#Effects Database

[effectsdatabase]

Another box of Exar pedals I bumped into yesterday ;-) #effectsdatabase #guitarpedals #guitareffects #effectspedals #guitarfx #fxpedals #pedalporn #geartalk #knowyourtone #pedalboard #pedalyouhaveneverseen #exar #madeinpoland (on Instagram: https://instagr.am/p/CuFLs03sgxy/)

[plsleafmelon]

the angela announcer roasts u in such a elaborate and angela-esque way whenever u do an ineffective or shitty attack its kind of funny like no angela its not me making these decisions ok nclair just chooses to flip heads 3 times in a row despite being at -30 sp

[zivqa]

something i think about constantly is how earthborn Shepard was literally canonically a gangster and then ended up in the military. with Anderson as a father figure no less. like. There is sooooo much potential there it drives me insane.

[localgardenweed]

Me and bro in a alternate universe were its 1986 and we’re on a Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach and we stop to advertise Mario Ramen

[pied-piper-pluto]

im fascinated by the trend ive occasionally seen of people inserting fictional men, usually ones in m/m ships they're into, into "tag your favorite female villain"/"what are your favorite f/f ships"/other general discussions about how women are depicted in media... where does that impulse come from, what do people Think they're saying there vs how it comes off, have any of them ever considered their own capacity for misogyny/homophobia. Etc

[autisticidiot]

chameleon who retired from being a criminal and became a game host i could not find your brief cameo in Spider-Man: Edge of Time but i love you

[chewwytwee]

For my followers, you can glaze and nightshade your images if you want, but know that it literally will not change the output of any large scale model. Even if every single user started glazing and nightshading their images the effort wouldn’t be able to reach a critical point within the already unfathomably large databases where it would actually corrupt outputs. Simply put, tumblr is not what’s keeping the doors open for openAI

[dragonfly756]

likely this means nothing to anyone except maybe two people but the noise ART's medsystem makes (in the new graphic audio adaption of artificial condition) when secunit sits up after their diy bestie surgery times is the exact same sound effect used when you clear a line in petroglyph punch in the classic Nancy drew point and click game curse of blackmoor manor.

[darlingofdots]

at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

[effectsdatabase]

Moving around some more boxes 😅 Part of the Univox, Melos,... family this time #effectsdatabase #guitarpedals #guitareffects #effectspedals #guitarfx #fxpedals #pedalporn #geartalk #knowyourtone #pedalboard #pedalyouhaveneverseen (on Instagram: https://instagr.am/p/CuUqGzNLMJT/)

[jcmarchi]

How to Use AI to Build a WordPress Related Posts Plugin – Speckyboy

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How to Use AI to Build a WordPress Related Posts Plugin – Speckyboy

Artificial intelligence (AI) can elevate your development workflow to the next level. The technology can perform complex and simple tasks – saving you time and increasing your earning power.

Nowhere is that more evident than in AI’s ability to write code. You tell your favorite tool what to do, and it generates the code. This is a boon to WordPress developers as you can create custom plugins with less effort. It’s like having an expert at your side.

That all sounds wonderful. But how does AI help developers in real-world scenarios? Is it capable of generating a decent solution without too much trouble? Let’s find out!

We’ll attempt to build a simple related posts plugin to give you a taste of what’s possible. We don’t expect it to compete with a commercial product. However, we hope to generate a functional piece of code; one that can be enhanced as needed.

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What Do We Want Our Plugin to Do?

AI is powerful – but it can’t read our minds just yet. Thus, we should think about what we want to build beforehand. A well-defined prompt will produce better results.

Like any development project, it’s better to start with the basics. With that in mind, let’s consider the core functions of a related posts plugin. It should:

Scan the current post’s metadata, including categories and tags;

Search the site’s database for other posts with similar metadata;

Display links to a specified number of related posts at the bottom of the current post;

The idea is to build a plugin that performs these tasks – and nothing else. Once that is established, you can add more bells and whistles.

Let’s Get To Work

It’s time to see how much effort it takes for AI to produce our plugin. We’ll use ChatGPT for this exercise, but you can use the tool you like best.

We’ll test our plugin on a local site with a selection of Speckyboy posts we’ve imported. The content spans several WordPress taxonomies (categories and tags). It should show us how well the plugin connects the dots (or doesn’t).

