#I know you can if you install a different launcher but I'm not going to fuck with my phone's code

[violetlypurple]

With the Windows recall shit rolling around, I'm going to be That Girl and put it out there that Linux is, indeed, still a thing, and a thing that has come a long way with regards to user experience and gaming. And a thing that runs 75% of the internet but anyways Saying, "Linux isn't just for nerds and enthusiasts anymore!" wouldn't be an entirely truthful statement, but if all you do is play games, go on socials, and hang in discord... It'll work? I'm speaking to a target audience here, posting from an FFXIV-focused blog, so let me dive into it a little for that target audience, with the assumption that none of you are out there being sweaty over Apex, Overwatch, Fortnite, or whatever zoomers play these days. Basically anything you play through Steam will run flawlessly* on Linux. Valve have baked the Proton compatibility layer into Steam for a while, and since Valve's Steam Deck runs on Linux, they are on point with updates for it. This means that Steam will do the work of making Windows games run on Linux for you without any additional software or tinkering. This includes the Steam version of FFXIV**.

Now, I can't speak to or ensure that reshade or any 3rd party plugin will work. In my case (details below the cut) reshade was more or less intact but all the presets broke so I just kinda said fuck it and removed the remnants. But thats ok, right? You want to try out the 7.0 graphical updates without instagram filters, right? Don't you..?

Mods and other plugins? Don't know, don't care, frankly don't like that they exist outside the narrow window of seeing people's fun screenshots. Sorry not sorry. That said, I have seen some things on the googles.

There are obviously various things that work differently/don't work on Linux like they do on Windows. I can't account for every case, so google is your friend here. The one particularly notable case I ran into was screenshare with Discord being unable to deliver audio, which makes group watching things like netflix a bit of a problem. There are technically workarounds but again, Target Audience.

Sooo... Yeah? If you're mildly tech savvy, go get Ubuntu, install it on a second drive, external drive, or even just try it out from the usb you put the install media on for an hour. If you wanna get spicy with it, do some looking around to see what distribution of Linux might suit you better. Pop_OS is also pretty beginner friendly. Yes, there are some adjustments and some things to learn, but if you have the energy to be mad at what Microsoft is doing, you have the energy to learn a few new things to get away from it. As with anything related to messing with your operating system; back up your important things, just in case!

The Notable Caveats:

*I can't speak to all multiplayer games, since some use anti-cheat or DRM that may not work on Linux. But frankly, a quick google of "will [game] run on Linux" can get you a quick yes or no on if this will be a problem for you. In my case, I mostly care about Helldivers 2 with its nProtect, and it works fine. BG3 has no problems either.

**You might be thinking, "But Basement Witch Noone Knows, I don't use the Steam version of FFXIV!" And yes, that does complicate matters. My brief tutorial is below the cut, should you find yourself committed to this notion, or just have a morbid curiosity.

Ok, so I don't have the Steam version of FFXIV either. There are two ways around this that I am aware of.

The first, which I would not recommend, is to get a 3rd party Linux launcher. If you care about this Windows recall thing, you probably fully understand why I would advise against using a 3rd party app to put your username and password into. If you are willing to do some research into the providers of these tools to determine their trustworthiness, I can't stop you, but I wasn't interested.

The second is Steam! Again! A fun fact about FFXIV is that it runs pretty self-contained in its folder. I have shit internet, so I have been just copying the whole ass SquareEnix folder off my drive and onto other drives to save myself two days of downloading for years now.

If you have Linux installed and familiarize yourself with the Home folder where your usual Documents/Pictures/Videos folders are, I just copy pasted my whole SquareEnix folder in there, to the cries and lamentations of Linux nerds everywhere that would insist I put it somewhere proper. Anyway. Once it's there, all you need to do is add it to Steam. In the Steam Library there is a button to Add a Game in the bottom right corner. When you click that there is an option to Add Non-Steam Game. When you click that, you will get a prompt to locate and select the game. Here you want to hit Browse, navigate to your Home folder, SquareEnix, FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn, boot. in the boot folder you will need to select ffxivboot.exe. Once you have selected it and clocked Open, it will return you to the Add Non-Steam Game list and you should see ffxivboot.exe selected. Hit Add Selected Programs, and that's it! You can now launch your bodged-in copy of FFXIV through steam, and it will apply the necessary Proton layer to make the launcher and the game work as normal. Yay Linux!

i use arch, btw

[fridge-reviews]

20 Minutes Till Dawn – Blast Review

Developer: Flanne Rrp: £4.29 (Steam)

This is the third game I've played that's similar to Vampire Survivors and I've been trying to think of a good genre name that isn't the equivalent of Doom-clone. Sadly, I wasn't able to think of one but I have a friend who has, he calls them 'Bullet Heavens', and I've got to admit it's a good name so I'm going to run with it (and hopefully spread the term).

