RandomKelseySims

A place for my Sims stories/challenges, and for me to be, of course, random.

[crisisbarn]

Tarot Storytelling Challenge

I’ve been a little obsessed with the aesthetic of tarot lately, which i’ve been channeling into D&D, so i thought…why not bring it over here? SO here’s the basics. This challenge is based on random draws and everything is open for interpretation- there’s no set rules for this challenge. I made this for myself, but if anyone else wants to do this, feel free! Addendum that this is not REAL tarot, i don’t KNOW tarot, I’ve just been researching for D&D and thought i’d move it here. :D

So essentially, at the start of your legacy, you make 4 draws. These will affect your legacy in different ways throughout each generation. Then, for each individual gen, you will make 3 draws: heir, spouse, and conflict. 

Its up to you to tie all these together to make a story for each generation- there’s no set rules per generation, as long as you tie the cards into your story in whatever way your think necessary. 

General Rules:

The only cheats disallowed are money cheats, except for storytelling/picture taking reasons (making a house look decorated, for example). 

This story doesn’t have to be berry, but i love berries and will be playing it so. Generation 1 starts with a pure color, so all one shade. Anything else is up to you. My color scheme will be darker colors + jewel tones.

Stick to the draws you get. It’ll be more fun that way, i promise. If you don’t like the card you get, read up on it here. It might mean a lot more than you think. 

How to draw cards: each card has a set number, so you can use a number generator- I’ve linked some below. If you have a tarot deck, you can use that. We’ll be using the minor and major arcana, and splitting the minor arcana into the four suits. Or, you can take a regular playing card deck, substituting a joker into each suit to make it an even 14 instead of the 13 regular decks come with. (the one “missing” is either the prince or the princess, as there’s ace-10 and a queen and king, then the jack for prince or princess, and joker for the other.)

Generation 1 starts with your founder experiencing (or waking up from) a weird dream, that they don’t remember. The dream is detailed below, along with all the rules for drawing cards. I recommend following along and writing down what you get as you read, just to get you in the mood and have everything organized!

Keep reading

[jess-s-ts4-plumbob]

Let’s pretend that I don’t have another story going xD

[randomkelseysims]

Happy Pride Month!

I haven’t been active on here in quite a bit due to game crashes stalling my efforts to continue The Vampire Coven, but I thought I’d try to pop on by.

Color My World is still going strong on my blog, and here we have the third generation heir on the right, Dianthus Vivid, and her twin sister on the left, Gilly.

[skeletonprotagonist]

Fabron getting snatched was like some Until Dawn shit tbh and I had to go back and get their reactions

[randomkelseysims]

The SavedSims Folder

For The Sims 3. Anyone know if it’s possible to make sub-folders in SavedSims for organization purposes, or does that not work?

[unicornships]

Two Tom(s) and Two Chris(s) play F*ck Marry Kill with Pratt, Evans and Hemsworth.

[randomkelseysims]

Hi Kelsey :D It's שיר from blogspot!! I'm also on tumblr on the blog a-song-of-ouat but I also opened this blog! Mainly because you inspired me :)

Hey, great to see you here! And thank you so much :) I haven’t been able to post here as much since the wipe of my laptop back in the summer, but I’m always lurking and hope to return to producing content someday relatively soon.

[seliphra]

Yo, I just got an email that was supposedly from paypal and looked like paypal and LOOKED official (it was even from ‘@support.com’) claiming someone had logged into my paypal and they wanted to confirm it was me. I figured something felt fishy even though it all looked official, so to be safe I logged in to paypal by typing the paypal url into the address bar rather than clicking the link. Nothing popped up, no questions, no concerns from paypal. I went back to the email and hovered over the link and it wanted to take me to ‘paypal.najpoor.com’ so I did report it as a phishing scam, but like, be aware people.

When I say this email looked official, to a T is looked like a real email from paypal except they called me ‘Dear customer’ rather than my registered name at paypal. That was the only real indicator that something was off.

The font, the buttons, the colour scheme was all the same, so please be careful. If you get an email asking you to log in and answer some fast questions to verify you are you, go to a new tab and go to paypal to log in instead.

[randomkelseysims]

Same. Mine said my last payment had been declined because it looked ‘suspicious’, which was instantly weird because I hadn’t used PayPal in over a week, and I knew that payment had gone through fine. I did some poking around and there was a redirect to a bad website contained in the email. Stepped away from that in a big hurry.

[aureolinlight]

“HUG ME THROUGH MY WIFE!!” - Travis Willingham

[randomkelseysims]

Chapter Four

"We thought it was a crazy coincidence that I carried the albinism gene that allowed Prism to come out white," grandpa continued, "We thought it was also crazy that Prism just happened to marry Taffy, who just happened to also have the albinism gene, who just happened to give birth to Crescent, who came out white too. However, a little while back, Crescent was getting sick often. Prism and Taffy took him in for some genetic testing given your grandma's weak immune system that can be passed down as well as common problems that albinos can develop. Curious about what their genetics could reveal in addition to that, Prism and Taffy got testing done to match. What they found out...Taffy doesn't carry the albinism gene."

