MeltingMagnetz

So, after a rousing discussion on my Discord about ACR, Romantic Standards, various mods, conflicts, you name it, we discovered that ACR's jealousy was completely and utterly broken. Romantic Standards in, or out. Just like, broken 😂

Don't believe me? Check out this otherwise vanilla folder test, in which using the "casual" interactions menu, Don Lothario can waltz up to Nina Caliente and kiss, hit on, goose, whatever he likes in front of his fiance Cassandra Goth and she does not care AT ALL, until I accidentally click the vanilla Maxis "make out" interaction at the end and she finally gets mad:

This was Cassandra's jealousy setting for this test:

So, erm, that's not great 😂 Should probably fix that hey...

(Today I also learned that I can't upload more than 1 video per post lol, but I did film a second video using the same "casual.../romantic kiss" interaction which this time resulted in immediate jealousy).

So. Yeah.

Basically, there were 2 "casual / kiss" interactions that actually worked and triggered jealousy where appropriate, which were Casual / Kiss / Suck Face and Casual / Kiss / Dance Kiss.

The rest, ZERO response. All flirts, hugs and other kisses, broken.

So, I worked out what the differences were, and I fixed them.

Here you go:

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** IMPORTANT: THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE ACR REPLACEMENT**

I have only included the socials that needed to be fixed. You still need the original ACR Controller Main files from either here or SimGiggleGirl's Romantic Standards compatible version here. But if you already have ACR, you will want to replace all of the socials with these versions.

And if anyone is curious, yes this totally works as intended alongside Midge's version of Romantic Standards. This mod is heavy and you've gotta read through the documentation, but here's a screenshot of my Romantic Standards files that work perfectly with ACR:

Here is something that probably no one asked for but here it goes. Maybe someone else needs it too The Glass Blowing Station from the Sims 3 Store, that comes with The Prism Art Studio. Also interduces the Artisan Skill. This is probably my favorite Sims 3 Store Premium Content. However this is EA after all and for whatever reason, the skill gain for the Artisan skill is astronomically high. You sim will gain 2.5 skill points just from crafting their first glass object. And you will max it within a day or two. As a kid I used to exploit this back in the day, but now I want more of a challenge, hence this mod was born.

Technical Things:

This is the weirdest skill done by EA. It has a different skill gain compared to the rest of Store Skills. I didn't have the time to look at the Vanilla skills but I am going to assume that all of them are like the other store skills.

The code is a bit of a mess, so I can't figure out what is the skill gain value actually is. The default skill gain for this skill is 50. 50 what? Per minute, hour...? I experimented with different values and I settled on 10. Again 10 what? But this seems to make it match the rest of the skills. Anything less was too slow, anything higher was too fast. This mod requires the Glass Blowing Station to be installed(official or decrapped). Just put this mod in Mods>Packages if you have it installed as a .sims3pack. And if you have it as a .package file I believe it needs to go into Mods>Overrides folder(I can't test this).

There are no mods that conflict with my mod, that I am aware of.

And we quote: "The code is a bit of a mess, so I can't figure out what is the skill gain value actually is. The default skill gain for this skill is 50. 50 what? Per minute, hour...? I experimented with different values and I settled on 10. Again 10 what? But this seems to make it match the rest of the skills. Anything less was too slow, anything higher was too fast."

Oh, and "And if you have it as a .package file I believe it needs to go into Mods>Overrides folder."

I honestly have no idea prompted this reaction. This mod is a simple XML edit and I laid everything out as it is. I personally don't want you to do anything. Many mods out there are experimental and trying to make the best of EA's mess. I also have no idea what have you learned the hard way, and who is us?

'I honestly have no idea prompted this reaction.'

We thought we had actually laid it out pretty clearly ...

'This mod is a simple XML edit and I laid everything out as it is.'

Which is the part that worries us ...

'I personally don't want you to do anything.'

Well, you're posting a Dumblr publicly, so ergo you are wanting people to read it, and you are posting up downloads, so you want us to download them, ergo strictly speaking you are wanting us to do something.

Perhaps less of the emotive retorts and sticking instead to the points addressed would be helpful?

