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kathleen---sadist---saint reblogged your post “very ignorant”

That was a sick burn whether it was meant to be one or not 😂

It actually wasn't meant to be a burn, no. It genuinely amuses me that people seem to think that calling someone "ignorant" is some kind of insult. Because every single person is completely ignorant about a LOT of things. There are probably many things that a so-called "brilliant" person is ignorant of that a so-called "stupid" person knows a lot about. Basically, those who claim they AREN'T ignorant are lying.

Of course, there's also willful ignorance -- Consciously refusing to learn, know, or consider something, usually because of fear that knowing will upset one's biases -- which is another thing. I find willful ignorance abhorrent and try to avoid indulging in it, but I still wouldn't be insulted if someone accused me of being willfully ignorant about something...because they could be right. Only human, and all that. Such an accusation would make me think about what biases I might be holding on to that I might want to consider ridding myself of, though, and that’s always a good thing.

penig replied to your photoset “Norbert & Susan Hawksley, Autumn, Part 1/3 The beekeeping Hawksleys,...”

That face has a lot of potential. Different hair would diminish the bowling ball effect.

It’s not so much “bowling ball” as the fact that the middle of his face, around his eyes, his cheekbones, and the bridge of his nose, is kind of caved in, at the moment. *laugh* The parents’ faces are so dissimilar that it’s hard for the game to mash ‘em together in such a small space. It’ll work itself out as he grows, though. Such things pretty much always do; I’ve never been able to understand why people freak out over “ugly” toddlers. *shrug* 

I don’t usually bother too much with toddlers’ appearance, though, because with the normal age lengths they’re only toddlers for four days, so it’s not worth fussing, in my mind. I COULD here, because with the age-modding the toddler stage is twelve days, but...meh. *laugh* They keep the hair they get. Sometimes I’ll change it when they’re a child...but sometimes they have the same style their whole life. *laugh* That’s how much I can’t be bothered. :)

ellupelluellu replied to your photoset “Norbert & Susan Hawksley, Autumn, Part 1/3 The beekeeping Hawksleys,...”

wich log walls you use? Your own or available at somewhere?

They’re my own. Here. I wanted more and different stone trims than Maxis made, to match some Maxis stone walls, plus I wanted the logs in my wood colors, to coordinate with all the doors/windows I’ve done, so....yeah. :)

simblrkersil replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”

Skell's repository project works well with most texture-only defaults!

siofrasims replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”

You can sometimes still use texture defaults with Skell's stuff!

Yeah, I figured that. So now I need to look for...or make...some texture defaults that I like. I don’t really enjoy retexturing clothing because the mapping usually annoys the piss out of me and I don’t know how to re-map stuff, but if I can’t find anything I like....

holleyberry replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”

I like some of the Maxis clothes too. If I finally decide to redo my downloads folder I think I would Default all the BG stuff, and also use Skell's repository.

pensblr replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”

Do it. Do it. Skell's repo project really is a life saver for those of us who like a tidy BodyShop/CAS and some variety for all ages.

dreadpirate replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”

DO IT

*laugh* Yeah, I went ahead and downloaded the bits I want. Which isn’t ALL of the repository project because there are some things in it that I have no use for. But stuff that’s useful.... Now it’s time to figure out what I can use and what I can’t, given the defaults I have. I’ll probably end up with a mish-mash of some defaults and some not defaulted in order to use the repository stuff. I mean, that’s sort of what I already have, actually. I didn’t default any of the H&M stuff, so I have the H&M stuff from the repository project...

And hey, at least Holley also likes Maxis clothes. I’m not alone! :D ...although I suppose I have to say that it’s not that I “like” the clothes so much as I just don’t care enough about clothes that they bother me that much. IRL I couldn’t care less about fashion and will tend to wear stuff that would be at home in the 60s/70s (I <3 bell-bottoms and hippie styles in general), so my “meh” attitude about clothes in-game is probably a “bleed-through” that way. *laugh*

penig replied to your photoset “Hattie Galloway, Autumn, Part 2/2 Hattie, having been trapped at home...”

