Asking Sims 2 simblr, WCIF good CC trees, and if possible a ginkgo tree for the Sims 2?
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Asking Sims 2 simblr, WCIF good CC trees, and if possible a ginkgo tree for the Sims 2?
ok tumblr can have this too ive been neglectful...
Poster Collages on Butterfly Crawler
Never enough of poster collages for me, so I put together some ready-to-use ones and slapped them on the Free Time Butterfly Crawler mesh.
There are 28 variations. These collages use the work of 228 different artists; the archive includes full-sized swatches with artist names and a file with a link to each of them.
Full credit to the artists. None of the art is by me, and I don't make any profit from sharing these. Please see the links to check out other pieces by these people, I'm a big fan of their work!
Download (SFS) (alternate)
The files are compressed, Free Time is required. You can find add-ons for the butterfly crawler here and there.
I've tried to ensure no AI images are included. Please support human artists 💜
Raynuss Wood Spiral Stairs re-made
So I absolutely adore these stair meshes by Raynuss. They look awesome, have amazing recolours, and are super versatile. The only problem I had with them, was that these were made before the Sims 2 even had spiral stairs in the game, which meant they used custom scripting from the talented Marvine, who uploaded their first set of spiral stairs in 2007.
This meant they had some quirks, one of the most annoying for me personally being that multiple sims could not use the stairs at the same time, leading to many route failures (even with stair fix mods). When Apartment Life introduced official spiral stairs to the game, they made it so multiple sims could use them at the same time, and I wanted the same for Raynuss's stairs. So, TLDR, I have re-created these stairs so that multiple sims will be able to walk up and down them. They are all fully & correctly animated, using the talented AnoeskaB's mirrored stairs as a template. Most importantly, all existing recolours for these stairs still work 🥳
To use these, just replace Raynuss's original mesh files with mine.
Download Here! ❤️
📦 Decorative Magazines Mini Set
Download: SFS | BOX
Recolors pull textures from the game files and will be affected by Basegame / Free Time magazine texture replacements, if you have any.
*These can be used along TS2 magazine extracted by Keoni - it's a different mesh. I've made new models to keep the polys as low as possible / initially I wanted to make add-ons for Keoni's mesh but it wouldn't work properly so I had to make my own master file :/
Enjoy!
*This is for The Sims 2
some sketches
Things Movies Get Wrong About Radiation
As explained by a (very green and new at this) radiochemist
1. "Any amount of radiation is gonna fuck you up"
Not true! We're surrounded by radiation all the time - it's in water, air, soil, and our own bodies. It's called background radiation. It includes the carbon-14 in organisms that's used in carbon dating, the potassium-40 you may have heard is in bananas but is also in YOU, and things that occur naturally in soil like uranium. Plus the decay products of those naturally radioactive minerals, like radon gas. (Yes, radon can hurt you, but it's considered generally safe below certain concentrations. It's also impossible to avoid all of it, because it is everywhere in the atmosphere. You just don't want to be somewhere it accumulates like a poorly-ventilated basement. Get your homes radon checked!) We're also commonly exposed to radiation through medical procedures like x-rays, which are also considered generally safe.
I can't fucking stand people who think radiotrophic fungi "cleans up radioactivity" *that's not how it fucking works* the radioactivity comes from quantum process in the nuclei of unstable isotopes and you can't destroy it by chemical processes like a fungi does. The only way a fungi could "clean" nuclear waste is if it somehow biologically concentrates radionuclides like caesium-137 or strontium-90 in its organism and that's essentially a glorified vacuum cleaner sucking up the radionuclides into a convenient fungus package for later, more permanent sequestration.
I'm so beyond pissed at seeing these "omg the fungus in Chernobyl eats radiation the Earth is healing!!!1 🥰".
just documenting anti-québec sentiment so i have ammo next time someone tells me it isnt real
(also no idc about censoring their usernames, they’re literally and openly white supremacists, use it as a blocklist idk)
also, noticing a pattern here, whats that about
Art credit: monya@02monya Twitter.