'Many mods out there are experimental and trying to make the best of EA's mess.'

So what? That's not a coherent argument for posting up a mod and adding an implied caveat at the end that you're not sure about how the variables you've meddled with actually work and - the crux of the matter - you admit you haven't had it safely tested elsewhere before uploading.

Judging by your avatar you've been around since Sims 2, so you should know that is a no-no.

Actually, screw the being polite about this ... for the love of plumbob, that's a no-no in any gaming community.

If you'd posted it up with a clear warning that downloaders were being de facto beta testers, so be it, but you left it for people to deduce this from what you were saying.

'I also have no idea what have you learned the hard way, and who is us?'

Okay, we are seriously entering Trump voter levels of bumnuggetry here.

'The hard way', as in fifteen years of downloads that turned out to be harmful to our games because the aspiring modder hasn't tested their upload properly (or in some cases not at all).

You know, as in Sims 3 being around for, erm, fifteen years.

If you really needed us to spoonfeed you that explanation - as opposed to it being a particularly feeble rhetorical question? - maybe, and with due respect, you're not bright enough to be messing about with modding?

Of course, it could be that English is not your first language and therefore certain language idioms are lost on you, in which case, c'est la vie ...

As for 'us', as per the first sentence of our initial response to you (ie. 'So you want us to download into our games' ) 'us' in this context is those you are proffering your mods to in general, in this instance, the Sims 3 players who happen to read your site on Dumblr. Again, did that really require elaboration?

'You can open the package and see the edit. It requires zero coding skills to understand the XML text. You can even use Nraas Retuner to achieve the same effect.'

Wait, what? You are now telling us that you have uploaded a mod which another and very popular mod could do for us anyway?

In which case, what's the point of this one?

'And if you don't like it you don't have to download it.'

No shit, Sherlock!

'I don't know what fight you think your are fighting, but this a mod for a game, and hundreds are being posted each day.'

No shit, Sherlock x 2 and 3!

'Like just don't add it to your game and you are good.'

No shit, Sherlock x 4!

'And one more question. Who is us?'

You mean the same question you asked earlier?

(Hellfire, we even put an open goal in our last reply, the bit regarding Nraas Retuner, where the obvious response to our question what's the point of this mod when it already does the same was, of course, 'it meets the need for those who, for whatever reason, don't want NRaas Retuner in their game' , so you could salve a bit of your clearly wounded pride and feel that you'd 'won' - a mindset we find ourselves encountering to an increasingly alarming extent nowadays with Generation Permatriggered ...).

But outside of the Simming community, where there ain't so much love, a lot more selfishness, and a good deal of targetted cruelty masquerading as 'humour', you'll find plenty of criticism that's not so benevolent in intent, let alone in tone, especially towards anyone who only wants to hear endless praise and never anything 'negative'.

If you're so touchy over criticism over a small piece of digital code, plumbob help you outside of our little cotton wool world of frivolity.

Here is something that probably no one asked for but here it goes. Maybe someone else needs it too The Glass Blowing Station from the Sims 3 Store, that comes with The Prism Art Studio. Also interduces the Artisan Skill. This is probably my favorite Sims 3 Store Premium Content. However this is EA after all and for whatever reason, the skill gain for the Artisan skill is astronomically high. You sim will gain 2.5 skill points just from crafting their first glass object. And you will max it within a day or two. As a kid I used to exploit this back in the day, but now I want more of a challenge, hence this mod was born.

Technical Things:

This is the weirdest skill done by EA. It has a different skill gain compared to the rest of Store Skills. I didn't have the time to look at the Vanilla skills but I am going to assume that all of them are like the other store skills.

The code is a bit of a mess, so I can't figure out what is the skill gain value actually is. The default skill gain for this skill is 50. 50 what? Per minute, hour...? I experimented with different values and I settled on 10. Again 10 what? But this seems to make it match the rest of the skills. Anything less was too slow, anything higher was too fast. This mod requires the Glass Blowing Station to be installed(official or decrapped). Just put this mod in Mods>Packages if you have it installed as a .sims3pack. And if you have it as a .package file I believe it needs to go into Mods>Overrides folder(I can't test this).

