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my ts3 game: *starts lagging all of a sudden*

me:

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Hey here's some free Sims games. Don't pay for digital media in this economy.

Sims 1

Sims 2

Sims 3

Sims 4

Here is also all non-PC sims games. As well as links to a variety of emulators:

PS2

PS3

XBOX

XBOX 360

PSP

DS

Wii

GameCube

Game Boy Advance/Other emulator

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last one! nother day at the Akoko shop

and a nother boring ass chancecard

Suyana's caught a cough off someone :(

Titobi, Ewa and Ibukun are lowkey jealous of Aworan for not needing to deal with homework anymore, even though technically he works from home which is all a sort of homework isn't it

With Suyana off sick, Ewa is called in to help in the shop for once, and Adie makes a friend in their cousin Poza

Comfort soup dinner cures Yana in the end

enabling her to give Adie a hand with the homework

Meanwhile, Ewa maxes the creative skill, well done Ewa!

that's all from here for now.

so anyway, happy new year guys! how've you all been? last year certainly happened didn't it. can't help but feeling like whatever human held the source for everything good and decent died in 2015 and it's been downhill ever since

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NO IBUKUN THAT IS NOT A FRIEND

Anyway. Welcome back. Titobi's having great success both academically and as a rookie businessman

so is Ewa. Oorun is big proud

Aworan gets a visit from his girlfriend Miharo

unfortunately it turns out she's mainly popping by to get the shopping done :/ Oorun is helpful as ever

The youngest two are kept busy upstairs with homework

that evening though, it is, again, A Birthday. This time it's Aworan's turn at long last

after birthday dinner, Aworan hits on that handsome postman

they had triple bolts, i had to :P

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Ewa continues to practice her Art. Her paintings are now selling for decent money, so she gets to do this rather than help out with the shop crops and goats most of the time

are these freetime chancecards doing anything for you? i feel like they need to be included but they're so boring they kinda offend me lol

The coworker Oorun brings home is actually the postman. He's called Marcel Darga.

As this means he's become Known to a playable (whether i like it or not), we might see more of him going forward. so I rolled traits and orientation for him.

well, enough of that. it's birthday time (again) !

Adie grows up extremely pretty looking but in a way that also gives snooty mean kid. if you know what i mean. she looks like she's about to tease someone for being an orphan. she's not though, i think.

She definitely shares a fave color with her big sis anyway

but then

The Man came (from the distant future in his space mobile) and took the pets away :( most of the pets in this hood are fed by sun&moon's au naturel pet food, but idk sometimes they just refuse to eat the things they've killed and i didn't realize in time

the goats are still here at least :)

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Ewa says good evening

more like good birthday woopwoop

Why am I getting Beatrice Monty vibes

birthday evening dinner time

the shop's doing very well on its second day open. we didn't even have a random fire or anything.

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idk it's Akokos again

Goojob Oorun

I'm still sad about Teina guys

But while all that nonsense was going on, the family has accumulated such a surplus of Stuff, that they're now opening a shop for it

Suyana's excited about it at least. And Titobi's happy to be making money

Of course it can't just be a chill first day at the grind can it

Oh well. Yea it rained itself out.

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Having healed from their malady, the Akoko children venture to the great outdoors. Here Ewa is making a sandcastle with her cousin Tunu, whilst Titobi watches the waves

They're such good kids ain't they

Meanwhile

Oh shit it's going down

I don't think I've shown it before (hoping it would just blow over by itself ig) but these two have been nasty to each other for a while.

Also apologies for the drop in graphics. Pink soup was hitting.

Oof. I'm sorry Teina

Yep, Nifesi's straight up laughing at Teina demising. Damn.

Everybody gathers around

:(

Aworan outcried everyone. He and Teina were friends :_;

The children soon walked home together in silence. Who knows what Titobi's smiling about.

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I don't care if you build, gameplay, story tell, create custom content -- or all of the above. If you're over the age of 30 -- reblog!

