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The Sims 2 Essentials Setup Tool — v.1

One installer. Every essential fix, mod, and tool for The Sims 2, set up for you in a few clicks.

I got tired of hunting down the same "must-have" fixes every time I reinstalled The Sims 2 (to the point where it has kept me from playing), so I made a tool that does it for you! 🥳 You choose the fixes, mods, and tools you want, click through, and it installs them all — with automatic backups and a built-in undo, so nothing is permanent and nothing gets lost.

It works with both the 2025 Legacy Collection (Steam and EA App) and the older Ultimate Collection.

⚠️ One heads-up: I only own Legacy (on Steam) and the Ultimate Collection, so I haven't been able to test the EA App or Epic versions of the Legacy Collection myself. They should work, but if you run into any issues on those, please let me know and I'll push out a fix!

Most importantly, none of this content is mine. Every fix, mod, and tool belongs to the creators who made them — I only automate installing them. Full credits and links are in the guide that comes with it. Please go support these people 💜

⬇️ Download: SFS | GitHub

📋 Want to see exactly what's included first? Here's the full list of every mod, fix, and tool, with credits: https://github.com/familyfunds/sims2-essentials-setup-tool/blob/main/GUIDE.md

More details under the cut 👇

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Download: Miscellaneous Castaway Stories Conversions for TS2

Includes:

Coffee table made from a stepping stool. 1 slot because the surface is pretty small.

Piles of metal parts. Decorative/Misc. The full pile requires the half full one.

Obsidian stones. Decorative/Misc. "FB_CS_ObsidianFull" is required for the other stones to show up correctly.

Fallen branch and some sticks with sawdust. Decorative/Plants. The sticks with sawdust require the fallen branch.

Collection file.

The piles of metal parts and the obsidian stones have an extended footprint of 2x2 tiles but each object has only one OBJD.

Download (Google Drive)

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Part 2 is for the girls and women (and one little bonus)!

I felt that some of these meshes didn't have many recolors so I had to fix that :)

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⋆ The RGB Cinema ⋆

💾 Download on MTS

⋆ §365,965 ⋆ 3x4 Lot ⋆ Community Lot ⋆ Minimal CC

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Outdoor Gym set | Fitness trail and exercise bike Popping in for another long-due upload! This is a mini set of outdoor gym equipment, including a fitness trail cloned from the obstacle course career reward, and an exercise bike. Both use the AL monkey bar textures, and I made 4 custom recolors. More details and download at MTS or SFS (personal rambling under the cut)

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Ikea Marek Lamp in Newsprint

6 recolors using textures from the Maxis newspaper and @vegan-kaktus' default. These have a homemade look, perfect for Sims who are broke or crafty

Download - Alternate

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cityof2morrow

Cocomama Quilt Shop Remix

Published: 07-12-2026 | Updated: N/A SUMMARY This quilt/fabric shop set, originally by Cocomama (2008), has been refreshed and repo’d. Fabric bolts have been remade and repo’d to the Jonesi Blanket Textile Repository (HERE) – you need this version of the mesh to enable both fabric subsets. Shelves, surfaces, and ribbons are repo’d to the Talking Table (EA/Maxis). Original deco items, the (English) magazine rack/counter recolors, and an updated collection file are all included. Find other Jonesi recolors on this site under the #ts2recolors, #co2recolors, #co2repopack and similar tags.

DETAILS Requires all EPs/SPs – may or may not work with Basegame. §150-500 | Surfaces > Shelves | Deco > Sculptures The Jonesi Blanket Textile Repository (HERE) is REQUIRED for fabric recolors to display. NOTE: Not all Jonesi recolors are seamless. *You need the CEP for the Talking Table from THIS SET (HA, 2016). ITEMS Fabric Items (140-910 poly) Surfaces (144-186 poly) Other items (10-544 poly) DOWNLOAD (choose one) from SFS | from MEGA *remember to delete the original version of the set

(Image: from the original set at MTS) CREDITS Thanks: @teaaddictyt for the suggestion – this has been on my to-do list for years. Sims2/Simming communities. Sources: Any Color You Like (CuriousB, 2010), Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), EA/Maxis, Offuturistic Infographic (Freepik), Cocomama (2008).

