#4 by 4 review

[stemmmm]

if you havent read my wife's gf fanfic WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!

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[thesimsideofluca]

15+ Sims 4 Mods that will change your game forever 

In today's video I get to show my favorite sims 4 mods that I honestly don't think I could live without! I hope you guys enjoy them as much as I do and that you are able to learn something new from today's video!

Here are all of the links in the same order as the video:

Main menu Override by @vixonspixels

Sunrise by Lot 51

Make the bed by @utopya-cc

Iphone 15 pro max by @hera-sim

UI cheats by Weerbesu

Sim Control Hub by Dquiet

Steady Sim & Seat any Sim by @amellce

Smarter Pie Menu by @twistedmexi

Try to make friends by @carl-sims

Object destroy cheat by @twistedmexi

LLamazon Marketplace by @ravasheencc

Functional drinks tray by @somik-severinka

Cookbook S&S by @somik-severinka

Cake a Break by @ravasheencc

Home Barista by @littlbowbub

Functional Topicals faded eye masks by @largetaytertots

Shoutout to all of these amazing creators for their love and creations! @largetaytertots @littlbowbub @ravasheencc @somik-severinka @twistedmexi @carl-sims @amelice @hera-sim @utopya-cc @vixonspixels and the many more that I couldn't find here on Tumblr!

Lots of love,

The Sim Side of Luca

[agentjazzy]

finished up jenny nicholson's newest video, and in a comment someone suggested taking a peek at the galactic starcruiser subreddit and. 💀

[jaxplaysthesims]

20+ Must Have Mods for Realistic & Aesthetic Gameplay

Watch Video Here

The Mods

AM & PM Traditions - @simwithshan

Sunrise Alarm Clock - Lot 51, alarm alt. by @syboubou

Functional Light Switch - Hiole's Corner

Make the Bed Mod - Utopya

Functional Diffuser - @dscombobulate

The Candle - @charlypancakes

Quip Toothbrush Override - @dscombobulate

Functional Skincare - Cepzid

Functional Handbag -Utopya

Go for a Jog..Together - Zero

Flowfit - @simrealist

Towel After Shower - Zero

Functional Perfume - @lijoue

No EA Makeup - @ellesimsworld

S&S Cookbook - @somik-severinka

Functional Electric Kettle - @somik-severinka

Functional Tray for Tea & Coffee - @somik-severinka

Build Skill with Earbud Mod - @mizoreyukii

BauneyPods Max - POX

Spa Day Facial Masks From Mirror - @ilexsims

Functional Eyepatches - @simkatu

Turn TV On Mod - @mizoreyukii

Lofi HipHop Channel - @simkatu

Private Journal Override - @simkatu

Writing Animation Override - @simkatu

Pencil Override - @vixonspixels

Together on Laptop - Utopya

[animereviewsxx]

No it should be illegal to have an episode be as sad and hilarious as this.

Bro the delusion

This whole episode caught me off guard. I'm so excited to learn more about the hashiras.

Tanjiro honey this is a crime. Lol.

Poor giyu he can't sleep.

[twyllodrus]

bright young things (2003) / good omens parallels

[imkinddassus]

Soooooo

Your thoughts on chapter 4?

I can tell you liked the Catnap and DogDay plushie interaction.

I love this idiots, don't judge me >:[

I know people gonna hate for this but chapter 4 really didn't sit right for me, for me it's like a rollercoaster ride, at one point I like it! The visual, the horror elements. BUT THERE'S TO MUCH DAMN MISS POTENTIAL! LIKE LITERALLY!

Spoiler ahead!

I know yarnaby was going to die at one point but looking back at his death, it was hilarious to me and idk why😭, pianosaurs was a waste too. They hype it out like it's some kind of character with worth only to get killed by doey after being introduced. The Omni hand.. whatever that is has the same mechanic as the red and blue hand... Just redesigns I guess.

And don't even get me started with Harley Sawyer.

But out of all that, I love save haven, the vibe is there and the small little critters are just UGHH! Also I fuckin love how they present doey to us, his character is so fleshed out and so amazing in ways I couldn't describe. His death has been the most brutal way the player had ever done- because his story was fleshed out, the player had time to connect with this character and when killing them off would gave a big impact.. ehem pianosaurs.... Anyways that's all I think I can talk about chapter 4, it wasn't peak in my opinion.. but I guess it's alright.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I really want you to get started on Jurassic Park now after reading your tags.

