CherryBlossom's Place

Simmer since The Sims

[bearphase]

A note on savefile inflation (and why we should be worried for more than just the new lot type)

I've been browsing the support forums for information on the corruption situation, and stumbled upon a particularly concerning post (from a forum user who has the same username as, and I thus assume to be, @down-in-simsland -- thanks for reporting this, hope you don't mind me posting it!)

So, customizing a cat, dog, werewolf, or (presumably) horse in Paint Mode can add duplicate texture files to your save, inflating it, at least in this case, four times more than it should reasonably need to in order to save the painted coat. The new tattoo features coming in Businesses & Hobbies are essentially "paint mode" for every human Sim, which is obviously concerning if paint mode for pets and werewolves already inflates saves.

Down-in-Simsland also tested for causes for this --

So, it seems that, for the moment, behaviors best avoided are 1) saving a Paint Mode coat and then going back in to edit it -- try to do it in one shot instead; 2) viewing pets and werewolves in the Gallery. I think this one is more important to note, as you can easily end up with lots of saved textures just browsing through the Gallery if you're clicking on households with pets or werewolves. If you wish to look for these in the Gallery, it may be preferable to do so via your web browser.

Another note in the comments on Gallery items: Rooms full of custom paintings/photos from the Gallery will inflate your save, as the images are permanently saved, even after you delete the associated paintings/photos.

(Interestingly, this makes the advice of "saving only photos important to your gameplay and deleting the rest" moot, as deleted photos will still inflate your savefile.)

Of course, if you're comfortable doing so, you can delete unused textures in S4S:

This issue is marked as "under investigation", so hopefully it's fixed before B&H releases, as it would make this issue significantly worse with custom tattoos.

[luxeacademia]

Taylor Swift Print Collection

First, thank the amazing creator @piersim for being so generous and allowing recolors of their fantastic meshes.

These were created for my upcoming "Retro Refresh Juice Bar & Lounge" build, but I thought I would share. The in-game photos are a sneak peek of that build.

Download info here.

[nucrests]

Just in case some of you all missed this important notice: ‼️DO NOT DOWNLOAD “TS4 CAS TOOLS” OR “LOADING SCREEN RANDOMIZER” FROM NEXUS MODS‼️

Please read the information above carefully and please be safe! Be sure to spread the word!

(The screenshots were taken from the Sims After Dark discord server)

[alialsim]

Jewelerybox

Download

Mesh: EA (Crystal creation)

[neecxle]

~ single n’ loving it earrings ~

i’ve always wished we had the option for single earrings especially for my male sims, but since we don’t i took it upon myself and edited a few of the base game earrings.

5 base game earrings (for both left & right side)

small hoop, faux gauge & big stud now include a black swatch

available for both feminine & masculine frames

includes custom cas thumbnails to find easily

side note: if custom thumbnails aren’t showing take out localthumbcache.package in your folder, and let the game generate a new one (but keep a backup of that file just in case… according to someone during my google search) but that fixes it! - just putting it out there bc it happened to me

˗ˏˋ download ˎˊ˗  & enjoy ♥

[sp4ceysims]

Wanderlust - 2t4 Travel Poster Conversions

More travel posters! Details and download below:

These are the designs from the TS2 Wanderlust poster set I shared yesterday on Sims in Low Space. They feature 25 real world destinations on @simsza's fabulous mesh from his Simlish Anderson National Park Prints Set:

I did not include the mesh with this set. I'm not wild about redistributing it since it comes with all the original designs, so make sure you grab it if you don't already have it!

The landmarks are:

Row One: The Great Wall of China, Kotokuin Temple, the Kinderdijk Windmills, Chichen Itza and the Colosseum

Row Two: The Statue of Liberty, Itsukushima Shrine, Hallgrimskirkja, The Tower of Pisa and the Great Sphinx of Giza

Row Three: St. Paul’s Cathedral, Chiang Kai Shek, Moai, Mt. Fuji and the Empire State Building

Row Four: Angkor Wat, the Pantheon, the Milan Cathedral, Stonehenge and the Eiffel Tower

Row Five: The Arc de Triomphe, Borobudur, the Forbidden City, Big Ben and the Ming Tombs

Huge thanks to kerismaker for the landmark icons, plus Freepik, max.icons, smashingstocks, Icongeek26, faith-arici, justicon and luvdat for the rest.

