#it’s a puppycat ramble

[itspupppycat]

If I start posting a legacy and then decide I want to add a banner to the post after a while would that be disruptive to the viewer?

Cause part of me really wants a banner for my new short lifespan legacy but I worry if I do that it will feel like pressure to always have the banner and never ever do anything else. It’s a fine line for me between doing so much I burn myself out before I start and just avoiding it all together, there is rarely a middle ground. I’m trying to change that about my content sharing but it’s a slow process.

You know I get so excited about these new projects (ie saves and sims) and I want to give it my best always but sometimes there’s a perfectionist whispering to me about not being good enough. That’s when I stop and move on to something else but every time I always say “don’t do too much Deana” but I fail 98% of the time.

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I need to pose up my latest cottagecore lesbians. I did not make the sims just redressed them. I want to do some cottage living gameplay and lesbians duh.

Thank you to simmers that do every outfit for their gallery sims. It really saves me such a headache.

I’m also giving sims likes and dislikes which is uncommon for me. I don’t usually care about that especially for townie sims and with played sims I just decide as the pop ups come. Lately though I’ve given them all many likes and dislikes (but no fashion, decor, or color preference bc the buffs from them disliking stuff is super annoying to me) and I think it’s going to make my game play way more dynamic especially once I install Lovestruck.

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I feel like working on a save before going to bed. I’m not sure if I want to make the sims for the next house I need to fill or just make over sims from the gallery/my library. Both we inevitably take a while for different reasons.

I love loading into a minimal cc save cause it loads so fast.

I need to fill a 3 br house that has two double beds and a single bed. I was thinking 3 generations for that house: a widowed grandparent, a young couple, and their young child. The other house is 4 br with two double beds, a single bed, toddler, and items for pets. The house screams career driven parents who had children later in life but they don’t really pay attention to their children and got them pets to occupy them. The kind of family that could afford a butler and expects them to do child care.

Not sure which household I want to work on but that’s what I have left to do for Newcrest in this almost vanilla save. After that I need to focus on the community lots for the world then decide what world to do next.

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I just spent my afternoon updating some mod folders. Why did I then spend over an hour trying to troubleshoot why I couldn’t load into any households in one of my very vanilla saves.

The mccc last exception didn’t make any sense to me so I tried to use better exceptions and that shit was scanning for over an hour before I just forced the game to close. I looked over the last exception again and saw a mod listed that I recently downloaded before the big update. Turns out the mod by Robin that turns the vegetarian trait into a reward trait is broken. I feel so sad cause I really enjoyed that mod cause it’s so dumb that vegetarian is a personality trait.

Now I can at least get back to playing this save. I’m trying to have this sim work toward owning a vet clinic cause I haven’t done that business yet. The sim is still a teen so they have some time before they are ready for ownership and running a business.

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I know I stopped posting about the Langleys but I haven’t stopped thinking about them. I did forget that my banner is the last family portrait they took and now I’m contemplating dusting off their save (yes I kept the save despite not playing it anymore). I’m really thinking about continuing the legacy but on normal lifespan so it’s a little less rushed.

That’s a heavily modded save so it obviously wouldn’t be anytime soon because so many mods are still broken or haven’t been spoken for yet.

Would it be acceptable to do a time jump in a legacy share? Cause I don’t think I want to process all the photos to get the story up to date but the last thing I posted was about generation nine and when I stopped playing generation ten had just died. It’s a decent amount of pics but nothing major really happens. I’ll just start drafting what I think was interesting and see where I end up.

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Bed time is almost over and I’m working on my cross fade. I’m gonna try and take Keith into the jungle. Hopefully he doesn’t die (is there a death?) and Terri doesn’t go into labor at a bad time. I won’t bring Terri into the jungle I’m not that irresponsible.

I think I got some cute maternity pictures for them to hang in the house but I did not take regular screenshots lol so sorry. To be fair this was not a save I planned on sharing it was just meant to be for some random late night fun but they are just too cute not to share.