There are no mods that conflict with my mod, that I am aware of.

And we quote: "The code is a bit of a mess, so I can't figure out what is the skill gain value actually is. The default skill gain for this skill is 50. 50 what? Per minute, hour...? I experimented with different values and I settled on 10. Again 10 what? But this seems to make it match the rest of the skills. Anything less was too slow, anything higher was too fast."

Oh, and "And if you have it as a .package file I believe it needs to go into Mods>Overrides folder."

I honestly have no idea prompted this reaction. This mod is a simple XML edit and I laid everything out as it is. I personally don't want you to do anything. Many mods out there are experimental and trying to make the best of EA's mess. I also have no idea what have you learned the hard way, and who is us?

'I honestly have no idea prompted this reaction.'

We thought we had actually laid it out pretty clearly ...

'This mod is a simple XML edit and I laid everything out as it is.'

Which is the part that worries us ...

'I personally don't want you to do anything.'

Well, you're posting a Dumblr publicly, so ergo you are wanting people to read it, and you are posting up downloads, so you want us to download them, ergo strictly speaking you are wanting us to do something.

Perhaps less of the emotive retorts and sticking instead to the points addressed would be helpful?

'Many mods out there are experimental and trying to make the best of EA's mess.'

So what? That's not a coherent argument for posting up a mod and adding an implied caveat at the end that you're not sure about how the variables you've meddled with actually work and - the crux of the matter - you admit you haven't had it safely tested elsewhere before uploading.

Judging by your avatar you've been around since Sims 2, so you should know that is a no-no.

Actually, screw the being polite about this ... for the love of plumbob, that's a no-no in any gaming community.

If you'd posted it up with a clear warning that downloaders were being de facto beta testers, so be it, but you left it for people to deduce this from what you were saying.

'I also have no idea what have you learned the hard way, and who is us?'

Okay, we are seriously entering Trump voter levels of bumnuggetry here.

'The hard way', as in fifteen years of downloads that turned out to be harmful to our games because the aspiring modder hasn't tested their upload properly (or in some cases not at all).

You know, as in Sims 3 being around for, erm, fifteen years.

If you really needed us to spoonfeed you that explanation - as opposed to it being a particularly feeble rhetorical question? - maybe, and with due respect, you're not bright enough to be messing about with modding?

Of course, it could be that English is not your first language and therefore certain language idioms are lost on you, in which case, c'est la vie ...

As for 'us', as per the first sentence of our initial response to you (ie. 'So you want us to download into our games' ) 'us' in this context is those you are proffering your mods to in general, in this instance, the Sims 3 players who happen to read your site on Dumblr. Again, did that really require elaboration?

'You can open the package and see the edit. It requires zero coding skills to understand the XML text. You can even use Nraas Retuner to achieve the same effect.'

Wait, what? You are now telling us that you have uploaded a mod which another and very popular mod could do for us anyway?

In which case, what's the point of this one?

'And if you don't like it you don't have to download it.'

No shit, Sherlock!

'I don't know what fight you think your are fighting, but this a mod for a game, and hundreds are being posted each day.'

No shit, Sherlock x 2 and 3!

'Like just don't add it to your game and you are good.'

No shit, Sherlock x 4!

'And one more question. Who is us?'

You mean the same question you asked earlier?

Here is something that probably no one asked for but here it goes. Maybe someone else needs it too The Glass Blowing Station from the Sims 3 Store, that comes with The Prism Art Studio. Also interduces the Artisan Skill. This is probably my favorite Sims 3 Store Premium Content. However this is EA after all and for whatever reason, the skill gain for the Artisan skill is astronomically high. You sim will gain 2.5 skill points just from crafting their first glass object. And you will max it within a day or two. As a kid I used to exploit this back in the day, but now I want more of a challenge, hence this mod was born.

Technical Things:

This is the weirdest skill done by EA. It has a different skill gain compared to the rest of Store Skills. I didn't have the time to look at the Vanilla skills but I am going to assume that all of them are like the other store skills.

