#sam tsr

[bitchboi-gogurt]

this is pretty much their dynamic

[cursed-elements-blog]

mmm yummy perspectives thank you for giving your imput on this little man, by the by, turning back the clock by 100 or so years what is your opinion on chunter 0 . o*, Samuel ayers?

*[parsed zero 'point' oh] (felt the need to include this because i would be too dumb to get it and would only see it as the 0.o face)

Sam "Mr Misfortune" Ayers oh boy!

love Sam, he can be aloof and he has a dry sense of humor and i love that in protagonists. he's fascinating cause like, he's bitter about his circumstances and life and yet he has this sense of god-fearing self sacrificial-ness? like he kinda believes that he deserves some of the shit that's happening to him while ALSO romanticizing the idea of leaving and restarting his life and that's some good shit.

I think Sam is at his strongest in terms of writing in Murdoch's route and Cliff's. now i haven't read the last six or so TSR updates (busy girl here) so i can't really talk about his current character in Nik's and Will's but ough Sam in Cliff and Murdoch's routes is so fucking good. His interactions with the Byrnes family, Blithe, the traveling group in Cliff's route, the Meseta, OUGHGH!! it's like, god he's so well written there. just seeing how he takes in the world around him and processes it vs his own goals and how he grows and changes as he gets close to the people around him.

like he can definitely be warm and accommodating, especially when working, but he is undeniably selfish in his actions beyond that and i really like his sense of action (especially compared to other vn protags *cough cough* adastra). he isn't like, malicious, just kinda reckless and very self-serving

great character! love that gougar

[coldmail750]

Spent six hours stuck in a plane yesterday and was so desperate to fill the time that I actually produced a crude sketch for the first time in literal months

[shokupanda]

🦡🐅colored the nik and yao scribbles. nyah

[bitnopa]

pov witness to the faggotry

ft. the faggotry

[mangopossum]

The boyyyyssss 🥰🥰🥰

[nitw]

MOTHERFUCKER UNLIMITED

[fullpurpart]

[c-kiddo]

have you seen scavengers reign? Very annihilation coded..

yees ^_^ i watched it when it first came out. and a couple times again since then . its rly fantastic + agree about annihilation similar vibes, ursula and the biologist specifically. i love ursula and sam a lot

[cedarspiced]

couldn't sleep so i threw together a concept for a painting that's been rattling around in my brain for a bit

[unsafescapewolf]

Sam and Cynthia sharing some gossip about clients while doing some overdue laundry for The Hip.

[azelle-intermisson]

holy fuck i just got to the scene in murdoch's route where him and sam are trying on suits and i was not ready for that. he was already such a sad character but like everything that they talked about was just so brutal. and how sam still doesn't trust him even though murdoch is trying so hard to make him aaaa its so hard to read (positive).

[fullpurpart]

[crowroboros]

samuel ayers analimean analysis

I'm going to hold off on going too in-depth with Sam cause I really want to wait until TSR has a bit more content in all of its routes, just so I can really take a look at his whole character arc across the VN. I'm also not caught up with the most recent updates, so I'm not the most familiar with where his character stands currently in Nik's route (which the past few updates has been focused on from what I've heard). Spoilers for both The Smoke Room and Echo.

Samuel Ayers I find very interesting. Compared to Chase or Cameron—both of whom express a dislike of religion and a distaste for letting it influence how they live their lives— Sam really does live and die by his beliefs. There are so many times where we hear Sam's monologue in which he talks down to himself as if he himself is "tarnished" or "sinful". I do think part of this is a result from him murdering Jack in the mines as one of the first things he convinces himself of is that Satan is with him in the mines and is ready to drag him to hell for killing the guy. Now, I'm not religious nor am I familiar with the Christian God so I cannot and will not comment on the objectiveness of Sam's views but it's clear that Sam sees the Christian God as something to be feared. It creates an interesting dynamic in which Sam often grapples with his actions and sexuality and other things deemed "sinful" while also being a very self-serving person. His motivations throughout TSR aren't tied to anyone but himself, and what he agrees to in every route is ultimately focused on getting himself far away from Echo. That's the whole reason he went into sex work in the first place, to get money to head further westward (after failing in the mines). And with being gay being heavily stigmatized and outright dangerous, especially in a very Christian area, it adds yet another layer of self-loathing to Sam. Though in terms of sexuality, he doesn't seem to dislike himself due to his same-sex attraction but rather due to his work. I don't ever remember him being ashamed of being into men or anything, though he often refers to himself "whore" in a derogatory way. Overall, in terms of religion, Sam seems so wary towards his own beliefs and the idea of a God. With him both wanting to achieve his own happiness and goals but being terrified—if not outright convinced—that what awaits him is eternal damnation.

