#worried about the price though

[tarn-ati0n]

FINE I GUESS I'M GONNA TRY AND FIND A STUPID REPAIR STORE IN MY AREA FOR MY 2DS.

[pcktknife]

what do you think about the newest penacony story patch in hsr?

penacony numero uno. actually the best arc out of the 3 so far but sunday should kill himself*

[sadgirlautumn]

I hate that books are so expensive because books are also a risk. Back in the day I usually watched a movie before I bought it on dvd. No one really does that with books (unless you read it as an ebook/audiobook and loved it I guess). Like I could spend $30 on something just to hate it. 😩

[divorcedwife]

i'll dm people who have already asked for a charm, but i still have many left! if anyone is interested, feel free to reply here or dm me :-)

[nevarroes]

Going back to the persons previous post of Gortash wanting to lose weight... What if he actually did lose the weight despite Cas trying to manipulate him into keeping it on. Would Cas lose attraction to Gortash/still want to be with him?

he wouldn't lose attraction to him or love him any less no. I mentioned this before but it's less the fact that Cas is into fat or the kink naturally and moreso that Cas likes it because it's on Gortash and because, to him, it's a thing of devotion and molding Gortash into something that is his and his only. However would he still want to be with him? I'll have to go with no on that one because he'd quite literally feel betrayed and deceived if Gortash were to go through with it and also because of the whole... rejection thing. He couldn't bear sticking around someone that, in his eyes, rejected a part of him especially considering his pride and all🖐

[asteracaea]

wow the new tour shirts from her website are WAAAY worse quality than the older ones

[dandyshucks]

posting here bc theres less ppl following me on this blog compared to main FDJSKL but it is thundering (and therefore lightning is striking as well) currently and we've been in an intense heatwave and there's evac alerts and orders all around the area and i've just kind of been like 🧍‍♂️ for the past couple weeks trying to be chill about it bc this is the fourth or fifth year in a row of this so i am somewhat used to it but also aough :( also now i have an expensive drawing tablet that i would not be able to buy a new one of so i am trying to figure out if i should include it in my grab-n-go evac bag... its so big though and would take up so much room but RRRGHHH I DUNNO i hate these sorts of decisions 😭😭😭

[llycaons]

in case anyone is wondering how my interior design journey is going I'm getting really into pottery barn

[victorluvsalice]

-->And with that, it was finally off to Van Liddelton Groceries once more! Alice got to open the place up this time, though first, I had her set the prices to “Sale” (aka 15% markup) down from the regular 25% markup. Why? Because they DO NOT need the money, and I wanted to see if stuff would sell faster if it was a little cheaper. She then got sent to have some zoomies to deal with her slowly-growing Fury (no wolfing out at work!) while Victor bunked down for a nap in the break room and Smiler went out to handle the sales floor (after consulting their future cube for advice, since I wanted them to do something while waiting for customers – “the cube abides,” apparently)! Amusingly, the very first Sim to show up for the day was L. Faba – guess she was tired of Morgyn getting all the attention whenever the gang visited the Magic Realm. XD (Which reminds me, I really gotta bind Victor’s dragon familiar to him already...) Anyway, after a bit of lag, Smiler was able to let off one of their patented vampiric happiness bursts for the incoming customers and chat with Catarina Lynx for a bit to try and convince her to buy stuff –

-->And then Alice came back, and I decided that I wanted her to make some more food downstairs rather than force her to chat with customers. A decision that led to me transferring $40,000 of their household funds over to the store so I could upgrade the downstairs kitchen area with the best Schmapple fridges and ovens, and add a counter by the corner so I could put in a stand mixer, a waffle iron, and a pizza oven! All in the blue swatches, since I thought those looked nice. :) I then had Alice use the bulk food processors from Simsonian Library to process some potato flour so she could whip up a batch of dough –

-->Aaand suddenly EVERYONE WAS BUYING SHIT. Yeah, apparently cheaper prices DO encourage more sales. I quickly had Alice run up there to help Smiler with the initial rush (since Victor was still working on taking care of his needs) – Catarina picked up a loaf of cheesy bread for $71; Christen a jar of blueberry jam for $80; and Janae a small mushroom for $5. We got a brief break while some of the customers got distracted by the sight of celebrity Brytani Cho in the store (long enough for Victor to get up and go to the bathroom), but after that and another annoying case of lag, the sales started coming again, with Bella Goth grabbing a box of dried sage for $413, and L. Faba getting a box of cheese for $621. I took a moment to check downstairs and saw that Alice’s dough was ready, so I had her go downstairs and grab that –

Aaand got an LE as she did so. However, that was shortly followed by customer Olivia grabbing an avocado from the produce fridges/warming racks, so I think the LE was actually related to that – specifically, to my Brazen Lotus stuff. Meh. At least I'm pretty sure I know what it is (the game doesn’t have a proper animation to play if a Sim is getting a normally-not-allowed-in-produce-fridges item out of a produce fridge, so it goes “hey”) and that it’s not TOO game-breaking!

[ghestie-nun]

Commission Sheet Update

Secondo shittin’ for attention

New commission sheet coming through cuz i finally can draw on my tablet!

[abusivelittlebunny]

I want to have hope so I can have motivation and courage but I'm terrified of getting my hopes up and hyping myself up only for it to be just crushed into dust. I want to believe but I fear that regretting the joy of it will kill me

[moonfromearth]

Despite their initial awkward meeting, Sidney seemed to actually warm up to Willow.

They're actually becoming good friends now, awww 😊

[sluttish-armchair]

Well the good thing about the tiny stubby 50 cent thing I got from the hardware store is that it’s too gross for me… and it can serve as a red (or blue… it’s blue) herring if anything were to come out

[littlehen]

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[criminal-sen]

Hmm I'm thinking about doing commissions. Idk. Not sure if there would be enough interest to bother designing a whole... fancy price sheet. But a half-assed text post isn't gonna get me anywhere, either🙄

[medicinemane]

One major major problem in the world is just that the common person kinda doesn't see any benefits from companies in their country doing well, the economy has become kinda totally decoupled from standards of living (like the US economy has been killing it the past few years... being an american though... not seeing much of that)

Examples, the most obvious one is how the stock market can be going wild and meanwhile it just gets more expensive to put food on the table. Economists tend to act like the stock market is such a good indicator of how a country is doing but... ordinary people just don't see the returns

Second example for the US, we've been exporting so much liquefied natural gas ever since russia invaded Ukraine. You look at the charts and our sales just skyrocket... how much has that helped actual people?

My example here is how when companies find cost saving measures, how often is that passed onto the consumer. Whether it's through deregulation, or firing staff, or something actually positive like figuring out a more efficient method of doing something... how often does it get cheaper? Cause honestly if anything they seem to tend to raise prices because of how much "better" it is (Arizona Ice Tea is like the one exception, they worked hard to keep their price low. I don't even drink their stuff and I'll still sing their praise)

And yeah, this is about the US, but I feel like this is true for most countries

My honest thought on why this has become so decoupled is that most of the money these days ends up being captured by upper management types and shareholders (like you see these companies making record profits and yet... are their employees any better off?), but... honestly my point in this post isn't to say why, it's just to point it out

Cause can you look at how the US economy is currently doing (insanely good) and tell me it has anything to do with how most americans are doing?

And again, I feel like this really isn't just a US problem, I feel like a lot of countries, their companies might be doing well and the "economy" might be doing well, but everyone in the country is doing really poorly

Just some thoughts... it's not like any of us are policy makers, but it's just some thoughts any time I listen to stuff about economics