#I swear y’all who build up queues what’s the secret?

[aheathen-conceivably]

[murfeelee]

Simblr Asks - TS3

Saw these questions by Teauke on my dash, and y’all know I love talking/ranting about The Sims; let’s go! ^0^

1. how big is your mods folder?

That’s my mods folder with only mods/hacks/overrides; no CAS or build/buy CC installed. It’s a miracle that nothing conflicts, at least not as far as I can tell.

2. how would you describe your style? A sporadic mix of tv/gaming fandom-inspired conversions and recreations, of mostly fanciful and/or cultural themes & genres.

3. What is your favorite challenge? I’m a builder at heart, so I love recreating lots and interiors. Challenges where we find IRL rooms/scenes and remake them in TS3 are always the most fun for me.

4. do you make cc? if so, what kind? I make fanciful & cultural custom content (occult, sci-fi, boho, etc). I make CAS CC sometimes, but I prefer making buy/build CC.

5. what type of cc do you hoard? Not everything, but a lot. As creators retire and links die, I’m even more paranoid than I already was that CC will no longer be available anywhere.

6. what default eyes and skin do you use? I don’t use default-replacement skintones, but I do use Buhudain’s You Are Real mod.

As for eye defaults, I absolutely love Moonskin’s Shiny Glass replacements.

7. how many urls have you had, and what are the meanings behind them? All of my simming URLs on MTS, TSR, the officials, and Tumblr are some variation of my first name, Murfee Lee. Because yes, I am that darn creative.

8. who is your favorite gameplay blog? 9. who is your favorite storytelling blog? Ugh, there are too many good ones out there.

10. who is your favorite cc creator? All of my favorite creators retired years ago: DyM/Hekate999 (fantasy build/buy), Parsimonious (everything), Luna (everything build/buy), Qingshuangtongzi (Asian everything), Amethyst (Asian CAS), Art-Sims (CAS everything), etc. I swear, the day Sandy/ATS3 (everything build/buy) retires is the day I’m having a panic attack.

11. how do you edit your photos? Badly. Tweak the brightness & contrast and call it a effing day.

12. what is the last screenshot you took? It’s a surprise.

13. what do you do when you are unmotivated? I am never “unmotivated,” so much as I am distracted. I think the reason I’ve simmed so long is strictly because I’m always inspired by fandoms. If I get distracted by a tv/game, it becomes my next muse (aka current obsession). It’s not that I get unmotivated to finish the old stuff I pretty much abandon, it’s just that there aren’t enough hours in the day for me to do everything I want. Sometimes I return to older saves/gameplay. Most times I don’t though--unless someone messages me wanting to see it again (and that’s effing rare). 

14. who is your current favorite sim? Sakura and Nasir are my alltime favorite sims. But I must admit that I patted myself on the back pretty dang hard when I created Tsukihime-Sama for my Moon Medicine gameplay. I love every sim I made for that gameplay (which I really need to finish one day, ugh), but my Lunar Moth Goddess? 👌

15. who is your current favorite sim that is not by you? Every sim that @obscurus-noctem​​ is out here sacrificing goats in order to create. It’s just disgusting how pretty everything on their blog is. Those mersims? Those graphics? That editing? Makes me effing sick. 

16. recreate someone else’s sim in your style. I think I saw a challenge like this a few months/years ago, but never did it. But I DID do the Picrew version.

17. do you talk about sims with people in real life? One of my professors plays SimCity. Naturally, we bonded over how wack EA is. ^_^

18. how many of the packs do you own? All of them, except the Stuff Packs. Barring Fast Lane and Movie Stuff, none of the other SPs are worth the price; it’s just build/buy/CAS CC any MaxisMatch creator.could make for free. I’ve always felt that way about SPs, which is why I never bothered with them in TS1 or TS2 either. I will say though, that TS4′s SPs are something else entirely, which brings me to #24 (see below).

19. how many posts do you have on your blog currently? 2764. JESUS.

20. how many drafts do you have on your blog currently? 363. U_U And most of those are CC sets & gameplay posts I never finished.  

21. how many posts are in your queue currently? It’s a secret. ^_^

22. have you ever moved blogs? Never. I never even changed my theme or URL.

