over 800 wildfires are burning in canada and whole communities are burning to the ground, yet americans still get on the internet every single year and complain as if it's something we do for fun
On top of that, Canadians send firefighters and response personnel down when American communities are burning. A Canadian helicopter pilot died a few days ago fighting the fires in Colorado… and all we get is whining when it’s our turn.
Anyways, here are some resources for those who are able to help (via indigenousclimateaction on IG):
(sorry the Trauma Center compilation from game grumps changed my brain chemistry permanently)
Electric and Internet are due again. Gas is off. I'm still applying for jobs but I haven't had an interview in a while and I think it's partly because of my mental state. I've recently been diagnosed with C-PTSD and am undergoing EMDR for it. I'm probably going to apply for SSI again sometime in July after I'm able to talk to a lawyer.
I haven't given up but I'm very stressed in general. I'm realizing my arm will be fucked up for a long time. It's been very painful because I severed a nerve. Psychosis, kids, not even once
My electric bill is $134 and my internet is $85. My gas is $212 to get it turned back on. I would appreciate any amount of help.
I still have my Amazon wishlist that I will regularly add to. Help there is also appreciated. A link can be found in my pinned post.
sigh. I'm sorry to do this again so soon but I need help paying my water bill because. Well. Being without water is a specific misery. My gas is also due but I think I'm just gonna let that one go for now. But the water? I need to pay
I am a disabled (autism + MDD + physical limitations) lesbian who unfortunately tried to kill myself in April over finances :-) I'm lucky to be on some more medications that keep me way more sane now, but stress literally makes me insane so if anyone could help me out I'd be SUPER appreciative.
The water bill is around $120 (I can't give an exact amount because I can't make an account on their website so I can check, due to technical problems) and I do not remember what the lady said on the phone. This is two months' bills but they cannot be separated for some reason.
If anyone CAN help with the gas bill, it's $110 down on a $220 bill to make a payment arrangement.
Paylinks below. I hope that we are all making it out here as best we can.
Funny how originally The Sims was considered to be a satire on consumerism and late stage capitalism, and 26 years, 3 games, and thousands of dollars in DLC later, it might be getting in-game ads.
Full circle moment if the circle was on fire, and also the portal to hell.
I am not usually someone who gets involved in Sims community discourse or public callout-style posts, but this genuinely breaks my heart to see.
A massive amount of the custom content, creativity, and inspiration behind my work on Vermillion Sins came from communities like Garden of Shadows and Sims2Artists. They were huge pillars of the Sims 2 creative space for years.
What hurts most is not even just the shutdown itself. It’s the lack of warning.
These sites were not just forums anymore. They had become archives of nearly two decades of community history: old creators, inactive creators, forum attachments, resources, tutorials, contests, shared knowledge, and years of creativity that helped shape this community into what it became.
A simple “hey, this may go offline permanently soon, please archive what you can” would have allowed people time to preserve pieces of Sims 2 history before they vanished. Instead, so much appears to have disappeared overnight.
And to be clear, I do not think anyone is owed endless unpaid labor or permanent site maintenance. If someone no longer has the time, energy, money, or interest to continue running something, that is completely understandable.
But I do think the community should have at least been given the chance to help. People absolutely would have pitched in through backups, mirrors, technical help, donations, archival efforts, or simply having enough warning to preserve pieces of history before they disappeared.
The Sims 2 community has survived because people cared enough to preserve things. Without archivists, backups, mirrors, and Wayback captures, huge parts of this game’s creative history would already be gone forever.
And honestly, I hope this becomes a wake-up call moving forward. Preservation should matter.
TOUs and repost policies should not become barriers that result in entire pieces of community history disappearing forever the moment a creator or site owner leaves, especially in a community where everything is interconnected.
I respect active creators wanting credit and boundaries. But abandoned content should not be treated like untouchable lost media while the community watches it disappear forever. Communities preserving older Sims games and their content are a huge part of why those games remained alive and accessible long after EA itself had largely moved on from supporting them, and likely played a significant role in renewed interest surrounding things like the Sims 2 Legacy release.
I hope more people begin supporting archival efforts, mirrors, and preservation projects before more Sims history is lost for good.
Hey guys, so my power is finally back, but now my dad an I are very low on food. My dad doesn't get his money until the 3rd and that's still 11 days away. If anyone can send a little something our way so we can get something for food I would be so grateful.
Hello, ima Mario. Okey dokey, letsa make a pizza pie together, you go get somea spaghetti, you go geta some sausage, I getta some sauce, you gonna put some spaghetti on the sausage and the sausage on the pizza, then I’m gonna chasea you with the pizza, then you gonna chasea me with the pizza, and gonaa makea lasagne.