Sort of related to that is the way Sam almost justifies the way he seems to be trapped in Echo as if it is something he deserves. He desperately wants to get the hell away from Echo and his old life, to the point of being openly bitter and melancholic when thinking about the town and his life up to that point, and yet he really does seem to think that it is just how things are meant to be for him. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy when taking Echo into consideration. In Echo's timeline, he doesn't leave the town and dies there slowly and painfully. And then the Samulation lives on in Echo for decades after that, continuing the town's cyclical nature. I think that this is in part due to Sam's aforementioned views on himself in the context of his religious beliefs. With how much he sees himself as "sinful" it makes sense that he'd justify the shitty things that happen to him as part of some "divine punishment". Speaking of the Samulation. I think it's a pretty good look into Sam's bitterness towards the world and the situation he finds himself in. Cause it does reflect a lot of Sam's personality—his sarcastic humor, his aloofness, the bitterness I mentioned—but it lacks a lot of what makes Sam nuanced. Sam is all those things, yes, but he is also rather accommodating and agreeable as well. Sam has this almost naive outlook and tends to romanticize things he hopes for. That's part of why he fell for Jack's scheme so easily and so quickly. But the Samulation lacks that. It has his memories, but it isn't very multi-faceted. This part is more of a theory than an analysis but I think it manifested like that due to the circumstances of Sam's death: Mangled and crushed under the weight of Mr. Bronson's van in a town that he hates. What a shitty way to die. If somehow, through the supernatural nature of the town, a simulation of Sam managed to live on after his death, it makes the most sense to me that it would mostly take the form of his mind in his last moments. All of the other aspects of Sam's personality wouldn't be present while he dies in such an agonizing way, but his anger and bitterness towards the world—towards Echo—probably would. Again though, just an idea. It isn't confirmed. I just wondered why the Samulation was both so similar to Sam yet much more aggressive and spiteful than the Sam we see. That could be why.

I'm going to stop this post here. Again, TSR isn't finished yet so I don't want to go too deep into Sam's character cause his development isn't done yet. So his relationship with other characters and the overall narrative and how it all shapes him will have to wait. I definitely will make a part 2 to this in the future cause this guy has a lot going for him.

[adelarsims]

Hi! First of all i absolutely adore your blog, it's 100% my favorite. I was wondering WCIF the pants and shoes in your recent Sam post? <3

shoes (TSR warning) | pants answered | hair answered

[cityof2morrow]

EP11KB: Sam's Synth'd Staples Cafeteria Awning

Published: 08-24-2023 | Updated: 2-5-2024 (added version 2) SUMMARY “In need of a funkier, more futuristic skyline? The EP11 Kitbash Series (Simmons, 2022-2023) makes neighborhood assets from Sims 3: Into the Future (EA/Maxis, 2013) (and other EPs) available for Sims 2. Sets include single-tile shells and other items you’ll be able to plop on lots. Then, build above, below, in, and around them to create useable structures. Shell challenge anyone?”

Sam's Synth'd Staples Cafeteria Address: 337 Proclivity Promenade Size: ~29x29 tiles. Intended for 3x3 (30x30 tiles) lots or larger.

“Meals are synthesized to order and served by friendly Plumbots. Best of all, there's no tipping required!”

DETAILS Requires all EPs/SPs. Cost: §0-1000 | Build > Columns OR Architecture | 5566 poly Frames are reposited to the BB_Niche1_Master (BuggyBooz, 2012) and glass parts are reposited to the Plain Glass TXTR Repository for glass recolors. Both are included in the Repository Pack (Simmons, 2023). Additional frame/glass recolors are available here under the #ts2recolors and #co2recolors tags. The base of the item is sunken into the ground, so this item will work on unlevel ground. If you play with high-altitude cameras, zooming too far out may expose the sunken parts. Also, some road textures may “bleed” through the glass texture in hood view or when viewed from a neighboring lot. ****Poly count is semi-high due to meshing issues but limiting placement to 1-2 per lot should minimize the risk of pink flashing. Mind your system settings! DOWNLOAD (choose one) Use only ONE version in-game at a time. Version 1 from SFS | from MEGA Version 2 (V2) from SFS | from MEGA

CREDITS Thanks: LordCrumps, Blue Heaven Sims, and Huge Lunatic. Repository Technique Tutorial (HugeLunatic, 2018), Sims 3 Object Cloner (Jones/Simlogical and Peter, 2013), Sims 3 Package Editor (Jones/Simlogical and Peter, 2014), S3PI Library (Peter), S3PE Plugin (Peter, 2020), TSR Workshop v2.2.119 (2023). Sources: BB_Niche1_Master (BuggyBooz, 2012), Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), Oasis Landing (The Sims 3: Into the Future) List of Community Lots (Summer’s Little Sims 3 Garden, 2014), The Sims 3: Into the Future (EA/Maxis, 2013), The Sims Wiki (https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki).