Strange Pixels

Pixel People are Strange... Pary | Grumpy | Aussie | TS2 | TS3 Dragon Age | Mass Effect | WCIF Friendly

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LN Shell Fix

With the news that EA are scrapping the sims forums in favour of sticking everyone over at the AHQ forums with everyone else, I’m pinning this post because it is likely to be deleted from its original forum source.

During my building of Arkham, I decided that, for once, I would use a couple of apartments, and build them using the Late Night Shells.

I had two tremendously annoying issues. One of them was “White box syndrome” and the other was “roofless shells”

EA, in all their usual non-wisdom, apparently broke the LN shells when you have Showtime installed. The doors are missing from some of the shells, resulting in the white boxes, and the other speaks for itself. The top or lid of the apartment shell is missing in build / buy mode, live mode, and if an affected shell is on a nearby lot that isn’t the currently active lot, the roof is even missing there too, so you have a lovely neighbourhood apartment view of level skip markers.

Aussome days has a mod to fix white door syndrome, but the missing roof was driving me batty. I could only find one reference to it at MTS, and no one had a fix, until I chanced upon a post by moonandsixpens on the official forums.

They had discovered a fix for the missing roofs. I tried it last night and it really does work. I don’t know how many people might be having this issue, or if anyone ever really noticed it, but to get your shell roof back, you simply follow this fix -

1. Build a foundation on an empty lot to cover enough ground so that you can place the shell on it. 2. Place the shell on the foundation - you may need to use MOO 3. Undo the whole thing, then place the shell on the ground. 4. check to see if your camera will go up to the top floor and display the roof.

I hope the link to this fix helps someone else. I was tearing out my hair over the last two days, because I couldn’t find what was causing these issues. I thought it was me, but I’m pleased to find out it wasn’t, and that it does have a workaround.

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✨ Positivity Pixie Dust! ✨ Sending positive vibes to those that get this message! Copy and send this message to the last 5 people on your dash to spread the positivity. (Or to anyone else you like, no need to limit yourself). Have a great day!

Thank you for kindly thinking of me! That's so sweet . I wish you every happiness 🥰

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✨ Positivity Pixie Dust! ✨ Sending positive vibes to those that get this message! Copy and send this message to the last 5 people on your dash to spread the positivity. (Or to anyone else you like, no need to limit yourself). Have a great day!

Aww thank you so much! I hope you're having a beautiful day 🤗🥰 Thank you for thinking of me!

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Shiftable Store Shutters

I opened my game tonight for the first time in months to build something, and was immediately annoyed because these shutters were not shiftable. I just did them quickly for myself, but thought I would share anyway.

These are Default Replacements for the Bayou & Camelback Shutters from the Old Town starter kit, and the Shutters of Timber + Broken Shutters of Timber from the Now and Then Century Manor sets from the TS3 Store.

You need to have the original store objects installed for these to work. They go into your override folder.

I've uploaded the single files or a merged file so you can take your pick.

Shutters - Single Files

Shutters - Merged File

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Dear Mags Newbie,

The cold concrete of a hopscotch court is not the place to leave your half naked newborn baby while you and your husband go and play in the sandpit !!!

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Lacey

I played with NewProfilePic again and used Lacey. She turned out so cute !!

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PINTEREST VIBE TAG GAME

I was tagged by @treason-and-plot , thanks lovely!

Maybe I would have had a Madonna vibe back in the 80's when I was like.. 14, if my parents would have approved me wearing stuff like that, but not now.

I like the trouser & shirt outfit but would never wear it myself.

I like the quote, because I want to believe that the hardships we go through are not for nothing. And the last one is totally me, I love vintage ❤

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The people of Twinbrook rage against the existence of clowns.

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Bit late, but its N7 Day! Or was, yesterday for us Aussies. I made this to celebrate!

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Victoria, Caitlin, Ester & Jayda

I couldn't resist doing one each of these ladies either.

There's a few pics, so I'll put it under a cut.

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After looking at @gaiahypothesims awesome efforts with Ashley and Laken, I couldn't resist having a go with Tricky.

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Blocking Bikini Pic Acct's

I've been getting a lot of followers this week that have no content, but bikini pic profile pictures. I don't know if they're real folks or not, though I'm fairly sure not, but I've blocked them.

If your profile pics are bikini shots or something and you're a simmer, please don't take it personally if I block. I'm just going to block all accounts like that now, I'm so tired of porn bots.

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I also uploaded Ester's daughter Esme, in case anyone wants to play with her as well. She's just sitting around in my sim bin doing nothing. She should run free in other people's games if they want her :)

She has no CC, no traits, outfits and no favourites or anything set, so you can choose to turn her into whatever kind of person you want. She's got basegame clothes on, her hair is a Uni hair, and no makeup or lashes. My default skin is Mango Smoothie.

Tag me if you feel like it, if you're using her, I would love to see what she's doing in your games.

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She isn't named, but I thought someone might want her. She's a CAS child of random sim of mine and Igor Medeiros by @ninjaofthepurplethings

She had an interesting profile and didn't require too much adjusting except for a slightly malformed nose.

I don't often upload my sims due to their similarities, but I thought someone might want to play with her. I stripped her of all her makeup and store items, and she'll look like the bottom picture in CAS. Except for her eyebrows, I forgot to put default ones on her.

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Playing in Isla Paradiso today. I haven't opened my game for ages. I "bred" a sim in CAS who is a child of the orange haired sim I posted a while ago that had no name, and Perrie by @nikatyler . She is named Lacey.

I wanted to give myself something to work toward, so I'm hoping to complete all Writing & Cooking challenges with her, at the least. An outdoor loving loner, she is currently employed as a Mystery novelist, and enjoys cooking and fishing.

I keep forgetting how pretty IP is, and it doesn't run too badly once you redo all the houseboats and stuff.

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STOP

@changes Stop It. Just stop. Your new attempt at turning Tumblr into Twitter is as bad as nearly every other change you’ve implemented in the last year(s).

My dash looks SO squished, and cluttered I can’t even bear to look at it. I get overwhelmed by things like that, and you’re making me feel like I’m about to have some raging panic attack. WTF is wrong with you fucking people? Your design taste is lodged firmly in your asses. FUCKING STOP FIDDLING WITH THINGS! You’re bad at it. Everything you do is bad. STOP FUCKING UP MY DASH.

GOD !!!!!!

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calling out all the 30+ yr old simmers..

no shade to the teens and early twenties bloggers but it’s hard finding people within my age group that are active and continue to contribute here in the community. 

also idk if anyone else experiences this but sometimes it can be difficult relating to the younger population due to generational differences, pop culture, etc. 

please reblog or comment if you fall into the 30+ age simblr category.

Am 33, have been playing since TS2, and active in the community since 2012 /o/

In 23 days I’ll be 30, does it count?

will soon make it to the end of the calendar, but hey who says 30 somethings can’t sim? I’ve known some seniors too who do sim well..

I’m ... old. Older than 30. I’m going to continue gaming until I’m like... 90