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David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (Swedish, 1628-1698) Isbjörnar, 1686 Oil on canvas, 171 x 204 cm Nationalmuseum NMDrh 566
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Les Vampires: Episode II– The Ring that Kills - 1915-1916. Pathé Frères. French film serial by Louis Feuillade. The series consists of ten episodes, which vary greatly in length. Being roughly 7 hours long, it is considered one of the longest films ever made.
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I was just having a PM chat with another simmer about Sims 3 game performance, and I thought maybe it would be worth posting this stuff publicly. There are other game performance guides around the Internet, but this is mine.
Sims 3 is an old game. It’s enormously ambitious, and I wish they’d built a better data management engine in the beginning when they knew they were going to try to simulate basic behavior for an entire town over generations. When it runs like crap, it’s natural to assume that the problem is the computer, but the truth is that in 2021, the major reason that the game gets laggy is the GAME. It’s almost never the computer.
Sims 3 is a 32-bit game. That means that it has huge limitations on how much memory it can access. If you have the long-address patch (which if you have your game patched up to 1.67+ you will have), then the total memory the game can use is 4G. Before long addressing, the max usable memory was 2G, and the game stopped being able to function in that amount after about the 4th expansion I think.
It doesn’t matter if you have a 64-bit operating system, which you probably do. Sims 3 has to run in 32-bit backward compatibility.
There’s a lot of advice on how to improve performance. Some of it worked in the past but doesn’t now. Some of it never worked. Here are the things I know of that actually do make Sims 3 run better: 1. NRaas mods ErrorTrap and Overwatch: Even if you hate mods, you want these. They don’t change the behavior of the game. They fix bugs that bloat the game and corrupt save files. I honestly don’t know how anyone plays generational games without these. I’ve spoken to a lot of players over the years who don’t mod because they consider it dangerous to their game. I can see that reasoning, but not for these two mods.
2. An FPS (frames-per-second) limiter. This gets really technical, but the jist of it is that Sims 3 was written at a time when computers didn’t have nearly the graphics resources they have today. Because of this, it’s written to use ALL the resources it can get to generate the maximum number of visual frames it can. On a modern computer it’s likely to generate hundreds of frames per second when you only need 30 fps, and no matter how studly a computer you give it, it’s likely to chew up those extra resources generating more frames you’ll never see. When I added FPS limiting, suddenly the fan on my computer went quiet. It was stunning. I don’t see this issue discussed nearly as much as other ones, probably because of the confusing technical reasons, but it might be the biggest thing you can do for your game performance.
For certain graphics cards, you can limit the frames generated in the graphics config. I used Bandicam for years. You need to run it before you launch Sims and set FPS to 30 on the video tab. HOWEVER, I stopped using Bandicam when Smooth Patch (below) came out. You want maximum FPS of 30. That’s the maximum number that’s useful to the eye except arguably for first person shooters and virtual reality. [Note: Other simmers are telling me that they think somewhat higher frame rates can be a big visual improvement for their games. I think I’ll try 60 for a while myself and see. A lot of games target 30, so it’s worth trying out some limits to see what you think. When you’re talking about modern hardware, 60fps is almost the same for performance as 30. Whatever the case, don’t set it higher than the refresh rate on your monitor. Anything over that literally can’t be displayed.]
3. Smooth Patch by LazyDuchess. This is some kind of runtime injection magic that updates the way some threading is done in the game. the biggest thing it affects is loading the catalogues in CAS and build/buy, but it can make games load faster tool. As an afterthought, the config file includes frame rate limiting, so you can just forget about #2 above and set FPSlimit=30 after installing Smooth Patch.
4. CC Magic. This is a cc organizer, which is very nice to have in its own right. The big performance deal is that it merges your cc into big packages for you. Merged packages are better for performance but a living hell to do manually.
So that’s it! I’ve done a lot of fiddlier stuff, but I think these things are the most bang for your buck.
Interviewing Chamomile
Since my spirits led me to start practicing tasseomancy, I recognised very quickly that this would be an excellent form of communication with plant spirits. The edible sort, at least. Hence I decided to interview this plant spirit and ask it to tell me about itself, taking notes as I drank, and reading the patterns left by its flowers.
