#football sim league

[robdeezel]

College football 25 is LIVE now! We are going in depth for each viewer’s team! Roll in to the truck stop and join the Deezel Dynasty!

[mattcc]

Sims 4 - Liverpool 23-24 Football Shirt

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UPDATE: Now includes Mo Salahs Name and Number!

[lizthacreator]

[LIZTHACREATOR] 90'S FOOTBALL JERSEYS

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[yooils]

everything i know about love. itoshi brothers (seperately!) x reader. bittersweet. fluff & angst. unrequited love.

☆彡– but really, how can he mourn for something he’s never had ?/ or, reasons why they’ll never love.

a/n: i’m so sorry for the way i delayed all my writings!! the rin thing took so long.

SAE ITOSHI can’t love. (at least, that’s what everyone believes, and what he tells himself.)

he doesn’t love. he criticises, observes, scorns it, but he doesn’t know how to love.

maybe that ability was lost a long time ago– along with his naive passion. maybe it was never there to begin with– a fitting explanation, it seems, for a heartless being like him.

sae itoshi doesn’t love. sae itoshi doesn’t allow himself to indulge in such luxuries. (after all, isn’t football supposed to be his only passion?)

but when he meets you, he feels like his world’s been thrown into turmoil.

you’re leagues above him, he thinks.

you’re more than he deserves; more than what he’s signed up for when he chose his future at the age of 13. there was no love included in the contract. there was only a sponsored one-way trip to spain.

(if anything, he could probably learn to love you.)

you’re kind. you’re so pretty to him that his heart aches when you smile at him. your accidental caresses to his skin makes it feel like it’s burning incessantly, permanently scarring where you touched him. your jokes are so bad sometimes a smile creeps out from his stoic face– but vanishes before you can point it out.

he likes you, but he’ll never love you.

not in this life.

(“you’ve probably noticed, but i do like you as more than a friend, sae.”

sae’s breath hitches. he wants, so desperately, to say yes.

he doesn’t.

your understanding smile lingers with him for days.)

it's no surprise when you start to draw away from him, really. but why does his heart ache when he thinks about a world of soccer– without you?

sae itoshi doesn't love, but now he'll be forever haunted by the whispers of what could have been.

RIN ITOSHI has a warped perception of love.

(after all, he's been hurt before. he knows of the horrors that the ephemeral feeling of love comes with. he knows how this story will end. but while sae itoshi cannot love, rin doesn't need it. he's given up on it, really; the very fabric of love having fallen into his category of 'lukewarm' even when he was a teenager who didn't know better.)

yet through the number of lenses you've seen him through over the years, you wonder if he truly is incapable of loving.

the flame in your heart grows bigger, despite the torrents of mental warnings in your head.

exhibit 1.

for someone who exhibits such emotionless behaviour, he really likes stupid dating sims. and he denies it vehemently, when asked.

“it’s not a matter of the romance. it’s so stupid that it takes my mind off things.” rin deadpans, raising an eyebrow at your sudden question.

exhibit 2.

cutely enough, he has an emo, teenager romance playlist.

(when you point it out, he disagrees that it’s angsty. "it's just for homework. i work better with songs i don't care about as white noise."

–the blatant lie that slips out of his mouth makes you question the very foundation your long standing friendship with rin. was he really that intent on lying about something so amusing?)

exhibit 3.

you've been rin's self proclaimed best friend for as long as you can remember. maybe preschool, or even before.

you know how hard it was for him to keep up with his prodigy brother. you know the lengths he's gone through to earn rank #1 on japan's top 300 footballers. you know rin itoshi, the boy behind the stoic and calculated facade. the boy who says he doesn’t cry, but sometimes finds himself tearing up over sentimental pet movies.