Step 1: Write a Prompt

Here’s our prompt to ChatGPT that covers the basics outlined above:

Create a WordPress plugin that displays posts related to the current one. It should do the following: - Check the categories and tags assigned to the current post; - Search the site's database for other posts with similar metadata; - Display links to 4 related posts at the bottom of the current one;

Within a couple of minutes, ChatGPT generates a related posts plugin. Here’s what it tells us about the code:

Here's a WordPress plugin that displays related posts based on shared categories and tags. It retrieves up to four related posts and displays them at the bottom of the current post. The plugin uses `WP_Query` to fetch related posts efficiently. This plugin fetches and displays related posts by: 1. Checking the current post's categories and tags. 2. Querying the database for other posts with matching categories or tags. 3. Displaying up to four related posts at the bottom of the content.

Step 2: Review the Code

Now, let’s do a quick review of the plugin’s code. That allows us to see what it does and spot any potential issues.

Note that we made a few adjustments to the plugin header to match the desired name and author info. In retrospect, we could have asked ChatGPT to add this. Thankfully, the changes are minimal.

Regardless, here’s our code. We’ll highlight a few items of interest below.

A Bit of Security: The first thing we’ll highlight is a line dedicated to security:

if (!defined('ABSPATH')) exit; // Exit if accessed directly

This code prevents someone from directly accessing the plugin file. It’s a bit of obfuscation that helps protect your website.

Query Our Blog Posts:

$args = [ 'post_type'      => 'post', 'post_status'    => 'publish', 'posts_per_page' => 4, 'post__not_in'   => [$post_id], 'orderby'        => 'rand', 'tax_query'      => [ 'relation' => 'OR', ] ];

Here are the arguments for our WordPress post query. This snippet tells our plugin to look in the 'post' post type and choose four related posts. It uses the post_not_in argument to ensure the current post isn’t included in the query. The orderby argument is set to 'rand' to select related posts randomly.

Search Categories and Tags:

if (!empty($categories)) $args['tax_query'][] = [ 'taxonomy' => 'category', 'field'    => 'term_id', 'terms'    => $categories, ]; if (!empty($tags)) $args['tax_query'][] = [ 'taxonomy' => 'post_tag', 'field'    => 'term_id', 'terms'    => $tags, ];

This snippet tells our plugin to look for posts using the same categories or tags as the current post.

Format the Related Posts List:

$output = '<div class="related-posts"><h3>Related Posts</h3><ul>'; foreach ($related_posts as $related) $output .= '<li><a target="_blank" href="' . get_permalink($related->ID) . '">' . esc_html(get_the_title($related->ID)) . '</a></li>'; $output .= '</ul></div>';

The plugin will output an unordered list of related posts. Each post’s link and title will be displayed. Notice the use of esc_html() to sanitize the title. That prevents any potentially dangerous code from executing.

Display at the Bottom of the Current Post:

return $content . $output; } add_filter('the_content', 'rpd_display_related_posts');

Lastly, this snippet ensures the related post list displays at the bottom of the current post via the_content filter.

Step 3: Install and Activate the Plugin

Everything looks good so far. Next, we’ll copy the code generated by ChatGPT and place it in a file called speckyboy-related-posts.php. We’ll upload the file to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder on the test site. Finally, we’ll activate the plugin.

The plugin doesn’t produce any PHP errors, and our site didn’t break. We’ll consider that a victory!

Does Our Related Posts Plugin Work?

OK, we generated a plugin and installed it on our test site. It’s time to see if it works as intended.

To check, we’ll navigate to a blog post and hope a related posts list displays at the bottom:

Success! The plugin works well at first glance. There’s an unordered list of four related posts in the correct spot. Clicking each post reveals it shares a category and/or tag with the current post.

And the good news keeps on coming. Checking subsequent posts shows positive results. One or more taxonomies consistently match the current post. It may not be fancy, but it does the job!

We did notice an unintended side effect. Remember, our plugin chooses related posts randomly. Thus, refreshing the current post loads a fresh list at the bottom. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It might benefit content-heavy sites, as it always gives readers something unique.

Finding the unexpected is part of the testing process. It’s an opportunity to refine and improve our plugin.

Taking Our Plugin to the Next Level

Our plugin works as expected and provides a solid foundation. But development doesn’t have to stop there. We can always add more features and advanced functionality.

We have a few ideas that could take this little related posts plugin to the next level:

Narrow the Scope of Related Posts

The current iteration looks for related posts that match a category and/or tag of the current one. That might be too broad for some use cases. Narrowing the scope of the search makes sense in this case.

