Hi there! Welcome to my little edge of the internet! I’ve been here for a while now. I love the Sims 2 & 3, though I don’t totally know how to mod either one, In A Heartbeat (the 2017 short film), fanfictions and fanfiction writing, and being the best dude I can be! I’m full of ideas and have notebooks full of ‘em. It would be delightful to get to know the people of my fandoms!
First, let me say that I'm actually so sad to see it go. It's been a huge part of my time in the sims community. It's a shame that was so sudden. I really loved the community and I think it's a shame that it happened like it did.
With that out of the way.
BITCH, I TOLD YOU. I TOLD ALL OF YOU. I told ALL you motherfuckers exactly what would happen and everyone bitched like "Oh!! Well, WHY would you do this? Especially when it's not like GOS is closing down anytime soon???"
I got hate mail for months. Bitches poured out of the woodwork like "Mmmm I've always hated Billie, just another thing he's done to add him to my shit list" Then HL bitched at me and acted like the scrape cost him a huge amount of case in data usage when that shit was fucking cents on the dollar. I even offered to pay HL back the like 2 dollars that it *may* have costed him to scape.
Well GUESS who fucking took their ball and went home with very little warning?
This is the entire site's worth of custom content scraped. There are a few things that you need to know.- This is not checked to see if depe
Here's the fucking scrape. It's missing 2024-2026. I be that stuff can be scraped as well though, but since it'll have to be done through Wayback it's gonna take time.
Thanks so much for your awesome conversions! I especially love the Sims 2 stuff pack ones 💕
Thank you so much! ❤️
I do have plans for converting more Sims 2 stuff, but right now I'm focusing on other cc projects.
I can say the next projects involving TS2 will be to convert the restaurant set from Nightlife and the Bespoke set by Honeywell, which kindly gave me a permission to convert to TS3.
I also intend to make a tutorial about converting Sims 2 objects to TS3, so stay tuned! 😊❤️
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.
More Favorites – Add Custom Favorite Food, Music, and Colors by Destrospean
"This framework allows modders and CC creators to add their own foods, music genres, and colors to the list of selectable favorites. It supports music stations added by gamefreak130's Broadcaster and foods added by douglasveiga's CCLoader in addition to foods included with the unmodded game and its add-on content.
Hereinafter is information relevant to modders. To users simply wanting to install packages that include new favorites, you can stop reading.
In case anyone is wondering what the future holds for the Projects Team: Port Abel, Beacon Bay, River's Bend (the sims 3 worlds from different platforms!), eventually all hoods and worlds from The Sims 2 (PC & Console versions!), The Sims 1 worlds and then The Sims 4 worlds. Our team is planning on eventually making these worlds/hoods to be playable worlds in The Sims 3 PC!
Let us know what you think we should do after Vista Beach and Moonlight Bay are completed in the comments! Discord --> https://discord.gg/dbwaaFhEXF
The Department of Education worked with the far-right Family Research Council to officially designate March 12th as Detrans Awareness Day last year. But what actually leads people to detransition? It's not regret, but social stigma, incited by the very figures who claim to protect detransitioners. I want to hear their stories describing how the current moral panic influenced their decisions.
Why don't CC creators use/improve old custom clothing meshes more? There's literally so many cool meshes that only get a few recolors/retextures because they're old or something. Just wondering.