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nesurii · 1 year
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ranai, ej, sunna & fadia.
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cwispydev · 2 years
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16/04/2022 4:17 (edited 18/04/2022 17:38)
Merry Christmas, happy New Year, hope you enjoyed your Valentine's Day! All in all, a lot has happened but you know what hasn't happened? Any progress with my little Godot game.
Instead of really making progress with anything, I ended up fucking around with my very good friend and playing a lot of video games. A lot of the games that really caught my eye (especially recently) were text-based games.
Examples would be Corruption of Champions, Trials in Tainted Space and Degrees of Lewdity. They'd be my top three favourite. In fact, I loved them so much that I wanted to turn my dream of making a dating sim/otome game into something like that.
Problem is (because, of course, there's always a big fat problem) all of those kind of games are very code heavy and story heavy.
Story heavy is fine seeing as, like I've stated before, I'm a writer. No, the problem is that I'm not at all a coder.
I've coded in high school a little bit for my terny robotics club team but, as most nerds do, I graduated high school and erased all of my memories of that time.
I remember some things like variables, how if statements work, things like that. However, if you sat me in front of a computer, put a gun to my head, and asked me to code, I'd stick that gun into my mouth and laugh.
When I told my very good friend this predicament, he came up with a solution. He said it was probably a good idea to work towards big project with little projects. It would help me learn the skills I'd need to complete my ultimate dream game and it'd help me practice coding a little bit. So, that's what I decided to do.
I settled on using Twine/Sugarcube/JavaScript entirely on my own, no input from my friend at all. Maybe the fact that Degrees of Lewdity was coded using Twine/Sugarcube/JavaScript also helped a little.
Then, I decided to join a game jam with a little text-based choose-your-own-adventure game to kind of jump into the deep and see if I survive. This one is entirely my very good friend's idea and, honestly, I don't know if it's a great one. I don't even know anything about the game jam, just that it's over in 11 days (9 I think as I edit this post) and that it's only requirement is to make the game with JavaScript.
Together, we decided on a cute little dating sim/otome game concept where the character has just moved into a new town and, because they're so extremely busy and have had bad luck with romance and finding love, they join a little speed dating event in hopes of finding a connection with someone in this unfamiliar city.
I came up with the title Love on the Run because you're too busy to stop and find love so you need to have Love on the Run? Get it? Ha, I hope so because I'd be really embarassed if you didn't.
So, entirely on my own, I learnt how to make bubbles, buttons, drop downs. Also learnt how to fade text in and out and how to change text color by searching up Reddit posts and copying code. My friend jumped in later on to check on my code and streamline it as well as kind of pull it apart and explain it to me.
He doesn't want me to put any code I don't entirely understand in the game and I think that's pretty understandable.
Then, he continudd on to teach me how to assign variables and how to use functions, all the bread and butter of how to code with JavaScript.
So far, we've accomplished:
making half of a character creator with bubbles and drop downs
What I want to accomplish by tomorrow:
finishing the character creator part
finding a way to assign the starting stats of the player based on the background that they choose their character to have
a little quiz to see what type of person the player likes and see if any of the characters in the game suits their taste best
write a little bit more of the story so that there's actual content other than just dumb questions
Thanks for reading and, hopefully, by the time I write my next post, Ill have good news for you guys (me editing this post in the future: well, there's good news and bad news...)
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squeeneyart · 4 years
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Hi! I'm thinking abt listening to tma and if you're ok could I possibly ask some questions? - is it gay? how gay? any wlw? how many other queer chars? - what's it... Abt? (I've seen some stuff but it's Confusing) - genre? if it's horror how scary is it? - lots of/any common triggers? - are there explicitly chars of color and disabled chars? - how good is it? like in general? if u answer any of these tyssssm 💞💞💞💞💞
Gonna tackle these a bit out of order so if I miss something then I apologize!So, TMA is a british horror podcast (fits most neatly into the realm of cosmic horror). Horror is unfortunately very subjective, and as TMA is an anthology-style podcast, it hits a lot of different types of horror! Got something spooky for just about everyone. Later on in the podcast they did start adding content warnings in the episode descriptions, but someone did put a list together for the whole series!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KLuJa1AaT8m5rzBOvvtzeEWT9piQ715bss4hkbLBXmA/edit
I can say right off the bat that the first season has lots of stuff about worms and skin burrowing. I can also say that the writers have explicitly said they will not use sexual violence or animal abuse as a part of their horror, and any ordinary animal involved in a story will survive. They are also very much against using mental illness as horror fodder and stick to that pretty well as far as I can remember. For the most part they handle the concept of trauma very well, and are very positive towards mental health care. If an episode feels too intense or just too much, you can also always look at the wiki summaries or read the transcripts!TMA is about Jonathan Sims, the new head archivist of the Magnus Institute, who begins to record statements of people who have come into contact with supernatural things. As it is a horror, people can die, and this includes main characters! Cosmic horror as a genre is especially existential, and there is a lot of metaphor about living in systems/a universe that is ultimately out to hurt you. As for the other parts of this, I can say that yes, there are canon mlm/wlw characters and relationships among the main cast, along with mentions here and there in a variety of statements (one of the episodes involves a trans person and their dealings in the film industry, for example). There is a character later on that is disabled, and it is presented as positive for the person, but the circumstances are complicated without getting into spoiler territory. The writers have mentioned this particular situation as one where they explicitly wanted it to be seen as a positive thing. Hopefully that’s helpful. There is at least one main character in later seasons that is definitely not white based on name, but it is not something that comes up about the character herself. The only other thing I’ll say re: race is that there is one side Chinese character that is mentioned in two episodes that is related to body horror/flesh-type stuff, one of which involves a closed kebab restaurant with cannibalism content. Probably better to bring it up just in case, but I don’t know if this is close enough to US stereotypes about Chinese food places to be Bad. Also, I’m white! So keep that in mind and use your own discretion for that one. (The writers are also white and I believe straight dudes, so like, while I love their writing sensibilities. Support queer/poc creators.) (EDIT: While the character herself is not canonically queer, the character I mentioned above, Basira Hussain, is voiced by Frank Voss, @AvoidedDrowning, who goes by they/them pronouns.)Overall, I enjoy it quite a lot! But at the end of the day, it is a cosmic horror anthology podcast that has never used any concept of representation as a way to advertise itself. I personally like how the queer stuff is handled, but I don’t think it’s the only thing you should listen for if that’s why you’re asking me, a person who almost exclusively draws queer art for the magnus archives. The horror is fun, the characters are allowed to be flawed and complex and downright messy, and the mysteries and connections kept me hooked. (ALSO I’ve only listened to the whole thing once! So there are things I may have forgotten.)Hope this helps!