(it’s better this way, you know. it’s better to conceal the fact that you’ve been totally in love with him for almost a decade, from you were both angsty pre-teenagers in middle school until now, in your early twenties, when he’s becoming a rapidly-growing football celebrity and you’re still right where he left you, five years ago.)

there’s no happy ending to this story. there was never meant to be one.

exhibit 4. (the disaster)

it was a mistake.

okay, maybe it was less of a mistake, and more of an impulse decision, considering how little he regretted it the morning after.

he should regret it, shouldn’t he? it’s normal to not regret sleeping with the only person he trusts with his life, right? even if his feelings towards you were only platonic..?

he’s been enchanted by the illusions of love underneath the sheets. now he doesn’t know what to do– when he’s so wrapped up in thoughts of you, you, only you.

does he want to like you? no, heavens, no.

(does he like you, realistically, in an ideal world? yes. so much– maybe he would even sacrifice his career for you in another life.)

love is a curse. love ends everything. love is what fuels his hatred.

does he love you?

even if he does, it’ll be astronomically less than how much you love him, wouldn’t it? does it matter? when he’ll never be enough– when you deserve more?

his rejection– blunt, cold, hits you like a truck.

of course it does.

summary

a part of you will always like rin, you think.

rin is childish– rin, at his twenties– still doesn’t know the true extent of how much you actually like him. you don’t think you’ll ever tell him, either.

maybe you should move on.

how can you, when you’ve been in love with the same person for a decade–? how can you, when he was- is everything to you?

(how could he move on as well– when he’s completely ruined the only person who ever liked him genuinely– without any sort of obligation to do so? how could he, when he was the only one who could be blamed?)

maybe, in ten years, he’ll regret it.

11.22.2023

[thesimline]

I’d like to request some sports jerseys with simlish decals. If that’s not possible, I’ll accept simlish t-shirts instead.

Thanks so much for sending through your request! And it was a timely one too considering that the Olympics are currently on the go. I've rounded up a bunch of different sports jerseys - soccer, baseball, hockey, football. I hope you enjoy using them in your game! CC links under the cut.

 → → → SUBMIT YOUR REQUEST HERE ← ← ←

1 - Super One Polo V2 by Xiuminuwu

2 - Baseball Male Top by Daddys Prince

3 - AM Swoosh Tee by MMOutfitters

4 - Run This Polo by Xiuminuwu

5 - Urban Homage Jersey BGC by Lustrousims

6 - Sexy Uniform Remake Set V1 by Beto

7 - Homemade Dynamite Shirt by AdrienPastel

8 - Exoplanet Baseball Shirt V2 by Xiuminuwu

9 - SimBA Team Jersey Top V1 by Hazie Sims

10 - Wolf Jersey Teez by SimmieV (TSR)

11 - Jersey by Joliebean

12 - Sims Hockey League Jerseys by Bumby Bumby (TSR)

13 - Talk Saxy Jersey by Xiuminuwu

14 - Young Jersey by Xiuminuwu

15 - Tennis Court Shirt by AdrienPastel

16 - Simlish EA Sports Football Tees by Menaceman44

17 - Berry Sweet Schools Basketball Top by Noodles CC

18 - UK Footie Kit Top by SimmieV (TSR)

With thanks to some amazing creators: @daddysprince @joliebean @mmoutfitters @lustrousims @its-adrienpastel @haziewhims

[aurorangen]

people you’d like to get to know better:

i was tagged by @aliengirl @igotsnothing @bloomingkyras @folkbreeze @mdshh @rebelangelsims thank you all for the tag!

last song: one foot in front of the other by griff

favorite color(s): always red!!!

currently watching: i've not watched any drama series recently, but i have been watching premier league football

last movie: i've not watched any movies

currently reading: the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald! i'm the slowest reader ever, i've been reading it for weeks haha

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: spicy

last thing I googled: the weather forecast, terrible weather in the uk rn and i'm deciding what day is the best to go back home

current obsession: my skincare routine! i've not always had the best skin but this new product i'm using is really good

currently working on: irl i've been travelling and focusing on uni work. sims related, coming up with the next post and also decorating billy's detective office for it

i'm not tagging anyone as i'm late to this, but if you see this i tag you!