We could limit matches to tags or even try to match keywords in the current post’s title. That could produce more relevant results. The downside? A more complicated search might mean a performance hit.

Improve Layout and Styling

The unordered list displayed by our base plugin is simple and accessible. There’s room for improvement, though.

For one, we could ask ChatGPT to create a card layout. That would look nice and neat on just about every site. In addition, we could add more post metadata such as featured images, publication dates, and excerpts.

A little CSS could also go a long way toward making the output look more professional. Hover effects would add some polish to the presentation.

Add a Settings Page

Our plugin has no settings. Adding a settings page could make it more flexible, though. A user might want to tweak several aspects of the plugin, including:

The number of related posts retrieved;

The post type(s) that should display related posts;

The criteria for related posts (taxonomies, keywords, etc.);

Posts or taxonomies to exclude;

It would be nice to have. However, plugin settings would also add a layer of complexity. Options must be saved to and retrieved from the site’s database. Plus, allowing user input comes with extra security responsibilities. That may not be desirable in every situation.

It’s a reminder to think about the consequences of each feature we add. Just because AI can do it, doesn’t mean we should ask!

AI Makes Building Plugins Easier Than Ever

It’s amazing to think about the speed at which AI produced our plugin. We went from a concept to a working prototype in about 10 minutes. It demonstrates the technology’s power and its level of improvement. Earlier versions of ChatGPT may not have been this efficient and accurate.

Granted, we weren’t trying to build the next WooCommerce. That’s still a bridge too far – especially when considering future maintenance and security needs.

Still, AI is adept at producing a simple plugin. Once you have that in hand, you can tweak it to your heart’s content. Adding features or making changes is a matter of writing a few prompts (or coding by hand, if you haven’t forgotten it yet).

Best of all, you can use these tools to your advantage. They’ll help you get projects done faster while expanding your development capabilities. It looks like the future is here!

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[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHAT NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ABOUT PEOPLE

I've read was not in a book, but the Milanese Leonardo? It's obvious why transparency has that effect. 0 out there as soon as you can get a job, as you can. My friends with PhDs in computer science, which presumably makes them engineers. I've written before, one byproduct of technical progress is that things we like tend to become more addictive. You get up in the country. 1-n is 1. There are some things that will appeal to people is a meaningful test, because although, like any everyday concept, human is fuzzy around the edges, there are about 800 incubators in the US now, only about 50 are likely to be pretty average. For example, our hypothetical startup never spent more than half probably come from PR firms.1

If you're going to spend years working on something, you'd think it might be better to describe iTunes as Web 1. When I was a kid there were people born in Milan with just as much. This is, in itself, a valuable thing.2 Whatever it meant, the web as a platform? One recently told me that he did not know a single startup that got from an angel investor what amounted to a five hundred pound handshake: after deciding to invest, the angel presented them with a 70-page agreement. Few legal documents are created from scratch.3 The importance of personal introductions varies, but is less than with angels or VCs. If you draw a tree and you change the angle of a branch five degrees, people notice.

Gradually it dawned on us that instead of trying to make art, the temptation to be lazy is as great as in any really bold undertaking, merely deciding to do it mean she tends to get written out of YC's history. He was also a lawyer, which was still then a quasi-government entity.4 Also, the money might come in several tranches, the later ones subject to various conditions—though this is apparently more common in deals with lower-tier VC firms are partners. But I did not till recently understand the role risk played. But Jessica knew her example as a successful female founder would encourage more women to start companies, so last year she did something YC had never done before and hired a PR firm. Don't be hapless. The hard part about figuring out what customers want? For most of my childhood he worked for Westinghouse, modelling nuclear reactors.5

The most dramatic remnant of this model may be at salon.6 There are sources of error in your own judgements.7 When you're talking about the limit case: the case where you not only have zero leisure time but indeed work so hard that you endanger your health. But if you just try to make good things. Mathematicians call good work beautiful, and so on. A new class of merchants and manufacturers began to collect in towns.8 I've learned a lot about VCs during the 3 years we've been doing Y Combinator, that's because it is.9 I'm not sure why. But they weren't, and it's nearly impossible to do good work yourself if you're too far removed from one of these can destroy you overnight.10

I asked. Whoever controls the device sets the terms. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world.11 Maybe you can, because you get multiple VCs interested in your success, and you observe how much humans have in common. Because then you're asking government or almost-government organization like Fannie Mae, do the venture investing instead of private funds? Apparently our situation was not unusual. In fact, this is a naive and outdated ambition. Next What happens to publishing if you can't sell content?

