Okay, I compared the Graphics Rules.sgr and Video Cards.sgr with the Ultimate Collection
They did EXACTLY what my brother has been saying for months but people have been debating him over it and didn't want to believe him
The new video cards.sgr doesn't include ANY new graphics cards. Wanna know why? Because the game doesn't fucking care. He has been saying for months that it doesn't care and that adding it via GRM doesn't do anything, it can actually potentially make it worse.
What they DID do is take out all the hacky stuff in the Graphics Rules.sgr to prevent the game from turning on and off certain settings depending on your hardware and software config. That's what I did as well, months ago, because he said it is the smarter solution.
✧ pairing: fallen angel!Sunwoo x fem!Reader
✧ warnings: smut (18+ minors dni), oral (m!receiving), cum swallowing, mentions of fingering/sex, size kink, biting, marking, slight possessiveness, teeny tiny bit of fluff near the end
✧ word count: 1.8k
✧ a/n: The Roar mv altered my being in ways I have not recovered from. This is the result of that. It’s also the reason Sunwoo has fangs (yes, it was necessary to include). Shout out to my friend for beta reading. You’re a real one.
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The empty space of your apartment was quiet, save from the gentle hum of the air conditioner. The darkness only illuminated by the moonlight peaking through the blinds. The only signs of life were the shoes by the door and the jacket thrown over the arm of the sofa, something you'd get on to your boyfriend for in the morning. Though the fault of it being there was not entirely his. When the two of you arrived it had been a frantic flurry of hands and lips. Urgently shedding clothes to free more skin. It had been a distracted journey to your bedroom, the only area of your home currently lit and active as it had been for sometime. That was clearly evident by the light streaking from underneath the door and the accompanying noises coming from within.
In that time, Sunwoo had ravished you extensively. Hands, lips, tongue, and teeth everywhere with the marks to prove it. He was sure to take his time in taking you apart. Filling you up and bringing you to your climax over and over again. And still wanting more. His supernatural stamina was on full display and his eyes darkened with lust every time he removed his cock or fingers from your weeping cunt. He'd watched your hole clench around nothing, and saw how you'd greedily try to pull him back to your body any way you could. While you didn't share his superhuman status, what you lacked in ability, you made up for in desire. So every time he would ask for another round, you were happy to comply, eager even. Every time he filled you up felt like heaven, though in a much more sinful way.
That left you currently on your knees for him. The wet sound of your hands and mouth working over Sunwoo's dick bouncing off the walls. He bites his lip to contain the noises trying to escape him. Still, quieted grunts make it past his lips. You've been at it for hours, or at least what felt like hours. His sense of time isn't its sharpest right now. The pleasure from your mouth feels so delicious it's hard for him to think straight.
When he feels a twinge of pressure in his stomach he knows he won't last much longer. A large hand meets the back of your head, fingers tangling in your hair and lightly pressing at your scalp. That was his warning sign. Where he thought you'd release him, you speed up instead. Bobbing your head all the more vigorously and letting your tongue glide along the underside of his shaft.
Sunwoo's composure begins slipping the more effort you put into finishing him off. His bottom lip now freed from his teeth, his breath comes out in labored huffs. He can feel his release barreling towards him. His free hand fists the sheets behind him in an attempt to brace himself. Then all at once it hits him.
The hand on your head pushes you down on him as your throat spasms around him. You swallow what you can before pulling off for air. Even after being freed from your mouth his release continues to leak from his tip. You return to lap up the cum slowly dripping down his shaft. Dragging your tongue along him you enclose your lips around his tip one last time while pumping the rest with your hand, humming around him as you savor the taste.
You look up to see his gaze fixed on you. His breathing no longer labored, but you can still see the rise and fall of his chest. You release him from your mouth with a gentle pop as he begins to soften in your hand. The look on your face is sweet and gentle in contrast to the sinful act you'd just finished.
