Romantic Standards doesn't play well with my other Romance mods (speaking of huge wide-reaching global mods). I don't remember which--maybe Pescado's, maybe ACR modified by Hat for her aging mod, maybe Inteen, probably yes, all of the above!

Another "not really Sims related thing I've known about for years but only thought to post now," and probably pretty niche:

RecursiView is an image viewer that can browse an entire folder and all its subfolders at once. Seeing as I get a little overboard with my screenshot-organzing, it's oftentimes useful.

Are you ever wondered what your sims are playing on piano?
http://lyratek.com/sims2piano.htm

http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=636628
Ghostly servants by Sophie-David. Perfect for the Goth household.

Simler90 has said himself that you should remove all other romance-related mods. Romantic Standards is meant to replace everything else.



Better for Olive Specter's household.

I love this skirt for my 1930s hood!! It's a rural farm town and my women work hard! It will also be popular for my college and 20-something sims to wear with an awkwardly baggy blouse and thick rimmed glasses.
https://gardenofshadows.org.uk/gard...39566#msg739566

Some random planters(so you can plant flowers in disused toilet and bathtub): http://www.medievalsims.com/forums/...p?f=172&t=10352

I'll have you know that Will Wright is not only responsible for the most popular, best selling games in the world, he's also responsible for tools that allow real city planners to develop their cities.

Thanks to Sim City, this is urban planning!

This SimCity-Like Tool Lets Urban Planners See the Potential Impact of Their Ideas

That's awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!

Midge the Tree made a mod that makes it less likely that asking for homework help drops from the queue.

I saw someone asking about these cool skylights in WCIF. There's a also converted TS3 lot that uses them.
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=636398


Default texture replacement for BV surf converted from Bioshock Infinite. Described as "big photorealistic textures", so might put a strain on your computer. I'm eager to see what these look like in my game.
https://ove51.tumblr.com/post/18967...e-beach-default

Functional 3 to 2 Tattoo gun https://withlovefromsimtown.tumblr....erlays-download

Objects converted from Bioshock Infinite. I especially love the public seating set which works for grand old train stations like Union Station in DC or the old Penn Station in NYC. I can see these objects being really useful for historical and modern games especially in public. I'm also digging all the vengeful angel statues for a temple or a cemetery and a new piano is always welcome in my game.

https://hafiseazale.livejournal.com/44872.html

@tunafishfish Links on there don't work. I got a 404 We can’t find what you’re looking for. on each one.

@tunafishfish @joandsarah77 Hafi moved everything (as far as I can tell) to dreamwidth, with downloads through mediafire or simsfileshare. This is the Bioshock Infinite page on dreamwidth; scroll all the way down to find the download link to everything in SMS.

I'm using these, you can see them how they look in-game here.

Thank you! this was going to turn into a WCIF!

Are you sure that's the right link? It takes me to a screenshot of a sim wading in the ocean.

Since it's supposed to be a 'Default texture replacement for BV surf', I feel like it probably is the right screenshot.

Okay I misunderstood. For some reason I thought you were responding to my post about the skylight windows. I had a long work week and I don't think I'm fully awake today.

Awesome thing: Sims 2 Super Collection has finally been updated to 64-bit. I can now upgrade to the current version of macOS if I want without losing the game.

Less awesome: as far as I can see the graphics bugs I reported 2 years ago are still there, which probably means that the bug where some of the female skins are mismatched between head and body at High Sierra and above is probably still there too. Oh well. I see another round of bug reporting in my future.

Simler90 updated his skill speed mod. "Witches who currently have their cat familiar on the lot increase their skills 25% faster, but they need to be Best Friends with their familiar." Familiars are finally useful for something!

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=632985

I found an awesome giant baby costume for adult males for sims 2. Funny and awesome.
http://modthesims.info/d/56680/mesh...by-costume.html

Good Morning! Being groggy and half awake, this took my breath away-a new loading screen for the game, and a template for making your own!

Colorful Loading Screen

And to think I was asking about something similar a while ago!

Pretty! Snatching that immediately.

The GoS Founder's Day Event kicked off this past week and is still going. There are lots of shared goodies to be had already, and I posted my gift (which is all about the kids) yesterday.

Hehe, I already downloaded it -yesterday.

Aspiration-Based Diary DRs! Includes a mod by MidgeTheTree that allows eight different diary textures, one for each primary aspiration!

