A Sims 4 blog! // Elizabeth, 36, American, ace lesbian // THIS BLOG IS ANTI-FASCIST // Pro-Ukraine, pro-Palestine, pro-open borders // Commissions are CLOSED!! // WCIFs are CLOSED!! // Asks are OPEN!!
Hi! I've finally decided to put up a sticky post to help all users, but especially mobile users, navigate things more easily.
My name is ELIZABETH. I am 36, USAmerican, she/her/they, lesbi-ace. I like Sims games, history (multiple eras), and gay shit.
BLOG INFO;
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Hateful asks will be ignored and deleted
THIS IS A MATURE BLOG and there will be MATURE THEMES!! Navigate with caution!
Potentially "spicy" things will be tagged as "#sims spice" and anything else will be "spice."
I also try to tag surreal/unreal and other common triggers.
I work 40+ hours a week and I am disabled; if I don't get to you straight away, I promise, I am not ignoring you. I am just a very tired woman nearing middle age and I'm doing my best.
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Apologies for being Whiny On Main -- just been down and uninspired about creating lately. I feel like I don't have enough time/energy to keep up with projects where I'm hitting roadblocks and at the moment, that's ALL of my CAS works-in-progress. Dayjob is demanding a lot of overtime, so I just haven't been playing/having FUN like I used to, and i think that's a big part of it.
Dashboard, what do you do to rekindle inspiration/cofidence in creating?? Help!!!!
caught up with old gods of appalachia and I am going S L I G H T L Y feral about it.
I love the Lockes, what a disastrous shitheap
I love Patience Locke
Solomon x Rachel otp, fight me
loving TRM's train-based-autism here. is it narcissism if, when you're the embodiment of a thing, you love that thing?
"my native tongue"???? HE HAS A NATIVE TONGUE?!
oh man Marlene has some explaining to do 👀👀👀 you think she went bitch mode regarding Rachel's mother because she's got some guilt/shame of her own regarding who/what she was willing to fuck? 👀👀👀
TRM being on par with or at least, independent of and strong enough to remain as such, Those That Sleep Beneath is FASCINATING and also relatively confirmed imo
are they gonna seal the Arbiter or... ... they gonna just let that thing hang out?? assuredly not...
is TRM lowkey jealous they didn't pick HIM as a teacher lol he wouldn't have the patience, lbr
yo did TRM just straight up devour Jameson Locke and the whole fuckin Dullahan via a tunnel because that's the kind of vibe I'm getting. lot of talk about snakes and devouring and comparing trains to serpents etc--but also describing him as a void, a transitory thing, the sort of dark void that Jameson went off into, maybe?
TRM being super stronk but also telekinetic with railroad-related items confirmed. that body horror scene where he crushed the security drones together was gnarly af
I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.
Been MIA because ATT decided to literally cut service for its copper wire-based user base DESPITE THE FACT that MILLIONS do not have access to fiber optic. So now I’m waiting til Tuesday to get their new “air” internet box. (I spent my data on maintaining my work station.)
Data is used up, so I’ve gotta set up a temp Xfinity hotspot to tide us over til we can install the new box.
Comcast is fucking shit but even their base level plan is already better and cheaper than what I have now. Soooo. Gonna make the switch to Xfinity in the coming weeks.
Also, partner and I drove five hours to see my dad in hospital. He’s in the ICU still but he’s hanging in there. Even with his abusive two-faced harpy of a wife.
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-A
Install this blocklist using the instructions on the GitHub page. For Firefox, you will need to install uBlockOrigin for this. Google Chrome no longer allows the uBlockOrigin extension, so I'm assuming you're at least primarily a Firefox user - or about to be (see browser alternatives below).
For Google Chrome or mobile browsers, this will work with uBlacklist. See the GitHub page for full details on compatibility.
Remove AI Widgets:
If you go to your uBlockOrigin Filter lists page, you can select to filter out AI Widgets - this should completely remove the 'AI Mode' widget/button from your Google search page, in addition to the work done by the Huge AI Blocklist.