DOWNLOAD (SFS) Recolors ~2MB Get the mesh from Simsza

Original TS2 set

Lots of love, Spacey

[simstic-fairy]

This paint splatter hall table was one of the first things I made! It’s simple but I use it all the time for next to an easel for my messy artsy sims! (requires Spa Day)

SimsFileShare

[simstic-fairy]

Pastel Moons this time! (requires High School Years)

SimsFileShare

[simstic-fairy]

More wall decor! This time we have some pretty watercolor cottagecore stickers!

Patreon

SimsFileShare

[surely-sims]

Ring Overrides - SP20 Crystal Creations 💍

These are some default ring overrides that work with Kijiko's Skin Detail Eyelashes!

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SOME NOTES:

⭐ The textures have been moved to the Face Piercing and L&R Bicep UVs so you may find they conflict with anything that uses that texture space. ⭐ The Left Hand and Right Hand rings should not overlap but if you wear multiple rings on the same hand the textures will overlap, sorry! ⭐ These Rings require EP20 Crystal Creations ⭐ Custom Thumbnails for the CAS Rings! I didn't give the crafted ones custom thumbs to save on file size. All original EA colors.

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TERMS OF USE

SIMBLR | TWITCH | TWITTER

DOWNLOAD FREE ON PATREON

[ratboysims]

“capitalism breeds innovation” the innovation:

[hazelminesims]

my exact thoughts…same dayum hair styles. like come onnnn…there are so many people in this world with so many different hair styles… and this is what they chose.

[plumbheadsims]

i will never get tired of asking for curly hairs, i’m so tired of the same straight hairstyles released over and over again, where’s the flavor?!

[mellowmoppin]

This is the reason why I only use cc hairs…so disappointing really😒

[solarlemonade]

i feel like being a fan/consumer of this game you constantly take one step forward and two steps back

[cherryblossomsplace]

If you expected EA to make actual new content instead of slightly altering the stuff we already have, you will be disappointed. 

[llazyneiph]

Can't believe I'm making another post about Adf*y in 2021 but here we go...

I'm sure you all know the new adf*y page which (i'm pretty sure) adf*y skipper can't skip anymore, the one where it asks to send notifications and won't let you proceed until you let them send notifications.

I accidentally just allowed one of these notifications (not at home and using a janky mouse on a pillow, keeps going crazy), so I immediately headed to my chrome settings to get rid of it.

I'm going through blocking everything before I delete it (just so I feel better about it truly being gone lol) and I see this:

I'm thinking, what the hell is a payment handler and why is it set to allow?? That super doesn't sound good... And after some googling I find yeah, it's probably not great.

So, what's a payment handler? Basically, it's when google saves your payment details to autofill later on when you're making an online purchase. So that includes your credit card, debit card, paypal, ect, details. (Source - askcybersecurity.com) Now these are usually fine on legitimate sites but this site specifically:

You just google 'christianivory.pro' and every result is how to get rid of it because it's malware. (That picture was after I cleared the cookies it had already stored, no idea what they were)

(btw, I wouldn't recommend clicking on any of these since malware/viruses are often hidden behind fake anti-malware ads/programs)

Luckily I don't keep any of my payment details saved so I'm pretty sure I'm fine after deleting it and MalwareBytes or Windows Defender hasn't detected anything. I can't say for sure what it would have done if I hadn't of deleted it, it seems to mostly be notification spam but the fact that it was trying to access my payment methods doesn't sound all that great. Even if having the payment methods allowed doesn't do shit, I've had money stolen from me through an adf*y virus before (source - my tumblr)

Like I said, I'm pretty sure I got lucky because I don't save those things but I'm going to offer a hypothetical situation which could be extremely likely in our community specifically;

Lets say I'm a 14 year old simmer who uses their parents computer to play the sims. I've recently discovered custom content and my favourite creator uses adf*y, but since I'm young and new to the community I have no idea that adf*y can be bad and I trust this creator so they would never link me to anything that could harm my computer... right? So I accept that adf*y notification and don't think anything of it, I get the CC I really like and I'm happy. But that notification I just accepted has saved my parents credit card details. I'm sure you can guess where the rest of this situation goes.

So this is me, creator to creator, telling you need to stop. I know finding a source of income can be awful right now, but your source of income could be coming at the expense of someone else who did not agree to this.

