shit out of the Flames and I’m lovin’it!!!
Turns out Zads was a Canucks fan as a kid. 😁👍. Loving this trade even more. Looking for some big hits to come tomorrow night. Man I feel sorry for the Flames forwards tomorrow night. After all, it’s been over three years since they were on the receiving end of Big Z’s hits.
Nikita Zadorov’s first Q&A as the newest member of the Vancouver Canucks.
"I have the size to do it, I probably have 50 pounds extra on most guys in the league so I'm going to use it," said Zadorov. "It's part of my game to play physical and break plays that way. I enjoy it and in the past couple of years I've really improved my offensive game as well, I scored 14 goals last year so I don't only bring hits, I can bring a two-way game for sure."
~evil cackle~
Looking forward to seeing him create a Jonathan Huberdeau sized dent in the boards at the Saddledome.
“I don’t know if blue fits him,” teased Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau.
Good try, Hubey!
What made you a Canucks fan as a kid?
"Markus Naslund and the Sedin brothers," said Zadorov. "Naslund, I really like him a lot, I think he was definitely one of my favourite players."
He’s gonna be putting on the blue jersey and the black skate jersey with a smile on his face. Sorry, Hubey. 🤣
Gonna be a good game tonight.
Debuting as #91 for the Vancouver Canucks, Nikita Zadorov😁👍
*nods* hard enthusiastic yes to all of that. love these tags immensely! martin doesn’t think of the ghost as jon, exactly, and even occasionally refers to the other as ‘it’ rather than ‘he’.
(but are we ourselves convinced the ghost is a person, both socially and legally speaking?..)
DO NOT USE TEMPLATES TO MAIL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!
So in case you want to use some sort of template to mail your representatives about the ongoig genocide in Gaza, don't!
To be clear: if you're planning on mailing your representatives about Gaza, DO IT! But DO NOT use a template!
Mail filters are easy to set up and deploy and WILL filter on specific sentences or patterns using regular expressions. If a mail server receives thousands of nearly-identical mails, chances are either the machine employs some sort of machine learning and it'll mark it as spam and disregard them immediately and/or some engineer will type up some extra filters to prevent more mails from coming through and cluttering up inboxes. Make no mistake: this is not hard to do and can be done within minutes.
If you want to get through mail filters, write it yourself. Do not erase typos, do not base your words on templates, but get personal. Do not let your voice get lumped in with spam runs!
Kind regards,
- Someone who has to deal with e-mail filters on a regular basis
So if you remember, I've been quite busy over the past 3 months because of a class I was taking. I promised to show you some of my work, so here are a few of my favorite assignments!
(lots'o pictures and video under the cut)
I took a 3D animation boot camp, and naturally before we started animating we had to learn how to model. The program we learned was Cinema 4D. I know a lot of you have learned Blender, and your first project was making a donut. Well...we had to make a freakin' ramen shop...with the ramen! 😂 I added the textures later once I discovered there was a library, but I didn't quite know how to edit them at the time, so they're not the best choice, but hey. I learned something.
I forgot to grab the pic of the ramen close up. Oh well. All of this was made with basic shapes. Nothing fancy. That comes next.
Next, we learned different modeling methods. The method used in this next pic is called volume modeling. Always sims on the brain lol.
After we got our feet wet with modeling, we moved into materials and "lights, camera, action," which was half the reason I wanted to take the class. I still haven't gotten the hang of lighting, but it's really hard period and will take a while to master. Materials are basically the colors and textures you apply on an object. I didn't make these headphones, but I did make the leather and fabric texture.
You will see these headphones again and again because I could not leave them alone lol.
Before we began the animation portion, we learned one last method of modeling. I won't bore you with the details, but basically taking one element and cloning it a bunch of times until you have something else. For example, we only received one piece of each skyscraper. The buildings were whole, but we only received one of each. We used this cloning method to make an entire city block out of just a few things.
