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I’m ridiculous and set up my blog wrong. I will be changing it and linking to the new one in a moment. I need to have this as a primary blog so I can comment back to people and not confuse people... oh dear. 

New blog at ShyLilPlatypus

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I come bearing a gift today! Here is a directory that I made for office buildings since I couldn’t find one. There are 2 swatches (there’s a metal frame it’s in but it is not pictured -- sorry... I’m terrible at making posts for my content). One has the first floor addition, the other does not. The writing means nothing. I didn’t know what to write and wanted to make it generic so I keyboard smashed pretty much.

It is found under the sculptures section. Get Together is required for this item as it is a standalone recolor of one of the menu boards.

If you use this in builds please tag me as I would love to see your builds utilizing it.

If there are any problems with it please let me know.

Please do not repost or put behind paywalls. There is no adfly or anything on this. 

Thank you so much to @franzillasims​  and Gazifu for the fonts utilized and thank you so much to @peacemaker-ic​ for the wonderful Lustrous Metal palette:

Link for download beneath the break in case I have to fix it:

Simfileshare (no adfly etc): http://www.simfileshare.net/download/2247016/

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My Response To EA’s Letter

This is not what I typically post about or get involved with… but the recent letter from the EA really infuriated me. Initially, I was a big defender the gurus because I know what it is like to work in a big corporation with deadlines/budgets and approval processes. However, my perspective changed after watching the livestream when the gurus were going over the Knifty Knitting pack it became clear to me that they do have quite a bit of flexibility in what they design.

Then came the letter from the gurus this past week and, well, I needed to get this off my chest so I can let go of the anger.

My response in red.

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Hi Simmers -

We want you to know we’ve been seeing all your feedback and we hear you. 

In one ear and right out the other.

As we always have been, we’re committed to growing The Sims as a game and as a community, so instead of trying to respond to a variety of tweets we wanted to consolidate some thoughts and updates in one place:

We are working on adding significantly more skin tones before the end of the year, and will share news on our progress soon. Beyond that, we’re committed to continuing to expand representation in The Sims 4. This is not one step, but a journey.

About time.

On upcoming content - when we consider something for addition to the game we consider what it will take to update it meaningfully.

What is there to consider? At this point you could literally add bunkbeds or improve babies in ANY way and simmers would be happy. Why does is take years to consider this?

This is just as true for babies as it would be for cars, bunk beds or any other number of feature requests. 

Yet you found time to consider and implement spaceships and murphy beds?

Sometimes there is foundational technology we need to work through and sometimes we need to dig into designs more deeply to make sure we understand your expectations. 

I have two responses to this. Your excuse that you need to work through some foundational technology is just invalid and completely false. Modders and CC creators have been able to implement many of the features you refuse to add with the existing technology and code.

What don’t you understand about our expectations? Well, apparently there is a lot you don’t understand but your team has had YEARS to better understand the simming community requests - they aren’t new. Again, you could literally implement any of the main requests in just about any form and you would make simmers happy. Luckily, you have set the bar so low any improvement would be considered drastic.

This work takes time, and we don’t update you on these projects until they become more real. Game development in general can feel like a long process and, like most of the world, we are adjusting to a continued state of working from home.

Many modders and CC creators have fulfilled the simming community’s needs and requests on our free time, with no budget, no team, and in much faster timeframes.

In just a matter of weeks we’ll be sharing more about our next Expansion Pack, which we’ve been working on since last year. I want to set expectations now, though, that cars, babies, farms and bunk beds are not part of this EP. We understand how important these features are to you but we want to be honest that they are not part of this upcoming pack.

Do you mention you have been working on it for the past year to give us the impression there was no way you could have incorporated the requests into this game pack? The major, main requests aren’t new and certainly came before you started this upcoming EP within the last year. This is just deflection and not taking responsibility.

And it is apparent that you DON’T understand how important these features are to the community. Or maybe you understand and just don’t really care.

As a team, we are going to make more of an effort to communicate what’s coming with more regularity and transparency so that you continue to feel in the loop about new features, experiences, packs, and general information.

This is a step in the right direction. I will believe it when I see it.

That’s it for now, and you’ll be hearing more from us soon. In the meantime, all we ask of you is to be kind, engage in constructive conversations with each other, and continue to celebrate what makes the Sims special to YOU.