Hope your sim kids enjoy.

From the same blog as the diary DRs, Epi also made these cool grave DRs converted from TS3.



https://episims.tumblr.com/day/2019/12/24/

TheNinthWave just posted a bunch of converted stuff from the Sims 4: Tiny Living Stuff pack

Lovely! I'm downloading tons of it!! <3
I must admit that TS2 furniture is quite dated and those TS4 conversions are beautiful.

I've always been a very sensible downloader, but this time I'm definetely going in a crazy downloading spree!!!! :D

Love them too - apologies to my downloads folder

Witches can gain energy by meditating by jellymeduza
Werewolves transform at anytime by velcositro
Lower Wages For Employees by episims

These cute puffy jackets/coats for girls.
And this MM peplum dress.

I just saw this at PBK:
Refine And Shine

This is a multi-part set of resources and manufacturing stations that will allow sims to refine resources into a second more useful form.
Smelting
Gem Cutting
Charcoal Making
Sand
and a bonus item-Bellows

Download link at the end of all the posts.

Refine And Shine

On Plumb Bob Keep being down:

According to their tumblr: https://plumb-bob-keep.tumblr.com/p...53122/site-down it's a server error that has to be resolved by the people running that server. So hopefuly it will be back on soon.

One the one hand, you're right and I didn't see a lot of new recent things, but on the other, my sim kids have lots of cool conversions by RentedSpace, WeBluePeace, etc. It just takes a while before the new stuff gets age converted sometimes. Eventually someone will come around and convert those new shiny clothes for CU. But there's SerenityFall/RentedSpace Founder's Day 2020, in case you missed it. My download folder is full of conversions by RentedSpace from GoS, actually, if case anyone needs links.

I also really like these, which came out not too long ago:
A Set of Age Conversions for the Little Nerds, Jocks and Rebels by Jawusa
Less Formal Formalwear for Little Men by Kestin
Linda Sims 2 also has some nice new things for girls/toddlers, but you'll need an adblock and the universal bypass extension cuz the site uses adfly-type downloads.

I thought I was happy about discovering a bunch of male hair from a favorite creator of mine that used to post on MTS but what I'm really happy about is the facial hair I found from them. https://mikexx2.tumblr.com/tagged/s...ownloads/page/4 Scroll to the bottom it's the last item. Nothing will make a mustache viable IMO but this facial hair actually looks good in-game. The beards specifically and yeah at least the mustaches don't look like a bad disguise. There is actually a lot of good stuff in that Simblr account including a large collection of male hair and it all looks good in-game. No weird see-through bits or insanely stupid haircuts.

I'm sure some of us already picked up raynuss' 'Service Station Set'.

There's one mod that I've been looking forward to for a very long time and that's Greatcheesecakepersona's clean UI mod which comes out tomorrow. I'm particularly excited because because the entire UI system is all white. Not many people will like that but for me it will help greatly because I have bad eyesight and it will make everything easier to see. I can't wait until tomorrow. Now I just have to remove my black glass UI mod in case there's a conflict with the new one.

Here it is! :)
 

I have the new UI and Loving it.
It took a while to set up but here it is.
For those of you who have all the expansions or ultimate collection, it will work, For those of you who don't, this mod requires every expansion pack all the way up to M&G to work.

How come I've never come across these absolutely awesome 3t2 house boats before?!

*slams fists on desk* MIGHTY NEED.

LMAO my reaction as well!!

Pause Overlay Replacement for Clean UI

Here is link: http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2404

Took a bit to install the Clean UI mod but wow I can't go back to the old TS2 look anymore. Just the selection buttons are easier to see ;A;

If you ever wanted to have vehicles pass by lots like they do in sims 4, look no further. Lucas's Traffic shrub generates a low amount of traffic that passes by lots, Everything from cars, buses, fire trucks, ambulances, police cars, and limos will be generated every so often to pass by.
http://www.aussietopenders-sims2.com/hackedobjects.htm
I just tested it in my test hood with no problems.
Can be found in build mode in the garden center under shrubs. When placing the traffic shrub you will see vehicles appearing on your lot but will disappear and become regular passing traffic in live mode. So if you're building a lot with intent on using it, be sure you place it last or there will be cars and trucks and other vehicles on your lot in build mode.

