Gumdrop

Twenty Somethin'. Here for the Party. Pronoun me however.

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Welcome to GumdropGameSpot!

I'm G, the sometimes modder, sometimes edit-maker, all-the-time gamer!

Here, you will find custom content, game edits (on the blood moon), and general "cozy" gaming content.

This is an 18+ space, though it is rarely an explicit one. #twblood and #twspice are used. Please be careful online.

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And last but not least: Vladdy Daddy (You’re welcome): 🦇

Want more? Check out the companion blogs:

@gumdropwcif is an organized hub for my custom content finds.

@gumdropsimsposes is a disorganized reblog account of ts4 poses

@gumdropandfriends is the place I yap! Come chat and see what life is like on my feed. If you want be my mutual, this is how I know. 💖

[This has been a largely ts4 space, but I'm branching out. If there is a game you don't want to see in your feed, check out the tags and block whichever you prefer!]

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> We've reached the end at last. > So it would seem. > He is truly dead then? > Is standing in this house not proof enough? > Yes, I suppose the wards would've flayed me otherwise. > A less pleasant reunion, to be sure. > You must think me milk-livered for my doubt. > I would think it reckless to trust anything at this point. > And if I said I trusted you? > Most madcap of all. Go check the coffin yourself. > Hah! No, no. I can wait. The brood will want to check for themselves as soon as they swarm in. > You make a point. :/ > I'm surprised I arrived before them. > It won't be long, I'm sure. They'll want their share, after all. > And you? > It's a difficult business. > Naturally. > But I suppose I do, in a way. > You've been this place's caretaker some five centuries. I should think you'd want to be free of it. > And lo, there is the problem at its core. I won't deny it. I loathe this place. But loathing and attachment are so often intertwined. > Fauntkin. Time will heal this. > Hah. Time. It's been five hundred years, Vik. > Then give it five hundred more. I would beg you leave this place if I thought you would listen. > Nay, nay. I must see this to its end. > As expected. Very well. I remain your second. If you must stay, we both shall. I could not protect you then. May I prove a changed man now.

{Prologue: End}

Origin Point Prime: O.O.5

Citations for Prologue Here

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hi!! i made a solo journaling game on itch.io if you want to check it out :))

from the game page:

Welcome to Pine's Landing, a small coastal town with a close-knit community. Draw cards and roll some dice to come up with the details of your character's life and interactions with the people in town. 

Flexible in terms of themes and genre, allowing players to choose to focus on friendships, lore and mysteries, helping out your community, or wherever else the narrative may take you.

All you need is a deck of cards, 1-2 six sided dice (d6), and a way to write your story down. 

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Nᴏᴛ-Sᴏ-Sɪᴍsᴛᴏʙᴇʀ Day 6: Harvestfest

Baby's first harvest lights. 🧡🏮 Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone!

Thank you to @lilalmondsim for the family pose found here and @simmerianne93 for baby Helin's pose found here. You made my blender dreams come true. 💕

Check out other simmers' takes on the prompt @notsosimstober

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One of my secret dreams is to develop a site with the aesthetics and tagging systems of A03, except all the entries are just links to Gutenberg books.

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I just fed my first raven!!!

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Update: the ravens were driven out by bigger birds of prey. The crows remain.

I have continued to offer nibbles. They chose to nest in the tree by my home.

Lady Crow yells all day long (she is broody). Sir Crow brings my offerings back. When I saw the nest I cried.

All is well.

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Ever since I have discovered the treasure that is @vampishly-sims' spreadsheets of cc creators I've been wondering - does anyone know of a blog, list, or spreadsheet of active/former simblr storytellers?

There are many reblogs for cc, but are there any similar pages for story reblogs/archival? Or at least lists of creators?

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11.11.18-- Midnight. I've heard it said that when a sire dies their childe knows at once. The binding snaps at last. For all my borrowed refinement, it seems I cannot fight my nature. This half-knowing is a curse. I must return, promises be damned. (How odd feels to greet the place you mourned.) This part is well-worn by now. My heart names me Fool, again and again. Still - there is one I will not abandon to these halls. > "Brother" > "Vikaslaus. You've come, then." > "You knew I would." > "I knew." > "You've done so well."

Origin Point Prime: O.O.5

Citations for Prologue Here

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Camera Test for Origin Point, Season 1

(look at all those cuties 💕🤗)

I'll be starting posts on Feb 13th on the stories blog @gumdropstories, but they'll be reblogged here too! <3

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Finally have a solid copy of the prologue for my sim story that starts Friday.

I could cry. Weeks of dreaming and plotting and struggling with blender/photoshop/etc. Weeks of feeling this task is too big.

I did it!!! It's happening!!! Even if no one else loves it I DO!!!

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Calling everyone to go give @vampwan a hug today please and thank you

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Camera Test for Origin Point, Season 1

(look at all those cuties 💕🤗)

I'll be starting posts on Feb 13th on the stories blog @gumdropstories, but they'll be reblogged here too! <3

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PSA on GShade

Alright so, for anyone who doesn’t actually know about this because it was a few years ago now: the person who made/maintains the official Gshade is a petulant toddler who previously placed malware within a Gshade update (which anyone who uses it knows, if you want your Gshade to work again it HAS TO BE updated).

If you’re going to use Gshade instead of Reshade, use a fork that isn’t the official one – but frankly, I’d STRONGLY suggest Reshade instead, give its open source nature and the fact you can ignore updates for literally ever if you want and it’ll still function perfectly.

For a quick summary of what happened: Gshade was always infamous for having absurd amounts of updates, and as they became more excessive people started to complain about having to update almost every damn day. Someone got fed up and created a fork that would bypass the ‘you must update to use it’ bullshit. The catalyst was the petulant child literally dropping a couple ACTUALLY EMPTY updates just to piss people off further because of the complaints about the excessive updates. Just for the extra context of ‘he very much did bullshit like this even before the malware bomb’.

This turned into an arms race between him and the person maintaining the version that gave updates the middle finger, which eventually ended in him placing code that would ‘detect if someone was using a third-party non-official Gshade’ and forcibly shut down their entire PC. Not the program (which still would have been bad, mind you, but at least SOMEWHAT more reasonable), but your entire fucking PC. Anyone whose dealt with things that ‘detect third party software’ KNOWS that this shit always has false positives from some other ENTIRELY unrelated programs, and that’s exactly what happened.

The dev’s response to this was basically quadrupling down, with one quote from them being pretty much ‘I could have done something actually harmful, but I didn’t!’ (spoiler: forcibly shutting down a PC is harmful if you’re unlucky – that’s why ‘hold power button to force shutdown’ is a last resort, because you’re basically spinning a roulette wheel). So, ‘I’ll fuckin’ do it again!’ level of response to the concerns, basically.

There’s more bits to the story, but that’s the gist of it. Given the price of PC parts and PCs in general right now, unless you’re willing to risk that potential $2k on a replacement rig if baby has a tantrum again, I suggest folks ditch Gshade in favor of Reshade. The 'convenience' is not worth it.

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