#all my screen time is currently spent coding. i even dreamt about it the other night

[phoebejaysims]

Greeting Cards / Postal Mod WIP

Prelude: A mod, you say? Well, yes. Now that I kind of know what I’m doing (as much as a noob can) I feel like it’s okay to share what I’ve been working on.

Without making this prelude too long, learning to mod has been like trying to get blood out of a stone at times. It took me three days to get a simple interaction into the game (in a project that I’ve temporarily given up on lol) so I’m surprised this current mod is working out thus far.

Main: I’ve always wanted a postal system in the sims 3. There’s a cool mod for sims 2 with a post system and another with a greeting card system. Basically, your sim buys the themed card, then you choose the inactive sim to send it to, and post it in the outdoor letter box. It’s delivered to the inactive sim in the mail.

How hard could it be to adapt that to the sims 3, right? RIGHT?

Long story short: I successfully created a greeting card object. Current interactions are: Send Card To (brings up list of sims in world to choose from) and Write Message (you write a custom message) .

See below the cut for more info.

I’m aware the two screenshots are practically the same lol. I’ll have better ones next time.

Plans and progress under the cut.

Current Progress:

When you hover over the card with the mouse cursor, a tooltip pops up with:

the sim chosen from ‘Send Card To’, 

the message written,

the sim who wrote the message (the name of this sim = the sim that used the Write Message interaction.)

Current Card Plans:

To add a ‘Pick up’ interaction as an alternative to dragging into inventory.

Add a ‘Read’ interaction. The card information will pop up in a nice lil notification, the sim will clap their hands or something, a custom buff perhaps? (custom buffs are way too advanced for me rn tbh)

To make an object that you can buy cards from.

Different types of cards? Valentines? Christmas? The different buffs would come in handy for this.

Current Postal Plans:

Letter stamps for sending greeting cards.

Parcel stamps for sending other inventory items.

A register to buy the stamps from as well as to send post.

A post box to send post, requiring the stamps purchased from the register.

Now, I have an idea of how I would implement these ideas. The question is if I’ll actually know how to do it. Thankfully, my little brother is a software developer so he’ll help me if I run into problems. :)

My plans list is not exhaustive, nor are the current plans set in stone, so I’ll update you on future plans/changes in other posts.

[bewareofchris]

033/100 | Steve is Khan, more or less | implied Stony | PG

The premise of the 100 AUs is incredibly simple.  I love this gif, and I hate Civil War, so I’m just going to keep rewriting the scene as long as I can.  The goal is 100 but lets see how far I make it.

It had started with a blip on a screen, just a little abnormality drifting close enough to the starboard side to draw attention to itself.  Tony wasn’t the man in charge (at least not the man with the rank to say he was in charge) or he might have just let sleeping dogs lie.  He wouldn’t have followed the blip, he wouldn’t have kept going once he was close enough to see what it was.

He wouldn’t have boarded the fucking ship.

He wouldn’t have defrosted the contents.  Not one, not two, not any of the sleeping men and women on board.  

Tony was a scientist first and foremost.  He was an intergalactic know it all; but no amount of him following two-steps behind the Captain reminding him that The Howling Commando (what a name for a ship) had been set adrift a few hundred years ago.  The Commando housed an assortment of genetically altered superhumans that had been used in Earth’s final wars.  

But no, he’d been outvoted by stupider people that chided him for a lack of curiosity when all he meant to say was that they all knew how this was going to end.  Best case scenario they were ordered to drag the remaining former soldiers back to The Council to be tried, convicted and destroyed--

Or.

Well, honestly, not even Tony for all his knowledge could have predicted what had happened.  He couldn’t dreamt up Steve Rogers in his wildest dreams.  The man had a certain kind of magnetism to him; an air of effortlessness.  He was out of date but still current, waiting patiently while the crew took turns volunteering to bring the prisoners something to eat.

Compared to the animals he was sharing space with, Steve Rogers was a god.

