Simblr? Is That a Type of Blender?

How the hell did I have. Multiple copies of the same damn meshes?? In several places!

I'm so glad over time we moved away from the naming format being [CreatorName] to just CreatorName followed by a hyphen or underscore. Spaces are eh, but better than the brackets for naming and the game reading them, iirc.

Clear file names are also very helpful, but I'll still take 4bcd123_FileName over just the string of numbers.

That said about the strings of numbers, with the exception of several rouge sims and lots in the regular folder, I'm really going to have to hunker down one day if I feel so inclined to actually figure out what these files are. This folder has been functional since about 2011 or so, which means there's a lot of random Exchange content on there that I can't just go to the website and verify like most of the other stuff.

Popping in again to say I've done another "milestone" thing: Making my own custom neighborhood thumbnail! I figured for Crystal Valley, it should be a more "current" picture of the neighborhood, so I did just that. It's surprisingly easy to do so? Not sure why I didn't mess with it sooner. Additions under the cut!

Anyway, I've been back on my TS2 bullshit now that I've figured out how to tackle the carpal tunnel demons and it's been great to get back! I've also had some time off before starting a new job here shortly (next week!), so I've been a bit self-indulgent. :p

Hope all is well with you!

Felt the itch to log in to the ol' simblr today and promptly saw that my TS3 male maternity sets got a load of likes semi-recently, which gave me a good chuckle. That truly is my #legacy (and if I can will myself back into the groove, I do want to tackle the other packs).

Anyway, slightly on that subject but in the vein of my TS2 stint that went from December 2025-April 2026 (slowed down only in part because I had some carpal tunnel flair up), I tackled more TS2 things! I ported the Sykes Legacy family (Parker, Mitchell, Nina, and Julien) over to Crystal Valley because I wanted to add a new family without creating one from scratch. The export of their apperances took no time at all via SimPE, but I watned to go further: Match their memories up to the legacy 'hood. With a lot of tutorials, fumbling in SimPE, and a few MTS threads later I accomplished it! However, I did decide to subject Mitchell and Parker to some alien shenanigans though, so here's Mitchell's abduction pictured for the heck of it.

Except now in the year of 2026 as I still have this default folder and 11 years of additional custom content, I've come across the problem of:

Custom content and default versions of the same hair/clothes that are independent of one another

Some conflicting meshes for defaults

Defaults missing meshes (namely the fat morph) (ask me how I know on this one)

Realizing that I miss some of those original pieces

This is going to be a great undertaking to trim down the amount of the defaults I have. Is the TS2 Default Database even a thing anymore?

After going on 18 or so years of playing The Sims 2, I finally tackled a house plan I never thought I could: A foundation house with a basement and attached garage! I'd always been fascinated with TS2 basements, but always felt intimated to try my own. To my surprise after watching a few tutorials, it's rather easy?

It's Skylar's infrequent, but somehow consistent, midnight posting of sims! I really do want to make a proper return, but that is a rather tall task these days.

Anyway, as both Mary Newton and Cathy Baines have been on my mind again lately, I realized that I've never actually... posted the merger of their LEPacies. It's funny to me that Mary's great-great-great-great grandson, Silas, would end up with Cathy's son, Caleb. Four years ago in 2021 when I had the idea it was funny to me, and I still get a chuckle out of it now. Considering that Cathy was the first in a lot of ways, including that first ever LEPacy attempt, I wanted to honor that and the fact that Mary's LEPacy was my longest running legacy to date.

So enter these two into Starlight Shores! Silas as our singer and Caleb as our acrobat. This has been an off and on affair, like I said, since 2021. It's a combination of factors, primarily a change in how I play the sims (mostly in quick bursts) and the fact that this save. Y'all, this save is so glitchy I don't even know where to start. Some of these pictures are "hallucinations" if you will because I couldn't save in time. I've got the world fixes and this is a light mods save. Also for sake of TS3 being TS3, I made extra sure to play this light on packs (from my notes, active packs are only Generations, High End Loft, and Showtime).

Regardless, popping in from time to time is nice. The running story in my head is that Silas did something to get himself disowned from the Newton family's money, and Caleb is coming from a modest background. The two are trying to strike it big. However, they don't like each other at first (seriously, they were not getting along at first), but eventually they come around and then some.

Poking through my files this afternoon (since I needed to save my transcripts), and I don't know why but I came back to my TS2 folder to unearth some old screenshots.

This was a legacy circa 2020. Anne Francisco (the red head) was its founder, and borrowing a name from when I was younger and my friend and I would start with a sim of the same name.