Some replies!

Still have quite a few more to get around to, but it’s a start. 😀 Paging @blissful-indigo, @holleyberry, @alienpod, @mswn, @littleblondesim, and @kayleigh-83!

blissful-indigo
replied to your post “Do you struggle to pay rent living in NY, even with a good salary…”

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I feel you. Just relocated to Seattle and am living in a micro-studio apartment because rent is absurd here, too. Not quite as bad as NYC and San Francisco, but not much better.

littleblondesim replied to your post “Do you struggle to pay rent living in NY, even with a good salary…”

I loved this little tidbit. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

Oh, of course! ❤ Thank you for reading (even though I have an extreme tendency to ramble). Tori, I can only imagine. D: I can only speak for NYC because that’s all I know (aside from college, this is the first time I’d be living on my own – heck, my family’s been in the same apartment since before I was born!) so I really have no idea about the housing/rental market elsewhere. But I’m sure it’s the same in a lot of major cities. It’s the (literal) price we pay for convenience and/or opportunities. :

holleyberry
replied to your post “Oh my WCIF are those light up hood buildings? I have Aurora Skies…”

Can I say I was hoping eventually someone would put all those links in one place 😛

Heheh, much obliged. 😉 I hope I didn’t miss any! I’m waaaaay overdue for updating my resource list, anyway, so this was a good start.

alienpod
replied to your photoset “Shyra and Melanie, two of the SSU dormies. :)”

The second one is so gorgeous 😮

mswn
replied to your photoset “Shyra and Melanie, two of the SSU dormies. :)”

Super cuties

Thank you both! ❤ A little Pooklet/Drew randomizer magic goes a long way. 😉 Also (spoiler alert!), but Graham agrees with you, @alienpod. ;D

kayleigh-83
replied to your photoset “Finally got around to replacing 90% of my hood deco with light-up…”

*heavy breathing*

*puts on lab coat and fetches inhaler* ;D 

Replies, part 3!

Regarding LJ woes. 😀

thedimplesimmer
replied to your post “I’m starting the annoying (and seemingly impossible) task of…”

Ohh can’t wait to see your posts on LJ Fi ! 😀

dirk-dreamer
replied to your post “I’m starting the annoying (and seemingly impossible) task of…”

lmao i have had the same lj theme for years bc it was the only one i liked and now most of the links are dead. also, uploading is the worst i feel ur pain

yakumtsaki
replied to your post “I’m starting the annoying (and seemingly impossible) task of…”

literally give up re:lj themes, its extremely not worth it i remember being in tears at some point??? THE WORST

alienpod
replied to your post “I’m starting the annoying (and seemingly impossible) task of…”

Aww ye gimme!!

I honestly devoted way more time than I’d ever like to admit on that fajookin theme and it’s still not what I want? Anyway, my livejournal is ~ here ~ although it’s literally nothing at the moment lmfao. I didn’t mean for my theme to be so dark, but those were the default colors (I only changed some of the text/link colors around). GOTHIC LJ

Replies, part 1!

In which I spend a lot of time rambling about color preferences. 😀

sue-simaddict-tblr-blog answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

Yes there’s a few colours I dispose of imediately I thought it was just Me 😡

Nope, definitely not just you! Looks like we all do it. 🙂

ant0nink0 answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

ah , i love pastels , but i was playing with realistic things before , so i delete them everytime i see them … and this is why my townies are corrupted … i hate NEON . those bright colors ..i hate them

Aw yeah, I’m not too big on neon. I actually like most neon colors, but they have to be used in moderation (like accents or trim or something). I can’t use entire walls or couches in bright neon colors, it hurts my eyes. 😛

illykitty answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

Any neons or super saturated colours like the blue screen mentioned. Anything else is fine. If I could make my own palette, I’d make my colours muted and dusty.

Ooh, I think you should definitely try your hand at making a palette! I love dusty and muted colors, so I’d be interested in seeing it. 😀

allisas answered your question“Anyone else do this?”