Steve said, “are you really going to let them kill us?”

Tony liked to rewatch the news footage from Earth’s final war.  He liked to look at the numbers, he liked to remind himself that the planet had been smothered by warfare, that it had been forced to reset, that the ice had come and it had killed everything that hadn’t made it on the ships out of there.  

Humans were almost entirely extinct.

But here was this man with his innocent face, invoking a sense of unfairness about his inevitable fate.  

And here was Tony Stark saying, “it’s out of my hands.”

But Steve Rogers, oh-Steve-Rogers was building a network of allies with his pretty blue eyes and his boyish charm.  He worked his way through the crew, appealing to their sentiment, reminding them that the super soldiers had been starving boys before they were experiment on.  He reminded them one after another, the first, most lasting atrocity was the one that was done to them.

Someone left a door open, someone left a code on a screen, someone built an escape route and Steve Rogers and all the men under his protection walked right out.

--

Six years later, Tony was present at the council meeting, watching Steve Rogers stare back at the leaders of the free galaxy, watched him eye them with contempt with his shoulders as squared as they could get.  

The Council was five-sevenths through destroying the last of Earth’s Mightiest Killers, with only Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes left to meet their end.  The trial had become a shit show, it had spread like an infection, it had filled up every dive bar and family living room.  It had become water-cooler talk, until even the men that felt it was moral and just to put the animals down were saying things like:

“Well, you know the plucked those boys right off the streets.  You know they stole them from their parents.  They didn’t ask to be made what they are--it’s a shame.  Those last two, they’ve known each other since they were babies.”

And,

“They were tortured.  They were forced.”

“They were a product of the failed planet they came from.  They shouldn’t be destroyed, they should be rehabilitated.”

And then there was the court of hushed voices and hunched-forward press officers, listening as hard as possible to the translating device in their ears.  The High Judge of the Council was mumbling moral questions asking, “you must understand, given your crimes, you must understand that you cannot be allowed to live in our time.”

“I don’t,” Steve Rogers said.  “What can you know of the war?  Of what choices I made and why I made them?  How can you judge me when you cannot imagine what my planet was like before its death?  How can you call yourself peaceful when you have murdered my family?”

“Our judgment has been made!” 

“You do not belong here.”

Steve Rogers sighed, frowned--he turned just enough to see Tony (and how?  How did he know that Tony was there, out of all the beings in the courtroom now?)  Just for a second, as fast as the blink of an eye, his lips quirked upward.  “I’m sorry you feel that way,” he said.

(That was just the beginning, the start of the chaos, the last second of lasting peace in all the galaxy.  Because a hotshot shit head of a captain had followed a blip, and the advice of stupid men, and all together they’d defrosted a war criminal that understood the methods and the cost and the satisfaction of warfare better than all the creatures that spent their time talking about something they had never experienced.)

Steve turned back around to look at the council, “You really should have left us alone.”

Then the explosions started.

[Other AUs here]

[fayeburnsus]

Exclusive interview: Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams says she’s not ruling out a return to the law

‘Legally Brunette’ Rosie shares insights into her very glam life

Image credit: Instagram (@rosieawilliams)

Since leaving the Love Island villa, Rosie Williams has been rubbing shoulders with reality TV’s finest, making club appearances and has even done an interview with Piers Morgan. It’s a long way from her old life before she shot to stardom in the hit reality TV show.

Williams trained with Manchester law firm Just Costs Solicitors and was only three months qualified before she entered the Spanish villa in June — a decision fuelled by her search for romance.

Indeed, studying law gave her little time to find love. She didn’t have much luck either; having been dumped by the man she was seeing only a few months prior to joining the show. So when the chance to go on Love Island came about she grabbed it — strutting into the villa in the first week of the fourth series.