We have been engaging in constructive conversations with ourselves. The community has been constructive not only in conversation but also taking action - ever heard of MCCC, Slice of Life, and the countless other mods and CC that fill in the voids you refuse to fix? The problem is YOU don’t engage in constructive conversations with US.

And I can assure you that we will continue to listen, continue to invest in The Sims 4 and continue to engage with you. 

Continue to listen? You haven’t listened. You need to start listening.

You don’t engage with us. You only engage with large youtubers that help you advertise the game. You don’t really even engage with the Game Changer community unless they are a huge influencer.

We could not do what we do without our players.

You wouldn’t have a job. So maybe show us some respect and start sincerely caring and acting on our requests.

SimGuru Lyndsay & the Sims Team

Sincerely, RAVASHEEN.

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Disability Inclusion in the Sims 4  from one disabled person’s viewpoint

Disability inclusion in the Sims 4 is a very controversial thing. Some people want disabilities in the Sims 4 and others don’t. Some disabled people want disabilities whilst others don’t. Me, personally, as someone who is physically disabled and also has Autism, I want it in game, but I understand why some people are not interested and find that opinion to be just as valid as mine. I thought it might be interesting to talk/start a conversation about how it could be implemented successfully.

I think that it, in an ideal world where it was planned and designed with disabled individuals involved, should be structured like the Holiday Pack (FREE!!!!) and that one can choose whether or not they want to install and/or utilize it. And/or with a on/off switch in settings. Then I think that when a baby is born you have the option to have the game randomly decide (like with the personality character thingy) or the gamer can choose (by physical and/or learning disability, or mental health condition). That way it allows for those interested in storytelling to choose and also for those more interested in realistic gameplay to have it be a game of chances.  I don’t think it should focus on specific conditions so much rather than the traits (i.e. shy, nervous) so that more conditions can be covered by combining traits. 

I really want to have things like wheelchairs and canes etc. because they can be used for the elderly sims and injured sims too. 

For me, having to utilize CC isn’t a problem. I think that it is hard to implement though because of the game. I.e. there is a wheelchair mod that looks super super super cool, but it uses a bicycle animation at this stage. I have a lot of disability CC in my game, but there really aren’t ways to make functional ramps etc which could be used for a wide variety of things. There’s always this significant gap between CC I put on my Sims and the game contents and gameplay.

I’m curious to hear what other simmers think about disability inclusion in the Sims 4. This is something I have been thinking a lot about and I thought it would be cool to share it and see what people think.

:)

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Dear Simblr community, can we please stop paying these people for CC they don’t give two fucks about at the end of the day? If you feel offended by my post, I am clearly calling you out. If you are the cc creator who posts this shit and you know it’s broken or there is a problem OR if you hide all of your shit behind a paywall for longer than necessary? @harrie-cc and @felixandresims​.

@grafity-cc​, can you not charge $3 to $5 on exclusive cc if you aren’t even going to finish the product and remove a VERY noticeable watermark? If I pay for exclusive CC, I would prefer it to be clean. This is not a big thing to ask for, your other CC is great.

@harrie-cc, I can not tag Harrie because she BLOCKED me on here after people called her out for making a new cc creator feel like shit for editing her meshes after she had NO TOU. Then she was so upset that she wasn’t being backed up so she made a TOU that makes no sense and STILL violates EA’s rules on paywalls and exclusive CC. This was all June 26th. I was going to respond to her after she ran to YouTube to flip the situation.

Also, in case anyone did NOT know, Felix makes at least $13,000 Euros a whole month while he sends WIP pics that are promising each month yet releases one pack of broken CC a month. Full of lines and everything. We pay for this man’s vacations and everything else and all we ask for is promising CC that isn’t broken. This is all public knowledge because he shows his patron count and you can easily do the math with the help of Google.

We have got to do better with this. We invest in these people with terrible attitudes and terrible morality. These are just a few. We all know more people who do the same thing and we simp for them so hard that we can’t even speak up for ourselves.

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SimFileShare is moving! 

We will be moving to new hosts in the next week or two. In order to make the move go smoothly, we will be deleting files older than 6 months which have never been shared. This may also impact some files which have been shared with only one or two people. If you have any such files, please download them ASAP to avoid losing them.        

