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Uploaded: 1st Jun 2023 at 10:53 AM
Updated: 7th Jun 2023 at 7:04 PM
Updated: 7th Jun 2023 at 7:04 PM
Mega Market
A Mega Market has opened up in the neighbourhood! Hot, freshly baked goods, crisp vegetables, and an affordable meat and fish selection for every sim! There’s also a selection of non-perishables, pet foods, clothing, and fresh flowers. Don’t worry about the price of convenience, just enjoy the perks!
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Eco-Lifestyle introduced dumpster diving as both a gameplay mechanic and a way to sustainably source ‘meals and deals’, but incorporated the mechanic in such a way that disconnected this movement from the actual critique it attempts to convey. Voluntary dumpster diving has arisen as an anarchist critique of consumerism. It poses that, by redirecting consumer capitalism’s ‘waste stream’ to those in need, the system that produces excess waste is dismantled. In reality, this view is too idealistic to create any real change, since the movement remains dependent upon capitalistic forms of supply and therefore does not push for reform. Although the lifestyle could be individually rewarding from a moral standpoint, it cannot be scaled up to a societal scale.
Within The Sims 4, dumpsters are placed in seemingly random locations throughout the world, divorcing the dumpster diving movement from their consumerist critique. After all, where are these dumpsters actually found in real life? Often attached to large corporations that produce food for mass disposable consumerism. Freshly baked goods don’t stay fresh for long, and everything that’s not sold at the end of the day is –too often still- thrown out. In order to keep this fresh, instant selection available every day, corporations go through this cycle every day.
This mod is a way to help create this corporate context within the Sims 4. Even though dumpster diving is not a valid alternative resource in a sustainable future, it does include valid criticism about the flaws of modern corporate policy and contemporary consumerism. This mod places the dumpsters in the back of a relatively large corporate supermarket. In doing so, the mod visualises the system that produces excess waste, something that has largely remained invisible within The Sims 4.
Note
The packs here are mainly for decorating the different sections of the supermarket. You'll get the best experience if you have all of them, but the items can be replaced.
Eco Lifestyle - Dumpsters
Seasons - Fruit and Vegetables
Cottage Living - Fruit and Vegetables
Cats & Dogs - Pet Section
Get to Work - Functional Store
Sources:
Essig, Laurie. “Fine diving: Young anarchists with guts of steel raid dumpsters for edible “trash.” The idea? Divert waste to end wastefulness.” Salon, June 10, 2002. https://www.salon.com/2002/06/10/edible_trash/.
Huisman, Tara. Greening the System: Exploring the Impact of Ecocritical Modding of The Sims 4 on our Sustainable Imaginaries. Master’s Thesis. Utrecht University. 2022. UU Theses Repository (10347).
Lehtonen, Turo-Kimmo & Olli Pyyhtinen. “Living on the margins: dumpster fiving for food as a critical practice.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 22, no 3 (February 2021).
Shantz, Jeff. “One Person’s Garbage… Another Person’s Treasure: Dumpster Diving, Freeganism, and Anarchy,” Verb 3, no. 1 (August 2005).
A Mega Market has opened up in the neighbourhood! Hot, freshly baked goods, crisp vegetables, and an affordable meat and fish selection for every sim! There’s also a selection of non-perishables, pet foods, clothing, and fresh flowers. Don’t worry about the price of convenience, just enjoy the perks!
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Eco-Lifestyle introduced dumpster diving as both a gameplay mechanic and a way to sustainably source ‘meals and deals’, but incorporated the mechanic in such a way that disconnected this movement from the actual critique it attempts to convey. Voluntary dumpster diving has arisen as an anarchist critique of consumerism. It poses that, by redirecting consumer capitalism’s ‘waste stream’ to those in need, the system that produces excess waste is dismantled. In reality, this view is too idealistic to create any real change, since the movement remains dependent upon capitalistic forms of supply and therefore does not push for reform. Although the lifestyle could be individually rewarding from a moral standpoint, it cannot be scaled up to a societal scale.
Within The Sims 4, dumpsters are placed in seemingly random locations throughout the world, divorcing the dumpster diving movement from their consumerist critique. After all, where are these dumpsters actually found in real life? Often attached to large corporations that produce food for mass disposable consumerism. Freshly baked goods don’t stay fresh for long, and everything that’s not sold at the end of the day is –too often still- thrown out. In order to keep this fresh, instant selection available every day, corporations go through this cycle every day.
This mod is a way to help create this corporate context within the Sims 4. Even though dumpster diving is not a valid alternative resource in a sustainable future, it does include valid criticism about the flaws of modern corporate policy and contemporary consumerism. This mod places the dumpsters in the back of a relatively large corporate supermarket. In doing so, the mod visualises the system that produces excess waste, something that has largely remained invisible within The Sims 4.
Note
The packs here are mainly for decorating the different sections of the supermarket. You'll get the best experience if you have all of them, but the items can be replaced.
Eco Lifestyle - Dumpsters
Seasons - Fruit and Vegetables
Cottage Living - Fruit and Vegetables
Cats & Dogs - Pet Section
Get to Work - Functional Store
Sources:
Essig, Laurie. “Fine diving: Young anarchists with guts of steel raid dumpsters for edible “trash.” The idea? Divert waste to end wastefulness.” Salon, June 10, 2002. https://www.salon.com/2002/06/10/edible_trash/.