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Because I remember disinformation being spread around the last few elections and I’m sure assholes will bring it back:

YOU CAN’T VOTE ONLINE.

YOU CAN’T VOTE FROM YOUR PHONE.

IN MANY STATES THERE ARE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR BALLOT.

DO NOT WEAR CAMPAIGN GEAR TO THE POLLS.

DO NOT TRY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE AT THE POLLS.

DO NOT ENGAGE IN ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE POLLS.

NO ELECTION IS EVER A SURE THING, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE BLUEST OR REDDEST OF STATES.  IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN SIT THIS ONE OUT, THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR MALICIOUS.

VOTE.

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Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.)

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

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While Ewa befriends some cool older girls,

Mr and Mrs Akoko get flirtatious in the kitchen

And keep going long into the night

This is all autonomous. I've noticed that Oorun's autonomous interactions toward Yana are all very wholesome and gentlemanly, while Yana favors the goosing and squeezing

Next moring is persimmon harvest time

And the plague is here. That's what you get for hospitality.

Soup time

Gotta love comfort soup.

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Akoko family in the evening. Y'all know how I feel about having to deal with two toddlers at once, but by now Pataki has learned his toddler skills and is pretty independent, which makes a huge difference to me

Baby sister Adie's making great strides too :)

Chance cards and grade reports. I forgot to have Titobi complete his homework last night :/

The boys are fairly outgoing, and each brought a girl home from school. I mean I think Oraora and Bierdna just snuck out, they don't go to school

The house gets chaotic fast

That evening it's finally time for Pataki to age up

But also

Suyana joins her husband in Elderhood

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Over at the Akoko household, it's confession time.

Apparently I'd cut the Akoko segment of last round short by like, 3 in-game days, because of that horrible pink flashing soup nightmare that I just couldn't solve. I don't remember deciding to do that... I think I just tried to switch to the next household in the hope of fixing things and meant to switch right back but forgot.

So to catch up to the rest of the hood's timeline, we'll be playing approximately 7 days here instead of the usual five. Mea maxima culpa et cetera. Anyway

the goats have multiplied

Suyana still spends her days at home with the goats, the grain field and the younger kids

And obviously she can't be everywhere at once. Little Pataki is learning to do some things all by himself, like escaping from nap time.

The lady cat grew old

Oorun is very hands-on parent when he's home from his entertainment job

And fortunately the oldest kids are pretty independent. Their parents would have preferred if they helped out around the house more though.

Emperor Harikoa visits his plebeian buddy. As ya do. I imagine Oorun entertains at the palace so. Also They've been buds since forever and are brothers in law

Adie grew up!

And Oorun is moving up the ranks at work.

and lil Pataki got gifted a weird lamp... yay. there's way too many of these in my hood

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20 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIMS 2 September 14, 2004, dev. Maxis

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Wakin is well enough today to come with T'ika on her daily excursion. This morning the destination is the public bath house, where they're supposed to have to go to because their class isn't supposed to have a tub at home. but truth be told i've been keeping the green stench clouds away with water buckets from the well (thank you sun&moon!) hey if the rules meant i couldn't green the hygiene bar at home at all it shoulda bloody said as much

Miretsi's got issues

and T'ika's not having much more luck befriending Ulli Vuosttamus either. Oh well.

And home again. T'ika grills up some corn for all

And the pets have taken their Throne. One thing I actually think Sims 4 does better (gasp!) is 'pet hanging out'-animations. Mutia and Sky specifically are such drama makers but have a bed on the lot and they'll turn themselves into part-time statues of themselves. it's weird

The boys :3

evening draws on

and brings the birthday time

I have to admit I really love it when the whole toddlerhood passes within one rotation

They're still cute

oh, and one more thing

teh baby comes!

Welcome to the world, Wicharin

Everyone's excited to meet the lil guy

And, just for the record, I changed T'ika's outerwear since last time.