[gaast]

The video game industry is worth more than the film and music industries combined and I swear the only monographs that deal critically with games are those in game studies fields. You're about as likely to see a monograph do a close reading on a film as a book, and yet other narrative media tend to be underrepresented.

This isn't to say that because video games have so much economic value that they therefore must have value to critical theory and attendant discourses, but rather I think it demonstrates the very odd position that video games are in. Frankly, they're still seen as vulgar, and certainly too much so to merit critical treatment. This is a failure of scholarship. Pong, for example, was one of the first commercially successful video games, and it acted as something of a stand-in for table tennis. The arcade cabinet made table tennis more accessible to the public, who would otherwise require enough space, bodily ability, and access to a table (typically requiring wealth) to engage with the sport.

There's a tendency in some critical modalities to view sports and games as reproductions of capitalist imperatives to compete, win, and reign supreme. It's a rather reductive view of play that in many cases puts the cart before the horse. As esports leagues have shown, we played games against each other long before capitalists exploited our joy as labor.

In any case, Pong made more accessible certain physical modes of play that could very easily be impossible for the average American consumer to enjoy in 1971. Indeed, most sport is inaccessible, whether because of space (golf, association football), equipment (gridiron football), or the physical ability necessary to complete the basics of its play (hockey). The joys of playing table tennis were thus democratized in the arcade.

Sports sims developed over time but never lost their popularity. Titles like Tennis, Baseball, Tecmo Bowl, and Duck Hunt eventually gave rise to Punch-Out!!, which, uniquely among these examples, carried the implicit themes that made motion-picture successes like Rocky so indelible: the underdog can overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Even a short king from the Bronx can defeat heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson with the right combination of skill, luck, and determination.

Interestingly, Punch-Out!!'s successful application of narrative technique didn't reframe the sports sim as a potential vehicle for narrative. Titles like Street Fighter II became successful less because they featured characters whose stories compelled audiences but rather because the technical achievements available in them hewed closer to the ideal of sport in general. By this I mean that I believe audiences, particularly sportswatching audiences, understand better than television executives that the hope for every game watched is that the game itself will be elegant and beautiful according to the specific sport. You don't have to be a fan of either team to enjoy a well-played Super Bowl because the art created on the field is universally appreciable so long as you can recognize the specific ways that gridiron football creates that beauty.

In this way we can recognize that narrative isn't a requirement of sports sims because, while individual sports seasons are enhanced by the narratives surrounding them, even in a vacuum these games can produce art in and of themselves. As such, it makes sense that licensing agreements would be made with sports leagues for permission to use their teams' and players' names and likenesses for their game products, as it is easier to make a beautiful game out of professionals at the highest, most difficult settings of their sports than it would be for amateur equivalents.

This is not to say that such considerations are necessarily consciously in mind when players purchase a sports sim. Rather, players enter into the basic contract that these games offer: play me, and you will have fun.

I also suggest that having a ludic sandbox available to them can help players engage with their favorite teams in a low-stakes way, thus offering numerous benefits to them perhaps better described in an essay examining sports fandom specifically.

In any case, ignoring the fundamental artform of each sport enables a quite crass view sports fandom in general. I believe that the very belief that sports are not art engenders the nasty comments you often hear of athletes, especially in the MLB. "These guys get paid to stand around for two and a half hours. And they get paid MILLIONS!" Of course, team owners agree. They also believe that players should be paid much less.

While art can sometimes elicit similar comments ("This Jeff Koons sculpture sold for HOW much? It's just a balloon animal!"), the so-called "legitimate" arts don't. A van Gogh of course deserves its price tag. Jaws of course should have cost millions of dollars to film.

Worth noting, of course, is that Jaws is an adaptation of a novel published a year earlier. Considered by critics at the time to feature simplistic characterizations, its suspense worked, and its marketing campaign made it widely-read. Jaws, the film, made enough improvements to the source text that its quality far outpaced the novel's, and it in turn became the archetypal summer blockbuster. This type of film is now generally regarded as being oversaturated and of low quality--and therefore of vulgar character.