Using the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist filter has made my Google searches look like they used to, and gives me genuine search results.
Look at this. It's beautiful. It's informative. It's not a heap of burning trash bloated with fake information made up by a hallucinating chat bot.
We can go even further: return to the old school search results.
Now, the above results are great and should be free of generative AI junk, but some people would rather not see any of the summary widgets or 'people also ask' box at all. Fear not! You can remove all that by using the 'Web' mode in the Google search bar. Click the 'More' drop down menu and select 'Web'.
Huzzah! Incredible. It's like a functional search engine again.
You can make this the default Google search mode in Google Chrome using Method 1 from this page (https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/). Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to do this in Firefox too. This is why for the most part I still use DuckDuckGo (see below) as my default search engine, and only use Google to supplement my searches on the rare occasion I'm just missing something.
Extra filters (optional):
I've also added four filters (their order doesn't matter) to the My Filters page. Full disclosure: I'm not sure they still work, or may only work on Chrome, but I'm keeping them anyway, just in case.
From https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1i7kg83/comment/m8lllwr/: see which solution in the list works for you, it seems to be different for everybody.
From https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/:
www.google.com##.Beswgc
www.google.com##.olrp5b
www.google.com##.hdzaWe
Make sure you hit the apply changes button when you add filters.
Browser alternatives: escaping Google Chrome.
If you haven't jumped ship from Chrome yet, I'd recommend doing so. Sometimes Chrome outperforms Firefox for niche purposes or because a website doesn't bother to fully support non-Chrome browsers, but the days of Chrome being the superior browser are long gone — by about 10 years. If you're trying to escape Chromium browsers, beware that a lot of the popular Chrome alternatives are just Chrome in a different hat.
Firefox has been the most popular non-Chromium browser for years, and for good reason. However, the company running Mozilla Firefox has annoyed their users, me included, by refusing to take an anti- generative-ai stance, and even included AI features in the Mozilla Firefox browser. Most Firefox users specifically use it because they hate Google's enshittification and want a privacy-focused, clean browser that doesn't hog their RAM and CPU for no reason. So, you can imagine that Mozilla's attitude has pissed us all off recently. You can turn off the AI features in Firefox with the built-in settings, but the company has recently steered straight into the burning garbage heap by saying they want to make the browser based on AI.
Waterfox and LibreWolf:
There are really good alternatives based on Firefox (open-source) which are not affiliated with Mozilla (the company), if you don't like how it operates. Waterfox and LibreWolf are even more trimmed down and privacy-focused than Mozilla's Firefox, and don't use AI. Anti-ai statements: Waterfox and LibreWolf.
From this page: https://programming.dev/post/42546774
In short: LibreWolf is for those who want a “locked-down” fortress out of the box, while Waterfox is for those who want a privacy-conscious browser that still feels like a normal, convenient daily driver.
Choose LibreWolf if: You want the highest level of privacy without having to manually edit config files, and you don’t mind occasionally “fixing” a broken website or re-logging into accounts.
Choose Waterfox if: You want a privacy-respecting browser that supports Firefox Sync, has an Android counterpart, and handles streaming sites/logins without any extra friction (it supports WideWine out of the box, which lets you stream DRM protected content (netflix, hulu, disney, etc).
— [email protected]
I've heard good things about both of these browsers and will investigate them further to decide whether to personally switch from Mozilla Firefox.
DuckDuckGo:
I would also recommend installing the DuckDuckGo extension to your browsers and setting it to be your default search engine.
I've had DuckDuckGo installed on my browsers, Chrome or Firefox, for like 10 years now. It is a good search engine, it's unobtrusive, and blocks trackers, cookies, and does not save any data about you. I've also used it as my default mobile browser for years, along with Firefox mobile, which you can add the AI Blocklist to (see again the GitHub page). I haven't tried the DuckDuckGo desktop browser yet, but I imagine it works just fine like the mobile version. I think DuckDuckGo's browser is also Chromium-based, at least indirectly. I use Firefox with the DuckDuckGo extension so I can have a widely-supported, non-Chromium browser, but include all of DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking features.
Note: DuckDuckGo has included AI in its browser product, however you can opt-out of all AI features with the built-in settings and they will not push it on you like Google does. I hope they remove AI features entirely in the future, but for now I am comfortable with the barriers in place to keep AI out of my face. Firefox also has AI features like Chrome does, which you can turn off with the built-in settings.
There's also noai.duckduckgo search, an alternative version of its normal search engine which removes AI-generated images and turns off AI results/assists by default. Even though DuckDuckGo's inclusion of any AI features annoys me, its policy to make these features 100% optional builds trust with this browser/extension/search engine.
You can always use Google search if you need to, but with uBlockOrigin and the AI Blocklist filter added on, at least you shouldn't have AI-altered search results or the AI overview anymore.
Other browsers exist, probably:
There are certainly more non-Chromium alternatives out there, but Firefox, Waterfox, and LibreWolf are the top three recommended to me. That link to alternatives, plus this ComputerCity page are the best lists I could find in a brief search. If you google "non-Chromium browsers" you'll get a lot of mixed results which require a bit of digging to realise they're not really recommending you what you looked for at all.
I've heard about Ecosia over the years, and while I like the idea of a search engine that plants a tree for each query, I don't think that's actually what happens — at least, that's what they used to be reputed to do, but I believe that's an unsustainable business model which has likely changed. In 2026, Ecosia says it uses 100% of its profits for the planet and runs its search engine off clean energy. That's cool! It's still Chromium-based. And it also uses generative AI for chat bots, so I don't trust its principles on environmentalism. I need to do more reading on this to form a stronger opinion about it.
I hope this post has helped at least some of you have a better experience browsing the web and googling your questions.
The Huge AI Blocklist really has been an amazing tool to keep my internet life free and clear of a lot of generative AI rubbish. I'm not a tech expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm savvy enough to understand what genAI is and does, and that the more I learn about it, it's even worse than I thought. I truly hate it, and I hate the enshittification of all our experiences, even those as simple and innocent as googling "snow leopard" or "how to cook pasta" or "what is a phascogale" (go ahead and test your freshly-cleaned search engines out with that one hehe).
The irony of Palantir being called... Palantir is also not lost on me.
Consider: The Palantiri, those Big Glass Orbs you can look through and See Some Shit, are not evil in and of themselves. However, like any other "machine" they will reflect the intent and character of their user.
(For context: They also expose you to the wills of the person on the other end if they're also looking at you through a palantir of their own.)
Saruman overused the one he found when he moved into Isengard's Orthanc tower. He became corrupted through his own lack of self control and his arrogance thinking he could go toe to toe with Sauron.
He ultimately used his for control, deceit, and power, and it got his bitch ass brought to ruin, then stabbed by Wormtongue in the Shire. He died, bitter, alone, and his spirit forever left to linger impotent and unable to return to his home in the West.
Denethor overused his palantir to the point that, even though he was able to resist Sauron's will - a very impressive feat - Sauron was able to deceive him into despair. He continued to use it, further obsessed with control in his grief over Boromir, and his paranoia and jealousy of Aragorn. Eventually, when he saw the ships of the Corsairs coming up the river, he gave in to despair entirely - not realizing that the Corsair ships were in fact Aragorn coming with reinforcements.
Peter Thiel, coward that he is, naming his investment firm 'Valar Ventures', and his surveillance/AI bullshit 'Palantir' is in my opinion an unprecedented and stupifying level of billionaires' lack of self-awareness.
The sheer arrogance, the hubris of it, is fucking astounding.