I show a lot of resistant by not sharing every single save I have but some things we should have for ourselves.

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My compulsion to create new saves cannot be satisfied. I just made save number 32 (thirty-two). I’ve made I think 9 (nine) new saves in the last few weeks. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my other saves, I just have a way I want to play sometimes and I can’t bring myself to add a new played sim to a save I already have going.

I’m just not interested in progressing any of my current saves for many different reasons. Some need building, some need sim makeovers, some need new townies, and none of them have what I want right now.

The nice thing is I have a 1TB external hard drive that I store all of this on so I don’t clutter up my actual laptop. Thank goodness I replaced the old one with an ssd it’s so fast that I can swap saves multiple times in a day with no inconvenience to my time.

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I commend anyone who has made their own reshade/gshade preset. I’ve been messing around and tweaking ones that I like to better suit my preferences.

Today I finally messed around and added DoF to one I have been using for months, it took me at least an hour of fiddling to finally kind of get it where I want it. Adding dof is probably my number 1 request of any preset cause I don’t want to edit it in after the fact.

I obviously won’t share it because it wasn’t mine originally so it’s for personal use but I highly recommend making a copy of your favorite preset and fiddling around I’ve learned so much about different shaders and effects.

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It’s time for daily morning routine of thinking way too hard about which sims to play with. I have way too many options and I like them all! I just cannot start anything new. I don’t know why I have such a hard time resuming gameplay and it’s not just the sims, I have this problem when I try to play other games too. It’s like I’m afraid I’ll be disappointed and I’ll have wasted my precious time when I could have done something else. But that feels like a risk with everything so I need to get over that cause it is holding me back from enjoying things.

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It’s going to be a long shift. I’m literally pining over my sims right now. I’ll put it below so as to not clutter up the dash with all my nonsense words.

I was playing with the original Humphrey household I made. Someone recently liked that post about original Terri and I just had to set them down in a proper save of their own. Right now it’s a very low mod/almost no cc save. I have my favorite defaults, a few overrides for a bit of variety and some mods for quality of life stuff. I was actually having a really fun time, I just really love the ranch/farm life in the sims. They don’t have a lot of simoleons but I’m not worried about it at all, it’s not like it’s super challenging to come by even without cheating.

I also made a copy of an edit of one of my favorite gshade presets and it didn’t copy exactly for whatever reason but I tweaked it and I love the way the game looks when I use it. I’ll share some screenshots later when I get home.

I guess I need to come up with a tag now to tell the difference between original Humphrey family and alternate Humphrey family. Maybe ranch life Humphrey and alternate life Humphrey?

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Ignore below. I was bored at work and I needed to get some sim thoughts out of my head.

Oh but I might have actually figured out the dish washing issue. At best I can I figure it’s the overhead cabinets causing the issue. Every where house that doesn’t have that problem has a sink with no cabinet overhead. I’m realizing now it might have to do with the wall height too cause I don’t have this problem with my vanilla save but the test sim lives in a house with medium walls and her kitchen sink does have a cabinet above it. Interesting.

I hope I have the energy to play with the Hayes/Humphrey save when I get home from work. I want to see Terri with her little baby bump and I want to continue growing the friendship between the four of them. It’s funny to me that Terri and Drake are coworkers cause I didn’t realize I was making a second sim in the tech career but I was also dressing Jacquelyn in orange which is Terri’s favorite color.

I have a few poses to download in hopes of creating like a besties having babies kind of maternity shoot before Jacquelyn has her baby. How is that I can only find one pose pack for friends who are pregnant at the same time? I feel like that happens so much irl that there should be more poses inspired by that.

I really want them both to have large families but I don’t think any of their children will pair up in the future which means a lot of households to play when they age up. I might have to rethink what a large family means to them. I was think 5 for the Hayes and 6 for the Humphreys but I think it might have to be more like 3 and 4 so I don’t have as many sims to manage later lol. I know that’s so far in the future cause I have this save set to extra extra long with slowed game time but because the families will likely grow up spending a lot of time together I feel like they would see each other as family too much to catch romantic feelings. I doubt I will really play with all the offspring but they will stay in played households so they aren’t treated like NPCs.