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littlemissnellie · 4 years
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i’m so unbelievably late to the party with this but i’m going to blame that on being ill and dumb revision. but i’m past all that now and i still wanted to do this because it’s not often that i get tagged in fun things like this, so i like to make the most out of it when i do. and i feel like it’s still early enough in the year for it to be acceptable, so here we go!
first, i got tagged by the ever-wonderful @smallcowplant to share my simblr goals for 2020. thank you, sam! i thought this was such a fun little thing and hopefully if i actually set myself these goals, i’ll be motivated to stick to them and work on productive things instead of just floating around and procrastinating. so, i’m not going to be super ambitious because lord knows i’m not capable of much when it comes to simblr, but i’m going to set myself three goels; i feel like three is attainable. so my goals for this year are:
finish the townie makeovers that i started on a whim
start posting my next story
keep spreading kindness and giving encouragements to my favourite blogs
and then i was lucky enough to be tagged in a different post, this time by the lovely @justkeeponsimming ! i mean, she tagged my main blog, @eleanorjtumbles , because i made the incredibly dumb smart decision to make my simblr a side blog so all my notifications are for that blog, but i wanted to do it nonetheless, so here we are on my sims blog! she tagged me to do the simblr 2020 wish list tag thing and again, i thought it was too fun to pass up on, so i thought that i’d squash it into this post so that i’m not awkwardly late twice. thank you so much for the tag, rae! it’s nice to know that you notice my username in all your notifications :)
rules: this tag is simple and is only of course for simmers! another full year of content is sure to hit the sims 4 and I wonder what everyone wants from the sims team and ea this year? especially since all of the usual packs are out of the way…I did this tag a few years ago and it sort of caught on so I’m happy to try it again! the rules are simple! just say what you’d like to see for the sims 4!
free update: i think it’s a bit of a long shot, but maybe pre-teens? i mean, they did it with toddlers, but i think there was more of a need for that with how bland they made babies. i just think that there’s a really big jump from children to teens, which is a bit awkward for storytellers. they go from looking like nine to looking seventeen so personally i’d love an in-between stage with some middle school drama and awkward phases.
stuff pack: i know this is probably pretty niche but i think that a retro pack could be quite fun. maybe sort of like that arcade pack option from the first community stuff pack idea vote. i just feel like big arcade machines, a little handheld gameboy/ds thing and chopper bikes (especially now that we have bikes from discover university) could be so fun in game. even just little things like kids being able to make friendship bracelets or play with walkie talkies too. plus i feel like it could have some pretty cool build/buy and cas items. but that might just be me lol.
game pack: i really want more activities. mainly for children and teens, but elders too! i know we're getting knitting but what about like cross-stitching or pottery or doing jigsaw puzzles or reading the newspaper and doing the crosswords? and i want more things for kids and teens to do. i want more after school clubs and skills and activities just for them. i want to be able to send them to dance class, or a sports club like football or baseball or something. i want them to be cheerleaders, or join the school choir, or the school newspaper or be a part of the student council. and what about skateboarding? that could be so fun. and more instruments too, like a drum kit or an electric guitar. i just feel like they could do so much more for the kids and teens and parenthood was such a good start but i want moooooore. 
expansion pack:  i'd really like to see a vacation-themed pack. i know there's selvadorada and granite falls, but i want a proper resort with a big hotel and scheduled activities and an all-day all-inclusive buffet. island living gave us a beach destination so i don't really know what the setting would be because i always pictured it as a tropical resort, but i think it could still be a really fun idea. maybe with all the talk of the snow-themed activities in the latest poll they could make it into a type of ski chalet? and the pack could have skiing and snowboarding and other fun winter sports type things and a nice fancy mountain resort to stay at. but idk, i just sort of want a pack to give more options and activities for vacations. like being able to book them in advance and then look forward to them. and being able to buy cute souvenirs or try foods that you can only get at that destination. oooh and maybe get special honeymoon or family vacation features, like unique activities to do or something? i feel like that could be fun, right? 
the sims 5? i don't think we'll be getting it this year and tbh i'm not really interested in getting it. i'm pretty content with the sims 4 and i feel like they could just keep expanding on this for now. i don't think they need to be starting from scratch again and putting out the bare bones of a game, i'd rather just stick with what we've got, thank you very much.
okay, that took way longer than anticipated but idk why because i should have known that i’d ramble my ass off. but that was a lot of fun to do, so thank you again for the tags! if i hadn’t taken so long to do this then i’d probably tag a few people but i feel like that’s just a bit lame now. if you fancy sharing your thoughts on this stuff though then please tag me because i’d love to read what you have to say about your goals or wish lists for the year! anyway, i think that’s all for now. i’ll be back with some more townie makeovers soon! and if you’ve made it this far into the post, i admire your perseverence and i love you.