To be more than a mere clone you're game needs to have something different, a unique draw. In this game its that you can aim your weapon and shoot at will. I know that in a way that makes this a bullet hell but I would argue that it would only be a bullet hell if you go for a build that facilitates that.

There several characters to play as (once you've unlocked them) each with their own special abilities. Once you've selected your character you then select the weapon they'll be using, do you want a slow to reload but powerful shotgun or the weaker dual smg's that fire at a much faster rate? Perhaps you'd rather have the grenade launcher? So much to consider.

Just like with Vampire Survivors you have to collect the experience that your slain enemies drop. Doing this will increase your level and allow you to select one of five upgrades. This is where this game and Vampire Survivors differ, the upgrades in this game do more than merely add a percent chance or increase the damage area. These will cause a burning effect, freeze the enemy, cast a curse and many other things. There are upgrades that will simply decrease your weapons reload time and increase the rate of fire too, of course. However, my favourite upgrades are the summons. You can have several out at once and they all attack independently of you in different manners. From the scythe that spins around you to the ghost that shoots at your enemies. Getting certain upgrades will unlock a 'synergy' which means that their effect will compliment each other.

At the end of each run you'll gain a... currency. I wish I could give it a name but for the life of me I can't find one. What I can tell you though is that this currency is how you unlock (most) of the other character and weapons. You also can spend them on Runes which grant passive bonuses.

This game is so much fun, I installed it on my Steam Deck so I could keep playing while in bed (as well as a few other places). If you liked Vampire Survivors or Boneraise minions (or other bullet heavens) I really think you could do much worse!

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[scaththefloof]

Sonic Lock & Load

An amazing doom mod created by AeriaVelocity on Github

their profile right here:

sonic lock and load site right here:

it's really fun go play it!

if you don't know how to install it then I have made a guide

The Guide

To play this great doom mod you're gonna need GZDoom

you can download gzdoom from both of these sites

You will need ZDL as well, there are a lot more doom launchers but this is the one that I personally use

Getting a doom WAD

Obtain a Doom wad weather that be through legal ways (buying the game and copying the wad from the files) Illegal (downloading the official wad from somewhere, piracy) or using freedoom

Here is freedoom

when you start up gzdoom it should tell you where to put the wad files, I only know where to put the files in on linux (it's /home/(your user)/.config/gzdoom/ and if you don't have the gzdoom directory, create it or launch gzdoom as it creates it for you)

But it should tell you where to go on windows so just pay attention

NOTE

These files download as a .zip, unzip the files and put them in a designated directory

Launch the game with ZDL

Assuming you already installed ZDL using the link provided above

ZDL will look empty, but we need zdl to look something like this

ZDL can be used to load multiple mods, or load just one mod. double click a file to make ZDL ignore it (it will put a line through it as it is doing here with brutal doom and unironically sonic lock and load, I was playing project brutality before thinking about making this post to get you guys to play this great sonic fan game/doom mod)

But right now ZDL is empty...

so let's fix that

navigate above to the "general settings" tab

you will be met with this, however you will not have anything in the "source ports" menu or the "IWADs" menu

Add a source port

click the plus under the "source ports" menu and you will be met with this. This is where things will get different from you and me. As I use linux and you might be using windows

find the executable for gzdoom using this file manager

Adding the IWADs are similar, click the plus to open the file manager. Find the IWADs and put them in. Import both freedoom phase 1 and 2, or doom 1 and 2 wads. SLL only uses the doom 2 wad, but some mods can be used with the doom 1 wad and so that's there for the future if you decide to launch other mods.

Navigate back to the launch config tab click the plus under the "extra files" tab and add he sonic lock and load file.

