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I seem to have burned out rather hard. I hope it's not forever.
I'm cheating on Sims with Vintage Story, and I even made a couple of mods there.
I'm still reading here, and today looking through simblr's stirred a bit of my simming heart. Sometimes you just need a break.
Ok, so there's basically no reason I couldn't be using my huge content dry spell to repost the rest of my ISBI. So I'm friggin' going to do that already. I haven't wanted to play that save until I could post the new content, and then I'm not even advancing it. That's by far my easiest/fastest save to play, and ISBIs are almost always hilarious.
Another thought -- I'm playing along with the Samples legacy, and I think I realize another thing; no more full households. There's so much gameplay that benefits from more concentration than I can provide when trying to track a whole bunch of sims simultaneously. I'm trying to let myself leave the elder generation on autonomy, but it's hard. And soon there will be babies, and o.O.
My plan for my Decades challenge and Riffin free play is to move out sims organically and then play households on rotation. I haven't actually managed to move anyone out in either save, but I'm optimistic about that as a new play style for me.
Notes from recategorizing a bunch of new cc: Tuxedos are not Outerwear.
That is all.
Right now, I'm playing. In fact, I'm playing more than I have in maybe a year? I am also doing some low-key modding, but mostly simple new projects to build skills. I gotta be tender with this burnout or it's never going to go away.
BUT.
Vickie's two eldest kids are now teens. So close to handing off to Gen 8! Imagine if I actually finished this legacy....
And I realize -- holy crap, even with all the cc I've downloaded over the years, my male teen clothing options are really sparse. Males are neglected in cc over all, plus teens are extra-neglected because they're not even a separate mesh in TS4. I think I even have more elder male clothes than teen male.
I've been skimming through finds simbrs looking for male teen, and the picking are really thin. I'd love some links to teen male cc if folks have them.
BTW: I play Maxis Match for clothes, which means I don't use fabric with a lot of ripples and folds because I find they don't animate well.
Ugh. I have always been aware of what a mess the Sims 3 store was, but wow it really is a mess. I think I have downloaded everything and converted to packages for my new computer. I have double-checked a couple of different ways, and I did find stuff that were promotional or achievement rewards that I missed on other passes. I'm still getting an objects replaced notification when I load the Sample save, but at this point I have to conclude that either I cleaned out a cc object or I'm missing some store object so insignificant that I really don't care.
And then when I find something I do need to download, I have to rename my Sims 3 folder because the store does not allow you to download anything without running Sims 3 inside EA App. Then, when I'm done downloading, I have to go into my process manager to kill the two sneaky processes that EA App leaves running when you close it. UGH. I'm not as optimistic as some in the fandom about how Inzoi or Paralives are going to rival Sims, but it would be nice if Paralives at least ends up being fun because an indie software developer is much more likely to be trustworthy about what they try to do on my computer.
It feels good to have converted everything into packages, though, even if it's been a stupid amount of work. Now I can go in and fix the CASP settings for store content myself -- get all the ballgowns out of Everyday and the torn jeans out of Formalwear, turn off Valid for Random on the circus costumes... I basically can spend the rest of my life fiddling with my content config if I want to.
I tried to put my Save Options mod up for testing on MTS, and I think my browser ate the long post I made about what works, doesn't work, and not sure when I tried to upload the mod zip file.
I'm so frustrated I'm going to have to leave and come back later.
dreamwidth is the best post-tumblr option imo
I've had an account on Dreamwidth since the great LJ exodus a hundred years ago. Is there a sims community there? I haven't gone looking for one.
I've been trying to figure out what I would do if tumblr shuts down. I guess my inclination would be to move to simblr.cc. I spend some time there but haven't moved my whole presence there.
I guess I'm happy to go to pillowfort if enough folks would rather do that. I don't have an account or an invite at the moment.
