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Cursed astronomy: replacing the Greek letters in the Bayer Designation with the NATO phonetic alphabet (Echo Eridani, Tango Ceti, X-Ray Boötis, Golf Cassiopeiae, etc...)

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MINARY (Flying/Normal) & SPELUKAGE (Ghost/Poison)

MINARY (Miner/Canary) is based on the practice of taking live canaries inside coal mines as a way to detect possible acumulations of gas, like carbon monoxide, this pokemon loves to sing and lives on the upper levels of caves, and usually avoid going further down as they are very sensitive to poor air quality

In order to evolve MINARY into SPELEKAGE you will need to have MINARY in your team and go down to a specific cave. This cave is one of the 5 that has a dangerous lake at their lowest level, which can only be accesed using a special suit, In this case its a lake where the water has become toxic, filling the air with poisonous gas (More information here)

You must reach the level before the lake, where the poisonous gas has started to leak into. Once you reach that level a message will pop up saying "The air in here has a weird smell" and if you have MINARY in your team, after walking a few steps it will evolve.

SPELEKAGE (Spelunking/Cage) is based around dead canaries and dead miners, with MINARY's soul still traped in a cage (a rib-cage *badum tss*), manifesting as poisonous gas. It has the signature ability "Gas Leak", and when this pokemon comes out it fills the air with flammable gas, if any pokemon tries to use a fire type move, it will blow back, similar to the move "powder" but it affects all pokemon in battle

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    A short reminder that Russia is imperialist, has been imperialist for a long time, and there’s no way around that fact.

Sections of the Western left have developed a narrative according to which Russia has been gradually surrounded by NATO and that supposedly “provoked” Putin. It’s increasingly difficult to sustain the notion that Russia is simply “defending itself” after 24 February 2022, but the thing is - the invasion did not come out of the blue. One needs a different narrative to understand what Russia actually is: an aggressive imperialist power alongside other imperialisms.

So, a different narrative:

- 1994: Russia, with US support, acquires Ukrainian nuclear arsenal in exchange for the assurances to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity

- 1997: Russia acquires the Sevastopol naval base and almost all of the ships (82%, to be exact)… in exchange for the assurances to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity!

- 2004: Russia meddles in Ukrainian presidential elections, fighting hard to force an undemocratic fraudulent outcome, but fails

- Mid-to-late 2000s: As punishment for Ukraine electing Yushchenko, Russia uses energy blackmail, a form of economic coercion not very different from the IMF and World Bank lending and conditionality

- 2008: NATO refuses to adopt a roadmap towards Ukraine’s membership and in effect postpones the decision indefinitely. Ukraine’s security is in no way guaranteed, while Russia has already demonstrated the propensity to use coercion to force Ukraine to do its bidding

- 2009: Dmitry Medvedev, then president, writes to Yushchenko that “Russia does not pose and cannot pose any kind of threat to Ukraine”, so seeking NATO membership is stupid. Yea, sure

- 2014: Russia, which “does not pose and cannot pose a threat to Ukraine”… annexes Crimea. Really, Dima?? I thought you were for real??

Of course, by annexing Crimea Russia not only makes all the previous statements that it “can never pose a threat to Ukraine” a ridiculous lie, but also breaks the 1994 memorandum and 1997 treaty. “We are the Kremlin. Our word is worth nothing”

- Crimea’s annexation provokes armed separatism in Donbas that Russia supports and coordinates, including direct military command and control, and then completely subordinates Donbas “authorities”, in effect occupying the region

- Ukraine’s still not in NATO, its security is still in no way guaranteed, and the supplies of US weapons only begin in 2018. They are kept to a minimum… out of fear of provoking Russia!

- Nevertheless, on 24 February 2022 Russia launches a full-scale invasion to establish 100% control over all of Ukraine in one way or another. There is literally no military development on the ground that could have provoked the invasion. On Russia’s part, it’s a war of choice in exactly the same way the invasion of Iraq was a war of choice for the US in 2003.

Now, this is only the general outline. One should add Russia’s drowning of Ukraine with spies and agents of influence, money to corrupt Ukrainian politicians and massive acquisition of Ukrainian assets to impose economic and political dependency.