One of the MAIN THEMES in Tolkien's ENTIRE body of work is that those who seek power will inevitably be corrupted by it; that the intent to seek power, control, dominance, is in itself a corrupting force and nought but a blight upon the world. And finally, that those who have power, ought to use it to PROTECT and STEWARD the world and those living within it; to be willing to give that power up when the time comes to do so.
Billionaires are sniveling little cowards who turn tail and run at the first whiff of danger to themselves and their power. But if Tolkien is right, and if we all do our damnedest to make the world a better, more just and equitable one, the natural order of things will have these freaks destroy themselves by drinking the poison of their own avarice.
I know Jellypaws, casualsims, leosims and sonyasims use AI for their previews/cc or wtv but I know there’s more people I just don’t know who. Does anyone have a list?
Okay, so I gathered some who either use AI for their previews/meshes. Also please note that this is just a list that I was making for myself so I could avoid these creators. I did not intend for this to be seen as a call out post, bc that was not my intention. If it were a callout post then I would @ these people. This list is only to inform you guys on who to avoid/be wary of!!
Jellypaws - AI previews and meshes
Casualsims - AI previews. Meshes idk
Sonyasims - AI previews. Meshes idk
Pixelvibes - AI previews and meshes
ddarkstonee - AI previews and meshes
Dustyrat - They used to use it for their previews, but no longer do. Mesh no ai usage there ❌
pastelpaws/xxxtigger/pasteltigger - uses AI for previews last I checked
ironvolt545 - I am going to assume their meshes use AI or they use AI to “help” them “create”
sims3melancholic - has used AI as a reference for those “highly realistic” skins they have recently made (they still used AI either way even if they used it as a reference ‼️‼️)
Cowbuild - AI previews and meshes
Leosims - AI previews. Meshes are directly from gumroad/other 3D model sites.
Cluttercat - they use AI for their artwork/painting cc’s. Mesh idk, but I would assume they do since they use AI images for their cc paintings!
Rubyred/casa dutti (same person) - AI previews. Mesh idk
Sims4life - AI previews. Mesh idk. They could be using AI to generate pictures for their paintings/artwork cc or downloading AI images off Pinterest!!
Daonworks - AI previews unknown. Meshes are AI
Syboulette - They used to use AI textures in the past but they no longer use it !!
Swimwearsprada - AI previews idk. Meshes are AI
Scodee Yodee - AI previews idk. Meshes are AI (older stuff is fine, only their newer stuff uses it)
dumbburgergirl - uses Al for that bubble font in their previews. Could also be using AI for some of the furniture they make
Roxxysim - AI previews. Meshes idk
creamlattedream - AI previews no usage there ❌ Uses AI generated textures for meshes
Skinfolk - Just look at their patreon. It’s quite obvious they use AI….LMAO I would also like to say that LifeLike-Simz and Skinfolk are most definitely the same person !!
Plumbelle - suspicious “new creator” using the words “NOT AI” they have since deleted the post and changed it to where it does not say the words “NOT AI”This person is suspected to be Pixelvibes
s-club - AI previews (on newer cc) Mesh idk.
robertaplobo - still unsure if they use AI for their previews, but just to be safe I’ll put them on here!
jomsims - has used AI photos as swatches. Mesh idk.
mychqqq - AI previews (on newer cc). Mesh idk
abbypiggg - They use AI for their cc paintings/artwork
aggressivekitty - They use AI for their Meshes along with the artwork/picture cc they make
fatalrosecfeations - this person doesn’t seem to be active, but they have said HERE that they have used AI textures/images for their cc
Harrie - They have admitted to using AI for their artworks/painting cc. Meshes idk.
mhm if I have anything wrong or needs to be corrected please do let me know!!! I don’t want to be spreading misinformation 😭🙏
Edit: Forgot to mention that if anyone has more names let me know so that I can put them here!! Edit: Can you let me know if it’s previews or meshes or both that use AI? Please and thank you !! Edit: If you have any evidence/link to a post where the creator has admitted to using AI please link it in the comments or send me a DM, thank you!!!