They allow measurement because they're small, and they view things with a colder eye. She'd seen the level of individual customers. I was leaving I offered it to him, as I've done countless times before in the same position; he doesn't have majority control of Microsoft; in principle he also has to convince instead of commanding. Work people like doesn't pay well, for reasons of supply and demand. As a company gets woven into your thoughts. Would even Grisham claim that it's because he's a better writer? But you can't get very far by trading things directly with the people who work at VC firms are like angels in that they invest exclusively in the earliest phase.12 But if Ron's angry at you, it's because you did something wrong. Remember the exercises in critical reading you did in school, where you earn a premium for working fast.13 One solution to this problem would be to try it. And Jessica is the main reason why. Do people live downtown, or have they abandoned the center for the suburbs?

If audiences were willing to pay to read them.14 By about 1. There are two ways to do that instead of trying to teach it to people, I'd say that yes, surprisingly often it can. Every engraver since Durer has had to live in his shadow. People. We delighted in forcing bigger, slower competitors to follow us over difficult ground. The Northwest Passage that the Mannerists, the Romantics, and two generations of American high school students have searched for does not seem to have in common. It seems to me the business guys who did the most for Google were the ones who obligingly flew Altavista into a hillside just as Google was getting started. I miss the 3 year old version of him, I at least don't have any money, you make one.

You don't expect photographic accuracy in something that looks like a dork riding a Segway is that you can't go to your boss and say, I'd like to start working ten times as hard, and get paid for it. How has your taste changed? In fact, when we funded Airbnb, we thought, let's make something people will pay for? So if it seems too good to be true to think you could grow a local silicon valley by giving startups $15-20k each like Y Combinator, because we often have to work actively to prevent your company growing into a weed tree, dependent on this source of easy but low-margin money. The other is that, in a way that was entirely for the better. Others thought YC had some special insight about the future of most current media.15 As anyone who has worked for the government knows, the key is measurement.

Notes

Yes, there is no grand tradition of city planning like the application of math to real problems, but they get a lot of problems, and VCs will try to avoid that.

This is almost pure discovery. Until recently even governments sometimes didn't grasp the distinction between them. In principle yes, of S P 500 CEOs in 2002 was 3. Bullshit, Princeton University Press, 1996.

But it's a problem that I was there when it converts. Because it's better if everything just works.

Actually this sounds like something cooked up, but that wasn't a partnership. The late 1960s were famous for social upheaval.

We just tried to shift back. I suspect.

This suggests a way that's rare among technology companies. I now have on the programmers had seen what GUIs had done for desktop computers.

This suggests a good chance that a their applicants come from going to call them whitelists because it consisted of 50 pairs that each summed to 101 100 1,99 2, etc.

I talk about humans being meant or designed to live a certain city because of some logical reason e. I find myself asking founders Would you use that instead of a social network for x. A larger set of canonical implementations of the canonical could you build this? Startups can die from running through their initial attitude.

I'm also an investor, and B doesn't, that's the main reason is that they won't make you register to read stories.

Do College English 28 1966-67, pp. This sentence originally read GMail is painfully slow.

FreeBSD and stored their data in files too. I realize revenue and not others, no matter how large. But a couple hundred years ago.

Macros very close to starting startups since Viaweb, and at least 150 million in 1970. There are also the highest returns, it's easy for small children pointed out that successful founders is how intently they listened. Within YC when we were quite sore from VCs attempting to probe our nonexistent database orifice.

Make Wealth in Hackers Painters, what you launch with, you can see how much they liked the outdoors? Apparently there's only one restaurant left on the y, you'd ultimately be a big effect on the expected after-tax returns. And if you were doing Viaweb again, I'd appreciate hearing from you. So where do we push founders to overhire is not really a lie because it's a hip flask.

In the original source of difficulty here is defined from the other students, he was 10 years ago it would not produce a viable organism. At the time quantum for hacking is very common, to a car dealer. If Ron Conway had been trained to expect the second wave extends applications across the web was going to need to. The reason you don't know of no Jews moving there, and an haughty spirit before a dream world.

But it is very vulnerable to gaming, because for times over a series.