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𝙹𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝙱𝚞𝚜 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚂𝚎𝚝 𝙷𝚒 𝚊𝚕𝚕, 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎. 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙽𝚘𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚜' 𝙹𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝙱𝚞𝚜 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚂𝚎𝚝 (𝚃𝚂𝟺). 𝙸𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚘𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜, 𝚊 𝚋𝚞𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚋𝚞𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗. 𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚜, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢! 🍈 𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙱 𝙸𝚃 𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴 : 𝚂𝙵𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 ".𝚣𝚒𝚙" 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 ".𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊𝚐𝚎" 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 "𝙳𝚘𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜/𝙴𝙰 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜/𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚜 𝟸/𝙳𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚍𝚜 📄 𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙳𝙸𝚃𝚂 : 𝟹𝙳 𝚖𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚢 (𝚃𝚂𝟺) N𝚘𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚂𝚒𝚖𝚜

sgthebee

Exploding Dragon Table Recolors + Default

I made some recolors of @jodeliejodelie's gorgeous Exploding Dragon Table recolors. That mesh edit and wood texture make me so happy! And using auction sites for fancy art is such a good tip.

So I present 8 plain @morepopcorn wood options, and 8 using art from Sothebys. As usual, there's also a default replacement version with unused recolors included.

Download Recolors or... Download Default & Recolors

Thank you, JodelieJodelie!

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Look at them, they're so cool!

creusasims

SIMS 2 MODS and CC Mega playlist!

Here you'll find the very best mods for Sims 2 and also some amazing good looking custom content!

Hello baby boys! Just wanted to share my mega playlist for Sims 2 Mods and CC. I love my modded TS2 so much and I’ve got a bunch of amazing suggestions for your game too!

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just in case anyone forgot how wildly colorful Georgian interiors could be, even among the working class to the wealthy:

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and EVEN WHEN things were more muted/neutral, the neutrality was OFFSET by ACCENT COLORS and HIGH CONTRAST between the wood tones and everything ELSE

ALSO AMERICAN COLONIAL INTERIORS POPPED OFF, Y'ALL (IN TERMS OF COLOR/COZINESS)

PEOPLE USED WHITEWASH AND COLORFUL TRIM OR EVEN JUST COLORFUL FURNITURE IF THEY COULD AFFORD TO DO SO

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON FRENCH AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN WALLPAPERS

"ELIZABETH" YOU CRY, "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EXTRA THIS MORNING?! IT'S MONDAY"

Because, my friend, my war on GREIGE will NEVER end.

Historic interiors were filled with LIFE and LIGHT and COLOR. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

Part of the reason we don't see a lot of textile art is because, frankly, textiles tend to degrade over time - especially ones that had utility! And yes, pigments and weaving and dying all boosted the expense of things, when we were finally reliably block-printing fabrics and broad reams of paper, it was no longer just the wealthy who could afford pretty patterns!

In the Americas, a far wider variety of pigments also became available because of the abundance of... well, a shitton of flora and minerals, some of which weren't as common in Europe.

WHY THE HIGHLIGHTER COLORS? you ask.

CANDLES.

Those colors reflect candlelight and natural sunlight REALLY WELL.

Humans LOVE bright colors, it's NOT just a thing for kids. We live in a brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted world. We ALWAYS have.

(STOP MAKING YOUR HISTORIC SIMS 4 BUILDS BE BLAND. STOP IT.)

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On the subject of Colonial America: don't forget, even if you couldn't afford wallpaper, wall stenciling might still be in reach!

(If ever you have the opportunity to visit the Stencil House at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont (pictured above at 3, 4, and 5), I highly recommend.)

