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💚 My Sims Blog 💚

Hello & Welcome to a Simblr, I'm Michi. I've been in love with the Sims since at least 2003. I played Sims 1 for a bit, after having watched my sister play it, but most of my childhood was dominated by Sims 2 and 3 plus multiple console versions. Also my Tag System here is alllllll f*cked up, maybe I'll fix it later.

I may post some DS Nintendogs here if I want because I am not making a blog for them ...and they're a simulation.

☘️Games I Own☘️

Sims 2 on PC plus all expansions & stuff packs (Disc & Legacy Version)

Sims 3 for PC plus all expansions & stuff pack

Sims 4 for PC

Sims Castaway Stories on PC

Sims Life Stories on PC

Sims Pet Stories on PC

Sims Bustin Out on Gameboy Advance

Urbz: Sims in The City on Gameboy Advance

Sims 2 on Gameboy Advance

Sims 2 Pets on Gameboy Advance

Sims 2 Castaway on Nintendo DS

Sims 2 Apartment Pets on Nintendo DS

Sims 3 on Nintendo DS

Sims 2 on Playstation Portable

Sims 2 Castaway Playstation Portable

Sims 2 Pets Playstation Portable

Sims 3 on Wii

The Sims Mobile on iOS 😞

(Sims 2 on Gamecube, I think the disc is broken)

🍀Active Game Plays🍀

🟢 Sims 2 on PC

Lyushenko Family. Tagged as #Lyushenko Legacy & the specific branch #shin branch #lyushenko branch #pleasant branch. Even though I'm not playing a "legacy challenge" I'm trying to explore all expansion packs with this legacy.

🟢 Sims 3 on PC

#Alien Attempt: Carson Mills & Anna Phase, attempting to get Carson abducted by aliens so they get an alien baby and explore aliens Sims 3 context— and I'm failing miserably whoops.

☘️Inactive Game Plays☘️

🟢 Sims 3 on PC

Generational Ravstosky Family: I don't have a good current profile for the family but this was the base. #ravstosky legacy

Terra: a play based on an out-of-game character, #envy's game.

Blurry portraits for my Sims 3 families.

🟢 Sims 2 Castaway on Nintendo DS

Charlie Owen

Here is why I probably won't play. Namely my wrist arthritis.

☘️Old Game Plays☘️

Sims Mobile on iOS: Archived at @dreaming-sims This Games Servers were taken offline. Thus it's not playable. But I'll miss it. Main Household is "TAFT" #taft mobile. Secondary Household is "Terra" #terra mobile. Profile.

Sims Urbz GBA: KIM #kim game

Sims 2 GBA: Blake #blake game

Sims 2 Apartment Pets on Nintendo DS: Rebecca Tills & all her pets . Apparently this is one of the worst sims games produced according to community and its not just my DS the controls are horrible period

Sims 3 on Wii: Wanda Cole. My Wii gets hot and makes extremely odd noises when trying to play this game I wonder if the game requires a better model of Wii. You can hear it in the video

Sims 4 on PC: Johanson Family.

🍃Other Info🍃

🟢All Sims Games by Era

🟢All Sims Games by Platform

🟢 Cheats I use in Sims 2

🟢 Unused features of my games, X & X

🟢 Game Mods I use [To be added]

🟢 Sims 4 and some of its packs I got for free legally

#the sims #sims #sims 2 #sims 3 #sims console #sims in the urbz #sims mobile #sims franchise #sims castaway #polyplumbobs #poly meaning many #and each game has its own special plumbobs #so like many games #ya feel me bro?

simstationdance

Literally every default face template set on earth that I've ever seen be like: what if every single sim looked the exact same as each other. and also they're all white

simstationdance

Can't have Asian features or Black features or Indigenous features because they're too #ugly and the Sims 2 community memes on it constantly about how #gross and #ugly they are and how that's why we need defaults that are just 25 clones of the same white guy with a button nose and round eyes. Oh and elf and alien I guess. I GUESS.

simstationdance

"but what if i want my sims to look UNIQUE instead of looking like Maxis face template sim #3874358" you know you can make unique looking sims with the maxis templates right. you know you can just Do that, right. it's not hard. for fuck's sake.

also bold take but i don't think 28 templates with the same vague shape of fucking button noses and round eyes are "unique"

creesims

Isbrealiomcaife's All Around the World face templates have been around for over 20 years. 8 years ago @ivy-sims uploaded custom versions of the default faces in the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese installs of the game

