#here's my take

[ranmagender]

[ID: image of freddy fazbear, a brown bear with a top hat and bowtie saying "HAR" in a purple speech cloud END ID]

I love how @chloesimaginationthings draws Freddy. He just looks so huggable.

[petit-papillion]

I want Charles to win.

Not when Max has damage. Or Max's car is not performing. Or Max DNFs.

I want Charles to win.

By fighting Max for P1. By having to cleverly plan when to pass Max or whoever else may be in front of him. By driving brilliantly to keep all other drivers behind him.

I want Charles to win.

When everyone is at their best. When there are no circumstances that give him an advantage. No Lap 1 bowling taking out top competitors. No convenient safety car. No team orders to give him the lead.

I want Charles to win.

And get full credit for his outstanding race craft. Kudos for his superior tyre management. Admiration for his smart strategizing.

I want Charles to win.

Not once, but over and over and over again. Setting fastest laps. Getting Grand Slams. Having the fastest pit stop. Beating records set by Lauda, Schumacher, Hamilton, Verstappen.

I want Charles to win.

So I can see him winking as he receives his medal. Fill with pride as he raises his trophy. Watch him fondly look down at his team while the Monegasque anthem plays. Join the Italians as they passionately belt out their anthem.

I want Charles to win.

Until everyone but me is sick of seeing him on that top step. Until no one calls into question his abilities as a top-notch F1 driver. Until every up-and-coming driver aspires to be like him.

Yes, I may be delusional, unrealistic, off my rocker, or in la la land, but I am a Charles-fan, which means...

I want Charles to win

Petit | 26 March 2024

[episims]

Beos Free-weight Bench Press Edited

This is a weird thing to share during Simblreen unless you're like me and actually terrified of gyms. Trying to lift these bars would definitely be mortal to me.

This bench press (T$R link) by beos is great but it has some English text and textures that I'm not a fan of. So I edited the text and some glossiness away from the weights, remapped them, repo'd the bars to the base game exercise machine, and made the shadow softer.

If you're not familiar with this object, it's fully functional, as this life-risking test sim proves:

I tweaked the advertising settings of the bench to be the same as the exercise equality mod has, which means sims will be crazy about it but if you have the mod, they are at least equally crazy about all the exercise machines.

And then I also increased its energy drain from 0 to 15 to get it in line with exercise tweaks by Cyjon.

Download (SFS) (alternate)

The file is compressed. Let it override the original if you have it, they have the same GUID. Requires University, the bench part is repo'd to the exercise machine that came with it.

The size of the edited file is about 1/4 of the original. Polycount is 2126, less than most Maxis exercise machines are. Full credit to beos for the object!

[sboochi]

One of these days the yearning is gonna get them both killed

[alucardsinep]

[ionomycin]

Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

[soaked-doors]

happy birthday zoro 🎉🍾

[bluegiragi]

december night.

early access + nsfw on patreon

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

[jeanmoreaux]

adore how the evil boop is *the* expression of love when booping people like yes ofc i did waste precious seconds to press that stupid button for an annoyingly long time just to send you the most useless yet most specialest, weirdly aggressive boop <3

[chloesimaginationthings]

Y’all remember the foxy is nice FNAF theory

[blabberoo]

prev | next [ in kofi, but it will be public in a couple of days :D ]

[crimeronan]

god i wish i wouldn't have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you've been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.

well.

today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year's trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)

jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven't even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.

and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat.

this is a children's game for children btw.

none of the money is real.

i'm having such a good time.

[hinamie]

make it vicious, take a stab

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

do you even remember the lives that you threw away like trash

continuation of this

[wanologic]

and they were roommates