Jaws was distributed to theaters in 1975, 4 years after Pong was put in arcades.

While film had to decay from art to trash, games started as trash and never elevated themselves (all of this, of course, in the critical consideration of the masses). And yet both Jaws and Pong represent the simple beauty of sport and competition--framed in different ways, yes, but with heroic underdogs, the uncertainty of victory, the elegance of struggle, sacrifice and strategy, all of this contributing to an experience of basic human cognitive joy, exultation in a play well-executed, a scene well-shot, a button well-pressed.

It's time to recognize such beauty where it is.

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

The Magnus Mavericks

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UdL76nm by WonkyElk “Man, I can’t believe she’s actually leaving. I kind of thought of her as a constant, you know? Like death and taxes. And wasps.” In which the team are superheroes, in a football-style League; and Jon thinks that being promoted to Captain might be easier, if he didn’t have to deal with his predecessor conspicuously judging him. Words: 7689, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Gertrude Robinson, Martin Blackwood, Sasha James, Basira Hussain, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Melanie King, Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Gertrude Robinson & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist & Everyone Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, POV Alternating read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UdL76nm

[sexyirish7]

Rugby Wall Decals

The Rugby World Cup starts in France in 2 days, 20 hours, and 36 minutes. The New Zealand All Blacks will play against the French Les Bleus in the opener and I am super excited, in case you could not tell. :) 

One of the things I miss most from Sims 3 is the ability for sims to play rugby while at university. I am attempting to fill that void in Sims 4 by making a Rabbithole Professional Rugby Career Mod. This is taking time, but as the World Cup begins, I thought I would release some of the rugby-themed cc that I have been working on. 

There are 2 files of decals. One includes a smaller size for the decals and the other includes a larger or tall decal option (see captions for which decals go with each file.

Rugby Wall Decals

DOWNLOAD for FREE: SFS

OR at Patreon*

*You must be over 18 to access my Patreon page.

Rugby Decals Tall

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OR at Patreon*

*You must be over 18 to access my Patreon page.

Creations by SexyIrish7

This cc object was produced as a selective clone using Sims 4 Studio.

RugbyWallDecals_SexyIrish7: 29 swatches of rugby-themed wall decals

RugbyDecalsTall_SexyIrish7: 5 swatches of rugby-themed wall decals

Polygon Count: 2

Ability to search catalog using search terms: sexyirish7 and si7

Customized thumbnail 

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CREDITS:

Software credits:

Sims 4 Studio v. 3.2.1.1 (Star): https://sims4studio.com

GIMP v. 2.10.34: https://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape v. 1.2: https://inkscape.org/

Thank you to the creators and moderators producing tutorials and answering questions!

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Image Credits for RugbyWallDecals_SexyIrish7:

Swatches 1-15: Image purchased from Etsy Store LeremyStickFigures https://www.etsy.com/shop/LeremyStickFigures?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=687510800 or http://www.leremy.com/

Swatches 16-23: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/vintage-rugby-sport-elements-set_9586821.htm#query=rugby&position=16&from_view=search&track=sph  Image by macrovector on Freepik

Swatches  24-25: https://www.clipartmax.com/middle/m2i8i8d3m2m2i8b1_ball-clipart-rugby-league-rugby-ball-clipart/  Ball Clipart Rugby League - Rugby Ball Clipart @clipartmax.com

Swatches 26-27: https://imgbin.com/png/yWi48bHY/rugby-ball-american-football-sport-png Image by Warriorkidx

Swatch 28:  https://www.clipartmax.com/middle/m2i8A0m2H7N4m2m2_regulation-rugby-ball-vector-rugby-ball-logo-png/  Regulation Rugby Ball Vector - Rugby Ball Logo Png @clipartmax.com

