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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me? Once upon a time you had a neighbourhood where you used criquette's rural lanes in combination with invisible roads. I was trying to do the same in my game, but the lanes turn invisible when placed on where the roads are. Would you have any idea what may cause that?

Hi there! :D Wow, it's amazing how much you forget when you haven't played a game in about two years...

Anyway, IF I'm remembering right, in order to have the rural lanes show in lot view, you still have to remove the road entirely on each lot even when using invisible roads. I don’t even know why because they have transparent textures, but...whatever. Ya gotta remove the roads. Because reasons, I guess. So, use the Lot Adjuster to remove the road where the rural lane is, then load up the lot. If I’m remembering right, when you load it up again, you’ll have the standard “road” floor tiles there, which you have to turn on moveobjects and remove. THEN you should be able to see the rural lane.

...I think...If I’m remembering right. :) I do remember it being a pain in the ass because I had to keep going in and out of the game to use the Lot Adjuster, anyway...

Also: Sorry, I wanted to answer this one privately, but I saved it as a draft to do some research and apparently saving a PM reply as a draft removes the ability to send the answer privately. :P

clericalrodent

Sorry, I wasn’t clear in my ask. I’m having trouble with the lanes not showing in neighbourhood view.

I have a situation like in the picture where the lanes just disappear where the actual roads are. I’ve checked the package files but there’s nothing wrong there and I can place every single other hood deco on roads.

dramallamadingdang

Ohhhh, neighborhood view! Yeah, for that you have to turn off displaying roads. It’s because the neighborhood view textures aren’t transparent; they just have textures that match the terrain textures. (If you make them transparent, then you just get holes in the terrain in neighborhood view.) So, the lanes will be covered in neighborhood view.

There’s a cheat to turn off road display. It’s something like displayneighborhoodroads on/off. Unfortunately, it doesn’t “stick.” You have to enter the cheat every time you go out to neighborhood view.

clericalrodent

Ah. I don't usually do much hood decorating, so I completely forgot that there are cheats there. Thanks, I'll try it out next time I'm playing.

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Hi there! :D Wow, it's amazing how much you forget when you haven't played a game in about two years...

...I think...If I’m remembering right. :) I do remember it being a pain in the ass because I had to keep going in and out of the game to use the Lot Adjuster, anyway...

Also: Sorry, I wanted to answer this one privately, but I saved it as a draft to do some research and apparently saving a PM reply as a draft removes the ability to send the answer privately. :P

clericalrodent

Sorry, I wasn’t clear in my ask. I’m having trouble with the lanes not showing in neighbourhood view.

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celebkiriedhel

Pillowfort - do you have an account?

I know me, iCad, and Digital Angels are there. But if you have an account please share your id here so I can follow you.

Alternatively hit me up there - celebkiriedhel is my name.

dramallamadingdang

I’m a n00b there, but my username over there is iCad. :) So, you can find me here: https://www.pillowfort.social/iCad

I’m really hoping to use the community functions. If you have an account, there’s a Sims2 community here (as well as other Sims communities, but that’s a TS2-specific one) that hasn’t seen much traffic lately, but maybe if folks sign up we can get it going and active, which would be fun and easier to navigate than Tumblr’s haphazard mess of a system. We could also start up a dedicated TS2 CC-sharing community.

So…Sign up, folks. I still have one invite code I can give out this week, but once you sign up, you can give out codes to other people, too.

clericalrodent

https://www.pillowfort.social/ClericalRodent Not much there, cause I actually forgot I signed up way back then

nineyellowgirl

I managed to install Castaway Stories on Windows 8.1 but I have some graphic glitches, mostly of the water… anyone knows how to deal with this? :c

/even if you don’t, it’d be great if you coul reblog it so maybe any of your followers would have a clue 💕/

dunne-ias

I’ve never played Castaway Stories, but I know at least some of my followers have, so - someone gonna help a simmer out?

clericalrodent

This looks like a problem I once had with regular Sims2. I used this guide to fix it - http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5446 It's not for Castaway, but the games should be similar enough that maybe you can adapt a few things. Or at least figure out what went wrong.

