#vimpse

Fellow simmers,

It’s a feature, that came with Bon Voyage. If you place a beach lot, your sims will be able to swim in the sea. You can also edit “normal” lots with simlogical’s beach portals. It’s a little fiddly, but might be worth it, when you want your sims to swim in the sea, but don’t want the beach (where you can’t build stuff (unless you use cheats), sims search for seashells, sunbath, build sandcastles etc.)

On that note I also want to point out this tutorial by iCad and this one by Vimpse. You will need Lotadjuster. Beach-lots are on the bigger side, but most simmers prefer small and/or flat lots. Both tutorials work (have tried it myself. Not in Twinhills, but in a tester-hood) and you’ll get similar results. I think there are also smaller beach lots available for download, but I prefer to build everything from scratch.

such cuteness! even if its in the living room

I spent so much time building a church and a reception hall, and re-decorating an outdoor community lot to accommodate weddings, but do I use them? Nooooooo, of course not. :D

soloriya replied to your photo “The cutest thing Sims do. ♥ And that’s the end of their uninteresting...”

agree! the cutest thing ever! <333

I don’t even care that it takes them like an extra hour to wake up in the morning, it’s too cute! *-* And I wind up taking screenshots every time, too. XD

dramallamadingdang replied to your photoset “Clara actually sat on the couch and started watching television during...”

Capable...and with a very stylish hairstyle that didn't even get messed up in the fight. :)

Haha, yes! Now that’s impressive. ;) I haven’t had many burglaries in the neighborhood - at least not many that I’ve remembered to document - but if I recall correctly, she gets the burglar every time. :)

alicephant replied to your post “I’ve been playing this game for over ten years, and I finally had...”

I had my first in game puppies not long ago and yes they are adorable!

Ahhhhh it’s so much work but they’re so cuuuuute! I definitely don’t have room in the house for five dogs lmao but I don’t think I can part with them ;__; <3

lilibethsonar replied to your photoset “Two small but elegant bathrooms. I am aware that all of my bathrooms...”

So damn prrrretty! *O*

Thank you so much!! <3

twofee replied to your photoset “Clara and Stellan’s kitchen and dining area. (Clara had Star Wars...”

looooove it! did you do the color scheme specifically to match the leia painting ;)

Hahaha, no, I swear! :D I was looking for a large painting to use and I remembered that I have all of the amazing Star Wars recolors @biffysims did on the Artig mesh - and who am I to say no to the General? ;)

sims2simmies replied to your photoset “Clara and Stellan were banished to the outside of the house while I...”

Lol well, they certainly didn't want to waste a good day outside.

Good thing they took advantage because whenever I send my Sims to spend a nice day outdoors at the park or the beach, it rains. :P

littleblondesim replied to your photoset “Two small but elegant bathrooms. I am aware that all of my bathrooms...”

I enjoy when people babble in the tags :)

Woooo, that’s a relief, because I babble in the tags a LOT. ;)

sigmundsims replied to your photoset “Two small but elegant bathrooms. I am aware that all of my bathrooms...”

I read all the tags! :) Also, the bathroom looks very elegant.

Hahah, yay! Thank you on both counts! 

crystaldollhouse replied to your photoset “Two small but elegant bathrooms. I am aware that all of my bathrooms...”

They look amazing, so fancy

Thank you so much! :)

cookietheinnocent replied to your photoset “Two small but elegant bathrooms. I am aware that all of my bathrooms...”

You did a much better decorating job than me! Lol XD Did you use cc or is all of it default items?

Oh, I used a fair bit of cc in there. Actually, I think almost everything is cc. :D I have about 10 GB of cc, so I’d better use it! :P

prettybabo replied to your photoset “Clara and Stellan’s kitchen and dining area. (Clara had Star Wars...”

I need to remember to put that Leia painting in the new Parkin residence :')

YES. Your General commands it!

ajaysims replied to your photoset “Clara and Stellan’s kitchen and dining area. (Clara had Star Wars...”

I love your decorating style, it's not too cluttered and yet still looks very homely and lived-in

Thank you! That’s exactly the look I strive for, so it means a lot to hear you say it. :D <3

eulaliasims replied to your photoset “Clara and Stellan’s living room. ”

That brick wall looks super cool with the decor style. :D

Thank you my dear! I wasn’t exactly sure where I was going with that room, in terms of a cohesive style, but I pretty much thought the same thing: “Hey, this looks good with the wall, I’m going to keep it.” ;)

twofee replied to your photoset “Just chillin’. 8D”

this is me.

