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22 - strangetown fan - popularity/knowledge aspiration

[mcchonkyart]

i just started doing rotational sims 2 playthrough in strangetown and why am i tempted to draw sims 2 fanart…. would anyone be interested in that? (heavy on nervous subject and pascal curious and alien baby)

[mcchonkyart]

a post from 20 years ago i am dying

[the-loose-seal]

Sims 2 Pets Overhaul: Large Breed Dogs

Wave 1 is here! Have another peek of some more new and improved breeds!

The Airedale Terrier fur is more vibrant.

The Samoyed was given a more appropriate fur type.

One of the new Doberman colors (Fawn).

Norwegian Elkhound (formerly "Norsk Elk Shepherd").

So many new labs (and some subtly tweaked old coats)!

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING

These custom breeds were made with the VANILLA GAME'S fur and eye colors in mind. If you are using default replacements, some breeds will look drastically different than intended and some colors may be strange or inaccurate.

This is a very large overhaul (158 breed files plus 1 collection file) so your game could lag when you open CAS.

I highly recommend deleting your Groups and Accessory cache files before extracting the overhaul, otherwise the collection may be missing some breeds or appear completely empty.

DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS

Pet Breed Files: Extract directly into your PetBreeds folder.

Collection File: Put this in your Collections folder.

Download Links: SFS (MTS link coming soon)

You can safely pick and choose which breeds/variants you want in your game. Please let me know ASAP if something breaks or doesn't look right so I can work on fixing it.

Thanks and Happy Simming!

[mudhoney4]

I know olive specter is old and a serial killer but I #dontcare I would marry her immediately

[spockthewok]

TS2 Mini Mods v1.0.0

Are you sick of me yet?

Yes? Well, tough - here's a collection of small plugins that don't deserve any major fanfare, but that you may still find useful. There's only two of them at the moment, but I'll likely be releasing additional ones once in a blue moon (whenever I find something minor that's bothering me, basically).

TS2CineDrawDistance

This one improves the absolutely disgusting terrain draw distance during cinematics. No idea why they don't just use the draw distance settings you already have applied, but whatever.

Vomit-Inducing Vanilla:

Pleasure-Inducing Patch:

TS2MovieSkipper

I may have shamelessly stolen this idea from TS2 Extender, but I made this for myself to help my sanity while debugging, and to reduce the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome from repeatedly mashing the ESC key. It simply patches out those abrasive intro movies, so you'll never again have to have your ear drums blown out by "SUL SUL!".

DOWNLOAD

[spockthewok]

Like they say, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and spockthewok releasing yet another plugin for The Sims 2.

This one is the miniest mini mod so far, changing a single number in an if statement (no, I'm not joking):

TS2ElderCouplePoses

@yolkema requested I look into this over a month ago, but thanks to the power of procrastination, I've only just got around to doing so. Now your geriatric grandparents can express their burning desire (or disdain) for each other in their thumbnails!

The Sims 2 Puritan Collection:

Progressive Patch:

Note: Households containing elder couples in previously played hoods will need to be loaded and saved for their thumbnails to be regenerated!

I've also recompiled the other two plugins with some optimisation flags to reduce their file size, so don't panic if you notice they're much smaller than before. (I should probably do this for my other mods too...)

DOWNLOAD

[factoryangelheaven]

olive specter. from uh. from the sims 2. enjoy

[catandsusim]

New SimPE Release Today

Bug fixes and more plugins! Theo's Color Binning tool, Theo's Alt Sim Surgery, and JFade's Collection Creator are all added and working. It is on my Github for all 3 platforms, Windows, Linux, and Mac. You can download all three from my Github. You can also download the Mac Mootilda's Clean Installer and Mac Delphy's Download Organizer. Still testing the Mac Mootilda's Hood Checker, but it coming very soon.

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[f1shart]

👽 emergency c-section at the curious lab

inspired by a. RIVETING conversation with some buddies

[opheliascooltie]

Saw @strangextown version and had to do it myself

Thanks @thesims2comics for the template

[sawed-on-shotgun]

oftentimes the appeal of a character is that they are a loser who sucks and their soul and their essence is that of a greasy stoner and then you check the fanart and theyre being drawn like pop stars and its just not right. it just aint right

[harmonyckrs]

Random headcanon: Vidcund has a soft spot for Lazlo and goes much, much easier on him than he does with other people

Lazlo creates a bomb in the kitchen that results in the entire house becoming a mess? Oh, no problem! Surely he didn't mean to. The mess can be cleaned up

Pascal drops a plate on the floor? JAIL. JAIL FOR PASCAL FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS

[arizuume]

My brain at 5 am: make a redraw of that Strangetown thumbnail 💀

[theocseason4]

Everything is embarrassing if you live your life through the eyes of others btw

[gummilutt]

Stop the mooching - Split restaurant bill

We've all been there. Our sim is out having a lovely time with some friends, perhaps family, or a whole frat worth of loose acquaintances. They are hungry, they want to eat.

