So f**king what that it did? 'Seseme Street' did so and in true American showbiz style, promptly looked around immediately for a muthafking round of applause from the world. Bumnuggets.
Meanwhile the British TV show Pipkins (a show about a puppet creator whose puppets kind of got somewhat out of hand ... the show was notorious for the number of double entendres in it clearly so mum and dad would get some enjoyment as much as the kids) did so in July 1973 - a decade before Sesame Street did, and under appalling circumstances.
The show's title character, Inigo Pipkin, had died of a heart attack in March during the recording of series 2, and after a week of pretending he was on 'a fishing trip', they flat out started the following Monday's episode with the show's narrator Nigel Plaskitt saying, 'Mr Pipkin, had died.'
It also marked, in macabre circumstances, the first time a black actor became the main character of a children's TV series (Londoner Wayne Laryea, who'd gained infamy years before on American children's TV show The Bugaloos, which had the plug abruptly pulled on it once advertisers discovered it was far too reliant on horny teens for its viewing figures than the kids it was aimed at - and it came as little surprise when six years later lead female Caroline Ellis was plying her trade instead in Robin Askwith's tortuous 'Confessions of ...' series of smutty 'comedies')
The remainder of series two consisted of the characters coming to terms with the loss not only of their guardian, but of their livelihood and having to adjust much of their lives without their mentor, ending with Johnny moving into Pipkin's office and the show becoming a kids version of The Goodies with the characters each week undertaking some sort of odd job needing sorted, with mixed results (albeit not quite as over the top as the Cricklewood trio's antics, no Kitten Kong or Ecky Thump moments).
And let's face it, in a fair fight, Hartley Hare would have kicked f**k out of Big Bird. Really.
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Pis3Update as per usual has reblogged this without comment, but anyone with eyes to see at thirty seconds into the video will see buildings that look suspiciously like Crowkeeper's Fairy Realm and Mermaidia designs, ie: this ...
We're going to download this to check it out and will let you know if there's shenanigans afoot.
It wouldn't be the first time Crowkeeper's lot builds have been dumped into other's fantasy worlds and reuploaded without any credit.
Further to the above, here's some screenshots from Mirthora, and we can confirm these are lots taken from Mermaidia and the Fairy Realm: with a thin veneer of camouflage:
Which explains why such a tiny island manages to be 250 MB in size!
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Peter Gabriel's Here Comes The Flood (Original Version)
Peter Gabriel is never happier than when he's pissing all over his legacy and 'reinterpreting' the back stories of his songs with premium bollocks.
Thankfully, someone's done a superb video for his all time masterpiece from his first album, the big finale track and blockbuster single that never was after 'Modern Love' stiffed (a familiar musical tale, see also XTC's 'Wrapped In Grey'), so hopefully this will become better known.
A wimpy vocal and piano version has been systematically pushed by Peter ever since which has zero of the impact of the original. These days Gabriel claims this stripped down 'acoustic' version was his 'intended version' - yeah, 'cos organising Robert Fripp and a full backing band for the original version was a big ol' accident - rather than the difference between a proper song and a demo only fit for filler on some Best Of compilation.
Forget also his 'reinterpretations' of the song's meaning, especially about it being about the erosion of humanity's psychic barriers resulting in a collective consciousness, pure 'The Matrix'/'Avatar'/South Park's 'The Quickening' bollocks from grandad Gabriel's quest for relevance with the kids.
Back at the time, he said it was about the mental breakdown of the self when one's belief system as to reality breaks apart and is washed away like a biblical flood, forcing it to face or build new ones - a familiar theme within the early post-hippy 'new age' that dabbled in both mysticism and psychology (Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Carl Jung, St John of the Cross, etc) and popularised as a psychotherapeutical aid in its own right ('Flooding') by Thomas Stampfl in the late 1960s.
Today it is probably best known (to a certain extent) in what are poorly termed as 'meltdowns' amongst autistics - which sounds more like someone exploding into rage and fetching the Uzi, but is more akin to someone mentally shutting down like a fatally bugged computer drive.
However rather than a number of mini ones, 'Flooding' is a full blown shutdown, sometimes misdiagnosed as clinical depression. People who came from very religious or sheltered backgrounds are most at risk from this, and it's a primary cause of tertiary education drop out rates from those unable to handle data that clashes wildly with their long held perceptions.