Then this mod is just the thing for you (if you don’t already have it)! ;)

twofee replied to your post “Music Meme”

everytime you do this, you add a new song or band for me to check out. :)

Ahhh that’s awesome! I love when this meme goes around because I like checking out what other people listen to as well. :) 

twofee replied to your photoset “Poe and Luna Thompson (who live in the neighboring apartment unit) are...”

hey poe, you shouldn't play your games in the street! ;) ;)

I don’t think the little whippersnapper is listening, tsk tsk! >:|

ofgodsandllamas replied to your post “Music Meme”

oh MAN i need to set up my external again i never reorganized my music on my craptop lmao BUT AAAAHHHH YOUR ANECDOTE ABOUT MCR i'm so jealous you saw them AND TBS!!!! I saw MCR with Rise Against my senior year and it was my first concert ever and i was in love lmao YOU LITERALLY DO SOME OF THE COOLEST THINGS IN YOUR LIFE!

AHHHHH I SAW THEM WITH RISE AGAINST TOO! It was my senior year as well LMAO so we must have seen them on the same tour! :D And honestly I wouldn’t do 99.9% of the cool things I do if not for my boyfriend, he’s the concert junkie and he’s always able to get us tickets for things!

ofgodsandllamas replied to your photo “The Thompsons are a loud and unruly bunch, apparently. D: Audrey...”

IT'S ME AT MY OLD DUPLEX!!!!!!!! (except there was no point to banging on the walls cos it was concrete and only made my fist hurt lmao)

lmao oh nooooo! At least you don’t have that problem anymore (right???). In my apartment, I think I’m the noisy one hahaha. Not that I make an exceptional amount of noise, but our walls are really thin and my landlord goes to bed super early - so sometimes if I get carried away listening to music or watching TV with the volume up a bit too high, I hear the broom banging on the ceiling LMAO

dramallamadingdang replied to your post “Music Meme”

But there IS Kraftwerk! That makes everything better. :)

Yes! Kraftwerk is amazing! I saw them in D.C. during their Kraftwerk 3D tour last year and it was so much fun. I wasn’t sure what to expect (also I don’t really care for most things in 3D) but it was a super cool audio/visual experience. :) I hope they do another show soon (and preferably a little closer to home - I love traveling to new cities, but I can’t always go a couple hundred miles out of the way for a show :)). 

didilysims replied to your photoset “Time for Audrey’s round! Audrey spends most of her time jogging and...”

Good thing these landlords are pretty lenient!

Haha, now if only I could get so lucky with the landlords here in NYC. ;)

prettybabo replied to your post “Music Meme”

Oh my lawd you're seeing radiohead again!! I so hope me and mr biffy will be able to see them when they do dates over here D: and I can't believe you've never seen morrissey with his flower pocket before. One of our friends commandeered some of of wedding flowers at our evening reception and danced like Moz all night <3

Yessss, it’s all thanks to my boyfriend! We both tried for tickets when they went on sale last week and I got completely shut out. D: He has amazing luck with tickets, I really don’t know how he does it. I hope you’re able to see them over there! They just keep getting better and better. When we saw them last summer, they played “Let Down” for the first time in ten years and I CRIED. :3

And omg I can’t believe I’ve been missing out on the Moz flower pocket! Your reception must have been a blast :D <3

snapdragoned replied to your post “Music Meme”

omg, shrieking @ your mcr story!! i was/am/will eternally be obsessed with my chem. good call on going to the concert anyway!

vimpse replied to your post “Music Meme”

Already done this, but I chortled at your MCR story, hahaha

katatty-main replied to your photoset “215 Sim Lane, Pleasantview Before and After Comparison One of the...”

love this makeover, wow! i really like your changes to the layout and all the family tidbits you've included

Thank you! I kept changing my mind on the layout because I wasn't really sure exactly how I wanted it (I think it took me like three or four days to settle on the layout for the ground floor). As for the family tidbits, it's one of the things I really enjoy adding to my lot makeovers, since it helps solidify some of my headcanon for the Sims. Also, a part of me likes to think that if I start off by putting those blurbs in, I'll stick to telling the story I have for them once I start actually playing rather than decorating.

lilibethsonar

replied to your photoset “215 Sim Lane, Pleasantview Before and After Comparison One of the...”

It looks fantastic! *o*

Thank you so much!

crystaldollhouse replied to your photo “What the fuck, Maxis? Why is there this one perfect square of dirt...”

Strange hahaha

It's one of the many little oddities around the basegame neighborhoods. The one that still baffles me is the random trashcan on top of an inaccessible roof in Strangetown, honestly.

vimpse replied to your photo “What the fuck, Maxis? Why is there this one perfect square of dirt...”

Poop? Sorry it's Sunday morning I'm super mature

@katatty-main replied to your photoset “Jules: Mary, your Aunt Artemis told me that there were some kids...”

innocent until proven guilty!!

That’s right! Due process, Jules! Mary REFUSES to answer any further questions without her lawyer present.

@simlishnoir replied to your photoset “I’m not sure that’s something you should be offering a SCIA official,...”

Maybe it's a set-up! :O

Ooh, or maybe it’s a sting operation to root out corrupt SCIA officials. :O She makes the offer, but when they accept--bam!

@questforsims replied to your photoset “I’m not sure that’s something you should be offering a SCIA official,...”

silly enough, the game doesn't care what job the townie has when they offer your sim a non-entry level job, it just picks a random one, I've had a firefighter offer my sim a job in adventuring before.                

