Hat Plays Sims

Just a quick heads-up:

There IS some kind of Large Early January post bonanza coming. Much content.

Will it land on Epiphany?

I sure hope so. But possibly not.

Reality started kicking my ass right around the middle of August, and my post bonanza will include a state-of-the-Hat vent post about how many ways it has done that, but.

This is just a warning: There WILL be fresh content. It may not be on the sixth, but if fortune smiles it should be before the 10th.

In the meantime, please enjoy a video break!

( Lemme just wheel that AV cart in here... )

The following Hair Dump posts have been updated with imgur pics and Sims File Share links:

1. Hair Dump VIII: Bride of Hair Dump
2. Hair Dump IX: It Came From Beyond Hair Dump Part 1
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Wide Awake, Worth It To Try
3. Hair Dump IX: It Came From Beyond Hair Dump Part 2 (this part kicked my butt. Imgur is a delicate beast if you have more than 50 photos in an album, I guess)
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Playing the Fool
4. Hair Dump IX: It Came From Beyond Hair Dump Part 3
5. Hair Dump IX Part One: The Franchise Reboot
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Get My Best Side
6. Hair Dump IX Part Two: Hair Dump from the Black-And-Blue Lagoon
7. Hair Dump IX Part Three: Nobody Expects the HAT Dump!

Linear time needs to slow the heck down I tell you what.

This is not an exciting post, this is just to say that the following hair dumps have been updated with imgur pictures and Sims File Share links:

1. Hair Dump
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Barbarian, Shorn F
2. Hair Dump... Again
3. Hair Dump Yet Again Part One
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Bath Knot
4. Hair Dump Yet Again Part Two
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Like Straw
5. Hair Dump V: Son of Hair Dump
6. Hair Dump VI: Return of Hair Dump

I am going to try to get the rest done before my Photobucket account resets in June and costs me another... I think it's $25, it's some weird grandfathered-in amount that is simultaneously reasonable and, if you don't have a photobucket embed fix on your browser, a waste of money.

Got a couple of comments that need replying to, in more than a 'thanks for your comment' way, but I will work on those after I have slept something. It's too darn hot here and there are so many links.

Buy Mode Blitz Update!

Because I uploaded during prime time on Thursday, here's a nice little table of contents for everything that went up:

Around The Sims Church End Table in fourteen random 'Hat wants plates onna stick' textures

Veranka's Fire Pit in 12 Sunni Wizard's Tower metals

Tarox Roman II Study in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals woods and 85 Pooklet, CuriousB, and Aelia fabrics

Tarox "Medi" Selections in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem natural woods, 12 Sunni Wizard's Tower metals, 82 wool fabrics, and 8 linen fabrics, variously

Sunni's Wizar'd Tower paid back for the metals with 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem natural wood recolors

Hriveresse's War Exalted Greek Kitchen with extensive fixes by Fractured Moonlight in... look it's a lot of things, wood and stone and metal and crockery

Home is his Castle Redux: 108 Buggy Niche Recolors so many walls you guys

And as ever when I do one of these...

Wanna feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Within a couple days I should have a link for donors to an Exclusive Cat Gallery on Imgur. This, I feel, will work better than trying to send individual pics. Partly because Outlook is having a Disagreement with my browser at the moment and I'm stuck using my phone to access my dang PayPal email.

... Should the cat gallery include cats who have passed? I have so many pics of Harley, but Nellie and Theo are, you know, alive. And currently after my breakfast.

hm.

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.

I have a Sims File Share account now! Going through and adding mirrored (or, uh, corrected) links is on the to-do list, but in case I'm slower at that than you want? I think I uploaded pretty much everything that's still, you know, good.

Hairs
Accessories
Clothes generally coming soon I have surprises so I'm not just linking that whole thing yet
Infant Swaddling
Infants & Toddlers I no longer personally use
Default Replacements
Objects
Secret Santas & Blind Dates & Advents
Makeup
Mods
Build Mode
Heraldic
Resources

Small update to G-Rated Religion, or rather its expansions. Jadesim discovered a problem with University's Streak Dance For interaction, which I didn't notice because I'd tested the InTeen version and missed my missed value-change. Grab this file to properly ban Streak Dance For under Indiscretion, and let it overwrite the original. The full downloads have been updated.