Be aware that the Traffic Shrub will generate a lot of extra driver NPCs for all those extra cars.

I noticed that when I saw the drivers.The shrub only made five NPCs and I tested it on five different lots for over an hour real time on each lot. Thank goodness for antiredundancy, and visitor controller if things get too out of hand.

Rented-Space’s 4t2 CF Skirt Scarf made top only by DeeDee
Yakumtsaki’s Celebrations Suit Redux for TM and EM by DeeDee
MDP’s 4t2 Chinco Shorts with Vans + Recolors for CU by DeeDee
Lesyasun Generations Hoodie for CU by sims-influence

Sims 2 Historical Default Replacements Pinterest page for anyone thinking to go medieval.

Also,


Not sure if you're still looking emmyjulia, but:
Bonsai Tree Stump Mailbox Replacement by Rebecah (requires AL)
And I think this is the one Jo was mentioning (is it? @joandsarah77): SM Mailboxes as Maxis Mailbox Covers by raynuss
You can also make the mailbox invisible:
Invisible (request) and transparent mailbox recolors by pfish (use if you don't have M&G)
Invisible Mailbox by HugeLunatic (use if you do have M&G and the recolorable mailbox)

BTW, link to the apartment covers, for anyone else looking and to keep related things together :
Two Default Apartment Mailboxes & a Mailbox Cover by VampireKiss6661

Yes @Phantomknight that was them. in the archives, that was probably why I didn't find them.

I can't believe no one's posted this yet--Griffins: http://www.medievalsims.com/forums/...p?f=240&t=10403

Wow, first I had seen of those. Going right into my medieval game. :D

I don't know if this is the best thread to post this in, but it did start with me finding something interesting to download.

A casual search on Google led me to these speedos for Teen, Adult and Elder males by Mrs M'Quve. It transpired these were based on these ones for teen boys (with matching bikinis for teen girls) by Figs on Garden of Shadows. Well, you might think that more speedos were about the last thing I needed, but these sets included ones for Elders that are actually based on the proper Maxis Elder bodyshape (rather than just the adult one enabled for Elders), and clothes for Elder males are still something of a rarity. Moreover they're based on a Teen texture by Cloudnine , that I really like and was one of the very first thing I downloaded from MTS when I started to play. (Unusually, I already knew about CC on MTS before I even bought the game.)

So, I downloaded them all (both Mrs M'Quve's and Figs'). Except that, for some reason, the ones for Elders with Sexy Feet wouldn't download. However I play on a basic computer with low resolution graphics, so I actually prefer "blockfeet". (They're also much easier to add basic shoes and sandals.) So I installed everything else, except the teens with Sexy Feet, looked at them in CAS, and liked what I saw. So I started up Wardrobe Wrangler, enabled them all for Underwear, Swimwear and Athletic, and townified the whole lot.

And then my troubles started. My game crashed halfway through loading CAS. I tried it without the new stuff and it was OK. So I did a limited 50/50 on the new stuff. And it turned out that one of the Elders speedos was making the game crash. Well I'm sure my Elders could have managed with a choice of 23 colours, but I'd rather they had 24. So I put back the original non-townified version, and it worked OK. Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained: I started Wardrobe Wrangler again, townified it again, and re-enabled it for the three categories I wanted. I also noticed that some of them had the sound set to sandals, so I changed them all to barefoot. (It's something that creators sometimes miss.) I restarted the game and this time everything worked perfectly. So I guess something random must have gone wrong the first time I tried to modify that outfit in Wardrobe Wrangler. But it went right the second time I did it.

So, all's well that ends well!

By the way, the speedos (and bikinis) are in Pooklet colours. I thought Pooklet colours were only for hair. But it seems they can be for speedos too!

Yeah, Pooklet colors are a swatch you can put on lots of stuff. I just saw some woods in Pooklet colors, actually. And I didn't use to like speedos at all, tbh, but then I got some by Rented Space along with some undies and some of them are my favorite pieces of cc for guys.

...You know, I kinda feel a little bad for the simmers who moved on to newer games cuz they missed out on some really good content. With conversions, my male sims now have some really good stuff--and none of that existed back in TS2's heyday. Finding good male cc was a real challenge and you had to rely heavily on your Maxis favorites. I honestly don't know how you do it, @AndrewGloria--some of my favorite Maxis content is from EPs you don't even have! Do you have any SPs? Well, I guess with cc it doesn't matter too much...