Growing up, law was “embedded” in Williams’ family. Both her parents studied law at university and her aunt is a barrister and uncle a solicitor-advocate. They were naturally supportive of her decision to study law and Williams went on to complete the first two years of her undergraduate degree at Swansea University and spent her final year at the University of South Wales. She then started the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) before switching to the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at The University of Law in Chester.

Having completed a training contract, why then did she decide to put her fledgling career on hold? Speaking exclusively to Legal Cheek, she explains:

“I was putting everything into my job to the point where my salary was not worth the hours I was working. My focus on cases meant that my social life dwindled and I was just not reaping the rewards. It’s a bit of a shame that what I worked towards my entire life and dreamt about didn’t match up with the reality.”

But Williams isn’t ruling out a possible return to the law. “My heart’s still in it — it was a lifelong ambition I harboured since I was 12-years-old. I’m still very much a legal eagle,” she adds. Williams is hoping to meld her legal knowledge with her newfound fame. Her appearance on Love Island might not be the last we see on our screens. The Welsh-born lawyer tells us she’s currently in talks to appear on a new legal TV show later this year. Could Rosie be the new Rinder? “I hope so. I love Rinder, I think he’s great,” says Williams, who has also been approached by a media law firm about a possible job since her departure.

When she was lounging around in her bikini soaking up sun rays in the villa, Williams says she did miss the day job and “getting dolled up” each morning to go to work — more than she thought she would. Yet she conspicuously avoided talking about her life as a lawyer — unlike the medic contestant Alex, who frequently references his work as a doctor. Why did we not hear more from ‘Rosie the lawyer’ in the villa? “I was very careful about what I discussed in the villa. Solicitors’ regulations meant that I had a code of conduct and ethics to adhere to and client confidentiality meant I couldn’t discuss my caseload,” she explains.

Viewers did, however, get to see some of Rosie’s advocacy skills when she confronted “sneaky” Adam Collard, who she was coupled up with, for flirting with fellow Islander Megan Barton-Hanson.

The fiery showdown was entirely “off-the-cuff”, contrary to members of the public thinking it was “staged” or that she had written down and rehearsed what she planned to say. “You can’t plan an argument,” says Williams, likening the experience to the courtroom where “the judge or your opponent will throw something up” and it’s down to you to bounce back.

A post shared by Rosie Anna Williams (@rosieawilliams) on Jul 27, 2017 at 3:11pm PDT

Had the offer to appear on Love Island not come through, the 26-year-old thinks she’d still be in her job. “I loved my job, but I’ve never been the girl to sit around and I’m always looking for something more,” she says. Williams has plans to complete her higher rights of audience and train as a solicitor-advocate, following in her uncle’s footsteps. She’ll also be taking on activities to maintain her practising certificate.

Since exiting the villa, Williams has managed to find the time to visit her former colleagues at Just Costs. They didn’t know that she was entering the villa, so seeing her on TV was a bit of a “shock” to them. However, they were “very supportive” when she saw them and admitted they knew “she was never made to sit behind a desk”.

The 2018 Firms Most List

Now having amassed over 650,000 followers on Instagram, Williams is hoping to use this platform to “make a difference” and already has a list of charities she wants to work with.

Her influence doesn’t stop there. Williams, who refers to herself as “Legally Brunette” in several of her Instagram posts, says she’s received messages from young women in law school seeking her advice. They’re keen to hear from someone who does not fit the average solicitor-mould.

That’s something this self-confessed party girl prides herself on. Williams counts Legally Blonde and TV series Ally McBeal as two of her favourite legal dramas. “I was drawn to the glamour. I loved their outfits,” she says. For likeminded law students Williams offers some practical advice:

“Never change yourself to fit a stereotype. We all sit the same vocational exams and it’s practically the same route for everyone looking to become a solicitor. So why should I be judged if I like to wear a pretty dress and post bikini photos on Instagram. I’ve had to work a lot harder to be taken seriously in my job but if I can make it as I am, there’s no reason why others can’t either.”