Swatch 29:  Background grass  https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/striped-green-grass-field-seamless_13050208.htm#page=2&query=rugby%20pattern&position=7&from_view=search&track=ais   Image by macrovector on Freepik

https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/vintage-rugby-sport-elements-set_9586821.htm#query=rugby&position=16&from_view=search&track=sph  Image by macrovector on Freepik

Image Credits for RugbyDecalsTall_SexyIrish7:

Swatches 1-3: Image purchased from Etsy Store LeremyStickFigures https://www.etsy.com/shop/LeremyStickFigures?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=687510800 or http://www.leremy.com/

Swatches 4-5: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/vintage-rugby-sport-elements-set_9586821.htm#query=rugby&position=16&from_view=search&track=sph  Image by macrovector on Freepik

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[robdeezel]

Deezel Stream LIVE 3pm [PST] Madden Week 8 trades and games, then moving on to Week 18! Rob will take control of the sticks later in the evening to play the Texans Dynasty! Viewers pay channel points to make a player for the team and boost their stats!

[mattcc]

Sims 4 - England 24-25 Football Shirt

Download Here: https://www.patreon.com/MattCC

Enjoy :)

Feel free to request what I should make next

No early access to celebrate the Euros!

[wingederato]

Modern!Hotd Targaryen siblings headcanons

I have a lot to say about Helaena and Aegon

also please send me ur ideas i have such brainrot ty

tw// substance abuse (aegon's part)

Helaena

has a butterfly tattoo

fairy light enthusiast

dresses like the 70's met the naughties with a hint of grunge fairycore

loves horror films but gets upset when they kill animals

loves astrology and tarot cards

loves crystals even though aegon laughs at her

wants a pet snake but alicent told her she cant have one (aemond is scared of them)

smokes (i do not encourage this kids!!)

luke tried to teach her to skateboard but she prefers roller skating

phoebe bridgers and gracie abrams girl

science girlie OMG STEM GIRLIE

plays sims but never gets past decorating the house and making the sims cuz she takes like 48 hours to do that alone

sometimes plays Minecraft with aegon but literally just collects cats and builds

Aemond

reads history books to try and bond with viserys

so good at sports

football, rugby you name it & he's good at it

wasn't particularly popular at school but had friends through sports teams

mama's boy but that's not a headcanon

instead of losing his eye, he has a massive scar through his eyebrow and under his eye from where Luke banged his head off the edge of a kitchen counter

so incredibly well disciplined to the point where he sometimes will not speak unless he is spoken to

he and jace are sports rivals cuz they go to opposite schools that compete against each other

i feel like I've not thought about this enough so please expect a part two where i just talk about aemond

Aegon

such a fuckboy bitch

writes fucking love songs for every new girl he dates

'I shoulda known all along, I was only the next one To take your love songs as a promise' this lyric from vicious by sabrina carpenter but its about him

OMG this bitch makes tiktoks and everyone LOVES them cuz hes a hot guy doing hot shit

PAINTS HIS NAILS

stop hes just my emo gamer bf

STOP

gamer??

no definitely a gamer.

plays league of legends (red flag but me too)

OMG anyone who plays league i bet this bitch like plays yasuo

i like how im just referring to him as bitch after being nice to aemond and helaena

i kinda love modern!aegon tho. like hes my type of man.

deep down hes a pure sweet heart

HAS BAGS UNDER HIS EYES FROM STAYING UP ALL NIGHT ON DISCORD AND GAMES

i have romanticised him into my perfect man send help

struggles with love cuz he was never shown it while young his perception of love is literally based on artificial perfection

he uses substances (alcohol nicotine etc) to cope with his issues and doesn't ever really open up

he really tries to present himself as a cruel person with no emotions but no one really ever believes him.

was really good at english in school

[sevensjesper]

Modern!Hotd Targaryen siblings headcanons

I have a lot to say about Helaena and Aegon

also please send me ur ideas i have such brainrot ty

tw// substance abuse (aegon's part)

