Jazzy | 30 | Anime Simmer The Sims 2 & 3 player and Newbie The Sims 3 CC creator. Expect lots of anime, crossovers, and shipping. Posts both my CC and gameplay. ASK BOX My CC
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.
A treat has arrived! The third issue of ARCHIV3 is here and ready for devouring! We cooked up a great spread in our cauldron, from costume ideas (with help from the wonderful people in our discord server--thanks so much!) and spooky cc finds, to a devilishly delicious recipe and catharsim's personal Halloween playlist. The only tricks here are ways to make your next party come back to life. You wont find links to the treats for this issue anywhere else (and there's more than just the few as an extra Halloween surprise) so gear up to have yourself a ghoulish good time! Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻
We hope you enjoy and we would love to hear any thoughts you have. Happy reading!
xx, The ARCHIV3 team
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Get out your cardigans and calligraphy pens, cause the second issue of ARCHIV3 is here! Our amazing staff pulled off an ever bigger issue this time as we jumped head first into the theme that looms just around the corner in a trenchcoat. In this issue we again explore interior and beauty concepts as well as recipes, interactive puzzles, and playlists. And who could forget the issue exclusive custom content? Not us.
We hope you enjoy and we would love to hear any thoughts you have. Happy reading!
xx, The ARCHIV3 team
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JAZZY UPDATES IKAMI AFTER 3 YEARS???? IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!!!!11!!!
Hi, so I decided to finally go back to this world again after years and with my experience making personal worlds for myself, I noticed the world had issues that I wanted to fix!
Moved world objects around to prevent possible routing issues/be able to add empty lots. (spawners would prevent adding any additional lots later on the line)
Added Simaddix Rice Crops to the cc folder and replaced the heathers that was in the fields before. (It was supposed to be a rice crop field by the way!)
Lots 3-6 Iwami and 4-1 Iwami were changed due to them not being 2 tiles apart from the other lots. They were also made smaller.
JAZZY UPDATES IKAMI AFTER 3 YEARS???? IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!!!!11!!!
Hi, so I decided to finally go back to this world again after years and with my experience making personal worlds for myself, I noticed the world had issues that I wanted to fix!
Moved world objects around to prevent possible routing issues/be able to add empty lots. (spawners would prevent adding any additional lots later on the line)
Added Simaddix Rice Crops to the cc folder and replaced the heathers that was in the fields before. (It was supposed to be a rice crop field by the way!)
Lots 3-6 Iwami and 4-1 Iwami were changed due to them not being 2 tiles apart from the other lots. They were also made smaller.
Hey everyone, I hate to do this but maybe you can help me a bit.
My female cat needs an exam to check her heart, but it's too expensive for us, so I thought about doing a fundraising/donations thing, maybe it helps a bit, even if it's just 1$.
Story: my female cat Luna was born on the streets and was a stray till she was 1 year old, when we adopted her. At home we noticed that her breathing was a bit fast, we thought it could be first time at home excitement though (she purred for two days straight 😊).
The vet examined her and said she couldn't detect anything and said to keep an eye on her and call if she coughed like cat asthma videos (luckily she never did that).
She gets more tired than my male cat when playing. One time in a hot day she started panting when playing, I stopped playing immediately and tried to calm her (I thought it was cause it was too hot and maybe I pushed her too much, maybe she doesn't know when to stop playing if it's too much). Ever since, I take breaks when playing with her, so she doesn't get tired. But she only does like two jumps and she lays down breathing fast, she wants to keep playing, but I don't let her till she rests a bit. My male cat plays for so long running around like crazy, so compared to him, I get even more worried.
So we went to the vet again and said the fast breathing never stopped, and she even breathes fast when she's resting/sleeping. The vet said the breathing was a bit fast and should've calmed down by now (she's at home for 1 year). She prescribed anti-inflammatory and allergy pills, but it did nothing. So she suggested to check her heart with an exam, because heart problems affect the breathing.
We need 150€ for now and we can't afford that, I've been postponing this since last year, but I'm terrified that something could be wrong with her heart and something bad will happen to her 😢
I really hope there's nothing wrong and maybe the exam is a waste of money, but if there's something in her heart, she needs to start medication as soon as possible.
If anyone can help, I would be much appreciated 💜 anything is appreciated really 🙏
Thank you for reading.
I leave the links below, in case you can help this way. And a picture of my baby Luna 💜
At least two creator accounts on SimFileShare are compromised (SimAndy, TheNinthWaveSim). Downloads may include executable .bat and .exe files (which obviously CC should not!!). For now, consider not downloading from SFS.
As far as I can tell mine is fine. The last upload I made to SFS was Apr 2 and I have not updated any files since then - if I do, I’ll post about that here. If you see anything updated since then on my files let me know. All my downloads are also mirrored on MF!
My April Fool Boots are my last upload that's linked anywhere public. Nothing else of mine should have an upload dated later than March 2025. I did a quick check and didn't see anything suspicious, but I'm in the middle of moving apartments and I don't have time to check everything over.
I also checked before uploading to simblr.cc and the only thing inside the .zip files were .package files. I have deleted the posts on simblr.cc to be extra safe (only .zip files were being flagged for me, Oaken Oddities and Vinyl Art), but the one .zip file I still have (I tend to delete stuff right away) shows the .package files in the .zip haven't been updated since july of 2024, so I'm assuming SFS has been flagged as a whole. SFS is down for me so I can't check if anything is weird there.
At least two creator accounts on SimFileShare are compromised (SimAndy, TheNinthWaveSim). Downloads may include executable .bat and .exe files (which obviously CC should not!!). For now, consider not downloading from SFS.
As far as I can tell mine is fine. The last upload I made to SFS was Apr 2 and I have not updated any files since then - if I do, I’ll post about that here. If you see anything updated since then on my files let me know. All my downloads are also mirrored on MF!
@ sims 3 followers how big is your mods folder outside like game mods and store content because no matter what I do I can’t keep my cc below 28gb. Is that too much cc for the game to handle????