Because Veetie had to drop from this year's Blind Date event (because health; and I honestly am not fussed because I had to drop out of my second Secret Santa ever), I was supposed to end up with a Super Blind Date. However, because my wishlist is patently ridiculous (I know, I know, but my theme is SO SPECIFIC that I like to give people who maybe aren't used to the Middle Ages a lot of options), Shasta instead asked literally everyone who had volunteered as a Super Blind Date if they could make me one little thing, instead of swooping in with a full pinch-hitting.

Everyone said yes, and I'm still kinda gobsmacked about it.

You can find the gifts here.

The last gift I got was from ElfPuddle, who tried very hard to figure out how to default clothing, a new skill for them. ElfPuddle didn't quite make it, but sent me all the bits they'd gathered-- and I do know how to default clothes and hair (I just don't have the time to make literally everything I want for my game, more's the pity). So ElfPuddle sent everything they got done, I did a little bit more and then discovered I don't know how to do defaults with LESS groups than the originals, but maybe somebody else knows what they're doing.

On the other hand... I got some recolors done?


Gown Swatch
Hair Swatch
Hair Turnaround

So what you have above is K8's Fairy Witch gown (2,334 polys, with AF pregmorph and TF & CF conversions by Cynnix) and Trapping's All-Ages AL Witch Hat (1,265 polys, probably requires Apartment Life) in Neder's Neutral Red Mage colors, tweaked by ElfPuddle and tweaked some more by me (I fiddled with a sleeve and some laces and made the stomacher burgundy to help break up the red). I've included what should be an extracted mesh so you can use the witch hat if you don't have Apartment life installed, but I can't check it.

This was intended to be a Matchmaker default replacement, because one of the things I've been doing lately is trying to strip as much Accidental Racism out of my game (and my brain) as I can. Job one is changing my collection of Far East stuff to a collection of Actually Japanese stuff (I'm aiming for Heian Japan but I'm not going to be terrifically picky), but coming in a very close second is clearing out the ethnic-slur-for-Roma stereotypes. (Yes, the title Scarlet Witch was chosen with my tongue so far in my cheek it almost counts as a piercing.)

But we failed at defaulting, Elfpuddle and I, so instead it's just a nice stand-alone gown-and-hat set.

Gowns are available for casual, maternity, outerwear, and formal. Hats come binned my usual way, with a gray for each color because it's easier for downloaders to remove one rather than add one if they want to re-bin (go ahead and re-bin, Shrapnel makes a nice brown and both Safety Fuse and Comburent could pass as blonds, you do you). Not compressorized because I forgot.

DOWNLOAD SCARLET WITCH: On Mediafire | On Sims File Share

And if you think you can fix my default replacements for the Matchmaker, I welcome and encourage you to beat up my files to do so. (Maybe I screwed up starting with the FT version instead of the NL one? But everything says 'grab from the latest EP you have,' so I dunno. I swear I've defaulted this way before, just... with more groups instead of less.)

Hey guess what!



Rugrat0ne did the thing!

So you can now grab Rugs' default of my edit of ElfPuddle's edit of Neder's Red Mage textures on Cynnix's edit of K8's FairyWitch gown and change your Matchmakers from pink-and-orange Halloween costumes to crimson-clad mages of indeterminate morality! Includes a working copy of the extracted AL Witch Hat mesh for non-Apartment-Life users; apparently mine flashes blue because I don't know what I'm doing. Uploaded that one separately just in case you want witch hats in your pre-AL game, but don't want the default. (Makes my other Pooklet'd witch hats work for pre-AL games, too!)

DOWNLOAD RUGRAT0NE'S SCARLET MATCHMAKER DEFAULT: On Mediafire

DOWNLOAD RUGRAT0NE'S WORKING APARTMENT LIFE WITCH HAT MESH: On Mediafire

DOWNLOAD BOTH: On Sims File Share

My Blind Date was GodLimpingBy, and the goodies I made for 'em are up for download!

(Most of the content is going to end up here, either with more of the same or in an altered state, but a) I'm not up to that yet and b) I'm not reposting GLB's private hair dump unless GoS has issues again.)

EDIT 2021: Ye-ah I should really re-code the whole thing and put it here but it's in BBS code instead of HTML so I have to recode the WHOLE thing and I can't just paste in my usual 'on Mediafire | on Sims File Share' thing.

Go HERE to get the files from Sims File Share.