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novapark · 5 years
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Thea’s BC   - Starting August 19th 
Now to the reasons why I remade Kokomo even though probably most of my old friends could see this coming. I’m going to attempt another bachelorette challenge. I have a mixed history on these things so I’m not sure if anyone would be interested in joining. My last one failed due to stuff in my personal life going off the rails but I’ve completed several of them in the past.  Also if it’s any comfort,  as Thea is my main sim it’s pretty likely whomever she pairs up with will be in lots of stuff (ala Francis and Cherry) even if my Nova Park revival project goes nowhere.
I don’t really rp but if you do and win and want to use her in your story/rp save my only request is that you play her like her traits would dictate. In turn your sim will show up in my story attempts and yager/nova gameplay saves. Also note I have an annoying chronic pain illness and cptsd and sometimes disappear to manage those things. I do plan on being back for good now though and hopefully I can stick to that. I missed this place and you peoples. 
So as for the challenge, it’ll probably be run like her best friend Kelsey’s with a small difference- There will be one challenge a sim week but it will just give the other sims a chance to win some alone time with her.  My BC’s are not like normal ones. Please keep that in mind, it’s mostly based on relationship and social interaction for eliminations. There is no immunity.  
For now I’m opening things at five contestants: 
1.  Mathias Fire  @littlefrenchsims
2. Marla Austyn @iselalocke 
3. Ian Cade @indecisivepixels
4. Fletcher Townsend @gaiahypothesims
5.Arabella Moon @jakeobsims
As to what kind of sims I’m looking for, well just read her character sheet HERE for some direction and here’s some helpful things of note -
- Thea is VERY sorta tall. Taller than your average sim because her dad is kinda tall and her mom has legs for days. 
- CC and sliders welcome, I made a new folder for this so it won’t hurt my other gameplay saves to add the extra CAS stuff. 
- As you will read on her profile she is very tempermental and easily upsets other sims so I kind of expect your sim to either really like her or really hate her. Neither of us should feel bad whatever the outcome. 
- My only RULE is that if you’ve had a sim marry into the Yager family that you let others get first dibs. So I’m sorry @msmidnightblonde (think she’s on hiatus anyway) and @ninjaofthepurplethings, I love you guys but as you know it’s my main family so they’re most likely to get attention so I thought in the interest of fairness I’d make this a rule this time. Saves you guys from feeling awkward about asking. 
- Thea is pan so I’m accepting all gender identities. 
- You can reserve a spot  by opening a chat with me or responding here in the comments. 
- Please have contestants submitted to me by August 18th.  Thanks! 
Tag is: thearybc
Anyway let me know if you have any questions and thanks if anyone decides to join. :)
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archer3-13 · 5 years
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Fire Emblem Three Houses Direct: Persona Trotter and the Mystery of the Treehouses
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so we finally have some more info about this damn game and...
overall its looking fairly solid to me. i have some personal quibbles but most of them fall into the annoyance category and not even the passionately angry annoyances but the annoyances that ill still enjoy if their done well like some kind of fucking moron.
anyways, time to get into my more specific thoughts on treehouses, throw in cute joke about how its proof if proof be needed that hogwarts can in fact work without a slytherin the gits, and lets get this show on the road!!!
1. art style and direction: the most immediate thing that sticks out to me, and a strong contender for best artstyle within the fire emblem series, treehouses nicely combines the stronger elements of modern fire emblem artstyles and classic fire emblem artstyles into one and it really benefits from this approach, well still bringing its own unique aspects to the table. to put it more simply, it doesnt look as archaic as some classic fire emblem styles can be, and it also doesnt look as plasticy and cheap as some modern fire emblem styles can be, it strikes the right balance is me point. hell even the splattering of anime highschool outfit tropes dont bother me that much because of the art style and design, thats how strong i feel it is within this trailer alone. with two notable exceptions of course, namely the not tiki lady and the female avatar (in my opinion anyways)
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starting with the more forgivable one in my opinion, not tiki helps distinguish herself from tiki by going for extra long kinda pigtails and weird multicoloured braids, well sporting a fashionable rope bondage shirt. well this particularly irked me when i first saw it im digging it a bit more now that its sat for a bit but it still feels stupid, and i hope that in the final game it works better. as for the female avatar...
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it seems shes decided to strut her stuff in a sexy school teacher outfit version of the male avatars outfit, though on further inspection she is at least wearing shorts as opposed to a skirt and thoroughly fucked leggings. this one really bugs me, and i really hope theres other costumes for them to wear or at least different body types that might help make the outfit look less stupid. just, blegh. still the above two dont change my overall praise for the artstyle in this game as we’ve seen so far.
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I mean look at that, that is clearly a schools vice principle or an English prof and yet im really digging it. hell id love form him to be recruitable or somethin... cause i would romance the shit out of him. so long as i liked his personality anyways.
2. flexibility and innovation: The other biggest thing that stuck out to me was that IS really do seem like they want to take a spin at actually innovating the wheel here and if it proves to be successful then im all up for it being the direction to take things if only for a while anyways. to try and not ramble one here, treehouses seems set to offer the most unrelenting amount of variety and flexibility in how we are allowed to build units in the series, because now you can chose atleast some of the weapons and even mov types a unit gets to wield.