I understand video tutorials better than written ones

Here is a video if you can't understand this:

If you use linux, the files are located differently. I might even make a video on how to play doom mods on linux.

[ghoulfuckersincorporated]

Well, I've wasted four hours of my life that I'll never get back on trying to get this game to launch and all it's done is put me in a very bad mood. :) I've Googled (man, remember when Google didn't absolutely suck ass?). I've looked on Reddit. I've watched videos. I've searched through Steam forum posts. I've looked at Nexus.

I'm not an IT genius, but I'm not stupid and I have decent problem-solving skills. New Vegas runs FINE. Fallout 4 runs FINE. Fallout 3's launcher opens (most of the time, depending on what tweaks I've made), and then it attempts to open a window for a few seconds before crashing. I've tried literally every solution I've come across:

Uninstalled/reinstalled.

Made sure my graphics driver is up to date.

Ran it as an administrator.

Launched in windowed mode.

Verified the integrity of the game's files through Steam.

Deleted everything in the MyDocuments/Fallout3 folder and THEN re-verified the files.

Edited the .ini files (or, went to and found that the changes I was supposed to make were already there).

Ran it in compatibility mode and tried all the different versions (which only made it worse as it sometimes caused the launcher to not even open until I re-verified the files).

Set the GPU preference to "High Performance" for both the launcher and the game itself in my computer's graphics settings (and, alternatively, to low).

Tried a million different combinations of the above settings.

I also tried installing this HD graphics bypass based on a recommendation from a Steam thread. Several of you mentioned something like this, and there are comments from as recently as two or three weeks ago from people claiming it worked for them, but I've had no luck so far. I dunno, maybe I didn't install it correctly since it's a manual install. It all just goes in the same folder as the .exe, right??? The instructions make it seem like the two files have separate destinations, but I can't tell if that's because of the age of the post/them referring to an older version of Windows. [EDIT: the two files go in separate folders. This was, in fact, the source of my problem.]

This is genuinely fucking ridiculous. I didn't have NEARLY this much trouble getting New Vegas to work despite having to tweak a few things. Don't they run on the same goddamn engine? It's so frustrating, because there have been small changes as I've tried things, but I can't really tell what's a good change or a bad change unless the launcher stops working.

There are a couple other things I want to try, but if I can't figure out a solution relatively quickly tomorrow, I'm 100% giving up for now. I'd be super bummed to do so, because I was really hoping to do some of the side quests to get a better feel for the characters and do some studying of the map. I guess I can always try Youtube videos to at least get to see some of the character stuff/dialogue. It's not the same, though. And not being familiar with the layout of the map makes adding smaller details into my work nearly impossible without just flat-out getting things wrong.

On the bright side (because if I couldn't find a silver lining in how much time I've wasted, I'd [REDACTED]): I now know how to update my graphics driver and I kind of know what a .ini file is.

Anyway...fuck you, Bethesda! Give me my time back!

I've spent over an hour trying to get Fallout 3 to launch.

Not play. Launch.

[copperbadge]

I stopped updating my tumblr app in October, because I didn’t want the icon changing; I find apps on my phone based primarily on color and secondarily on shape. Then they introduced Tumblr Live and I had strong motivation not to update, because then it just wouldn’t appear on my app. 

And then the above happened, and I cracked up laughing, because now my strategy of not updating has begun to prevent me from seeing ads :D 

I’ve updated now, simply because it was also happening on friends’ posts and anyway you should keep your apps up to date for security reasons, but it gave me a good chuckle. 

[ID: A screengrab of the Tumblr app; half of the header is visible and reads “Sponsored with Blaze”. The rest of the post reads “Unsupported content. Update your Tumblr app to see what’s here” and below that, in bold, “Update Now”.]

[pudding-parade]

Geotic by karmatical

Back to the Exchange we go! Generally speaking, with these world overviews, I mostly want to focus on complete worlds, or at least worlds that are complete enough that you can just plunk down a sim or twelve in the world and play, without having to do any set-up. But, for those who like to build, I will also give a shout-out here and there to empty worlds that I think are nicely sculpted/painted/decorated and that have good lot lay-outs that would be easy to create a nice-looking town in, whether you build the lots yourself or plop down EA or downloaded ones.