We used to go on picnics in the rain when we lived in Alaska, because if you let the weather spoil your plans you'd never do anything.

Yeah, ya gotta do what you gotta do. But that doesn’t mean that you have to go swimming when the water is freezing! Then again, it probably doesn’t get truly freezing in this neighborhood because it has no winter. It goes Spring/Summer/Autumn/Spring2. But at the end of autumn, it’s still probably enough to give one hypothermia!

simaddicted-sue replied to your photo “Komei & Karen Tellerman, Autumn, Part 2/3 Karen chose an excellent...”

Congrats on a girl!

RIGHT???! I was so happy. Because prior to her birth, out of 22 births, only four had been girls, so the neighborhood was less than 40% female overall. I mean, I have a statistically-high percentage of male/male couples -- half of the 6 married couples in the neighborhood, in fact, are male/male, currently -- and I’m perfectly OK with that...but you do need SOME females. *laugh*

simblrkersil replied to your photo “Komei & Karen Tellerman, Autumn, Part 2/3 Karen chose an excellent...”

to be fair to her, it's hard to follow the long-time sims tradition of birthing in the smallest bathroom of a house if your only bathroom is an outhouse XD

This is true! I’m pretty sure the outhouses that are out there are cloned from the community-lot bathroom stall, so Sims have to exit it to do anything. It’d be hilarious if they could give birth in the outhouse. Well, *I* think it’d be hilarious, anyway, but I’m one of those people who finds odd things hilarious, so...

ellupelluellu replied to your photo “Gordon Bassett in the wilderness that is his back yard. :) I spent...”

Just make couple adults looking like they are lost and searching something they never will find, and you have better SimRembrandt than the original.

HAH! Yeah, you’re right. *laugh*

lokisimmer replied to your post “ellupelluellu replied to your photoset “Chick-chick-CHICKIES! :D” ...”

Hey do you remember the name of a mod on sims 2 which had this small plate on the mailbox so sims can out their bills on it as I lost it and don't remember the name

mrningbrd replied to your post “Well, this is a pain in the booty...”

Im also having ACR issues even though i 100% finished the story. Same exact issues too

mrningbrd replied to your post “So I had a bit of a think...”

I think i fixed my acr problem. Did u try taking it out and then redownloading it and putting it back in? That fixed it for me

Yeah, I did try taking it out/redownloading/reinstalling. Multiple times. And nada. It’s so frustrating! I was kinda disheartened when you said it didn’t work with having played the story, but reassured when you got it working. :) I mean, I know it works because it worked just fine in my initial install, once the story was played. So, I’m hoping that’s the key. I think it must be, because there are some fundamental changes with how the story neighborhood works once the story is completed. If that’s the case, I’m hoping it’ll still work even though I started the freeplay scenario before doing the story. 

So, I’m about halfway through the story. Hoping to finish it tonight with enough time to experiment in the other neighborhood. I’m encouraged by the fact that I peeked in the freeplay hood and the story rewards I’ve unlocked in the story so far were also available there. So *fingers crossed*.

simblrkersil replied to your post “So I had a bit of a think...”

Melissa Fancey, maybe? (IDK how you feel about her, but I love her XD horrifying flame pants and all)

It was between her and the adult Ivy Copur, actually! But in the end I went with Ivy because I’ve never had her as a playable before. :) I’m sure she’s thrilled to go through this torture.

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing?”

I think the next time someone asks me what my aesthetic is, I'll just direct them to this post. :P

It’s tough when you don’t fall into one box or another but instead cherrypick bits and bobs from all the available boxes in order to build your own wacky box. :) I think henceforth I’m going to call my game aesthetic “Mutant Hybrid FrankenSHTEEN.” *nods sagely*

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “So you’re stranded with seven other complete strangers on what may or...”

So I see overlay boxes work? Was not expecting that.

They do! At least the ones I installed do! (Male and female body hair and two tattoo boxes.) It’s likely because the game has the “heatstroke” overlay from Seasons. (And maybe the frozen one, too, but it’s sort of hard to freeze on a tropical island... :) ) Many things work, in fact, but some only after you’ve completed the story. 