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not only is this infinitely more flexible then reclassing, though presumably there will be limitations on what you can pair with what but if not booyeah, but it offers a lot more replayabilty through unit builds. also it seems fighting is the new actual weapon type which presumably allows a unit to wield claws as seen later in the trailer or other small weapons. but more importantly, it means we can now punch enemies to death
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im going to guess that if daggers appear they’re going to be considered a ‘fighting’ weapon but im quite interested in seeing how that interacts with the gameplay. but yeah this promises a lot of versatility which will hopefully work well with the multiple different promotion options that the game also offers (atleast for the royal villagers of the game)
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still dont know much about formations unfortunately, but it does seem like you can use artes or atleast special moves with them. also, highly suspect that turnwheel mechanics are indeed coming back. dont know why though, so it could be just a hunch
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3. a persona dating sim: i actually kinda mean this as a compliment, though otherwise im gonna keep this short and it does come with cavets. ill be honest here, the support system was always the least interesting part of fire emblem to me, and especially its heavy emphasis in fates and awakening in particular. controversial opinion incoming.
fates and awakening have often been accused of being dating sims in trench coats by people who don’t like them and i feel thats a little unfair to dating sims. the truth of the matter is that awakening and fates are really fucking bad as dating sims. if they were to be sold as dating sims, they would be a disgrace to dating sims and that is a really fuckin low bar to clear.
treehouses on the other hand seems to be cribbing from persona and actual dating sims in this regard, atleast from what i can tell and am being led on to believe, and i feel that overall thats for the best. although, that does come with the cavet... well the avatar is technically a teacher and even if they are closer in age to the sutdents under their care its still pretty creepy and weird to have a teacher date their students (there is a certain power disparity there). it might just be me, but still just... nnnghggh > <
4. da plot: to early for me to say anything definitive, but in general im intrigued as to where they plan to go with the story. seems like the perfect setup for a degree of moral complexity and ambiguity especially with the line noting that the students often go and ‘put down rebellions’. also we do indeed gotta pick a house though thankfully it so far seems to all be contained in one game.
5. overall mood: despite my personal skepticism i am quite intrigued and even a little excited for this one. if theres one line that definitely speaks of my thoughts on the game so far though it would be that “fire emblem treehouses seems to be making a genuine effort to innovate the series” so overall good showing so far guys!
also the official name does indeed seem to be three houses so it is no going to be called treehouses by me for the rest of time
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simmyshuno · 6 years
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I’ll be quite honest. I’m terrible at being in communities.
This is a huge TLDR/personal post and seriously, you can ignore. That’s not some manipulation tactic. It’s here for people who want to know genuinely why I keep coming/going the last two years and where my inconsistency is coming from, as well as why I run headfirst into the community and then just disappear without warning.
Sims posts will follow. This is just something I felt I needed to talk about. In short: yes I’m fine. Yes I’m handling things well. No I don’t need crisis care. I’m actually doing well considering. Sims has always been my go-to comfort. I didn’t know about the community until I met @invadersim many moons ago on LiveJournal, and Tumblr was in it’s infancy. As well as the things mentioned under the cut, I also feel like I’ve withdrawn from social media a lot since I turned 30 (I’m 31 now). I just stopped needing to belong and sort of settled in where I was at. Like I said, Sims have been my comfort. Sometimes I sit on Facetime with another IRL friend who also Sims and we just chat like one would on Skype only with our games running and Facetime going on our iPads. It’s fun. She discovered my game is utter chaos incarnate while she micromanages everything. She likes hearing me talk about my builds. I like hearing about the random TV show characters in her game that she tosses in (like the shenanigans her Dean Winchester Sim gets up to). Sims, to me, is ‘home’. The place you return to on holidays when you’ve been away to school or the warm cup of tea waiting for you during a cold, snowy day. Sims is my home away from home - when other games have frustrated me, or when my mental health is doing poorly and I either cannot focus on anything or I’m too depressed or anxious to do much at all. Which, leads into the TLDR portion.
So my last time posting was August I believe. I had just installed TS4 for the first time and was leery. I’ll say this now: I fucking love TS4 and probably won’t go back to fix my TS3 game ever to play it. It became my new go-to comfort and I’m loving that I am still learning things about TS4 that I didn’t already know. With TS3, I knew so much about the game that it started to become boring. I was always adding mods and CC and then just doing the same old boring shit in my games.
Right now I don’t have “Cats and Dogs” but I have everything else, so it’s forcing me to play the rest of the game without the addition of pets. It’s nice. I also don’t use much CC and I have only one core mod in my game (I don’t even use MC right now). It’s just nice playing a completely vanilla game. I can think of a dozen things I want to recolor (and thanks to @blindingechoes teaching me now, I likely will sometime early 2018) but otherwise I’m enjoying things again: enjoying building. Enjoying the gameplay. Enjoying how smoothly things run. But that’s not really why I’m posting. I’ve had my inbox filled with worried messages and I want to address things for those who don’t have me on Facebook already.
Yes I’ve been dealing with a malignant narcissist and yes this person was once a close friend, and yes I knew they truly had diagnosed sociopath behaviors but I also knew them for so long that I had the totally naive thought of it could never be me. The thing with abuse is, the second you think that? It’s likely already too late. I should’ve seen things coming and I didn’t until it was too much at once and I decided to cut this person out (their version of the story is that they cut me out first which is not true, and I have ‘receipts’ to prove this).
This person did truly heinous things to me between the end of January 2017 until October 2017, when things finally stopped. I won’t get into major detail (though this post is marked so anyone browsing in safe mode won’t get to see it, I feel a lot of people following me are slightly younger and I don’t feel anyone really needs to know details) but some of the things done to me over nine months were: having my personal info (name, address, phone number, mother’s name - who is sick (she’s had many strokes and lives with me so I can take care of her) - as well as her personal number posted (ie, doxxing) online to a website which is notorious for some crimes in the past (members who met up and literally plotted to kill their families and succeeded). It’s home to a lot of skeevy, disgusting people and this person literally outed my personal information to thousands of people who are potentially dangerous.