This is one such world. It's a recent one, uploaded in January of 2022. It has lovely mountainous scenery full of evergreen trees as well as quite a bit of water and three waterfalls. The lot layout is great, too, with discrete sections that make it easy to create various types of neighborhoods within the world as well as a centralized city/downtown area, complete with a waterfront.

Some stats:

I'm not 100% sure what size the world is, but I think it's 2048x2048. Not all of it is routable, though, so the playable area is smaller than that. It shouldn't take sim-hours to get anywhere.

I'm terrible at recognizing what landscape items come from which EP, but I did see trees that I know for certain come from Pets and Ambitions. I thiiiiiiink the rest is all basegame, though? Maybe? There is no Store content or CC.

I counted 114 lots, with 84 designated as residential and 30 as community, but since they're all empty, you can change that however you want. All of the lots are flat, other than half-a-dozen or so that overlap water so that you could build/place ports/houseboats on them. The "bay" area would be a great place to add some diving lots, too. Some of the lots are odd sizes, particularly long, narrow strips between other lots which are obviously meant to be greenbelts. There are also some other lots that are just a bit "off" from normal sizes -- like 45x40, for instance -- but this wouldn't mean that you couldn't place pre-built "normal" size lots on them. You'd just have a bit of space left over in some cases, which can be a good thing.

There are no spawners in the world. None. Not even fish. Minor pets do not spawn, either. So, if you want to be able to fish or collect things in this world, you'll need to add spawners yourself.

As usual, the title of this post is a link to the world's enormously unhelpful Exchange page, but if you don't want to deal with the Exchange/the Launcher/sims3packs, I have uploaded a .world file here. If you download that, it goes in your install files under GameData - Shared - NonPackaged - Worlds. If you like this world, the creator has two more similar ones, also empty, which you can access from the "Creator" tab on the Exchange page.

So, all that being said, let's have a look at some more pics and info, behind the cut!

First up, some Edit Town pics of the various sections of the world. As I said, the world is broken out into discrete sections meant for different purposes. I don't know about anyone else, but this is something I look for in worlds. So here we go:

This is the area where all of the lots designated as community lots (except for one out by the lighthouse) are. Me, I'd put luxury houses on the lots on the causeway bit on the left, but as-is they're designated as community lots. Anyway, this is obviously where the city/downtown is supposed to be.

This is a little rural area, with three larger lots for farms.

This area has a bunch of small lots. The ones in the grid layout are 15x20, and the ones in the other bit are mostly 20x20 with one or two more 15x20s. So, this would be a good place to put starter houses or small-footprint multi-story houses.

The lots on the back of the central "mountain" are large and have nice views of unroutable wilderness with a lake and a waterfall, so pretty obviously meant for fancy houses. The area in the upper right has smaller lots but also with a water view, so also good for smaller but more-expensive houses. The lots in the red rectangle are kind of odd, though. They're 15x40. I suppose you could build narrow but very deep houses on them, like urban brownstones or whatever, but I would replace them with fewer but square-er lots.

Annnnnd this is the area that's mostly meant to be mid-level suburbia, I think. Larger lots laid out in a grid, tree-lined streets, blah blah. There are some larger and more isolated lots there in the bottom right as well as the upper bit along the river, though.

And that's about it! Since the world is empty, we're left with scenery, so...Let's have LOTS MOAR SCENERY!

[laurelnose]

Im going to need u to explain to me what u said in the tags of the modding post in Simpleton words cause I'm. A fucking idiot when it comes to computer shit and the arm wrestling in TW2 is genuinely the most stressful thing ive ever had to endure in a video game

Also i forgot to mention this in my last ask abt being an idiot— i love u! You're rly cool. That's all ^`^

aw! ilu too anon. 

ok first of all: if the arm wrestling is the only thing about w2 that you want to fix you don’t have to fuck about with any of the unpacking nonsense! you do have to be playing on PC. I’m using this mod to always win dice poker/arm wrestling. steps as follow:

download whichever version you want (always win only arm wrestling, always win only dice poker, always win both). the file is a zip folder and you can put it wherever you want. 

extract the contents of the zip, also to wherever you want. inside is a README.txt and a file called base_scripts.dzip. you can ignore the readme, it’s just the description of the mod from the nexus site in a text file.

