My grannygals funeral is today, I wanted to share some of the photos we’ve found looking through old photobooks because she was an icon.

Год не заходила в симс 2, теперь поиграла и обнаружила кучу глюков. Ну вот как?

Побились некоторые прически. Грешила на новые, которые поставила, пока не играла - ну, что они со старыми конфликтуют. Новые не виноваты, но сделаны, кхм.. не очень качественно - удалила. Перекачала те, что побились (какие нашла)

Перестала отображаться красивая вода в прудах и в море. Мод на месте, а вода черная... Мод перенесла в другое место до выяснения.

Зашла вдруг в кас - а там все светится, как будто прожектор включили! Тут у меня просто сгорела *опа! Я не качала сс - как могло все так поломаться?! Есть фикс от свечения, но раньше же свечения не было! Фикс на всякий случай сохранила, пошла рыть дальше.

Убрала папку модс совсем - а в касе все равно светится и черные квадраты еще. Ну от квадратов фикс в модсе есть, с этим понятно. А со свечением не очень. Закачки не виноваты, получается. График руле побился? Может при обновлениях винды? Вообще ничего не понимаю... Будем искать.

Hey, so I just found out about a really neat-looking game called Hometopia -- it's like co-op Sims Build Mode, where you build up a neighbourhood and a house together.

If you wishlist the game on Steam using this link, I might get the chance to playtest it. Exciting stuff.

⛏️💎🍎

If I can get my stuff together, I have something really special in the works!

I spent most of the weekend trying to fix a save that now, in hindsight, was corrupted. BUT, I have restarted the project and I am 95% done with the house, characters are made… so I can play soon.

The emojis are a hint (because I love a good easter 🪺-thank you miss taylor allison swift). This has been a side project for a while, but with the new packs that have come out, I think I’ve found a really creative way to incorporate them.

🤞I am able to keep this schedule of some evening time just for me!

Can't motivate myself to do anything but sit on my couch and stare at the wall today it seems.

Here's hoping that we don't end up with another "once in a lifetime" weather event. Again. 🤞

P I N T E R E S T |

I was tagged by @drawing-way-outside-the-lines and @camisulsul. Thank you friends ♥

Go to pinterest and search: "celebrity", "outfit", "quote", "aesthetic". Post with the FIRST picture in each category that appears that is your vibe.

I'm tagging: @summerreverie, @ninjaofthepurplethings, @treason-and-plot, @rollo-rolls, @silverspringsimmer and @nonsimsical. No obligation, of course.

Update on life and stuff

I think it's safe to say by now that I won't be able to post a new update before the end of January, like I'd promised to myself.

Next update is still a WiP, part of it's written, most of it is even shot except for the hardest part (of course). But it's nowhere near ready.

This week is pretty crazy and I won't have the time to work on my story. Got a lot of stress at work, and social obligations left and right. It doesn't help that I don't sleep well, partly due to stress, partly to my shoulder that still gives me pain mostly at night. I'm so dog-tired I was in bed by 8pm last night and still don't feel well-rested this morning.

All of this is not a great creative soil. Writing under those conditions doesn't come easily and self-doubt is rearing its ugly head. I've gone full circle from apathy and envy to anger and general feelings of unworthiness. Me love a good self-deprecating session. 👍

Long story short: no update for January, I'm afraid. I know you'll still all be there whenever I end up posting, and I know I should take care of myself first. Love you guys for this. ❤️ I just miss the connection.

I've seen a lot of people over the past couple days discussing patreon early access and whether or not it's included under ea's new policy. Most seem to agree that exclusive/perma-paywall models are bad, and a lot of people seem okay with early access. So I thought I'd share just why I don't really approve of the early access model either.

1) Trusting patreon creators (in the sims community) with your private information is a risk. Unfortunately, it's been shown by exclusive and early access creators alike that it simply isn't safe to trust them with your info. Eacc creators (not just exclusive) have communicated with each other about those that have shared their content early, and the info they have can include usernames, email addresses, real names, and possibly even paypal information if you have it linked to your patreon account. Users have been doxxed and harassed over sims cc of all things. I, personally, don't feel I can pledge to anyone safely anymore, whether they're following the old 2-3 week early access model or not.

2) There is no quality control. There is no way to determine what you're going to get before you pay for it, and if it's not good quality, you're most likely not going to get a refund. Patreon doesn't make creators refund you, they have to decide to do it on their own. So you can have mods that don't work, ridiculous high poly meshes, no proper LODs, low quality textures, etc and you're stuck with that.

3) There are no standards. People on here argue a lot about what should be charged for and what shouldn't, because there's no consistent standard for what is acceptable or not. Should sims/tray files be early access? Recolors? Conversions? Only mesh edits? What about tiny mesh edits? Is it the time alone that matters? But if that's the case, how much time should a creator have to spend on something for it to be worth paying for? There's no agreement, and so what people will put behind a paywall gets more and more ridiculous over time.