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honestly i think anders bombing the chantry is fucked up because the goal was to trigger an annulment, which would require innocent mages to die, the same innocent mages anders was supposed to be protecting, i know that people say that it was necessary to start widespread rebellion and all but anders doesnt get to decide that those people's lives are an acceptable sacrifice. no one in the kirkwall circle consented to their lives being given up for anders' plan.

No, that was NOT the goal. Meredith had already sent for the Right of Annulment. Anders may have saved mage lives by doing what he did.

clericalrodent

Bullshit. Meredith may have sent for the Right, but legally she couldn’t do anything until she actually received the permission. Mages of Kirkwall were on a grace period until then and could’ve tried to save themselves. Anders made sure that Meredith was enraged enough to ignore the legalities. The massacre at the circle wasn’t supposed to happen that night, but Anders made it happen. The mages might have had a chance, but thanks to Anders they were caught unprepared and died. Anders didn’t cause the Right of Annulment to be called, but he ensured it wouldn’t be called off.

against-stars

right, because meredith has historically shown herself to be the perfect model of following chantry law when it comes to executing mages, lmao. literally when in the entire game has “it’s illegal” ever stopped her.

wooloostmymind

What…did @clericalrodent REALLY just say the Mages were on a GRACE PERIOD? The fuck, lmao? ‘Could’ve tried to save themselves’ how fucking naive are you? Do you not understand how an annulment (is supposed to) work? And if Meredith had gotten permission, she would have just killed them in their sleep. Separated them maybe, so that they couldn’t group up and become a threat (like they did under Orsino that night), and killed them with ease. Literally, like @dalishious said, every mage who made it out of the gallows that night probably owes Anders their life. And, let’s not forget, Meredith decided to annul without permission. The circle wasn’t overrun with blood mages and abominations, but she decided that they had to die for what Anders did anyway. The woman wasn’t rational, and would have found a way to kill the mages, one way or another.

dalishious

…I can’t believe someone seriously just looked at the Kirkwall mages and said “Well they should have tired harder to save themselves” in response to them being murdered.

And as against-stars said, Meredith has been breaking Chantry law since Day One, without consequences. What on earth makes you think she wouldn’t have gone through with it and just covered it up later, as has been done before? Especially with the red lyrium corruption growing worse and worse?

clericalrodent

How in the world did you manage to read exactly the opposite from what I wrote? The whole thing is that the Kirkwall mages did try hard. Orsino wasn’t taking an evening stroll through the Hightown, he was trying to save his circle. The mages had a plan. If it had succeeded I don’t know, because we don’t get to find out what it was. but Anders’ interruption was less than helpful. What he did required careful planning and letting at least some circle mages into the know to work. None of that happened, he just dropped a hornet’s nest onto them unexpectedly and expected them to deal with it. the mages had no idea what was coming and no way to prepare for the fallout, making them easier for the templars to kill.

I do think Meredith would’ve eventually just gone with the murdering, I just don’t think the circle mages are as ignorant and passive as you do. And she wasn’t there yet, as evidenced by the fact that she actually sent for the right and then waited for it. Giving the mages time to act, which they tried until Anders told them to fuck themselves and forced his way on them, putting them in a bad disadvantage.

Meredith vs mages was always going to happen, anders just made sure the mages would lose.

iwillturnthisquestaround

The trouble is that it doesn’t matter how passive or active the mages are. The mages are at an inherent disadvantage. They could carefully plan a way to defeat the Templars, and it could easily be foiled by unpredictable executions, the use of the Right of Tranquility, or, as @fuckin-straight-girls points out, killing people in their sleep or systematically separating them. Hell, Meredith could order all the children into a separate room and hold them hostage while she slaughters the adults. Not to mention, Templars are trained to slaughter mages. Their abilities make it difficult for mages to defend themselves.

From “Codex entry: The Annulment at Dairsmuid”:

“When the other Circles rose up, the Chantry sent Seekers across the bay from Ayesleigh to investigate. They found us mixing freely with our families, training female mages in the traditions of the seers, and denounced us as apostates. Perhaps they thought we were spineless robes who could be intimidated with a little bloodshed. Before I was first enchanter, I was the daughter of Captain Revaud, of the Felicisima Armada. I know how to plan a battle.