These are well-known facts, but so many on the left refuse to see the story behind them. It’s a story of decades of imperialist aggression, culminating in a war that cost 150,000 lives in 2022 alone. Any discussion of left-wing internationalism should begin with recognizing the reality of what Russia is and what it did.

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Here's a bunch of random clutter (62 objects) by Around the Sims 4 converted to Sims 2.

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Previews, swatches and polycount included (nothing over 3k), files compressed and clearly named.

CREDITS:

EAxis, @aroundthesims for the meshes and textures, @pforestsims for the shine removal kit and @hugelunatic for the amazing tutorial on slaving files.

@4t2ccdatabase

The thumbnails are showing up as black shapes for me (but everything works fine), let me know if you experience that as well and I'll try to figure out wtf is going on.

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There is no escaping Arceus' plans to make you a protagonist.

Bluesky / Patreon / Instagram

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The Sims 1 Catalog Conversions

Hey guys, it's still a work in progress, but I threw together a Sims 1 conversion spreadsheet. It's still missing a lot at the moment, but I wanted to share it in case others were interested in viewing or contributing. I have very little experience with spreadsheets so it's pretty basic.

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Here's a replacement for "It's MYSHUNO!"

BINGO Default

& Recolors

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polycount: 2025 (console) & 120 (ball)

Note: it will clash with other Bingo machine replacements, BUT it can be used along Bingo 'dice' and stamp marker accessory defaults - these are not included. My recolors obviously are not compatible with original mesh.

Enjoy!

*This is for The Sims 2

I solved this floating plumbob issue. I also edited two animations to lower the jumping ball - but for some reason the first time the ball jumps out of the machine (and also at the ending sequence) - it's too high. I tried to fix it but decided it's not that much of a problem.

This default includes GMDC, CRES, SHPE, TXMTs, texture resources for the machine (512x512, 256x256 spec map, 512x128 glass) and for the 'ball' - 128x128 px. Plus two ANIM resources. Bingo console is compatible with kitchen counter OMSP.

Fun facts: the 'plumbob' thingy is actually three GMDCs: an effect, the animated non-handheld object and handheld plumbob accessory.

Resource names use the name: ToyMyshoeNoh while other use Maishuno, and inside OBJD resource you can find the name Bingo. Most catalogue description translations named this object "MYSHUNO!" or similar, I think it's only translated to "BINGO!" in Italian (?)

If you never used this object: one Sim becomes the caller ("Call" option), while the rest is engaged as players - when directed to "play", Sims will take only the seats facing the Bingo console.

From Wikipedia: bingo is a game of chance in which each player matches the numbers printed in different arrangements on cards. The game host (known as a caller) draws balls at random, marking the selected numbers with tiles. When a player finds that the selected numbers are arranged on their card in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, they call out "Bingo!" to alert all participants to a winning card, which prompts the game host (or an associate assisting the host) to examine the card for verification of the win. Players compete against one another to be the first to have a winning arrangement for the prize or jackpot. After a winner is declared, the players clear their number cards of the tiles and the game host begins a new round of play.

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Asking simblrs, WCIF a boom barrier like pic-related as CC (doesn't need to work, can be decorative) for the Sims 2? I need it for a military base. Thanks in advance.

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If I had a nickel for every time a communist nation was pretty cavalier with nuclear weapons and forced Khrushchev to intervene and try to rein them in I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

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Boomer juice

Monster Energy Drink for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from ddaeng, medium poly (2k). The straw version is a deco object (found in deco-miscellaneous) but there is also an invisible recolor for the straw if you want to use the can without it. 8 colors. Plus I added 4 functional drinks (black and green, white, blue and green) that can be served or drinked alone from the fridge. They will also increase energy.

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So, I needed something to distract me from Good Omens 2 and THAT ending, so started playing Animal Crossing again - that game is great therapy! And then I saw that people had converted thing from Animal Crossing to the Sims, which led to this...

65 clutter items converted from Animal Crossing to The Sims 2! A few of these have been done by other creators, but I wanted less chunky versions. Everything is in Deco -> Misc for 12 simoleons each. Most have recolours.