With newfound fame comes dangers. It has been widely reported that Williams received a series of threatening messages from an online troll. Never one to back down, Williams says she will be using her legal knowledge to make a stand and show this behaviour is not acceptable.

Commenting on her interview with ITV Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan where Williams was forced to justify her decision to appear on the show, she says:

“I think Piers was under the impression that the job is very well paid and glamorous across the board. He mustn’t read a lot about what’s going on and there is a lot that people outside the profession don’t see. I think his opinion was ill-informed and don’t think he can really have one unless he’s been in my shoes.”

Since then, research by a leading economics consultancy has been released that shows appearing on Love Island boosts your lifetime earnings more than an Oxbridge degree, further vindicating Williams’ decision to go on the show.

In that Piers Morgan interview, the junior lawyer described working 18-hour days getting sleepless nights. So what advice can she give others experiencing the same? “Make sure you’re happy otherwise there’s no point staying in your job. But if you want more out of your job — go and get it. A law degree opens up many paths and it’s not only about making it as a lawyer.”

Williams was evicted after two weeks in the villa, but with the final airing on Monday, she’ll be watching to support fellow housemates, Jack and Dany, the “down to earth” duo she’s hoping will win.

The post Exclusive interview: Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams says she’s not ruling out a return to the law appeared first on Legal Cheek.

from Legal News And Updates https://www.legalcheek.com/2018/07/exclusive-interview-love-island-solicitor-rosie-williams-says-shes-not-ruling-out-a-return-to-the-law/

[davidchanus]

Exclusive interview: Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams says she’s not ruling out a return to the law

‘Legally Brunette’ Rosie shares insights into her very glam life

Image credit: Instagram (@rosieawilliams)

Since leaving the Love Island villa, Rosie Williams has been rubbing shoulders with reality TV’s finest, making club appearances and has even done an interview with Piers Morgan. It’s a long way from her old life before she shot to stardom in the hit reality TV show.

Williams trained with Manchester law firm Just Costs Solicitors and was only three months qualified before she entered the Spanish villa in June — a decision fuelled by her search for romance.

Indeed, studying law gave her little time to find love. She didn’t have much luck either; having been dumped by the man she was seeing only a few months prior to joining the show. So when the chance to go on Love Island came about she grabbed it — strutting into the villa in the first week of the fourth series.

Growing up, law was “embedded” in Williams’ family. Both her parents studied law at university and her aunt is a barrister and uncle a solicitor-advocate. They were naturally supportive of her decision to study law and Williams went on to complete the first two years of her undergraduate degree at Swansea University and spent her final year at the University of South Wales. She then started the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) before switching to the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at The University of Law in Chester.

Having completed a training contract, why then did she decide to put her fledgling career on hold? Speaking exclusively to Legal Cheek, she explains:

“I was putting everything into my job to the point where my salary was not worth the hours I was working. My focus on cases meant that my social life dwindled and I was just not reaping the rewards. It’s a bit of a shame that what I worked towards my entire life and dreamt about didn’t match up with the reality.”

But Williams isn’t ruling out a possible return to the law. “My heart’s still in it — it was a lifelong ambition I harboured since I was 12-years-old. I’m still very much a legal eagle,” she adds. Williams is hoping to meld her legal knowledge with her newfound fame. Her appearance on Love Island might not be the last we see on our screens. The Welsh-born lawyer tells us she’s currently in talks to appear on a new legal TV show later this year. Could Rosie be the new Rinder? “I hope so. I love Rinder, I think he’s great,” says Williams, who has also been approached by a media law firm about a possible job since her departure.

When she was lounging around in her bikini soaking up sun rays in the villa, Williams says she did miss the day job and “getting dolled up” each morning to go to work — more than she thought she would. Yet she conspicuously avoided talking about her life as a lawyer — unlike the medic contestant Alex, who frequently references his work as a doctor. Why did we not hear more from ‘Rosie the lawyer’ in the villa? “I was very careful about what I discussed in the villa. Solicitors’ regulations meant that I had a code of conduct and ethics to adhere to and client confidentiality meant I couldn’t discuss my caseload,” she explains.

