#simtalking

[theiloveyousong]

maybe i should make aza and iz hate each other

[auroragoth]

Here it comes, SimTalk monthly, a magazine for Sims, by Sims! The idea came to me at work one day and now, after weeks of hard work, I can finally show you all what’s been cooking inside my brain ☺️

This first issue features the following simblrs: @mangosimoothie, @vampirepill, @buglaur, @akitasimblr, @void-imp, @wrixie, @sojuteatime, @demonicrosebushsims, @vuillotine, @nucrests, @rebouks, @potentialfate-sims, @spiderwhims, @lilacmarble, @alerionjkeee, @nocturne-vi, @pxltown, @pralinesims, and an early appearance of @sojutrait! Big, big thanks to all of you for accepting to participate! Please check out their blogs, they’re cool people and do amazing sims stuff ♥️

You can find the full magazine here as a PDF, all articles will be posted on tumblr in the upcoming days for better accessibility.

Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any questions, suggestions, comments, my inbox is open!

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

been seeing some Stupid Shit on here lately re:

making your own sims vs playing with premades

why? who the fuck actually cares? heres a marvel idea: if you dont like others' sims, MOVE ON. aint no motherfuckin reason to talk shit and belittle others, we're all here to have fun and share photos of our games.

you wanna play with premades? cool! lemme see!! you wanna play w/ your own sims? cool! lemme see!! you wanna mix'em up like i do? cool! lemme see!!

thats the beauty of the game, playing how YOU want so why be a fuckass about someone else's sims when it makes THEM happy? ya gotta shut the hell up, this conversation has been and continues to be extremely annoying and tiresome for years now.

whether or not they didnt mean to sound shitty, it absolutely comes off super elitist, tacky and all around WEIRD. some people straight up do not have the energy, time, or creativity to make their own sims sometimes so they play with premades. or some people genuinely enjoy playing with them for XYZ reason. it is TOTALLY OK!!! to play with premades and/or your own sims.

its 2024, go on and grow up already. do not @ me, i will full-on ignore you bc i am right and that's a fact <3

thanks for coming to my Very Tired of This Stupid Ass MF Topic simtalk.

[rebouks]

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ft. the lovely SimTalk magazine/article made by the 'mazin @auroragoth (which I butchered with my terrible cc making skills 🙃)

Transcript:

Oscar: Excuse me, since when were you in a fancy magazine?! Noah: It’s for work… Oscar: [laughs] Did someone put a gun to your head for this picture?

Noah: Laugh it up. Oscar: Why didn’t you tell me? It’s here in the Bay too! Noah: I didn’t think you’d have time for a daft exhibit.

Oscar: It’s not daft, I can make time. Noah: [sighs] There’s still a few showings left. Oscar: I’ll pick Cookie up n’ we’ll come with you later, yeah?

Noah: Sure. It’s been great, but the timing couldn’t have been worse. I-… [Juniper wails loudly] Noah: She can be hard work.

Oscar: [tuts] Don’t say that. Noah: She doesn’t stop when I pick her up, how do you settle her so quick? Oscar: You’re all uptight n’ shit.

Noah: Because I never know what’s wrong. Oscar: Sometimes, nothing. Noah: [snorts] Alright, baby whisperer.

Oscar: She just wants a cuddle, see? Try n’ hold her as if you’re not holding her. Noah: What? Oscar: Don’t make a fuss, or panic; chill out like you normally would, except with a baby in your arms.

Noah: Hm. Oscar: C’mere, look-.. you’ve gotta relax, Noah. If you’re all nervous around her, she’s gonna feel it too. Noah: I don’t mean to complain. She’s just a little.. fussy, and I’m tired.

Oscar: No one said it’d be easy. Noah: In comparison… Oscar: [sighs] Yeah.

Noah: Sorry, how’s.. everything? Oscar: We’re getting somewhere, maybe. We’ll have to wait n’ see. Noah: Courtney?

Oscar: I won’t lie, she’s not doing so great; but I finally convinced her that seeing a therapist would be a good idea, so… Noah: I’m glad you’ve kept up with it as well, I’ve missed you. The real you. Oscar: Uh-huh.. ditto.

