#8 years revolution

[eight-years-revolution]

05/04/23 — Game update 02.6 — Chapter 2, part 6

Word count with code: ~ 308k Word count without code: ~ 245k

Hi!

Chapter 2’s final part is finally here! The update is not a huge one, with 23k words worth of new content added to the game, but it wraps up the chapter and introduces you to what to expect from chapter 3.

There’s not much to say about it, except that I hope you enjoy it!

The update includes:

A birthday celebration

Zanetta delivering some more exposition

A moment of bonding with either Lady Domara or Ajmal

A letter finally read

Please, let me know what you thought of the update through comments, asks, ratings, etc.!

Links

Demo | Bonus content directory | Support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi | Join the Discord server

[oscarwrites]

11/04/23 Update

Hi!

It’s going to be a short one because I still haven’t got my Internet back and I have to write this on my phone. :(

In short, despite my expectations for the worse, it’s been a decent week of progress. Not nanowrimo level of progress lol. But I was able to keep up with my usual 500 words a day.

I wish luck to everyone attempting nanowrimo (and be gentle with yourselves!), but I’m going to pass for this year.

Have a nice weekend!

[gonzague-if]

Maybe is too soon to ask but do you have any other project in mind after this if?

Lmao it sure is a little soon! I already have 2 other projects I'm working on at the same time as this one. The first one is the Eight Years Revolution (which has a dedicated blog here: @eight-years-revolution) and Better Off, which is meant to be a shorter project, started with the interact if game jam, back in January 2022. I post updates about it when available on my writing blog @oscarwrites.

I don't plan to start any other project until I finish one of these (unless it's something super short for a jam or something like that). I may have a couple ideas I might work on in the future, but for now I prefer to focus on my current projects. 3 is already a lot!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Smell Check [Easy: Failure]

MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 1 (part 2 - part 3)

[meirimerens]

the bickering habit

[juaneloriginal]

This inspired me to be an artist

[deer-with-a-stick]

I think someone should just throw all of the BG3 companions into Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Just take the post-canon generally considered "good" endings and throw em in there.

Why? Because it would be hilarious to me and also that's like the one official module that goes up to level 20.

I won't lie and say the only thing I can think of is the team trying to kill an angry mechanical purple worm while screeching at Gale because "what do you mean we're in Waterdeep and you know the bastard who owns this death trap?? I was perfectly alright in the damn Underdark thank you very much I did not sign up for this"

[ms-march]

Martha Washington passive aggressively ghost wrote this post

[anxietytwist]

𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧 of the Dimeritia

“Roshan Anemone of Ilionis”

[ 19 | 6'1" | Agender | Queer Ace | ♥︎M!Berhane ]

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⧼Hand Prosthetic⧽

✳ Visually a mix of these 2 ✳

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⧼Fashion⧽

Always paired with a matching headscarf

Mother's locket

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⧼Notes⧽

ᴘʀᴏɴᴏᴜɴꜱ‣ They/Them ʙᴜɪʟᴅ‣ Average ʜᴏʙʙʏ‣ Painting ʜᴇɴɴᴀ ʟᴏᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ‣ Arm

Roshan has had top surgery

They were born with amelia & use a wooden prosthetic for their left hand

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𝐼𝐹: @eight-years-revolution

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Picrew used:

[mikequeeler]

Working on a fucking huge fan art piece everyone manifest that I finish it and that it comes out good please

[freckles-but-only-ginger-ish]

holy fuck isles holy FUCK

[eight-years-revolution]

11/06/23 — Game update 02.8 — Save to file feature

This update is purely technical and doesn’t add any new story content.

I added a custom macro to the game that will allow you to save your game into a file that you can download. This will provide you with a back-up, should your saves be erased from your cookies.

Additionally, to make the experience loading from a file a little smoother, the save and load windows are now popups, so they’ll look a little different.

I also increased the number of save slots from 5 to 9.

A few notes on how it works, please read!

Saving The ‘save to file’ link will save the corresponding slot into a file. It will only save a pre-existing save so if the slot is empty, you won’t be able to download any file. Make sure to save the usual way before downloading the file through the provided link.

Loading When loading from a file, it will overwrite the corresponding slot. You can load the file into an empty slot if you want to avoid deleting any present save.

Old saves Due to the change in formatting, I recommend you do not save to file your old saves directly. If you want to save them into a file, load them, save them again the usual way and then download the file using the ‘save to file’ link. If you don’t do this, you could end up stuck on the save page when loading from that file. If it does happen, you can leave the save page by going through the settings or the character sheet and then back to the story.

/!\ Warning to iPhone users /!\

While the feature does work on iPhone, you may have to do a little bit of fiddling if you use Safari. Safari may add .txt to your save file when downloading it. If it does, you won’t be able to load the file into the game unless you remove the .txt extension.