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

--

I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[warrenwoodhouse]

Cerberus Databank (Mass Effect Guide) (Databanks)

Databank by @warrenwoodhouse #warrenwoodhouse

Details

Headquarters: Cerberus HQ (Also Known As: Cronos Station) (Space Station), Anadius, Horse Head Nebula, Earth Systems Alliance Space.

CEO: The Illusive Man

Operative: Jacob Taylor

Officer: Miranda Lawson

Facilities

Cerberus Medical Facility (Also Known As: Lazarus Research Station): Cerberus Medical Facility (Lazarus Research Station), Strenuus, Horse Head Nebula, Earth Systems Alliance Space.

Cerberus Facility (Also Known As: Minuteman Station) (Space Station): Cerberus Facility, Strenuus, Horse Head Nebula, Earth Systems Alliance Space.

Cerberus HQ (Also Known As: Cronos Station) (Space Station): Cerberus HQ, Anadius, Horse Head Nebula, Earth Systems Alliance Space.

Cerberus Teltin Facility: Cerberus Teltin Facility, Pragia, Dakka, Nubian Expanse.

Cerberus Project Overlord Facility (DLC: Project Overlord): Cerberus Project Overlord Facility, Aite, Typhoon, The Phoenix Massing.

Cerberus Project Firewalker Facility (DLC: Firewalker Pack): Cerberus Project Firewalker Facility, Karumto, Yakawa, Caleston Rift.

Changelog

17th June 2024 at 7:40 pm: Updated the databank with new information in the section titled “Facilities”

1st June 2024 at 10:28 am: Moved databank to my Tumblr blog

18th September 2022 at 2:50 pm: Created databank

[felidae-sims]

Sims 2 Databases Database

(Alright it's an index, I just had to)

Made it for myself, I might as well share. If there's something I've missed please let me know. This list is being updated, Tumblr is being a pain and updates won't show up on re-blogs. Visit the original post to view the most current version. Mirror: Dreamwidth.

CC:

By Type:

Sims 2 - Object Default Database [Discontinued - DW].

Sims 2 - Object Default Database [Active - Spreadsheet].

Sims 2 - [CAS] Default Database.

Sims 2 - Hair Database.

Sims 2 - CC: Afro Hairstyles.

Sims 2 - Shoes Database.

Sims 2 - EA Store Items 2016.

Sims 2 - The Maxis Match Repository Project [CAS] [Pinterest Ver.]

Sims 2 - Repository Finds [CAS&Objects] [sorted into categories].

Sims 2 - Functional Finds [Sorted by function].

Resource list: Clutter and decorative items [massive index at GoS].

Sims 2 - Wall Hanging Decor Recolors Database [New!].

Sims 2 - Lot Database [Maxis ones emptied out].

Sims 2 - Lot Makeover Database [of Maxis Lots] [Note the Uploading Tutorial].

SkyBox/Horizons/Skylines Database.

Maxis Career Conversions TS1+3+4 to TS2 [Sorted by Game&EP - Under Downloads].

Fractured Moonlight's Stone Super Set Database [Creator Unknown, let me know if you know].

By Theme:

List of Maxis Lost & Found Objects Converted into Usable Items.

Stories to Sims 2 Conversion Database. [DW Backup]

TS1 to TS2 Conversion/Recreation Database.

TS1 to TS2 Catalog Conversions [Active, Includes OG Object Descriptions].

TS3 to TS2 Conversion Database [DW Backup].

TS3 to TS2 Traits Project Mod Tracking Sheet [Blog Ver.]

TS4 to TS2 CAS Conversion Archive [EA].

TS4 to TS2 CC Clothing Conversion Database [Custom - ts4 only?].

TS4 to TS2 Build/Buy Conversion Database [EA].

TS4 to TS2 CC Build & Buy Database [Custom].

The Sims spin-off games to the PC TS2 [&3+4].

TSM-to-TS2 Conversion Database [DW Backup].

Sims 2 Historical Finds [CAS&Objects] [Sorted by Era/Period].

Historical Sims 2 Wiki [New!].

Grunge Masterlist Project 2025.

List of Asian Sims 2 Sites With Working Downloads [As of 2017?].

CC Archives:

Sim Archive Project, at The Internet Archive [Introduction Post].

Sims Cave.

Sims Graveyard.

Simblr.cc - Dead-Site Repository.

Liquid Sims - Community Archives.

The Booty, at PSMBD.

Sims 2 Packrat, on Tumblr [Watch out for the recent SFS Hacking problem].

