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bellie/figs | he/star | lesbian<3

[starryboyz]

lezzing out! at the black parade

[tallgirl14]

Zeke and Tina's wedding patreon members got early access

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[fella-lovin-fella]

fields of mistria adding the lost and found bin is lowkey op. stuff not despawning was already sick as hell, but the little kids running around collecting it all for you in one place is crazy

[kosmokhaos]

So the Paralives Para-Maker✨

Firstly, Paralives is AMAZING for an early access game with a 15 man dev team 🥰 I haven't had tons of time to play just yet, and I know there is TONS of room for improvement (that will happen in due time), so these are just my initial thoughts on the Para-Maker specifically.

I wanted to touch on something that I find sorta important.

Dark skin paras...😬

Now, I'm not saying anything about liking or disliking the artstyle because I think custom content will be able to fulfill people's needs and styles eventually. However, their vanilla options for dark skin are...not good.

Above is my attempt at making my sim Nyanaath. It took me waaay too long to make her look decent, even with the customization options for the skin highlights and such. It's always the first thing I notice; dark skins suffer from the same thing they suffer from in other games (both in the early Sims games and other character creator games). And that's a lack of detail. As an artist I can tell you it's because you cannot take a light/pale skin and simply darken it waaay down with a colorwheel without losing Every. Single. Detail.

Dark skin reflects light differently than lighter/fair skin, so when you darken it without considering that, it looks flat and undefined.

This was honestly something I noticed was lacking from the beginning when people were discussing the Para's stylized looks.

Dark skin Paras should not look like Mr. Popo from DBZ next to light or fair skinned Paras. This is something easily (relatively) fixable by making a separate category for brown and dark skins that have the proper detailing built in by default—or even just making some body detailing you can add to get rid of that flatness without having to pile on tons of makeup to brighten highpoints on the skin.

I also have my gripes with the fact that I can't get certain facial features without a preset. But again, more face and body sliders are something easily added. But I write all of this to say;

PLEASE GIVE THEM YOUR FEEDBACK! And don't be rude about it! This is what early access is for, so let your voice be known 💗

[bisexualgoth]

god the gender customization in paralives is the fucking DREAAAMMMMMM gender being completely separately set from body type n pronouns. no clothes separation. one uniform frame. being able to pick out chest & bottom shape regardless of gender and of body type. height not being affected by gender. voice not being affected by gender. body & facial hair not being affected by gender. absolute fucking peek

[viscerast]

watching some ablebodied baby go "ugh i hate that paralives is releasing with prosthetic limbs. disability is too dark for a lighthearted life sim. i just hope they dont add wheelchairs. im not ableist tho i just want my lifesims to be light hearted" why dont i get to be represented in a life sim? do i not get to simulate my life? to make myself? fuck you.

[bisexualgoth]

"when will they add cars to paralives" NEVER i hope. there's a train and a bus free yrself from the americanized prison of car centrism!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S A WALKABLE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[artisimportant]

"Dual Male Income Partnership"

[the-quiet-observer]

sometimes a family is two male business partners, a wealthy french socialite, a superhero and his sidekick, and a man with big feelings about the cold war, and a ghorse

[unhinged-soapbox]

Need more 800 year old vampires cosplaying as college students to pull up to Thanksgiving dinners as an engaged couple's third with the express purpose of tearing the family apart from the inside.

[asymptotic-rage]

Imagine being Tyler.

Your bosses are super toxic. They pay for your grandpa to leave his terrible housing. They tell you to work 17 hours a day. They immediately give you a promotion. You've never seen them in the daytime and they think lunch happens at 8pm.

[mysteryteacup]

One of their associates wants your job but thinks buying a notepad is the equivalent of what you do and you just have to put up with it. Your boss gets you a rolex for no clear reason.

[te-eth-milk]

murph has such an impeccable talent to take the trope of big stoic buff guy with a code of honor and instead of being so cool make a character who is an absolute loser

[wizard-loving-wizard]

every purpee citizen that meets darkness man:

[starryiedd]

if I don't get my hands on that mama Angie's merch mug, Sam reich I'm coming for you

[raineaxolotl]

I'm honestly a little bit bummed that we didn't get a scene of Darkness Man and Bat Child meeting Nancy Danderhoof at the mines to let her talk to and interview some of the ghosts with Bat Child's ghost powers. Purely because I would've LOVED to see Brennan have to decide if Nancy Danderhoof would use quotes from the ghosts to prove the story of the mine and the existence of ghosts

Because "a ghost told me that ghosts are real" will not sound like a very believable or reliable source to the average reader of the Omaha Sunday Scoop, BUT Nancy Danderhoof is extremely dedicated to getting the truth to the people of Omaha. If she talked to a real ghost I think she WOULD on record cite the ghost as a source

[thisloveforyourmom]

you will not guess where this ao3 summary is going

[thisloveforyourmom]

[maezanilla]

Griddle doodle cause I missed my daughter