sims & things

call me meaux! (Mo) lady | 30 I follow back other ts2/ts3 simblrs. Not actively making CC at the moment, but if you need anything feel free to ask! I have been crappy about WCIFs in the past but I am WCIF friendly!

[meauxsims]

I can't believe I'm actually playing paralives... *_*

[meauxsims]

My legacy lot has grown ridiculously out of proportion. Well really, I’ve just gone overboard.  I’ve never played on such a huge lot (6x5) and beach lots are more fun to me :) I always feel a little more creative, I guess?

There are 4 bedrooms (including one master + nursery), 3 living/study/play areas, a kitchen + bar, dining area, five bathrooms, a bunch of stuff on the beach, bigfoot’s hut on the beach (with a party area underneath), a garage (w/space for a workbench or 2), annnd a brand new two-story private gym that you see in the back there. 

    One of the bedrooms was currently serving as the gym, and there’s a new baby on the way, so naturally I built them a whole gym.

 Also this family is L O A D E D and gen 3 was just born. I play with mods that make their bills come once a week, but they’re like $3000+.. they’re still rich! 

[meauxsims]

This picture makes me want to play ts2 again! But I've got no idea where to get started T_T

2007 me would've had backups on backups of my CC folders.

Does the game even run on Windows 11? ugh

[byjove]

[sims-for-semi]

Happy Birthday The Sims 2!

Let's celebrate!

[antoninko]

I can't believe this took me almost a month to do! This is my 800 Followers Gift, so i decided to make a third edition of hair requests by @squiddurr for funsies and it somehow turned out the biggest one so far!

This may be my biggest hair dump I've done so far actually :D This Hair Dump Consists of 45 hairs and with some of them being male + female they're in total 54 as seen in the previews above! :) All the hair names are shown in the previews. I'd like to thank Squidder for being patient with me delaying the hair dump for months :)

Download HERE!

Credits: EA/Maxis, AHarris00Britney, BustedPixels, CeeProductions, ClumsyAlien, Cowconuts, Glumbut, GoAmazons, GreenLlamas, Khadijah551, LeeLeeSims1, MarsoSims, Okruee, Oranos, Plunni, QwertySims, SavvySweet, SimCelebrity00, SimLaughLove, Simtric, SleepingSims, WildPixel, WildlyMiniatureSandwich, Executables, Nouk, Trapping, Minicule, PlatinumAspiration, AppleWaterSugar, SpottedonSixam, KestrelTeens, Memento-Sims, FurbyQ, NervousXSubject, SocialBunny, DelcoWebney, Marja87;

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[oliveandgrimshouse]

[meauxsims]

Dropping a random picture to give this blog some activity.

Just played TS3 for the first time in months. Still daydreaming about TS2 lol.

I hope 2022 has been not horrible to everyone so far. 

[simsmemes]

[short-sim-wayz]

I knew I wasn’t the only one. Lol

[pinokokoshka]

The Curious family

[curious-subject]

[pixeldolly]

Hi-Res Lot View-Friendly Farm Fields

Do you hate that the Maxis farm field neighbourhood deco becomes invisible in lot view, so your farms look like empty fields? Me too. Do you love greatcheesecakepersona’s 3D farm fields but covering large areas in them makes your game throw a fit? Same.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | Mediafire

Credits: genlisae and Criquette for the original objects

Basically, I wanted Veronaville’s extensive farms to remain visible when in lot-view, particularly around the Monty ranch and the Old Silo farm, but placing 3D objects over such large areas crashed my game, so I wondered whether anyone had managed to make the Maxis fields visible in lot-view.  I was in luck! Genlisae did just that, but I had a closer look and noticed that the Maxis textures are really crunchy and low-res and wouldn’t look nice up-close. 

These are retextures of genlisae’s farm field objects using hi-res textures that are twice the size of the originals (but still pretty small) and which, in my opinion, look quite nice.(If there’s interest I could do a version that is the same size as the originals? These REPLACE genlisae’s fields.