find your witcher 2 folder. if you’re playing on Steam, you’re looking for something like C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\the witcher 2\CookedPC. if you’re not sure, here’s how to view your Steam installation path. if you’re on GOG it’s usually C:\GOG Games\The Witcher 2\CookedPC. if not, you can find the installation path in the GOG launcher by clicking Witcher 2, then the settings button to the right of the center top bar, then “Manage Installation > Show folder”.

there should be a base_scripts.dzip already in the CookedPC folder—copy it somewhere else for backup or rename it to something like base_scripts_original.dzip

go back to your downloaded mod folder and drag and drop the mod’s base_scripts.dzip into the Witcher 2 CookedPC folder. if it asks if you want to replace the existing base_scripts.dzip say yes (but make sure to have backed up or renamed the original first!)

ta-da! load up W2 and go dunk on some arm wrestlers.

if you want to fix a BUNCH of things about W2 it’s a little harder. 

base_scripts.dzip is basically a special kind of zip folder with a bunch of smaller script files zipped into it. so for instance, the arm wrestling mod changes only the minigame scripts, while Conversation Skills Always Succeed changes only the scene_function script. technically, those don’t conflict, except the changed files have been packed up into two different base_scripts.dzip, and you can only have one base_scripts.dzip.

some mods don’t mess with base_scripts.dzip at all. True Encumbrance Remover (sets all item weights to 0 because inventory management sucks) is another one you can just drag and drop right into CookedPC, not even any file replacement required. the way to check if you’re going to need to do some fuckery for nexus mods is on the Files tab; click “Preview file contents” and if you see a base_script.dzip in there, it’ll require some fiddling if you want to use it with other base_script.dzip mods. how to do the fiddling: 

you will need:

Gibbed RED Tools

probably a copy of W2 on GOG because Steam’s a little bitch about DRM. if you have it on Steam you can redeem a free GOG copy of W2 here using the CD key you find in the Steam launcher here: 

you can try doing this modding process with Steam files, but it’s entirely possible that it’ll throw errors for you talking about file access, and if so... switch to GOG and install Witcher 2 again. i know it’s a pain to have multiple launchers but if you’re willing to fuck around this much with mods it’s not THAT much of a pain. 

ok! step 1: getting into base_scripts.dzip with Gibbed RED tools

download Gibbed RED Tools and extract the contents. you can put the resulting unzipped folder wherever you like, just make sure you know where. 

open up the windows command prompt—open the start menu, type in “cmd”, right click the program that comes up, and hit “run as administrator”. SCARY BLACK PROGRAMMING BOX. it’s ok all we have to do is type some stuff in! hit enter after every command and be sure to include all the spaces and quotation marks.

hit enter! ok now we’re inside the Gibbed RED Tools folder. we want to tell it where the original base_scripts.dzip is, and what folder it should unpack that file into. create a new folder somewhere for the unpacked files to live and then type in the next command!

first command moves us from the default folder into the folder that contains our Gibbed RED tools. the command structure is: 

cd "path to Gibbed RED tools"

so for instance:

cd "C:\Users\laurelnose\Downloads\Gibbed RED Tools"

it should unfurl a whole long list of file names! you can navigate to the folder you told it to unpack to and see all of the little script files that make up base_scripts.dzip. now we’re cooking.

the command structure is:

Gibbed.RED.Unpack.exe "location of base_scripts.dzip" "place to unzip file to"

so for example:

Gibbed.RED.Unpack.exe "C:\GOG Games\The Witcher 2\CookedPC\base_scripts.dzip" "C:\Users\laurelnose\UnpackedBaseScript"

go back to nexus mods and pick out all the base_scripts.dzip mods you want. say, Conversation Skills and Dice Poker/Arm Wrestling. or even more than that, as many as you want! repeat these steps for EACH MOD INDIVIDUALLY:

find out which files they modified. Conversation Skills is nice because they say right in their description that they modified  game\scenes\scene_functions.ws . other modders, it’s a little tougher; Poker/Wrestling doesn’t say, so i had to poke around in the “posts” tab until i found a user saying that it modified game\minigames\dicepoker.ws and game\minigames\wristwrestling.ws 

download the mod, and extract the contents into a folder. create a new folder wherever you’d like—name it whatever, but you’re going to be making one for each mod so to keep them straight something like ModNameUnpacked might be best.

