#radioactive asks

Mmh sounds like the issue might be with the lods, but... the decals were made from cloning a base game item so... Yeah, probably an update broke it, or another cc or mod conflicts with it (but that would be very weird). One thing you could maybe try is copying the lod 0 and putting it for all the other lods, but also I'm pretty sure it was already that way since it's decals and had like 4 polygons (basically couldn't be reduced), so uh, I'm a little stumped. And unfortunately, I don't intend on fixing or updating any of my cc anymore.

wow this is coming kind of out of nowhere?? uhh ig yeah, i’m not a super fan of that either (tho like.... why mention cyberpunk specifically, it’s done in literally every genre of fiction??)

tbh tho maybe i’m following the right people or smt but this... isn’t a trend i’ve noticed in the simmers who post cyberpunk content that i follow (like... the 5 of them that exist lmao)

i mean sure, one character once in a while will be in cleavage and short shorts or smt but... isn’t that ok?? if you’re not doing it bc you’re idk following a trend but bc that’s just the way your character is... idk, i’m a huge advocate of women wearing wtv the fuck they want bc it’s their body their choice, and in a cyberpunk setting, some would dress one way and others another and that’s just called characterization (is that how it’s written?? idk how to spell)

Aw, thank you so much for thinking of me 🥺 i figured most people forgot me given how inactive i’ve been the past few years. Unfortunately, the answer is no. Though I’m still giving a hand over at simblreenofficial, I’m afraid I don’t even have the game installed on my computer anymore.

but I really hope you have an awesome time this year too ☺️✨

EA has never cared about customer enjoyment. If the majority of people pirate the game, they aren't going to change anything about it, they'll just shelve it.

I don't wanna start a whole debate on this, so I'll answer this one ask and that's it.

First, yes, I fully understand that there are a ton of people who very much enjoy playing the game. But I want you to consider this... If someone has bought all the expansions, all the packs, all the kits... they've spent over 1 200,00$.... The sims is a great game, but it is not a game worth that much money. Or at the very least... it shouldn't be. This should be an unacceptable price tag. If the basegame came out with all the available content that exists for the sims 4, but at that price... who the fuck would buy that.

Being scared that the game will be shelved, that they won't ever make another game ever again... You're just saying, eh, this kinda sucks but I'm absolutely powerless to do anything about this, so I don't care, I'll keep participating in this vicious cycle.

It's not true though. You aren't powerless. Because EA knows they can make money out of the sims franchise for a loooong time still. And they've invested a shit ton into it. They won't give up on it that easily. If people stop buying while saying: I'm not buying because you're charging too much. Or, I'm not buying because this content isn't polished enough, or whatever else people have as valid complaints... Then yes, if enough people did that, I believe it would change EA's business strategy. They would try to make a thing so good people can't resist buying it, instead of just making trailers that seem great, but with a product that ends up not nearly as polished and well-thought-out as advertised. I don't know if you've watched people reviewing the latest expansions, but even on a technical level, no one's been impressed. Yet people still buy, so of course EA won't change their strategy.

Big companies like EA want to make you believe that there's nothing you can do even though YOU'RE THE CUSTOMER, it's YOUR money, and you DESERVE a product worth that hard-earned money. Same way companies never want their employees to unionize, and the government wants you to think it's normal not to have free healthcare. (though i'm canadian so it's, you know, a different problem here concerning healthcare)

Anyway, I'm rambling and my socialism is showing lmao. But tbh, this is a very moot point, because me making this post is never ever in a million years gonna make a DENT in EA's pocket. You are majorly overestimating my influence.

omg thank you so much!! your treats have been amazing as well, and especially all the effort you made with the little story and edits, i'm just as floored as last year!

Hi! :)

Here are updated links for Oldies but Goodies (which has the coffee tin), as well as Retro Days. The CC has been updated for DirectX 11. However, my game is not updated to this latest version, only the one from like 2 weeks ago, so if it's not D11 causing the infinite loading screen, I have no clue what the problem is to be honest.

Hi :) The plants do come separate from the pots though, so maybe that's the problem?

So this is a tricky subject. I have a feeling this may spark another simblr discourse, but oh well. There's a lot of subjects I stay away from, but this one I do feel pretty strongly about, so.

I, personally, as an adult, am against befriending minors. I just don't think it's a good idea, or appropriate, even if it's a totally innoccent thing. I don't mind minors following my blog and interacting with my posts, but I would not exchance DMs with them, nor would I join discord servers to make friends with them. And as a general rule of thumb, I also don't myself follow minors' simblrs. I think I might follow a few unknowingly (or at least, I have for sure) because they don't all disclose their age in their bios, and I've unfollowed some after finding out said age. But again, I'm not that strict about it.

But I'd like to add, though, that there's a very big difference between an 18yo and a 16yo becoming friends, and a 30yo and a 16yo becoming friends? I don't know what age gap is like... ok, no, that's a line crossed. But I know that again, I, as a 29yo, do not feel comfortable talking to minors.

I won't soft-block them, I don't ignore their existence. I've seen people say: 'there's nsfw content on my blog' or 'my stories have adult content' and that's why they don't allow minors to follow them, and that's entirely fair. I just think I won't go through that hassle because... well, frankly I remember being 12 and lying about my age so I could access content I... maybe shouldn't have had access to (like, 100% shouldn't have had) and I would resort to all sorts of tricks if I wanted access to it. If they wanna see your blog and your content, they will. But I also don't think that means we should censor ourselves and our stories on the off-chance that a minor sees it because... Well, frankly, tumblr isn't a site just for minors, and adults are allowed to use this space, as adults, as well, no matter the nip ban. What we can do is tag properly, warn about adult content, and hope minors do the smart thing and block this sort of content from their dash.

However, I will not befriend minors nor talk to them in private, and the older I get, the stronger I feel about this. The very, veeery few times I ended up somehow interacting with minors, it turned into me giving life advice, and even this made me highly uncomfortable, because we are complete strangers, and I do not know this kid enough to be giving advices like this, and I've cut it short every single time. I get that some minors maybe don't have any good, nurturing, role-model-types of adults in their private lives, but an internet stranger is not the answer to this problem. And being friends with a minor, especially if the age gap is very big, is just weird. Let them interact with peers their age, there's plenty of simblrs that are minors and can befriend each other, we adults don't need to insert ourselves in those dynamics. It's not a matter of being mean to minors, it's a matter of: we know better on this, and we should not encourage them to seek out complete strangers on the internet who are much older than them.