Helaena

has a butterfly tattoo

fairy light enthusiast

dresses like the 70's met the naughties with a hint of grunge fairycore

loves horror films but gets upset when they kill animals

loves astrology and tarot cards

loves crystals even though aegon laughs at her

wants a pet snake but alicent told her she cant have one (aemond is scared of them)

smokes (i do not encourage this kids!!)

luke tried to teach her to skateboard but she prefers roller skating

phoebe bridgers and gracie abrams girl

science girlie OMG STEM GIRLIE

plays sims but never gets past decorating the house and making the sims cuz she takes like 48 hours to do that alone

sometimes plays Minecraft with aegon but literally just collects cats and builds

Aemond

reads history books to try and bond with viserys

so good at sports

football, rugby you name it & he's good at it

wasn't particularly popular at school but had friends through sports teams

mama's boy but that's not a headcanon

instead of losing his eye, he has a massive scar through his eyebrow and under his eye from where Luke banged his head off the edge of a kitchen counter

so incredibly well disciplined to the point where he sometimes will not speak unless he is spoken to

he and jace are sports rivals cuz they go to opposite schools that compete against each other

i feel like I've not thought about this enough so please expect a part two where i just talk about aemond

Aegon

such a fuckboy bitch

writes fucking love songs for every new girl he dates

'I shoulda known all along, I was only the next one To take your love songs as a promise' this lyric from vicious by sabrina carpenter but its about him

OMG this bitch makes tiktoks and everyone LOVES them cuz hes a hot guy doing hot shit

PAINTS HIS NAILS

stop hes just my emo gamer bf

STOP

gamer??

no definitely a gamer.

plays league of legends (red flag but me too)

OMG anyone who plays league i bet this bitch like plays yasuo

i like how im just referring to him as bitch after being nice to aemond and helaena

i kinda love modern!aegon tho. like hes my type of man.

deep down hes a pure sweet heart

HAS BAGS UNDER HIS EYES FROM STAYING UP ALL NIGHT ON DISCORD AND GAMES

i have romanticised him into my perfect man send help

struggles with love cuz he was never shown it while young his perception of love is literally based on artificial perfection

he uses substances (alcohol nicotine etc) to cope with his issues and doesn't ever really open up

he really tries to present himself as a cruel person with no emotions but no one really ever believes him.

was really good at english in school

[simwmeshawn]

Meet Madison Spence, Model and aspiring entertainment lawyer. She is the wife of SFL (Sims Football League) superstar, Nehemiah Spence. Madison is the founder of the WAGs (Wives and Girlfriends) of Del Sol club. Some of her day to day routine includes taking care of her two daughters, hosting WAGS events, spending her husbands money, and working as a model.

[heyclickadee]

Some more thoughts about “Aftermath” because I haven’t had a chance to watch “Cut and Run” yet:

1. Wrecker is having so much fun in the first half of the Battle Simulation scene. Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, and Tech are treating it pretty casually. They’ve done it a million times, they know they can pull the simulation off, it’ll all be fine, nothing special. Wrecker, though? He’s kind of in his element. This is an absolute blast for him, and that honestly kind of makes sense. I don’t think any clones had much of a chance to have fun on Kamino—I mean, I can’t see the Kaminoans organizing field days or an intramural football league for the little cadets, unless it had to do with training—and the cadets of Clone Force 99 were probably even a little more pressure to train and prove themselves worth keeping around (in the eyes of the Kaminoans). Battle Simulations were probably the closest thing to sports or games the cadets had, once they got good at them, anyway. It’s like extreme capture the flag—they still have to perform extremely well, but at least they can let some energy out without worrying about getting shot at for real. Wrecker’s been in so many real life combat situations that that’s probably how this whole thing is reading to him. He’s not rushing in wildly because he’s stupid, he’s doing it because he’s confident and because he assumes, and has every reason to assume, that he’s not in any real danger. The way Wrecker says, “New toys!” When the newer droids pop up? This is Wrecker’s playground, right up until the moment he gets shot for real.

