Hat Plays Sims

The following posts have been updated with Imgur and Sims File Share links:

Promises Kept Mostly-Chinese East Asian hairs
Smoke Bomb (a photoshop action)
Accessory Dump! (what it says on the tin)
On The Sixth Day (CAS & YCAS default replacements)
Never Work with Children or Animals (2016 Blind Date for Veetie)
Scarlet Witch and Mini Super Blind Dates 2016 (Neder's Red Mage squished onto K8's Fairywitch gown and AL witch hat as Matchmaker Default, plus so many beautiful gifts)
G-Rated Religion (Chris Hatch's Medium Religion with non-romantic princples by Larky and text (so much text) by Hat)
G-Rated Religion: Expansions & Side Mods (even more actions to ban or allow, piecemeal!)
Le Chausseur, la quatrième partie (Shirts, braises, & bindings with 82 colors of chausses for child through elder, Maxis male, Androgyny everybody, and Runner Guy)
Clean Underwear (Linen scanties for menfolk & androgynous ladies)
Luttrell Aprons and Pull-On Kirtles (Bottom-only peasant wear for CF-YAEF inspired by the Luttrell Psalter)
Rogues' Gallery (82 CM-YAEM recolors of FantasyRogue's top-only tunics and bottom-only chausses with poulaines)
The Mermaid (Blind Date 2014 gift for Lace)
ATS Beach House in Piggi Woods (For The Big Trade Off)
And Dagger (Cynnix Draped Cloak, with and without hoods)
Seven Signs of Aging (three Slig and four SkyGuy15 aging masks as full-face makeups)
Blind Date 2015 for GodLimpingBy (faked faked badly faked I just linked to the SFS folder)


And this, I think, catches me up with 'all my downloads what are not Hair Dumps.' Which is very exciting but let me once again note for a number of helpful anons:

I AM NOT RE-UPLOADING MISSING HAIRS TO MEDIAFIRE AT THIS TIME.

If you spot a missing hair in a hair dump you want to download, please check my Sims File Share Dread Hair Folder. If you have already looked in that folder and just want to let me know Mediafire has done a thing, thank you, that's fine. If you can't find the hair in the SFS folder, PLEASE let me know, I uploaded them all at once and sometimes SFS's X marks for did-not-upload look a lot like their check marks for uploaded-fine and I may have missed some on the hairs.

The hair dumps are going to be miserable to re-code and I am not looking forward to doing it. Or finding all the images and re-uploading them. Please bear with me as I put that one off as long as possible, possibly after I fix my own picspam posts AND my doll blog images. (I will not cancel my photobucket subscription until I have it all fixed; get a Photobucket Embed Fix extension for your browser or take heart that I keep the swatches in the downloads.)

I promised news, though, right?

The news is, MY DESKTOP IS UP AND RUNNING AGAIN!

( Boring computer stuff )

So!

What have I missed?

But let's start with something I want to get out of the way that serves as an introduction: There is an extremely well-meaning anon going through my hair dump posts and telling me which years-old links are incorrect. Thank you! But I am going to imgur-and-SFS-ify hair dumps all in a few goes (do I HAVE all those images, yes I do! Are they saved neatly in a way that lets me upload them by dump? No. No they are not, they are stored in the pre-zipping-up folders, so I have to go through them all one by one). I want to fix images and links at the same time, so... yeah. Hairs are LAST on the to-do list.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SPECIFIC HAIR AND THE LINK IS BROKEN OR INCORRECT, TRY THIS LINK RIGHT HERE.

Ordinarily it's very helpful to be told that links are missing or broken, but. I have a plan and I'll get there when I get there.

If you're searching for something else, please visit this post, which has links to most of my Sims File Share folders, you should be able to find... most of what I've ever made, really.