And somehow by the end your Sim has to foot the bill for the whole affair. Hardly seems fair, does it? I mean how often do you go around paying for everyone when you eat out? Nah. I am tired of my poor newcomers in town trying to make friends only to end up with a 8 people restaurant bill to cover on their meager salary. Clearly it is not my fault for making food more expensive resulting in 800+ bills (😇) but the lack of manners in sim-restaurants not providing a means to split the cost 😤 No more!

With this mod, the restaurant podium (*) will now give you the option of splitting the bill. Can be used on dates as well as outings, though it only shows up if there are non-household members taking part in the meal. If there are any such, the podium will give you the option to only pay a fair share of the total bill, corresponding to the % your sims make up out of the total. In the example above, only one sim out of 4 was part of the household, so the sim is given the option to pay 25% of the bill. If two sims had been household members, it would have been 50%, and so on. (**)

(*) Will not apply to custom podiums without a tweak, more info under the cut. (**) Only active household pays, the remainder of the bill is negated entirely. If you play a strictly regulated economy, your restaurant will earn less when you use this option. To track exactly what you ate, or force payment from multiple source is both overly complicated and more conflict-prone, and I do not personally think it is worth the effort here. If you run OFB restaurants, just don't use the option in those.

Download from SFS

Conflicts: None that I know of. Does not conflict with Lamare's reservable tables 😊 Edits TTABs of the maxis podiums, action strings and pay bill action/guardian interactions in the semi-global, and adds one custom bhav to the semi-global.

Credits: @episims who when I was frustrated about this in my game pointed out it probably wouldn't be too hard to fix, and what do you know it wasn't. Thank you for being my second opinion and pointing out I can do more than I myself think I can :P Love ya buddy 🥰 @grilledcheese-aspiration who was kind enough to do some tests for me, much appreciated! @kashmiresims who kindly agreed to take previews for me since my game is in Swedish and the text would not have made a lot of sense to most of you :3 Her sims are lucky they don't get my kind of bills! 😁

Editing custom podiums

Due to how Maxis set up the menus of podiums, it was necessary to tweak the TTAB to alter which interaction is used which means custom podiums are not impacted. It is however a super easy fix that anyone can do, so if you have a custom podium you would like to fix this is how you do it. Locate your package and follow the steps.

I think most everyone with a custom podium are likely to be using Sunni's partly invisible version, and since I know some people do not like touching SimPE however easy it seems to me, I figured I'd include an edited version.

It comes with a bonus fix that shifts the podium ever so slightly forward, to prevent the routing stomping protests the host gives if you place it on grid over a counter. If you have previously placed podiums you want to apply this routing fix to, please note it is a CRES edit which means the item has to be cleared from lot and re-purchased in order to actually update.

Download edited podium on SFS

If you have edited yours to add custom foods to the menu, or even just missing maxis foods, and you want the routing fix, I recommend extracting and importing your edited bcons :)

Credits: Sunni for the great idea of a partly invisible podium, it is indeed far more versatile just as she intended

[simpuke]

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Sims Fanfiction Rec List

On this side of Simblr, some of us get obsessed with the lore behind the game. In fact, we get so obsessed that we start spinning those headcanons into fiction.

With over 1700 works (and counting!) credited in the tags at Archive of Our Own, I wanted to share some of my favorites and recommendations. I'll likely update the list and reblog because this, too, is a WIP. (Plus I am nowhere near finished in tearing through the listed fics under the tags myself!)

Based in the Sims 4-verse:

Dead Sea by Zeldan; rated M; The love story of Mortimer and Bella, separated by centuries of time, and eventually reunited in the most unlikely of places: Britechester University

Currently (Not in World) by Zeldan; rated T; What happens to the Sims stuck in CAS who don't make into gameplay? And what happens when they grow too sentient for their own good?

Secrets of a Town Casanova by Untamed Tiger; rated M; Don is just a gigolo learning all the town secrets as he services the ladies

Based in Sims 2 Strangetown fics:

With Every Breath That I Am Worth Here on Earth by ofwyrmsandguns; rated T; hurt/comfort fic of the "meet ugly" between Jenny and Pollination Tech #9

Fault Lines by crossingsj; rated T; the tragic story of how Buzz and Lyla met, fell in love, formed a family, and eventually broke from forces that love alone can't overcome

Butterfield's Lullaby by Low_Visibility; rated G; a crackfic about the Curious brothers holding a funeral for one of Vidcund's dearly departed darlings

What Do Alien Babies Eat? by Fire_Floofer; rated M; a disappointing alien abduction sparks a humorous conversation with a retired pollination technician

Stargazing [Gone Wrong] [Gone Sexual] [NOT CLICKBAIT] by Fire_Floofer; rated M; Pascal needs to learn the ins and outs of how the impregnation in alien abduction works

A Graveyard is Not a Red Flag by LavenderMisery; rated T; Knut Futa is too naïve to know better. His rose-tinted glasses from his love for Olive Specter blinds him too much to her nature

Based in Sims 2 Pleasantview lore:

Sims 2 Anthology by BadWriter85; rated M; you finally get to learn how John Burb makes his green garden grow

Deck the Goths by Zeldan; rated T; a nostalgia holiday-inspired fic of the Goths and the memories that built them as a family

A Pleasant Rise and Fall by crossingsj; we know how Daniel and Mary-Sue's marriage ends, but do we know how it begins? How did they fall in love...and where did it go wrong?