Huisman, Tara. Greening the System: Exploring the Impact of Ecocritical Modding of The Sims 4 on our Sustainable Imaginaries. Master’s Thesis. Utrecht University. 2022. UU Theses Repository (10347).
Lehtonen, Turo-Kimmo & Olli Pyyhtinen. “Living on the margins: dumpster fiving for food as a critical practice.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 22, no 3 (February 2021).
Shantz, Jeff. “One Person’s Garbage… Another Person’s Treasure: Dumpster Diving, Freeganism, and Anarchy,” Verb 3, no. 1 (August 2005).
Filename | Type | Size |
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Mega Market.zip | zip | |
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0x00000203!0x0809109c66710125.bpi | bpi | 46519 |
0x00000000!0x0809109c66710125.blueprint | blueprint | 73009 |
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0x00000002!0x0809109c66710125.trayitem | trayitem | 476 |
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Mega Market.zip
Size: 179.2 KB · Downloads: 3,656 · 1st Jun 2023 |
179.2 KB | 3,656 | 1st Jun 2023 | |||||
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Install Instructions
Basic Download and Install Instructions:
1. Download: Click the File tab to see the download link. Click the link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract: Use WinRAR (Windows) to extract the .bpi .trayitem and .blueprint file(s) from the .rar or .zip file(s).
3. Place in Tray Folder: Cut and paste all files into your Tray folder:
- Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Tray\
- Windows Vista/7/8/8.1: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Tray\
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Packs Needed
For a full list of packs with names, see the Packs Needed popup.
Other Information
Number of bedrooms:
– Not Applicable
: For Commercial Lots
Custom Content Included:
– None
: No Custom Content included
Furnishings:
– Fully Furnished
: Lot is completely decked out in furnishings
Special Flags:
– Not Applicable
Tags
#supermarket, #market, #dumpster, #dumpster diving, #eco, #eco lifestyle, #consumerism, #corporate, #corporation, #store, #shop, #shopping, #bakery, #capitalism
Packs Needed
Base Game | |
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Sims 4 |
Expansion Pack | |
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Get to Work | |
Cats and Dogs | |
Seasons | |
Eco Lifestyle | |
Cottage Living |
About Me
'SustainableSims' is dedicated to creating Sims content that considers how The Sims 4 can be used as a tool to combat the climate crisis.
The climate crisis affects the entire planet. This human-caused crisis is irreversible on a timescale of a single lifetime, and will still worsen. Combatting this crisis will require social change driven by new socialtechnological imaginaries. Not only do we need to develop new societal goals, we need to design new societal, economic, and cultural structures. The climate crisis arose from a network of interwoven issues from processes such as capitalism, classism, and colonialism. Fighting the climate crisis is thus inherently a political act.
Video games can help facilitate combatting this crisis through the communication (meta)practices they make possible. They help us question the way we live, and then let us propose new alternatives. Using this angle, The Sims can be an ecocritical tool to consider new imaginaries.
Tara
Open to requests!
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Sources:
Ghosh, Amitav. “Amitav Ghosh: where is the fiction about climate change?” The Guardian, October 28, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/28/amitav-ghosh-where-is-the-fiction-about-climate-change-.
López, Antonio. Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education (New York, London: Routledge,
2021).
Huber, Matt T. “Ecological Politics for the Working Class,” Catalyst 3, no. 1 (Spring 2019). https://catalystjournal.com/2019/07/ecological-politics-for-the-working-class.
Werning, Stefan. “Understanding and Communicating the Climate Crisis through Ecomodding.” Communication +1 8, no. 1 (October 2021).
NASA. “The Effects of Climate Change.” Accessed January 11, 2022, https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/.
The climate crisis affects the entire planet. This human-caused crisis is irreversible on a timescale of a single lifetime, and will still worsen. Combatting this crisis will require social change driven by new socialtechnological imaginaries. Not only do we need to develop new societal goals, we need to design new societal, economic, and cultural structures. The climate crisis arose from a network of interwoven issues from processes such as capitalism, classism, and colonialism. Fighting the climate crisis is thus inherently a political act.
Video games can help facilitate combatting this crisis through the communication (meta)practices they make possible. They help us question the way we live, and then let us propose new alternatives. Using this angle, The Sims can be an ecocritical tool to consider new imaginaries.
Tara
Open to requests!
--
Sources:
Ghosh, Amitav. “Amitav Ghosh: where is the fiction about climate change?” The Guardian, October 28, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/28/amitav-ghosh-where-is-the-fiction-about-climate-change-.
López, Antonio. Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education (New York, London: Routledge,
2021).
Huber, Matt T. “Ecological Politics for the Working Class,” Catalyst 3, no. 1 (Spring 2019). https://catalystjournal.com/2019/07/ecological-politics-for-the-working-class.
Werning, Stefan. “Understanding and Communicating the Climate Crisis through Ecomodding.” Communication +1 8, no. 1 (October 2021).
NASA. “The Effects of Climate Change.” Accessed January 11, 2022, https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/.