Viewers did, however, get to see some of Rosie’s advocacy skills when she confronted “sneaky” Adam Collard, who she was coupled up with, for flirting with fellow Islander Megan Barton-Hanson.

The fiery showdown was entirely “off-the-cuff”, contrary to members of the public thinking it was “staged” or that she had written down and rehearsed what she planned to say. “You can’t plan an argument,” says Williams, likening the experience to the courtroom where “the judge or your opponent will throw something up” and it’s down to you to bounce back.

A post shared by Rosie Anna Williams (@rosieawilliams) on Jul 27, 2017 at 3:11pm PDT

Had the offer to appear on Love Island not come through, the 26-year-old thinks she’d still be in her job. “I loved my job, but I’ve never been the girl to sit around and I’m always looking for something more,” she says. Williams has plans to complete her higher rights of audience and train as a solicitor-advocate, following in her uncle’s footsteps. She’ll also be taking on activities to maintain her practising certificate.

Since exiting the villa, Williams has managed to find the time to visit her former colleagues at Just Costs. They didn’t know that she was entering the villa, so seeing her on TV was a bit of a “shock” to them. However, they were “very supportive” when she saw them and admitted they knew “she was never made to sit behind a desk”.

The 2018 Firms Most List

Now having amassed over 650,000 followers on Instagram, Williams is hoping to use this platform to “make a difference” and already has a list of charities she wants to work with.

Her influence doesn’t stop there. Williams, who refers to herself as “Legally Brunette” in several of her Instagram posts, says she’s received messages from young women in law school seeking her advice. They’re keen to hear from someone who does not fit the average solicitor-mould.

That’s something this self-confessed party girl prides herself on. Williams counts Legally Blonde and TV series Ally McBeal as two of her favourite legal dramas. “I was drawn to the glamour. I loved their outfits,” she says. For likeminded law students Williams offers some practical advice:

“Never change yourself to fit a stereotype. We all sit the same vocational exams and it’s practically the same route for everyone looking to become a solicitor. So why should I be judged if I like to wear a pretty dress and post bikini photos on Instagram. I’ve had to work a lot harder to be taken seriously in my job but if I can make it as I am, there’s no reason why others can’t either.”

With newfound fame comes dangers. It has been widely reported that Williams received a series of threatening messages from an online troll. Never one to back down, Williams says she will be using her legal knowledge to make a stand and show this behaviour is not acceptable.

Commenting on her interview with ITV Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan where Williams was forced to justify her decision to appear on the show, she says:

“I think Piers was under the impression that the job is very well paid and glamorous across the board. He mustn’t read a lot about what’s going on and there is a lot that people outside the profession don’t see. I think his opinion was ill-informed and don’t think he can really have one unless he’s been in my shoes.”

Since then, research by a leading economics consultancy has been released that shows appearing on Love Island boosts your lifetime earnings more than an Oxbridge degree, further vindicating Williams’ decision to go on the show.

In that Piers Morgan interview, the junior lawyer described working 18-hour days getting sleepless nights. So what advice can she give others experiencing the same? “Make sure you’re happy otherwise there’s no point staying in your job. But if you want more out of your job — go and get it. A law degree opens up many paths and it’s not only about making it as a lawyer.”

Williams was evicted after two weeks in the villa, but with the final airing on Monday, she’ll be watching to support fellow housemates, Jack and Dany, the “down to earth” duo she’s hoping will win.

The post Exclusive interview: Love Island solicitor Rosie Williams says she’s not ruling out a return to the law appeared first on Legal Cheek.

from Legal News https://www.legalcheek.com/2018/07/exclusive-interview-love-island-solicitor-rosie-williams-says-shes-not-ruling-out-a-return-to-the-law/