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#6051
27th Apr 2018 at 8:17 AM

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Originally Posted by omglo
There's not one mega hobby called Film/Literature/Arts and Crafts, if that's how you read it, but he (?) meant Arts and crafts are one hobby, and film and literature are one hobby.
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That is indeed how I read it. *facepalm*
Yeah, Sports and Fitness would work as one hobby, but I still like Music and Dance separate. Sometimes Sports or Fitness options are limited enough that you'd like there to be more. EA probably couldn't be bothered coming up with another hobby to replace one of them though. XD
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#6052
27th Apr 2018 at 2:33 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by yavannatw
Random question. How many pages of favourites do you have? I have 10 and wonder, if I haven't downloaded them yet, do I actually need them?
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One page. I don't use it as a "download later"-thing, I use it to give some extra love to the uploads I am especially fond of for some reason. Most of the ones I have are things someone made for me, since they mean something to me beyond just being a good upload and therefore I want to have them somewhere I can go back a look

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#6053
27th Apr 2018 at 3:49 PM

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Quote:
Originally Posted by yavannatw
Random question. How many pages of favourites do you have? I have 10 and wonder, if I haven't downloaded them yet, do I actually need them?
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So far, I'm sure it's over a 100


#6054
28th Apr 2018 at 1:37 AM

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Hmm, I guess we all use Favorites differently. I don't have that many, only about 3 pages, and I use it for my actual favorite pieces of cc--things I've had to redownload after a reinstall or download folder purge, and absolutely need to have in my game. I favorite them so I can find them again. For favorite creators, it's a mix of both--creators that I've downloaded from a lot and wanted to keep up with/bookmark or creators that have some cool looking cc that I might want to download later (but they have more than one or two interesting things so it's more efficient to bookmark them and not the individual download).
As for things to download later, I have a bookmark folder on my browser for that called "To DL Later" and save links for things I like but don't have to have right now or am too lazy to download and install properly. That last bit is usually for mods or things on websites like TSR. I'm big into making sure everything I download has pictures, or for mods, faq pictures. This can take a while and on some sites like TSR the pictures of the cc aren't on the same page as the actual download (and there's usually no picture in the file) so it takes a bit more effort/attention to download and file the cc to my standards. Anyway, apparently I have 1,049 links for things to download... What? I occasionally clean it out and download the links from there, but I admit I haven't been too diligent about that lately.
As for things to download later, I have a bookmark folder on my browser for that called "To DL Later" and save links for things I like but don't have to have right now or am too lazy to download and install properly. That last bit is usually for mods or things on websites like TSR. I'm big into making sure everything I download has pictures, or for mods, faq pictures. This can take a while and on some sites like TSR the pictures of the cc aren't on the same page as the actual download (and there's usually no picture in the file) so it takes a bit more effort/attention to download and file the cc to my standards. Anyway, apparently I have 1,049 links for things to download... What? I occasionally clean it out and download the links from there, but I admit I haven't been too diligent about that lately.

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#6055
28th Apr 2018 at 1:49 AM

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Interesting. I suppose people who don't use the favourite button for later downloads actually download then and there. I'm often on my phone or tablet when I see something I want, so use it as a bookmark (but then sometimes I forget I did that). I also favourite buildings that I either can't or don't want to download, as inspiration for my own building but again, I forget.
#6056
28th Apr 2018 at 2:21 AM

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I have 13 pages of them. I don't click it to make it easier to find though. I click it because I really favor them 
To find whatever I downloaded...I go to My Downloads.

To find whatever I downloaded...I go to My Downloads.

#6057
28th Apr 2018 at 2:55 AM

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I love that MTS keeps a record of downloads, and it is really handy, but unfortunately that list doesn't really tell me if I liked what I downloaded or not,
, so I one day after I trashed my entire download folder, I favorited all my, well, favorites.
And I don't mean trashed as in saved on a different part of my computer, but trashed as in recycle bin. I figured I could always just redownload again. Yeah, I was that young and naive, but in my defense, those were different times, when the exchange was alive and many TS2 sites still booming! There's still some cc that I miss, though--like there was this awesome set of patterned one piece bathing suits for TF that I got from here, but it was lost in a server crash. The creator lost the file and no one ever reuploaded it. I still mentally kick myself for trashing that. Sigh.


"May the sunlight find you, thy days be long, thy winters kind, thy roots be strong." -Grand Oak Tree, DAO
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Bored? Read an unfinished legacy or sim story. | aka Kelyns | she/her
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#6058
28th Apr 2018 at 3:11 AM

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I also save websites with Sims 2 content available. I have to keep reminding myself because I think I'll remember a certain website, only to forget about it later
. Also I'll need to create a simblr because there's a lot of content I like there too.

#6059
28th Apr 2018 at 4:57 AM

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What is with sims and small bathrooms? I swear, I take my eyes off of them for five minutes, and it's family time in one of the smallest bathrooms of the mansion.

They couldn't even pick one of the big bathrooms either...

They couldn't even pick one of the big bathrooms either...

"May the sunlight find you, thy days be long, thy winters kind, thy roots be strong." -Grand Oak Tree, DAO
XPTL Mod Archive | Change a Mod's Mesh into a CC Object | Increasing the Game Difficulty | Editing ACR 4 Your Age Mod
Bored? Read an unfinished legacy or sim story. | aka Kelyns | she/her
XPTL Mod Archive | Change a Mod's Mesh into a CC Object | Increasing the Game Difficulty | Editing ACR 4 Your Age Mod
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#6060
28th Apr 2018 at 5:04 AM

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Hahaha, soooo relatable. Especially when you have a family that you don't intervene but just watch on free will.