go back to command line. if you closed it before, repeat the cd command to get back into the Gibbed RED Tools folder, otherwise you can just use the unpacking command again to unzip the mod’s base_scripts.dzip into your ModNameUnpacked folder. 

open up the unpacked folder and navigate through the folder structure until you find the file they said they modified. so for Conversation Skills, find scene_functions.ws in the game\scenes folder.

for instance:

Gibbed.RED.Unpack.exe "C:\Users\laurelnose\Downloads\ConversationMod\base_scripts.dzip" "C:\Users\laurelnose\Downloads\ConversationModUnpacked"

pull up your unzipped original base_scripts.dzip from the previous section. move the modified file from the mod folder into the same place in the original base_scripts.dzip folder. so scene_functions.ws goes in game\scenes in your original base_scripts.dzip folder. let it replace/overwrite the original scene_functions.ws. 

repeat this for each mod individually. if you’re doing a lot of mods you’re going to end up with a lot of folders! we can delete them later. if by some unfortunate chance you want two mods that modify the same .ws file you’d have to actually figure out which lines each one modified and rewrite your original .ws file to include both, so... idk don’t get yourself into this situation lmao

ok, now that you’ve pulled out the modified scripts from each mod you wanted and put them into your unpacked original base_scripts folder, it is time to pack that sucker up into a regular .dzip again!

back into command line. again if you closed it before, use the cd command to get back to your Gibbed RED Tools folder, otherwise the new command we’re using is:

Gibbed.RED.Pack.exe "location to put the packed folder\base_scripts.dzip" "location of files to pack up"

this time it won’t put out a whole list of files, because it didn’t pull out any files, it packed them up all neatly. check the location you told it to put base_scripts.dzip and if it’s there you’re golden!

so for example:

Gibbed.RED.Pack.exe "C:\Users\laurelnose\base_scripts.dzip" "C:\Users\laurelnose\UnpackedBaseScript"

pull up your Witcher 2 CookedPC folder—if you haven’t already backed up or renamed your original base_scripts.dzip, do that—and move your newly-created base_scripts.dzip full of all your lovely mods into the CookedPC folder!

you can now delete all of the ModNameUnpacked folders you created. if you need to start over, just delete the modded base_scripts.dzip and either move your backup into the CookedPC folder or change the name of the original back to base_scripts.dzip and that should undo all of your changes. worst case scenario you have to uninstall and reinstall, but that shouldn’t happen if you backed up your base_scripts.dzip!

[murfeelee]

Hey, I am a huge fan of your CC but I wanted your opinion as a Sims fan. I'm currently torn between getting some expansion packs for TS3, however my partner is encouraging me to just switch to TS4 since it's newer/still being updated. I know you only do TS3 content but wanted your opinion on making the switch for sticking to what I got. My main concern is how well my computer can handle more TS3 expansion packs vs what's out for TS4. Thank you so much for the beautiful content you create!

Hi! Thanks so much for the message; I’m happy that you like my stuff! :)

I’m going to publish this, cuz it’s actually pretty important, as folks have asked my thoughts on switching over before: 

IMHO: TS3

I’ve talked about lag and TS3 before. I’ve been playing TS3 nonstop since the basegame’s release day.To date, I’ve rarely ever had problems running the game, even on my 10 year old HP Vista laptop, that only had 4GB of RAM (I used FPS Limiter to bypass the Launcher and keep the game from crashing to desktop; worked like a charm! Good info here X X). Excluding Pets and Island Paradise, I had all of the other EPs installed on that PC with no problems.

My newer laptop’s a piece of crap Win10 Dell, but it has 8GB RAM & a i5 2.5/2.7 GHz processor, and I’ve been running ALL of the EPs on medium-high graphics settings with a EFFTON of CC just fine. :) 

Note: I NEVER play in fullscreen mode. 