Also, because these are objects rather than “effects”, they won’t follow terrain geometry; you’ll have to flatten the terrain where you want to place them first.

 They can even be combined with greatcheesecakepersona’s objects if, say, you want a sunflower field among them. Check it out:

Have fun, let me know if there are any issues!

[meauxsims]

My sims are currently being held hostage on my old hard drive. Gonna buy a cable to transfer everything over because I am NOT rebuilding TWO entire games LOL.

So, hopefully I’ll be more active in the next month or so. I still have a WIP for a retexture of pescado’s thinking cap stands!!!

[sixfootsims]

Introducing the MoonFruit Skinblend! I kind of started this on a whim since I couldn’t find a skinblend I was 100% happy with. It was… an ordeal, but I think I’m happy with the end result. 

I basically wanted something close to maxis-match, but with a body shading style more similar to what we have in The Sims 4 or some of the more semi-realistic skins out there, as well as more distinct fitness textures.

Download: GDrive

MORE PICS + INFO + CREDITS UNDER THE CUT

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[mdpthatsme]

[simsmadegeeky]

A quicker way of downloading mediafire content

Please note, this will still take time but is significantly faster. Basically, we’ll use a program (web crawler) to look through a blog for mediafire links, it will create a list of those links, and note what posts those links came from. All you have to do then is copy the links to a site that will open multiple links in one click, open them, and download the files.

This means that instead of going through a blog, finding the download links, checking to see if it’s a mediafire link, and then downloading it, all you’ll have to do is the download part. Since this also makes note of which post the download is from, as long the link has the name of the file in it, it will be easy to find the post the download is from; you can then add that info in later, when things aren’t so frantic.

Caveats:

You’ll need to download Octoparse, a web crawler program. This requires getting an account. The free version (not free trial) requires no payment info.

No idea if you can run Octoparse and other things at the same time; I will probably be different for everyone. If you stop, picking up where you left off might be possible but I’m not sure.

I have tested this on livejournal, dreamwidth, and tumblr. It should work on any site. Infinite scroll will require some different steps.

This might miss a link. However, every time I’ve done it, it’s worked perfect. That even includes tumblr redirects.

There’s a small chance that a site might throw a hissy fit about a crawler being used and block you. The Way Back Machine uses crawlers, so I think it’s a miniscule chance. But it would be remiss of me not to mention this. If you want to play it safe, make sure you’re signed out and/or using a vpn.

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[sims2packrat]

Sorry it took me so long to reblog this! Tumblr is very buggy for me lately so I didn’t see your ask until now :-( thank you so much for this tutorial! I’m sure many people will find this useful :-)

[fireflowersims]

Project Mediafryer - About GoS

Hey y'all, I thought I'd write a lil update on how on the archiving operation for Garden of Shadows is going.

Let's get one thing out of the way first: we are trying our utmost best to save as much as we can. But as you may know, Garden of Shadows has been around for a very long time, which means there's a humongous amount of cc tucked away in every corner of the forum. This makes archiving the mediafire cc on GoS extremely draining to do.

At this moment we have too few hands (it's mostly I, Fir3princ3ss, @asimplevampire and @simnostalgia ) doing the archiving. It's very slow going and at this pace we will lose a significant part of the cc on GoS to the Purge.

This is why I'm reaching out to ask y'all for help. Please follow the link to this Spreadsheet and pick a section to work on. If enough people help, we can save it all.

Please start as far back as you can. Creators from 2019 may still be around, but those from 2010 may not. When you're done, upload the files to a file host of your choosing and put the link in the Spreadsheet too. This way we can avoid any overlap.

Please. Help us save the MediaFire CC.

@gardenofshadowssims @sims2packrat

The MediaFryer Project

GoS Section Name,Archivist,Progress,Directory,Size TS2,2009,Fire_flower,Done!,<a href="http://simfileshare.net/folder/119225/">http://simfi

[shastakiss]

Thank you all for all your help!