4) New (and some old) accounts making patreons without interacting with the community in any other way besides making money off them. There's no standard for who should make an account and when, so a lot started out just with the sole intention of making money. Also, there are older creators that tapered off their interactions with the community to purely focus on patreon. Early access took over the community so completely because it was easy and anyone could do it, and so they did. This only furthered the problems with quality and standards of cc.

5) Early access creators becoming exclusive over time after they built a following. Also, other shady methods to make more money I've discussed in other posts, such as: making super tiny edits look more enticing by lumping them together in "add-on packs", linking their "free" content through link shorteners/simsfinds/tsr, steadily raising tier prices in order to access all of their content, releasing a piece of cc for early access then coverting the same piece of cc to another frame and putting it under early access again, increasing the early access time period or "forgetting" to unlock things on time, and more. All of this just shows me that many early access creators aren't much better than the exclusive creators. They're toeing the line to stay in the public favor, and perhaps avoid legal consequences, and nothing more.

6) Shifting the focus in the community from creativity to monetary gain. Modding communities (such as those for the Sims, TES, Fallout, Dragon Age, Stardew Valley, and many many more) are built upon learning from one another and working together to enhance the gaming experience. In other words, to have fun! Modders have done amazing things without having the goal of making money off of it, and while it's nice to have that as an option, the sims community shows that it winds up hurting more than it helps when it consumes to this extent. I've talked about this before so I won't go into it too much, but creators are burned out and tired, and other simmers are frustrated and bored. It changed the community as a whole and it shows.

As a concept, early access is fine, but in practice... when everyone is doing it, in so many different ways, with no sense of standards... it becomes a problem.

Well, enough CC making for tonight, I guess it's cuddle time 🤷

It's my exam period and I have covid, fml ; ;

(It's not clear what to do if we don't feel well enough to attend. I wrote to one of my profs yesterday, but she's yet to respond. Still studying in case I feel well enough to go tomorrow morning.)

i just a lil old lady once again 🌟

Увидела тут флэшмоб с котиками, тоже хочу присоединиться :) Питомцев у меня нет, зато есть раскраска с котиками XD

PIPPA will be 7 years old this May. I've been talking about building a new PC for awhile but kept putting it off due to the graphics card prices (and laziness, let's be honest).

Well, PIPPA decided she's tired and made the choice for me this morning. My C: drive is practically unresponsive so I went ahead and bit the bullet and ordered all the new parts to build her successor. I have a decent amount of stuff backed up on different drives and hopefully I can get a clone made that will allow me to salvage some stuff.

Looking forward to the upgraded specs but I should probably take this as a reminder to not wait for the forced kick in the pants for stuff like this.

Just a wee life update.

Bet no one noticed, but I disappeared for almost 2 weeks. Nothing's wrong with me, everything is OK; in fact, I felt really well, for the first time in I don't know how long.

(long post warning, I do not expect anyone to read them, I merely wrote this out of the blue for the sake of clearing my head)

My conscription started back in late November and I had been living at the training camp since with scarcely limited access to any electronic devices or communications with the outside world. As a matter of fact, this is my first time returning home after commencement of the military service.

Don't worry, this conscription is a normal, compulsory part of a lifecycle that each healthy Taiwanese men will have to go through before they are allowed into the society.

Up to this moment, it has been quite uneventful, truth to be told; time became a bizarre concept the moment I stepped through the gate of the training centre; it flowed quickly yet at the same time painfully stagnant. The days were long, yet still mundane enough for me to ponder about many things I thought were long forgotten.

Fortunately enough, I had the pleasure of meeting some like-minded acquaintances while I was in there, with whom I was able to communicate - now in retrospect, rather ironically - freely and flowingly (in a military training setting); probably because I was a complete stranger to them as they were to me; a fresh new start.

It was astonishing how this seemingly "restart" effect has had on me: I became more confident, receptive, and compassionate. My fellow soldiers had little expectations of me as I had of them; our conversations revolved around our own childhood shenanigans, family backgrounds (some more different and subjectively more exciting than the others), and anecdotes on a wild range of subjects.

Strangely enough, chatting with them made me feel relaxed, as if I was lifted out of my own shackles and that I could - temporarily, at least - unload the societal pressures off my shoulders. It was unexpectedly soothing, yet at the same time disheartening: knowing that we all must part ways one day as we find our own ways back into the society we were raised in.

A respite from a seemingly endless chase of wordly success, I suppose. Shame we all must return to a game we never signed up for.

hi simmers! just a little note in case you’re wondering why i’m so mega slow when it comes to everything in here. i’m moving across the country later this summer and pretty much all my spare time is all about packing, cleaning, planning etc  😮‍💨 i will still check in from time to time but yeah, it will be sloooow  wishing you all a great summer (winter!)  ☀️