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Gosh, I’ve been busy! Sorry, guys!

Rodeburg houses

salamisimmer said: Thank you for this!!

hexagonal-bipyramid said: Thank you for putting your time to build these lots! They are adorable!

You’re welcome! *blushes*

moocha-muses said: Rundown castle turned nightclub? How did I never know how much I wanted that?

If you come to think about it, it’s only a natural progression… XD

Rodeburg Sims

didilysims said: Those *are* impressive cheekbones.

Right, huh? I just pushed those sliders ALL the way!

Athene the dog

davidmont said: Cute

Right?

didilysims said: How dare you spell a name in your own language. 😛 I’ve seen it spelled that way in at least 2 English-written Greek mythology books.

Ha! Yeah, it’s not that clear. I think it depends on how it’s translated from Greek. But “Athena” tends to be more common in English, while “Athene” is more popular in German. Probably due to linguistical differences (”Athene” just works better with how German words flow…)

Hera dies

didilysims said: Aw. 😦

I knew it would happen and still missed it!!!

Tutoring Sims in college

taylors-simblr said: I think it’s an option as soon as your sim is in the year above another sim. I haven’t played uni in years though so dont take my word for it

Ah, good to know! I usually only play with playables, so I never notived this (or had enough homework lying around…)

Pet ghosts

didilysims said: Hee hee, she’s kind of cute in that picture! But every other time, yes, pet ghosts are terrifying.

They are nightmare fuel… (Good to know I’m not the only one who gets weirded out by them!)

Andrea’s chance cards, part XY (seriously, she had quite a lot already!)

holleyberry said: Kaching!×10

I’m a doofus, part 2- Jan edition

javapixels said: I hate when I do that! At least she lived! 😀

It usually never happens to me! I’m just very overworked lately! XD (Thank god she lived! That would have been the worst!)

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On Timothy’s dad (a reply-reply-reply)

didilysims said: You think you’re bad at gene analysis? Ha ha, I don’t even bother trying. 😛 So yeah, I was just thinking of him as Remington’s son, mostly because Remy’s been around for so long and Joe has not. As soon as you mentioned it, though, I remembered. I even went back and looked at a few of the earlier posts, which was fun, so I probably will reread the whole thing sometime soon. I always appreciate “at-a-glance” posts, though, with brief synopses and family trees, etc. 🙂

XD. Well, Remington was always there while Joe… was not, so I don’t blame you. Remington definitely IS Timothy’s dad. Joe’s ‘just’ his father.

Yeah, I really want to do this one day… but probably not until summer, when I’m done with college (I’m wrapping things up, which means I have to do two oral exams, two long term papers and my thesis… which is quite a lot, I must admit- that’s why I stocked up my queue with 300 posts. Not sure how much I’ll be around in June/July.)

eulaliasims said: Family sim seems like it really suits her!

Yup, she’s going to make a fantastic family Sim.

Replies (sloppy ones)

didilysims said: A lot of my n-hood deco I just fiddle with and add to what’s already there, or copy from other templates. I have a really tough time starting from scratch. My main ‘hood is the Grizzly Hills template, for example, and I copied most of the tree and rock placement from Nepheris’s sample pictures. Other sub-hoods are either pre-decorated Maxis or custom terrains. If it’s a blank template I just stare equally blankly at the screen. 😛

I don’t even have the patience to copy neighbourhood deco placement from pictures (I especially hate placing individual trees). Decorating is just sooo hard (especially when you feel like you have to. All the little touch-ups I’ve done in Middleground only got done because I didn’t feel like I had to…)

didilysims said: Just saying thanks, Dad, for passing on your great genes.

Yeah, but he’s actually more Christy than Remington. The hair colour (Christy has recessive red genes), the nose, the chin… the eye shape might be Remington’s (then again, I’m terrible at analysing genes).

didilysims said: That’s why you’re supposed to ask the custodian. 😛

didilysims said: Of course I say “supposed to” very lightly because chance cards are have very nonsensical logic sometimes…which is why we love them. 🙂

You know what? For a long time, I didn’t really notice how non-sensical those chance cards are, because most of the time I was just like “… It’s America, America is weird. They probably do it like that!”

Maybe Timmy’s hospital doesn’t have a custodian (which sounds like a pretty major health violation, but who knows. It’s the Sims.

didilysims said: I FORGOT HE WAS JOE’S KID!!! Wow, I need to go back and reread from the beginning I guess. 😀

He’s like 75% Joe (that mouth is definitely Christy’s)! Wait, who do you think was his dad? Remington?

Do it! (I’m actually thinking of doing something like a tl;dr for “newcomers”. Maybe throw in a few family trees (there is also an emerging relationship that’ll make matters even more complicated….)

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Two quick didilysims replies

didilysims said: Whoa, you are fast! This looks cool!

I did have almost the whole week off! Half of my college classes were cancelled due to National Work Day (it’s a bank holiday over here) and I have the tendency to get a bit… too immersed into stuff I do. The whole thing took me roughly one week to finish. Spent two whole days just creating houses. I can get a bit obsessed with things. (I also write my term papers (the short ones, 8-12 pages) in like… one day. It’s nuts.)

Parent-child greeting interaction

didilysims said: I love it when they run to the parent. Melts my heart. 🙂

It’s the little things that make this game so awesome. It’s adorable.