[akitasimblr]

time to say goodbye to generation nine 😭 i loved playing heathcliif! i had never played vampires before in such detail and i had never lived in forgotten hollow either! if ulysses and ambar from gen4 were the most in love couple, heathcliff and georgiana come right next!

it was a crazy haze to have so many kids, but i wanted to have a full household in this challenge so i don't regret it! six amazing kids! we leave most them as kids now but during gen10 we will learn more about their whereabouts!

a gigantic thank you to @gothoffspring for making me georgiana! a gigantic hug to both @enchanting-whim and @moonfromearth for joining this gen in gameplay crossovers, it was fantastic! and to @auroragoth and the SIMTALK magazine for the gossip around heeth klif 😎

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[makin-cute-simmays]

LOOK AT THIS!!!! If you are not already following @comfys, please do yourself a favor & do so now. I think he might have bought up the whole grocery store to cook in so no one else can eat now.

Thank you for coming to my 5 second SIMTalk. Now go follow him. fr. I'm serious.

Update on my coastal estate in brindleton bay wip

[brinelakes]

making family members of ur already made sims > playing ur already made sims

[paramoresims]

i’ve been gone for so long but I think I’ve finally decided to come back ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ"

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

@anon, I don't think it's a glitch that the lot time continues from when you left the lot originally. Im pretty sure it was intentional. It can be remedied by using the community time project, I have used it for years and will continue to do so. Before I started using CTP I played all the EPs just fine without it, it's not a glitch. But ofc this community continues to put out superb mods and all creators have my respect for their time, patience and efforts wrestling with Sims 2 to provide them.

Hot take: if the sims 2 had an open world, or at least not the weird glitch where time goes back when you return home from a community lot, it'd be the best game in the whole series

even hotter take: it already is

like imo ts4 has a great cas and build mode but those are the only features that feel relatively well polished, the gameplay isn’t engaging at all

ts3 is a great game but it’s not really playable with all EPs installed (plus imo the aesthetics have aged badly). otherwise its fun and i miss it a lot sometimes lol

ts2 is just really balanced and the gameplay is actually engaging? i wish it wasnt so difficult to set up and get it working on modern pcs tho, that’s def its biggest downfall

[tweedsims-moved]

SimTalk: WHY WOLFIE??

Wolfie in the Runaway Teen Challenge’s one of my first instances of hooking up an Original Character-type Sim with a Premade Simin a very long time. Usually it gets into the taboo I’ve developed as a fandomer of shipping “OC” and “Canon” ( if you’d truly consider a Premade Sim a “Canon Character.”) I recently decided that Premade Sims are a bit different because they are designed for the players enjoyment. A lot of them are single so you can decide their love life however you please. Heck, if you decide that Mortimer Goth would be better off with your Original Character Sim than Bella you have the right to brea them up ( but why would you they’re the Gomez and Morticia of Sims. )

Second of all, Why Wolfgang? Let me just note I did not plan this. As a matter of fact I had no appreciation for Wolfgang Munch as a Sim at all before this challenge. I definitely discriminate on Sims who are either “Mean” or “Evil.” And he is Mean. Now he’s one of my favorite premades. I’ve spent a lot of playtime playing with Pheobe off-camera. She has a club called the TeenieBoppers which i used to keep her Social Need up ( if she got too lonely she became useless. ) She was closest to Wolfgang and she built up a bond easier with Wolfgang than she did with the other members of her club. 

So I started to ship it despite myself. I quit the save file for a long time; and during that time my opinion on Premade x “OC” Sims changed. 

I put a lot of thought into this.

Everytime I saw Wolfgang in my or another Simmer’s playing I’d think of Pheobe; they slowly became synonymous to each other in my head. Today i decided i had to do it.