"But I thought both parents had to carry it in order for it to show up? That's how recessive genes work." I frowned.

“Typically, yes. We thought it was strange, and perhaps a mistake in the testing, so I actually went to get testing done for myself once Prism told us about it. We got the results back this afternoon," grandpa spoke somewhat ominously, "I don't carry the albinism gene either."

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Chapter Three

"I wonder if we're cursed. We've been having so much bad luck lately," Gilly pointed out ominously, "Merlot hurting his ankle, Uncle Eden passing away, Dia falling down the stairs, the big storm knocking out the power, and now this. It's a lot to happen in little over a month.”

"We're not cursed. It's just coincidence." Ember rolled her eyes.

"How do you know?" Gilly asked defiantly, putting her hands on her hips.

"Because things like curses don't exist," Ember shook her head at her in exasperation, "Although, if you're so adamant that they do, I heard once of a little ceremony one can perform to banish bad luck. Not that I believe in it of course."

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Chapter Two

“Several days past the time where I had had to wear black again, I found myself standing in the graveyard feeling little better than I did when dad had been forced to turn that first day of school into a miserable one. It was even worse for Merlot, who, about two weeks past that day now, still had to use crutches to get around. His ankle was almost healed, but there remained some lingering pain. However, I barely heard a complaint about it come out of his mouth. I wondered if he wanted to whine more, but kept his mouth shut because of the different kind of pain all the rest of us were feeling.”

[randomkelseysims]

Chapter One

“I dashed off. Spending time at the seasonal festivals was always more fun with more people, and Timber hadn't seem to connect super strongly to anyone in class even though he'd had a warm welcome. I figured showing him one of Berrybrook's best attractions was a good way to make him feel more at home. I kinda just wanted to know more about him too. New kids always have that air of interest around them, you know? Rushing around to the front of the building was the right choice. Any slower and I probably would have missed my quarry. Timber was almost off the school grounds as he walked along talking merrily to a man I assumed to be his father.”

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Prologue

“I learned what true heartbreak was at a very young age.

Three to be specific. Three years and a month to the day to be exact. The day was May 23rd- a Saturday. It had been a fun one for me. Every so often Uncle Eden and I got to spend some time together by ourselves without my sisters or his children or grandchildren around. We'd gone to the festival at the park where we rode on rides, watched a magician on stage, and ate a bunch of tasty food. That was when I asked if we could go to the beach to play on the boardwalk like I often did with my dad, but Uncle Eden said we had to visit the hospital first.”

[randomkelseysims]

would like to point out as an artist who has a patreon formu commissions, it is different with sims. My work is my work. It does not relay on EA for it to work. Charging money for something that goes into their game is against their rules. EA's tos is in place to protect them and their game. They do not want people charging money for content that goes into their game. Please don't compare us artists who use patreon to this. Please don't. We createour stuff and it doesn't need someone's game2work

Original work is different. My point was that there are some artists who make almost their entire livelihoods relying on other people’s work for their own. They copy, put a new twist, and sell it. There are singers, like Peter Hollens as I mentioned, who are also lovingly given money by relying heavily on someone else’s work. They have to recreate the song exactly for the purpose of not getting hit with copyright for using someone else’s property. There are people who do nothing other than make jokes while playing video games that dozens of other people worked for years to create, and there are no qualms about giving those people making jokes money.

CC was mentioned as belonging to the community. Once it’s out there, it belongs to everyone. The exact same is true for the Sims games themselves. Once it’s out there, it belongs to the people who use it. If EA told me I had to hand over my copy because they wanted it back, they would be forcing it back illegally because it’s mine. Not theirs. How I use my game is up to me. How you use your for game is up to you. There would be an issue if someone took the code, altered it slightly, and tried to sell it as their own game, but no one’s doing that. People are making their own unique content. They’re generally using programs that weren’t made by or belonging to EA in order to do so. CC that is made does not belong to EA. They didn’t put the time or resources into it. It is a standalone product as much as fan art, cover songs, and Let’s Plays are.

In terms of the ToS, we can take a look at the parts that apply to the situation at hand. The one I’m looking at is for the Sims 3. Perhaps the ToS are different for the other games, but I will hazard the guess that they’re much the same.

“Through an authorized purchase or transfer, you acquire and EA grants you a non‐exclusivelicense to install and use the Software for your personal, limited, non‐commercial use solely as setforth in this License and the accompanying documentation.” 