From that moment on I spent three months having child pornography, gore porn/snuff, gory images of dead animals and the type of stuff you’d find on Rotten or Ogrish on my damn phone - being texted daily - by throwaway numbers. I reported this to my phone company and blocked all the numbers I could but it didn’t stop. I did everything I could but in the end I was the one who was losing their phone service as a result of “breaching telecommunications laws” and had to pay a fine of 400-something dollars (I forget the exact amount, I do have copies of the legal docs though), as well as paying to have my phone turned back on.
I acquired paperwork for a restraining order but couldn’t serve it until recently. I have been working with a defamation and libel lawyer pro bono to get this person to leave me alone. They’ve made threats to “skin my cat”, to “throw acid on me in the street” as well as to have one of their junkie friends who is HIV positive “throw their used needles at them like darts”. I have copies of the messages where these discussions and plans were made.
Cops most definitely were notified. It has been a huge drawn out process and they’re basically claiming they’re “mentally ill and won’t go to jail” even though they’ve been harassing and abusing me for nine months straight. There is so much more than what I posted above but needless to say, when this all became really freaking bad I just left the internet. I stopped posting on a lot of places and that was when I came back to the Simblr community then promptly left again.
Around this time I started prepping for Preptober which is the month of October where those of us who do Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) start prepping for November and our novel. On October 29th, right before the Kick Off party our Nanowrimo region holds, our ML (Municipal Liaison) -and close friend of mine- was found at his home unresponsive by another writer friend and after being taken to hospital by them, was found to have three brain tumors. The primary cancer ended up being in his kidneys (three more tumors) and the secondary cancer was the tumors in his brain. He went for surgery immediately and his current treatment is radiation as palliative care. I don’t think I need to explain more where this is going.
November was busy as I had to step up as ML and run a region of 200 writers where we had write-in’s (where you go to write with a group of Wrimos, or what we call Nanowrimo participants) leaving me running these groups 6 days a week (I took one day off) from 6-9pm and sometimes two in a day (9am-12pm, then 6pm-9pm). I have severe agoraphobia and social anxiety so you can imagine how difficult this was. While mentally and physically exhausting (it also screwed with my sleep schedule which is already a mess from a sleep disorder) it was one of the best November’s I had in awhile because I had always wanted to be ML but it was legit so fucking exhausting I had no time for anything else.
No gaming. No Sims. No social media. Nothing. Things have sort of evened out now but since it’s December I’m back to feeling irrevocably depressed (holidays always do that as I’m 1) poor, literally at the poverty line despite being on disability so I can’t afford anything for myself or others at Christmas and this also means no celebrations with dinner or decorations because all of my money is spoken for. As well I have no where to go/no family to be with.
Secondly, I’m finally catching up on the screwed up sleep schedule of November. As a result I’m sleeping 20 hours a day sometimes. I’m awake maybe 10-12 hours and back to sleep again. It’s terrible. I also had walking pneumonia all of November and I’m still sick from that. It’s a huge clusterfuck and things were just terrible. If it wasn’t for coping skills from CBT and DBT I seriously don’t know how I would’ve managed the last year.
ON THE PLUS THOUGH - even though this month is hell and I’ve no where to go, I’m playing the Sims again and plan to post screenshots and random things and re-engage with the community as much as possible. If you read it this far, you’re awesome and thank you.
In terms of uploads and such, I won’t have anything for awhile. I’m using a pirated copy of the game as I have no way to buy it online from Origin (I’ve no money to be spending on gifts and I don’t expect it as a gift or anything so it’s not likely something I’ll be owning legitimately for quite some time). The game version I have doesn’t get updated often and I don’t want to risk breaking my game and having to do a huge re-install just to add “Cats and Dogs” as well as game client updates so I can’t be sure anything I create or recolor will work with your guys’ games. 
Thanks for sticking around and sorry to keep leaving but hopefully this gives some idea of why I’ve just not been around and neglected things.
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newhologram · 7 years
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@plastic-knives-and-forks replied to your post“I also need a butler to keep me on top of my routines. I don’t have...”
Slowburn fic while taking a walk
*walks into a baby stroller* If only fics came in audio... 
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@follyface replied to your post“Why are so many assholes so popular on YT omggg, like, I know my...”
my theory is that meanspirited people like to follow other mean people because it makes them feel like their attitude is okay. And also there are a lot of mean people out there
I think so too. A lot of popular fandom bullies had followings of other fandom bullies who then became popular, it was like a weird... bullying... circlejerk
@abandonthefort replied to your post“I’m just having a hard time understanding how people can do things and...”
Bigots do think about the consequences. The just assume there won't be any or if there are consequences it'll just be a slap on the wrist (and given the precedents that especially we have...that's not as wrong of an assumption as it should be).
Even more than bigots, I also remember that 15 year old kid who did that “prank” where you call SWAT on someone during a stream and now he’s in prison for 25 years or something. Like, wtf, if it doesn’t get shortened he’ll be FORTY YEARS OLD and getting out after something stupid he did as a dick kid. (I don’t disagree with the sentence but I’m like holy shit over how like... that’s having to grow up in prison because of a mistake you made as a kid. how nuts is that.)
It’s crazy to think about what that must be like. I get stressed out by it sometimes, thinking about other people’s mistakes and what they must have to go through internally, especially when it’s something more serious that involves death or something, like yeesh. There are those who will never feel remorse but there are the ones who do and that’s a lot of self-forgiveness to stick it out and do your time. I can barely forgive myself for things but I haven’t done anything like that, I feel like the worst dirt on earth if I accidentally step on a snail. 
@aviantaco replied to your post“Maybe we can help! What kind of side blog are you interested in doing?”
I love all those titles. Please make sure to let us know if/when that blog is up and running so I can follow nwn
Will do. Gonna have to try to make time to work on it, make it nice and get things queued. 
 glompme replied to your post“Maybe we can help! What kind of side blog are you interested in doing?”
newsspoonieblog reads like the best choice to me.