23. are you in any sims related discord servers? Yes, the Creators Cave, but I effing hate Discord; it’s just a royal pain to navigate, IMO.

24. what are your thoughts on the most recent pack? (paranormal) Speaking of Stuff Packs!

RANT ALERT!

If anything, TS4′s SPs are doing way too much (adding new gameplay, careers, lifestates/NPCs, lots, etc!? WUT.) Or rather, its EPs aren’t doing nearly enough. I love that TS4′s SPs add meaningful content. But if they’re raising their bar, that means the Expansion Packs need to rise by the same degree, to stay relevant, if anything.

But EA, in their infinite ineptitude, seems to be scaling back with their EPs! Cutting what should be 1 cohesive EP into multiple SPs & GPs piecemeals the content and cheats people out of money, by having us pay more for less! The TS4 SPs do a lot, yes, but now let’s talk about the Paranormal SP for example:

Paranormal Stuff does perhaps the most any SP in The Sims 1/2/3/4 ever has, and has by far the most worth for its money...but at a dire cost:

- the career only has 5 levels instead of 10 (thus being nowhere as deep as TS3′s combination of the Ambition EP’s Ghost Hunter and the Store’s crystal ball--which links with the Supernatural EP’s Spellcasting skill)

the crystal ball is a 1-trick pony

unlocking Bonehilda is tied to grinding skill/career levels, only for her to do EFF ALL once she finally arrives (and her face looks like melted cookie dough WTF)

most of the gameplay is tied to the pack’s new lot/venue

and the ghosts are still meh

So rather than TS4 having an actual Supernatural EP, instead it has the ok-but-disappointing Realm of Magic Game Pack (which I’ve already ranted about), the watered-down Paranormal Stuff Pack, and the INCREDIBLY OP Vampires Game Pack (which I’ve salivated over). That’s already $40--the cost of TS3′s Supernatural Expansion Pack, mind you--but with the glaringly absent inclusion of Fairies, Werewolves, AND Zombies. O_O WHAT THE HELL, EA. To get the full Supernatural experience in TS4 is gonna end up running people not $40, but perhaps DOUBLE, if werewolves & fairies get their own GPs (unless EA waters them down in SPs, which would still be anywhere from $50-60). EA is robbing people blind.

25. how many hours have you played sims? I have no idea, no doubt thousands.

26. if you play gameplay, do you play with mods? See #1 above

27. what’s the farthest you’ve gotten in a challenge? See #3 above.

Thanks for reading!

[koiyyo]

SDR2 “modern” MC server HCS!

SDR2 part of mc 

-by mod irusu, mod cass, mod dragon, mod corn, mod chie and mod kiwi

hajime  - bad at minecraft  - accidentally punched mikan off a cliff once because he didn't know how to place a block  - constantly gets bullied by chiaki  - actually good at building houses  - just builds and vibes  - but ends up in taka’s jail a lot cause nagito blames him  - locked nagito in his basement

akane  - AGGRESSIVE  - can and will throw hands  - basically lives in teruteru’s house at this point because she keeps breaking in and stealing his shit  - tries to make her own farm but keeps trampling on it and then being like “what happened to my farm :(“  - challenges everyone she sees to a pvp battle in peko’s stadium

fuyuhiko  - “no i will not set my skin to boss baby you fucking cretin”  - tries to start a farm, is too impatient  - when he “dishonors” someone he jumps off a cliff in front of them  - travels around a lot to try and find rare biomes so he can profit  - ,,mostly does this so he can find a flower peko will like  - too complex. sticks with poppies  - gets way too angry when someone kills him. no talk he angy

sonia  - built a really extra castle  - has tons of guard dogs around her and the castle  - sucks at minecraft but she’s doing her best  - gets gundham to help her find animals  - “what is a ‘creeper’?”  - attempts to swear everytime she dies “goddamn it- all to hell!”  - gives her pets really fancy royal names, gundham helps her with the names

kazuichi  - obsessed with redstone  - has a redstone security system, and helps hina out with her autofarms  - literally equivalent to mumbo jumbo, probably better  - tried to move in with sonia multiple times  - got killed by gundham or sonia every time he tried  - is the main builder of the “train” station on the server  - it’s just so people can visit each other with minecarts