ask for infodump about Chernobyl as someone who has never even heard of it
INHALES
Chernobyl is considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in history, rated at a 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), the only other disaster ranking at a 7 being in Fukushima back in 2011. The disaster occurred on April 26, 1986. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant was located in Ukraine, which was under the control of the Soviet Union at the time. It was only about 16 miles from the Belarus-Ukraine border, which was also under Soviet control. There were two main towns nearby, Chernobyl itself, which was older, had only about 15,000 residents, and was actually farther from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant than Pripyat, which had about 50,000 residents, and was only about 2 miles from the plant. Pripyat was newer, and residents had an average age of about 26. The town itself was filled with young, well educated people starting new lives. A large number of public buildings were located in Pripyat, including a school and a sports complex, which contains the famous Azure Swimming Pool. The plant supplied Pripyat with energy, and the place was considered a sort of "dream city." The plant was an RBMK-1000 type reactor, a generation I nuclear reactor, which are the earliest, and generally most hazardous, nuclear reactors. RBMKs were used to produce Plutonium, a radioactive material primarily used in nuclear weapons. However, they could also be used to produce civilian energy, so a few were constructed to supply parts of the USSR with power. At the time of the incident, there were four reactors in operation, with reactors 5 and 6 under construction. A test was scheduled to be conducted to see if the backup generators could successfully turn on in time to keep the cooling systems running at safe levels. However, the test was delayed until the less experienced night shift was in. They turned off the reactor's shutdown feature and lowered the power to the reactor. Reactors need energy to function, as they have to be cooled. For these reactors, large amounts of water were used to cool them. Without the shutdown function, the reactor was in danger of overheating if it wasn't cooled. Regardless, they ran the test. When the backup generators took too long to turn on, panic set in, and the reactor began to overheat. Then, somehow hit the AZ-5 button, which lowers all control rods into the reactor at once. Control rods are used to absorb excess amounts of shed neutrons from the nuclear reactions. However, they momentarily increase reactions when first introduced into the reactor chambers. The undertrained staff of the night shift were not aware of this. With the increased reactivity, the reactor was now dangerously hot, and the casinging around the fuel rods began to rupture, causing white-hot radioactive fuel to come into direct contact with steam. At 1:23 A.M., April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor #4 exploded. The contact between the fuel and the steam caused a steam explosion, blowing the 1000 tonne reactor roof into the air and spewing radioactive debris and particles into the air.
Two plant workers were killed instantly by either the force of the blast or from being hit by debris. Although plant workers realized what had happened rather quickly, superiors were slow to act. Firefighters were called in, but they were not told the dangers of the radiation. Most died within a few months. But that was only the tip of the iceberg. In Pripyat, the Amusement Park that had been scheduled to open the next day was hurriedly opened a day early to distract residents from the fact that the reactor was on fire.
It took 36 hours for Soviet Officials to finally begin to evacuate Pripyat, only after residents had begun to report nausea, dizziness, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches, all symptoms of radiation poisoning. A few weeks earlier, citizens were trained with gas masks in case there ever was an incident. Officials said that they didn’t need them, as they didn’t want to cause a panic.
Residents were also told they would be returning soon, and to leave everything behind. They did not come back. This left Pripyat as an eerie ghost down where everything seemed to have simply been dropped and left. Today, it is still abandoned, and is being slowly reclaimed by nature.
During the cleanup of the incident, “Liquidators” were called in. Some knew the dangers, others didn’t. The fire of the reactor was too hot to be put out by water, so tons and tons or boron, sand, and lead were dumped onto the burning reactor by helicopters that flew over. It didn’t help much, and the reactor finally stopped burning after about 2-3 weeks. A structure dubbed “The sarcophagus” was built over the reactor to contain the radiation, though it was rushed and leaked radiation. A large area of woodlands was contaminated by the radiation, and it turned red and died, earning the nickname “The Red Forest.” Most of these trees were cleared and buried. Highly contaminated houses were knocked down, animals were shot, and crops destroyed. Absolutely everything that was highly contaminated was at least attempted to be destroyed and buried. Still, not everything could be destroyed and buried, there was simply too much. One object, dubbed “The Claw of Death” was, according to conflicting accounts, either used to assist in the overall cleanup or was used specifically in the cleanup of the plant roof. It is radioactive enough to give a lethal dose if sat in for about 11 hours.
Another rather infamous object is “The Elephant’s Foot” which is a mass of sand, concrete, and melted reactor fuel that had melted its way through the floor and down into the basement. Upon discovery, the sheer amount of radiation it gave off was enough to give you a fatal dose within about 90 seconds. Today, that’s increased to about five minutes. The foot was unyielding to sampling tools, so, they shot it with a Kalashnikov Rifle (AK-47) to get a sample.
