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Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

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They're gonna choose the most fascist, conservative Pope now, aren't they...

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May the Gods be our first priority and not our last resort.

Pray in good times and bad.

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I don't know if this has been raised before, but if you learn html you can make digital shrines to your deities. And you can post them on a website hosting platform or keep it to yourself to continually edit and add stuff to.

There are lots of guides for html/css on the internet, and although it looks very complicated at first, it's actually very easy and entertaining to do!!

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So excited for this! Guys, I think they're gonna do Steampunk.

STEAMPUNK?! June 4th?!

Link to trailer: (x)

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30 objects by @atticwindowatdawn, converted 4to2.

Between dealing with IRL stuff, getting a new computer, and playing other games like TS4 and Planet Zoo, this is the first CC I've made for a while!

There are 15 deco objects, in Deco->Misc, except for the whale which is in Deco->Sculptures.

Other objects are 1 dining chair, 4 living chairs, 1 loveseat, 1 sofa, 1 dresser, 2 stereos, 4 bookshelves, 1 desk, all in the appropriate catagories.

All original recolours from TS4 are included.

Download here!

@jacky93sims already converted three items, here and here, so I didn't do those.

Enjoy!

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Can’t find this anywhere on tumblr so I’m being the change I wanna see in the world

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This is too real oml. One time I re-gifted Aphrodite a crystal that a friend bought me that I didn't like too much. I think she liked it, as shortly after I placed it on her altar, it went missing?

gods after devotees put really… unique offerings on an altar

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© plutoxoxi via x/twitter

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As a Sims 2 player one of the most eerie things about playing the original game isn't necessarily the creepy/more liminal aesthetic or the repetitively endless gameplay, but the fact that almost all the pre-made Sims from the original game are inexorably doomed by the narrative.

There's something odd about Pleasantview specifically, where the majority of the returning Sim families live (save for Tara Kat, who seems... relatively fine). Like, the concept of the game is that twenty-five years have passed, and all of the returning characters are pre-baked into character arcs that communicate an unavoidable truth: You, the player, failed.

Bella Goth will disappear. Her brother (though in the original Sims we aren't aware that Michael Bachelor is her brother) will die, possibly murdered. Mortimer will be lost and alone. Cassandra will be stuck in an unloving engagement. The Newbie's daughter will be impoverished, a single mother whose husband died young, with two boys and another on the way. Daniel Pleasant will grow up to be a cheater. Jennifer Pleasant will never be an athlete like she wanted (her brother will). And though poor Johnny Burb never mentions Tucker anymore, you know that old dog died years ago. The Roomies, the Mashugas, the Hicks, the Charmings - all leave town... or worse, die out.

I think about Jeff Pleasant's bio in the first game: "Jeff and his family are new to the neighborhood. Can you help Jeff provide for his family and fulfill his lifelong goal of being the first man to walk on Mars?" And how it contrasts to Daniel's in the second: "Since his father Jeff died without achieving his dream of going to Mars, Daniel has felt an overwhelming guilt."

And sure, you can save the families of Pleasantview. You can choose for Mary-Sue to not go to work that day, or maybe Daniel never pursues Kaylynn Langerak again. You can give Cassandra a happy marriage, tame Don Lothario's womanizer ways. You can financially save Brandi Broke. You can get John Burb another dog. You can get Jennifer the career she always wanted. You can defy the scripted in-game prompts and say "No. I don't want to play like this." You can break the cycle, every time you play.

And yet, at the end of the day, no matter what you do... uninstalling the game and reinstalling it, maybe just deleting that Neighborhood folder, they are reset back to exactly where they were again. They're doomed to repeat it forever.

The game makes it clear that there are some things you aren't meant to change. A genie lamp or a Resurrect-O-Nomitron can bring back sims like Michael Bachelor, but you will pay for it in your neighborhood deteriorating to corruption. And no matter what you do, no force in the universe can bring Bella Goth back. The one in Strangetown isn't even really her, after all. And maybe she isn't. They say they deleted her in development, replaced her with a clone. Maybe that's what Bella Goth in Strangetown is. A clone. Maybe we were wrong, after all. Maybe she was never abducted by aliens. Maybe Don Lothario killed her. Maybe Dina Caliente killed her. Maybe Mortimer did. But you can't bring her back, no matter what you do. Recreate the original Bella, pixel by pixel, extract her data, make your zombie Bella. Build your own monster. Create a sim. But she will never recognize her family. Never see them as her own.

And she was never meant to.

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You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be homophobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be transphobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be racist.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be anti-imaginate.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be a nazi.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and mock ANY of the gods.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and hate ANY of the gods.

Pick a side. The gods or hatefulness.

You. Can't. Choose. Both.

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"your religion is evil!!!!"

they say as im picking flowers for aphrodite and asking her to enchant my favorite locket and perfume, humming and talking about my day.

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I chuckled, snorted even

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Autumnwood Isle, a small empty island with several smaller communities. [Beach lots DNI]

this is a map for you if you like smaller maps but don't like feeling cramped.

DOWNLOAD

mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/3zp966uv528nlua/Autumnwood_Isles.zip/file

simsfileshare: https://simfileshare.net/folder/228310/

P.S SEND ME A SCREENSHOT OF UR BUILDS!!! 🙂 i wanna see how u make it ur own

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"No." The King gawked. "No? Why? I am offering you the Hand of my daughter to slay the Dragon that roams the Lands! A man would kill for such an opportunity!" "Because I will not hurt an innocent animal that just follows his migratory pattern. And I am already married."