teruteru  - makes cakes a lot  - also makes dicks in front of people���s houses made out of obsidian  - people buy leather off of him because he has a lot for some reason  - only wears leather armor  - cuz hes a heathen  - ‘put’ a stripper pole in ibuki’s music venue, got adventure mode for a month and a long scolding from taka

imposter(byakuya)  - literally a cryptid  - nobody knows where he is  - online 24/7  - probably has a secret base thats like 80 blocks underground  - sometimes appears to either taunt real byakuya or vibe with him and then disappears again

mahiru  - has minecraft shaders on 24/7  - even though her computers on the brink of melting  - “this is so pretty!! just look at the sky and th-” “mahiru it’s a blocky video game please”  - freaked out because she couldn't figure out how to remove the gui to take a pretty screenshot  - lives with hiyoko and shares her stuff with her  - “hiyoko please stop burning the forests-“ “NEVER!!!”  - loves ocelots but they run away when she tries to take a screenshot  - takes aesthetic minecraft pictures  - these pictures get used without credit in clickbaity mc thumbnails

peko  - constantly wields two swords at the same time, she never unequips them unless she needs to build or mine  - runs assassin business with maki  - people hire her as a hitman  - made a pvp stadium and runs it  - fuyuhiko’s bodyguard  - probably has invis potions because of how stealthy she is  - really scary to turn around and see her user in the distance

ibuki  - collects all the music discs  - forces kazuichi to make those cool redstone note block machines for her  - rabid, absolutely feral  - owns like 25 parrots so she can see them all dance while the music plays  - made a music venue in the middle of the town, named it titty typhoon  - will kill someone when no one's expecting it. do not trust her she is feral  - “ARE Y’ALL READY” queue her spinning her mouse to make her character headbang

hiyoko  - targets mikan  - once tried to trap mikan’s base, was stopped by mahiru  - makes unholy levels of tnt, and hides them under mikans base  - she tried to make a cool redstone contraption to set it off but it never worked and mahiru found out and scolded her for the 10th time    - it suddenly set off and exploded everything in a 1 mile radius including them  - has three cockatiels and they have playdates with ibuki’s parrots  - she fake cries everytime she dies  - probably actual tears  - enjoys burning down villages and watching the villagers burn, unfortunately celeste got stuck in the village  - celeste threateningly screamed into the mic and hiyoko got so scared and left the game

mikan  - cries at basically everything in pvp  - audible “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” when she dies  - highkey a stalker of junko  - leaves weird ass presents in junko’s house even though shes never online  - gets harassed by hiyoko 24/7  - is good at making potions, makes mostly healing potions  - gets harrassed to make potions of harming and poison (probably by hiyoko)

nekomaru  - “good job guys!” “nekomaru we just got killed by the ender dragon please-“  - constantly says minecrap instead of minecraft  - screams  - probably has made it in funny stream fail videos  - has intense duels with akane in peko’s pvp stadium on the daily 

gundham  - massive animal farm  - refuses to kill any of his animals  - instead of attacking, he just lets his army of wolves kill.  - vegan, has a huge ass farm  - sells specifically bred horses to people  - will hunt u down if u kill a pet  - got angry over hiyoko burning down the forests, probably hired peko as an  assassin to kill hiyoko for it

nagito  - constantly stuck in webs while in mineshafts  - the kinda guy to mine diamonds when its above lava, manage to fall into it and die, then get a glitch that keeps his inventory after he dies??  - kinda just stares at hajime while playing and kills him while he’s not looking  - names everything he has hope and if hajime changes their names, he just kills the animal  - the guy who has an army of cats and yet kills them constantly.  - looses all of his dogs somehow

chiaki  - the unforgiving admin  - “chiaki please i went afk for 2 seconds and all of my dogs died and i died too wtf help pls”  - “that sucks”  - has the most materials because she has the patience to grind  - lives with hajime and nagito  - anytime someone dies she types f  - has every crafting recipe memorized  - can probably read minecraft enchantment table

epic gamer moment hope u enjoy - mod lapis