The Maid of Pleasantview by crossingsj; rated M; Kaylynn's POV during her ill-fated affairs with Daniel Pleasant and Don Lothario

Vanity Quest by Rozozzy; rated T; Mortimer sacrifices love, family, and time to find his one true love who went missing one night while stargazing through a telescope

Homewrecker by Rozozzy; rated T; a character study of Kaylynn Langerak giving her story some agency with these awful men in her life

A Burnt Grilled Cheese by potentialfate (statickismet); rated T; Dirk returns home from college to visit his father and learns how life in Pleasantview has evolved without him

Goopy GilsCarbo Gift Card by WangDangler; rated T; An epic manga crossover crackfic where Don is a werewolf and Goopy is dating Guido Vista of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

medacium by Durless; rated T; The backstory of Don and Cassandra's fraught engagement

The Boy in the Black Suit by Oighear; rated G; Alexander finds his sister's old machine and considers his options about the past. Can you change what's already happened?

The Spicy Section (Explicit fics, so mind the tags!):

Misguided Intrigue by boredroguewriter; Bella meets Don at the gym who in turn offers her a ride; scandal and chaos ensues; Sims 4 universe

Legacy Save by Anonymous; Vladislaus Straud needs a new breed of vampire—and vampire!Mortimer Goth and teen!Bella Bachelor are the lucky selected candidates for his line of progeny

Dead African Violets in the Sand by kneesofpoultry; Vidcund fantasizes about how he'd be much better for Circe than Loki in all the horrifyingly wrong ways, #incelVidcundPOV

The Perfect Score by knees of poultry; a smutty time between Loki/Circe and the Incision Precision Surgical Training Table. (I may never be the same after reading this one and I say that as a compliment.)

the good are never easy, the easy never good by daddymortimer; Don Lothario/Daniel Pleasant meet at a bar and try to outwhore each other. (Who needs the enemies-to-lovers of Heated Rivalry when you have this crackship??)

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added the following titles:

Stargazing [Gone Wrong] [Gone Sexual] [NOT CLICKBAIT]

A Burnt Grilled Cheese

Secrets of a Town Casanova

Goopy GilsCarbo Gift Card

medacium

the good are never easy, the easy never good

A Graveyard is Not a Red Flag

The Boy in the Black Suit

[opheliascooltie]

I'm doing extensive research (kinda exaggerating tbh) on Strangetown by taking notes of all the personality/personal stuff of each premade in vanilla Strangetown. I have many thoughts that I'm probably going to turn into posts later, but I wanted to talk a bit about the Smith family, specifically Johnny's and Jill's relationship.

When I start the game, Johnny has a 20/20 relationship towards Jill, and a 45/45 towards both his parents. On the other hand, Jill has a 48/20 towards Johnny, which is similar to her daily relationship towards her parents (44/35 jenny and 45/35 pt9). That is a big difference. The only other canon interaction I could find is the Smith's thumbnail, in which Johnny is giving Jill a noogie. I'm not sure if this is scripted behavior or only happens in my game, but starting the game Jill tries to hug Johnny and he rejects the interaction.

Now, what does this mean? Maybe nothing. But I found that answer boring. One interpretation is simply that they are not that close because Johnny is quite a bit older than Jill. It's normal that siblings with a large age gap to be kinda distant, specially if Johnny is a teen who might see Jill as annoying while Jill may idolizes Johnny because he's her big brother.

Another interpretation that can complement the first one is that there might be a bit of jealousy going on. It's stated in the family bio that one of the central themes of the family is Johnny's social life and whether he will fit in or not. Johnny is clearly half alien, but Jill isn't. I wonder if Johnny might be a bit jealous of Jill. She can hide her ancestry, but he can't.

Another layer of the jealousy might be Jenny. We know by her bio that she wishes she had more time for her family, and she has a want to quit her job at the beginning of the game. Checking the family memories, Jenny was already working when Johnny was born, and she didn't teach him any skills. But she taught Jill how to walk. It seems to me that Jenny might be trying to compensate that she wasn't as present as she wanted in Johnny's childhood. She has 2 wants and 1 fear revolving around Johnny at the start of the game (Johnny grows well, hug Johnny, Johnny has a lousy party). And she might want to quit her job so she can focus on Jill (and the rest of her family). Maybe Johnny (even though he clearly doesn't seem to resent Jenny) can see that she's trying to be more present now, and wishes he could have his mom be more present as Jill is.

This is not to say that Johnny hates Jill or that Jenny is a bad mom. I think Johnny loves Jill and wishes her the best, but he might be a bit hurt that she has a more present mom and no clear alien traits. And Jenny is a wonderful mom doing her best to balance her career and family life. The Smith's still are the most wholesome family in Strangetown, but I think they're not as perfect as they appear at first sight (no family is perfect).