My impression of this spirit is that it is rather sweet and gentle in nature. I saw many visions and patterns pertaining to the countryside; meadows, farmlands, bees and beetles (lots of flying insects in general) and oddly, spider legs. I saw a woman harvesting grains. A few domestic animals, including hens/roosters and cows. Two birds with touching beaks. Warm yellows, sunshine, light breeze. A woodland in the background. I also saw a person with a pointed hat, standing behind a crafts table.
I feel that this plant encourages creativity; it excels in blessings and peace-making. There is a sense of family and community, and general prosperity amassing slowly and little by little over time. Not wealth and riches, no, but simple pleasures. Perhaps chamomile can be used to befriend and create harmony with other spirits. It has an airy and solar quality, but softly. I was reminded of that focused flow one gets into when concentrating on a beloved craft. There was a general sense of relaxation and mild sleepiness, which was expected.
Though I already knew a little of chamomile’s magical properties, I purposely did not research it beforehand and had little experience with it. But afterwards, I did a bit of reading and saw that much of my interpretation fits with the consensus. I believe I can consult this plant spirit on matters related to creativity, blessing, peace-making, community, friendship and family.
One thing I noticed about scrying into the flowers; they are bulky and clump together. At first I thought this would make chamomile unsuitable for scrying. But then I realised that the bulkiness and slight colour variation created so much depth. The patterns that I picked up had a 3 dimensional quality that was a pleasure to read.
LGBT+ Terms in Celtic languages:
Celtic Students blog’s list for multiple languages
Irish
An Foclóir Aiteach
My Foclóir Aiteach graphics - LGBT, mlm & wlw, demi identities, queer, polyam & Intersex, nonbinary identities, ace, aro, ply & pan
Scots Gaelic
Briathrachas LGDTCE+
Welsh
Stonewall Cymru’s Glossary of Terms
Weather vocabulary in Scottish Gaelic
sìde (f)/aimsir (f) — weather
Cò ris a tha an t-sìde coltach (an-dràsta/a-nis/an-diugh) — What is the weather like (at the moment/now/today)?
Tha i... (a-muigh) — It is... (outside)
fuar — cold
blàth — warm
teth — hot
fliuch — wet
gaothah — windy
sgòthach — cloudy
ceòthach — foggy
grianach — sunny
dorcha — dark
briagha — lovely
grànda — horrible
garbh — rough
Tha... ann — There is...
an t-iusge — rain (“the water”)
sneachd — snow
reòthadh — frost
tàirneanaich — thunder
dealanaich — lightning
your love (deja vu)
prompt: it’s all sub devil hours (your love by glass animals)
fandom: the arcana
pairing: Devil!Asra x Apprentice
word count: 1889
warnings: NSFW
Another blush paints his cheeks. “This is an important deal, love, I need to pay attention–”
“You don’t want me?”
“I… didn’t say that.”
You kiss him, deep and slow, hands sliding under his tunic to worship his skin. You suck his bottom lip, then slip your tongue into his mouth, once, twice, spelling his mortal name between his teeth and at last coaxing a musical moan from within his throat. When you pull away you smirk. “He’ll hear you,” you breathe against his ear.
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One of the only things marking the passage of time in the Devil’s realm were the rainstorms, which lasted for approximately two days at a time every month, and were created by Asra to give the palace gardens a natural watering. Even though you didn’t really mind the rain, he insisted that you stay indoors. “You could get blown away in the wind,” he’d admonish, “or catch a cold!”
“I really doubt that,” you always said, to which he’d shake his head and sigh, ordering you to always take an umbrella and wear an extra jacket if you did have to go out.
Today is the second day of the storm, which means you’re still stuck in the palace. Asra has been doing his best to entertain you between his meetings but he’s been particularly busy as of late. You’ve grown numb to the fact that he makes deals that literally destroy people’s lives so sometimes you sneak into the throne room to visit, just to find something to do. Perhaps now is a good time.
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@miserytheapprentice’s post put a little bug in my ear about punk Asra and I had to get it out of my system
Tha e gu math ciùin an-dràsta
Because of recent shitshow in the fandom i wanted to draw something self-indulgent. Trans rights everybody!
And to all folks who dream about top surgery but can't due to various resons: Stay strong! One day we will eredicate the tiddies!