I’m still trying to figure out the game engine the thing uses because knowing that will make it easier to predict whether or not a TS2 mod will work and/or which version of a mod to try first. It’s either Seasons’s or OFB’s or maybe a hybrid of the two. But it also has some stuff from BV, like the pirate ship. Those are all just objects, though; the beach lots don’t have surf like BV beaches do. (Which is a shame because it’d be fun to have @maybesomethingdunno‘s surfing mod in it, but I’m 99.8% certain that won’t work. :) And even if it did, it’d look weird without surf. :) )

simper-fi replied to your photo “So what do you do when you have way too many babies on a lot and not...”

BABY CORRAL! I love it!

holleyberry replied to your photo “So what do you do when you have way too many babies on a lot and not...”

Haha! That is awesome.

Heh. It was one of those ideas “born” out of desperation. I had seven babies at the time, couldn’t afford cribs (But I decided early on that rock “fences” would be free, in order to create “rooms” on the lot, if needed), and no one could sleep on the lot with a baby laying on the ground. (Which is SOOOOOOO stupid and needs to be modded out.) Hence, baby corral. It works. For babies, anyway. :)

vampireacademysims replied to your photo “So what do you do when you have way too many babies on a lot and not...”

Lmaaao! Wow I'd go crazy, I cursed my life each time I got quadruplets, now imagine this XD

Well, it helps that there are 8 adults to share the load. :) Nine babies isn’t so bad with 8 adults around, as it’s almost a 1:1 ratio, so long as no one slacks. *side-eyes Orlando Centowski* It’s just that they can’t do much else besides baby/toddler care other than occasionally shoving something edible in their face and maybe taking a nap here and there. :) In a normal two-parent household where at least one has a job, I pull my hair out with just twins. Maybe I won’t, so much, after doing this, though...

penig replied to your post “Preggo Ben!”

At the volume there's about to be, it hardly matters anyhow - nearest person deals with whoever's howling.

Ah, but the problem is that they’re ALL howling at once. :) Basically, they all have to cry themselves to sleep, since there are no cribs to put them in. Well, I do have ONE crib now, actually. One crib for nine toddlers. They get rotated in and out of it. I could buy more now, but the toddlers are all going to age up soon -- and there’s no “selling back” according to the rules I’m using for this scenario -- so I think I might want to save the resources for other things. Like more leaf beds. Hopefully children can use those.... And maybe some hammocks for the adults. I think they’ve earned them. I shudder to think of the hell it must’ve been hell to sleep on the ground in the third trimester...

serabiet replied to your post “In this Castaway scenario I’m playing, the castaway’d townies must use...”

why am i getting incoming village of the damned vibes off this development

It is kind of like that, actually... *laugh* Thankfully the lots in the game are big. Lots of a room for a tribe of the damned children.

kayleigh-83 replied to your photoset “When you spend hours on stuff that’s purely, uselessly decorative....”

Ahh you to so much more trouble than I do! I wish I had the patience to plan it out and apply it. My strategy for making my neighbourhood look better is essentially MOAR TREES!!!

More trees is my go-to, too! :) But actually, I don’t plan this sort of thing. It’s more like, “Hey, that lot opened the Athletic career! Now they need someplace to play.” *plops down baseball diamond in random spot* Then it’s, “Hmmmm, that looks really out of context. *moves baseball diamond close to lot that unlocked the career* Then it’s, “If people are gonna come see the game, they’ll need some place to park their car.” *builds adjacent completely useless deco parking lot* Then it’s, “I’m envisioning cracked windshields. Plus, how’re they gonna tell if it’s a home run?” *plots strategy to put lots under baseball diamond just so that fences can be built.* And on and on.

It’d be so much easier if I could just plop down the hood deco and be done with it, but I...just...can’t....

getmygameon replied to your photoset “So this is what I decided to do with Castaway. Take 8 of...”