Tea and coffee sets from Frac/Sun&Moon at Plumb Bob Keep. Everything looks freaking awesome! :lovestruc

@PenelopeT your link doesn't work.

PBK seems to be down.

Ah, okay :/ didn't check that.

PBK seems to be back up - at my current time of writing this.... the tea set is indeed awesome!

What makes it different from the fire hydrant?

This https://moocha-muses.tumblr.com/pos...-crush-the-tiny looks like a fun way to spend my morning!

Nopke released new mod; fitness decay and it's compatible with slower fitness gain by simler90! It's amazing!

NH camera: https://lowedeus.tumblr.com/post/61...sor-as-you-know

You mean to tell me I could just build fake shops instead of painstakingly planning my hood and coming up with different types of stores for my sims?!
Criquette's Hood Deco Shop facades

And cars as hood deco from quinndominion:
https://quinndominion.tumblr.com/po...nd-no-jeeps-how
https://quinndominion.tumblr.com/po...-at-are-a-bunch
https://quinndominion.tumblr.com/po...-hood-deco-cars

And a fix if you had an issue where you couldn't place the life stories dressers without move objects:
https://shastakiss.tumblr.com/post/...do-yall-have-to

And finally, the thing that set off one of my most recent downloading sprees, an invisible door:
http://modthesims.info/d/169396/inv...ll-request.html
I'm working on some warehouses for Downtown; one of them is supposed to be the local mob's hangout and I was racking my brain trying to come up with a way to make a secret space where some criminals could go hideout from the law--I didn't see the secret bookcase fitting in an abandoned factory. So I'm very happy I found this!

That's a great camera, I plan to download and try it. But a question. Where did the curved roads in his neighborhood come from?? They look really nice.

I bet they are hood deco. Something like these perhaps http://modthesims.info/d/299179/dec...pieces-set.html

Wait, wait, do these have working doors or are simply meant to be deco for neighbourhood view?
Because they are definetely lovely.

They're just deco. They actually don't have anything behind, only this facade on the front, nothing else.


I'm 100% sure these are criquette's rural charm road pieces, they're actually slaved to lush terrain road default, so they'll match any road default you're using on lush terrain.
Adding my example of different road defaults using criquette's road pieces.

They look very beautiful, but for some reason I never got myself to care about the hood decoration.

Only problem is that you have made me crave shop decoration for my Sims community lots xD

DeeDee-Sims is celebrating the 6th anniversary of her Simblr and has shared some really lovely gifts.

Part 1 (clothing)
Part 2 (cc free houses)
Part 3 (functional game add-ons and rug recolors) :lovestruc
Part 4 (glasses... which are always welcomed)

Same until fairly recently. It was playing in Belladonna Cove that got me to start using hood deco. I didn't really give it too much thought, except for trees here and there, but when I was playing the hood (I think it was last year) I got to this point in my story where I wanted to move everyone into new homes. So I did that, going on a downloading and building and renovating spree. Then when I arranged the new houses, I got more inspired to use some hood deco, taking cues from what was already there. Belladonna is one of the few premade hoods that actually makes use of some hood deco and gives you ideas on how to use it to fill up the hood--or at least, it's the only premade hood that I can recall doing that. I know Downtown has a few things here and there, but it doesn't amount to as much scenery as Belladonna. In Belladonna, the game designers decided to use the huge useless empty space of the city blocks (insert rant here) and turn them into alleys and squares and parks. So I got inspired by that, went downloading, discovered Criquette's hood deco, and started decorating. I'll attach some pictures of what I did. I don't think I'm going to keep the hood this way; I'm leaning towards starting fresh and instead of deco, using the Lot Adjuster to place some shops down the middle since I've been playing around with making attached and stacked lots and moving lots off the grid. But yeah, using hood deco can really make the neighborhood come alive and add atmosphere, especially if you play lots with the deco and neighboring lot view on.

Anyway, good call on DeeDee's stuff, PenelopeT; totally missed that. Not that my game needs more cc, at the moment, but how can I not download it?

