Chemic's Simblr

I am a graphic designer who's been playing the Sims (1, then 2) since 2003. I also play a bunch of other video games, but this tumblr will be geared primarily towards the Sims.

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Poor Geralt just can’t get a break. This game has so many funny lines, this is just one of my favs.

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So I may or may not have been playing The Witcher series for the first time for the past week. This game is amazing.

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A little something I did with Weiss Schnee from RWBY.

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So I made a design showing off Locus and Felix from Rooster Teeth’s Red vs. Blue series and am pleased on how it came out.

Also, shameless plug, if you want it on a shirt, poster, etc. I have it up on my TeePublic store.

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I’ve been taking a crazy amount of screenshots in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but this has to be one of my favorite expressions on Jensen’s face.

*minor spoiler*

The box has a note on the bottom from a friend in the previous game.

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I made something!  Been wanting to try a simple typography illustration for awhile now and Mordin Solus and his song came to mind.  Maybe I’ll try other ME characters later, we’ll see.

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@serabiet ’s gorgeous prairie dress and 13 Dead End Lane remodel resulted in some porch things in pirate woods

Marina’s roof gables, brackets, porch posts and floor edge hider    I moved everything but the columns to the architecture section so al or m&g

Murano’s Aloa outdoor set    animated (!) clothesline requires seasons

and I slaved chemic’s corner stairs (architecture version) to Numenor’s stairs    Happy birthday btw @mechemik!

ts2 download sfs - mediafire (all meshes included)

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Man, I’ve been gone a long time and just now saw this.  Thanks Shasta, you’re awesome!

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I apologize beforehand for the kinda crappy picture quality as I was too lazy to find my camera to take a decent picture.  But here is my baby, all black and green and ready to play games!  It was both exciting and relaxing putting it all together and I was a bit sad when I finished.

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Back and Forth

So I’m sort of back?  But not really.  I have just completed putting together the new PC (it’s so beautiful and black and green and ^.^ ) and am now busy installing the UC and working on getting all the settings set up right... again... I feel like I should be an expert at this already, having migrated my Sims 2 game over 4 different computers now.  However, I may not be truly back yet because, you see, I’ve been kind of playing the Mass Effect Trilogy the past month, and then replayed it... noooo, I don’t keep smiling every time my FemShep reunites with Garrus, nope <.<  Stupid Bioware making me crush on an imaginary pixel character with a husky voice.  *ahem* Anywho, I’m still alive and kicking, but won’t be returning to Sim stuff for awhile.  I may post pics later though of the pc build, once I do some cable management.

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getmygameon replied to your photo My mini-nuke arrived, and dang it’s big!  Thought...

What the devil is that? 0.o

It’s a mini-nuke (complete with explosion sound) from the Fallout game series ^.^  It has all past Fallout games in it (though you need a Steam account to install them).

twofee replied to your photo “My mini-nuke arrived, and dang it’s big!  Thought it was going to be...”

is that supposed to be a harddrive with all the games preloaded on it instead of on discs? thats awesome!

Nah, not quite that cool xD  It’s a mini-nuke with a hollow center that holds all past Fallout games in sleeves and an empty slot for FO4.

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My mini-nuke arrived, and dang it’s big!  Thought it was going to be small, but I’m happily surprised ^.^

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I’m still alive

I’m really, really sorry I haven’t updated in a long while.  I’ve just been really busy with things going on in my life, and I’m actually now working to save up to build my first gaming rig (I’ve finally selected all the pieces I want, now I just play the waiting game of saving up for them and hope for prices to drop).

It may be a long while before I get back to sim stuff, but in no way am I retiring from it.  Just trying to tackle many real life things going on atm.

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So... I created something?  Yea?  I went for the polygon style of the start up screen in Human Revolution and then tried to make it look like a movie poster for Mankind Divided.  (created in Illustrator)

I was going to put this under my craft blog, but as my main one is games related, I figured I’d post it here.

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So you know the thing where Sims 2 is uuugggglllyyyy on newer graphics cards because it doesn’t recognize them, etc? And we used to have to spend ages messing with code and settings and nvidia control panels? WELL THIS IS NOW A THING. IT DOES IT ALL FOR YOU. My game literally went from a 600x800 pixel mess complete with giant black shadow boxes of doom to SO PRETTY. As soon as I finish transferring over my hoods and CC, I’ll show you just how pretty.

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dramallamadingdang replied to your post: Remember the WIP I posted awhile back ...

It’s lovely! Nice job with the modern style! :D

getmygameon replied to your post: Remember the WIP I posted awhile back ...

Wow!!! *-*

jodeliejodelie reblogged your post Remember the WIP I posted awhile back ... and added:

Wow, this is amazing! It looks so real.

justsimaround replied to your post: Remember the WIP I posted awhile back ...

Wooow *-* It looks amazing!

Awww, thanks for all the wonderful comments!

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Remember the WIP I posted awhile back of this building?  It’s now finished!  So presenting the first of my La Fiesta Tech lot makeovers, the library.  If you didn’t see the WIP post, basically for me, LFT feels like a very modern, high tech university, so buildings are getting a modern facelift.

Shallow Valley Library has been renovated to help the LFT sim succeed in this fast paced tech world!  There’s an espresso bar that’s open 24/7, and each floor is dedicated to one area (the stacks are on the main floor, computer lab on the 2nd, and study area on the 3rd).  And if a sim feels the need to get fresh air, there are 3 patios that are conveniently located off the study and lab areas.

Let’s see, what else?  The floor and the hexagonal objects were inspired by Deus Ex: Human Revolution.  Granted, the orange line that ran through the TYM building was a lot thinner, but hey, working with what I have here.  And I finally got to use lime green in my color palette!  I swear, I’ve tried to incorporate it into past designs, but it was never working out until now.

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katzengirl reblogged your post So it’s another round of “help out my ... and added:

I don’t know about recoloring but I know a bit around image editing. So if it’s the game and the...

Ok, thanks.  I’ll check my image settings to see if it’s accidentally creating the aliasing tomorrow (never even bothered to check that).