Very neat :) you're really making that game your bitch aren't you? LOL jk XD

I’m tryin’! Although lately, it’s more like I’m the game’s bitch, jumping through hoops trying to make things work the way I want. :)                 

stinkyunicorn replied to your photoset “Komei has a “job” as a hunter, so he’s off the lot for a chunk of...”

"Hard row to hoe in this scenario"... You're a poet and didn't know it. I'm enjoying all your Castaway posts!

I’m glad you’re enjoying them! :) I’m having a blast playing it. It’s a great change-of-pace for when I get in one of those “I don’t feel like loading TS2″ moods. And it’s like instant gratification because the game loads instantly, so I can go in and out of the game to screw around with things and test out bizarre, wild hair ideas really easily.

And it was totally accidental poetry; I didn’t even realize it rhymed beyond “row to hoe” until you pointed it out. :)

alexbgd replied to your post “Goopy in Wonderland. :)”

a zoo with sims..

Preeeeeety much, yes. :)

holleyberry replied to your post “Goopy in Wonderland. :)”

Come on Goopy. Sandy's there too. Go after her man.

I totally thought he would! They double-bolt! They’re the only possible pairing with more than one bolt, I think. But.... Sandy goes for Ben Long and Goopy seems to like Andrea Hogan best. Go figure. They seem to be each other’s second-faves, though. And it’s not like it really matters since it’s basically one big polyamorous clan. Which is exactly what I wanted. 

fuzzyspork replied to your post “Goopy in Wonderland. :)”

At least those sand mites he just acquired in his nether crevisce will keep him company. XD

Poor Goopy. Only the lice and the stink bugs love him. :) Well, OK, that’s not true. Everyone loves him except Marisa Bendett; those two are oil and water, apparently.

crystaldollhouse replied to your post “Goopy in Wonderland. :)”

This looks so fun :D

It’s realllllllllllllly fun. Very addictive, too. And beyond being fun to play, it’s really fun to experiment with it, too, to see what’ll work and what won’t. 

strangetomato replied to your photoset “So this is what I decided to do with Castaway. Take 8 of...”

I agree with Fuzzy. this makes me want to play Castaway again too. Maybe I'll start loading that up again as a "just for fun" game.

DO EEEEET! You know you want to. Come to the dark side...

fuzzyspork replied to your photoset “So this is what I decided to do with Castaway. Take 8 of...”

You make me want to track down a copy of Castaway! I'll forever kick myself for not buying the one I saw at a thrift store last year. D;

*cough*games4theworld*cough* I pirated mine, and that site is nice. (No creepy porn ads, at least! :) ) The game’s not legitimately for sale new and unused anymore, so unless you can find a used copy, pirating is actually more ethical than paying more than retail to some shady online “store” that doesn’t have the right to sell it for those prices. *gets very irked at “stores” who ignore retail agreements*  Either way, EA doesn’t get any money out of it, so...eh. :)

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “Drat! Dang! DOUBLE DRAT!”

This is probably not helpful at all, but I just discovered that in TS2 there's a settings option to add the Pets unlocks from codes shared with friends. I suppose it's too much to hope that they've done that for CS as well.

Not that I know of. I searched around a lot and read lots of “game strategy/hint” websites, and didn’t find anything about it. Buuuuuut, as it turns out I’m playing the story, anyway. In the end, you’re kind of forced to, at least if you ever want to use any of the electricity-dependent items in it. I’m just kind of blitzing through it to collect up all the story rewards, including some I missed on my first play-through.

emeraldfalconsims replied to your post “corruptuslocus: Also ACR 1 vs ACR 2 I know ACR 2 has more features...”

I only use V.1, and the only thing I know of to miss is autonomous proposals and go steadys. Have you seen this much with V.2, Icad?

crystaldollhouse replied to your photoset “Random Captioned Isolationist Neighborhood Gameplay Pics, Part One....”

Some beautiful pics! I love how cats look like they're hovering on seats :D

Thanks. :) I think this will be a pretty little neighborhood, yes...assuming it lasts long enough that I eventually get it all deco’d out. :)

But yeah, I’m now wondering if cats levitate when sitting on a regular chair/couch or if the park bench seats are just a bit lower than those... Even after playing this game for 8 years, there are still little things that I’ve never seen or noticed before.

littleblondesim replied to your post “crystaldollhouse replied to your post:Random wish/thought.Yes I don’t...”