Anyway, here's the song, here's the lyrics (and decide for yourself who is telling the truth), enjoy or die. And don't blame us if you blub - if you do, it's only because this song is so bloody true:
When the night shows, the signals grow on radios
All the strange things, they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction, we cannot even choose a side
I took the old track, the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs, they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain was warm and soaked the crowd ...
Lord, here comes the flood!
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood.
If again, the seas are silent, and any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive.
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
When the flood comes, you have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash, you're a thousand minds within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see.
The act is gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be.
Lord, here comes the flood!
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood.
If again, the seas are silent, and any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive.
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
Lord, here comes the flood!
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood.
If again, the seas are silent, and any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive.
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
Simbook Air and SimBook Pro | 4t3 conversions, with functionality
Modern laptops for your sims to tackle work and fun without breaking their backs!
These are 4t3 conversions, originally from Pierisim here. I have added some details to mine, more info + download below!
As a techie, I have been absolutely in need of a more modernized laptop for my sims. Since TS3 was released in 2009, laptops in-game were modeled after the laptops of that era, which were about as thick as a flipping dictionary and just in general very out of date for the type of laptops many of us carry around these days. I found myself exclusively only ever using the PeachySoft laptop from TS3 University Life, which is still one of my favorites, but I wanted something different. I see this adorable little laptop in so many TS4 posts as deco, and I took on the painful totally fun challenge of bringing it to TS3 as a new laptop for our sims.
List of Changes/Notes
The original I converted from Pierisim was the decorative version of the object (there was also a TV variant, but the deco one worked better for this project). Unfortunately, TS4 does not have functional, portable laptops like TS3 (as far as I know). This meant it was an extremely annoying process to get this to work and it's a miracle it did! It just took...millions of hours. I essentially had to split the model into multiple parts, scale them into size a million times until I got it just right, then "glue" them back together, and then assign bones (which was interesting, when I accidentally assigned the screen to the mouse bone early in testing).
These are fully foldable, functional, portable working laptops just like any other laptop in TS3 that your sims can carry around, open and close, and use on tables, desks, islands, and the ground.
For now, these are not recolorable. My priority was to get them functional and to add details to them to make them look cute, so that was not something I added, though they come in several different colors. In the future, I hope to make them CAST-able and add even more fun details.
I took immense care to clean up the textures these do have. The originals, like many TS4 textures in general for some reason, just had severe color banding and DDS artifacts in-game. So I carefully re-handpainted the gradient textures and added noise to reduce this as much as possible. The speaker grill textures are not perfect, but I tried my best.
The original texture didn't include keys (many EA laptops don't either), so I have added a fully Simlish keyboard! :D Complete with icons and little details. There's also little symbols on the underside of the laptop now like in real life, that tell you not to throw it away etc. I have always loved these little details and when I tell you this was the absolute most fun part of this project, I mean it.
There are two versions.
The SimBook Air and the SimBook Pro.
The SimBook Air...
is a smaller, more compact laptop than the default TS3 laptop size, more in line with most laptop sizes these days. It is also much, much thinner than the default EA laptop, as I was trying to make it as thin as possible. This is accomplished by a tiny gap between the screen and body, which is visible only from certain angles when the laptop is open. This cannot be fixed/mitigated - the thinner you get the laptop, the worse it is. This is due to EA's bone placement for the animation of the laptop, which was designed for a much thicker model. This really is as good as I could get it without it looking too bad.
- It costs less than the SimBook Pro.
- It provides +7 Fun and +2 Environment score.
The Simbook Pro...
is roughly the same size as EA's default laptop size. It's wider and a little bit thicker, so there is no gap between the body and screen on this one.
- It costs more than the SimBook Air
- It provides +9 Fun and +3 Environment score.
Product Boxes 📦
I have also had Simgo's Apple Store set for TS2 on my mind for years. It was one of the very first ever conversions I did for myself back in 2020. I decided to recolor the boxes to match these in case you want to make a store display or if you just want your sims to also hoard their aesthetic tech product boxes for no good reason lmao. There are multiple variants for both the Air and Pro models, such as different specs and colors. All in Simlish.
