Picspam: Further Adventures of Horrible People

[hat_plays_sims]

I keep taking and cropping pics to entertain one of my long-term partners-in-crime, and I'm bored and procrastinating taking the garbage out, so I must clearly post tons of pictures of Sims being Sims with occasional goofy captions. Beware for occasional nudity with strategically placed... all kinds of things.

Adventures In...


Bathing! I've got a 'sponge bath on every sink' mod from somewhere, and Sims totally do not care about privacy if you put one of those floor dividers up. Blocks crying babies, blasting stereos, woohooing couples, and bathing pirate captains.

The lump in the bed is Blackmist.


Snuggling! None of them are very nice but gosh they're cuddly.


See? Cuddly.


Nudity! Bounce suspects she's made a horrible mistake.


But you know, whatever, mistakes are fun.


Adventures in Gainful Employment! Echo's on in a horse.


Meanwhile, Blackmist plays chess in his pajamas while weirdos stroll by outside.


Meanwhile, Echo plays chess with her first mate while Farflight wanders around naked as a jay-bird and sporting an early-morning greeting that I assure you is standing at full attention behind that chessboard. (Echo finds him distracting. Or possibly chess is just hard.) (2021 bonus: Will imgur let me keep this up?)


Bounce got a toy! She decides to play with it in risky locations, making me wonder if it's actually possible for Sims to drop their handheld games in the toilet. I mean, I don't THINK so, but you never know your luck. Or your Sims' propensity for disaster.


As with any Sim household, the bathroom is one of the more eventful rooms in the house. Here, Echo attacks-- uh, I mean, fixes the bathtub. Totally just fixing. She's not actually murdering the bathtub.

Would if she could, I'm sure.


Bounce passes out into her soup. Nobody pays her any mind.


Farflight follows suit. Probably nothing to worry about.


Echo finally enjoys a quiet dinner?


After a round of 'wake up and go to bed,' Blackmist got lost on the way to his own damn bed. (Okay, okay, I just woke them up and let them stop eating. Frequently they're on their own as to where they decide to sleep. Autonomy amuses me. Echo and Farflight usually take the blue bed in the bedroom, while Bounce and Blackmist take the green bed floor-bordered off in the great room.)


Luckily, everybody's friendly enough that nobody cares where they sleep anymore.


I swear to god this was not their fault. Lightning struck their trash can! Barrel! Thingy!


They're all Fortune Sims. Farflight rolled a want to buy a pricey painting. ... Obviously I need more expensive wallhangings, because this was the only one above the want-target pricetag that wasn't LUDICROUSLY over the want-target price tag.


Echo-- honey-- I know it's raining and that's fascinating, but... maybe find a different window, sweetie? Because ow. (Of course she's thinking about woohoo. If I leave them alone for five minutes, that's all they do.)


That awkward moment when you make Sims of your OCs (and other people's OCs), throw them in a house together, engage ACR, try to keep their wants up by sending them on a date, and they roll wants that are so hilariously out-of-character that you're torn between 'hahaha what no' and '... that would be so funny.' (Totally normal for Sims, but Echo has lived in my head for like a decade now, and she spent most of that time married to her work.)


... You're not relaxing, Blackmist. I don't know what you're doing, but you're not relaxing.


I like to call this one "Do not speak Latin in front of the books."


Of course, if I'm honest, it's 'do not attempt to get your second mechanical point by repairing a computer.' It's hard to tell if Farflight is freaking out or trying not to laugh.


Because Echo with a wrench isn't scary enough, Farflight helps her with body skill.


Here's a crappy yet adorable picture of Echo's new hair! She finally looks like herself. (That hair in standard Pooklet colors will be in the next dump. If anybody wants it in Echo's new shade, let me know.)


Okay, so, I SUPER-WISELY decided as well as letting Risky Woohoo happen, I needed to let ACR allow unmarried Try For Baby. Because THAT'S JUST THE SORT OF PEOPLE ECHO AND FARFLIGHT ARE, they immediately had to try it out. IMMEDIATELY. No chimes, thank Primus, but I went into CAS to see what Echo/Farflight kidlets might look like, anyway.



In conclusion, Echo's worst feature on a boy is the pre-broken nose, while Farflight's worst one on a girl is the narrow chin of doom. Also I have some really, really pasty skins townie-enabled. Fingers crossed for Echo's lips and chin and Farflight's nose, should they ever break my brain by actually breeding.


Echo is not fond of Farflight's stupid golden disk. It haunts her dreams.


And then Echo made friends with Briary just absolutely terrifyingly fast. She walked by as Echo got home from work and I said 'what the hell, let's greet her,' and before I know it, there are going to be redheads taking over the testerhood.


Bounce attempts to make semolina. It goes poorly. ... Bounce totally handled it well, though. (Echo's got all the cooking points because she kept rolling wants for them. Blackmist will sometimes cook autonomously before I can stop him, but 90% of the time, it's something like fruit salad or cucumber soup-- no cooking, just chopping. Farflight stands in front of the fridge and stuffs his face.)


Farflight was once a soldier, and then a castaway, and then a mercenary. And here he is, at the ballet bar Bounce begged me to buy for her (IE, she rolled wants for it), totally autonomously. At least the skull-stereo is fearsome, right?

Comments

[hat_plays_sims]

Sims 2 Store Long in Front needs toddler, child, and teen, and HIM666 SAU MYOS 14 FtM needs teen (I can steel toddler and child from the female version). Because I want to do Trapping's all-ages wizard hats, but it's no fun without a hat-free hair to go with it, and there's JUST the teen age missing from MYOS 14, which is frustrating.

