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I agree with this so much!!!!

So, if EA is making their own stuff BGC then really we should be able to also...

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Small Town Girl

I’ll be starting a new game play titled Small Town Girl and the backstory to why my sim is on her own contains a topic that can be a trigger for some people. I want to avoid anyone seeing this on their dashboard or on my simblr and being affected by it.

The sensitive topic will be domestic violence and the intro post will mention it for sure, but I’m not sure what other posts will. The main focus will be the aftermath for how my sim is handling it via journal entries (since we have the journals from parenthood).

If you would like to blacklist a tag so that you don’t see it on those posts, I’ll be using the tag: tw: domestic violence

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Game Play Idea

Thanks to this mod that I was told about, it gave me a game play idea. It’d be like the rags to riches challenge, but I’m not doing the actual challenge.

Basically, I’ll be doing this:

My sim will be living in a tent on the smallest lot possible with some basic necessities then I’ll set her funds to zero. She’ll have to save up enough money to buy decent outfit so she can get a part-time job. Once she has a decent amount of money saved up, she can apply for a loan (using the mod) to get herself an apartment in San Myshuno. Once she moves there, she’ll look for  a higher paying job. After she pays off the loan for the apartment, she can apply for another loan to get a small house. Over time, she’ll be “going to college” to up her skills so she can get an even better job so that she can get the house of her dreams and a vacation home in Sulani someday.

I’m not sure what my sim’s name will be or her backstory or the name of this game play. This is honestly the most motivated and excited that I have been in awhile so I’m anxious to get in and play :)

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Update

My game is now working so I’ve been able to play. Now I just need to get a working version of photoshop that allows the use of DDS plugins. Once I get that going then I can finally start my recolors. I’ll also be able to edit my screenshots and post them for you. They’re just random screenshots that I got while playing Island Living so I’ll put in tags in case anyone can’t play it yet.

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honeymunched’s Follower Giveaway ♥

Hey all! As a way to express my gratitude for all the recent follows, I have decided to do a giveaway of The Sims 4 Island Living EP! I seriously can’t tell you guys how freakin’ excited I am for this EP and I want to share my excitement with one lucky winner! More details under the cut! ♥

But.. to enter, you MUST complete both steps below.

How to enter:

Follow me

reblog

Active Origin account is REQUIRED as well.

I repeat. You MUST complete BOTH steps to be entered into my giveaway!

Deadline is June 23rd 12:00AM EST (eastern standard time)

(I decided on this specific deadline solely because I have surgery the 19th and will need a few days to recover, I hope you can understand!) 

Yay! I can’t wait to be a mermaid! Follow the steps for the chance to become one too! - -

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Creator name: SulaniMermaidSimmer

Blog url: http://sulanimermaidsimmer.tumblr.com/

Games you create for: The Sims 4

What you create: Recolors (CAS)

So… here’s a little idea I’ve been toying with lately. As you guys already know, my computer got infected and hacked due to downloading some CC that was behind Ad.fly links. I lost my Netflix account to hackers and seriously risked losing my PayPal account, too. Needless to say, I won’t be touching an Ad.fly link (or other similar service) with a 10-foot pole from now on.

However, here’s the thing: I don’t know about you, but I have a feeling that finding cc that is not hidden behind a paywall or an Ad.fly link lately is becoming harder and harder.

And this is why I’d like to start an “Ad-free Creators United” project, a database/cc finds blog to make it easier for everyone to find creations that are NOT hidden behind an Ad.fly or Patreon link. To do this, however, I’ll need the help of a few fellow simmers, aka… YOU!

What are you looking for? TS2, TS3 and TS4 players who are willing to help me hunt down FREE custom content for sims games and help me keep the cc finds blog updated.

What does “free” content mean? Any cc creation that is NOT hidden behind an Ad.fly, Shorte.st or Patreon link.

Will this be something like Paysites Must Be Destroyed? Nope. The blog will be solely dedicated to promoting creations that are shared for free (with no Ad.fly or Patreon links) by their original creators. Basically, it’ll be just a cc finds blog for free creations. No re-uploading of pay content.

How do I participate? Send me an ask or a message if you’re willing to help me with the finds blog. Please, only send me your message if you’re ACTUALLY willing to work on this. If you don’t have enough time and/or are unsure on whether you can work on the blog itself, you are encouraged to reblog this post and spread the word around.

