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Managed to drag myself out of my bed, so have some replies (sorry if I miss some).

Cyd Roseland, ladies and gentlemen

lilibethsonar said: Lol oh no! 😂

holleyberry said: D:

didilysims said: Classic Cyd.

Classic Cyd indeed. That guy is… I love him.

Dustin gets fired

holleyberry said: It’s for the best, Dustin.

Yup.

Old neighbourhood

alienpod said: *__*

didilysims said: That’s cool! I love finding old stuff like that. I’m impressed at how many houses you managed to fit so close together. It looks like a thriving neighbourhood! Though the lack of plumbbobs is conspicuous… 😛

That’s just my mod, though! I would guess that about 2/3 of the residential houses are inhabited. And it was a thriving neighbourhood. I played it a lot!

Don getting cold feet

holleyberry said: Damn it, Don.

But isn’t that how we know ~~and love~~ him? (Kidding.)

Sad Cass

primaverasims said: oh Cass 😥

Confession: I’m a mean Simmer and locked her fear. But seeing how hard she took it almost broke my heart.

PSA

meetmetotheriver said: Hope you feel better soon!

twofee said: ouch! heal well and feel better!

Thank you for your well-wishes. Somehow managed to catch a nasty cold on top of it, but I’m slowly getting there.

Brandi and Darren

randozaz said: I liked the images of them both are loving.

They are an adorable couple! Three-bolters, even.

Grandma’s comfort soup

meetmetotheriver said: Yep.

Ah! The pop-up you get when your Sim eats a soup confused me a bit. Thanks for clearing it up!

Daniel gets caught

randozaz said: Daniel is all Casanova ok no

Funny thing: he’s a very conflicted Sim in my game. He loves his wife (and continuously rolls wants about her), but also rolls “typical” Romance Sim wants.

Family life

randozaz said: Hey in my game, Lilith plays the guitar.

Hah! Now we only have to find a Lilith that plays the drums and we have a band!

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The internet died! And then it came back again after I completely reset everything. This is getting ridiculous…

(Naming traditions in 15/16th c Germany)

eulaliasims said: Oh, so neat! Those remind me a bit of some Puritan names, albeit less wordy. It’s interesting to see how names change in response to cultural shifts. And Ludgera is kind of absurd, but also sounds strangely charming for some reason?

Yes, they are similar in idea. It does sound kind of absurd, but I’ve heard worse (somewhat unrelated, but have you ever had “Jason” screamed at you in a heavy Southern German accent? Now THAT’S the stuff of nightmares (’Tschäisooon’)). It is still used, but very rarely. I believe it might be more popular as a religious name for nuns (the holy Liudger is pretty popular in my region).

To cull or not to cull. That is the question

davidmont said: I think so yes! LOL that’d be easier but not. You might feel better cleaning. Because if you don’t do it and start over then you might download one of these again. And at the end you’d not do anything.

holleyberry said: I agree you should delete these instead of starting over.

I’m still torn. I deleted roughly 320 hairstyles from my folder, which brings it down to 240 (yes, I’m THAT determined). But on the other hand, there’s currently a completely NEW folder sitting on my hard drive in which I downloaded only the “essentials”, replaced all my leftover V1 Poppet hairstyles with V2 ones and, in the process, threw keoni-chans default replacements into the mix in order to a) fill in the gaps (missing V2 versions, hairstyles I couldn’t find) and b) to bring down the size of my folder (I’m not sure how I feel about that, as I actually like to use the Maxis hairs at times (for example, to emphasise the makeovers as I did in Strangetown)). Sigh, this is a hard decision.

alienpod said: i wish i had your discipline D:

I spent 2 hours in front of the PC before I screamed “Screw it!” about halfway to the male hair section (about ¼ of the female hair section) and closed the game… so, yeah. I’m close to insanity.

Anyway, I think I’ll spend the evening (well night), combing through my “Old Hair” folder and replacing all the V1 hairstyles with V2 ones. That’s probably a compromise I’d be able to live with.

Reply time!

didilysims said: DV is hard to get into! There isn’t much drama to grab you, and hoo boy is the architecture something else… Natasha and John are definitely the outstanding characters, but everyone else is a bit too…happy. 😛 You definitely have to create your own drama with that ‘hood.

didilysims said: Also, to add to the recommendations list, inferi-sims.tumblr.com was another one who posted great makeovers and such of DV. Sadly Photobucket has killed all the pictures on her LJ, but there are still a lot on tumblr. (And thanks for the nostalgia-triggering mention. c: )

Oh yes, that’s true. I think when you’re thinking about Desiderata Valley, you first think of Natasha and John before anyone else. They are just unique. How could I forget inferi-sims! They were part of the reason I got a tumblr (so I could follow all the storytellers!)!

holleyberry said: I also miss @gonewodwo 😦

Yes! Her story was so great and pretty unique! (I love that word today.)

didilysims said: Pescado’s abortbedmaking fixes that. There’s also this one:modthesims.info/d/50351… (because I couldn’t find the MATY link. 😛 )

Ah, thank you! I always thought I had a mod that curbed that behaviour, but… apparently not?

didilysims said: If this is what I think it is, I’m stoked!

didilysims said: Ookay, no apocalypse…this time. >.>

Nope! Not… yet. I just needed a reason to close down all the businesses. And that was the first thing I could think of.

didilysims said: Looks good! Very museum-y.

Thank you! I was pretty proud of how it turned out. Could put my “How to make a good museum showcase” knowledge from my two-week internship at a museum in high school to good use.

didilysims said: Do they still swoon when he and his dreamy face start picking fights with them? Joe Carr has always been the biggest jerk in my experience. (But also a fine looking jerk…)

Fun fact! Joe has never started a fight in my game (on his own… you’ll see.). Middleground’s resident asshole is Komei. He has beaten up/shoved a bunch of Sims.

the1975sim said: On the edge of my seat to find out what his reaction will be!

Well, sorry to disappoint you(?) XD

alienpod said: .____.

Me too. It was basically a 50/50 chance whether he’d say yes or no. I kind of hoped for ‘yes’ because happy family life, but alas. More drama, I guess?