#unused stuff

[misscerasus]

Rough Storyboard for the boss fight with King Candy from Steven Markowski. There are some changes which are not in the movie.

There is some unused dialouge in this presentation as well:

Steven Markowski's website:

[l-1-z-a]

🎭 Removed memories and 3D icons in The Sims 2

There were more 3D memory icons above a Sim's head. Like "friends, divorce, engagement" displayed over their head. The textures have been removed :( You can see a 3D fire icon above a Sim's head on the cooking channel on TV. It's cropped, but you can catch a glimpse.

The developers added these icons everywhere they could. Then they decided there were too many and removed them. Out of curiosity, you can check out a gallery of screenshots.

Features that were planned: a silver wedding anniversary (not to be confused with a golden one), calling the boss to work from home (resulting in either a promotion or demotion), a graveyard icon above a lot in the neighborhood (if marked as such), a joking skill (with successful and unsuccessful jokes). The stick-and-bundle object for a runaway teen was removed (it's still present in memories and as a 3D icon for a runaway teen). Volleyball gameplay.

Grave variations were planned, along with a TV dish object, and the old PlumBob design resembling The Sims 1.

First memories included: first kiss (with an animated arrow striking a heart), first cooking attempt, first food fire, first time learning interests, first steps (with a different look), first repair, first move, first failed joke, first successful joke, first book read, first best friends (removed), first friends (in the base game), first chess win, first fight, first discovery of another Sim's cheating, and first romance.

Other removed memories: ran away from the wedding, got a job, peed pants, lost a friend, lost a best friend, couldn’t pay the electricity bill, reached level 5, silver wedding anniversary, some party (icon with a bear wearing a hat), cockroaches!, "I’m the best!", best writer, birthday, cheating without getting caught, job promotion, job demotion, received a bonus at work, got electrocuted, best long-time friends party, fire! The old divorce model was removed, as well as refusing a teenager's love confession, death of a child, death of a spouse, adopted a child!, and maxed out all skills!.

3D icons were found in game/sims2/res/sims3d/objects(0-9).package using SimPE.

More screenshots under the cut. All screenshots available in "The Sims 2 development history" (RU: История разработки Симс 2) forum thread. There are really a lot of these 3D icons 😮.

[kresnikcest]

After Sorey cuts down the cobwebs, but before they meet the spider hellion, Sorey and Mikleo have voice lines.

Unused game text:

It's freezing in here. Aren't you cold? No, I'm just fine. おお、寒っ、急に冷えてきてないか？ 僕は平気だけど

Fun fact, this portion was included in the manga adaptation!

[cookierun-myau]

Aparentemente este tipo tiene un nombre canon (Crimson Moon Acolite) así que ese es su nuevo nombre en el AU 😎

Apparently this guy has a canon name (Crimson Moon Acolite) so that's his new name in the AU 😎

[unikhroma]

hi i slept through the utdr newsletter drop but i'm awake now and i looked at the video and tobert has now driven me nmore insane

"IF YOU SEE THIS TAXT THENS SOMETHING BROKEN WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF PERFECTION?"

"WHEN AN ERROR IS DETECTED I SEE THE INTENSITY OF MY FEARS SURGING THROUGH ME LIKE SUSPICIOUS WAVES"

my interpretation of this is that

1) he was promised perfection and definitely didn't get it, look at how glitchy he is now not to mention the whole puppet thing

2) i guess seeing errors/glitches makes him think of things that he's afraid of. wonder what those are

though "suspicious waves" is very, well, suspicious. is it the way that the fountain flows in waves? weird telephone signals? weird television signals? it's hard to determine

(i feel like showing spamton's regular sprite at the end was there to imply that this message has to do with him for real instead of the spamton value network spamtons)

also tried to determine the very last line on this warning message but i couldn't decipher it. here are some screenshots if you want to chew on it yourself. the sentence structures seem to be "_____ ____ __ ____!!! ___ ______ __!!!"