2. I honestly love how you can’t see Hunter’s face when he sees the new battle droids pop up in the simulation scene, but that you can still absolutely read an, “Oh shit oh shit ohshitohshiiiiiiit,” expression into his helmet.

3. So…not really important, but as much as I hope Crosshair grows some hair back, I hope that it’s not…like this. I understand that there are limitations to making hair out of geometry instead of doing hair sims and I get that they’re still going for a slightly more naturalistic version of the “figures carved from wood” idea that The Clone Wars had going on, and I get that it’s basically supposed to be a close cropped crew cut, but. But. It looks like lego hair. If Crosshair’s not going to be Crossbald anymore, he ought to have some cooler hair. He deserves it at this point.

4. I LOVE how angry Wrecker is that the Kaminoans used live rounds on them in the training sim. He’s furious and he should be. And I also love that Tech backs him up when Crosshair starts on his little, “Whatever, it’s not like you’ve never been shot before, all hail our glorious empire, my new favorite thing suddenly in the last twenty-four hours for some reason,” shtick. And I also kind of love that the last thing Wreckers points out is that they’re not droids—it’s wrong to use them as target practice because they’re still people, and that it doesn’t seem to click with Crosshair because of whatever the chip is doing to his brain at this point.

5. I could be wrong but the kids and the old lady we see in the Onderon sequence don’t actually show up again in “Replacements,” but some of the other civilians do. I was hoping grandma and those kids got away with Saw before Crosshair and the Elite Squad show up later, and I think they actually do.

6. Speaking of Saw, it sure is nice of him to drop in and introduce one of the central motifs of the series: Adapt and survive, or die with the past. And, interestingly enough, though the whole batch has been trying to do the former in one way or another, we’ve had two series finales so far where it looks like one of the five men Saw’s talking to here make a choice that sure makes it look like they’re doing the later. Crosshair made a choice to stay with the Empire, to remain a soldier and the only thing he’s ever been at the end of season one, but doing so also meant staying on Kamino with no supplies, no food, no water, no way off. I think Crosshair knew there was a very good chance he’d never make it off Kamino if he chose to stay behind, and he chose to stay anyway, putting himself at a pretty high risk of dying on the only home he every knew with the remains of Tipoca City smoldering in his line of sight. And then in season two you’ve got Tech, choosing to sacrifice himself as a soldier, as he would have done any any of the missions they’d been on before, and doing something which, from his point of view, is also likely to get him killed.

Except that, of course, neither of their choices are as clean cut as that. Crosshair’s choice didn’t stick—he didn’t die on Kamino, and he didn’t stick with the empire in the end. He’s very much on the “adapt and survive” trajectory, even though I think there’s a chance he’d rather he didn’t for a little while when we see him again. And in keeping with what seems to be the theme of my blog at this point, I don’t expect Tech’s “die with the past” choice is going to stick either, and that the next time we see him he’s going to be in his own version of that “adapt and survive” trajectory.

7. So, Saw Gerrera is a mess and he can sometimes act without thinking about who his actions are going to hurt or what impact they’re going to have, but he is, at least, incredibly clear-eyed about what they Empire is, even at this early stage when a lot of people who are simply exhausted by the clone wars are not. Also, good for him for (I assume) protecting those refugees and getting at least some of them to safety.

8. Okay, so, Wrecker and Crosshair bet on whether or not Echo was going to make it out of the infirmary alive, and I get that they were joking and that they’d be devastated if Echo were to actually die, but also—how hard did Echo get hit? How hard was that guy swinging that tray?

9. Echo’s immediate reaction to Tarkin is, “Oh, not this asshole,” and you know what? That is the proper response. Tarkin is tremendously evil and frighteningly good at his job. There’s a reason why Vader is basically just his attack dog in A New Hope.