I would like to point out that the jigsaw puzzle can easily be recoloured with any picture you like - it's like recolouring a painting or poster, just in case anyone wants to make more recolours. :)

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Soloriya Marketplace Groceries Deco for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from Soloriya, low poly. I added a collection file to make the objects easy to find. Found in Deco - Miscellaneous.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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15 stained glass recolors of Chrissy6930s round 3-tile-window

15 pretty round stained glass recolors of Chrissy6930s round window from her luxury set. (1, 2, 3 archived by @captainjacksims). I only recolored the glas, but @cindysimblr recolored the master mesh some years ago.

I included meshes, preview, sources and swatches. Everything is compressed.

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2-Step Foundation DIY Starter Pack ~ 10 Larger Maxis-Matching Lot Sizes ~

Just like my original set, 2-Step Foundation DIY Starter Pack ~ 7 Lot Sizes To Build On, Already Grid-Adjusted, but for the larger Maxis sized lots.

Have you ever wanted to build your own house with a cute little 2-Step Foundation, but didn't want to use the Grid-Adjuster? Well... now you can! No CFE or Grid-Adjusting necessary.

This DIY Starter Pack includes the 10 larger Maxis-Matching lot sizes - for you to build-your-own house on. If you want the smaller lots, please click the link above to go get them.

These Lot sizes are: 2X4, 3X4, 4X4, 5X4, 3X5, 4X5, 5X5, 5X2, 5X3, 4X3

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DOWNLOAD @ SFS

Cross-posted to MTS.

All the lots are included in the one download, but each lot is a separate installable sims2pack file. Install them as you would normally install a downloaded lot. They will be found in your LotBin when you are ready to build.

Have fun building! 🦚

Thank you to @cityof2morrow for the 'completer' idea!

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Chemtrail conspiracies don't make sense: an essay.

Modern science, through spectrography, is able to get a pretty good idea of the chemical and isotopic makeup of distant stars and even exoplanets (this is relevant to chemtrail conspiracies).

In early 2021 a sandstorm blew across the Mediterranean from North Africa, depositing sand in Southern France. French scientists detected trace amounts of caesium-137 in the sand. Caesium-137 is a radioactive isotope of caesium which does not occur naturally and is only produced by nuclear weapons or nuclear accidents (Chornobyl, Fukushima). It was a leftover of French nuclear tests from the early 1960s. The concentrations of the isotope in the sand were negligible and not a threat to public health, hovering at 80 000 becquerels per square kilometer. Becquerels are a unit measuring the amount of radioactive atoms decaying per second. To give you an idea of what 80 000 becquerels per square kilometer means, a normal healthy human body contains around 8000 becquerels (mostly carbon-14 and potassium-40, which are radioactive isotopes). My latest Christmas party was technically a bigger radiological "hazard" than that sandstorm. By the way, this radiation in our bodies is entirely natural and was happening before we detonated fission bombs on Earth and before nuclear accidents like Chornobyl.

So how does this fit with chemtrails? Well I've established that scientists are really, really good at detecting chemicals, even in small amounts. There are thousands of scientists all over the world who study atmospheric chemistry for a living. If there was an organized effort to spread deleterious substances from planes it would have been found nearly instantly and scientists would have published papers about it. Again, we're talking thousands of scientists all over the world. A conspiracy on this scale can't be hidden, at least for any significant amount of time.

On the subject of planes themselves, planes need to be very carefuly built to account not just for mass but also where that mass is. It's critical that the center of mass of a plane doesn't change too much (say, if the fuel tanks are empty or all the passengers decide to move to one end of the plane at once). So chemtrail tanks would have to be accounted for in the plane's schematics and construction. Again, this would mean for decades aeronautic companies all over the world never spilled the beans, from CEOs to engineers to assembly line workers. No plans were leaked, nothing. And the ground work crews and pilots never noticed clandestine chemtrail tanks on their planes when going through maintenance, repairs and inspections, and the chemicals somehow get refilled with no one the wiser.

This means contrails behind jet planes are just that, condensation trails, not a nefarious plot to spread chemicals.