In terms of actually adding SFS links and un-Photobucketing my images (though I do urge everybody who can to download Firefox, the only browser that doesn't sell your information, and also grab a Photobucket Embed Fix), the following posts have been updated:

Cleanliness is Next To Godliness & How Does Your Garden Grow cleaning and gardening defaults
She Works Hard For The Money business and money defaults
A Road For All Seasons Stev84 alpha edit
Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden Multiple Ideal Plantsim mod
What You Wish For Invisible Shrine of Odd Blessings recolors (I consider this outdated)
Beyond The Sea vacationing defaults
Le Chausseur partie une (my OLD chausses, I consider these outdated)
Make Like A Tree assorted default & non-default plantsim hairs
Pomp And Circumstance collegiate defaults
Service is Its Own Reward Androgynous Servo Defaults
Paying Court dining out and dating defaults
Idle Hands Hobby Defaults
A World Lit By Fire Gunmod Radience Tweaks
It's The Proportion Gestation-Based Aging
Sign of the Plumb-Bob NichelleRJ necklaces
Counting-House non-depreciating coins
Du Lac Cotehardies & Tunics for Maxis TF, TM, YAEF, and YAEM
Never Enough Thatch BV thatched roof recolors
Through A Glass Darkly MLC window film recolors
Hangerock Simple Viking Apron Dresses (also outdated, but... not yet replaced)
Invoking the Spirit Bonehilda recolors, defaults, and AL-witch-style Fairywitch gowns
Le Chausseur, Partie Deux which I consider outdated

And now, where am I in terms of my desktop and all its lovely lovely files?

Uh, good news and bad news. Cut for length? ( Cut for length. And for vague description of minor hand injury. )

Long story short, I have done myself a Harm. Expect more delays. *makes faces*

I have a couple of PayPal donors who deserve replies and cat pics, and I will get on that shortly, I hope.

Well.

That's been a whole minute, hasn't it?

I'll save the State of the Hat for behind a cut at the end, people are allowed to not-care about me personally, but, y'know. I'm not dead! I logged into Mediafire! How about that horse! Apparently there are people out there trying to use Mediafire without Firefox (and thus, uBlock Origin, Noscript, and a Photobucket embed fix) because I hear people can't see my images!

I got an imgur account and a Sims File Share account. Replacing old images and adding mirror links is gonna be an ongoing project.

But you should be able to see all these!

1. Splish Splash: Mermaid (Mostly) Separates
2. Hair Dump XIV: A Hair Dump Story (ladies)
3. Hair Dump XIV: A Hair Dump Story (gents)
4. Cross-Pollination 2: Skellified!
5. Buy Mode Blitz: SDA Castle Kitchen
6. Buy Mode Blitz: SDA Castle Bathroom
7. Buy Mode Blitz: Atavera Conga Drums
8. Buy Mode Blitz: Chris Hatch Functional Baby Clothes Rack
9. Buy Mode Blitz: Crocoabura's Dark Project Money Chest
10. Buy Mode Blitz: Toolregame/GRAT's Social Welfare Table
11. Buy Mode Blitz: Heget's Karaoke in Kamelot
12. Buy Mode Blitz: Hysterical Paroxysm's Primitive Scroll Phone
13. Buy Mode Blitz: Basegame Exerto Punching Bag and Honeywell Hanging Bag
14. Buy Mode Blitz: TOYS

This may leave you with the confusing question, "What is Buy Mode Blitz?"

Buy Mode Blitz is a project I've been working on since... 2015? Though I was mostly organizing it then. Anyway. I don't know about you, but my game is full of great meshes that:

a) I use all the time, regardless of how many recolor options there are
b) I love but never use because they lack recolor options
c) I want to like the mesh but all the recolor options are, in some way, not to my taste
and/or
d) I love but never use because their only recolor options are boring or out-of-period

Buy Mode Blitz is me rolling up my sleeves and going "Well then let's fucking fix that."

Maybe I only intend to give a thing one recolor, maybe only three, maybe twenty, 32, 40, 60, 82, 174, the number varies wildly depending on what, exactly, the thing that needs recoloring is. The only thing required for an object or set to get chucked in Buy Mode Blitz is that I am Not Satisfied with the state of its recolors.

And I have such a backlog.

What am I going to do with such a backlog? ( Follow me, we're entering the realm of cut texts now. )

For those of you interested, ( State of the Hat! )

Do I still want donations and tips?

You bet your sweet bippy I do.

I'm trying to think of something I can do for donors? EDIT: I'm trying to think of something I can do for donors specifically because I acknowledge that I am not always capable of getting requests and commissions done in a timely fashion, so I'm not taking them anymore. So I'm looking for useful feedback there. I keep thinking things like... specific dollar amount and you can see my to-do list, or vote on the next post from a list of options, or bribe me to get the thing you know I've got done posted...