"You always look so cute when you swallow my cum. You're gonna be the death of me," Sunwoo says as he reaches out to gently cup your face. His thumb swipes the corner of your mouth picking up what was left. You take his thumb into your mouth keeping eye contact with him. You hum again as you swirl your tongue around the digit, sucking gently. You release him to lick your lips, savoring the taste of him.
"So sweet" He coos, causing you to beam back at him. "It should definitely be illegal."
"Like you'd care about breaking laws. That's how you got here in the first place."
"Ow y/n, you wound me. Words hurt y'know," he pouts, retracting his hand and clutching his chest dramatically. His brows knit together with mock pain. The glimmer in his eyes would almost pass for crocodile tears, but you knew better.
"Really? Cause I thought that fall from grace woulda hurt much more," you say perching your elbows atop his knees. You hadn't truly spent time contemplating how you believed an angel was supposed to behave, fallen or not. As a mere human you never thought you'd be the one to be granted such a divine encounter. Nor that one encounter would turn into multiple becoming more intimate over time. But you liked this. The witty playfulness he came with. A back and forth you'd easily integrated into your dynamic. Teasing and poking was part of the act, even the ones taking place in the bedroom. You fit him with a puzzled expression, a purposeful exaggeration. A smile of concession creeps onto his face as he gives in.
"Alright, ya got me," He says putting his hands up as a light chuckle passes his lips. He leans back on his haunches and shuffles his way up the bed as you release his legs, moving to climb on beside him.
"I may have broken a rule or two in my lifetime, a couple big ones matter of fact, but I like to think things turned out alright."
"It brought me here. It brought me to you," he turns to look at you close. You're already eye to eye, but when he turns on his side to fully face you you feel an inexplicable magnetism pulling you in further. The small gap of space between your bodies feels invasive. An unwelcome third party. Despite how intertwined you had been not even an hour ago you still longed for his touch. The feeling of skin on skin and his warmth mingling with yours.
You're the one to close the gap, linking your leg around his and letting the rest of your body settle against him. You're not unfamiliar with feeling small, but it's times like this where it sticks out in your mind the most. It has to be the fact that he's a supernatural being. It's already the reasoning you've worked out to explain his speed and strength. It wouldn't be a stretch to say he's taller than most guys you've seen for the same reason. It's not at all something you mind, in fact it excites you. The effect of him towering over you practically reduces your brain to mush. Couple that with him manhandling you any way he pleases and you're gone.
"To think if I stayed up there as a good, law abiding angel, I would've never known you. Never gotten to see your beautiful eyes or your smile," his hand once again trails the side of your face and goes lower, passing your shoulders. "Never get to feel your soft curves," his hand finds your hips gently squeezing at the same place he'd been gripping you by earlier that evening. You wonder if he knew or could tell by the prints left in his wake.
"Never get to feel those pretty lips and that warm mouth around me," his face is inches from yours as most of your bodies are pressed together at this point. His breath fans over your skin making you shudder. You note the fact that he was staring at your lips before locking eyes with you again, they look darker than when you were exchanging light banter. There's hunger there now.
You can feel it when he kisses you. His tongue exploring your mouth again. His essence still lingering on your tongue making him more fervent as he groans into the kiss. A desire to mark you as his wells up in him. To see your skin littered with the proof of what you'd done. Leaving you soaked and your walls coated with white after pounding you into the mattress. Letting everyone know who you belong to. Whose you were.
"Mine," his words come out in a low rumble between kisses. If you hadn't been able to make out the word you'd mistaken for a growl. It's possessive, animalistic.
He shifts your bodies together putting him on top. Easily moving your smaller frame as he pleases. Your heart is beating out of your chest, so loud you're pretty sure he'd be able to hear it without his heightened senses.
"You're all mine. Nobody else's," he mumbles against your skin as he begins kissing along your jawline. His mouth is hot on your skin, but the wetness of his kisses have a coolness that brings you back to zero.