If you think your content is worth a price then I urge you to start a Patreon, Ko-Fi or even a paypal because these are platforms that are safe for both parties and are OPTIONAL. Adf*y is not optional for the downloader.

Stop putting the younger and more susceptible people in our community at risk. As creators it is likely that we gain a larger following so stop taking advantage of that. Especially if you're older or are someone who preaches the safety of our younger members in this space, step up and actually practice what you fucking preach instead of just saying it for likes and reblogs.

I am genuinely sick of this, I've been in this community for over half a goddamn decade now and I've posted before about adf*y, as have dozens of other people and this shit is STILL happening.

I am so close to wiping my old laptop and recording myself going through creators adf*y links and downloading as many malicious things as I can JUST to prove to people that adf*y is not safe. And no, I wouldn't blur out blog names, I would specifically be calling people out on their shit. This isn't just petty simblr drama, this can actually affect peoples lives.

TL:DR;

It's Adf*y?? We all know it's bad, stop using it for the sake of our community members!?? I'm gonna start calling people out for pretty soon?? STOP PISSING WHERE YOU EAT

how to remove notifications on chrome:

Checking/removing payment methods on chrome:

I'm sure there are some of you who will take issue with my post for whatever reason so:

1. Don't comment saying that we should just keep downloading however many adfl*y skippers or avoidant addons or be careful about what we click, that is not the point of this post. We shouldn't HAVE to do that just to get cc, and new/young community members DON'T KNOW THIS.

2. SimGuruDrake explicitly saying creators cannot use permanent paywalls

source (sims forums)

video on adf*y (old but still relevant info)

video (this dude basically just speedruns getting malware from link shorteners and the ads on the sites lol)

[simsecret]

- Secrets Post #654, July 4th, 2020

[simnostalgia]

As some of you may have noticed, PaySitesMustBeDestroyed (PMBD) has been down for several days. While the site has been known to go offline occasionally at the end of the month, these seems like a different issue. The forum is still up and a new group is claiming to want to take over the site. As many probably already know, PMBD was supposed to take over what content was collected by DWP before its closure earlier this year. This also very unfortuanately comes only days after the closure of Patreon site known (unfortunately) as yiff.party that hosted pay files from patreon for the sims as well as… other files.

Fortunately, there a copy of TS2 Booty here. Due a glitch on Archive.com, you’ll have to download the entire 15gb file. There are torrent options available.

If the PMBD stays down then I’ll upload what I have for TS3 too. Unfortunately, I didn’t make PMBD a priority for Archive since I received no prior information to a permanent shutdown (if this is permanent) as the site has been hosting content for 10+ years I didn’t think it’d be likely to be shut down.

If anyone has any information on what has happened or on THEROGESTSTORMGROUP who claim to be taking over the site, please let me know what you do.

Please reblog to let others know that there is a mirror for some PMBD content if you’re a simmer. Thank you!

[therichantsim]

Public service announcement! I don't know who needs to hear this but NO CC IS WORTH TURNING OFF YOUR ADBLOCKERS!!! EVER! Any creator that tells you to turn it off to get their content but to do so at your own risk is trash PERIOD.

[paper-lioness]

If you see something you want but the creator is using dangerous ads, ask around--somebody else may have gotten the item and would be happy to share it with you. We can help protect each other from viruses.

[allisas]

The Sims 4 Snowy Escape Giveaway!

Thanks to the EA Game Changers program I have one PC/Mac code for the brand new expansion pack The Sims 4 Snowy Escape to give away!

TO PARTICIPATE ⛄ follow me on tumblr ⛄ reblog this giveaway post ⛄ fill in your tumblr username in the google form linked below

INFO/RULES ⛄ you can only enter once ⛄ 1 winner will be selected randomly ⛄ I’ll contact the winner through tumblr so please turn on asks and/or dm’s if you have them turned off ⛄ the winner will have 24 hours to respond before I draw a new one The giveaway will end on November 18th, 2020, at 9:00pm CEST

⛄ ENTER GIVEAWAY HERE! ⛄

💙 GOOD LUCK! 💙

[cherryblossomsplace]

SFS isn’t working again -.-

I LOVE all of the creators who use alternate links, or don’t even use SFS. The service isn’t stable, and its very frustrating to spam reload, get 505, or get insanely slow DL speed. 

I wish more creators would put up alternate links. <3 <3 <3