Fine, I want to take part to this. How many people do you need? For now, I’ll need:

2 persons to take care of TS2 cc finds;

1 person to take care of TS3 cc finds (I’ll be the other person :D);

2 persons to take care of TS4 cc finds;

Last but not least…

Are you a creator who doesn’t use Ad.fly? Get your name added to the database! If you’re a creator and you’re sharing your creations for free, please reblog this post and fill in the following form:

Creator name: [your name]

Blog url: [the blog where you share your sims creations]

Games you create for: [a list of the sims game/s you create cc for]

What you create: [CAS, furniture, objects, retextures, mods, traits, retextures, recolors, mesh conversions, new meshes? List anything you usually create for here]

EDIT: the AdfreeCC blog has been created and can now be found here! :D

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Coding Help + Sim/Lot Requests

I added this to my description, but also wanted to make a post explaining this :)

Coding Help: I can either give pointers, completely edit the code for you, or even test it for you. All you’d have to do is link me to the code (I’ll download it myself) and tell me what you want :)

Sim/Lot Requests: I just need to know what you want and if you want CC or no, and if you want it as a public or private download :)

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More Productive

Today has been more productive than yesterday. I still can’t play my game or recolor, BUT I am making progress on my story pages (like the human enough challenge I want to do).

The code only had 3 filters, but I needed 4 so I tweaked the code to make a 4th one and I believe it works. I’ll test it more in a moment, but I’m so proud of myself. I don’t know that much about coding, but I know enough that I can figure things out.

Here’s my favorite photo from the new EP that comes out friday :)

Just something pretty to look at aside from all of the text :)

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Unproductive

No gaming done so can’t even start on my story/save

No recoloring done because Photoshop is being a butthead

Still time left in my day, but I still feel like I haven’t accomplished anything

There’s always tomorrow

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Hello,

I can’t believe I’ve had this simblr for 4 days and have reached over 100 followers already! thank you so much to all of you. I’ve been talking with friends about what I should do for a gift and I’ve decided that im not very good at editing for a special action right now nor the time to do a sim dump.. so here it is I am giving away 1 copy of Island Living! I will be using a random generator to pick the winner!! so everyone has a chance.

Rules:

Reblog this post to enter - You can note as well but it won’t count

You must be following me :) only ONE of your accounts can ENTER

New or existing followers may ENTER

You must have a valid Origins account and be able to provide it so I can gift you the prize :D

One winner will be randomly selected by an online generator and contacted by Tumblr message. The winner has 24 hours to respond otherwise I’ll sadly have to choose a new winner

no giveaway blogs/fake accounts or cc finds MUST BE A SIMBLR [ don’t make me be a stalker pls with the suss accounts ]

       cheating will be disqualified as I’m trying to keep it as fair as possible

GIVEAWAY RUNS UNTIL JUNE 21ST

GOOD LUCK BB’S!

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Yo listen up, here’s the story about a little guy that lives in a blue world and all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him, inside and outside. Blue his house with a blue little window and a blue Corvette and everything is blue for him and himself and everybody around ‘cause he ain’t got nobody to liSTeN-

I’m BLuE dAa Ba dEe DA bA dAA

My name is Megan and I promise I’m like this all the time. 

I’m 23 and ✨ ace ✨ yet I constantly desire to put my simself and my girlfriend in awkward situations. I have been playing sims since the year 2000, so if u do the math sorry gross, I know, yes I was four. I left the community for a bit to get a little mental health healing and voila I have returned with a desire to start fresh! ish

Here’s what I post for the curious minds:

gameplay + stories

the occasional edit

maxis mix

I definitely need to see some fresh faces so please give this a reblog, comment or like and I’ll check you out!! ♥

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Hello everybody!

I’m Sydney and I’m new to the simblr community (even though I’ve stalked y’all for years) and I’m super excited to finally start my own simblr!

I’m looking for maxis match simblrs to follow so feel free to reblog and I’ll check out your blog! I’m also down with talking & making friends so don’t be afraid to send me a message! :)

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Please help her. So many of us rely on her for her amazing CC and she’s been a huge part of the Simming community for years. I think it’s the least thing we can do to help her (those who can).

You guys have all offered me so, so kindly to donate something, I am still speechless for that. I tried everything now to fix up my PC so I wouldn’t have to ask, a friend came over who’s specified with tech issues, but she said that there is no way to save the PC since that whole thing is fried now. It overheated completely, there is nothing left to recover, whether the contents on the harddrive, or the hardware itself. Graphics card, main board, RAM, the whole casing, every single thing has to be bought new since it’s either broken or too outdated (the PC is from 2005 btw, it’s still from the teen years from my sister, everything worked well until that darned Windows 10 update came. Since then, it worked barely at all but today was the final day).

