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UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

seeing who is speaking about the EA acquisition and who is just sticking to the script, promoting early access content, etc. sure is… something.

This is why — and take a deep breath because this is my most controversial sims opinion — TS4 should be on a subscription model. 😬 They should have made the shift as soon as they decided to make TS4 a "forever" game. Perhaps back in 2023 when they made base game free to play? If not earlier.

A rainy day in Auckland Based on villas I saw in Ponsonby Auckland no cc #TheSims4 #TheSims @simguruninja.bsky.social

*sharp inhale* 😳💗

I don’t know what this means or why it matters but I feel it in my bones. Brindleton Bay was the template for Gibbi Point in the same way Windenburg was for Nordhaven.

yes, yes, the getaway system… but what about the modular playground system? …are we getting diagonal stairs? probably not. but this setup dares me to hope! 😭

An alternative trailer for the new Sims Expansion has dropped on other socials!

This is a must read! Thanks for sharing @darksimz.bsky.social! It looks like corruption is not due to mods or overly cluttered builds as we've been told but it's more of an inevitable result of world building and playing the game to its full potential with all of its features. This is beyond bad.

99% recycled basegame assets (I think I spy one new palm tree in the still teaser graphic they dropped on discord) when 80% of Aotearoa / New Zealand’s plant life is completely unique to that region sounds about white 🧐

Hot take but if the new world is based on New Zealand, it's probably a bad thing that none of us can tell.

With For Rent, they have 11 issues where they need mod-free saves that are experiencing the issue. If there's anyone that plays vanilla saves* and have these bugs, the community could really use your help. *Can console players share saves? Not sure how that works. forums.ea.com/idea/the-sim...

Because ever since High School Years, we've been getting Game Packs disguised as Expansions but we don't talk about Bruno-no-no-no

I must also say, I've noticed a clear pattern: they always promise to deliver all these fixes and claim they're "listening" and "working" right before they announce a new EP (which according to rumours will happen next week). It's PR. This is seriously the most toxic relationship of my life.

All of the lessons that The Biggest Loser taught—from disordered eating to ruthless self talk—all of that came because we culturally thought it was beneficial & entertaining to abuse fat people. Anti-fat bigotry was the spoonful of sugar that helped the medicine go down. It was a feature, not a bug.

The pack diasabler is giving sims 3 we recommend not playing with every pack enabled vibes.

thaaaats what i was askiiiiing 🫰🏻

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be quiet, my show is on!

Something I've started doing in most of my parks (and also around the world) is to hide long invisible aisles here and there so my couples can walk together like this

free pitch for an actually interesting build/buy kit: The Frunchroom Kit (iykyk), a midwestern living room that might be frozen in time but is nothing short of warm and inviting. Featuring: – Huge overstuffed sectional with fold-out cup holders – Big, boxy flat screen TV that weighs approx. 700lbs

incredible 😩💗

truly can’t think of a better way to sum up how hard EA botched it with “spellcasters” 🥲

will never forgive EA for putting the entire animation budget into a handful of familiars that do absolutely nothing but float around. or for hiding all the magic vibes away in a hidden world with one lot.

“Look, I’m just saying it’s not fair when it comes to sports, it’s a small concession.”

This is so true and so sad. It’s also interesting because when authoritarian regimes are on the rise, similar homogenisation phenomena happen too. Visual and behavioural conformity are encouraged, and anything dissident is punished. It truly has become the dictatorship of the algorithm.

this soothes something in my soul 😮‍💨

a top secret, totally true fact about me: I was cursed by a witch to lose all momentum on any work-in-progress build I post screenshots of 😔

I built a treehouse for an aspiring apothecary using the new #EnchantedByNature pack! Apothecary's Treehouse 🌿🌳 | NoCC EA-ID: simsletoe #TheSims4 #ShowUsYourBuilds

How it started vs How it's going

I completed @ladychaosworlds.bsky.social's #solarpunkchaos shell challenge 🌻💡☀️🌿⚙️✨ I went in with a slightly more futuristic vision but what can I say? Upcycled, retrofitted, repurposed, secondhand is undeniably my happy place! 😅

A good friend of mine was furloughed and will have to go to a food pantry next week. So a reminder: food insecurity is NOT your fault and there is NO shame in going to a food pantry. We all deserve food, and deserve help, without any qualifications.

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

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I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.

Can't believe we didn't get this officially 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/seamle...

I grew up here

i think we're ok with the swings. we appreciate the variety tho INSTEAD, we can get trampolines, slides for kiddos, merry-go-rounds, spring horses etc. cuz its soo boring to see the same animations and items over and over again thank you #TheSims4

Deeply uninterested in hearing about what any AI has to say in response to any question, it’s like getting a parrot’s opinion but not fun because the parrot has the funny high-pitched voice and says things so quickly

RESULT! ReShade being deleted was an unintended effect of other updates and is fixed in the latest version of EA App. Please share far and wide!!

I was asked to start a thread on EA Forums about the current issue with ReShade being deleted with EA App version xxx-6019. Please add your note of support if possible, so it may draw the attention of someone who can help. forums.ea.com/discussions/...

You met a new dateable! #thesims #ts4 #showusyoursims

Here's the tutorial on how I built the toddler pool for my latest Sims 4 community lot, the "Neighbourhood Pool". 🐳 #sims

....is it just me or is the occult form copy button in cas completely borked now too? I can unlink and relink forms and skin tone changes work as expected but facial features simply do not copy over 🥲

if aliens are never getting a skill tree anyway, why not try life as a fae? 🌱

I don’t need another build project, I don’t need another build project, I don’t need another b— …but it’s solarpunnnnk! 🫣

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Please call your House reps if you're in the US and either ask them to have mercy & vote no or encourage them for already voting no. Me and millions of elderly & disabled people are gonna lose our home care if this passes. This is cost-saving care as it keeps us out of assisted living/nursing homes