Finally, we got into animating. There two other assignments before this that I did terribly on and I'll never show them to another living soul, especially since animation is part of my job LOL, but I'll show you the animated version of this city. The still image was actually made after the video based on some feedback I got. That's why things look different.
Not my best animation work, but whatever. Still learning!
Alright, by this point we're nearing the finish line. There were some other assignments about composition and what not, but for the most part it was all about animation from here on out. This next one was my favorite one. It was basically putting everything we learned so far (minus modeling) into practice. We had to take any previous project and make a 15 sec commercial/product showcase. You know I had to pick up those headphones! (sound on!!)
vimeo
I love timing videos to music. It's like the best part!
The next assignment was about camera movements and editing the video in After Effects. I don't have the before pic, but imagine this clip being brighter, a lot less vibrant, and having a cool tone at the beginning.
vimeo
And finally! The ultimate test! That was the actual name of the project lol. Bring it all together and make something great. I modeled every single thing you see (though not very well LOL. gotta practice!) and created all the materials except the picnic table. It's in no way perfect and I plan to go back and make many edits, but I did it y'all! I've been working on this little by little for the past 3 weeks. Enjoy! (sound on!)
One of my favourite things in the world, waking up in my own cozy bed, covered in sleeping cats (there's normally at least two), the rain pattering on the window and knowing that I don't need to get up for another hour or so. And when the cats realise I'm awake they snuggle in closer and start purring. It's wonderful 😊
Went like 95% Maxis Match! No big plans for this cutie, just wanted to play around in CAS for the first time in almost a full month.
Gonna get a nice little witchy cottage core lesbian couple going. Eventually, when I'm seriously playing again, I'll have to re-do the townies all over again.
For now, I'm just so glad my game is loading and is running beautifully.
Don’t you hate when Facebook tries to match you up with people you don’t even know just because they may know a friend of yours.
Just turned down a friend request because I didn’t know who the hell this person was and I have no clue why he wanted to access my profile. Yeah, “flat no” - REJECTED.
No, Facebook, my profile friends are my “inner circle”. There’s six of them. All of who’ve known me for at least a minimum of five years or more either from an online forum or actually having gone to school with me in my youth. That’s the criteria I use for getting on my Facebook. So at this point, the likelihood of my FB friends total changing is slim to none.
I was tagged as well by @papermint-airplane Thank you very much!! 🤗💗
I attempted to make a character of me of Stardew Valley. Of course, both this and the Picrew's, are much younger versions of me, lol, but you get the idea. My hair is almost completely gray, but this is the color I have always used to cover it. (I started going gray at 28). My original hair color is a weird shade of chestnut, and my eyes are a color that doesn't exist, a mix between green and gray, so I chose the closest to that. Also, I couldn't change the glasses and earrings color in this one, but you get the picture. 😋
For this one I'm tagging: @nocturnalazure, @kimmiessimmies, @bool-prop, @echoweaver, @wannabecatwriter @serenasims, @edyavtostopom @rollo-rolls, @nectar-cellar, @depictingdrew, @treason-and-plot and @sparkiekong.
Rules: go to Pinterest and search "celebrity", "outfit", "quote", "aesthetic" then post the first picture in each category.
Well, THAT was kinda unexpected, yet I admit - adorable.
Thanks to my goddess @plazasims for summoning me from the depths of the unseen underworld. As for the tag… I'd like to see @lazysunjade, @vintagesimstress, @remussims, @thejim07, @nv-games and @anachrosims, no pressure here tho [ and I won't tag @salemssimblr since she's already in and @helgatisha since she was already tagged ].
I can accept basically any trans/nb reading of Jon however my personal favorites are transmasc Jon who transitioned physically and socially as early as possible and just never mentioned it to anyone cause it wasn't any of their business OR Jon being the most repressed transfem/nb in existence. They'll be talking about gender or whatever and Jon will be like "it's normal to feel totally disconnected from your gender all the time and also vaguely want boobs. That's just a guy thing I think." only for whoever they're all talking to to go "wtf no?? It's not????"