And that's before you get into American painted murals:

Embrace the decorative arts, folks!

prokyon

Remove AI garbage from your web browsing experience with the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-A

Install this blocklist using the instructions on the GitHub page. For Firefox, you will need to install uBlockOrigin for this. Google Chrome no longer allows the uBlockOrigin extension, so I'm assuming you're at least primarily a Firefox user - or about to be (see browser alternatives below).

For Google Chrome or mobile browsers, this will work with uBlacklist. See the GitHub page for full details on compatibility.

Remove AI Widgets:

If you go to your uBlockOrigin Filter lists page, you can select to filter out AI Widgets - this should completely remove the 'AI Mode' widget/button from your Google search page, in addition to the work done by the Huge AI Blocklist.

Using the uBlockOrigin Huge AI Blocklist filter has made my Google searches look like they used to, and gives me genuine search results.

Look at this. It's beautiful. It's informative. It's not a heap of burning trash bloated with fake information made up by a hallucinating chat bot.

We can go even further: return to the old school search results.

Now, the above results are great and should be free of generative AI junk, but some people would rather not see any of the summary widgets or 'people also ask' box at all. Fear not! You can remove all that by using the 'Web' mode in the Google search bar. Click the 'More' drop down menu and select 'Web'.

Huzzah! Incredible. It's like a functional search engine again.

You can make this the default Google search mode in Google Chrome using Method 1 from this page (https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/). Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to do this in Firefox too. This is why for the most part I still use DuckDuckGo (see below) as my default search engine, and only use Google to supplement my searches on the rare occasion I'm just missing something.

Extra filters (optional):

I've also added four filters (their order doesn't matter) to the My Filters page. Full disclosure: I'm not sure they still work, or may only work on Chrome, but I'm keeping them anyway, just in case.

From https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1i7kg83/comment/m8lllwr/: see which solution in the list works for you, it seems to be different for everybody.

google.*##div[jscontroller]:not(:has(div[jscontroller].YzCcne)):has(.YzCcne)

From https://allthings.how/how-to-turn-off-ai-mode-in-google-chrome/:

www.google.com##.Beswgc

www.google.com##.olrp5b

www.google.com##.hdzaWe

Make sure you hit the apply changes button when you add filters.

Browser alternatives: escaping Google Chrome.

If you haven't jumped ship from Chrome yet, I'd recommend doing so. Sometimes Chrome outperforms Firefox for niche purposes or because a website doesn't bother to fully support non-Chrome browsers, but the days of Chrome being the superior browser are long gone — by about 10 years. If you're trying to escape Chromium browsers, beware that a lot of the popular Chrome alternatives are just Chrome in a different hat.

Firefox has been the most popular non-Chromium browser for years, and for good reason. However, the company running Mozilla Firefox has annoyed their users, me included, by refusing to take an anti- generative-ai stance, and even included AI features in the Mozilla Firefox browser. Most Firefox users specifically use it because they hate Google's enshittification and want a privacy-focused, clean browser that doesn't hog their RAM and CPU for no reason. So, you can imagine that Mozilla's attitude has pissed us all off recently. You can turn off the AI features in Firefox with the built-in settings, but the company has recently steered straight into the burning garbage heap by saying they want to make the browser based on AI.

Waterfox and LibreWolf:

There are really good alternatives based on Firefox (open-source) which are not affiliated with Mozilla (the company), if you don't like how it operates. Waterfox and LibreWolf are even more trimmed down and privacy-focused than Mozilla's Firefox, and don't use AI. Anti-ai statements: Waterfox and LibreWolf.

From this page: https://programming.dev/post/42546774

In short: LibreWolf is for those who want a “locked-down” fortress out of the box, while Waterfox is for those who want a privacy-conscious browser that still feels like a normal, convenient daily driver. Choose LibreWolf if: You want the highest level of privacy without having to manually edit config files, and you don’t mind occasionally “fixing” a broken website or re-logging into accounts. Choose Waterfox if: You want a privacy-respecting browser that supports Firefox Sync, has an Android counterpart, and handles streaming sites/logins without any extra friction (it supports WideWine out of the box, which lets you stream DRM protected content (netflix, hulu, disney, etc). — [email protected]

I've heard good things about both of these browsers and will investigate them further to decide whether to personally switch from Mozilla Firefox.