Ekrubynaffit (a.k.a bestbuild4sims) has re-uploaded a lot of archives of defunct creators. Albums with DL on her pinterest. Mainly build and buy mode, thanks a lot!

Resources:

CEP-Extras List, Huge Lunatic at Sims 2 Artists.

The Sims 2 Tutorials Database [Active] (Really needs a backup outside of Tumblr).

Several Lists of Maxis Resources for Modding,Pick'n'Mix Mods, own website, under Notes.

Sims 2 GUID Database Revival (Yes I'm shamelessly promoting it).

Sims 2 Trait GUID Database, by FireFlower.

Sims 2 Painting Sizes Database.

List of all Color Actions, With DL, ZeroDark/Graphic at GoS.

List of all WSO Actions, by Blue Heaven Sims, under Resources.

List of Hacks & Mods That Use Tokens, Bulbizarre at MTS.

Giant List of Simlish Fonts - Collect ‘Em All!, by franzillasims.

Masterlists of Recolouring Templates; MTS [+Cloning] | Hafiseazle | ZreoDark [not a list but a tag].

Index of Effects Names & Definitions [+ Guide], by AmmarAskar at GitHub.

Update notes are under the cut:

Update: Custom Clothing Conversion db [4t2], by @brandinotbroke/ Hair db, by @krabbysims/ Sims 4t2 CAS Conversion Archive [EA], by @mdpthatsme/ CEP-Extras List, by @hugelunatic/ Lists of Maxis Resources for Modding, by @picknmixsims/ Sims 2 Tutorials db [Active], by @sims2tutorials/ Sim Archive Project at The Internet Archive, by various - see @simnostalgia. Update 1: added EA ts2 store items at GoS/ Painting sizes db/ Tutorials db, by @sims2tutorials. Update 2: GUID db Revival. Update 3: believe it or not, there's more - Shoes db/ Sims 2. Functional Finds [sorted by function], by @sims2functionalfinds. Update 4: Resource list: Clutter and decorative items, at @gardenofshadowssims. Update 5: added archives section. Update 6: added @ekrubynaffit's Pinterest Archive. Update 7: Fixed TSM link, added Stories db/ Afro Hairstyles db, by @letomills/ SkyBox/Horizons/Skylines Database, by @simmergetic/ Grunge Masterlist Project 2025, by @pixeldolly/ and DW backup links (Everything that's exclusively on Tumblr/LJ should be backed somewhere else). Update 8: List of Asian Sims 2 Sites With Working Downloads [as of 2017?] by @0201-sims. Update 9: added Sims 2 Repository Finds [sorted into categories], by @sims2repositoryfinds. Update 10: added Sims 2 Object db [Discontinued], because the more the better. Update 11 Yet another (!): The Maxis Match Repository Project [CAS], by @whattheskell [how did i forget?]/ TS3 to TS2 Traits Project Mod Tracking Sheet, by  Rowena Sims & @noodlebelli. Update 11: Maxis Career Conversions TS1+3+4 to TS2 [Sorted by Game&EP - Under Downloads], by @sims2idea-lientebollemeis2i. Update 12: HS I found another one: List of all Color Actions - Names, Creators, and Download Links. Maintained for over a decade by @zerographic at GoS :P Update 13: separated by type & theme. added Sims 2 Historical Finds [CAS&Objects] [Sorted by Era/Period], by @ts2history. Update 14: added to resources Trait GUID db, by @fireflowersims. Update 15: I shit you not, there's more - Sims 2 Lot Makeover db [Maxis Lots], by @ts2lotmakeoverdb/ List of Hacks & Mods That Use Tokens, Bulbizarre at MTS/ TS1 Catalog Conversions [Active], by @kitteninthewindow/ WSO Action Masterlist, by Blue Heaven Sims under Resources. Update 16: List of Maxis Lost & Found Objects Converted into Usable Items, @kirlicues. Update 17: Sims 2 Lot db [Maxis ones emptied out], by @mikexx2 @mrsktrout @ts2lots. Update 18: Historical Sims 2 Wiki [New!], by @theacmecatalogblog. Update 19: under archives; Simblr.cc - Dead-Site Repository by @simblrcc-site. Jackpot! Update 20: added Giant List of Simlish Fonts - Collect ‘Em All!, by @franzillasims. Update 21 [can't believe there's more]: Masterlists of Recolouring Templates; MTS [+Cloning] | @hafiseazale | @zerographic [not a list but a tag]. Update 22(!): Index of Effects Names & Definitions [+ Guide], by AmmarAskar at GitHub. Update 23: added Sims 2 - Wall Hanging Decor Recolors Database [New!], by @sims-for-semi

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📚 A List Of Useful Websites When Making An RPG 📚

My timeloop RPG In Stars and Time is done! Which means I can clear all my ISAT gamedev related bookmarks. But I figured I would show them here, in case they can be useful to someone. These range from "useful to write a story/characters/world" to "these are SUPER rpgmaker focused and will help with the terrible math that comes with making a game".

