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Lucky Flamingo Motel, Strangetown

I wanted some sort of motel for my Strangetown. Something small, rundown.. then THIS happened. *.* Idk, maybe I really needed some color to cheer me up today, or I needed a change after the pretty dark Goth manor (which I’ll hopefully post next). Rent is § 528 - § 909 btw, so at least I did keep it small.

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DOWNLOAD: Clean UI - Post updated 25th March 21

The wait is finally over! After almost two and a half years in development with more than 2.800 images and 180 script files edited, you can now experience the first ever, modern and completely overhauled user interface for Sims 2 across all expansion packs! Please note that because of this, you need every expansion pack and possible also Mansion & Garden stuff.

If you would like to have Clean UI in dark mode or other colors, check out @simstate​‘s Starship UI. And also there’s a Clean UI adaption for Body Shop! 

You can find many more images in the flickr gallery.

Features: - completely overhauled user interface - various fixes and removed flaws - removed deprecated buttons or ones that corrupt the game (optional, ex. delete family…) - popular CC included to avoid incompatibility (Chris Hatch widescreen mods…) - three new startup loading screens - optional (new) Sims (and pets) in the menus - cursors (inspired) from Sims 4

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“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive”

          The bestselling American author, Dale Carnegie, once said “If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive” (Carnegie, 1981).  This is to say that if we want to get the most out of people, we need to be cautious about how we treat them. For example, we should avoid using criticisms, and negative punishments when we are trying to influence their behaviour. Condemnation is simply ineffective in this context because it causes an individual to become defensive. It will usually make them strive to justify themselves, and it can even foster resentment.

            What’s more, in American psychologist B.F. Skinner’s 1938 book, Behaviour of Organisms he distinguished two types of behaviours - respondent behaviours and operant behaviours. He stated that operant behaviours are strengthened through operant conditioning. Operant conditioning involves the occurrence of a behaviour being followed by a reinforcer (Skinner, 1938). Through his experiments on this subject, Skinner showed that an animal who was rewarded for good behaviour learned much more rapidly than an animal who was punished for bad behaviour (Carnegie, 1981). A similar conclusion can be made about humans. We respond better to rewards, then to punishments.

           This leads me to believe that if we want to get the most out of people, it benefits us to first understand where they are coming from, then adjust our approach appropriately. By practicing empathy, we can both improve our relationships with others, and deepen our influence. Empathy can be a powerful tool to help us communicate our ideas in a way that others can understand. 

           An example of this is the story of George B. Johnston, a safety coordinator for an engineering company. As Carnegie tells it in his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Johnston would initially use his authority to bear down on workers for not wearing their hard hats. He would scold them for not following the safety regulations and tell them they must comply. This would work for a little while, but often after he left the workers would remove their hats again. 

           One day Johnston decided to take a new approach. Instead of berating the workers who weren’t wearing their hard hats he began with asking them if the hats were uncomfortable, or if they did not fit properly. After asking these questions to show an understanding of the workers, he used a pleasant tone to remind them that the hats were designed to protect them, and suggested that they always be worn on the job. The result of this change in approach was increased compliance to the safety regulation, without any resentment or emotional upset from the workers.

           In conclusion, if we take a similar approach as Johnston and become cognizant of, and sensitive towards people’s situations, rather than criticizing or condemning their behaviour we can get more out of them in return.

Carnegie, D. (1981). How to Make Friends and Influence People. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

Skinner, B. F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis. Acton, MA: Copley.