If you do figure out a mod where sims stop eating when full, I'd love to have it, too, please!

Well, Pescado’s noeatcrap does make them stop eating when full (so long as the Sim isn’t lazy). It just does other things that I don’t necessarily want...which is typical of Pescado’s mods, really, which is why I don’t use a lot of them. 

littleblondesim replied to your post “Game-loading time replies, as usual. :)”

Definitely water closets--genius! I also got tired of having to direct sims to wash hands after the bathroom, so I downloaded a mod so that they autonomously do it, but I like your idea of "whatever!", too. :)

Well, I’m all for people washing their hands after using the toilet...in real life. :) But in the game? Meh. I can understand wanting that little bit of realism, I suppose, but to me it’s just time wasted: It doesn’t really accomplish anything, it keeps bathrooms occupied longer when someone else might need to use it (which is a concern for me, since I’ll often cram large families into houses with only one bathroom :) ), and it’s time the Sim could spend doing something that actually matters. So, for me, no “auto hand-washing” mod, and I don’t direct them to do it, either. They do their business and get out. I know, I know: Ewwwwww! :)

simblrkersil replied to your post “Random wish/thought.”

Pescado's mod does that, but it sounds like what you really need is a mod to nuke the fresh food bonus (since all it does is make food more filling afaik), which I think BoilingOil made as part of his realistic gardening series.

elfpuddle replied to your photoset “I needed a house for a new household in Needham Hills. I was going to...”

I bet Carol and the girls lived in some place just like it before they became Bradys.

I wouldn’t be surprised. It does look like something out of the 60s/70s. But then she moved on up to that iconic split-level. :) I’ve always kinda wanted to build the Brady house in-game, but split levels are a pain to build and, IMO, are kind of annoying to play. :P So, I never have.

celebkiriedhel replied to your photoset “Ginger Newson and Kennedy Cox.  MORTAL KOMBAT!  (C’mon, I can’t be the...”

I am old - I have never heard that song. It is now engraved onto my memory!

Yeah, well, I’m old, too, but I have a young husband who spent his teen years playing that game, and we’ll occasionally have a Mortal Kombat war. He kicks my butt, of course, since he spent his teen years playing it and I never played it until I met him. :) I do like the song, though, but then I like mindless, repetitive techno, so...

pensblr replied to your photoset “Ginger Newson and Kennedy Cox.  MORTAL KOMBAT!  (C’mon, I can’t be the...”

Finish him!

Hee hee hee... I wonder what Ginger Newson’s Fatality would be? Maybe having her defeated opponent torn apart and eaten by a herd of hungry, angry toddlers in aspiration failure... ;)

simblrkersil replied to your photoset “I needed a house for a new household in Needham Hills. I was going to...”

oh, man, I love that carport design, with the column-wall-column look (lbr i just love the stuff you do with columns, i almost never use them but i've started to lately by mimicking some of the ways you use them, and my houses look so much more realistic now so thank you for the ideas)

Thanks and you’re welcome. :) Yeah, I do sort of have a love affair with columns, huh? Lately, it’s one from Moune’s Torrox set because it’s so nice and chunky. The only bad thing about columns is that they don’t fade when you zoom in on them, so they sometimes sort of get in the way when you’re playing. But it doesn’t annoy me enough to stop using them, alas. :)

penig replied to your photo “My game cracks me up sometimes.  So this is one guy’s want panel....”

That's really sweet, actually. He should ask the guy out.

Maybe he should! He’s kind of hopelessly straight, though, so I don’t know how well that’d work. But maybe they could become friends and he could be invited over and plied with multiple grilled cheeses...

eulaliasims replied to your post “Reply time!”

Hmm, I wonder what the limits are for altering the terrain like that? I've lowered map corners before (for different sky globe heights) alright. The game does get funky about that kind of stuff, though.