I like it, but I think the double ss bugs me and even with dashes I’m not feeling it anymore, hmm.
��glompme replied to your post“Maybe we can help! What kind of side blog are you interested in doing?”
spoonieguidancebynew states what it is and would be a logical choice if you want to make sure people know what's up but it doesn't stand out terribly well newsspoondrawer sounds like an artist account
Thanks for the feedback. :D
@misocorny replied to your video“#videos #recentsnaps”
PEOPLE POOP IN THERE
Dooku
 misocorny replied to your post“Been fantasizing so hard about having a butler, a personal chef, etc....”
i want a hair stylist and maid
I would want even just someone to give me scalp massages three times a day. 
 hikidragon replied to your post“Been fantasizing so hard about having a butler, a personal chef, etc....”
Ohhh that sounds amazing... let me join you in fantasizing about that *o*
I want this so bad. 
 zephra85 replied to your post“Where the hell is my period Just get it over with so I can go to the...”
Omg seriously my period does this all the time nowadays, it's late a couple of days/a week/two weeks and I'm just 'eNd mY sUfFeRrInG tHaT iS wAiTiNg'
My acupuncturist did some work to try to get it to come, hopefully soon it does
@plastic-knives-and-forks replied to your photo“Finally Prophet is a big pretty bug boy #newplayspkmn”
Nice pants
He’s fancy
@zavitsregularplace replied to your post“I still can’t bake a birthday cake to age up my Sims because as soon...”
you could remove the doors to the room the cake is in and leave only the candle placer in there since you'd be doing a direct command for said sim. :3
I tried to pause right when they were done making the cake and there’s not even an option to put candles. I think I just have a weird bug.
@just-mags replied to your post“Discount organic cheese crunchies.”
Sounds like a band name.
Would be a great band. 
 comradewodka replied to your photoset“I’ve been saving my points to get Jeremy this super soft AFP donut bed...”
oh my god that is precious
He’s so confused by it but if I put him in it and give him a blanket he falls asleep like a baby
@nelleri replied to your video“Check out my chronic illness and health playlist for more guidance and...”
ohhhhh? I love my crockpot but I never even thought about bone broth. mhmhmhm I'm gonna try this 
  It’s so easyyy, I’m constantly doing it. At this point it’s mostly for the cats so I make it even more plain, only bones. But then it’s still a great base for me to make other things, just gotta season the hell out of it.
 faeline replied to your post“Shit, it’s like Elsa sneezed on me or something. I can’t warm up with...”
Oh jeez, that's unpleasant. 0n0 Do you get that thing where your nails turn blue and everyone thinks it's nail polish?
Yes omg http://newvagabond.tumblr.com/post/75832707116/eew-my-fingernails-are-so-sensitive-to-cold this pic is from 3 years ago when I was in the ER and super pale and cold
@spazzeon replied to your post“Finally watched Kubo holy. Having bad pain which made it a little hard...”
Kubo made me cry because of how he took care of his sick mother. It made me think of my mom and her bad bipolar days. Sometimes she's there and sometimes she's not :/
:(
@fairykeiheaven replied to your photoset“Two more from the spontaneous photoshoot with John Chu. Harajuku...”
cute I need to try a similar look with my lavender jacket!
Yay, I wanna see> :D
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techtechnow24-blog · 7 years
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Working in conjunction with the AI buddy is an arrangement of four dependably on receivers (in the U Ultra just) with a far-field scope of two meters. Beside empowering the typical voice control capacities by means of Google Assistant/Google Now, the U Ultra likewise includes "biometric voice opening." Where looking into delicate information with voice control on existing gadgets requires opening the telephone with a stick or unique mark, HTC claims the U Ultra can take in its proprietor's voice, permitting that client to utilize those touchy administrations without opening the gadget physically. That same quad-mic setup can likewise be utilized for point by point 3D sound recording.
While HTC is pushing its AI improvements, they can be killed, should you lean toward. That leaves HTC's other enormous "change": the move from metal to an all-glass outline. Given that HTC spearheaded the utilization of metal unibody cell phone body with the first HTC One M7, changing to glass—likely a less hearty material for most cell phone use examples—is something of an astonishment. So, there's no denying that the U-arrangement telephones look and feel excellent. The front and back glass bends and wraps around a strong metal edge in the middle, making an impeccably symmetrical outline that is 8mm thick at the inside and only 3.6mm thick at the edges. That is only a hair over the thickness of a S7 Edge.
Both telephones will come in white, dark, blue, and pink completions, despite the fact that the path in which the glass gets the light gives them a far wealthier and more changed complete than you may anticipate. (Unexpectedly, it likewise makes them a flat out bad dream to photo, with the white rendition of the telephone specifically mirroring the encompassing shades of the live with aplomb). On the correct side of the telephone are the volume and power catches; up top there's a SIM card plate and microSD card space. All have been expertly mixed into the telephone, giving it a smooth, consistent look. On the base is a solitary USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C port, and a solitary speaker. Furthermore, yes, there's no earphone jack.
Inside, the U Ultra is your standard cell phone toll. There's a quad-center Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC timed at 2.15GHz, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of memory (with microSD extension), what has all the earmarks of being the same 12MP UltraPixel sensor as utilized as a part of the HTC 10 (with the expansion of stage distinguish self-adjust), and a 3000mAh battery with QuickCharge 3.0 support. The front-confronting camera really highlights a bigger 16MP, f/2.0 sensor for the uber-nitty gritty selfies (on the grounds that that is a thing we as a whole need, right?), however can be changed to a 4MP mode for better low light execution.