Source: SimFileShare

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I’ve been watching Raising Hope again and decided I wanted Drakkar Noir’s makeup in game. So this is a WIP now. And I plan to make Sabrina’s too.

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I think I might switch back over to recoloring in Puppycrow. I’m not sure yet. I’m going to work on a few hairs in the palette and see...

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Part One of my simblreen gifts!

(included in vintage clutter: 3 Tabletop Pumpkins | Flowers in a Can | Books on a Tray (with a slot on top!) | Candles on a book | Old Family Portraits)

Hair | Vintage Clutter 

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MoodyBraided By LitttleCakes in S4Simomo’s old Momo palette

This is a recolor in @s4simomo‘s old palette (although I love their new one, there are two many swatches for my laptop to handle storage wise).

Recolor and info below in case I have to update:

You need the MESH by @litttlecakes

RECOLOR on SFS by me (ad-fly free, patreon free, and free in general).

I hope that you enjoy! Let me know if there are any problems with the recolor as well. :)

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manika hair;

This hair came second in the WIP poll so here it is now! I had to push the release back by a bit because I found a huge hole at the bottom of the hair when I was packaging the hair and I couldn’t bring myself to post it until I’ve closed it. After a few hours of working on the hole, it’s finally here! Yay!

Fun fact! Manika in tagalog means ’doll’ or a puppet. I’ve been really enjoying watching face-ups recently so I decided to make a hair inspired by a hair I associate with dolls? Lmao.

base game compatible

hat compatible

proper lods

ea swatches

download  | let me know if you run into any issues!

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Manika by Marsosims in S4Simomo’s old Momo palette

This is a recolor in @s4simomo‘s old palette (although I love their new one, there are two many swatches for my laptop to handle storage wise).

Recolor and info below in case I have to update:

You need the MESH by @marsosims (Free on Patreon)

RECOLOR on SFS by me (ad-fly free, patreon free, and free in general).

I hope that you enjoy! Let me know if there are any problems with the recolor as well. :)

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QUINN HAIR

“I forgot the Harley, I’ll be right back”

Female Teen to elder

18 EA colours

BASE GAME COMPATIBLE

Custom Thumbnail

Hat Compatible

DOWNLOAD | ALT [SIMFILESHARE][MEDIAFIRE] | TWITTER

Credits:

EA for the meshes and textures

@love4sims4, @mmfinds, @maxismatchccworld, @s4hairs

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Quinn By Wild-Pixel in S4Simomo’s old Momo palette

This is a recolor in @s4simomo‘s old palette (although I love their new one, there are two many swatches for my laptop to handle storage wise).

Recolor and info below in case I have to update:

You need the MESH by @wild-pixel

RECOLOR on SFS by me (ad-fly free, patreon free, and free in general).

I hope that you enjoy! Let me know if there are any problems with the recolor as well. :)

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DIAL-UP HAIR ✨

i was stalking myself on facebook i’m sorry i’m a leo and suddenly a nostalgic feeling took over me ajdfhkajgfa this is based on the haircut i used to wear when i was in junior/senior years of high school. i shaved my head recently and i don’t regret it (it saves me a lot of time tho) but sometimes i miss my hair……. rip my bob with baby bangs someday i’ll see u again bby but anYWAYS hope u guys enjoy it ♥

ｉｎｆｏ

female, teen to elder

ea swatches 

incompatible w/ hq mod (sorry i was lazy af) 

hat compatible

base game compatible

all lods included

custom thumb

ＴＯＵ (here!) 

　 　 　 ＤＯＷＮＬＯＡＤ (sfs, no adfly) 

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Dial-Up By Simmerstesia in S4Simomo’s old Momo palette

This is a recolor in @s4simomo‘s old palette (although I love their new one, there are two many swatches for my laptop to handle storage wise).

Recolor and info below in case I have to update:

You need the MESH by @simmerstesia.

RECOLOR on SFS by me (ad-fly free, patreon free, and free in general).

I hope that you enjoy! Let me know if there are any problems with the recolor as well. :)

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hanna hair

it looks like hannah montana

base game compatible

hat compatible

all ea colors + a light brown shade, an actually purple purple, and a less blue white

the weights are weird but they were weird to start with so i’m just gonna let ea take the blame for this one

feminine frame, teen-elder

disabled for random

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