It truly breaks my heart to ask this, but I’ve been super broke for a while now, everything went downhill the last months, I barely had money to buy myself enough food and other necessities that were needed for myself, I always had to turn around coin by coin lately, my life has always been hard but at the moment it’s peaking with this, it really pains me to admit this all, talking about my own feelings is a very hard task for me. Also with no PC whether my sister or me aren’t able to create, one of the very few things that brought us joy over a couple of years. Without a PC, I don’t know when I would return with creating, depending on whenever I have enough money to get a new PC it could take months until I will be able to make new things again.

Again, nobody has to donate, please don’t ever, ever feel obligated to, really only do it if you wanna support us this way! 💛 I am thankful for every amount, and always thankful for your endless support over almost 10 years. Kinda ironic that this year we would have been around 10 years in this community, but it’s one of the worst years that I’ve ever experienced so far. Anyways, thank you all again!~

You can support us via Paypal or Ko-Fi here. Again, love you all sooo much! 💖

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These are some great suggestions :)

do you have any tips for not getting bored playing a single sim for a while? i always rush things and marry everyone off and that kind of spoils it for me :-(

ok i might not be the best person to ask but i’ll give myself you some tips!

when making the sim

give them fun traits and aspirations: i found that i get quite easily bored with perfect sims. try to give them traits that don’t work very well together, or give them two negative traits. if there are traits you’ve never/rarely give to sims, try them out! similarly, give your sims different aspirations too, try out the ones you rarely use, and then try to complete them. you can use this random trait and aspiration generator if you find yourself giving every sim the same ones over and over again. or you can do it the nice and sloppy way (which is, obviously, what i usually do), look away from your screen, and click around like a blind bat until you’ve accidentally clicked on a random trait/aspiration.

come up with a character sheet: don’t rely solely on traits and aspirations when it comes to your sim’s personality. come up with entire characters, for example, you can make a health-obsessed sim, give them the vegetarian and active traits - and then make them run every morning, do a yoga routine every night, make them eat only organic (aka make meals only for which you have fresh ingredients for from your garden), make them meditate. or you can come up with an always tired, slightly alcoholic writer character: give them the loner trait and the writer aspiration, and then make them get by on coffee, pull all nighters, drink a glass of wine every night, make them interested in maths (max out the logic skill), while completing the writer aspiration, etc. you can even use character generators, like this one. 

gameplay

choose an active career: if you have get to work, choose the doctor, detective, or scientist career, and go to work with your sim. there are plenty of challenges in the workplace, lots of things you can do or have to do, and it’s very rewarding.

try different careers: once again, do stuff you never do. i have at least five careers that i haven’t tried before, and i only got to the top of one… give your sim a job that you’ve never played with/never made it to the top of; or give them a job that doesn’t work well with their aspiration/traits and come up with ways to make them work (for example, make a good sim become a criminal, or a gloomy sim be a comedian; choose the writer career for an the aforementioned health-obsessed sim and play like they’re writing self-help books, etc.).

or, don’t have a career: try to live off the land, by making money only through foraging and farming. or make money only by selling paintings or books. or, if you have city living, make money only by selling random stuff at festivals/singing and playing an instrument in the city.

challenges: challenges save lives, to be honest. while many of them focus on legacies/multiple sims, you can find a lot that require a single sim. here you can find a huge list of different challenges. whenever i’m stuck with a sim, i usually go to the box of chocolates challenge, though; you basically roll one/two events per sim week, and you have that week to complete them. it introduces a lot of things that you might never think to do, and they can eventually become something in your gameplay that you do a lot (like the thing with only cooking meals with fresh ingredients - i do that a lot when i need a bit of quick challenge for myself).

complete aspirations: this is quite straight forward, i’d think that they came up with aspirations in the first place for keeping things from getting boring; but working towards an aspiration milestone definitely gives you something to do - especially if you chose an aspiration that you’ve never completed before.

complete whims: try to make your sim’s every wish come true! if they have a whim to buy a hot tub, work towards having enough money and get them a hot tub. if they want to hang out with someone, let them. this gives you an array of fun things to do.

start a business: if you have get to work, you can try starting your own business. i’ve had countless flower shops, but you can have your sim manage a fancy clothes shop, a thrift store, a museum that sells paintings, etc. it takes some getting used to, and it can be difficult at times, but that’s what we’re going for - difficult is not boring, at least.

manage a restaurant/pub/coffee shop: if you have dine out, you can have your own restaurant (though this is something i haven’t tried before). you can even build it yourself, and make it fit your sim’s personality - to be consistent with my examples, you can have a health-obsessed sim open a small vegetarian brunch place with lots of plants. or you can have a fancy restaurant that serves experimental foods, if you have a rich/weirdo sim. or you can open and manage a small coffee shop that also works as a library with lots of book shelves and couches. i don’t know much about managing such places, but i’d expect it’s fun!

