@lokisimmer replied to your photo “So last time, Sienna had almost befriended this black female wolf,...”
hey may I ask how did you get to adopt that dog may you please link me to the mod if it is so :) <3 thanks so much !
This got too long for an in-thread reply, so... :)
Adopting a stray or wolf isn’t a mod. It’s a normal in-game mechanic. What you do is simply interact with a stray/wolf that enters the lot you’re playing. (Tip: If the animal knows any commands -- most of the strays do, surprisingly -- command them to do them. Those are worth more relationship points than just stroking or feeding them a treat or playing with them.) If you get the short-term relationship high enough that you become friends with the animal, when you next click on the animal to interact with them, there will be an “Adopt” option that you can click. You’ll get a dialog asking if you want the pet to join the household, and if you click “Yes,” they do so. Sometimes, though, the animal will leave the lot before you have enough of a relationship with them to adopt it.
It’s fairly easy to adopt strays, not so easy with wolves because they’ll tend to reject social interactions more often than not, at least at first, and it’s far more likely that they’ll leave the lot before you have enough of a relationship with them to adopt them.
There is a way to make it easier, though. Once you know any animal Sim, they can actually be invited to parties! If you do that -- even if you throw a “party” where the animal is the only guest -- then you’ll have plenty of time to befriend the animal if they show up. I honestly don’t know if wolves can be invited to parties, though. This is the first time I’ve tried to adopt wolves, and in this neighborhood parties can’t be thrown because phones aren’t allowed. :) But anyway, other than the party trick, it may take more than one visit by a particular stray/wolf before you can get the relationship high enough to adopt them.
Apropos of nothing: I’ve got a root veggie stew stewing away in a slow cooker with lots of bay leaves and sage and thyme and stuff. My house smells SO GOOD! :D
Anyway, replies for @kathleen---sadist---saint, @penig, @ellupelluellu, @simblrkersil, @holleyberry, @siofrasims, @pensblr, @dreadpirate, @simaddicted-sue, and @lokisimmer...
kathleen---sadist---saint reblogged your post “very ignorant”
That was a sick burn whether it was meant to be one or not 😂
It actually wasn't meant to be a burn, no. It genuinely amuses me that people seem to think that calling someone "ignorant" is some kind of insult. Because every single person is completely ignorant about a LOT of things. There are probably many things that a so-called "brilliant" person is ignorant of that a so-called "stupid" person knows a lot about. Basically, those who claim they AREN'T ignorant are lying.
Of course, there's also willful ignorance -- Consciously refusing to learn, know, or consider something, usually because of fear that knowing will upset one's biases -- which is another thing. I find willful ignorance abhorrent and try to avoid indulging in it, but I still wouldn't be insulted if someone accused me of being willfully ignorant about something...because they could be right. Only human, and all that. Such an accusation would make me think about what biases I might be holding on to that I might want to consider ridding myself of, though, and that’s always a good thing.
penig replied to your photoset “Norbert & Susan Hawksley, Autumn, Part 1/3 The beekeeping Hawksleys,...”
That face has a lot of potential. Different hair would diminish the bowling ball effect.
It’s not so much “bowling ball” as the fact that the middle of his face, around his eyes, his cheekbones, and the bridge of his nose, is kind of caved in, at the moment. *laugh* The parents’ faces are so dissimilar that it’s hard for the game to mash ‘em together in such a small space. It’ll work itself out as he grows, though. Such things pretty much always do; I’ve never been able to understand why people freak out over “ugly” toddlers. *shrug*
I don’t usually bother too much with toddlers’ appearance, though, because with the normal age lengths they’re only toddlers for four days, so it’s not worth fussing, in my mind. I COULD here, because with the age-modding the toddler stage is twelve days, but...meh. *laugh* They keep the hair they get. Sometimes I’ll change it when they’re a child...but sometimes they have the same style their whole life. *laugh* That’s how much I can’t be bothered. :)
ellupelluellu replied to your photoset “Norbert & Susan Hawksley, Autumn, Part 1/3 The beekeeping Hawksleys,...”
wich log walls you use? Your own or available at somewhere?
They’re my own. Here. I wanted more and different stone trims than Maxis made, to match some Maxis stone walls, plus I wanted the logs in my wood colors, to coordinate with all the doors/windows I’ve done, so....yeah. :)
simblrkersil replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”
Skell's repository project works well with most texture-only defaults!
siofrasims replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”
You can sometimes still use texture defaults with Skell's stuff!
Yeah, I figured that. So now I need to look for...or make...some texture defaults that I like. I don’t really enjoy retexturing clothing because the mapping usually annoys the piss out of me and I don’t know how to re-map stuff, but if I can’t find anything I like....
holleyberry replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”
I like some of the Maxis clothes too. If I finally decide to redo my downloads folder I think I would Default all the BG stuff, and also use Skell's repository.
pensblr replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”
Do it. Do it. Skell's repo project really is a life saver for those of us who like a tidy BodyShop/CAS and some variety for all ages.
dreadpirate replied to your post “*is now thinking about just ditching all the clothing defaults I spent...”
DO IT
*laugh* Yeah, I went ahead and downloaded the bits I want. Which isn’t ALL of the repository project because there are some things in it that I have no use for. But stuff that’s useful.... Now it’s time to figure out what I can use and what I can’t, given the defaults I have. I’ll probably end up with a mish-mash of some defaults and some not defaulted in order to use the repository stuff. I mean, that’s sort of what I already have, actually. I didn’t default any of the H&M stuff, so I have the H&M stuff from the repository project...
