Miss Anne’s Place

This is my main blog. I do have a few side blogs for my writing and crafting (and my cat). Originally, this was a sims 2 blog, but now I post about reading and just about anything I’m thinking. I hope you’ll join me! I’m going to try to be more consistent in 2023.

[catandsusim]

SimPE for Mac is HERE!!!

SimPE for Mac now exists! It is a Wine wrapper around the Windows SimPE 0.8.2.11, patched for Mac file paths, loading objects and TXTR files from the Stuff Packs Huge Lunatic extracted, if they are installed in BonVoyage/TSData/Res/Catalog/Bins. Fixed Wine weirdness of not properly displaying the Resource List. Should work on both Intel and M series Macs, but is dependent on Rosetta on Apple M series.

Like all Wine apps, your local hard drive will be the Z drive in the open and save file menus. To get to your Sims 2 folder, you click Z>Users>yourusername>Library>Containers>com.aspyr.sims2.appstore>Data>Library>Application Support>Aspyr>The Sims 2.

It is not uploaded to MTS, because it exceeds the maximum file size for upload. I am working on that. The wine wrapper makes this a large app. Like 1.2 gig. I went through becoming an official Apple developer and getting the app approved, so MacOS won't complain and refuse to run it. You can download the .dmg now from my github. https://github.com/rhiamom/SimPE-Mac-Wine/releases

One year of my life, well-spent! And please, don’t just like this, please please reblog it!

[lamare-sims]

Check out @catandsusim blog, especially if you’re a Mac user 👀

[annegirl13]

Checking this out later

[annegirl13]

My students like to listen to me tell stories. I like telling them stories. it keeps everybody occupied while we wait for lunch or breakfast or snack.

I know most of the popular media that they enjoy. No one has asked for a Bluey story yet, but I am ready and waiting on that one. (we’ve also done multiple stories about the three bears) Sometimes I don’t know exactly what they want. For example:

Today they wanted a ninja turtles story. I have rarely engaged with that particular media, but I know a bit.

Me: the ninja Turtles were arguing about what to get on their pizza then they heard a loud crash. Dude said the ninja Turtles we need to go save the city! It was a giant robot. They chased it all the way to the river. Turtles can swim, dude they said robots can’t. The robot said I’ll show you who can swim. Then he went down in the river and didn’t come back up. Dude says the ninja Turtles we totally save the city from the giant robot! cowabunga!. Then they went home and had pizza. The end.

not my best story, obviously, and I’m dictating this to my phone during my lunch break so forgive my punctuation and capitalization. But the kids liked it. Later, one of my children graciously informed me that the names of the ninja Turtles are Donatello Raphael and now I don’t remember the other two that he told me ….

If you are a fan of ninja Turtles, please tell me how I did. (For the record. I’ve done way better with a Blue’s Clues story and a Spider-Man story recently. Both of those I really enjoy.)

[annegirl13]

Me: I will go do laundry after work! I am so clever.

The universe:

Me:

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you would never let ai write fanfics for you

[thesimcommunity]

EA Announces The Sims 4 Marketplace and "Moola" Microtransactions

EA and Maxis have announced today a new The Sims 4 Marketplace. Where players can purchase additional sets, CC and content for the game in e

[teaaddictyt]

You know what's interesting to me...

When the sale of EA was announced, the community railed and put immense amounts of moral and ethical pressure on many creators and members of the Sims 4 creator network to withdraw from the network, to stop supporting and promoting EA, and to take a stand against the company and enabling it's profits.

Now, EA have brought it quite a number of fairly big name Sims 4 CC creators and plan to profit 70% of a US dollar from their content.

In my mind, this is even more directly "supporting" EA and enabling their profits than making Sims 4 video content on YouTube. Will there be any pressure, moral and or ethical, put upon these creators?

(FWIW, I hate this entire thing 🤣 am I surprised? No. Am I horrified? Yes.)

[annegirl13]

Aaaand there goes my Sims 4 gameplay. I’ve been having fun for a couple months now, but I’m not supporting this. Back to Sims 2 I go!

[moondane-lovers]

TO ANYONE WHO USES DISCORD- FOUR AI SCRAPING BOTS HAVE BEEN SECRETLY ADDED TO YOUR SERVERS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT

Saw this going around and tested it myself, and I can confirm that this is unfortunately legit. Four hidden bots have been placed in any existing or newly created Discord server that are harvesting data, images, and most concerningly, one seems to be a face swap bot.

Due to them being invisible, banning them from your servers isn't possible without their ID's, which I've typed out for easy access.

1153984868804468756 1288638725869535283 1090660574196674713 1104973139257081909

Banning is done with the /ban command with each string pasted in one at a time. Four ban commands in total.

Image proof below and further information. This was in my PERSONAL server that has existed for +5 years. Discord is harvesting your shit without your consent, fight back.