I understand what you're saying and we do need more. I'm not a face template collector so there are probably a lot more that I don't know about, it's a niche area of CC creating so it's hard to find people who do it. But here's some links for anyone who's looking for more variety

themeasureofasim

I agree with @creesims recs! I also think these by Pooklet are quite unique. Deedee has made them non default so you can have them together with Maxis' if you like, it adds variety if you let your game spawn townies, NPCs, etc. I agree that some sets out there are a bit same face-y, but no one's forcing you to download them 🤷🏾‍♀️

dreadchapel

CC creators may not work for us, however they are creating for a diverse community. That should be reflected in the face templates.

veronavillequiltingbee

I've been using @withlovefromsimtown's Less Gendered Faces (baby face add-on here) and I couldn't recommend them enough for those who actually like the EAxian face templates.

withlovefromsimtown

Ngl I got a little teary with all the love for the Less Gendered templates here & in the notes, I have such a deep appreciation for this community & I regret nothing.

sgthebee

MALM Set Recolors + Texture Replacements

The MALM bed, end table, and dressers from the IKEA pack in @morepopcorn's wood tones and my Sugar Rush palette.

Download Recolors

And of course, a default replacement option using the wood tones, plus extras as recolors.

Download Default + Recolors

And as a bonus, I edited Michelle's MALM upper bunk bed add-on so it looks better with the wood texture I used.

Download Upper Bunk

You can also find my previous MALM recolors here.

brandinotbroke

Spockthewok (aka Will Nixon) wrote a master's thesis on pink flashing, figured out the cause and potentially found the first genuine fix.

The fix itself (along with the thesis for those interested) can be found here:

A patch to fix the 'pink soup' bug in The Sims 2. Contribute to spockthewok/TS2MemCapRemover development by creating an account on GitHub.

thesimquarter

some more miniopolis builds!!

Second Looks Thrift Emporium - King Tower - Jail

+ bonus first draft for a miniopolis .s4c terrain!

#doing something ive always wanted to but am too lazy / not skilled #amazing job looked through whole tag

ilovethesims2cc

TS2 Mod - Chris Hatch’s Plan Baby Outfit Mod

Made By Chris Hatch

Download Link.

This Mod allows you to choose non-default clothes for your sims babies.

You can search and download non-default clothes specific for this mod on google and here.

1) First you download the Chris Hatch’s Plan Baby Outfit Mod and some clothes like this.

2) Place them on your Downloads Folder. Open your game and you find the mod as teddy bear.

3) Select the teddy bear.

4) At first you will see an empty catalog. Don’t Choose the toddler category.

5) Stay at the adult category and choose the male/female icon to make the clothes to show up.

6) Choose the outfit you want and save.

Here is a tutorial video on how to use the mod (This video include and other mods but focus on the Chris Hatch’s Plan Baby Outfit Mod.):

Also here is a tutorial on how to use accessories on Babies.

simpuke

the sims 2 pink flashing on startup even with spockthewok's fix

i am desperate. idk what happened but suddenly my game pink flashes when i load it with cc. i tried adding my folders bit by bit to see if there was something specific causing issues but its like, the first few folders is fine

then i add one more folder and my game is... WHITE flashing..???? so i remove this one folder, and put the next one into my game and . i get pink flashing.

the two things i did before loading my game were

I updated my ram from 8 gb to 32 gb

I merged a lot of cc files. But nothing "forbidden" so to speak. And I don't think that's the issue bc even my unmerged cc folder causes instant pink flashing in my game now

Does anyone have ANY idea of what's going on. im gonna try with the graphicsrulesmaker im sooo tired

polyplumbob

Help a simmer out!

nathieke

Klaartje Haffa Tranformer Crib Malm

@lamare-sims made a lot of great updates for the transformer cribs HERE .

To celebrate this I have a new transformer crib/toddler bed. This is the Haffa Malm set made by @klaartjesimblr.

This set works the same as Honeywells Haffa cribs. With use of the quartertile cheat you can put the cribs and the changingtable exactly next to each other.

This new transformercrib is a 2-in-1 crib/toddler bed. Just one click on the bed to convert it from one model to another. The crib can be used for babies and toddlers, the toddler bed is for toddlers only. They can use the toddler bed by themselves. It has a new guide, so if you want you can keep both the cribs.

lamare-sims

STRAIGHT INTO MY GAME 😍

(Be sure to grab updated cribs from other @nathieke's posts, too)

I'm worried about using CC for Sims 2 Legacy

Apparently there is a major bug for it? Or am I wrong?

#sims #sims 2 #sims 2 legacy #cc #custom content #sims 2 cc

simblr-lets-get-talking

Simblr, Let's Get Talking! 25th Apr '26 - #2: Build/Buy or CAS?

