Sims 2? In 202x??

✨Sleep In Bed Replacement Poses✨

Depending on your sim's mood, the sleep pose could change from arm under pillow (Happy, Embarrassed, Sad, Shy, Silly, Bored, Depressed) to arms stretched out (Passionate, Dazed, Furious, Flirty, Angry) They can do the same sleep pose if their moods are similar.

DO NOT use this if your sim uses those beds where the blanket doesn't cover your sim. You will be horrified.

Sleeping Animation by Zlostudio: Sleeping Pack

Arm Under Pillow Pose by @herecirmsims: Sleeping Ugly Pose Pack

✨Pillow Talk Override ✨

I really liked this kiss animation by Igor_Santos_Adonai, so cozy after a steamy night. And also Cuddles On The Couch By d'Violet, cute and comforting after giving up the goods.

*Its not perfect but I tried my best with overriding this*😭 (Vid shows both animations)

🚨Take out any other pillow talk mod mod you have if you wish to see theses animations🚨

As long as the adsense revenue and donations cover most of the costs, GoS isn't going anywhere. So far my out of pocket cost is less than 25% of the total costs for the site, which is within my budget still. I'm hoping this coming year will be the same but ad revenue is down. I understand ads suck and do my best to remove the auto generated page take over ones and keep them small.

But you know what scraping the site does? Increases bandwidth and server load which costs me more money. This annoys me. I have a budget man.

If I were not willing/able to continue, then there would be an announcement on GoS. All costs are paid annually. The biggest in May which is the hosting itself, the domains are scattered throughout the year. All in it's only about $225 annually.

First of all, I wanted to say. Thank you for everything you do for our community. You've really been a major part of The TS2 community from the beginning!

Second, you'll stop me from archiving when you pry the archiving software out of my cold, dead hands.

Do you know about Plumb Bob Keep? That's a real question because as the TS2 modding community gets ever smaller and becomes more and more insular it gets harder to know who is on what moderation team and who co-runs what. However, if you do know Plumb Bob keep you'd know that recently the owner died. Which meant that suddenly the entire community had to scramble.

Fortunately, they were able to get in contact with the family (in their time of mourning) to ask "Hey, sorry about the dead girl, can I has password please? I need my fix of virtual doll clothes"

I don't blame them for this. They'd obviously put a lot of time into this and the reason I know that is because I got approached to see what I could do when the site was offline and they were still trying to figure out what to do. Unfortunately, when a site's only existing documentation exists in the WayBackMachine that makes it basically impossible to scrape.

And this isn't even the first time this happened, when Yahoo Groups shutdown, ArchiveTeam had trouble talking to MOST older simmers because they were so fucking touchy about their content. Literally our community has a reputation for being obnoxious about TOUs and 'rights' to the point where they'd basically given up trying to archive anything that had to do with The Sims.

So if you thought that this was because I was concerned that you were running into the ground. Rest assured, I'm doing this in case you get in a fatal car accident so we don't have to call your mourning loved ones to ask the very cringe question: "Do you know about the forum from 2008 that your spouse/son/father/sister/daughter/mother ran? Can we have access to it please. I have recolors that I'd DESPERATELY love to get back."

As far as bandwidth goes, I do my best to make sure that I scrape with as little intrusion as possible and your load is lighter since you don't host any of the actual CC or even 75% of your own images.

Now, we could talk about what this really is: a pissing contest. But don't worry. I have no real interest in encroaching on your territory of running an alternative style sims 2 forum from 2008. I love GOS, or I wouldn't have made sure that it didn't fucking disappear into the ether.

But believe me, no one is choosing to look through a list of 10,000 zip files without images or descriptions as a replacement for a fully functional forum with like... images of the items. My archive of GOS is pretty much only for creators and people who know EXACTLY what they're looking for.

And that goes similarly for everyone worried about their precious TOUs in the comments of the original post. No one, and I mean no one, prefers to dig through an entire fucking ass ton of files labeled shit like "[POOKLET] SKYSIMS MESH 007 - UNNATURAL COLORS"

In fact, I've had several creators thank me because the scrape unearthed some shit they'd thought they'd lost. And if you don't like it, or me, get in line. I assure you there is metric fuck ton of people from patreon who hate me far more.

However, I would like to say that whenever you / or any other creator who is mad about this / literally any simmer, is searching for a dependency because someone got in some obscure internet drama and deleted all their cc or Mediafire got shut down by the RIAA or whatever the fuck.

You, for as "annoyed" as you are, will remember the big ass zip file and CTRL + F your ass to what you're looking for. And I'm going to say it now, for when that moment comes:

All I can say is that this bottle is cuter than the overly long default bottle.