He brings a hand up to the side on your throat lightly gripping your neck. His nails, slightly long with a subtle point, teasingly dig into your skin. It was one of the new avenues Sunwoo had introduced you to in bed. You were never big on choking before but agreed to try it out with him which resulted in a long night of multiple orgasms. "My little play thing." His heavy lidded stare makes your insides squirm. The lust in his eyes would be overwhelming if it wasn't for the softness you saw mixed in. "All mine to spoil. To ruin." And there it is. His carnal desires coupled with the desire to love and care for you. The very reason he left paradise. Because it wasn't truly paradise. Not without you.
"You want that, baby?"
"Yes," you sigh as he thumbs over your throat. "I'm all yours, Sunwoo." His eyes darken again as he increases the press of his nails into your skin. Your stomach flips as you relish in the light sting. You didn't think you were the type to find pain pleasurable before him. He brought out new sides of you, and you wanted to keep exploring with him.
"That's my good girl," He flashes you a smile with teeth. The lighting in the room is dimmed, but the moonlight coming in from the blinds catches just right so that you can see the flash of the silver fangs in his mouth.
He moves back to your neck, flattening his tongue to lick a stripe up your throat. As he makes his way up to the underside of your jaw, you're sure he can feel your pulse. "And don't you forget it."
He moves down to the crook of your neck pressing more wet kisses to the area. The last two things you can accurately process are the feeling of his teeth sinking into your skin and the scream making its way past your lips before you can stop it.
Linux distros - what is the difference, which one should I choose?
Caution, VERY long post.
With more and more simmers looking into linux lately, I've been seeing the same questions over and over again: Which distro should I choose? Is distro xyz newbie-friendly? Does this program work on that distro?
So I thought I'd explain the concept of "distros" and clear some of that up.
What are the key differences between distros?
Linux distros are NOT different operating systems (they're all still linux!) and the differences between them aren't actually as big as you think.
Update philosophy: Some distros, like Ubuntu, (supposedly) focus more on stability than being up-to-date. These distros will release one big update once every year or every other year and they are thoroughly tested. However, because the updates are so huge, they inevitably tend to break stuff anyway. On the other end of the spectrum are so-called "rolling release" distros like Arch. They don't do big annual updates, but instead release smaller updates very frequently. They are what's called "bleeding edge" - if there is something new out there, they will be the first ones to get it. This can of course impact stability, but on the other hand, stuff gets improved and fixed very fast. Third, there are also "middle of the road" distros like Fedora, which kind of do... both. Fedora gets big version updates like Ubuntu, but they happen more frequently and are comparably smaller, thus being both stable and reasonably up-to-date.
Package manager: Different distros come with different package managers (APT on ubuntu, DNF on Fedora, etc.). Package managers keep track of all the installed programs on your PC and allow you to update/install/remove programs. You'll often work with the package manager in the terminal: For example, if you want to install lutris on Fedora, you'd type in "sudo dnf install lutris" ("sudo" stands for "super user do", it's the equivalent of administrator rights on Windows). Different package managers come with different pros and cons.
Core utilities and programs: 99% of distros use the same stuff in the background (you don’t even directly interact with it, e.g. background process managing). The 1% that do NOT use the same stuff are obscure distros like VoidLinux, Artix, Alpine, Gentoo, Devuan. If you are not a Linux expert, AVOID THOSE AT ALL COST.
Installation process: Some distros are easier to install than others. Arch is infamous for being a bit difficult to install, but at the same time, its documentation is unparalleled. If you have patience and good reading comprehension, installing arch would literally teach you all you ever need to know about Linux. If you want to go an easier and safer route for now, anything with an installer like Mint or Fedora would suit you better.
Community: Pick a distro with an active community and lots of good documentation! You’ll need help. If you are looking at derivatives (e.g. ZorinOS, which is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian), ask yourself: Does this derivative give you enough benefits to potentially give up community support of the larger distro it is based on? Usually, the answer is no.
Okay, but what EDITION of this distro should I choose?
"Editions" or “spins” usually refer to variations of the same distro with different desktop environments. The three most common ones you should know are GNOME, KDE Plasma and Cinnamon.
GNOME's UI is more similar to MacOS, but not exactly the same.
