I'm going through old Flavors of Midnight chapters/screenshots so that I can give myself a re-cap, and I had to share some pics from Erik Darling and Agnes Crumplebottom's wedding that didn't actually make it into the story chapters originally. 🥹 Pic one is sisters Agnes and Cornelia with their cousin, Agatha (from the sims 4).
Also bonus picture of Frida's in-game reaction after meeting Nick Alto.... 😳
I’ve sent instructions to have my Flavors of Midnight save files emailed to me. If all else fails I have some older versions saved on the external hard drive I brought with me.
Word doc is OPEN and I’m ready to write.
Can’t get the damn game to open on my laptop but I’ve been playing this game since 2009 so I surely I can figure this out right? It's run pretty decently on my laptop in the past. My god the patience and endurance we have all had to deal with beautiful mess of a game😭
is flavours of midnight returning?
i need frida in my lifeeeeeeeee <3
Ahhhh I need Frida in my life too and I miss Jared and Xander so much. Thank you for this ask and for reminding me how much I miss flavors of midnight. ♥️
I forgot to copy my save files to my laptop when I left home but I'm going to send instructions to have someone upload them and send them to me because I really want to continue the story.
Do you use the NRaas mods? Has the information on the NRaas website and forum ever been useful to you? If so, a moment of your time please!
I’d like to share the current situation with Simblr – which you can also read about directly from the site owner here:
https://www.nraas.net/community/topic15428
While it seemed like we were entering an era of old-internet revival and indie websites in the fight against the dead-internet, a significant road block has emerged. Prices have inflated drastically for server parts, memory, storage, and server-hosting itself. This puts all non-profit online communities in peril.
As a result, the site owner has opened a Patreon so that the community can help cover the costs of keeping us online.
Important clarification:
The NRaas mods are NEVER going to be paywalled.
The project will remain open-source and free for everyone. Donations are optional.
These mods are still in active development!
The site and mods have been maintained by Chain_Reaction since Twallan's retirement, providing countless updates and support. Lots of cool stuff over there if you haven't updated in a hot minute.
There is no pressure to donate if your situation does not allow for it. Thank you for the consideration!
Long post ahead with information on the situation and some incentives for reaching membership goals.
If you've had some trouble accessing the site over the past week or so:
The situation is directly caused by the greed and encroachment of something we’re all uncomfortably familiar with: AI companies and the companies investing in them (of simmer relevance, that includes EA and Krafton (InZoi)).
NRaas is not the first nor will it be the last to be affected. Website servers already suffer from bots trawling and scraping their content – including your content that you write and share just about anywhere. Now they’re being bought off entirely.
Archives and file-hosting are at high risk. Myrient is a recent example of an archive that went offline for this very reason.
It can feel a bit grim, but I want to assure you that the burden isn't yours to bear as an individual. As a community, it's actually quite easy to become hostile - and more important, unprofitable - to these invasive species as it were.
The past 26 years of modding and storytelling was OVERWHELMINGLY built upon free software, non-profit websites, and shared resources. A few unscrupulous paywallers and corporate greed isn't going to rewrite that history. Greed is the minority - but it does try to eat everything in its path.
That's all I ask - if you enjoy the fruits of The Sims community or enjoy being a part of it, make it just a little more inconvenient to swallow us.
Do not tolerate GenAI in our community spaces.
Do not support EA or Krafton. Let obscurity and irrelevancy devour them.
Do participate in the community wherever you think you'd find a little piece of purpose - make a blog for your stories, come chat with us in the Chatterbox forum at NRaas, make your first mod.
Lastly:
In a separate post, I'll be posting some CC incentives that will be released as milestones are reached. This content will not be paywalled - it will be posted for free as thanks to the community.
This is being offered on my own accord and is not the official reward for any particular tier. None of the proceeds are going to me!
Please look out for that over the weekend, I still need to take all of the preview screenshots which is perhaps the least exciting part of making CC.
And thank you, on behalf of the volunteers at NRaas.
Everyone's screenshots are looking incredible! Has there been some new development/graphics hack in the past few months that I missed, or did I just forget how beautiful the Sims 3 is since I've been away? 😍
I made off like a sim with a mid-life crisis and scurried to Vietnam a few months ago on a one-way ticket. Been here ever since, just kinda… traveling solo, living, working remotely, trying to heal from grief & find myself again (and enjoying my "Adventuring" moodlet. 🤣)
I am starting to think about returning to the hellscape that is the U.S, though, as I have affairs I need to settle at home (plus it turns out, you cannot actually outrun your problems. )
One good thing about this is that I will have access to my gaming PC again, and I really really want to finish Flavors of Midnight. I’m still very much emotionally invested in the story, and I feel like I have to finish it for my own sake, even if people have forgotten about it at this point. 😉
I’m so excited to explore all the new mods, cc, and posts I’ve missed in the community these past few months once I get back.😊
I miss my emotional support hunky ginger + cinnamon roll babycake (Jared Frio and Xander Clavell) and I'm homesick for Sunset Valley 🥺😭 (is that a weird thing to say??!)
So happy to log in and see people loving and playing the sims. 🖤 What are you all up to with your games/sims/stories/creations??
I put up a pdf files of 8 protest images as a digital download on my shop for just 5 bucks for anyone who wants them. They’re for personal use of protest in whatever form.