The code is a bit of a mess, so I can't figure out what is the skill gain value actually is. The default skill gain for this skill is 50. 50 what? Per minute, hour...? I experimented with different values and I settled on 10. Again 10 what? But this seems to make it match the rest of the skills. Anything less was too slow, anything higher was too fast. This mod requires the Glass Blowing Station to be installed(official or decrapped). Just put this mod in Mods>Packages if you have it installed as a .sims3pack. And if you have it as a .package file I believe it needs to go into Mods>Overrides folder(I can't test this).

There are no mods that conflict with my mod, that I am aware of.

And we quote: "The code is a bit of a mess, so I can't figure out what is the skill gain value actually is. The default skill gain for this skill is 50. 50 what? Per minute, hour...? I experimented with different values and I settled on 10. Again 10 what? But this seems to make it match the rest of the skills. Anything less was too slow, anything higher was too fast."

Oh, and "And if you have it as a .package file I believe it needs to go into Mods>Overrides folder."

I honestly have no idea prompted this reaction. This mod is a simple XML edit and I laid everything out as it is. I personally don't want you to do anything. Many mods out there are experimental and trying to make the best of EA's mess. I also have no idea what have you learned the hard way, and who is us?

Welcome to the big Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff part 2! (Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff required for everything)

Part 1 is found here (the same items in island colors) and part 3 is found here (defaults).

In this second part some more recolors of the modern kitchen appliances and counter (tops and cabinets). Now they're recolored in all ten Cluedo Colors by Shastakiss and there are a lot of items recolored so I’ll copy the list from part 1 right here:

Surfaco Counter by Kitchensensations and Surfaco Island Counter by Kitchensensations

Surfaco Bar by Kitchensensations

Fire ‘Em Up by Sleek Sensations

The Coldinator by Kitchensations

Solid Sense Fridge by Romantic Notions

Big and Brown Dishwasher by Romantic Notions

Garbage Ninja by Kitchensensations

Carrot Chopper Deluxe by Kitchensensations

Drip Drip Drip Little Coffeemaker by Kitchensensations

Flashwave Microwave by Kitchensensations

Toast to Toaster Oven by Kitchensensations

Rip Co. Little Baker Oven

The Super Sucker Vent recolors are not included in this second part, because I did those in Cluedo Colors already and they can be found here. I've included the Garbage Ninja fixture retexture again. If you have already it from part 1 you don't need to keep both of the files, they're identical.

I’ve used a few of Liz’s white recolors (for trash compactor, dishwasher and fridge) and Shastakiss’s yeti recolors (for the counters and bar) for better textures. I’ve also used the default replacement from Vegan Kaktus for a better base to recolor the Little Baker Oven. Thank you for your generous policies!

Required to use: CEP (only for the Garbage Ninja fixture retexture)

Credits: Liz (textures) and @shastakiss (textures and colors), SpaceDoll (dirt masks) and @vegan-kaktus (textures)

These are the mods i used on my game from various mod creators of the Sims 2 community.

DISCLAIMER: none of these mods are mine ~ credits to its rightful owners and huge thanks to all of them. Also, this blog was inspired by @pleasantsimmer ‘s Recommended Mods List who I’m a big fan of.)

Anti-Corruption Mods:

Mootilda’s Hood Checker – This is a tool and not really a mod, but it’s necessary to check your hoods for corruption. Read all documentation on the download page.

No Corrupt Death – Suppresses the corrupt death memory.

No Unlink on Delete – Game no longer partially destroys sim file on deletion of tombstone. May resolve potential random tombstone losses when moving tombstones to community lots resulting from shredded character files produced by unlinkage.

Essential Mods:

Bat Box as Vase (FFS Lot Debugger) -  This has a lot of similar features to the Sim Blender, but also has a lot of helpful debug options.

ChristianLov’s Gussy-Up -  This mod allows you to buy, change, and plan outfits from a pie menu in-game. Allows you to change townie clothing and change appearance of any Sim directly by clicking on them.

Cyjon’s Smarter EP Check -  Most of Cyjon’s mods require this mod so make sure you download this first before you go on a download spree on his site.

Sim Blender – The ultimate Sim management “God” mod.

Sim Blender [Edited] - edited version by @meltingmagnetz