I mean I already know where the Hayes family will move when they outgrow their current home. I know where the Humphrey family will be moving too as well. I really need to work on that rec center for Newcrest so the Hayes family has somewhere to visit as a family.

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I’m so envious of people who just share their sims with or without a story. I don’t know why I feel like I can’t just share, it happens on discord too. I have a few threads and I fail to maintain them because it feels like I have to put in so much effort it removes the joy from the whole experience.

The thing is I know I have loads of creative ideas but I hate the idea of sharing my stuff to a void. And I know I should be sharing for me but sometimes it’s discouraging when no one engages with your stuff (not here bc y’all are awesome).

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I think I finally got Earl and Siobhan’s house to a place I like. The other day I spent over an hour placing gallery builds only to not be satisfied with anything I placed down. So I rolled the save back and just worked on the house I worked so hard building for them. I love the way it’s coming along. They finally had enough simoleons to actually buy some clutter and make the space look more lived in.

I think Skye will stay in her parent’s bedroom until she is a toddler. I assume by then the second story of the house will be complete and I can move the guest bedroom upstairs. I hate having toddlers on the second floor cause they take forever to climb the stairs even with a maxed out movement skill and I’m impatient.

No scratch that cause Siobhan is freaking pregnant so sadly baby girl will have to move to her own room when the new baby comes. I know how hard it is on the infants and toddlers when the newborn object keeps crying from doing the 100 infant challenge in a micro home.

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Damn when was the last time I checked in with Earl and Siobhan? I completely forgot she was pregnant but now that I know I remember having them woohoo with the knowledge that the risk of pregnancy was likely. I have now paused her pregnancy and turned off aging temporarily. I just need a sim day or two to gather my thoughts on this but I don’t want the children to be too far apart in age. I also need to remember to get them condoms and birth control cause I don’t actually want them to have more than two children cause that means I have to take more than two sims out in the world for the next generation of rags to riches per my own rules. I only want to take two sims this time around as it is generation two.

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I haven’t taken a proper picture of a sim in what feels like ages. I just get in the game and fix something that was going wrong just before I run out of time or energy to really play. I always think oh this will be a quick thing to deal with and then it never is or I get distracted looking at cc I don’t need.

Earlier I was I playing with some siblings I made years ago (I gave them a little revamp cause I didn’t have the same cc from 2020) to test if the high school promote patch is actually working (I don’t actually know if I ever had that problem cause I only recently got HSY and I quickly put all the recommended mods for that pack into my mods folder) but I couldn’t play for long because I was annoyed by two things: my sims couldn’t wash dishes and all my interaction menus were taking forever to respond. So I switched to a new base save I’m putting together for myself and both issues were gone. So there is some mod causing an issue in the modded test save.

But I was having a blast in that vanilla base save I was using to test if the dish issues was the game or a mod. I have a few QoL mods for this base save like mccc, ui cheats, tool, bbb, home regions as well as a few mini mods from kuttoe, and a default skin but nothing else because I really want a vanilla base save. Obviously the goal is to do over the whole save not to actually play but I couldn’t help myself (and it’s a copy cause I was testing if my sim could wash dishes). Leanna is just so cute even though she’s paranoid and currently afraid of the dark.

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I really want to work on a base save and a personal save but both seem like a lot of work. I just see people talking about their personal saves and it makes me want to have a personal save. Now that I’m typing this I actually think I have a save that could be my personal save.

I’ve had this save the longest but it’s been the longest since I really played with it. Last time I checked in I just made over all the households and never went back to take family portraits of them. That was some time last year but it’s probably been at least two years since I properly played in that save.

It has three families that span about eight households. I could work on finishing building up Newcrest. I could make my own townies. Hmm, maybe this will be my personal save.