KDE Plasma looks and feels a lot like Windows' UI, but with more customization options.
Cinnamon is also pretty windows-y, but more restricted in terms of customization and generally deemed to be "stuck in 2010".
Mint vs. Pop!_OS vs. Fedora
Currently, the most popular distros within the Sims community seem to be Mint and Fedora (and Pop!_OS to some extent). They are praised for being "beginner friendly". So what's the difference between them?
Both Mint and Pop!_OS are based on Ubuntu, whereas Fedora is a "standalone" upstream distro, meaning it is not based on another distro.
Personally, I recommend Fedora over Mint and Pop!_OS for several reasons. To name only a few:
I mentioned above that Ubuntu's update philosophy tends to break things once a big update rolls around every two years. Since both Mint and Pop!_OS are based on Ubuntu, they are also affected by this.
Ubuntu, Mint and Pop!_OS like to modify their stuff regularly for theming/branding purposes, but this ALSO tends to break things. It is apparently so bad that there is an initiative to stop this.
Pop!_OS uses the GNOME desktop environment, which I would not recommend if you are switching from Windows. Mint offers Cinnamon, which is visually and technically outdated (they use the x11 windowing system standard from 1984), but still beloved by a lot of people. Fedora offers the more modern KDE Plasma.
Personal observation: Most simmers I've encountered who had severe issues with setting up Linux went with an Ubuntu-based distro. There's just something about it that's fucked up, man.
And this doesn't even get into the whole Snaps vs. Flatpak controvery, but I will skip this for brevity.
Does SimPE (or any other program) work on this distro?
If it works on Fedora, then it works on Mint/Ubuntu/Arch/etc., and vice versa. This is all just a question of having the necessary dependencies installed and installing the program itself properly. Some distros may have certain prerequisites pre-installed, while others don't, but you can always just install those yourself. Like I said, different distros are NOT different operating systems. It's all still Linux and you can ultimately customize it however you want.
In short: Yeah, all Sims 2-related programs work. Yes, ReShade too. It ultimately doesn't really matter what distro you use as long as it is not part of the obscure 1% I mentioned above.
A little piece of advice
Whatever distro you end up choosing: get used to googling stuff and practice reading comprehension! There are numerous forums, discord servers and subreddits where you can ask people for help. Generally speaking, the linux community is very open to helping newbies. HOWEVER, they are not as tolerant to nagging and laziness as the Sims community tends to be. Show initiative, use google search & common sense, try things out before screaming for help and be detailed and respectful when explaining your problems. They appreciate that. Also, use the arch wiki even if you do not use Arch Linux – most of it is applicable to other distros as well.
Fun fact bc i feel like a lot of people (myself included) have never heard of this story
There are two games that are running gags on the linux gaming dev server because they are just THAT broken: GTA4 and The Sims 2.
Apparently, one of the devs of d9vk/dxvk, who is/was at the time (?) employed by motherfucking Valve, spent a LOT of time on trying to fix The Sims 2 specifically and could not do it. Or, well, they did do it somewhat, because DXVK does help and the game runs wonderfully on Linux, but why it's running so bad on Windows remains a mystery.
This wasn't (just?) about pink flashing either, bc they were testing on Linux. They looked at draw calls and stuff like that and apparently it's completely cursed.
So yeah, in a way not only is EA failing to make the game run well, but Valve as well. That's what we're up against here. 🥴
i passed my defense with a 100% grade and they told me to look into publishing my master's thesis (which i probably won't bc despite everything idfk what i'm doing but i take the compliment)
i just love that the EA app has apparently been down for over an hour, preventing people from playing their games, thus perfectly demonstrating why a rerelease that binds you to said app would not be "convenient" in the slightest
i love how EA's laziness might come bite them in the end
the fact that they made such an absolute statement about having fixed pink flashing, only for it to be not true, and now they're collecting bug reports in which i am sure pink flashing and crashes will be very prominent
if they want to sell the game, they kind of have to follow up on that now.