It started of with I was just going to make them date; then I added Wolfie to my current household via cheat originally as a temporary thing just to get him to give her a promise ring ( because it wouldn’t make much sense if the poor and virtually homeless Pheobe did ) 

I’d also like to note I used no money cheats when I added Wolfie to my household. Him “Buying” the San Myshuno apartment was completely a story thing.In reality,  That was all Pheobe’s money; I was able to buy the aparment unfurnished and still have a little over 4,000 simoleans left if i bought it unfurnished. I very sparsely decorated itand the rest is history.. Also if you don’t know how Add to Active Family cheat works; it adds no extra to the household funds unlike Ask to Move In. I just found I had more money than i thought I did by selling that giant property with the tiny building and downsizing to a 400 dollar apartment with no furniture. I actually made money an honest way in the process. And the rules to the challenge specifically state you can  move between lots and apartments and you don’t have to stick to the same lot ( Mid-NoWhere in my case. ) that you start the challenge with.

Also, I’ve started sending them both to school; that’s the only rule Ive specifically been ignoring because with the addition of Parenthood you get a lot more negative side effects to skipping school on their Core Values and in my expeirience Poor Performance can cause them to enter moodswings which are giving me headaches. ( These two dont stop with the moodswings. )  I miss Sims 3 runaway teen challenges where I can just delete the school from the neighborhood and not have to think about it again.  Also if I have to get one more call from that dang Principle. I also pretend that the landlord isn’t an adult when I have to call him to fix my apartment issues ( I refuse to repair the electric box when it glitches out; ) but we can just say Wolfie’s lied to him about their age. I try to not rely on the landlord as much as possible. 

I’m really enjoying this dramatic storyline and spin on the challenge I’ve made that Wolfie and her and posing as an adult married couple despite only being teenage Sims who are promised at best. I’ve kept most of the challenge rules and am seeing where this storyline takes me. I hope you guys are enjoying it to.

-TweedSims.

P.S.; Who are these Butterfields you talk about?

[mlpsimta]

Simtalking about: Steam Direct

Steam’s Greenlight system is finally coming to a close. After what it feel like decades Valve finally stepped up and putting an end to its first promising sound program than shitfest and replacing it with Steam Direct. Now I would be happy to something treacherous going down but I can’t help myself to shake away my doubts that this new system will work at least tolerable. So let’s check out what Valve has learnt from Greenlight and the feedback from the users during this couple of years.

In case if for some reason you don’t know how Greenlight operated basically every developer had to pay a fee of a hundred bucks after that they could submit their stuff to the Greenlight page where the community decided if it will be on Steam or not. Of course a voting system based on gullible idiots and a minority of people with brain can never go wrong and will work 100% correctly. Sadly if there’s just a little loophole or chance to abuse the system people will find it and use it for their own advantage aka what I like to call ‘the Hungarian way’. So game code exchange for votes has become a big deal as well as putting up quickly made shitty games with Trading Card support for earning a quick buck, it was just a mess. It got so out of hand that 60% of Steam games got released in 2016! Over all we got a flood of games with very low quality and even suffocated games that were in desperate need for attention. But how the new Direct system will handle these sort of issues and help us to enjoy only the quality titles that we deserve?

(Once a good idea, that turned into a shit show)

The big change that Steam Direct brings is that you have to pay a fee between 100 and 5000 USD after every new title you wish to put up on Steam. So basically you have to pay after every game and not just one entry fee. Now this potentially could be a good way to stop bad developers to quickly cobble together a barely working game with Steam Card support because of the returning fee would simply not allow for these types of people to make a profit. On the other hand this is could be a really huge setback for developers who truly put their hearts and souls into their game but simply can’t afford to pay the fee. As of right know we don’t really know the exact number that is required to cough up for Valve so I can’t really decide if this is going to be a good or a bad thing in the future. But if the price is too low nothing will change, but if it’s too high that could be a big slap in the face with a fish for good devs. If you ask me what I would do is if the game gets good reviews and a healthy game page and community I would keep the fee for the developers for such games as low as possible and a guaranteed spot on the main page. That would help developers get the attention that they deservers while trying not to fuck them up monetarily. Of course if your game is total garbage and you act like a total cunt than I would raise the fee and after a time I would just stop selling (and maybe completely remove) your games from Steam.