I thought I should just post about what has just happened but also it happened when I was playing League of Legends for some reason. \
There appears to be a new breed of scammers who will try to get you to add them on Discord, they all have randomly generated names on discord. I don't know if they are real people who write the messages or just bots but using whatever reasoning, they will try and get you to add them.
I had people two add me after a game in League and want to play again, 'so please add me on discord.' With very similar random looking names, as in both starting with the word 'Summer.'
This person on tumblr had a very convincing front, liking and reblogging various fandoms including the sims 2. They then sent me a message saying they had reported my account on accident, and the 'Tumblr Query Support' or something like that wanted me to add them on discord. .-.
It was a fake looking email with a spelling mistake in it, and I know that staff members who are doing that sort of thing would not put a picture of their face on an email and ask you to add them on discord.
Have you ever wondered why Bodyshop makes your PC work so hard?
BODYSHOP HAS NO FPS LIMIT
With limited frame rate, Bodyshop only puts a strain on PC when it loads CAS content. If your GPU fans go significantly faster the entire time you have Bodyshop open, then FPS is very likely way too high.
It's similar case for TS2 game - but FPS also depends on your system / PC /Laptop and the way you run TS2.
➤ To check FPS in the game, use a shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + S to bring up FPS HUD. FPS is displayed right in the upper left corner.
Tip: if FPS is changing too fast, take a few screenshots so you can read FPS from those
➤ If you set a limit to 60 FPS, that tells CPU/GPU to produce 60 game frames per second. This is the sensible number for TS2. Without FPS limit, your hardware is trying to put out frames as fast as it possibly can, heating up and using unnecessary amounts of energy.
The Sims 2 engine was not designed to run any higher than 100 FPS
➤ When you play The Sims 2 with TS2 RPC & borderless window, Windows Desktop Manager usually handles frame rates. Same for windowed TS2 Legacy edition. This is thanks to Vsync*, which forces desktop's default refresh rate on game window.
*In case of high-refresh gaming monitors / laptops, FPS limit imposed by Vsync may not be low enough for TS2.
*I showed a screenshot of my hood, but I recommend checking FPS in lot view, because in hood view, 'heavy' particle effects like clouds can dramatically slow down FPS even on a modern gaming GPU.
➤ On older gear, FPS may never go beyond ~70 even without the limit, but CPU / GPU still try hard to reach the unachievable frame rate.
Varying FPS numbers may be an indicator that the game is running uncapped, OR that the default frame rate is set too high for your system to handle.
➤ On modern gaming GPU, you'll have no problem telling the game runs uncapped - FPS in lot view usually oscillates between ~200 - 600.
➤ A few ways to set FPS limit:
Playing a game in windowed mode often solves high FPS issue. Unless you have a monitor with high refresh rate. But the general recommendation for old, uncapped DX9 games is: do not trust WDM, do not rely on Vsync, set a hard FPS limit.
If you use DXVK, you can set FPS cap in the DXVK config file, both for the game, and for Bodyshop (you pick the same 32-bit d3d9 version). *I've explained how I tweaked my DXVK's FPS in this post here.
If you don't use DXVK, and Windows Desktop Manager doesn't affect your game's FPS for some reason, or if you insist on playing fullscreen, you can set FPS limit for TS2 with driver-level GPU settings: Nvidia 3D program profile* / AMD adrenalin. Same applies to Bodyshop.
*Nvidia's global FPS cap may not work in fullscreen mode, often it's required to set FPS limit for TS2 exe specifically.
➤ In case of laptops using "Mux-less" or "Optimus" technology, the integrated Intel/AMD graphics card may be forcing FPS adjusted to screen refresh rate, ignoring Nvidia 3D profile's FPS limiter settings.
If so, you may need to use DXVK with FPS limit, or an external tool like Riva Tuner Statistics Server. RivaTuner apparently can make FPS feel smoother ;) It can be used along DXVK, too (but in that case you set limit with RTSS only, ofc).
TS2 game actually has the option to adjust screen refresh rate, it's in the middle of the graphic options tab. I was told that in the Legacy Edition, the Refresh Rate box is blank and permanently locked, meaning you cannot fix FPS inside the game menu.
I have Mr Dj's repack, and this box was always greyed out for me because I always used FPS cap. When I uncapped FPS, the refresh box became active, game allows me to switch between 59 and 60 mhz refresh options, but these do nothing. FPS stays at 80 for a while, then it goes uncapped.
Some say the Refresh Rate setting is broken in Legacy version, but ,more likely, it got disabled cuz it doesn't work anyway on modern systems.
Protect Internet Freedom from now until forever. It's important existentially! Americans stand with UK citizens in our struggle against government censorship
You guys have my whole heart for sharing this I had no idea will be filling this out and encourage all my fellow brits to do soo too. If you’re not from the UK please keep sharing this around we have till the 26th May to submit these in.
This whole thing was set up without our say we all need to make sure we’re heard.