All right, you asked for it! This post is going to be long because I've been rereading Jurassic Park since I was about 10 years old. But. My thoughts:

Jurassic Park is the oldest story in the world: one about hubris, and the price men pay for their ignorance of nature. From the first moment the protagonists step foot on the island, they can see it. There are poisonous plants next to the pool because they "look pretty." The harbor has no retaining wall because tropical storms aren't considered important. And there's a steep price for that hubris. Wu doesn't bother to learn the dinosaurs' names before breeding them, Nedry ignores them as unprogrammable, Malcolm mansplains them to their own creators, Regis laughs at the idea of them escaping, Hammond relentlessly monetizes them, Arnold insists he can control them... And they all get eaten by dinosaurs. It's the characters with the good sense to be overawed and scared (Muldoon, Gennaro, the paleontologists, the kids) who make it out alive. Almost paradigm.

More specifically, it's a book about the most fundamental principle of engineering: be scared, be confused, and then do something anyway. Then do something else, then something else, until something works. Timmy isn't a master hacker in the book; he's just (unlike Grant) willing to push buttons on the computer until he finds the power grid. Gennaro's still a scaredy cat in the book, but he clenches his teeth and goes into the velociraptor nest anyway. The heroic characters are the ones who conclude someone has to do something, despite not knowing what that something is. The villainous ones are the ones who refuse responsibility.

Speaking of which, can we talk about Ian Malcolm? I'm a sucker for a good Cassandra character, especially one that manages to get even the genre-savvy reader rolling their eyes and going "will you shut up?" And Malcolm is one of the best, every off-putting academic habit rolled into one: He thinks he's better than other people for not liking sports. He brags about not caring about appearances and then comments on Sattler's legs. He assumes Hammond has read his monograph and — when Hammond reveals he hasn't — pulls out a copy that he keeps on his person at all times to have Hammond read on the plane. He smugly explains that other characters should've foreseen they'd be killed by dinosaurs, only to be killed by dinosaurs. He calls his theory the Malcolm Effect. I do love Jeff Goldblum's gentler, more charming take on the character ("See, here, now I'm sitting by myself, talking to myself, that's chaos theory" I say literally every time I ask a question of someone who just left the room). But I prefer the way original Malcolm gets away with being right about everything because we so so badly want him to be wrong.

Speaking of that comment about the legs: by the low low bar of 80s/90s thriller writers, Crichton is surprisingly progressive. Jurassic Park invites us to laugh with (and roll our eyes with) Sattler, every time someone expresses shock the world's top paleobotanist is a woman. The Lost World perfectly captures the "women in STEM have to be twice as competent to get half the respect" dynamic, and it's a story about the male characters over-estimating their own competence as the female ones go about saving the day. Race isn't handled perfectly, but it is discussed in both books. Malcolm's chauvinism is designed to make everything else he says a bitter pill, to poison us against him. Crichton's no feminist. But Sattler's hardiness — later Harding's and Kelly's as well — are shown as hard-won in a world that batters nerdy girls so hard that only the toughest survive.

And Malcolm is just one of the many ways Jurassic Park masterfully lampoons scientific bullshit. After little Tina is bitten by a "strange lizard" and nearly dies from the swelling, Dr. Cruz assures her parents that lizards bite zookeepers all the time, that some people are allergic to lizard venom, and that the lizard Tina drew resembles a basilisk — and then we cut to him talking to his fellow MD. Where we find out that lizards don't attack humans in the wild, no human they know of has ever been hospitalized for a lizard bite, basilisks aren't venomous, and Tina's condition doesn't resemble an allergic reaction. They have no idea what this "lizard" (a Procompsognathus) could be or how it poisoned this kid, but they've been taught to obfuscate rather than admit that. Scientists are arrogant, and ignorant of their ignorance.

But the book is every bit as positive about empiricism as it is negative about individual scientists. The seamless way Crichton blends science fiction with science fact gets me every time. His preface connects Watson & Crick to Swanson & Boyer to Malcolm & Levine, explaining each step of the research process as he goes. He goes on to explain how Genetech developed its ideas from IBM, and that IBM and Genetech both contributed to InGen, which in turn influenced Biosyn, funded by Hamaguri... and only two of those names are fictional, but don't worry about which. Crichton does his homework, and then he presents his homework in the most compelling way of any writer I've ever encountered.

You need no further proof than the technologies — satellite phones, electric cars, touchscreens, gene editing — that were sci fi in 1990, commonplace today. Crichton did the reading. And he rolls that science out ever-so-slowly: dribbling first the mystery of the worker with a 3-foot gash in his torso who claims a bird of prey did it, then the mystery of the resort that needs the world's most powerful data storage, then the mystery of the billionaire who calls in the middle of the night with "urgent" questions about what baby dinosaurs eat... Until even 10-year-old me could look at that picture of a fractal and go "ohhh, I see how the unstable phase shifts of chaos theory explain the fact that a thunderstorm caused that guy to get eaten by a T. rex." Almost paradigm.

And all Jurassic Park's banging on about chaos theory belies a deep understanding of how interconnected ecosystems are. Animals, like plants, like subatomic particles, must be understood holistically. Pretending that the best way to learn the truth of any system is through breaking it down "is like saying scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast is human nature. It's nothing of the sort. It's uniquely Western training." Crichton clearly loves biology: "a single fertilized egg has a 100,000 genes, which act in a coordinated way, switching on and off at specific times, to transform that single cell... A house is simple in comparison. But even so, workmen build the stairs wrong, they put the sink in backward, the tile man doesn't show up when he's supposed to. All kinds of things go wrong. And yet the fly that lands on the workman's lunch is perfect." And he clearly hates what capitalism has done to biotechnology.

Hammond the venture capitalist is a perfectly despicable villain: No dinosaurs have escaped, because I said so. If there are problems, no there aren't. Put on a good show for investors, no matter how many contractors die in the process. Talk about all the "good" the park will do by making tons of money. The kids are stranded and the tech expert's dead? No they're not, because I said so, now pass the ice cream. It's truly a delight watching him get eaten by dinosaurs.

For that matter, Jurassic Park is bursting with details of style over substance. There are cutesy Apatosaurus cutouts in the hotel rooms and bars on the widows, a half-finished restaurant covered in Pterosaur poop, and a celebrity-narrated tour track that can't synchronize with the dinosaurs. It's trying to be Disney World, and it's actually a roadside zoo. The signage — "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth," the hand-lettered "Welcome to Jurassic Park", the room (and department) called "Control" — isn't subtle in its irony. But it is fun.

Which is yet another great sci fi trick. "Our funding is infinite but our peer review sucks" perfectly sets up the blend of the accurate with the plot-fueling (likely why Crichton reuses it several times). Why are there Pterosaurs in a dinosaur park? Our funding is infinite but our peer review sucks. Why are so many Cretaceous dinosaurs in Jurassic Park? Our funding is infinite but our peer review sucks. You didn't know Dilophosaurus is venomous? Our funding is infinite... It's perfect, because it's the opposite of how the scientific process usually works. Again: Crichton knows his shit, and he knows how to communicate it.

Like, even when I'm reading Sphere or Terminal Man — books where I'm perfectly aware I know more than Crichton on the subject, not in the least because their science inevitably became outdated — I still find myself believing, at least for the length of the story. You don't have to suspend disbelief when reading Crichton's work; he hoists it into the stratosphere for you. Half the time he won't give it back even after you're done. Almost paradigm.

But despite all that nerdery, Jurassic Park is still a rocking adventure story that builds momentum until it smashes to its conclusion at 70 miles an hour, ending the millisecond it can do so with not a word of denouement. You can practically hear that last deep piano note on the final words. It's cinematic as hell. This is Crichton post-Westworld, pre-Twister, the ultimate adventure writer. He reads, clearly, avoiding the errors of sci fi amateurs who watch too many movies (the T. rex has a distinctive smell, the island is relentlessly humid, so on) but he knows how to make a tight fast-moving story that you can consume in under three hours. His imagery is powerful, his pacing is on point, and his plot sucks you in and shoots you out like a water slide.

Jurassic Park is fun. It's informative. It makes you laugh, and gasp, and sigh, and think. It has its flaws (Harding Sr. fades out in the 3rd act, Grant's Maiasaura expertise never pays off) but those are minor in a book that stands up so well to rerereading. Almost paradigm.

[peonypyxels]

maggie & rei🌟

[felassan]

🐲 3 days until the worldwide release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard! 💜

[blvcksims-4]

SIMS 4 FOOD MODS & UPDATES 🍽😲

Recipe Reader App / Cozy Recipes - Hiole's Corner

Buldak Ramen & Kool Aid -Insimnia

Tablet Update - Qmbibi

Tiana Sims Cookbook - TianaSims

Homestead Helper - Littlebowbub

[olessan]

[jaxplaysthesims]

★must have romance mods | 15+ links★

I'm a sucker for love. I love LOVE and one thing that has always bothered me about the game is how unrealistic and simple it can be for your sims to find love, so here's a round-up of some of my favorite mods that make it more enjoyable to find love, whether it's with a sim looking for their one true love, a sim looking for someone polyamorous like them, or a sim who isn't quite ready for love, but still wants to have a little fun. Check out the video on my channel ❣️

disclaimer: Hudson was created using a base from one of my lovely mutuals @rhdweauni0 🤍

Dating Apps: ☼ Simda Dating App - @littlemssam ☼ Meet & Mingle Dating App - Lumpinou Romance Systems: ☼ Wonderful Whims - Turbo Driver ☼ Wicked Whims - Turbo Driver ☼ Open Love Life - Lumpinou ☼ No Strings Attached - Lumpinou ☼ Road to Romance - Lumpinou ☼ Relationship & Pregnancy Overhaul - Lumpinou Romantic Interactions & Animations: ☼ Bed Cuddle - thepancake 1 & @mizoreyukii ☼ Pillowtalk After Woohoo - Shimrod101 ☼ The One with All The Romance - @katiemods ☼ More Kisses - @maplebellsmods ☼ Cute Romance - thepancake1 & @mizoreyukii ☼ Carry & Kiss Interaction - Khlas ☼ Passionate Gifts - @utopya-cc ☼ Kiss n Grind - @utopya-cc Wicked Whims Animation SFW Creators* ☼E404P ☼Kiki Chain ☼Grey Naya

*Must be 18+

[ollierachnid]

This shot Has to be my favourite in the entire episode fr. Dug his own grave.. and then refused to lie in it. Too much of a coward to settle in, standing there instead, half-commitment. The dramatic irony - staring directly at the audience because we know what he did and are the only "people" who know that he can't prevent from seeing the information he's hiding, who he can't get to. The graves of the children in the foreground, staunch reminder. grrrr

[ankle-beez]

[scrawnyghstts]

OKAY I finished watching a playthrough of poppy ch4 and I need talk/vent about it because omfg . spoilers under the cut ofc

I am so upset and salty at how little of yarnaby we got and about the doctor's whole sequence. especially sawyer, he's been made such an important part of the lore and on the trailers just looked so cool and seemed like he'd be crucial this chapter and then??? i'm so disappointed T__T honestly, his sequence was so underwhelming, i didn't feel like it had much support in the flow of the story, the maze was ehhh the baba part was even worse imo, and then just killing him ?? for what??? one of your main villains??? like they didn't even, i don't know, left a blink of the eye on one of the hallways monitors as you leave, or better yet, don't kill the guy, freeze him, put him to sleep, electrocute him?? anything!?!? have yarnaby sacrifce himself for sawyer!!!! i'm so upset, and it's not that i want mob to do what I think they should but the story just felt so disjointed! you don't put this much lore importance into a character to kill him in one move ?!!?! like i'm sorry i can't be alone in this

Doey's story was done great though, really heartbreaking and awful but also cool and heart-warming when he was at his best. Clearly the focus went into Doey and that turned out great! but somehow that annoys me even more, that it was seemingly at the cost of other characters. I mean in chp3 everything felt more cohesive and each character was strong in its story I feel like so i guess a lot of me being upset comes from knowing that mob can do better idk

the final sequence had a lot of work put in too, the Ollie reveal was done right. great timing, the sound design too was so peak and the dialogues as well, I'm very impressed with that and ofc huggy coming back is hype, even though I like yarnaby more I get why you'd bring back your statement character for probably the final chapter to come

overall idk what to think about chapter 4 exactly, it didn't sweep me off my feet! that's for sure ;-; I also wished we would've gotten more of the nightmare critters the way we got for the smiling ones, like at leasts some cut outs!! because with how this chapter is I don't feel like it matters what critters are chasing you, it could've been all smiling critters for all i know and the story seemingly would've been the same which sucks imo

but hey I'll still try to polish the idea I have for my own critter because the concept is simply too cool