They brought with them a small army of templars. We fought. And we might have won. But they invoked the Right of Annulment, with all the unrelenting brutality that allowed. It is their right to put screaming apprentices to the sword, burn our “tainted” libraries, crush irreplaceable artifacts under their heels, tear down the very walls of our home. No mage has the right to disagree.

We of the Dairsmuid Circle wait now, behind barricades. I have sent word to our brother and sister mages of this outrage. When they break through, we will not die alone.”

First Enchanter Rivella dies. The Right of Annulment succeeds. They knew the Templars were coming, they weren’t even prisoners in the Dairsmuid Circle, and they still couldn’t save themselves.

There is no scenario where the mages can be prepared because the Templars hold every advantage.

clericalrodent

So, you’re saying that because the mages were going to die anyway, it was best they did so asap and without a chance to properly fight back. I still disagree with that. As bad as it was the mages still should’ve had the chance to go out on their own terms instead of getting blindsided by a half-baked idiocy.

iwillturnthisquestaround

But they did fight back… and they were never going to “go out on their own terms”. There are elderly and child mages in the Circle. Do you think they’re prepared to fight and die? Do you think they’re “going out on their own terms”. Mages don’t fight back in a last stand sort of way if they don’t have to. To do so would be to condemn those who can’t fight, and prior to the rebellion they’re afraid to do that. They haven’t reached a point where they can’t take it anymore. The tragedy of the rebellion is that “going out on your own terms” means many people who were never meant to fight will have to in order to survive. That’s not a product of Anders’ actions, that’s a product of the opressive system.

What Anders did wasn’t half-baked. He didn’t just force the conflict to escalate. He made it escalate illogically and publicly. He surrenders himself. He takes full credit for the bombing. If he’d told the Circle Mages, they would have been guilty, too. Since he’s the only culprit, Meredith’s irrational behavior (going after an unrelated group of people when she has the culprit right in front of her) is injustice for all to see.

clericalrodent

And did Anders’ actions spare these children and elderly? Were the mages able to walk away without needing a last stand? Anders’ plan was half-baked because he didn’t include the mages in it. He just dropped it onto their heads and expected them to deal with it. His plans for himself were to get martyred, leaving the mages to fend for themselves when they really needed a guide who knew what was going on. He made no effort to ensure any mage made it through the night.

iwillturnthisquestaround

I already answered that question:

“…’going out on your own terms’ means many people who were never meant to fight will have to in order to survive. That’s not a product of Anders’ actions, that’s a product of the oppressive system.”

No, it didn’t save them, but that’s got jackshit to do with him. You’re blaming him for the Templars’ choice to kill innocent people despite having the true culprit within their custody. Those kids were dead not because of Anders, but because of the Templars. Because of the Circles. What Anders does by bombing the Chantry without associating with the Circle is turn public opinion in favor of the mages. He ensures that Meredith can’t weave a story about abominations and blood magic to justify the Right of Annulment (something that’s happened before to cover up Templar crimes), or “truthfully” (had the mages attacked first) claim that the Templars only acted in self-defense. Everyone knows they had nothing to do with the crime they’re being punished for.

And… uh… he helps fight for the mages if you side with the mages… so… he does make an effort to ensure mages make it through the night.

clericalrodent

And there you have it, he didn’t save them. The point I’ve been trying to make this entire time. Anders had resources and freedom no circle mage could ever hope for, he could’ve at least tried to do something to alleviate the fallout he knew would follow from his actions. He had Hawke, he had people indebted to him in Darktown, he could’ve asked Varric to use his contacts. He could’ve at least warned the mages something big was about to happen. He didn’t do any of that. He just let the mages take the fall. And he only fights on the side of mages if he survives, which wasn’t part of his plan, so I don’t count that.

iwillturnthisquestaround

Because one healer, a collection of poor refugees living in Darktown (sick people, children, women who gave birth, etc.–those are the connections he made in Darktown), Varric’s contacts that aren’t an army, and Hawke and company (one of whom, may I remind you, is a guard who supports the Circles) are going to dismantle an oppressive system and take on an army of Templars.

