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I'm wondering if you could make a kibbutz in the Sims using the rental system? Set it up on a big lot - you could set up different small houses as rooms?

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tfw you open up Blender after a while and you realise you've just utterly forgotten how to use it

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Took some pics when I was playtesting and IDK, I think I need to fill in that bit between the pavilion and the mausoleum with some landscaping.

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When you're planning a save file, do you create the buildings and houses first, or do you create the townies first?

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Expanded the cemetery to a 40 x 30 lot in Windenburg (just named it "Chevra Kadisha" which means 'burial society', but I'll probably rename it). I'm still working on it but it's looking nice.

If anyone wants the completed one, let me know. It'll be CC free.

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Important things to know about Jews - we love drama and we love to party. If you can incorporate the two into gameplay you'll be right I reckon

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I am starting a ultimate decades challenge for Russian Jews, any tips on how to focus it on being more Jewish centric? I already have historical events I want them to go through, and holidays to celebrate, but any just gameplay tips? - another jewish simmer

Shalom~

Key words: Jewish joy.

You can use the event system for Jewish cultural and social events!

Family Shabbat dinners (or even invite friends and neighbours), weddings, bnei mitzvot, bris, tashlich, Purim shpiels, Torah study sessions.

Have your Sims know everyone in their little community. Create friendships (and rivalries). Have a gossipmonger. I know it's stereotypical, but there's always one in a village who loves other people's drama. Have Gittel the grocer's wife hold a lasting grudge against Perl the fishmonger's wife because she and her nudnik son turned down Gittel's daughter for marriage, and who does she think she is, anyway?

Have young Yitzhak Ben-Simon and Golda Baldinger secretly meet by the creek every Thursday afternoon to discuss her efforts to subtly influence her parents towards a match.

Speaking of secret meetings, did you know that Mordechai lingers just a *little* too long at the fruit seller Frieda's stand every market day, and who knows what that's about? Her husband, z"l, ran the store until his death, a few years ago, and rumour has it that she wants to remarry. They say Mordechai isn't her only suitor, but the widow Nachum has his eyes on her as well.

(You are welcome to steal these ideas, i will likely also use them for my own gameplay)

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I did build that cemetery in Ravenwood, but I'm actually thinking of going back to Windenburg for my shtetl save. Windenburg is a huge lot (27 lots) and I think there's more scope for building there.

Out of interest I counted the number of lots each world has and noted it's decreased over the years, with new worlds usually having 12 or 13. Though I will say Windenburg is an outlier.

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I haven't built anything in the Sims for a while, so I decided to start with a cemetery.

I love the new EP aesthetic.

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Many articles on shtetls tell about how the shtetl has been idealised and almost fetishized as some sort of pastoralist fantasy when the reality fell far from this

Which is a legit critique IMO

The most interesting thing I've gleaned from researching is that there was a significant amount of class difference in the town. Even though Eastern European Jews were oppressed in themselves, there was definitely an amount of income disparity between groups, and shtetl residents ranged from impoverished to relatively wealthy

So for me the essence of the shtetl is not so much a pastoralist ideal as it is about small-town mentality and class difference

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SFS is still downloading at 7kb/s please kill me

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Stranger Springs: Winter, December 1974

The beginning of my story starts at the end. My name is Desiree Craft, And this is the story of how I died.

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So I have been doing some thinking and research about my shtetl idea.

For those of you who don't know, a shtetl is a Yiddish word (Jewish-Germanic language) for a small town. Specifically the term refers to small towns in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, usually (but not always) in the Pale of Settlement - countries like Poland, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine etc - but I believe also included some parts of the Austrian Empire and Hungary?). These towns were not entirely Jewish but a lot of them were majority Jewish. So I'm thinking agricultural, artisan, small town mentality where everyone knows everyone else's business and there's class tension.

(If you want a pop culture frame of reference, Fiddler on the Roof's Anatevka is a fictional shtetl).

I'm just trying to think of where to put it. I want to say Henford-on-Bagley but I'm not sure.

It'd have to be a modified Decades Challenge. With respect to the original rules, they are very American-centric and Christian-centric and focus more on a middle or upper class situation, especially with regards to women not being able to work (lower and middle-class women do not have the option not to work, mostly).

IDK. I'm having a good think about it. I feel like modified rules could also lend itself to a generic Small Town Challenge without it having to be Jewish (but making it Jewish makes it more fun).

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What tumblrs are we using for MM finds these days?

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Bunnithechubs’ Moodlet PSD V.3

No one asked for it but I did it anyways! Welcome to version 3 of my moodlet psd templates! Made with this font, but you can use whatever font you like. What's New? - Dark Mode: now you have the templates in a new "dark" scheme make sure to adjust the opacity if you need it darker or lighter! - Choice Button Revamp: That choice button was looking a bit too square for my tastes so I went ahead and rounded it out as well as making a "small" and "large" version. - Organized: I went through all the templates and meticulously organized them into folders. That way it's a lot easier to know what you're editing! TOU Do not pay wall or claim as your own, other than that it's yours to do what you like! If anyone asks for them please share the resource- sharing is caring!!

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I would love to read more about your pre holocaust kibbutz or shtetl idea for historical gameplay/decades challenge. Would you be making a new challenge to fit more with your idea?

Hello :) I don't know if I'd make a completely new challenge, but definitely would play a modified decades challenge like I usually do. Nothing nuts but usually modified holidays and relaxed rules on working for women.

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Mazel Tov on the birth of your baby!

Thank you! They're now 9 months old and an absolute chaos baby 😆