To do that, you’ll have to go into your files folder, press on the file until a menu opens and choose ‘rename’. Once the name of your file is selected, tap it and a few different options should show up. Changing the extension is the very last one. Delete .txt and your file should be ready for use!

I’m sorry for the inconvenience it undoubtedly is, but there’s no way around it that I’m aware of.

Links

Demo | Bonus content directory | Support me on Ko-fi or Patreon | Join the Discord server

[oscarwrites]

08/11/23 Update

Hello everyone!

I’m sorry, it’s been a long time. I should have written an update last week but I was simply not feeling up to it. Not that I had any bad news or anything.

On the contrary, I was able to write every day throughout my vacation and that led me to finally finish Nevers’s scene. The whole thing is chunky, 30k words alone, bringing chapter 2 to 45k words already. And I still have a handful of scenes to write to wrap up the chapter.

The only problem is that my mental health has taken a dip for weeks now and I’m feeling exhausted. I’ve taken a break from writing since I’ve come back, I was not in a great environment to keep working anyway. I can only hope things will improve soon, as much as they can.

My goal now is to switch to 8YR and start outlining chapter 3. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get started to be honest. Maybe today if I feel up to it. I do want to get back to work, feeling unproductive has not really helped things. Or maybe I need to find ways of taking it easy that make me feel better instead of worse. If anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them!

In fact, I’m considering making a self-care bingo card lol. It’s something I’ve seen on YouTube recently and I thought it was a great idea (I watch Kate Cavanaugh’s videos for writing inspiration, if anyone is curious).

Depending on how things go, I’ll see you next week for another update!

[argothiathedreamer]

I'm going to spend the rest of my life going progressively insaner trying to find this fucking song.

[greetingsfromuranus]

8 years later and the white album is still fucjing great sorry to be a nerd or whatever but this shit slaps and always has

[platinumaspiration]

Howdy, Simmers! I'm thrilled to present the Ultimate 4T2 Clay Hair Default Replacement Collection, designed to give your Sims a fresh and fabulous new look effortlessly! 💇‍♀️💇‍♂️✨

It's time to redefine Sim style – one fabulous hairstyle at a time. Get ready for a hair revolution with The Ultimate 4T2 Clay Hair DR Collection! 💖🌟

🍡Download - LC | MF 🍡

Updates folder - SFS | MF updated 9 Apr 2024

The nitty gritty details and disclaimers:

This is an entire collection that is interwoven with each other. Hair is repositoried to different ages, genders, defaults, and even hidden toddler hair. It's highly recommended that the collection stay intact and that you have the Ultimate Collection or all EP/SP. Recategorizers do not work with this collection

Not all hair works with each sims' faces and not all sims' faces work with each hair. So keep in mind foreheads, cheeks and ears may poke out. Previews are available at LordCrumps.com

The collection includes add ons that may require the defaults and are flagged as "Store Edition" hair. TS4 hairs range from base game to the most recent Stuff Pack (Home Chef Hustle). More hair may be included as add ons in the future.

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I wouldn't convert some hair without their outfit counterparts. Please make sure to remove conflicts. The outfits include:

ubodymascotknight_EP7 mbodysuperninja pubodybadger_badger pubodybadger_brown ubodycommercialmascot_buns ubodysocialbunny servo ubodycowmascot (a brighter/whiter version courtesy of tvickiesims)

Most of these hairs exist already in the realm of the community as custom hairstyles. Any of my hair previously converted (shrink, servo, santa hat, etc) should be removed; they'll be included in this collection.

TOU: Please feel free to use these as a template for your defaults and recolor the hair as you'd prefer for download purposes. I only ask that you do not reupload these original files (breaking down to packs, gender, etc) as they are intertwined and may not work without their exclusive counterparts. Please do not make these hairs as customs for reupload.

There are a few hair/items that use cc: credit: nolansims, sforzinda, arethabee

This took about... 8 months to complete. I've (re)converted all of these myself to my current expectations of my conversion content. This was play tested thoroughly over the course of that time. If there are any issues, please don't hesitate to send an ask. The file size is massive even compressed, but to be honest it's pretty decent for 500+ hair.

Under the cut are some personal sappy thank you notes that I want to share publicly:

Thank you to the defaulters at sims2defaults database for all your work! Just be kind if/when you tear into it lol

A humongous thank you to those whom have followed and been a part of my journey as a cc creator/converter. This inadvertently marks a huge follower milestone as well and I'm so happy that you all have been a part of this with me for the past (almost) 3 years!

I don't think I would have done this without meeting @lordcrumps over a year ago and joining in his journey for the ultimate 4t2 default collection. He's a true gentleman and scholar 🧐Thank you for play testing, collaborating, and above all, being one of my bestest of friends and confidant.

And, I would never ever had completed this without @tvickiesims. To think she raised me from a terrible toddler right into an angsty teen within that 8 months and still remained a true and close friend through all of it. Thank you for your extensive and detailed play testing, your companionship when I fall apart, and for being my twin flame 🤗