'Adorable braided pigtails' sounds like something that might get some attention on GoS, though-- it's totally worth a post in wishing tree to beg for a conversion. From something or other.

[isbrealiomcaife]

Well....the mesh exists for Sims 2, but it's Newsea Top Stuff (donate this month (it was February...) or...I think three months?), so nobody has fileshared it. It's available P-E for Sims 3, but why would anyone do a 3t2 if it's available for Sims 2, just not fileshared?

And I never get any help if I put a request in WishingTree, no matter how simple the item is or how specific my request is. "Swap the feet and add a fatmorph" is supposedly an easy request, but no responses...

[hat_plays_sims]

Because the Sims 2 version doesn't have all ages, because they're looking for things to practice their 3t2 skills on? You might also have more luck waiting for the TS2 version to get shared and then asking for age conversions.

I think part of that issue with the Wishing Tree (my requests have been hit or miss, too) is that as well as presenting something doable, you've got to present something interesting to your average GoSling. Sometimes that's as easy as explaining what you want, sometimes your post practically needs to be ad copy.

[isbrealiomcaife]

I really don't think anyone is going to actually share Weed Flower for TS2 any time soon. Newsea hairs used to get shared pretty quickly, and most things other than TopStuff still do, but the TopStuff ones seem not to be shared at all.

I don't think "add morphs to and swap feet on this mesh that everybody on this site was using two years ago" is an obscure request or one that would take a competent mesher more than ten minutes...but I guess everyone at GoS converted to Maxis-Match. (I can't do it. All I think of when I see MM-skins is "orange people," and I think about giving up Pookleted hairdumps, and...no. Just no.)

By the way, if I ever manage to figure out meshing, your gloves are high on the list. I need a pair that will go under a meshed sleeve for unisex T-E, so making a v2 with a cuff isn't too far off. I just have to figure out meshing...

[hat_plays_sims]

That's so weird. Granted, I hardly use Newsea hairs anymore-- Newsea's one of the top culprits for 'this hair has several thousand more polys than it actually needs' and my computer is not as shiny as Alfi's new beast--but you'd think things'd still get converted.

And no, it's not obscure, but it might be one that needed to be talked up a bit because it's so simple-- that's what I mean about the ad copy. Did you mention needing it for your Blind Date? Plus GoS, while still really active for a Sims 2 site, isn't nearly as active as it used to be. One thing I've been considering is the Big Trade-Off over on LJ-- I'm involved in one trade, but I've been thinking I should start one of my own, and hopefully get a few more of the meshes I need/want to keep fleshing things out.

I wish I could help you with meshing! I know if I ever learn to mesh, I'll never get anything done because I'll be too busy fiddling with things. On the other hand, Cynnix has said she'd rather make all the meshes than any of the retextures, so there's that.

[isbrealiomcaife]

The reason that newer Newsea hairs are so bad is that Newsea really creates for TS3 these days, not TS2. (It's also the reason that all of their TS3 hairs are all-ages and nearly all of their newer TS2 hairs are limited.) The best chance a Newsea hair has of being converted 3t2 and All Aages is Trapping.

I don't think I could have mentioned that I needed it for Blind Date without completely giving away exactly what I was making. Maybe, one of these days, it will get fixed. I don't use LJ, so TBTO is out for me.

Also...I'm finally ready to past the non-defaults, so of course GoS won't load for me.

[hat_plays_sims]

I hear that on giving the game away. When I was trying to get my toybox toys fixed for the egg hunt last year, I basically threw every single unfinished project that had slipped beyond my skills into one Igor's Unlimited thread and said that one of them was for my Egg Hunt project but I wasn't saying which. And likewise hear you on not using LJ. My Sims LJ is basically a husk I use for watching, downloading, and stuffing things I download into memories... but TBTO finally got me because somebody said they like doing child conversions and I said I WILL RECOLOR THINGS MAKE ME TUNICS PLS.

GoS is a little twitchy lately. Better twitchy than trying to fine Liegen a thousand bucks, though. Still-- eeee faces!

[isbrealiomcaife]

At the rate things are going, you'll get them here before GoS. This is the longest I've seen GoS out since the major crash. They're going in one massive dump here, but it's going to require seven cut tags. They will be up tonight, as long as either GoS or DW is up and my power stays on. (ice storm) I'm currently sorting pictures into sensible groupings. You'll also get to see the Simming community's longest disclaimer.

[hat_plays_sims]

GoS is down for me, too, so it may just be a thing. Fingers crossed that it's not a serious thing. Good luck with your groupings and your coding!

[isbrealiomcaife]

They're up! With 7 cuts, a long disclaimer, and a threat to take this toy and go home if people are going to be stupid.

[winterinverona]

Sorry to nose into the conversation, but if you're still looking for Weed Flower for TS2 all ages, it's up at MyBSims. The site is Spanish language and you have to register to download, but it's worth it if you want Newsea hairs. There's rarely a NS that doesn't get an all-ages version posted there, and there's other TS3-TS2/all ages conversions floating around there, too. (The retexturing is not always my favorite, to be honest, but if you want the mesh, its there.)

[isbrealiomcaife]

Thanks so much. I wanted to use it for my Blind Date, but it didn't turn up in a search. (I searched "Newsea Weed Flower" and "Newsea WeedFlower.") I'll be retexturing that for personal use. (The binning there usually doesn't suit my game, and I like softer textures, personally.)