And hey, at least Holley also likes Maxis clothes. I’m not alone! :D ...although I suppose I have to say that it’s not that I “like” the clothes so much as I just don’t care enough about clothes that they bother me that much. IRL I couldn’t care less about fashion and will tend to wear stuff that would be at home in the 60s/70s (I <3 bell-bottoms and hippie styles in general), so my “meh” attitude about clothes in-game is probably a “bleed-through” that way. *laugh*
penig replied to your photoset “Hattie Galloway, Autumn, Part 2/2 Hattie, having been trapped at home...”
We used to go on picnics in the rain when we lived in Alaska, because if you let the weather spoil your plans you'd never do anything.
Yeah, ya gotta do what you gotta do. But that doesn’t mean that you have to go swimming when the water is freezing! Then again, it probably doesn’t get truly freezing in this neighborhood because it has no winter. It goes Spring/Summer/Autumn/Spring2. But at the end of autumn, it’s still probably enough to give one hypothermia!
simaddicted-sue replied to your photo “Komei & Karen Tellerman, Autumn, Part 2/3 Karen chose an excellent...”
Congrats on a girl!
RIGHT???! I was so happy. Because prior to her birth, out of 22 births, only four had been girls, so the neighborhood was less than 40% female overall. I mean, I have a statistically-high percentage of male/male couples -- half of the 6 married couples in the neighborhood, in fact, are male/male, currently -- and I’m perfectly OK with that...but you do need SOME females. *laugh*
simblrkersil replied to your photo “Komei & Karen Tellerman, Autumn, Part 2/3 Karen chose an excellent...”
to be fair to her, it's hard to follow the long-time sims tradition of birthing in the smallest bathroom of a house if your only bathroom is an outhouse XD
This is true! I’m pretty sure the outhouses that are out there are cloned from the community-lot bathroom stall, so Sims have to exit it to do anything. It’d be hilarious if they could give birth in the outhouse. Well, *I* think it’d be hilarious, anyway, but I’m one of those people who finds odd things hilarious, so...
ellupelluellu replied to your photo “Gordon Bassett in the wilderness that is his back yard. :) I spent...”
Just make couple adults looking like they are lost and searching something they never will find, and you have better SimRembrandt than the original.
HAH! Yeah, you’re right. *laugh*
lokisimmer replied to your post “ellupelluellu replied to your photoset “Chick-chick-CHICKIES! :D” ...”
Hey do you remember the name of a mod on sims 2 which had this small plate on the mailbox so sims can out their bills on it as I lost it and don't remember the name
Yeah, it’s a “cover” that goes over the mailbox that includes a little shelf with a slot to put the mail on. Windkeeper made it. I recolored it here, and that download includes the mesh. I think Pescado further modded it somehow, I think so that ONLY mail can go on the slot and not anything else? But I could be remembering wrong. In any case, I just have Windkeeper’s original version and am happy with it.
lokisimmer replied to your photoset “Willow had her birthday, and now she’s a toddler :)”
Happy Birthday!!!
They grow up so fast! *sheds a tear*
jellybeanery replied to your post “Ah Dee, looking at your TSM gameplay pictures rly makes me want to...”
I love TSM ❤
Me too! Hopefully I’ll play with it more, now that I managed to reinstall it XD
dramallamadingdang replied to your post “Hello Dee! I love your TSM gameplay pictures! Did you get TSM from...”
I didn't even realize that there were mods for TSM. Maybe one of these days I'll want to play it again. It's been a while. :)
There are some awesome ones! Too bad it’s impossible so far to make cc objects :( Eaxis, why?
squeezleprime replied to your photoset “Busy day at the Green Plumbbob Diner!”
the chef pouring "wine" in the pot: I've not noticed that before! :)
I just noticed that too! It’s funny, it looks like they pour the whole bottle into it XD
lesyasun replied to your post “Livestream!”
Just watched your livestream ^_^ To be honest, I understand nothing in meshing but the fact that you're talking somewhere in the background just cheered me up. Your accent is very cute btw! And yees, that stream was a proof that you're a sweetheart <3
Ayyy thank you so much! I’m glad you could enjoy it anyway! ^^ But wait, it wasn’t muted for you? What kind of sorceress are you? XD I swear if it’s only muted in the EU I’m going to riot
polk-la-dots replied to your post “I can watch sims fall in love again and again... haha”
are there non-monogamy mods for sims 2? :o
I... don’t think so? But you can turn off jelousy in ACR. Also, @strangetomato has posts about how she operates the JRO relationship, marriage there :)
lokisimmer replied to your photo “MDP’s 4t2 EF06 Jacket Punk for TF and EF And here’s the jacket I age...”
OMG IS THAT THE ONE YOU WERE DOING ON YUOR STREAM
It is, indeed! :)
katzengirl replied to your photoset “Today, I bring you your Halloween Special :P Okay, I know I said I’m...”
These are lovely, thank you for sharing!
lokisimmer replied to your photoset “Today, I bring you your Halloween Special :P Okay, I know I said I’m...”
OMG THIS IS GREAT ( deedee my sims 2 Halloween special story comes out tomorrow just so you know :)
jellybeanery replied to your photoset “Requests! The first one is for eyebrows, using retextures by...”
OMG thank you for doing those. You said you'd do them for me before, but I have been swamped with real-life stuff and just blahhhh. You are a saint ��
Heh, I didn’t even realize these were the eyebrows. I remember telling you I could do this but I thought you hadn’t uploaded them yet!
lokisimmer replied to your photoset “Requests! The first one is for eyebrows, using retextures by...”
My sims 2 game I reinstalled it and I got a windows 10 update so I restarted all my cc and when I download the tops only few show up instead of all of them :(
I messaged you about the issue but maybe you didn’t get my message. Did you actually try all the tops? Have you regenerated the thumbnails?
nightsimming replied to your photoset “Requests! The first one is for eyebrows, using retextures by...”
You are an angel! Thank you so much for doing those eyebrows for me, I appreciate it so much!! <3