I don’t see the point in hating on an oppressed person for not saving every single other oppressed person. Anders worked tirelessly for six years to help oppressed people, both mages and non-mages, peacefully. He worked with the mage underground. He healed Ferelden refugees–people who’d been turned away by the Chantry–for free. He changed the public opinion by exposing the injustice in a way no one could ignore (which is a really, really important thing to do). I think it’s more important to hate on the system and people who fucking murdered those mages.

But what the hell do I know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe it’s very important we focus on how people fighting for their freedom put their fellow oppressed people in danger by fighting for their freedom. Definitely don’t talk about how it’s fucked up that people in power will punish a group that shares a single biological characteristic with a freedom fighter, despite the fact that they had fuck all to do with whatever crime that freedom fighter committed.

TL;DR: Anders did nothing to the mages. He committed a crime. He turned himself in. It was Meredith who decided to punish innocents for that crime, despite having the perpetrator in custody. Anyone who blames Anders for the events in Kirkwall needs to seriously consider the implications of that.

I feel like I’m just repeating myself at this point. Sorry to spam your activity feed with this, @dalishious.

clericalrodent

Okay. A. I never said anything about an army. I meant things like creating safe houses and supply cashes, finding people willing to sneak into the gallows and smuggle out children while the templars are still distracted by the explosion. Not everything needs to be done by violence, you know. B. I’m not blaming him for the events, I’m blaming him for betraying the Kirkwall mages. You yourself said this, he was deliberately getting Meredith to start the massacre. All the while not giving the mages a heads up nor trying to find them assistance.

I just do not agree with Anders’ actions and I cannot see how he helped mages with it. Yes, you spun a lovely story about exposing injustice, but that didn’t actually happen. What we see in DAI is that the mages are desperate enough to sell themselves into slavery, while Meredith’s right hand man has a high ranking job and has suffered no repercussions for his actions in Kirkwall. And when people (non-mage ones I mean) express anti-templar views it’s for their actions during the mage-templar conflict, not before.

So, I’m repeating myself too, but tl;dr: Anders did not save the mages.

dragonageconfessions

CONFESSION:

I wish we could have judged a certain commander of the inquisition because his crimes are also bad as well, even worse than Samson’s until that whole red templar business anyways

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If Thor ran into the wrong containment cage (Avengers/Star Trek Crossover)

Other Avengers AUs here

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CONFESSION:

I wish people could understand Carver more. He isn’t pro-Templar (as proven in the finale, where he sides AGAINST Meredith) even though he does join up with them. He approves of pro-Templar actions because they don’t antagonise the Templars and puts Hawke in their good books. He joins the Templars because who’s going to think that a Templar’s sibling is a mage, and they had no way of knowing if Hawke would ever come back. He isn’t pro-Templar or anti-mage, he just wants to look after his family.

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petition to make Earth Wind & Fire the new September meme instead of mocking the Greenday guy for mourning his dad

Pros: Funky beats, a classic late ‘70s R&B soul jam, it perks me up when I’m depressed as fuck, and also you won’t be tweeting relentlessly “reminder to wake up” at a guy who wrote a song about his father’s death Cons: for the rest of the year you’ll have “BAAAA DEEE YAAAA DEE YAAAA DEEE YAAAAAAAAA, BAAAAA DEEE YAAAA DEE YAAA DEE YAAAAAA” stuck in your head, which imo is a fair trade off

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Estonian: i a-

anyone who has spent five seconds around Estonian ever: yes, you are Estonian, we know, you are very Estonian, it’s the meaning of your life, you are so very Estonian, you just are so Estonian, we KNOW , you are Estonian, you fucking are Estonian, ok we know, we get it, YOU ARE ESTONIAN. WE GET IT.