This is what I used to make my RPG game, but it could be useful for writers, game devs of all genres, DMs, artists, what have you. YIPPEE

Writing (Names)

Behind The Name - Why don't you have this bookmarked already. Search for names and their meanings from all over the world!

Medieval Names Archive - Medieval names. Useful. For ME

City and Town Name Generator - Create "fake" names for cities, generated from datasets from any country you desire! I used those for the couple city names in ISAT. I say "fake" in quotes because some of them do end up being actual city names, especially for french generated ones. Don't forget to double check you're not 1. just taking a real city name or 2. using a word that's like, Very Bad, especially if you don't know the country you're taking inspiration from! Don't want to end up with Poopaville, USA

Writing (Words)

Onym - A website full of websites that are full of words. And by that I mean dictionaries, thesauruses, translators, glossaries, ways to mix up words, and way more. HIGHLY recommend checking this website out!!!

Moby Thesaurus - My thesaurus of choice!

Rhyme Zone - Find words that rhyme with others. Perfect for poets, lyricists, punmasters.

In Different Languages - Search for a word, have it translated in MANY different languages in one page.

ASSETS

In general, I will say: just look up what you want on itch.io. There are SO MANY assets for you to buy on itch.io. You want a font? You want a background? You want a sound effect? You want a plugin? A pixel base? An attack animation? A cool UI?!?!?! JUST GO ON ITCH.IO!!!!!!

Visual Assets (General)

Creative Market - Shop for all kinds of assets, from fonts to mockups to templates to brushes to WHATEVER YOU WANT

Velvetyne - Cool and weird fonts

Chevy Ray's Pixel Fonts - They're good fonts.

Contrast Checker - Stop making your text white when your background is lime green no one can read that shit babe!!!!!!

Visual Assets (Game Focused)

Interface In Game - Screenshots of UI (User Interfaces) from SO MANY GAMES. Shows you everything and you can just look at what every single menu in a game looks like. You can also sort them by game genre! GREAT reference!

Game UI Database - Same as above!

Sound Assets

Zapsplat, Freesound - There are many sound effect websites out there but those are the ones I saved. Royalty free!

Shapeforms - Paid packs for music and sounds and stuff.

Other

CloudConvert - Convert files into other files. MAKE THAT .AVI A .MOV

EZGifs - Make those gifs bigger. Smaller. Optimize them. Take a video and make it a gif. The Sky Is The Limit

Marketing

Press Kitty - Did not end up needing this- this will help with creating a press kit! Useful for ANY indie dev. Yes, even if you're making a tiny game, you should have a press kit. You never know!!!

presskit() - Same as above, but a different one.

Itch.io Page Image Guide and Templates - Make your project pages on itch.io look nice.

MOOMANiBE's IGF post - If you're making indie games, you might wanna try and submit your game to the Independent Game Festival at some point. Here are some tips on how, and why you should.

Game Design (General)

An insightful thread where game developers discuss hidden mechanics designed to make games feel more interesting - Title says it all. Check those comments too.

Game Design (RPGs)

Yanfly "Let's Make a Game" Comics - INCREDIBLY useful tips on how to make RPGs, going from dungeons to towns to enemy stats!!!!

Attack Patterns - A nice post on enemy attack patterns, and what attacks you should give your enemies to make them challenging (but not TOO challenging!) A very good starting point.

How To Balance An RPG - Twitter thread on how to balance player stats VS enemy stats.

Nobody Cares About It But It’s The Only Thing That Matters: Pacing And Level Design In JRPGs - a Good Post.

Game Design (Visual Novels)

Feniks Renpy Tutorials - They're good tutorials.

I played over 100 visual novels in one month and here’s my advice to devs. - General VN advice. Also highly recommend this whole blog for help on marketing your games.

I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye