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Jules | she/they, queer | leo | knowledge/popularity asp | maxis match, ts2 die hard | WCIF friendly

[simnostalgia]

Hey just a quick little note about the current situation regarding the purchasing of EA by private equity.

Don't support The Sims. Seriously, I mean, it hasn't been going well for a while and just as I predicted years ago The Sims 5 isn't likely going to happen. But like, make sure that you don't buy any of the products going forward.

I refuse to even entertain the idea of financially supporting a product that's now owned by someone who condones genocide but also a equity firm based in Saudia Arabia, where The Sims' box art only included men. And honestly, any time The modern Sims games are mentioned it should be quickly followed by

'The Sims, a popular franchise indirectly funding a genocide'.

Obviously, it doesn't matter as the company will likely either sit on the IP or resell it.

I just want to put in my two cents about the current 'situation'.

TL;DR: Don't buy The Sims. This isn't about whether it's 'good' anymore. If you have issues with my statement here: Unfollow me immediately, I have nothing to say to you.

[2fingerswhiskey]

The Sims series is literally the biggest queer-safe gaming space and has been for a quarter century. Having it sold to multiple conservative buyers means that this is under threat. I'm not going to panic yet, but I am definitely glad I've spent the last decade pirating my packs. At the same time, we have to make it clear somehow to these fucks that if you touch our game, there will be clear financial and social consequences. Lots to think about today.

[dostarve]

Toxic bisexual representation <3

[boolpropper]

Well it was bound to happen eventually.

[sea--burn]

how it feels to stop tossing and turning and get up to piss

[chilewithcarnage]

[synthient]

crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis

[synthient]

even setting aside the fact that gendered bodytype averages aren't universals, and plenty of individual (cis) women and (cis) men could easily go to toe to toe. have we considered that the fact that all the most prominent and well-paid sports are ones that require things like Being Tall and Having Muscle Mass, as opposed to, ex, gymnastics...is itself an artifact of sexism

[alarajrogers]

Also consider the existence of sports where women would have an advantage, and yet, somehow, the most famous and well paid ones are not women.

I'm thinking of jockeys. Jockeys get an advantage from being smaller and lighter, and while obviously you need sufficient strength to stay on the horse, a well-trained horse does enough of the work that you don't need upper body strength to do the job. Given this and that the majority of children obsessed with horses are female, you'd think most jockeys would be women. Yet somehow they are not.

NASCAR at one point threatened to handicap Danica Patrick by putting extra weight in her car to compensate for the fact that she is smaller and lighter than other racecar drivers. If she gets an advantage as a driver, why is she like practically the only female racecar driver, or at least the only one anyone knows about?

Women, apparently, have an advantage in long distance swimming. Higher body fat percentage and higher endurance means that women can go greater distances in the water. Is long distance swimming even a competitive sport?

Women have actually been excluded from competitive Olympic skiing on the grounds that the jumps required could damage their uterus. The people who actually have unsupported reproductive organs hanging outside their body are considered to have better support than the people whose reproductive organs are nestled in alongside unisex organs like the small intestine and stomach. How does this make any goddamn sense at all? If a uterus could dislodge from the force of a skiing jump, so could intestines and the sport wouldn't be safe for anyone.

Theoretically, any sport where you get an advantage from low center of gravity, better balance, higher flexibility, or being closer to the ground, women should have an advantage. This should include soccer (football in non-US places), and might include hockey if the hockey players hadn't introduced unnecessary viciousness to the sport.

So in any sport where women would excel over men, they're either excluded, unfairly penalized, the sport doesn't exist, or the sport is considered unimportant and no one makes money on it. Hmm. I am thinking the problems here are not actually what the TERFs and transphobes make them out to be.

[catboybiologist]

This is exactly the point I've been making in my post-fencing-thing meltdowns, but this is a way better and more succinct version of it

[boolpropper]

Dina is taken out to fancy lunch by her sugar daddy, only for said sugar daddy to have his meal spilled all over him by the waiter.

Gossiping about Cassandra breaking off her engagement to Lothario helps, though. This is intel that Dina apparently did NOT have, despite banging him all the time.

hey but check out this awesome guy that nina is on a date with okay

quick bang in the ferrari casual style and the date has concluded!

[boolpropper]

Surely the Goths won't do anything unethical or evil about Mister Lothario!!!!

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[alistairsprayerwarrior]

FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!

[boolpropper]

CLASSIC science career night out overlapping with Goopy and Don on a gay karaoke date...this certainly could not end poorly in any way

i think everyone handled that really well

[boolpropper]

Breaking my sims silence by starting an Unlock the Uberhood save!!!

Don is ALREADY slutting it up and lowkey I think i'm becoming a don lothario apologist

[lampambivalence]

Joie de vivre roughly translates to “do it for the vine” in French.

[charl0ttan]

drunk and in love and full of food i think only the torturer eel could harm me

[torturer-eel]

hello

[charl0ttan]

fuck my whole entire life

[catherinegraffam]

I recreated Caravaggio’s “Judith Beheading Holofornes” in Kid Pix Studio from 1995 using a mouse. Here's the video I made doing it.

[boolpropper]

10 things for 10 people you'd like to know better

I was tagged by @lampambivalence MY CRUNCHYYYY!! I don't often do these but for you I shall.

Last song - Blood and Butter by Caroline Polacheck

Last TV show - If we're going on the strict definition of TV show, then it was probably King of the Hill — however, I also am an avid Last Week Tonight follower and try to always make room for the weekly story. Last week's was trans athletes, and wow that meant A LOT to me. I love John Oliver.

Last book - Inheritance by Taylor Johnson! A trans poetry collection :)

Last movie - I think...I think it actually might have been the fucking Minecraft Movie. jason momoa jack black yaoi

Favourite colour - FOREST GREEN YESSS MY SHAYLA

Sweet/savoury/spicy - Savory!

Relationship status - in a LOVING gay relationship :))) <3 <3

Last google - "my shayla" to make sure I was using that meme right

Current obsession - Zine making and radical environmentalism!!

Looking forward to - being high as soon as this edible hits in about 39 minutes.

I haven't been extremely active on tumblr lately so I'm not going to re-tag, but this was so sweet hehe. Soon I shall get back to posting my funny little sims because TRUST i have been playing and building my unlocking the uberhood challenge... but man if sims doesn't lowkey burn me out if im not having EXACTLY enough fun YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

[veryluckyclovers]

[itsfelixiguess]