[unluckyxse7en]

Hey so in case you're like me and wondered: Can you ban members without them being in the server?

The answer is yes, you absolutely can! It'll look like this - the numbers you paste will be what's "banned"

However my sibling tried this in her servers and found that One of them was NOT a string of numbers, like so:

And for clarity it isn't a difference in user or device, this is what she got elsewhere:

So if you ban these numbers and the message shows the actual username? Pretty sure that means they were in there.

Very unpleasant way to check the veracity of this post but hopefully this is a helpful tip for anyone who was concerned - my sib would have No Reason to add these in herself and didn't have any clue it was in there.

Personally, I'd say even if you are still worried about misinfo/fearmongering/etc from this post, think of it this way - worst case scenario is you're banning a bot you'll never use or need. Not a person, a bot. There's no real damage done playing it safe and running the ban commands through, aside from maybe losing some time doing so.

Best of luck everyone.

[actualdraccus]

Wishing I'd seen this more quickly - Had to take these things out of a lot of creative spaces just now. I'm not convinced that the username only shows up if they were in there, but I do think it's better safe than sorry, especially when peoples' art is involved.

[cloud--atlas]

@quidnunc-life @inkvoices @alistrawrites

[xenthosss]

@returnsnull7404 hey this is VERY much real I just took all of them off my discord

[ominous-signs]

This worked on my end too (two servers, one of which only has ME ALONE as a member! Also worked for a friend who had a similar experience)

[annegirl13]

Reflection

I've been bitten by the Sims 4 bug recently. (I blame the YouTube algorithm. I saw somebody's video and it made me miss the one Sims 4 legacy I tried years ago and I redownloaded the game.)

After playing quite a lot for about a week, I've come to a realization.

Sims 4 is great for story telling. It reminds me of playing with my dolls and my beanie babies as a kid. There's a whole lot of drama and fun stories that I can come up with using these little people. But it's not a fun game for me to play. The actual gameplay of Sims 4 is really, really boring and annoying.

Sims 2 gameplay is fun for me. I like telling my Sims to garden or build robots or eat dinner together. With Sims 4, I'd rather just skip over all the mundane life stuff and get back to going to outer space or becoming a mermaid.

I'm not going to stop playing Sims 4. I'm invested in the stories I've started. But Sims 4 is a storytelling tool for me, and Sims 2 is a game I love playing to relax. And I think Sims 2 is better for that.

[shubbabang]

[dark-wizard-guy-fieri]

context (via @mellorocket)

[chimthecappy]

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

[artistefish]

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

[shu-of-the-wind]

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

[anna-neko]

and important addition

Source: instagram

[snowysoul-squrirel]

Always reblog this. Elmo and his friends will be there in your times of trial and doubt, to help you through your torment

[annegirl13]

This is so sweet! I’m crying!

[ruerock]

im sure someone already made a post about it but i came across a ublock origin add-on that blacklists around 950 AI websites and disables AI overview ☝️ so u can be free from seeing AI in your search

[kaijutegu]

Your irregular reminder that you should have ublock origin installed for a significantly better internet experience. advertisers have tried to make it as shitty as possible; fight back! Give yourself an online experience worth enjoying!

[digitaldiscipline]

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini

Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!

Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?

Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps

Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)

Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

[hamthezombie]

Do check this out people. I had manually switched all the gemini nonsense off months ago, but when I went and checked just now it was all switched back on.

[radondoran]

Visit Original Link

[prospit-dreemurr]

MOTHER OF GOD

[t-temmy]

ARE YOU FUCKIN

[enoshiitma-deactivated20141017]

OH GOD ITS BACK

[thesylverlining]

DEAR GOD THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TUMBLR POSTS IN EXISTENCE.

YOU THINK JUST THE NOISE IS FUNNY AND FITS WITH THE GIF REALLY WELL

BUT THEN

THEN

THE LYRICS START

seriously i have almost crashed my car into a telephone pole, becuase I suddenly thought of this post and started laughing uncontrollably

[ploobytumbls]

I would like to share the story of a very understandable but unfortunate mistake i made at work recently

So I'm weeding our ancient and terrible collection of children's books for the first time in possibly ever, and I'm making a decision about a book about migrant workers by Sandra Weiner, called Small Hands, Big Hands. And I'm not 100% sure and I go to just see if there's anything out there about this book's being notable in any way so I do an open web search for

"small hands big hands weiner"

And then I look at my results for a moment

and then at last I somberly add to the end of my search, "BOOK"

[chaostheorietblr]

I have one like that:

In mathematics, you often consider the two-dimensional plane - you know, the idealised flat two-dimensional object that extends infinitely - which can be real or complex (doesn't matter what that means)

On this, you can perform a mathematical operation called a "blow-up" (resulting in a more complicated geometry)

I needed to look up a formula related to this, so I confidently typed into the search bar:

"Blow up real plane"

The results were not what I wanted and I am not sure if I'm on a terror watchlist now.

[lexsreadingcorner]

Oh, I've got one!

One time, my wife's 80-year-old grandma was trying to figure out how to tell the sex of newborn kittens.

Innocently, she went to Google and typed in "sex kittens." Safe to say, she did not find what she expected.

[annegirl13]

when I was a little girl, I really wanted an American girl doll. This was in the 90s. My father told me that I had to earn it. I would do chores and he would make me American girl dollars to pay me with until I earned the money for my doll. Being a technically capable and creative man, my father went on the computer and made these American girl dollars in Microsoft Word. He wanted a picture of an American girl doll to put on the dollars. He searched “American girl.” This was before safe search existed. He did not get the results he expected.

😂

[annegirl13]

Classroom Set Up Day 3

So most of what I did today was organizing. My room still looks like a giant mess, but I swear I organized and sorted stuff. I brought in most of the stuff that I’ve bought for my classroom. I sorted that out into where I want it to go. I started putting together dry erase bags. My intention this year is to have a board a marker and an eraser in each of the zipper pouches and each kid gets a pouch. That way when we’re doing work with our whiteboards, all I have to say is go get your dry erase pouch and they’ll have everything they need and we don’t have to spend 10 minutes handing out supplies.

I also put all of the headphones in baggies and put numbers on the baggies. I probably need to take them out of the bags and put numbers on the headphones themselves as well so we can match things up with the bags. I am determined that we are not going to go through more than one set of headphones this year. (Last year my class went through six! Six sets of headphones! I don’t want to say they were monsters because they weren’t, but how do you destroy six sets of headphones???!)

I put together a cute set of boxes for sharp and dull pencils and eraser caps. They’re cute and they were pretty easy to put together, but I think I might need to bring in my hot glue gun and glue the pieces together. The dull cup fell apart as I was putting pencils on it. (That’s what happens when you buy cheap things on Amazon, friends…)

I sorted and emptied out three sets of rolling drawers. I have about five and I don’t know that I’m gonna need them this year because I have storage built-in. One of them had a broken drawer and one of them is missing a wheel. I could maybe steal a wheel from the one that’s broken and put it on the other one. Otherwise I’m getting rid of two things…

I really feel like I didn’t do very much at all today, but I did. I need to start getting some of the trash I’ve created out of there. I also need to start moving the furniture. Tomorrow I have more boxes to go through and more drawers. I need to start putting things in cupboards. The only hiccup is gonna be that I said I would help with registration in the morning, so I probably won’t get anything until the afternoon…

[annegirl13]

Things I Did in My Classroom Today

I found all my library book bins.

I sorted all but one box of books.

I left the last book box because it is trapped under a bunch of other stuff and I didn’t feel like digging it out.

I sorted books by fiction in the green tubs, nonfiction in the blue tubs, and curriculum related books in the red tubs.

I also sorted books by whether they are independent reading books or read aloud books.

I didn’t take a picture, but I figured out that my student supply bins will fit in one of the cupboards that I have. They’ll fit pretty exactly, as long as I don’t have more than 20 kids. Currently my roster is at 17. (I might need to test to see if the top shelf is too high for first graders… not sure yet…)

I think I know where I’m going to put the library as well.

I left it at this point because my phone was about to die and I didn’t want to dig through all the boxes and drawers to figure out where I put my school phone charger. Also, I’m not getting paid to go into work on my classroom until around August 4th, so I am not requiring myself to stay a full school day.

I feel pretty good about how far I got today. 😊

[missannemakes]

First crayon is done and…I don’t know if I love it…Does it look stupid? Would it be better with eyes? Is the top weird?

Does this look good?

Yeah! Super cute!

A little wonky

It needs eyes

It looks bad, sorry

Voting ended onJul 17, 2025

Please be honest!

[annegirl13]

I need honest answers on this one.

[annegirl13]

…

The nail polish is not gonna last long…

I don’t know about anybody else, but I can physically feel the polish on my nails—like it feels different from no polish on my nails and I don’t like the feeling. I am also having a lot of trouble not picking at it. It’s not perfect, because my mom did it and she’s not perfect and that’s OK. But I’m trying really hard not to pick at it.

I think I’m gonna leave it on for the rest of today and then tomorrow I will go ahead and take it off with the nail polish remover I got.

It was something I wanted to try, and I’m glad I tried it, but have you ever been physically aware of your fingers to the point where you can’t stop being aware of them? Because that is where I’m at, and I don’t like it!

[annegirl13]

The other thing I wanted to do this birthday weekend was learn to do my nails. You’d think I’d know by now, at newly 36, but I was a notorious nail biter as a kid. Also I thought it would be a nice thing to ask my mom to do. A bonding thing.

She very nicely showed me what to do this morning. We’ll see how long this lasts. I’m not sure how to feel about it now. I really appreciate my mom for helping me, and she was so happy to do it.