The Bad Vibe Report

Hi :)

I've been poking around in the new Legacy Collection release for The Sims 2.

I started work on a small mod that currently adds the following:

Borderless fullscreen support

Toggle to skip intro videos.

Firstborn Syndrome Fix (Fixes broken RNG in general)

Experimental restored Lua features for modders.

GUNMOD’S RADIANCE LIGHTING SYSTEM 2.5: Now with 100% less blue nights!

NOTICE: THIS MOD IS FOR THE SIMS 2! Do not even try to installl this in your TS4 game.

After lots of fiddling around, I finally got to achieve my TS2 modding dream: to update the Radiance Lighting System to get rid of the annoying blue cast that plagued Sims games since time immemorial. 

Download link and more info under the cut.

Update is kind of a stretch, I just restructured the files inside so they can seamlessly be copied over to your Sims 2 root directory

Extract the rar linked below, select all folders and paste into ?:\TS2 Legacy\The Sims 2 (where the game files are, not the documents folder). Image under the cut:

dl @ gd

credits - VVQB/Dreadpirate, Gunmod

me:

Antivaxx is how a lot of people used to get pulled hardcore into fascist conspiracy theory circles, and there is still a ton of antivaxx stuff despite the fact that it's supposedly not allowed on insta, but now the common lures are harder to spot and importantly, styled so that left-leaning folks will be more easily drawn to them. there's a lot of these accounts talking about women's empowerment, indigenous wisdom, sustainability, "body positivity" "taking back agency over our bodies" in order to sell you a subscription box to green sludge.

A lot of people are apparently getting into this stuff through their experiences with poorly understood hormonal and reproductive disorders, such as PCOS and endometriosis.

The amount of medical abuse and incompetent treatment inflicted upon sufferers helps people to get dragged in, and it starts with these "✨witchy goddess empowered Lilith female women earth magic✨" type accounts that post innocuous-looking herbal teas.

I was going to talk about the gender essentialism but actually let's talk about the herbal teas themselves

First of all it's just hilarious how they come up with these super abstract spiritual meanings for plants like "ohh, this plant is connected to Aquarius and the planet Venus and the element Air—" like dude, do you think a medieval midwife would have given a singular flying fuck about that? Go and wax poetic about the star sign of tylenol. Herbalism CAN have symbolic meanings, but some of these metaphysical meanings of plants, I have a hunch they're actually pretty damn physical.

Example: Black cohosh and Mugwort are advertised as "feminine" herbs to "support female reproductive health." They're...abortifacients.

It's wildly dangerous to sell women a bunch of random plants associated with "female reproductive health." If a medieval text says a plant regulates the menstrual cycle, that probably means "cause an abortion," which probably means poisoning you.

These scammers advertise plants as being effective medicine for literally everything and somehow also totally harmless. This is the last thing on earth anyone who knows the first thing about plants would tell you??? Plants are medicinal BECAUSE they have Effects On The Body and that effect is often Poisoning You.

This is hilarious. Medicinal plants, which famously don't have side effects

hey, y'all know what strep throat was known as before antibiotics? scarlet fever. If your ancestors knew that you could cure scarlet fever by taking a little pill but actively chose to drink pine needles instead, they would probably beat you to death.

notice though how this person uses words like "autonomy" "choice" and "nuance" to make it sound feminist to dismiss the potential health risks of medicinal herbs.

As I said before, endometriosis and PCOS are of particular interest for scamming profit off of desperate people. This gets tangled up in the peculiar gender essentialism of the "✨witchy goddess empowered Lilith female women earth magic✨" folks.

In particular, one idea I see a LOT of accounts promoting is that birth control is bad. Initially it seems like validating the experience of people who had bad effects from birth control, but they are actually encouraging their followers to go off of birth control.

The concept of "hormonal balance" is taken and turned into a state of both health and conformity with gender norms. It's saying, Birth control makes you feel bad and sick because it's interfering with your natural state, which is being fertile.

A lot of them end up at the idea that your menstrual cycle defines everything happening with your body and emotions at all times and that you should tailor your diet and workouts around where you are in your menstrual cycle.

On the more "spiritual" side of it you have people writing shit like this as if it's not weird and demeaning and gross

Like I don't even know what to say about this. What

Meanwhile there's these folks actively recruiting people into a cult where they steam their vaginas

Ah yes, The Main Cause Of Issues In The Body

There's also a thousand posts recommending purple passionflower for everything from anxiety to insomnia and all I can think of is that person on erowid.org who took it and had a really vivid, distressing wet dream about Bill Gates.

Like I'm pretty sure the only known/proven effect of passionflower is that it may give you more intense dreams (?). It's not a panacea.

So many of these "herbal medicine" influencers have a whole product line of stupid little pendants and devices designed to protect you from WiFi (I swear to God I am not making this up). Imagine being so addicted to the internet that you think it causes cancer and you still use it.

I wish I could say this was just some weirdo out there but a kentucky legislator introduced a bill to disallow 5G towers from being placed more than 1,640 feet (oddly specific number) away from a dwelling or area "more than 10 people" gather. i'm like buddy can you please just focus on legislation addressing problems that are real

Here's this person that believes allergies are caused by chemtrails and thinks sunglasses harm your pineal gland (????)

Another account trying to get parents to feed their autistic children some kind of concoction that makes them sick but it's okay because it's purging the heavy metals

You heard it here folks, heavy metals are in the glyphosate

Raw milk weirdo, who also thinks plant milks are "toxic sludge" for unclear reasons. Raw milk is a particularly butt ass stupid thing to be obsessed with because the evil unnatural process that DESTROYS the superfood powers of milk is "heating it up but not all the way to boiling, then letting it cool down."

homo erectus milking that mastodon "hundreds of thousands" of years ago:

...Do you ever, by any chance, wonder why people aren't dying of tuberculosis constantly in the USA anymore? That seemed like a big problem there for a while. Wonder what caused that....?????

and here's the obligatory christofascism

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