It’s especially silly since all they had to do is change it from ‘I work in’ to ‘I have connections in’ if they wanted it to pick from a random pool! Oh well, it’s EAxis, whatcha gonna do? :D

@simblu replied to your photoset “Guys, I’m so confused. When the baby is hungry, Johnny and Syx...”

I've had some really good sim parents too. You lucked out.

Johnny’s sister is pretty awful until her kids hit child stage, so I guess I was expecting that from these guys too. Johnny does seem to surprise me a lot, tho!

@sweetpea928 replied to your photoset “Guys, I’m so confused. When the baby is hungry, Johnny and Syx...”

My sim parents also ignore their children 99% of the time. Thank the watcher for butlers!

Ooh, I’ve read that the butlers are supposed to be better than nannies at childcare (of course, literally everything is better than most TS2 nannies, inanimate objects included). I’ve never used butlers, actually! My sims’ houses are so small and I micromanage so much that it feels weird to hire one.

@lilsisterg replied to your photoset “Guys, I’m so confused. When the baby is hungry, Johnny and Syx...”

It's not a glitch some Sims are just good parents. @Simper-fi MATY has a "nobabyharrassment" mod that may help.

It’s been so long since I had good sim parents that I’ve forgotten what they’re like. ;_; I don’t have to direct them to do absolutely everything! They do it autonomously! What magic is this.

@simper-fi replied to your photoset “Guys, I’m so confused. When the baby is hungry, Johnny and Syx...”

Hmmmm, mine are pretty good about putting them to bed when they're tired... but then they also do the thing where they keep forcibly removing them to feed them. :P

@vimpse replied to your photoset “Guys, I’m so confused. When the baby is hungry, Johnny and Syx...”

You're having more luck than me, then -- it drives me up the goshdarn wall that all the sims in my households torment the toddlers by picking them OUT OF THE CRIB when they're really tired, they literally line up to do it... *frantically cancels action*

Oddly enough, I don’t usually have problems with sims waking the baby up to feed them--mine have more a tendency to just ignore them completely. :p Like, ‘oh, the baby is crying? Nah, screw that, I’m gonna go stand blankly in the other room instead’. *coughClaracough*

Aaaaaaah I love these! <333 I’m so glad you made recolors!

:3333 I’m so glad you like them! Aaaaaaah! I’ve got a lot of free time on my hands so I figured this was a worthy use of my time. :3 Thank you for sharing psd’s so often! It made this less daunting, and now I’ve got some ideas about how to mess with clothing easier! :3 And also, obvs, for sharing all your content at all! 

vimpse replied to your photoset “And then it’s off to the First Bank of Arcadia, which was originally a...”

You can download pre-resized 1x1 lots on MTS: http://modthesims.info/d/195469 -- there's a community lot version as well. :)

........................I can’t believe I didn’t know this. lmaooooooooooooo I feel so stupid!!!!!! ;_______; Thank you so much, this is WONDERFUL!!!!!! Now I can create a tiny community of elder shacks later! lmao

crystaldollhouse replied to your photoset “Maddox attempts to find an opening in the architecture career but....”

While she magically walks through a table and also his legs :P

I’m beginning to think Arcadia was set up on some sort of sacred grounds, the amount of magic-ery going on in it. Or maybe the St. Claire’s got some witch lineage lmao maybe I should work that in! 

crystaldollhouse replied to your photoset “NO ONE BELIEVES YOU, MADDELEINE!!!!!!”

Haha I love these two

I don’t play favorites buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut......... I totally play favorites they are my favorites I ADORE them! *O* I’m so glad you do, too! They’re quite special to me! 

crystaldollhouse replied to your photoset “I love the food sparkles.”

Me too, my sims always over eat bc I always want to cook the pretty food

massivepersonheart replied to your post “Hi, I know this might be a dumb question but, how do you go to page...”

No problem to find page on your tumblr. Just logic.

Thanks for the feedback! :D I’m just worried if the button sits too low on some screen resolutions, or doesn’t appear in some browsers or something ^^”

frottana-sims replied to your post “Hi, I know this might be a dumb question but, how do you go to page...”

I like your theme. :) But I had the same trouble finding your "page button" years, ago :DD

Thanks :) I’m glad you found it eventually :D

vimpse replied to your post “hi i was wondering how to make a startup cheat thingy? sorry for...”

boolprop cheats (like boolprop allow45degreeangeofrotation) can be permanently activated/deactivated in a user startup file, while other cheats (like moveobjects and setquartertile) can only be alias'd - i.e. that you don't have to type the whole "moveobjects on", you'd only have to type for example "mon" or whatever you alias it to. :)

Thanks for the detailed explanation! Maybe I should start using aliases afterall :D

didilysims replied to your post “Oh, I forgot. I need this robot armed clothes for em. I have an...”

Ooh, steampunk. :D