#6061
28th Apr 2018 at 5:14 AM

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For what it's worth, my family's conversations always take place in the bathroom
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#6062
28th Apr 2018 at 7:12 AM

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My sims are keen to smustle in cramped bathrooms :D
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#6063
28th Apr 2018 at 11:37 AM

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Sims like cosy environments, a fact known to everyone except Sim scientists (who continue to be baffled because their Environment ratings said they should have the opposite preferences...)
#6064
28th Apr 2018 at 3:02 PM

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Quote:
Originally Posted by yavannatw
Random question. How many pages of favourites do you have? I have 10 and wonder, if I haven't downloaded them yet, do I actually need them?
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10? Me? oooh nooo, not so many*. No, not many at all <whistles> ooooh look - a bunny rabbit

Yes, yes, alright, I need to tidy that up. <sigh>
(*Goodness knows - but rather more than 10)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantomknight
What is with sims and small bathrooms? I swear, I take my eyes off of them for five minutes, and it's family time in one of the smallest bathrooms of the mansion.
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This is why Pescado's Bathroom Uses You is an essential mod for me. 'ONE sim at a time in the bathroom please' might be it's other name and very useful it is too. Even so, I calculate that about 65% of Little Carping's born-in-game sims are born-in-bathroom sims.
#6065
29th Apr 2018 at 12:35 AM

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I recently came across a simblr called 'posebox-guide' dedicated entirely to, as the title suggests, poseboxes. The poseboxes there range from funny, to very nsfw, and to a little disturbing, at least to me
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#6066
29th Apr 2018 at 1:01 AM

You didn't happen to see a pose that looked like one Sim carrying the other did you? Was just thinking I really need to try and find a posebox for that. Want one for all my pregnant ladies that faint and get found by their partners, so I can have a picture where it looks like their partner picked them up and carried them to bed.
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#6067
29th Apr 2018 at 1:10 AM

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Originally Posted by gummilutt
You didn't happen to see a pose that looked like one Sim carrying the other did you? Was just thinking I really need to try and find a posebox for that. Want one for all my pregnant ladies that faint and get found by their partners, so I can have a picture where it looks like their partner picked them up and carried them to bed.
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Unfortunately I did not, but maybe it's hidden in there somewhere. They don't have a 'pregnancy' tag but I found a 'protecting/rescuing' tag so maybe it has that posebox you want. Here's the link to all the tags they have [ https://posebox-guide.tumblr.com/categories ]
#6068
29th Apr 2018 at 1:28 AM

@gummilutt you might find this one by Lesio to suit your needs. It's free to download with registration to mybsims. If you are on chrome you can use the browser to translate the Spanish to navigate easier. It will take you to a mediafire link if you care about that.
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#6069
29th Apr 2018 at 1:54 AM

Thanks Charmful! Already a member and speak Spanish so no problems there
And thanks for link primavera, will check it out in case there is something else I want.
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#6070
29th Apr 2018 at 11:44 AM

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Quote:
Originally Posted by yavannatw
Random question. How many pages of favourites do you have? I have 10 and wonder, if I haven't downloaded them yet, do I actually need them?
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I checked and I have 4.
When you'd like to play your school but it's too small.
It needs room for 23 students and I'm too lazy to build another school.

#6071
29th Apr 2018 at 12:48 PM

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Primavera
Unfortunately I did not, but maybe it's hidden in there somewhere. They don't have a 'pregnancy' tag but I found a 'protecting/rescuing' tag so maybe it has that posebox you want. Here's the link to all the tags they have [ https://posebox-guide.tumblr.com/categories ]
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That's a pretty cool site for pose boxes.
#6072
29th Apr 2018 at 2:30 PM

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Originally Posted by maxon
That's a pretty cool site for pose boxes.
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I'm sure I'll use that tumblr more than anything else. Although I fear I'll start having nightmares about those mannequins

#6073
30th Apr 2018 at 4:08 PM

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I created another Test family, as I needed to test a new desk I made to add to an old kid bedroom set of mine.
Of course, I created a parent, Mommy, and 2 children. I usually want the kids to resembles the parents, but in this case I didn't bother making a second parent.
Mommy came up after a few Randomize sim, all I changed was her skintone. She came up a red hair, wearing my red overalls. Perfect! I like stereotypes. lol
Then I gave her a girl..and a boy. They came up looking like Mommy after just a few more Randomize. I gave them both red hair, and green eyes, because I am original like that.
Dressed them both with my most recent children clothing, and plop them all on a lot.
Guess what?...I fell in love with them.
Of course, I created a parent, Mommy, and 2 children. I usually want the kids to resembles the parents, but in this case I didn't bother making a second parent.
Mommy came up after a few Randomize sim, all I changed was her skintone. She came up a red hair, wearing my red overalls. Perfect! I like stereotypes. lol
Then I gave her a girl..and a boy. They came up looking like Mommy after just a few more Randomize. I gave them both red hair, and green eyes, because I am original like that.
Dressed them both with my most recent children clothing, and plop them all on a lot.
Guess what?...I fell in love with them.
#6074
30th Apr 2018 at 4:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Rosebine
Guess what?...I fell in love with them.
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This is so me! I ended up cloning several of my testing sims and adding them to my main game. You know a sim is a keeper when you end up playing them for way longer than is needed for testing an item.
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#6075
30th Apr 2018 at 5:13 PM

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I'm the same way, I used to turn aging off because I grew too attached to my CAS/legacy sims for them to die
. Now I'm gonna clone them in the future, my attachment knows no bounds
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