(I hope that the new system will be the downfall of groups like these)

It’s all nice and good and with a well balanced fee this could potentially help to root out shitty games BUT I still have an issue. My main concern is that this new policy basically a new way for Valve to earn more money by not doing anything. Steam got flooded with terrible titles, games that are not working correctly, asset flips or just flat out missing the executable to run the title. What we need is quality control and we are asking for it since ages! You can increase the entry fee but that won’t change the fact that shit can still be put up on Steam. If you want to stop the flooding you need REAL people doing some quality control. There has to be some kind base line that a game has to reach for getting on Steam. I’m not talking about the unreachable heights that Valve required back in time, but you know at least some basic standards like the game can run or work properly so that the quality testers’ taste and objective wouldn’t get in the way. Of course that would require at least two or three people to do and that would be a huge investment for a small company like Valve.

(It’s sad to say but I’m not going to miss Greenlight at all)

Over all right now I’m not satisfied about the changes that Valve is trying to implement. A lot of things are still unclear and it won’t change the fact that we want true quality control (I should have looked up a synonym for that word already) from real people. I hope that this new system will improve the games that will end up on the store page but I still wish that a few people would start manually sort out the crap. I have an idea Valve! Ask me to do it! No really. Give me a tolerable pay check and I would gladly sit in front of the computer playing some shitty games until I inevitably hang myself from the shitness.

As always thank you so much for reading my “article” about something that I just happened to find interesting.

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[auroragoth]

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Ollie Halabi by @sojutrait​ | Picture by @auroragoth​

Text by @auroragoth​

Thank you Soju for your early participation 🤍

[handsingsweapon]

i’m not sure i like the way tumblr’s so good at reducing things that are complicated to narrow, neatly drawn lines. you can hold more than one, even contradictory opinion, at the same time. example: - i dislike taylor swift’s new single - i think taylor has handled her beefs very badly - i don’t think she’s anywhere near woke enough to wield her privilege appropriately nonetheless: - i listened to 1989 more than i really felt like i should have - i respect what she just did, as a victim of sexual assault, in court, facing and then eviscerating her accuser in a public arena - i recognize the way public opinion about her twists on the edge of a dime  tl;dr people are complicated and contradictory. your reactions to them can therefore also be complicated and contradictory. and you can ask her to do better without making yourself part of the problem.

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[brinelakes]

who the fuck brought a whole roast chicken

[auroragoth]

NEWS

SWEET FAMILY TIME

Council member Theo MacMahon was spotted taking grandson Nicholas on a stroll today, leaving us all aw-ing at the absolute cuteness of the moment. The politician seems to be taking his family duties ever so seriously, despite the mysteries surrounding this little nooboo's parentage!

ROMANCE IN THE AIR?

While giving his first series of concert in Mt Komorebi, genius musician Heathcliff Harper was spotted at a local bar enjoying the company of a young woman. Is fortune finally smiling to the young man, who has been known for his miserable love life? Will he finally be able to escape the curse brought to his family by the frivolous behaviour of his grandfather, Leonardo Harper?

STRANGE DISCOVERY

New mermaid species, alien invasion, or harmless hoax? These two pictures have been THE talk of the month on  Social Bunny. Uploaded from an anonymous account a few weeks ago, the pictures show what looks like a human / fish hybrid, visibly frightened by the camera. The scientific community confirmed this form of mermaid has never been sighted before and they cannot rule if we really are in the presence of a new biological evolution, or if it is all just a prank by some bored teenagers...

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Tired of your babies staying in their bassinet until they're old enough to learn to walk? Grumble no more, the gods above have promised a remedy to this plague! When will we see it? Who knows!

Theo MacMahon & Nicholas MacMahon by @buglaur​ | Picture by @buglaur​

Heathcliff Harper by @akitasimblr​ | Picture by @auroragoth​

Iri Enfys by @void-imp​ | Pictures by @auroragoth​

Texts by @auroragoth​

Thank you Laur, Ana and Olly for your participation 💛