#Extreme Challenge

[shesmore-shoebill]

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

[relaxwithaaron]

Very Cool Episode MrBeast Put Together.

If you haven’t seen this video, you are welcome. It’s a great video.

SHARE ON TUMBLR TOO, THANKS.

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[venusaur-propaganda]

Drawing Venusaur with every Pokemon pt. Venusaur!

[simplymommasimmer]

Extreme Cottage Living Rags to Riches Challenge Rules

You win the challenge when you have:

-a house big enough for everyone to have their own bedroom (parents may share if your sim has a live in partner), kitchen, dining room, living room (can be an open floor plan so like a table can count as the dining room), 2 or more bathrooms, laundry room (if you have laundry day this can be an outside set up and be considered a room), and a bonus room (must be fully furnished). The dining room can be just attached to the kitchen

-1 million simoleons

-1 or more animal sheds filled

-1 or more chicken coops filled

-a garden plot with 20 plots filled (not everything has to be harvestable or in season)

Getting started:

-Create a new sim (and partner if you want) and give them whatever traits and aspirations you want. If you play more than one generation the traits must be randomized after this. Aspirations can be whatever. You aren't required to complete them.

-You may not choose any likes or dislikes. Those must be done through gameplay. When a box pops up about it always click yes (even if that means they hate gardening or fishing).

-Buy a lot, bulldoze anything on it, and get rid of all your money through cheats or giving it away by moving sims around.

-Choose your lot traits. They can be whatever you like.

-Lot challenges that must be choosen: Simple living and wild foxes. You can choose to have more if you want to.

-You can choose whatever lifespan you want but you cannot age any Sims up until their birthday.

-You can only make money through things related to farming which includes: canning, gardening, fishing, chickens, cows, llamas, flower arrangement, cross-stitch, winning the Fenwick fair, beekeeping (if you have seasons), befriending animals, frog breeding, and errands.

-You can only sell items through the selling table (if you have city living or eco lifestyle) or the market stalls. Frogs cannot be sold at the market stall so frog breeding isn't recommended unless you can have a selling table. Even then they don't sell great.

-You can forage for things to grow in your garden but you cannot dig for items to sell.

-You may sell things that lighting storms leave on your property. (Seasons)

-Since this challenge will probably be a multi-generational challenge the amount of children your Sims have will increase as the generations go on. That means your first gen will have 2 children, pick one of those to be the heir. Your second gen will have 3 children, pick one and on and on. Children can be birthed or adopted. If your sim adopts it must be a toddler. You can kick the extra Sims out after they hit adult years if you want. This will be required as your family size grows since we are limited to an 8 sim household (unless you are using mods to change this number).

Optional:

You can have a totally off the grid farm by choosing the lot challenge. This works best if you have eco lifestyle and have access to the solar panels. I have found the off the grid gameplay is almost impossible without natural ways to generate power

Change this challenge in any way shape or form to make your gameplay fun for you! Feel free to post your stories and let me know how it goes. These guidelines are subject to changes because I haven't played through the challenge completely yet but I am currently working on it. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions! This is the first challenge I've written. Happy simming!!

**Disclaimer: If this challenge is exactly coping another challenge that was unintentional. I wrote this challenge just from my brain and using the knowledge of how I like to play. I did not look up or research any cottage living rags to riches challenges before writing this

[braisedhoney]

fighting back? against who? they're so happy—they've been waiting for you.

you are wonderful. don't you know that?

bonus: they play sims together :)

[dykewolverine]

another lover butch lesbian who smokes weed

[sprolden]

you know 99.99% of the time when a character is "the attractive one" in american tv or movies it doesnt work bc every other person on screen is also extremely conventionally attractive so it always feels a little silly that the rest of the cast is pretending this one person is so much hotter than them and out of their league bc there's always at least 6 other people who are equally if not more attractive than "the attractive one". but in challengers it actually works because that's zendaya

[blue-the-bluest]

Friendly Compliment

This was the beginning of the “Redeemed Bradley” stuff where Max and Him got into a nasty fight ending in Bradley breaking down and really threatening to kill Max.

Y’all understand the ref in the pic now adios

[lilislegacy]

*on some quest, post heroes of olympus. idk probably some point while they’re in college*

annabeth: we should go to the base first, then to the ship

percy: no, we should go to the ship first, then to the base, then back to the ship

annabeth: um, no? that will take unnecessary time. we need to get supplies from the base to bring back to the ship

percy: yeah, but we should examine the ship and talk to the crew first to see if we need additional resources, because there’s a storm coming now. and if we do need stuff that we don't know about now and we do your idea, we'll have to go to the base, then the ship, then back to the base, then back to the ship.

annabeth: but i already know what we need, so you’re wrong

percy: no, you don’t, because you’re not a sea expert like me and the crew. so you’re wrong

annabeth, glaring at him:

percy, glaring right back:

annabeth, still glaring: i am so hot for you right now

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

[six-demon-bag]

TJ MIKELOGAN'S HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT | DAY 16: PURPLE AND GREEN

EVENT HORIZON (1997) dir. Paul W. S. Anderson

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

[emilianadarling]

The Pennsylvania Senate race is still too close to call.