•For young/adult male sims; •Polycount: 6k; •Texture size: 2048px // 1 plain recolorable preset+7 non recolorables ; •Recolorability: 3 recolorble channels ; @pis3update@katsujiiccfinds@eternalccfinds@xto3conversionsfinds

The patch previously known as 1.5.1

Apologies for this taking forever and me disappearing off the face of the Earth, sorry if you've tried to DM me w/ issues, etc etc blablabla. I would like to say I'll be more active now but who knows, life is kind of sucky atm

New patches:

Mirror Reflection Settings - Tunes how far away mirror reflections stay visible. Push reflections out further (or rein them in if you've got a wall full of mirrors and want your frames back, mirrors are each their own little camera). Patch idea from Boring Bones

Animation Blend Tuning - Clamps animation blend (transition) durations to a min/max, so transitions that snap can be smoothed out and slow blends can be made snappier. Also includes a forceBlendOut option that lets through blend-out times the engine would otherwise discard. Big thanks to @thepancake1 for the patch!

Split-Level Lighting Fix - Makes lighting not stop at a single level - lot-bound lights now pass the engine's 'world light' filter in outdoor rooms and terrain lightmaps. May cause a bit of light bleed near walls/floors. All credits to Arro-Now!

Brady Bunch BEGONE - The engine fills unlit/dim rooms at night with a fake blue ambient (the "Brady Bunch Blue" apparently). This allows you to change them or to (ideally) zero the values so unlit rooms render without the gross blue glow. Patch idea from Arro ,thanks!

All four are experimental for now, they'll graduate one day...

Updates/Changes:

CPU Thread Optimization - Fixes Alder Lake+ CPU issues correctly now (hopefully).

Lighting Quality - Improved blur math precision to prevent color banding, plus an additional fix for rooms gradually darkening over repeated passes. Blur is now energy-preserving so it stops drifting the average brightness down.

Startup Warning Dialog Fix - New Hide Dialogue setting that prevents the dialog from being created at all, rather than making it visible.

You may know how sinks get wiped from counters if you put some clutter in their corner slots (usually with moveobjects) and went to Live mode. I fixed that!

Download

After many moons of brooding, it finally dawned on me, why the sofa bed would snap to walls, and I fixed the super duper annoying off grid placement procedure

Look how nicely one part follows the other now!

None of THIS crap anymore

Unless you're trying to place it through a wall or like heavily intersecting with stairs, but that's not how you'd usually place it

📝 I also gave not so neat sims a chance to fold it autonomously, but made it less attractive at night time

Download all the beds from this post LC_Sims4ShadowFile is included for Tvickiesims' sofa bed IKEA is required for Ektorp sofa and chair beds Mansions or Apartment Life EP is required too

Thank you @jellymeduza and @tvickiesims for making new beds and everyone for putting up with my updates 🧡

If you're curious, the problem was that global multi-tile placement init function set wall placement flags and those ruined any attempt at precise placement near walls, DUH

Adventure Awaits came with these cute knee band-aids, but they were only for kids. (Boo.) Now they're for adults. Original swatches + recolors.

Found under Tights and Socks.

20 swatches

Both frames

BGC

tattoo set, ASTROLOGIE

posie showed me a bunch of cool astrology decals and i felt like they would make a cool tattoo set! i pieced them together with other drawings i found on pinterest! (also u should check out this cool hair posie posted for ts4) ✶ credits to the artists (here and here) as well as Shining Nikki! ✶ located in tattoo > upper right. made for fem frame but enabled for both. disabled for random ✶ 6 swatches: black, 75% opacity black, deep gold, pale gold, pale pink and white ✶ unedited cas preview located here

✶ TOU: please don't paywall or early access my downloads. that's it <3

5 transformer cribs made from cribs by Simaddict99.

These are 2-in-1 crib/toddler beds. Just one click on the bed to convert it from one model to another. The crib can be used for babies and toddlers, the toddler bed is for toddlers only. They can use the toddler bed by themselves.

Moon Howler (Public Feb 21st)

in depth details here

Here's my collab with wonderful @gummilutt - now we can have suitcase variety in the game! :D

🎨 Color Traits Mod:

BV Suitcase Default

Maxis Match OR Modern

Download: SFS Modern suitcase polycount: 1272

⚠️This mod requires Color Traits created by Epi @episims AND Trait Globals by @picknmixsims to work!

As all color trait mods, it makes the suitcase appear in Sim's favourite color (one of 12), if color trait is present in Sim's inventory. Grey is the default shade. You can choose between original suitcase or hardshell suitcase.

🔺Conflicts:

Pets and toddlers on Vacation by @lamare-sims - Suitcase mod needs to load AFTER Lamare's mod (add "zzz" suffix prefix to the filename to make it load last).

BV suitcase texture replacements are not compatible with this. Also, modern default will clash with objects that use original Eaxis suitcase texture.

You may also be interested in decorative mini-sets based on suitcase mesh and textures:

Decorative Suitcases

Hardshell Suitcase & Maxis Match Suitcase

Download: SFS | BOX

Both meshes found in Buymode/General/Dressers, recolors are merged.