TS3′s got way more content than TS4, but as long as your PC’s got the RAM and the processor speed, TS3 runs well. I noticed that it lags more the higher the settings are, so it depends on the graphics card you use, in that case – I heard weirdness about TS3 not recognizing certain graphics cards, but IDK – both of my laptops have integrated chipsets.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe it’s different on desktops. :\

I’m unfortunately playing TS3 on 1.69 on the Dell, and I bloody hate being forced to use Origin and the Launcher to boot the game.But I keep Origin offline and idle in the tray the whole time – nyanyanya, EA! XPPPPPPPPPPPPP 

IMHO: TS4 (Rant Alert – naturally)

As a simmer who’s deliberately stuck to TS3 (even after all these years that TS4′s been out), my opinion’s going to be biased.    

I don’t see myself making the switch to TS4 any time soon, cuz I’m clearly not EA’s target demographic for that mess. 

I love fanciful gameplay (understatement of the year). I’m not here for realism. Yes, TS3 had to wait 7 EPs for the Supernatural EP, but during the interim we had the Spellbook, Crystal Ball, Voodoo Doll and Cauldron at the Store; the Ghost Hunter in AMB and Magician in SHT; Unicorns as Pets, and the Genie & Vampire lifestates. That was 3 years into TS3′s run. Not to mention, IIRC, the same year we got Supernatural, we also got the Showtime EP, the Seasons EP, Lunar Lakes, Sunlit Tides, Lucky Palms AND Monte Vista (2012 was the effing year). 

TS4′s 4 YEARS old, and I’m still waiting for the fantasy! Get Together, Get Famous…Get a better idea already, EA! DANG! >_< Other than the Vampire & Jungle GPs, the Spooky & Movie SPs, and the Seasons & City Living EPs, I’m not interested in any of TS4′s other releases at all. Pets was effing sad, and Get to Work had no business being an EP; having Doctors and Cops should’ve been basegame, or a free patch like the Toddlers were – wtf with all this half-baked effery and generic packs?! Adding a first-person-mode so you don’t even get to see the sim you just spent 10 frikkin hours creating in CAS – frikkin inspired, EA. >_>

Wanting the new shiny is all well and good, but EA’s gonna have to pry my fully customizable open world game with transportation and CASt and World Editor and CAW/CAP and all its derivatives from my cold dead clutches, sorry. XD

So, yeah, I don’t really have anything positive to say about TS4. Maybe if they make a Supernatural/Makin Magic EP sometime before the next decade arrives, I might take a gander. But even then that won’t be enough for me to RETIRE my TS3 game by permanently switching over. Why would I? I’m not saying TS3’s better, cuz that’s relative and subjective, but it’s certainly bigger; there’s more to do and explore, (me? give up World Adventures, ITF, and Supernatural? HA!); and I don’t like the playdough-looking Lazy Town aesthetic. 

[jdmainman123]

Oh good you guys got my report back from Las vegas. What do you want. I left you your social is in the apartment doesn't want to talk about Hawaii beach? Washington beach?

This right here man are doing that specifically pushing little girls in front of cars

It's okay you can let him look at you honey he said to her when we were walking by I DON'T KNOW I SORT OF FEEL BAD FOR GOLD SO WE TOLD HIM HIS STORY IS B******* BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO BLACK HAIR WHITE SON

It seems to be the joke around here on the water cooler I don't know that little girl will never survive yeah we need his wife and daughter dead

I can shoot blindly into a crowd after surviving Dallas in Kansas I can shoot brownie blindly into a crowd blindfolded and not think twice and not feel guilty

I think those white hair girls in Kansas cured me you know there was a lot of titty flashing and and remember the dresses order they all showed up in dresses

Would this be coached me to meet the Queen Elizabeth

Yeah cuz we've been kidnapped by Asia they've been trying to recreate the story try to get it right but my bathroom here doesn't have a mirror

Italian extra 4th all you guys are going to need to say his bathroom three different cities carried over the same over the same playbook

So I know her

Because she was here

AND TELL THEM THE PROBLEM I HAD WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER I COULDN'T SEE MYSELF IN THE MIRROR

No they had me bleeding I had it all figured out I was good to God I look at my mirror on the way into the bathroom and then I go install do what I got to do about one out and then I go back and look at my face in the mirror and scream I'm the strongest man on Earth and it squeezed out a fart and walk out of the bathroom and throw my paper towel on the floor

There it is the words they all came out to see me make