While it's unlikely to affect the presidential race, I hope Americans are aware that the NBC decision desk (pictured above) and New York Times decision desk have not yet called the Pennsylvania Senate race between McCormick (R) and Casey (D), deeming it still too close to call. The AP called the race for McCormick on Wednesday November 7, citing a 30,000 vote margin between the candidates with an estimated 91,000 votes remaining to count -- the rationale being that there were not enough potential votes left in areas favouring Casey to make a difference.

Since then:

The number of estimated votes left to count has been updated by PA from 91,000 to at least 100,000 per a Thursday announcement from the PA Secretary of State, including provisional, military, overseas, and some Election Day votes;

McCormick has filed multiple lawsuits in an attempt to prevent or limit continue counting of provisional ballots, some of which have now by Friday been withdrawn or dismissed;

Efforts from a group called "PA Fair Elections" to challenge 4,000 mail-in ballots (mostly from overseas or military voters) have now all been withdrawn or dismissed. A number of these challenges had previously been flagged both by the media and by individual voters. (Screenshots of these challenge emails being circulated on tumblr alongside accusations of 'cheating' -- in the end these challenges were made in bad faith, but technically made and ultimately dismissed through legal means.)

This DOES NOT MEAN that the Pennsylvania Senate seat is in any way guaranteed to flip once all the remaining votes are counted. The race is extremely close -- enough so that the AP is confident standing by its call.

What it DOES mean is that the votes have not yet finished being counted, and that it is not yet truly known who will have the most votes in the end. Although McCormick has already declared victory, Casey (in my view very reasonably and wisely) has not yet conceded and is calling for all votes to be counted.

By Pennsylvania law, a recount must occur if the race is within 0.5%. It's looking likely that this will occur. While recounts rarely change the outcome unless results are truly within the main of a handful of votes, they are an important tool for ensuring confidence in the final results.

I know that people are grieving and demoralized right now, but these tight margin races are CRITICAL for determining how large the margin of victory will be for Democrats to flip the Senate in future elections. (Assuming future electing aren't subverted or dismantled somehow by a second Trump administration, but we have to hold out hope for institutional residence here.) The outcome of this and other right Senate and House races may have enormous consequences in a few years, and it would be agonizing to look back and realize that the window of opportunity to ensure a fair outcome had been squandered.

So -- what can Americans do?

Send a note to Bob Casey and his team via his campaign website in support of his efforts to ensure all votes are counted (particularly given the legal challenges from the Republican candidate and Republican-aligned groups) and decision to wait to concede until all votes are counted. The man is getting dragged in Conservative media in particular for 'refusing to concede'; add your voice to the people validating that decision as both reasonable and moral.

Keep an eye on this race as the counting (and potential recounting) proceeds, including any further legal challenges attempting to prevent or limit the counting of all ballots. Regardless of the outcome, all eligible votes MUST BE COUNTED. To do otherwise would be both subversion if democracy and an stoicism legal precedent for future elections.

Watch for other legal challenges, particularly in battleground states or right races, seeking to disqualify or prevent the counting of ballots. Look for credible sources, especially local ones. Make noise about them with cited sources if you think there is a risk they may be missed. Notify groups like Democracy Docket or the American Civil Liberties Union if you have concerns. Shared truth and shared confidence in the legitimacy of election results -- including that all eligible votes are counted -- is essential for democracy to function.

Push back on claims that the election results are fully known or finalized. With multiple House races still undecided and a few razor-thin margin Senate races with ballots remaining to be counted, those kind of statements are simply not true. And state-level race are inherently more likely to not make it onto people's radar than the presidential race if candidates try to make it so certain ballots aren't counted or contesting the results if a tight race flips.

There is only a very small window post-election to ensure things like outstanding legal challenges over whether certain ballots can be included in the count are resolved. Please stay alert and do not let that window close without doing all you can to ensure every eligible ballot is counted -- particularly in those tight, tight down-ballot races. 🙏

Note: This post should be accurate as of the end of day on Friday, November 9. Once the results of the PA Senate race are known and truly final, I will update this pay with the results.

[clockworkvampyre]

i had a vision that i needed to make real