have a garden: i guess this is pretty personal, i just love myself a good peasant… a small garden gives you something to do every day, and it’s quite rewarding to see plants grow and evolve. you can also experiment with grafting, and learning herbalism if you have outdoor retreat!

go camping: another fun thing to do, if you have outdoor retreat, is to go camping, and collect insects and wild plants, meet other sims, marry the ranger, fight bears…

find the secret lots: there are four secret lots that you can visit, if i’m not mistaken and count sixam, too. you can try finding and exploring them, make friends with the hermit, meet aliens, etc. building a rocket ship to go to sixam is also quite time consuming and fun, and exploring space gives you many new, fun things to do too!

have a cowplant: because they’re a pain in the arse so much that only keeping a cowplant alive should tie you down a little…

throw parties/social events: try out every kind of social event you can hold at home, or other locations. have dinner parties, fancy dress parties, brunches, house warming parties, pumpkin carvings, weenie roasts etc. better yet, try to achieve a gold medal in each of them!

start a club: clubs aren’t something i’ve explored before, but you can start all kinds of clubs and gather club points, try to make them as fun as possible.

build and master skills: building skills doesn’t only give you something to do, but they introduce new activities and social… things to do/talk about (my english is failing me but you get what i’m saying). so the higher your skill points, the more new things for you to do!

use skill building items: the obvious option is an easel, of course, i love looking at the paintings they make and discovering new ones! also, try out the woodworking table and make your own furniture. or try pumpkin carving, or buy a waterslide and look at your sim’s funny faces. 

don’t forget aspiration rewards: these will give you some new ways to play your game, it’s definitely worth exploring all kinds of fun stuff and custom traits you can get for satisfaction points! there are things like ‘incredibly friendly’ which comes in handy if you have a social aspiration, or ‘beguilling’ which is extremely helpful for a serial romantic, but there are so many options to explore.

give them a makeover: every now and again, when i get bored of my sim, i give them a little makeover to freshen up the experience a bit, like a new hairdo and hair colour or a new outfit. it seems quite basic, but it really helps make things a bit less boring on the long run!

bonus: @bratfish‘s ideas

download custom traits: there are many super fun custom traits around for you to download and explore, have a look around here.

add more CAS traits: there’s this mod that allows you to give your sim more than three traits, so they can have a proper personality. i suggest you read through the description on how to use it!

bonus 2: build

this is not really about gameplay, but whenever you feel uninspired with your game, take a break, go outside start building. you can try filling up empty lots, or delete all lots and townies (or download an empty world save or a different world for a change of scenery - though i suggest you do this before starting a game) and fill up the world with houses, community lots and your own townies.

bonus 3: start a simblr

ok, this is kinda different, but i’ve found that taking screenshots of your game really slows down your gameplay - but in a good way. you’ll find yourself doing all kinds of stuff you haven’t done before for the sake of a good screencap, haha. looking at other poeple’s gameplay and stories also keeps you inspired; and you can even try writing your own story and then making it happen in the sims.

phew, this turned out to be a lot, i wish i could follow my own advice, haha. anyway, i hope you find this helpful - and everyone else, if you have any ideas and suggestions, feel free to add them!

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Under Construction

Please don’t mind the mess. Simblr is undergoing some renovations. Hopefully it won’t take me too long so I can get to posting.

EDIT: The image on the side is from Sims 4 Island Living. I wanted to change the image to something more fitting temporarily. The sim that I’m about to play with (once I get her look perfect & get some screenies) will take the place of that photo. The anime photo just doesn’t fit with the aesthetic of my simblr :)

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Parents who say, "If you're feeling well enough to play video games, you're feeling well enough to go to school!" don't seem to realize they are equating an extremely low impact leisure activity with a high stress and difficult involuntary obligation.

Source: reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts

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2 Sims - 1 World

So I have 2 saves going on currently while occasionally trying to build an awesome house.

My first save is Lacey Pendleton.

She is a 4 star celebrity and a vet. She has 2 dogs (in picture) - a pit bull named Princess and a Schipperke named Nika. She also has 2 cats - a Calico named Lilly and an Egyptian Mau named Cosmo. Lacey loves to tend to her garden and play video games when she’s not in front of the camera - acting or releasing videos.

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My second save is Nevaeh Spalding

She is an artist and a foster mom (thanks to a mod by LittleMsSam). She fosters toddlers, children, and teens as well as animals. She plans to open her own daycare one day so she can help out the younglings more.