The U Play drops the auxiliary ticker show, shrivels the principle show down to 5.2 inches, and accompanies 3GB or 4GB of memory, contingent upon whether you get a 32GB or 64GB form. The primary camera has likewise been changed out for a 16MP sensor without UltraPixels, there's a littler 2500mAh battery, and the SoC gets a minimization to an octa-center MediaTek Helio P10. The P10 is a quite old SoC now, and notwithstanding when it propelled in 2015 it was not really an execution champ.
The HTC USA site has the U Ultra recorded at $750, yet EU valuing doesn't appear to be accessible yet (it'll presumably be around £720 in the UK). Hopefully the U Play's more unobtrusive internals are reflected in the sticker price.
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The glass plan of the U-arrangement telephones makes it a bad dream to photo (those are the pink and white forms on the privilege).
The auxiliary show at the highest point of the telephone.
The auxiliary show can likewise be utilized to show most utilized applications.
While there's no denying how excellent the U-arrangement telephones are, despite everything they experience the ill effects of the considerable number of disadvantages of glass: haphazardly sliding off surfaces (which really occurred amid our hands-on time at CES); looking like finish unique mark smirched messes after only a couple of minutes of taking care of; and sketchy toughness when dropped. HTC has attempted to relieve the last by utilizing Gorilla Glass 5 on the front of the telephone—which can withstand a fall of up to 1.6 meters—yet the back of the telephones can just gather a similar level of assurance at one meter. These are telephones that should be taken care of with child gloves so as to keep them looking awesome—or at any rate should be kept wrapped up for a situation, and soon thereafter you've hindered a large portion of the advantages of utilizing glass rather than metal.
Those keen on a more tough variant of the telephone can get a restricted release 128GB adaptation made of sapphire glass. Anticipate that it will be extremely costly undoubtedly.
While HTC wouldn't give us a cost or discharge date, it creates the impression that the US HTC site records a cost of $750 and a discharge date of "mid-March." Presumably it'll be discharged in Europe in the meantime, at a value purpose of around £720/€800. At $750/£720, that makes the U Ultra as expensive as the Galaxy S7 Edge or iPhone 7 Plus.
Is an all-glass plan and some AI wizardry enough to turn the tide for HTC? All things considered, in spite of making an incredible telephone in the HTC 10, deals haven't precisely been energetic. What's more, far greater contenders like Google and Amazon as of now have a leg up in the AI amusement. Indeed, even Huawei has officially gone on record to state that AI is the fate of the organization. Tragically, in a swarmed showcase, it takes more than only an incredible item to move units. That is the reason Samsung has generally spent a tremendous lump of progress on showcasing (up to $14 billion in 2013). HTC doesn't have that sort of cash to spend, however at any rate it's attempting to be more quick witted about what it spends its cash on.
"Individuals know us for development, however throughout the previous couple of years we've gotten lost," says Sng. "We had blended showcasing messages out there that didn't generally mirror the DNA of HTC. We attempted to persuade individuals we were cool. Yet, we're not cool. We're imaginative, and individuals can trust that. Quite a while back, that is the reason you purchased a HTC. We need to revive that."
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My favourite Let’s plays list
So i decided to make a list of all my favourite and most watched let’s plays. Idk about you, but when i’m doing art, cleaning my room,feeling sad, or just can’t stop thinking too much, i tend to stick on some let’s plays to watch. Most of these are youtube videos, but there will be some text & screenshot Let’s plays too.
I’ll try to add as many trigger warnings as i can remember, and add some info about the game, LPer and their work too, but i apologize if i miss something out.
Onto the Let’s Plays!
<u>Soothing and interesting Let’s Plays:</u>
<a href=“https://www.youtube.com/user/anamardoll“><b> Ana Mardoll </b></a> - The owner of the site <a href=“http://anamardoll.com”> Ana Mardoll’s ramblings </a>, she plays a lot of visual novels and story driven games, some of which double as walkthroughs (although updates mean some no longer work). Her videos are usually extremely long, often between 1-2 hours per video.
She’s a great one to watch or listen to, because she is always very invested in the worlds and lives of all the characters, and talks in depth about various story elements. She also analyzes and reviews books on her website, which is always worth checking out!
Warnings: Ana herself is brilliant but some of the games have the normal kind of thing: violence, murder, etc. In particular “The Royal Trap” has instances of Transphobia and racism.
<a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0knZ0OjXYIQ&list=PLaEje4Qf_FwrqdyORCK4okrRlpWnJs8qR&index=5“> <u> Long live the Queen - Naval battle </u> </a> This is the 5th video she has done for Long live the Queen, showing off how to win the game by winning the Naval battle. This is one of my favourite videos in the series! It’s the video where she gains momentum after mastering the mechanics of the game, so she’s much more confident. Earlier videos have her talk a great deal about story elements which are new to her though, so they’re worth watching too! 
Long live the Queen stars Princess Elodie, a 14 year old who has just lost her mother and will have to claim the throne as Queen when she turns 15. She has the whole year to make decisions about her country, learn vital skills at school, maybe learn magic, repel an invasion and hopefully survive to reach her coronation! Although it’s really cutesy and any deaths Elodie suffers are rendered in chibi style, it’s a really tough game, with some mean choices.
Warnings for this series in general: Lots of murder and death, references to incest and sexual abuse (not explicit), abuse.
<a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLX-Fc_GVTA&index=18&list=PLaEje4Qf_FwrJ_5Bqbm2IwJQLGqRz9Jeq“> <u>The Royal Trap - Dolores walkthrough </u> </a> Sliiightly more action orientated than Long live the Queen and made by the same people! This video is the shortest in the playlist and definitely my favourite, even though many of the game’s secrets aren’t uncovered in this route. I recommend watching another playthrough, maybe the Callum route, before this to understand the story although it can stand alone.