10. Echo’s extremely disturbed what-the-hell reaction to hearing the words “Galactic Empire?” Also the proper response.

11. “I don’t like being hooked up to their machines either.” WHAT did Nala Se and the Kaminoans DO to this kid get her AWAY from Hemlock NOW (heck, what’d they do to Emerie? Is Omega named “Omega” because she was the last of that specific production of clones? Why did they make her? I neeeed answers why is season three so far awaaaaaaayyyyyy)

13. Every moment Echo is on screen is gold and I want more of him in season three.

14. So…I know that Wrecker’s chip really goes off in episode seven, and almost goes off in episode six, but I’m actually not sure the initial activation wasn’t at the same time as Crosshair’s. Now, if it was, it’s operating at a really low level; let’s say that Crosshair’s chip is initially operating at a six, and that Wrecker’s chip, if it activated, is initially at about a 0.5. It wouldn’t be enough to make him do anything, but would maybe do just enough to make certain things slide where the empire is concerned. Hunter, Tech, and Echo all express some serious moral objections to the Empire and the genocide of the jedi, besides one line from Tech where he seems to get twisted up defending the fact that they’re still technically soldiers of the Empire to Saw, while Crosshair and Wrecker don’t. Crosshair doesn’t really express any kind of moral opinion of his own, but says over and over again that killing the Jedi were their orders and they should just follow orders (why are you guys not following orders what do you mean it’s weird I’m following orders it’s not weird you’re weird). Wrecker…doesn’t say anything about it at all, except that the new armory is cool and that maybe the empire won’t be such a bad thing after all. He has objections, but it’s always to personal stuff and not to the empire specifically.

And that’s…weird. Not because I think Wrecker’s really that concerned with the politics of the galaxy and a regime change, but because Wrecker’s generally a pretty decent guy, really gentle with kids, and he was pretty buddy-buddy with a Jedi kid a few hours/days ago, and the mass slaughter of that kid’s people doesn’t seem to be registering at all. So…maybe his chip was on, on a really, really low level, in a way that made it hard for him to latch onto the enormity of how bad it was. Maybe. I could go either way on this.

15. The version of Omega’s theme that plays as she watches the Marauder fly away to Onderon is one of my favorite music cues in this episode.

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does your country have any popular sports/sporting events?

Hi Nony! Great question!

Yes! Windenburg has two very popular sports - Tennis and Soccer. Windenburg is home to one of the three tennis Grand Slams in the sims world, and is also home to a 15x World Cup soccer team.

Tennis: There are (3) Grand Slams in our sims world.

The Championships Brambledon held annually in May at the All Windenburg Club in Easton, Windenburg is the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass, and the oldest tennis tournament in the sims world. It is widely regarded as the most prestigious. The Queen is patron of the All Windenburg Lawn Tennis and Soccer Club, also known as the All Windenburg Club, a private members' club best known as the venue for the Brambledon Championships. The royal family has a private box on the famed Felix Court and a royal patron presents the Championship trophy's to the Men's and Women's finalists.

The O.S. Open held annually in March in Mirage Canyon, Oasis Springs is the clay court Grand Slam tournament held at Monaco Tennis Center since 1927. The facility has 4 courts and is named after the Oasis Springs Royal Family, who are regular tournament guests.

The Americreek Open held annually in September in Newcrest, Americreek is the hard court Grand Slam tournament held at USTA Sallie Ray Knight Tennis Center. The facility has 3 courts. Arthur Armstrong Stadium held the record as the biggest tennis stadium in the sims world from 1935 - 2021 being replaced by Felix Court after 2021 renovations of the All Windenburg Club.

Players from the 2021 Easton Royals with Her Royal Highness The Princess Lara, Countess of Boykins

Soccer: Windenburg's most famous soccer (football) team within the National Soccer League (NSL) is the Easton Royals, who have won a total of 15 Championship titles since the organization started in 1951; their last title came in 2021. As royal patron of the All Windenburg Lawn Tennis and Soccer Club, members of the royal family often attend games .

Thanks for the ask! 💜