Help

polly-poison said: Sadly, this cute neighborhood was crashing and flashing pink whenever I loaded a lot. 😦

I’m so sorry. I have no explanation for the pink flashing, except that maybe your game can’t handle all those trees? (I do faintly remember that pink flashing may have something to do with hardware issues. Too new graphics card or sth like that?) As for the crashing, might be that your download somehow got corrupted. Have you tried re-downloading it? And if that doesn’t help, I could upload the lots for you and you could try out whether they work in another neighbourhood?

Any other ideas what could cause this?

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And sloppy ones at that (because I’m on my potato-laptop and that’s only marginally better than my smartphone. But has spellcheck.)

didilysims said: I feeeeeeel you.

Says the simmer who’s neighbourhood pictures make me feel green with envy (on a serious note, good to know that even you hate it!).

katatty-main said: oooh, this looks great! really good use of the maxis deco!

Wait til you see the other side of the lake… thanks for your compliment. I find it very hard to decorate full neigbourhoods, so it’s good to hear that people like it.

katatty-main said: oh, this is so exciting, looks really cool!!! i love a good gothic town, can’t wait to try this out 🙂

eulaliasims said: This looks awesome! 😀

taylors-simblr said: How cool! Congratulations on finishing such a big task too! 🙂

Glad you like it!

simspressionism said: Ich kann mich dran erinnern, dass ich dasselbe Problem hatte, ich glaub in Verbindung mit der Integration einer back-up Nachbarschaft. Ich glaube, es könnte daran liegen, dass Sims, die man erstellt, unter anderem Namen gespeichert werden, als man sie tatsächlich benennt. Zumindest bei mir scheint es so zu sein, dass selbsterstellte Sims in SimPe andere Namen haben. Bei im Spiel geborenen Sims ergibt sich das Problem i.d.R. nicht.

simspressionism said: Wenn man die Sims in SimPe umbenennt, passiert das aber dann nicht mehr 🙂

Jupp, das wäre auch meine erste Idee gewesen. Ich guck mir das morgen mal an.

katatty-main said: i’ve had this problem too and had to change the names in SimPE some downloaders of europa have also had this issue – i think it’s caused by different language versions? like if you made it in a german-language game english games will attempt to “translate”, but not sure

It appears that when you don’t “confirm” a name in SimPE (e.g. change it), the game will think they have no name and assign a random name to it in the game language (my SimPE does something like this, too. I guess it’s confused because my game language is set to American English, while my system language is German). Already thought “confirming” the names in SimPE will solve it. I’ll try it out tomorrow and see if it’ll work.

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Thing Aonda is suspiciously silent about

eulaliasims said: Ooooh, new neighborhood? 😀 I like the pond in the square there, that’s a nice placement.

Just something to work on during the holidays (and while I’m recovering from a nasty cold).

Decorating struggles

hannasims2 said: Same. That’s why i just throw trees everywhere

It’s just so exhausting… Those big chunks of trees are my lifesaver. There’s nothing worse than having to place every single tree… Every. Single. One.

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My Bf’s adventures in SimLand

didilysims said: True Maxis Match. 😀

Funny thing, I DO have a few pieces of CC in that game save. He missed each and everyone of them!

WCIF

didilysims said: Yeah that makes me think of Voleste’s Sunsphere Island:voleste.dreamwidth.org/…

Yep, that’s the one I was looking for! Thanks.

FNAF Kids toy

holleyberry said: My kids play it.

It was a toy for one of those kids meals. It looked a bit displaced next to a box of crayons and some cheap My little Pony knockoffs, although I’m pretty sure it’s probably very popular with the kids from the middle/high school nearby.

Jan’s dating adventures

holleyberry said: You go Jan! Some sums are just late bloomers.

Well, we don’t know what she was up to when she still lived in the city (;D) and before she met Leo.

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Pregnant Kaylynn

littleblondesim said: omg this family is too much 😀

It’s like a catastrophe… you can’t look (or in this case get) away.

BABIES!

eulaliasims said: oh my god, six sims and a dog in that house? Maybe Kaylynn can learn some kind of spell for magicking up house extensions.

No way that house is ever gonna fit all of them… but Leo already has come up with a plan, I hear.

Rufus, the asshole-in-training

holleyberry said: You’ll have your hands full with that one. Wow!

I love those extreme personalities. Cressida and he will tear up the neighbourhood once they’ll grow up.

Boyfriend and Sims

holleyberry said: He’ll get it when it takes his sims 5 hours to walk across it.

Ha! So far, he’s only been building. Can’t wait for the day he’ll create his first Sim.

WCIF

taylors-simblr said: A new one? I think @voleste made one a while back

How did I miss that! Thanks, that’s the one I was looking for! It’s this one.

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Matthew’s nose- reloaded

didilysims said: Hey hey hey now, I never said he wasn’t handsome! He just has a weirdly “unique” nose. 🙂

Well, he is handsome… uniquely handsome! 😛

Kaylynn’s corner

eulaliasims said: I love her witching station with the shelf full o’ spell ingredients and that wallpaper. 🙂

Me too. Somewhat proud that it looks as good as it does (especially since I’m still learning how to decorate houses).

Not again!

holleyberry said: D:

She’s the only family sim that constantly churns out twins due to the fertility reward. Christy and Remington both have that reward and out of three pregnancy, only had one pair of twins, Pao has none… but Kaylynn just keeps on havin twins…

didilysims said: She’s breeding a magical army!

She is! That is a good explanation!