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Hey simmers❤ I wanted to re-post this tutorial/game fix that  theothersim posted once long ago. The original post was deleted and I’m not sure if this tutorial has been posted elsewhere. So, I’ll post it here. All credit of the original tutorial and the pic goes to DH4S

Oh and if it wasn’t clear, this fix will stop the lighting causing objects to get that weird glow.

Credit will also go to balljointedsim who wrote a quick explanation how to do this (after the original tut disappeared) which I will quote now:

Open GraphicRules.sgr (be sure to make a backup of the original)

In the notepad Look for the line “advancedrendering”

You will see two sections, one is “Setting $ On” and “Setting $ Off”

In “Setting $ Off” you will find the line “$ prop ConfigGroup RenderPostProcessEnabled false”

Copy that line into the “Setting $ On” section (the blog posted it after the line that says TerrainLOD0)

You will end up with the section looking like this:

After that, save your SGR but please do not forget to have made a backup.

 And if this is already uploaded by the original maker somewhere else and thus is an irrelevant post by me, then I appreciate if someone can let me know. 

Marshall McLuhan's definition of hot and cool media describe hot media is as being "low in participation," while cool media is "high in participation or completion by audience" (McLuhan 29). 

In Cyberspace and Human Nature, Rheingold describes the process of initiation that people went through thousands of years ago. They were brought into dark caves, and shown images while in a very specific mindset. 

The deliberately sensitized psyches of the novices were reframed by carefully crafted sequences of sights and sounds, imprinted with the secrets of fire and metal, the connections between seeds and stars. 

This process was used to pass down cultural knowledge, and was called a sort of "brainwashing" by John Pfeiffer. It used elements of cutting off some senses while overwhelming the others, and required low participation. Would hot media therefore be an element of brainwashing?

Brainwashing is described as overwriting a person's beliefs and behavior, usually through isolation and manipulative techniques. Although brainwashing may be an extreme term for what happens through certain media, some studies have shown that media such as television have a strong effect on the brain. 

The studies found that some of the effects of television included:

Decreased IQ

Less creativity in problem solving

Reduction in critical thinking

Less motivation

In agreement with McLuhan's popular saying that "the medium is the message," the studies found the same results regardless of content. 

McLuhan listed television as a cool medium, but some would argue that with technological advances, it has become a hot medium. A study by Professor Herbert Krugman found that within one minute of watching television, the response of the brain switched from active, faster brain waves to passive, slower brain waves. Faster brain waves are associated with logic and critical thinking, while slower waves are associated with memory and meditation.

This would suggest that television as a medium has the effect of putting people into a meditative like state, in which they become more susceptible to absorbing what is shown.  Jen Senko's documentary about her father's transformation from a non-political democrat to an extreme Republican is one example of hot media being used to change a person's beliefs and behavior.

She describes how her father began to change when he started listening to talk radio while commuting to work alone. The radio is a medium that McLuhan stated as being hot. Soon he began to watch Fox news on television which, if viewed as a hot media, combined with radio to overwhelm her father's senses and transform him into a right-wing Republican.