I dunno. Not commissions and not pay content, but I am open to a bribe.

Also.

Anybody want to help me test a chemistry mod?

If you collect, customize, or know anyone who collects or customizes Tonner dolls, I have twenty auctions ending in about five hours (7pm Pacific). If you collect, customize, or know anyone who collects or customizes Monster High dolls, I have eighty listings that should go live in about three hours (starting around 5pm Pacific) and close next Sunday.

If you're only interested in pixel-based dolls, my apologies. This is the blog with the audience, I'm just hoping some of you have some crossover interests with mine.

So I have this massive (forty-three pages in 10-point font) document I use to plan out things like class restrictions and cheats allowed and what trees I can put in which neighborhoods and the bones of a criminal justice system and... basically it's my worldbuilding cheat sheet.

After talking about the G-Rated Religion Mod with Morgaine, I said to myself, "Man, my Religion section sure is... thin. What can I do to get more information in there? Religion and culture inform each other."

So I rummaged around for some writing guides (for both fantasy writing and gaming writing; the gaming guides were more useful) about making up religions. And I built myself a questionnaire.

Because Veetie wanted to see the questionnaire, I cleaned it up, made the language as neutral as I could (hopefully they'll help as much for Medieval Fantasy religions as High Fantasy or Contemporary Alternate Universe), and crammed it behind the cut at the end of this paragraph. This isn't a Mary Sue Litmus Test, feel free to skip any questions that don't apply to your particular playable Religion-- but you might want to give them all a read-through anyway. Most of the questions are aimed at fleshing out a made-up religion, but there's a bit at the end about real-world people and the implications a fictional religion can make, by accident or by design. Also, I'm not a religious studies expert, I'm just a nerd who reads a lot and knows when something feels fake or under-done, and like a lot of people I'm constantly learning what's actually accidentally gross (or accidentally-on-purpose gross. I was in the Aladdin fandom in early 2002, you would not believe some people's nonsense). ( On to the questionnaire-- this is not short. )

I got my desktop reassembled!

Couple of minor hiccups with things like having to go into BIOS and change a setting I did not and still kinda don't understand so Vista installation would finish, six years worth of Windows updates having to install at once, and so many drivers, but I'm up and running and a good chunk of tomorrow will be spent installing Sims 2 and possibly SC4. ... And all my Sims-related programs. I honestly might have more programs for Sims management and customization than I do for anything else I do on the computer. SimPE and a mess of plugins, Wardrobe Wrangler, Compressorizer, HomeCrafter, Hack Conflict Detection Utility, Delphy's Download Organizer, Clean Installer, Collection Creator, NPC Replacer, and I keep thinking I should get the Lot Resizer. Shoot, a bunch of my non-Sims programs, I got for Sims-related purposes (Irfanview, Bulk Rename Utility, Audacity, frickin' Photoshop).

I am so, so ready to be able to make things properly again. Full-sized keyboard, enormous monitor (the laptop is kinda letterboxed, so I can see a lot from side-to-side but I scroll a lot), comfy sitting arrangement, all the RAM, and I know all the old mistakes I made and I'm totally ready to never make those again and instead make all new mistakes.

And after a basically-five-month enforced hiatus from Serious Sims Creation, I bring lessons you can learn from my misfortune! ( Cut for Learning Experiences. )

I feel like I've got more of my life in order than usual, it's nice.

(Also we got a kitten, because there was a cat-shaped gap in the household and it's been years since we've had a kitten. Her name is Penelope and I could babble about her, but this week her most fantastic feat has been jumping five feet straight up into the air to climb onto my computer armoire. We've had cats for as long as I can remember-- sometimes a lot of cats, I'm thirty-six and the late 80s and early 90s saw a lot of unfixed kitties at my house-- and I have never lived with one as dedicated to 'find the highest point of all the things' as Penelope.)

Computer: Thanks to generous donors, I have a new hard drive AND two more gigs of RAM! I'm waiting on an anti-static wristband to arrive from overseas (our local Radio Shack closed and apparently when you need computer-fixin' gear these days, you do not go to Best Buy. You go to Best Buy when you need a phone or a tablet or a dishwasher), and then it'll be time to put the whole thing together and reinstall all my everything.

