"Another reason that 20- to 30- somethings"

Ppppphhht.

Yeah, wanting a world that isn't a miserable piece of shit totally makes someone an unreliable loser. What an asshole. I wouldn't want to be in a situation where I had to associate with him/her.



Someone in the comments said.

The typical Simmer is the usual young adult age, but players skew strongly female — some stats suggest close to 60/40.

I guess that all the young uns are playing Sims 4.

Wow, such a precise stat! I even once read that people are usually around 10 to 70 years old if they play The Sims! ...

I wanted to copy the picture that accompanies this story, but the embedded coding won't let it be converted.

So here's the link to the story about a llama that was on the loose but returned home before the Animal Control officer got into the act.

The picture alone is adorable, and the llama knows it. Of course it's the game's one and only mascot, because why not?

https://www.bangordailynews.com/202...ome-on-its-own/

TBH, I sometimes wonders where people are getting their stats from. I also play FFXIV and a lot of people on there are not young adult males.

Apparently, these unique sewing machine outfits (hmpartytime , hmnightout , hmskatepark and hmredcarpetlongdress ) that you can make with FreeTime are actually "CC". They were contest winners in a contest that EAxis hosted. They were included in FreeTime.
More information about the contest
It ran for 6 weeks and each week was a new theme, which for they gave a unique design kit for.
It reminds me of the NL contest they hosted.
Not sure if anyone else has posted this but I had been so confused for so long on why there are H&M outfits to sew as an option.
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That, and the Freezer Bunny! How could we forget the Freezer Bunny.

Of course everyone knows how Sims 2 came to be-by way of Sim City.

This is an interesting essay on how Sim City isn't the model of reality or planning it was conceived to be, but just a libertarian toy that allows for the illusion of control.

Real life doesn't work that way.
https://www.wired.com/story/simcity...arian-toy-land/

This isn't anything new but I only discovered it today and it will be a game-changer for me: hidden catalog content.

Update: just tried the pool wall, I was finally able to achieve the effect I wanted here!

I found this on GOS by Zena Dew Drop and it is so awesome-it's a functional digital menu ordering board that can be used in a 'self-serve' capacity. It generates a meal within 15 spaces on a counter. It eliminates the folderol of having servers, hosts and cooks in a restaurant.

I've put this in a 'McDonald's' shell and it is autonomous by both playables and non-playables.

https://gardenofshadows.org.uk/gard...p?topic=38860.0

Ooh, shiny!

An alternative to Nameberry's now-defunct Namehunter: https://www.magicbabynames.com

This is an article about a new building sim in development, which directly hearkens back to Sim City:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024...comments-page=1

Very interesting..

Link to the Itch.Io page: https://yesbox.itch.io/metropolis1998

I've downloaded the very early demo.

Speaking of other games:

Llama Villa

Less awesome, but seemed like the most appropriate place to put this: Update on the Garden of Shadows outage.

^ Good to know.
They have been down longer than usual, so I kinda expected they were having some issues.

This was mentioned a while ago, but I've been using elements of it lately so was reminded to post.
The City of 2Morrow project:
https://cityof2morrow.tumblr.com/

The bits I am using are the fabulous glass texture repository. In particular, I have long been a fan of the Simgedoehns site, and I often use their door and window sets. City of 2Morrow has created repositoried versions of these sets, which use their repo glass colours. So that I can have all of these glass colours to play with:

https://cityof2morrow.tumblr.com/po...584/tolli-glass


https://cityof2morrow.tumblr.com/po...-glass-recolors


The build sets:

https://cityof2morrow.tumblr.com/po...olli-build-repo


https://cityof2morrow.tumblr.com/po...sion-build-repo


These will all work with the original frame recolours (which can be downloaded HERE plus Maxon shared a white one HERE ).

Of course, there is lots more to the City of 2Morrow project than just these windows- many objects and sets being created and repositoried. Take a look!
https://cityof2morrow.tumblr.com/tagged/ts2downloads

This is something wild and unique-a moonshine distillery!

https://jacky93sims.tumblr.com/post...-for-the-sims-2

Yes, it IS functional and it does give out real alcohol....

"Please drink responsibly..."

It's back!

Thank you to simsample for posting about CityOf2morrow - I'm not playing a futuristic game, but I found useful things on that tumblr.

I use the BB Niche set a lot and so I'm always interested in finding new bits and pieces that use its textures. Simmons at CityOf2morrow shared a few updates and fixes to the original sets and recategorised them as architecture plus made a collection file for the whole set. Then there's a set of other creators' add-on attic and buttress pieces that I hadn't had before, and a whole new Industrial Steel & Glass set repositoried to BB Niche and the CityOf2morrow glass and roofing repository files which looks really good for making conservatories and shopping malls! That last set contains a piece I've been searching for - I was convinced someone must have made a repositoried simple column, it'll be useful in so many places.

Who's The Daddy?

A HoodExporter transform for identifying pregnant Sims in the hood. whoward wrote it for me so I could track down pregnant townies (don't ask).

https://baticeer-sims.tumblr.com/po...659653908742144

Look at this cute little lake lot I found !
I think it's residential.

Looks like a water mod was used for the surface ?


https://www.tumblr.com/melthefattie...ome-people-have

Water mod... like this?: https://modthesims.info/d/587597/po...r-overhaul.html

Azelanne/CrispsandKerosene and their boyfriend's radioactive barrel.
https://www.tumblr.com/crispsandker...-2?source=share

Yes !
I believe that's it.
It didn't download with the lot, so, thanks !!

That creator (MelTheFattie) is on hiatus, so many of their lots can't be downloaded.
Pretty nice ones, too.

Do not have time at the moment, but tomorrow I'll check the Sim's Graveyard and PMBD to see if anyone else saved their stuff.