DuckDuckGo:

I would also recommend installing the DuckDuckGo extension to your browsers and setting it to be your default search engine.

I've had DuckDuckGo installed on my browsers, Chrome or Firefox, for like 10 years now. It is a good search engine, it's unobtrusive, and blocks trackers, cookies, and does not save any data about you. I've also used it as my default mobile browser for years, along with Firefox mobile, which you can add the AI Blocklist to (see again the GitHub page). I haven't tried the DuckDuckGo desktop browser yet, but I imagine it works just fine like the mobile version. I think DuckDuckGo's browser is also Chromium-based, at least indirectly. I use Firefox with the DuckDuckGo extension so I can have a widely-supported, non-Chromium browser, but include all of DuckDuckGo's anti-tracking features.

Note: DuckDuckGo has included AI in its browser product, however you can opt-out of all AI features with the built-in settings and they will not push it on you like Google does. I hope they remove AI features entirely in the future, but for now I am comfortable with the barriers in place to keep AI out of my face. Firefox also has AI features like Chrome does, which you can turn off with the built-in settings.

There's also noai.duckduckgo search, an alternative version of its normal search engine which removes AI-generated images and turns off AI results/assists by default. Even though DuckDuckGo's inclusion of any AI features annoys me, its policy to make these features 100% optional builds trust with this browser/extension/search engine.

You can always use Google search if you need to, but with uBlockOrigin and the AI Blocklist filter added on, at least you shouldn't have AI-altered search results or the AI overview anymore.

Other browsers exist, probably:

There are certainly more non-Chromium alternatives out there, but Firefox, Waterfox, and LibreWolf are the top three recommended to me. That link to alternatives, plus this ComputerCity page are the best lists I could find in a brief search. If you google "non-Chromium browsers" you'll get a lot of mixed results which require a bit of digging to realise they're not really recommending you what you looked for at all.

I've heard about Ecosia over the years, and while I like the idea of a search engine that plants a tree for each query, I don't think that's actually what happens — at least, that's what they used to be reputed to do, but I believe that's an unsustainable business model which has likely changed. In 2026, Ecosia says it uses 100% of its profits for the planet and runs its search engine off clean energy. That's cool! It's still Chromium-based. And it also uses generative AI for chat bots, so I don't trust its principles on environmentalism. I need to do more reading on this to form a stronger opinion about it.

I hope this post has helped at least some of you have a better experience browsing the web and googling your questions.

The Huge AI Blocklist really has been an amazing tool to keep my internet life free and clear of a lot of generative AI rubbish. I'm not a tech expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm savvy enough to understand what genAI is and does, and that the more I learn about it, it's even worse than I thought. I truly hate it, and I hate the enshittification of all our experiences, even those as simple and innocent as googling "snow leopard" or "how to cook pasta" or "what is a phascogale" (go ahead and test your freshly-cleaned search engines out with that one hehe).

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Reblogging to find this easily

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Three Vintage Simstress Dresses 4t2

My first 4t2 clothing conversions! These too a bit longer than I've expected, and I've definitely learned a lot. Some things were easier than expected and some... not so much.

The AF mesh is enabled for elders, and the TF version is repo'd to the AF files, so it needs those to function. The Casual and Velvet Dresses are everyday and outwear, while the Day Dress is just enabled for everyday.

The original dresses are by @vintagesimstress and can be found here, here and here! Shoes are somewhat edited 4t2 boots by @janika31 and @deedee-sims, and the tights for the TF version are from @oldtimeyskellington.

Files are compressed and tooltipped!

Download: SFS | MF (58MB)

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Clothing TF

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Annual GoFundMe

Hey friends 💛

Boosting a GoFundMe to support our creator community and help cover operating expenses for the next year.

If you’ve ever enjoyed the builds, mods, stories, or general content from Plumb Bob Keep, please consider checking it out or reblogging to help spread the word.