Do you spend more time making Sims in CAS or more time building or decorating lots? Tell us why if you can.

polyplumbob

Currently buy and build mode. Whats funny is I'm not even good at building. But in my current Sims 2 play, I only made two characters the rest are townies that married in and had babies. As long as I like the general look of a sim I don't particularly care in my current play.

If I was basing them on out of game characters I'd spend more time in CAS, I think I probably spent more time in CAS than building in Sims Mobile. Since it was all out of game characters.

If making a sim in Sims 3 I'm in CAS longer than other games due to create a style but probably still build more in general.

#sims #simblr let's get talking

mytinysimsworld

🎡 TIRED OF PREDICTABLE LIFE IN SIMS?

I put together 150 random things to do – from romantic dates with vampires to going on a spending strike. There's room for drama, silliness, and unexpected twists 😈

Go here

How to play:

Hit the black "Spin" button and see what fate throws at you.

🗯 Works for Sims 2 and Sims 3 – probably also for Sims 4, since the tasks are fairly general 🗯 All expansions are recommended (because the list uses supernaturals, weather, pets, etc.)

yakumtsaki

me every time i have to lean over and squint bc i cant tell wtf a deco item w a tiny thumbnail is

moocha-muses

It's a pain but it really is worth the effort to fix them; my eyes have never been happier:

Tiny object mesh combined with large shadow mesh often results in crappy thumbnail (even if you can’t see the ground shadow that doesn’t mea

simblr-lets-get-talking

Simblr, Let's Get Talking! 24th Apr '26 - #1: Favourite Sims Game

What is your favourite Sims game out of 1,2,3 and 4, and why? (this includes any version of these games across any console/platform)

What is your favourite non-main-series Sims game and why? (includes, but is not limited to: The Urbz, Bustin' Out, TS2: Apartment Pets, TS2: Life Stories, Castaway, Medieval)

polyplumbob

Favorite Sims Game?

Sims 2 PC, by far.

This youtube often shows why with great comparisons

I like The Sims

I wish I could get create a style from Sims 3 as I think it's one of the best features of any of the games. I also like some open world aspects of Sims 3 such as collecting. I like traits but I don't like moodlets. Sims 3 PC can overwhelm me a bit.

Favorite non-main line?

The Urbz Gameboy, but apparently this is a trilogy game and I haven't played the other two. or Castaway PC but I haven't played that since prior to 2013 at some point

#simblr let's get talking

analog-mothman

A quick note about this really amazing breakthrough on pink soup by spockthewok because some people don't know what pink soup actually is on the game's side.

Basically, when devs are programing a game, to check if textures aren't loading, they often put a really obnoxious, eye-catching texture in to make it easier to spot.

Other examples include Valve's iconic pink checkboard, Bethesda's similar hot pink/purple textures (video 1, video 2), and Sims 4's gradient question mark and demonic question mark textures.

These are, as said above, obnoxious and eye-catching on purpose because they are easy to spot even on small objects or in the distance, and their sole purpose is to inform devs that textures aren't loading properly. So basic game logic is if the intended textures don't load, default to obnoxious texture.

Pink flashing and pink soup have always been the result of the intended textures failing to load en masse, and the game is pulling the obnoxious debug texture. And now we actually have a working theory as to what's causing textures not to load based on spockthewok's research and master thesis.

What it's really important to take out of this is that the failsafe isn't directly triggering pink flashing.

Pink flashing is an indirect consequence of the failsafe panicking and telling the game to stop loading textures (and possibly anything else deemed resource-intensive) because on a 32-bit computer, TS2 using more than the 2GB of RAM intended can full on crash your machine and cause serious issues that obviously the devs didn't want.

So, since part of the failsafe's panicking is to stop textures from loading as they're very resource intensive, the game pulls the "shit isn't loading" texture instead of the actual textures, because TS2 deemed itself running out of memory and crashing is better than the whole computer running out of memory and crashing. In result, pink soup.

We're only really noticing this now because the 4GB patch means, in theory, TS2 should be able to call on up to 4GB of memory, but due to the failsafe, this isn't entirely true. You can now technically play past what was historically possible, but honestly the same failsafe that results in pink soup is probably designed to ultimately crash the game to prevent catastrophe.

(Which does also mean there's a possibility that raising the cap for the failsafe to trigger or removing it out-right might cut down on at least some of the crashing.)

TLDR; Pink soup is the result of a default texture the game pulls when for some reason it won't or can't load textures, and historically the failsafe that told the game to stop loading textures when the used memory exceeded 2GB was probably a very responsible decision on the devs part and they probably couldn't anticipate modern 64-bit machines.

goth-queen

polyplumbob

And this is why one of my Sims floats around in her ugly af work outfit instead of her pretty kimono... sims should default to their everyday outfit when they become ghosts

#sims 2