In this game, Madeleine is your main character, a woman who is a teacher, servant and friend to Prince Oscar, as well as overall badass who can climb walls and fight with daggers. It’s a visual novel that’s...kind of a dating sim, but it has it’s share of mysteries, political intrigue and action. Madeleine and Oscar arrive in another land to attend the coming of age ball of Princess Cassidy, and hopefully win her hand in marriage, but things start to go wrong when she goes missing.
Warnings: Transphobia, really awful parenting, murder, racism, ableism, abuse
<a href=“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL240F838BF69FDA54“> <u> EVO: search for Eden Let’s Play by Ssskinner </u> </a> Kind of an old let’s play now, but still interesting. Gaia, daughter of the sun and embodiment of the Earth, creates you and tells you that you must journey through several periods of time spanning a billion years, evolving into different creatures as you go, to earn the right to enter Eden and become her immortal partner. Possibly as a terrifying dinosaur fish hybrid. It’s a weird game.
Ssskinner’s LP is awesome - she researched a lot about various animals from different periods, and has a lot of interesting info to say about them. Her voice and the information is incredibly relaxing, so i find it great for watching when i’m anxious, as long as you don’t mind dinosaurs eating each other. All the creatures you can turn into are really cool too, so it’s a great thing to watch if you love dinosaurs or animals in general.
Warnings: A lot of animals die in this game. I...think that’s it?
<a href=“https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8F47C6867017A55“> <u>The void/Turgor Let’s Play by CannibalK9 </u> </a> Oh man, this LP. This is a long, long game but totally worth watching. This game is made by Ice-pick Lodge, Russian developers who also made Pathologic. It’s a cryptic game, with little being explained fully. It’s pretty arty, with an incredibly haunting soundtrack and sprinklings of poetry throughout.
In this game the player is a soul without a name, lost in a barren place called The void. It’s a place that’s described as a link in a chain of worlds, where there are worlds below and worlds above. Unfortunately, you’re in the world above absolute death (basically hell) and the Void you’re in is dying, so the goal is to collect enough resources (in this game, that’s colour. It’s interesting) to either escape, or sacrifice yourself so someone else can.
It’s a adventure type game with resource management that is incredibly hard, but also gorgeous aesthetically. I love this LP especially, because CannibalK9 has a very soothing and haunting tone which absolutely fits this world. He tends to wax poetic about various philosophical things and it’s pretty great.
Warnings: body horror (the brothers, oh wow), suicide ideation, suicide, A whole heap of nudity (there are characters called sisters who have little clouds that try to censor their jiggly bits but it mostly fails), references to abuse and disturbing themes. 
<u>Exciting and humorous Let’s Plays:</u>
<a href=“http://lparchive.org/author/The%20Dark%20Id“><b>The Dark ID</b> </a> A let’s player who has a youtube channel but mostly does screenshot and text LPs. He can be really funny, but he can also be very offensive, so watch out. Special mention goes to his Dirge of Cerberus LP where he constantly refers to Vincent as autistic and makes jokes about it.
<a href=“http://lparchive.org/Drakengard/“> <u> Drakengard! </u> </a> My favourite of his LPs! It’s a hilarious 100% playthrough of a game with terrible combat and an awesome, completely messed up story.
Drakengard tells the story of a murderous prince called Caim who is trying to win a battle and save his sister, but gets mortally wounded. In this world, people can form pacts with creatures to sustain their lives, but it comes at a price (voice, sight, hearing etc.) so he forms a pact with a dying dragon and goes off to save the world! But...uh...things don’t really go as you expect them to? This series is weird and has so, so many screwed up things. Caim’s party consist of a racist old man, a cannibal elf, a pedophile, a little boy and Caim’s sister, who is in love with him. 
Warnings: Not much from The Dark ID themself, but the game has...a lot.
Racism, murder, child soldiers, references to pedophilia, necrophilia, child abuse and incest, neglect, demonic? possession, abuse, casual violence, probably ableism.
<a href=“http://lparchive.org/Drakengard-3/“> <u> Drakengard 3 </u> </a> One of my favourite games! Also extremely messed up, but a lot more self aware and comedic than the last (he’s also covered Drakengard 2 but....it’s not that weird and it’s pretty cookie cutter, tbh).
This game stars a girl called Zero who is an intoner (a goddess like being who uses the power of song to cast magic) and also murderous and wants to kill all of her 5 sisters to steal their powers. Alternate universes are also involved. Saying anything else is spoilery, but it’s definitely not that normal or straight forward. Also the music is fantastic especially the fourth sister’s battle music and Zero’s theme song, kuroi uta.
Warnings: A lot of toilet humour, murder, possession, ableism, body shaming, slut shaming, violence, references to torture, mental illness, rape, neglect,child abuse and a relationship that isn’t consensual. 
<a href= “http://lparchive.org/NIER/“> <u> Nier </u> </a> Another of my favourite games! It takes place some time after Drakengard’s ending D. Nier is a middle aged man with a daughter called Yonah who is slowly dying from an incurable disease called the black scrawl. The game is his attempt to save her life, while saving his world from the threat of monsters called shades, but as usual for Drakengard things do not end as you hope.
Your party consists of Kaine, a bloodthirsty girl who is part shade, a sarcastic, Alan Rickman sounding book who can cast magic, and a little boy who wears a blindfold because looking into his eyes turns people to stone.
It’s slightly less WTF than other entries in the series, but it’s definitely still odd and definitely worth reading. The music is also incredible omg, look it up on youtube, it’s beautiful.
Warnings: transphobia, murder, death, child murder and endangerment, torture
<u>Things that aren’t technically Let’s Plays but are also good:</u>
To be added!
I will try and update this b/c i have more to add, but this is it for now =D
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