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Buh I deleted my sims 4 mods and now I very much regretti spaghetti

”To shine brighter than the heavens in the skies above”.

can i get political for a sec?

while working on my geography & region logic masterpost, i kept running into something that’s been obvious for a while: there is no sims 4 world that represents any culture below the northern hemisphere. at least not without exoticizing, flattening, or othering it, that is.

selvadorada, sulani, tomarang: they’re beautiful. but they’re not ours. they weren’t built for those of us who live, love, grieve, and dream in the global south or descend from it. they’re not living, breathing homes. they’re postcards and backdrops to someone else’s adventure.

i see simmers building entire saves around resistance, diaspora, reparation. i admire them. i want to be one of them. but i also want more than what the game hands me. more than vacation-only worlds, mystified jungles, lootable temples, or ‘spice festivals’ stripped of language and lineage.

my mother is from a region directly referenced in selvadorada. i’d love to place my abuela and primes there, let them grow crops, fall in love, age into legacy. but selvadorada wasn’t built to hold them. only to be visited, looted, photographed, and left behind.

i’m not asking for perfection. i’m asking for possibility; isn’t that the point of the sims? for culture to be more than aesthetic. for queerness to exist as resistance, community, and context, not just a neutral sandbox function. for our stories to be written in. not added as selling points.

this isn’t a takedown. and i hope it doesn’t come off as whiny or brainrotted by identity politics.

it’s a longing.

that we build worlds where our people don’t just appear, but belong.

usonofallama

now… do y’all want me to talk about how our only african world (north african at that) in the whole franchise, al simhara, is the perfect example of a world you don’t get to live in or love, rather explore, exoticize, and loot? as if africa weren’t cities, villages, families, and futures?

because as a granddaughter of diaspora, mixed, white passing and all, i want to and will. and yeah, extractivist and all, it was fun. maybe even a product of its time. but it’s been over a decade, and there’s still no sign of moving past that kind of rep.

when do we get a sub-saharan world instead of another rich white california and yet six more simfluencer career variants?

usonofallama

please remember this now that the survey is taking place

#as a mixed polyenesian person ive had a lovehate relationship with sulani for so long now #because yay polynesian world! but also like #theres more to thesecultures than Moana #and i will keep saying this cause i genuinely want more for not just my culture #but also OPs and beyond #countries and nationalities rhat are always othered deserve the same treatment that the european worlds got

stacy-yarche-neba

You really are a demon Pet!

You knew my game the day we met...

Ya boi started T btw

#and MY GOD do i get HUNGRY

polymathart

God, there's something euphoric in finally seeing exactly what we've been begging for for years: Alastor in his prime as both a radioman and a serial killer, and seeing the moment he died.

Today the prophecy was fulfilled.

leetaylatuparitaulus

Made this myself just now, think the crunchy quality adds to it-

satyriconmp3

utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people

veilstrider

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE — BLOODLINES 2 (2025) ↪ Seattle 🎄❄️

#i am very autistic about this game im not even joking

Why tf is there so many shein ads

#i am going to fucking scream

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