In this case, Software refers to the game. It refers to the original product made and distributed by EA, not any derivative works. In regards to derivative works:

“Except to theextent permitted under applicable law, you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer orcreated derivative works of the Software by any means whatsoever.”

Ignoring the typo in their own legal document, read the first part of that sentence again:

“Except to the extent permitted under applicable law“

There’s a law that does come into place here. Most people have probably heard of it: Fair Use. Fair Use protects those who use copyrighted material for various reasons, but the one applicable here is the “transformative” aspect of the law. CC creators are transforming the available materials. They’re making something entirely new. It can look a lot like the original material in some cases, but it’s not the original material. As such, it’s legal for CC to be made. There’s nothing in the ToS that permits CC from having a commercial purpose. EA just doesn’t want competition that takes money from their own pockets and puts it into someone else’s.

We should support them as we do still need them to have the original works to begin with, but there is nothing wrong with makers of original, derivative products wanting to see rewards for their hard work as well. It’s not but a mindset standing in the way that’s springing to life all this discussion. A mindset that has no problem otherwise accepting paying for fan art, cover songs, and supporting Let’s Plays, which exist mostly under Fair Use too. It should have no problem accepting CC as well, or the right for creators to distribute it and limit it as they see fit- exactly as EA does with their own official CC. We don’t blame EA for that. We shouldn’t blame CC makers for it either.

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there needs to be a paysites.mustbedestroyed for sims 4, bc some of these wild ass creators are out of control, out here charging money on patreon for custom content (i just saw a patreon release a simple pose set for $25+ patreons? lmao the fuck???). i don’t care who u are, what ur story is, or what u create. unless your name is Electronic Arts and you’re releasing actual licensed sims stuff/game/expansion packs, there is nothing on this planet that you can create that’ll justify charging people for custom content.

[storybooksimblr-deactivated2018]

if you ask for compensation for your work that nobody else is entitled to, that entitles me to steal from you.

makes sense.

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I agree with you, @storybrooksimblr

To everyone else who disagrees, let me point out this fact of life: You are NOT entitled to free stuff just because you want it.

I think paysites that spread malware are terrible and shouldn’t be used. I think $25 is a ridiculous price, and I would never buy that set. However, although I don’t create CC myself, I have tried. I have tried and tried. I’ve download the programs, I’ve read the tutorials, and I’ve done my best tried pushing my hand in things I have no talent in because I wanted to give it a go. I failed miserably and realized it’s just not for me, but what I learned is how difficult and ridiculously time consuming the process is. In my opinion, hell yes should Content Creators be compensated for the massive amount of effort they put in to provide for those of us who aren’t capable of doing the same. Even more, they shouldn’t be vilified for wanting a little more than someone donating a dollar to them once in a blue moon.

If you think it’s a terrible thing for Content Creators to ask for compensation or create exclusives that require money to unlock, you must also think it’s terrible for fan artists to lock their drawings behind commission prices. They’re just copying someone else’s work in a slightly different way and only letting a single person have access to it, right? The artist has a real job. Drawing is only a hobby. I should totally be able to download the picture, erase the watermark, and post it on my own blog so everyone can have total access to it because we’re a community and we should share. It’s not fair that only Sally should get the picture when Susie wants it too. 

Likewise, I personally love Peter Hollens work. Using the logic I’m seeing, I should be able to go and demand that the songs he has exclusive on his Patreon be made available to all instantly. He should take down his songs from iTunes and be happy with donations. His songs, too, are just copies of someone else’s work. He’s simply using an already pre-established medium to make money off something slightly different.

Those who make CC are the fan artists and cover singers of this fandom. If you have no problem with the artists and singers wanting to make a little money off the hard work they offer, there should be no problem with CC makers wanting the same. Heck, most CC is straight up pure art. The makers are crafting works that are pleasing to the eye just as they are functional to our needs. The vast majority of stories, videos, and hours of entertainment we have is due so much to them. They give an immense amount away for free already, and even then their works are still stolen, manipulated, or used against their wishes. It’s not like any of us eat, live, and breathe EA’s ToU, so it shouldn’t be used as an excuse to force CC makers into the role of the selfless angel forever sending endless manna to the crying masses.

I would gladly pay a reasonable price a month to someone’s CC Patreon for a bit of exclusive content here and there. If you don’t think you would be willing to do the same, that’s fine too. There just shouldn’t be the condescending demand that the option shouldn’t be there merely because that’s not how you think it should be.

[randomkelseysims]

I’ve been on hiatus for a long while as I’ve had to focus on my novel writing (and there has been some chaotic issues with my laptop), but I’ll be restarting Color My World in October and will hopefully pick up the Vampire Coven challenge again soon too :)

[maliwart]

Me? enjoy seeing my favs suffer? Pff nahh. At least we know they’ll make it >_>

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