And some finds of my own:
moocha-muses converted pepperoni-puffin‘s Glamper Set for those who want to try making their own food trucks
Shastakiss resized some mirrors and things so that they don't bleed into the walls
Military Jacket by MDP :lovestruc I love that sim guys have so many options now! Seriously, for anyone still struggling to find everyday clothing for guys, MDP, DeeDee, and RentedSpace/SerenityFall should be your first stops, especially if you love Maxis conversions.

Phantomknight, we never need more CC, but let's be honest, we always want more CC.

Somehow it reminds me of this: https://modthesims.info/d/480391/sc...ame-object.html
and a story I read from Instructables: https://www.instructables.com/id/Tiny-School-Bus-Home/

I like all that space in Belladonna Cove because it leaves plenty of space between the houses for Criquette's streetcar tracks.

^ *waves at the always helpful Rox and goes up to thank L for the links* I'd forgotten about that bus , thanks for both those links !

Bedding defaults https://withlovefromsimtown.tumblr.com/day/2020/03/21

I do like the good ol' fugly bedding. I actually use them a lot. Maybe I'm a weirdo.
But it's good to have some nice & unique bedding for sims who can afford it. And that download also has quite a lot of colors, I see.

Oh, that's another good idea for the hood, thanks! I bet I could still fit some tracks and at least one row of shops between houses, though. That square is frickin' huge.

ETA: All this talk about hood deco made me remember that I was having trouble placing some deco over lots. I had the Neighborhood decorations can be placed anywhere mod, but realized that it wasn't updated. Well Zazazu over at MATY did updates for AL, FT, & MG.

I'm getting a bad gateway page on the military jacket when I hit download

Simfileshare is currently down (I think for 2 days?) because of maintenance (high traffic etc, they're working on servers so it won't be slow and laggy how it was recently). There was a warning about this before they turned off their site.

When it get the error, I just go back to the previous page and press F5 to refresh... The download starts automatically

The Sims 2 Living mod on paysites must be destroyed has what I've been looking for for so long: a mod that removes the love requirement from woohoo.
Now my romance sims can finally have casual "relationships" without falling in love with every townie in the game.

That sounds awesome.
Would you care to share a link - or PM me?

That mod is so under the radar and shouldn't be , see last post here http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...25#startcomment , looks like my link still works , but the Booty has been wonky for me for a day or two.

Thank you so much, MOOKIEBLAYLOCK! <3

I don't want teen pregnancy in my game (maybe it's because I'm a high school teacher IRL, haha) so this is the kind of mod I would have never checked out.
But there are some pieces there that are extremely interesting. One is the no-love requirement for whoohoo (also no crush requeriment, but I think a crush would make some sense even for my most promiscuous Sims) and the other one is the night school for teens (which would allow them to have full time jobs) so I'm gonna test if they work on their own.

Thanks youuuu for sharing, guys!

So does the no crush/love work for other age stages then?

The previous comment by @sugoisama seems to imply so.
And it appears that there are some tuning files in the zip that might apply to other stages, since the word "teen" is not mentioned in those, but I can't be sure until I test them of course. Worth trying, isn't it?

A person by the name of Lucas made a bunch of objects and mods, one of which is a mod that allows sims to "go on vacation" in their car and stay away until you cancel the interaction!
I looked all around for a hack like this back when I wanted some teenagers to have a party while the parents are away, and I finally found one!

@Amura
There is also School in Shifts by Lientebollemeis, which I helped to test. This also allows teens to take an adult job and still get an education. (You still need Insiminator or the Sim Manipulator or similar to temporarily make them an adult so they can get the job.)

You might like to read my little picture story about what happened after testing sending a child to night school.

Nordic Dining set from PixelSims(find it here: http://thesimsgraveyard.com/index.p...elsims?start=20 )
What's awesome with it? 2x3 dining table? Looks like this is what Numemor mentioned at one of the comments of Numica 2x2 Card Table.

Lost and found find
 

I love this thread as I continually check it to see what you guys have found but now I'll try my hand at participating!
As I pretty much collect all the lost and found maxis stuff for my game I just stumbled on this and immediately put it in my downloads folder! They're Bon Voyage jungle rock nhood deco. Thanks to Liza for reposting this on my tumblr feed ^_^. She/he also has a great collection of interesting beta finds for TS2.

Functional Casino Slot Machines. A 3t2 Conversion. Replaces the one from the High Rollers Casino Project.

For scavengers: https://creesims.tumblr.com/post/61...ons-there-are-2