After a very short period of time, the remaining three reactors were up and running again, as the USSR simply needed power desperately. By December of 1987, all three reactors were up and running again. They were operated for years, until the last reactor was finally shut down for good in 2000. Being so close to the border, and with the wind conditions of the time, mass amount of radioactive particles were blown north to Belarus. The Soviet Union had planes fly over and seed the clouds with chemicals, forcing them to rain on rural land instead of heavily populated areas, but this still had a major effect, as about 1/3 of Belarusian farmland was contaminated. However, the winds began to shift, blowing radiation towards Europe. Sweden was the first to sound the alarm, asking if something had happened after detecting dangerous amounts of airborne radiation and determining it was not from any of their own reactors. The USSR finally admitted there had been a “very small” incident at Chernobyl, and was very reluctant to give the world information. Careful monitoring protocols were put on resources everywhere in Europe, from grain to milk to wood, all were carefully measured for radiation. Years later, after the Sarcophagus was determined to be unsafe, the New Safe Confinement unit was constructed, which is a semicircular dome over the existing Sarcophagus. The New Safe Confinement was finished in 2018.
DONE!
(For now)
@not-wizard-council-aristocrat @anarcho-neptunism @siley-the-wizard @villainessbian
I'm very sorry but I have to do this: some things are not really correct in your post. I'll get into a few of these things here, minus the physics of the explosion because I Don't Wanna. And the liquidation that wasn't immediate is not really an area of particular interest for me, so.
The test was fine. It was pretty much unnecessary but it was fine. They switched off some warning systems because they were running a test. They knew that some things were low, some were high, no need to get alarms going off every 10 seconds because of this.
They turned off the reactor's shutdown feature and lowered the power to the reactor.
This is not the gotcha moment everyone seems to think it is. They were quite literally shutting down the reactor that night, that was the planned outcome of the test. And, besides, that feature wouldn't even work in time to prevent the disaster. The lower power wasn't a problem, either. It just meant that the reactor was harder to control.
When the backup generators took too long to turn on, panic set in, and the reactor began to overheat. Then, somehow hit the AZ-5 button, which lowers all control rods into the reactor at once.
I am genuinely curious: where did you get this information from? This is very much not what happened at all. Nobody was panicking, all was going acording to plan. The power was slowly (SLOWLY) rising, about 1 MW a second, the AZ-5 is pressed. The test was complete, the mood in the control room was calm. Hell, there was actually a slight delay in the AZ-5 button being pressed, it was meant to be pressed some 20 seconds before that fateful 01:23:39 but the SIUR was waiting for the direct command from the NSB to do that. That wouldn't change absolutely nothing, for anyone wondering. Nothing in a place such as a reactor control room is pressed by accident.
The undertrained staff of the night shift were not aware of this.
This was absolutely not a staff issue. Nobody but the higher ups at the Kurchatov Institute, the designers and people alike knew. The operators simply weren't told. So yeah, they weren't aware. But you specifying untrained leads me to believe you think the case was different and they didn't know because they didn't have enough experience which is simply not true.
Two plant workers were killed instantly by either the force of the blast or from being hit by debris.
Valery Khodemchuk was never found. We don't actually know if he died instantly. But we can certainly hope he did. I'm assuming the second person that was killed instantly is Vladimir Shashenok. In this case, if 5pm is instantly then... sure.
Firefighters were called in, but they were not told the dangers of the radiation. Most died within a few months.
First of all: depends on who you'd ask. Some said they had no idea - I'm guessing these were the firefighters from the region as a whole, not necessarily the local ones. The NPP's firefighters knew, though. They were trained for this. They even had training the very day before the accident on the 5th or 6th unfinished block. Second of all: over 128 firefighters responded. Around 186 if we count the ones that arrived after 6am from Kiev. Only 6 of these 128 (/186) died in the following weeks. Less that 5% from the smaller numer is hardly most. Sure, some had long terms health issues that eventually led to their deaths but that's very much not the same as most died within a few months.
In Pripyat, the Amusement Park that had been scheduled to open the next day was hurriedly opened a day early to distract residents from the fact that the reactor was on fire.
The Amusement Park was meant to be opened on May Day - The Labour Day. Nobody needed to be distracted from anything. Pripyat's citizens were under the impression that nothing serious was going on. If they cared enough to know that something was going on, they could have observed that everyone was seemingly working to fix the situation. I'm sorry but the Ferris Wheel was not the carousel set up by the Nazis next to the Warsaw ghetto. The carousel that people were having fun on on the 25th of April in 1943 while a fire broke out during an uprising in there, as is described in Campo di Fiori. I don't know, maybe someone got too much inspiration from that but there are literally no solid sources when it comes to if it was working at all on that day, nobody was able to indefinitely recall or prove that it was.
It took 36 hours for Soviet Officials to finally begin to evacuate Pripyat, only after residents had begun to report nausea, dizziness, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches, all symptoms of radiation poisoning.