Cat: According to my sister I've been thinking of Harley as being like two years older than she is. Evidently she's pushing fourteen, not pushing sixteen. Either way, she's definitely a senior citizen somewhere in the human-equivalent of her eighties, which makes her recent health dip kind of scary. ( Cut if you don't want to read about old-lady cat health. )So depending on when the wrist strap arrives, I may still be focused on Harley for a while even after reassembling the desktop. (And yes, if you still want to support Harley financially, donations are welcome.)

Sims: Ye-ah, pretty much nothing. I've made a CAS and a YACAS-- well, I say 'made,' it's actually 'refined and fixed,' but the laptop still isn't a proper gaming computer, and taking screenshots is a pain in the ass on this keyboard. If it turns out anyone is interested in refined versions of the custom CAS screens seen here (with the orange tapestries), I'd be happy to upload them.

I do have, for those of you who enjoy Medieval research as much as I do, a delightful if slightly profane post on the nature of Chivalry, which is not so much about treating women like incapable ninnies (thanks, Victorians) but more a system of checking your knight privilege, and this equally delightful/profane post on courtly love, which is basically a reverse-friendzone where the goal is to be as nice as possible to a married lady with the expectation she will never deem you worthy of joining her in adultery.

(The author leaves out one of my favorite aspects of courtly love, which is that it helped encourage knights to bathe regularly. Vanity is sinful, after all, and it's easy, after a hard day's knighting, to just sort of skip all that pesky grooming on the grounds that it's totally virtuous to get so greasy that candles flare when you walk by, honest. Vanity being sinful, however, doesn't miraculously change the fact that other people can smell you, and that you don't deserve to be in the same room as Lady Hotness if you smell like you sleep on a mattress stuffed with onions that the cat regularly pees on. Getting all spruced up to impress Lady Hotness means that Sir Loin of Beef is doing his part to make the Great Hall smell like a smoky, pet-friendly bar-and-grill and not a smoky, pet-friendly locker room.)

I've also got this newsletter debunking the whole 'women never worked outside the home in the Middle Ages' thing, and providing lists of guilds that women could and did belong to.

Hard drive itself: Still failing.

But today I pulled on my big-Simmer pants and fired up the desktop to go grab the last of the files I forgot, which went swimmingly (albeit with a few "OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK EVERYTHING UP AND SHUT DOWN" warnings from the computer). Grabbed the screenshots I was missing but had resigned myself to losing forever, the one writing project that lost a scene in the shuffle, one set of clothing recolors that got missed in the original upload, a surprising number of fonts, and a few random files that were sitting around, all un-backed-up. ... Then I spent the rest of the day organizing my passport drive. (If you are in a position to afford one, get yourself a passport drive and back up to it regularly.) I've got enough unreleased content (if not screenshots, yet) for a smallish Hair-And-Beard dump, and due to my reduced computing circumstances, I'm now looking for testers for:

A) G-Rated Chris Hatch Religion by Hat and Larky (requires Apartment Life or M&G)...
and
B) the ACR V2 Final version of my aging mod.

I'm also looking for a BHAViorist to tie some prayable objects into said Religion Mod and/or combine interactions of a couple of custom wedding arches, but that's less 'content I want to make/release' than it is 'content I want to play with.'

But I've still got goodies for you.

1. Clean Underwear!
2. Le Chausseur 4!
3. Rogue's Gallery Separates!
4. Hair Dump XIII!

Sorry I missed my annual last-possible-day-for-Christmas-gifts day... but I didn't miss it by much, at least?

Simming has taken a back seat to reality for a few months; I'd like to thank everyone who donated back in October and November while my cat was so sick. It took a massive load off my mind, and I'm deeply grateful. ( For those who are interested, an update! ) Short version is, Harley is doing really well.

And now that she's out of the woods and holiday guests are back in their own homes, I'm free to let the housework slide and play Sims... oh, until about the end of the month. My sister's having a baby, and Weird Auntie Hat accepts her role as babysitter.

Oh, also, I'm aware there may be problems with some of my older hairs. I submitted a counter-claim to Mediafire today; this time it's someone claiming to be from Funimation rather than CBS who suspects I've got episodes buried in my pixel-hair.

Working my way back into Sims (been swallowed by fandom, travel, and family) by building the nerdiest Sims in existence.

Just told the current one, "Quickstrike, stop being hot!"

I know this post makes no sense, and I apologize.