[suzuberto]

You got booped by Panini the wanderer frog

He likes you very much and wishes you good booping day

(or only day if you aren't into booping)

He also documented it on his little journal

Image ID

A photo of a green and white belly hand knitted frog wearing a lavender hat and yellow hoodie carrying a little crossbody bag and booping to the camera (frog + clothes are bought but handmade from local ladies, the bag is made by me)

The same frog as before but with an upper photo. He's holding a pencil on his left hand and a journal over his little legs that has a frog hand with "1 apr 2024" and "boop" written on the left page and a "today i booped strangers on tumblr ♡" with a little self portrait below on the right page. At his left side there is a pen holder with other pens and a calendar, and oh his right a plate with cookies and an empty mini cup, he already got his morning tea!

(frog + clothes are bought but handmade from local ladies, the bag + journal is made by me, the other thingies are from sylvanian families sets)

[arson-of-dreams]

wow the flatland reboot looks great!

[bamsara]

The amount of b-grade/miscut/misprint stickers I get when making batches is goofy

What's in my hand is usable and can be sent out, the boxes behind it are all ones with imperfections/ damage but can't bring myself to throw away because it feels like I'm being wasteful. I might make 'scrap baggies' for each fandom and offer them on kofi for like 7-10 stickers for the price of one or something again

[cybersteal]

portrait practice/dump part 1 feat @preemshots's V

[fagbearentertainment]

Nintendo is gonna fucking kill whoever leaked all this holy shit

[canadiancryptid]

GUYS THE NEWSLETTER ISOUT AND THIS IS SEEMINGLY FROM CHAPTER 4

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT FOR THIS

WHY IS IT SO CHRISTMASSY

There are gifts, bells, a candy cane, bows, and NOELLE all in the same spot in the light world. I feel like this is in the church somewhere where they keep Christmas decorations. Its dark and Noelle has a flashlight, so it could be a basement, and the dress just kinda strikes me as something she'd wear to church instead of her usual outfit.

But if this IS the church, then that means Chapter 4 might not only have the religious aspect to it that could tell us more about the Angel, but also a bit of holiday theme in parts of it... and with Noelle there for the ride, something tells me we're gonna find out more about a certain lost girl.

There's definitely something to dissect in the other chapter, progress-related sprites, but this just INSTANTLY caught my attention.

[sewi-li-suwi]

Reblog to hex the person you reblogged this from.

Bonus points if you describe what the hex does >:)

[kresnikcest]

Also back in 2021 I pointed out that Sorey has unused textures for his earrings that match his alt colour palette. Mauro reminded me about this today so I went texture hunting and found that Mikleo, Alisha, Edna, and Rose all have alternate textures for their head accessories. In the game proper, only Lailah, Dezel, and Zaveid have these alt hairstyles equippable.

Mikleo has another texture for his circlet that is never used because the game model uses the one attached to his costume texture. I approximated the look here:

[kenchann]

glasses epel 🍎

[unikhroma]

yesterday i noticed that in one of the swatchlings' bits of dialogue, they mention that the mansion used to be a home for upper-class citizens:

which to me suggests that that's no longer the purpose of the mansion, and that made me think of the possibility of swatch and the swatchlings being in the mansion before queen*. the same swatchling was definitely around at the time it Was for upper-class citizens since they also mention spamton and his habits when he still lived there

i guess they were all still butlers, but for many darkners rather than just queen. the rooms are now used for lightners instead of darkners now that it's been repurposed. i feel like that's probably the silver lining for swatch and the swatchlings despite having to now take orders from queen, since they're all very dedicated to their role as darkners

cap'n also chimes in with "until queen came around" when scc talks about themselves, which i think is a decent confirmation that queen wasn't always around in cyber world generally speaking either

*it also suggests that all of the upper-class citizens who once lived there had to be evicted at some point, which would make more sense as to how any of the addisons knew what day spamton was getting evicted since it may have made the news

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

idk if y'all have seen about the old pokemon game design stuff leaking, like beta mons, concept art/character pages, and design inspiration, but inb4 anything submas, just know these are BETA CONCEPTS AND IDEAS and aren't canon! Take what you want, yeet what you don't, don't treat it as solid fact bc it never made it to the game.