sim escapades and bathtub piracy

the first mod you download is your mark of initiation

your first legacy challenge is your point of no return

as per our ancient (~15-year-old) traditions, only the path of total uninvolvement will be a path free of drama

for minimal drama, stick with old fart Sims 1 or Sims 2 players. We’ve had many years to carefully conceal our bullshit and make some truly bitchin’ mods

Sims 3 is a slightly more broken game, but the fans are more active and dynamic and get up to all kinds of weird shit

Sims 4 is… too… young? to have a cohesive fandom rn? but it’s relatively active and seems to be open and friendly enough

vagina pineapple

a large chunk of the community, esp. on tumblr, is a perpetual warzone that occasionally spills into simsecret

this is largely out of habit, seeing as simsecret WAS the perpetual warzone ca. 2008-2013 (their archive is like a chronicle of all the shit that’s gone down in the fandom since paysites vs. pirates began) and is still pretty much the most consistent place to go for a good ol’ gossip-fest

The Sims Resource has not been trustworthy since 2003

gifs add credence and gravitas to any comment or post

no matter what your background, you will certainly come across something that someone worked for hours to pose and shoot in-game, and it will give you nightmares

be prepared to accept criticism of your aesthetic

the less seriously you take the games, the more fun you’ll have

I had an idea to make some pin-up images of various supernatural creatures for my Northmill sims, so I spent most of yesterday making recolours of a calendar mesh, using Simhow’s recolours as a base. I also slapped some larger versions of the images on 2 poster meshes, since the calendar images are small and the details get a bit lost.

All of the female images, and 2 male images are on Surfing the Universe. The rest of the male images are on a BG mesh, as well as one female image. There is a different image used for the male vampire’s poster, and it can be seen in the preview.

Tumblr support staff is not involved in the account terminations. They are down to the music industry (especially the IFPI) and their bots, which continually search Tumblr audio and video posts for song metadata, including song titles and song lyrics. Using the data gathered by the bots, music industry companies automatically generate Tumblr takedown notices (DMCAs), which at Tumblr automatically generates content removal, content removal notifications, and account terminations. The entire process is automated.

Are there errors? Hell yes. See the IFPI and Jeremy Banks tags for the latest sadness.

The music industry bots search content going way back; people have had their accounts terminated for stuff posted more than two years ago, so you need to delete all of your old copyrighted music posts to evade the bots. Why? Tumblr accounts are terminated after three copyright violations within 18 months, which doesn’t sound so bad — but the 18 month time period does not apply to when you uploaded the content, but to the dates of the takedown notices. If you upload only one song a year for three years in a row, but the bots issue takedowns on them within an 18 month period, you have just qualified for immediate and automatic account termination.

I cannot stress enough that Tumblr support staff is not involved. Yahoo is not devoting Tumblr staff to reviewing bot-generated account terminations, because there are millions of audio posts on Tumblr, and personal reviews would cost Yahoo more money than Yahoo would like to spend, which is zero.

Yahoo takes the music industry bot’s “word” as proof of copyright violation because that is the cheapest thing to do. Sad emails to Tumblr about your post content being fair use will be ignored. The only way to get your account or content restored is through a DMCA Counter-Notification.

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This is a set of highly functional wall overlays devoted to architecture. I’ve had a number of things like this in my game over the years but this is the first set that meets my standards. 

There are more details at my dreamwidth.

now that i’m back…

(happy squealing noises)

oh, no man, thank YOU! i feel kinda humbled in return. i feel like there should be an emoji there but that might be taking it a bit far.

If I don’t have a specific idea in mind for a townie I want to make, I’ve been using a randomizing method that has served me pretty well so far and helps me get more unique genetics instead of just using the unaltered template features over and over. It’s a little long-winded but hopefully not too much.