The buses begin taking people at 2pm on the 27th of April after an announcement was made at 1:10pm. It took that long because of internal conflicts between the Party commission. And random, everyday Pripyat residents didn't get sick. There was a handful of cases of people who were close to the NPP at the time of the explosion and that was it. This kind of reaction means an extremely hight dose, likely lethal, and people weren't, in fact, dying left and right.
A few weeks earlier, citizens were trained with gas masks in case there ever was an incident. Officials said that they didn't need them, as they didn't want to cause a panic.
Radiation doesn't care about gas masks. Unless you want to protect yourself specifically from inhaling radioactive particles - that is, from said particles getting into your airways and causing all kinds of damage, as was the case with quite a few of the people that suffered the worst cases of ARS - they would quite literally be completely useless. Apparently they're all lying around because, much later, they were looted for precious metals.
Another rather infamous object is "The Elephant's Foot" (...). Upon discovery, the sheer amount of radiation it gave off was enough to give you a fatal dose within about 90 seconds. Today, that's increased to about five minutes.
It was emitting 8,000 roentgen per hour, 2 roentgen a second. That means you'd get the fatal dose within 5 minutes then, not now. Now, it's mostly likely crumbled into dust and is emitting roentgen in the single digits. You're perhaps confusing the time typically referred to as the maximum allowable time for the liquidators working on the roof - 90 seconds - with the corium monstrosity.
The USSR finally admitted there had been a "very small” incident at Chernobyl, and was very reluctant to give the world information
At no point did anyone of any importance refer to it as a very small incident.
Thank you for correcting me, I got my information from a variety of sources, and a lot of them vary in description. You've said wikipedia isn't really reliable, I've read that article, though with a grain of salt, as wikipedia isn't always accurate, a book that I got from B&N, and a few online articles. If you have any recommendations on accurate information, I'd love to read them!
(also the "somehow" hit they AZ-5 button was a typo, was meant to say "someone")
Someone, alright, got it. Well then, that someone was the fifth shift's SIUR (Senior Reactor Control Engineer) Leonid Toptunov.
In order to not get completely overwhelmed with information, I'd recommend starting with Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. It's one of the very few books that doesn't contain an offensive amount of mistakes. Midnight is not 100% correct but that's basically only when it comes to more complex things regarding the reactor physics and things like that. If you want to read it right now then... I'm not saying I have it on my super secret Chernobyl Google Drive but... I do have it on my super secret Chernobyl Google Drive. After that it's How It Was by Anatoly Dyatlov and INSAG-7 which is where the fun stuff ends if you're not into technical descriptions.
Wikipedia is very much not a good source when it comes to Chernobyl - and neither are the documentaries (directors are allergic to doing proper research, it'd seem) or videos on YouTube (unless the videos in question are made by That Chernobyl Guy... in which case they're great). It's a tricky subject, surprisingly enough, that requires a lot of research and background checks on every single source, if possible.
@staff our identities aren’t nsfw and we will not stand for them to be treated as such
Not LGBT but I agree with this.
Ketanji Brown Jackson should pull a Plato and define a woman as a featherless biped. It'd be the funniest shit.
I'm a God
I fixed my world again...
So in the Sims 2, if you run dxdiag on your computer (just search it on your desktop screen) you can see how much texture memory your graphics card has room for.
I mistakenly set mine much lower with Graphics Rules Maker, which is a godsend. I increased it to just under the limit which was 8k MB.
Now I can have skyboxes, full neighborhood lot distance and fade distance off, and it looks crystal clear like it used to.
📦 Tuesday CC Dump:
Posh Club Stuff
New meshes, add-ons, recolors and default replacements
Download: SFS | BOX
Round table is also included but please note it's a purely decorative object.
Glowing H&M stair and fence replacements require Extended Standard Material shader by @crispsandkerosene /work without it, but will not look like they do in the preview/.
Floors featured in the pic: VTMR tiles (carpet 5 and 6) converted by @freezerbunny-sims2 , wallpaper is 'Fiery red' by Donnha, wood panelling is from Bon Voyage, I think.
*This is for The Sims 2
📦 Tuesday CC Dump:
Posh Club Stuff
New meshes, add-ons, recolors and default replacements
Download: SFS | BOX
Round table is also included but please note it's a purely decorative object.
Glowing H&M stair and fence replacements require Extended Standard Material shader by @crispsandkerosene /work without it, but will not look like they do in the preview/.
Floors featured in the pic: VTMR tiles (carpet 5 and 6) converted by @freezerbunny-sims2 , wallpaper is 'Fiery red' by Donnha, wood panelling is from Bon Voyage, I think.
*This is for The Sims 2