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I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can. These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.

teainawineglass

I want to add something, but I’d just be restating what they said. I.. didn’t know peace and kindness like this was possible.

thecheshirecass-deactivated2018

You can’t even cross into the state of California without hitting a border control. This is wild to me.

clericalrodent

Something that should be mentioned is that all of the pictured countries are part of the Schengen Agreement, meaning that they've purposely abolished border control (though it can be reinstated in case of crisis). Residents of one Schengen State can freely travel to others without needing to worry about documents.

dalishious

Top 5 Dragon Age Villains

5. The Requisition Officer

Easily the clearest example of motivation in its purest form on this list, the Requisition Officer in DA:I’s only goal in life is to try and get the Inquisitor to waste crafting materials. And their ambition is so strong that they continue their plight even after the Inquisitor has finally caught on. Armed with the power of teleportation, the Requisition Officer is able to repeatedly barrage the Inquisitor at whatever camp they set or show up at. My biggest complaint is that they are too overpowered; it seems the only limitation they do have is that their teleportation is restricted to these camps. Should they ever break free from this, they would be truly unstoppable.

4. Meredith Stannard

Meredith is one of the more simplistic characters on this list, but the reason she’s on here is because unlike the other simplistic villains (i.e. Corypheus) things are a lot more personal with her. Why? Because it’s on a smaller scale. Corypheus wants to destroy the world because… Well, because he said so, stop asking questions. Meredith hates mages because she thinks they’re all dangerous and evil and deserve to be punished and killed. Pretty straight-forward evilness, but unlike Corypheus, her hatred has a focal point. And so for that reason, she is much easier to hate in return. She also goes full anime at the end and to this day it makes me die laughing every single time.

3. Celene Valmont

Celene’s best weapon is her ability to charm people (and some audiences…) into thinking she’s a hero, even to the point of successfully making everyone forget her act of genocide. Indeed, it seems her lies are so powerful she’s almost capable of convincing herself. But what really makes Celene worth this list, is being one of the few DA antagonists with actual, developed character. She is not just a cardboard villain, she is a person with personality, strengths and flaws, etc. (This is something shared with all the top three…)

2. Loghain Mac Tir

While Loghain will seem a lot more one-dimensional to players who haven’t read The Stolen Throne, (That is where more of his character comes from; in DA:O all you see is what is shown from the player’s perspective and the brief cutscenes) He is in fact a rather complex villain. A hero who slowly goes down that hole doing what he thinks at the time is right. All his actions, while acting as antagonistic towards the player, are done because of his (rightful) fear of Orlais reconquering Ferelden in a weakened stake. And this fear is on a very personal level for him. (The one inexcusable thing he does is his involvement with the enslavement of the alienage elves, which I think was his final act of spiralling out of control.) What’s more, is that if Loghain is spared, he sets foot on a true redemption arc, never expecting full forgiveness but doing good things anyway, because it’s right, and takes full ownership of his wrongdoings. The fact is, there’s only one antagonist who so much as measures up to him.

1. Solas

Without a doubt, the strongest and most well-developed antagonist the series has had so far. The fact that he first appears as an ally, and gives the player a chance to learn about who he is before even knowing he’s a villain made this work so well. (And the opportunity to romance him gives everything even more emotions™.) What also makes him so interesting is his struggling morality, yet refusal to stop his plans even after he comes to realize the world he wants to destroy actually matters. (Who’d’ve thought?) I for one really look forward to seeing how things will unfold with him in the next game.

clericalrodent

Heh! Good one with #5. Though I usually just ignore her, she is annoying as hell. One thing I'd change in this list is I'd put Elthina next to Celene, since they both employ the same tactics they just wield different power. And I'm surprised not to see Anders anywhere on the list. I'd have him at number 1, as unlike Solas I can't see a way he could be redeemed. But yeah, fuck the requisition officer.

#dragon age

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Young people spontaneously organize a Dance Festival at Freedom Square. Media named this event:'The Biggest Estonian Flashmob'.Source of pictures: FacebookAuthor: Andres Putting Source of pictures: FacebookAuthor: Andres Putting

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🇪🇪 Estonia Karl-Erik Taukar - Seitse Pühapäeva Release date: June 2017

Only in Estonia you can feature their Eurovision representatives from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 (plus Switzerland 2005 because they sent an Estonian girl band that year) and numerous Eesti Laul contestants in the same music video.

I mean, look at them, they are all taking a road trip. They look like they have so much fun making this MV. Oh, did I mention Karl-Erik Taukar is my favourite Estonian singer?

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Well, to be fair, Estonian Eurovision representatives from 1996&1997 (same person) and 2000 also took part, in addition a lot of other big name celebs.

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