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For that true Apple experience, Simmies using it should get an +10 moodlet of Insufferable Smugness. +20 if they read The Guardian online at the same time, and +50 if they are drinking a Fruit Flavoured Soy Frothiccino, although doing all three together comes with a 10% risk each game hour of doing so of your Sim being struck down by Disappeared Up Their Own Arse and spending a full game week in hospital.
Pis3Update as per usual has reblogged this without comment, but anyone with eyes to see at thirty seconds into the video will see buildings that look suspiciously like Crowkeeper's Fairy Realm and Mermaidia designs, ie: this ...
We're going to download this to check it out and will let you know if there's shenanigans afoot.
It wouldn't be the first time Crowkeeper's lot builds have been dumped into other's fantasy worlds and reuploaded without any credit.
In an interview for Xbox with Variety, Chief Content Officer Matt Booty discussed the decision to not feature Elder Scrolls 6 at this year's Showcase.
"I would say one of the more challenging balancing acts of someone in a job like mine is balancing that you want to go show the world all the cool stuff you’re working on, and you want to get them excited early, but we also know that we want to wait till the right moment. And when you decide to show it, you want it to be the best you’ve got. And also that when you show the game, you’re also giving them a promise of, hey, it’s coming soon. So I can tell you, having visited Bethesda and sat with Todd and seen “Elder Scrolls” playing, it looks amazing, and it’s coming along well. And we’ll make sure to announce it and really reveal it at the right time."
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act Is A Bloody Masterpiece - There, We've Said It
Now we've both saw it (we have our ways ...), just to say they could not have made a more perfect ending if they'd tried - and be warned, you will cry buckets during this more than even Gangle does every episode.
We finally get to learn about what happened before Pomni's arrival with the characters that abstracted before they arrived, and a whole bunch of stuff about all of them. It was the right thing for Glitch to do by forcing viewers to watch the second last episode all over again before this one, otherwise a lot of the subtleties of The Last Act would be lost.
But oh, what a roller coaster ride of emotions in this final outing for the gang! Laughs are few and far between, and its a measure of how strong the scripting and set pieces has been that you really feel for this motley band to the extent you're almost pleading that they get some sort of happy ending that they deserve.
For Glitch Productions now comes the moment of truth. They've killed off their biggest show and not a single one of their past efforts or replacements have remotely come close to achieving the same viewership levels or interest that 'The Amazing Digital Circus' has - that it crushed Hollywood big bucks budgeted 'Masters Of The Universe' reboot and the latest of the tired 'Scary Movie' franchise only serves to elucidate that Goosewurx-Glitch appear to have just committed complete business suicide for the sake of artistic integrity.
Others would say that if there is never another revisit to the world of the Amazing Digital Circus again, at least its legacy would remain pristine, a permanent untarnished record of what the very best of the genre can do when given the time and talent outside of 'projected earnings' targets.
For now, it's farewell to Caine, Bubble, Kinga, Ragatha, Gangle, Zooble, Jax and last and definitely not least our girl Pomni.
13 October 2023 to 19 June 2026 (the latter when it finally hits Netflix and YouTube) - thank you for three perfect years of top class entertainment.
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Have Just Watched For The First Time Ever A Full Episode Of 'The Walking Dead'
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, people actually watched whole series of that?
Before anyone asks, it was Season 4 Episode 14.
Talk about building your hopes up and then dashing them in the most horrible fashion.
Why the quacking duck would anyone want to watch something like this week in week out - we'd be in therapy after watching another episode of that and a regiment of industrial strength anti-depressants after a whole series of it!
Seekers get all excited at finally getting a colourful wardrobe. And colourful skin. AND TENTACLE ACCESSORIES.
Seekers can now get in touch with their inner fashionista like a true diva.
Yeah Seekie mamas, you work it, you work it ...
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One of those 'we don't want to live in this world anymore' moments.
Why the quacking duck would anyone WANT to have a Simmie covered in cigarette burns? What sort of sicko would think this is a good idea?
Jesus tapdancing Christ, we know this is probably going to fall on deaf ears in some quarters with zero scruples and even less brain cells, but have at least some modicum in good taste.
Torture and/or self-harm is not something fashionable or 'kewl'.