Yep, as alienpod named it: the missing-mesh-flashing-blue (or blue-screen-of-death-blue) will never be tolerated in my game. It gives me the creeps. 😛

Yes! I can’t believe I didn’t think of that one. Which is a shame, because I like that color in real life. Seeing it on my screen, however, is a different story. 😛 

eulaliasims answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

Same, I don’t use a lot of bright shades. That pink and purple get tossed, and usually anything yellow or orange goes too (I love a good gold or burnt orange, tho).

Yes! I’m a big fan of orange and yellow, but I’m pretty particular about the shades. I love gold/mustard yellows and burnt oranges, though. 😀 (Those are two of my favorite shades to wear in real life, too!)

sullivanrandomness answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

Yes, there is a shade of purple that I refer to as bright/dark purple. It burns my eyes and I immediately get rid of anything in that colour!

I’m pretty sure I know exactly which shade you’re thinking of, and I toss that one, too! 🙂

ajaysims answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

I hadn’t really thought about it before, but I do tend to delete dark green stuff x.x generally if there’s a whole bunch of colours I restrict myself to one of black, white, brown, red, orange, yellow, light green, turquoise, light blue, purple, pink

Oooh, I love dark green! :3 But I find that it doesn’t always translate well in CC (especially furniture), so I wind up getting rid of it, too. It’s smart to limit yourself to certain colors – if I weren’t so indecisive and forever changing my palette preferences, I’d try to do that, too!

discombobulatedmirrortron answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

i’m the opposite in that i keep all my purple items, aha. i delete too light pastels myself, or dark earth tones

Hahah, that’s what’s so cool about the community! Everyone has such different color preferences. When I see people like @lilithpleasant or @dirk-dreamer use pink, purple, and pastels in their decorating, I always tell myself I should give it another try! But then I get in-game and hate everything I do and fall back into the same color schemes, lmao. 

alienpod answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

periwinkle is the worst, but that missing-mesh-flashing-blue is a close second

YES! ANOTHER PERIWINKLE HATER! I thought it was just me, like honestly I see that color everywhere and I thought I was weird for not liking it. Like, it’s not eye-searingly bright, it even looks like a relaxing color, but I just hate it?! And of course, missing-mesh-flashing-blue! How could I forget?

vampireprincessmaria answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

I hate certain shades of purple and turquoise. Unfortunately I do like light, bright AND dark colours, so there’s far too much stuff in my Downloads folder.

Hahaha, I’m sure there’s too much in mine too! A lot of times it depends on the CC, some clothing/furniture/deco looks better in bright colors, and some looks better in darker colors. For example, I tend to use darker/muted colors for my build mode stuff, like walls and floors. But I don’t mind some bright colors in my bodyshop folder or decorating. 🙂 

soo-bee-well answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

I’m like this too. I always discard pastels, most neons, all oranges, browns and yellow-ish shades of green. >.<

I love orange, brown, and green in real life, but I’m pretty picky about the shades I used in my TS2 game. At least we know we have some semblance of self-control over our downloads folder – we can cull the colors we don’t like! 😛

holleyberry answered your question “Anyone else do this?”

That neon green. It hurts my eyes. Also that bright pink can go. I like pastels, but not bright, or neon colors.

Oh God, yes, that neon green! I don’t know how some people are able to use such bright color palettes in their games. A lot of the colors are pretty, sure, but my eyes! They burn! I sometimes wonder if it’s just my monitor, or I’m just getting old and my eyes can’t handle these things, haha.

Not-so-belated replies!

This should bring me up to date! 😛

speakinginsimlish
replied to your photoset

when i saw the first picture i was genuinely scared! ��

Haha! Evelyn is a very good teacher. XD

simminaway
replied to your photoset “Evelyn adopts this sweet little bulldog pup named Porkchop. :P”

Aww, Porkchop is so cute! Is he the game’s version of a tiny bulldog, or is he a downloaded versin?

I downloaded him from MTS here! 😀

deedee-sims replied to your photoset “Evelyn adopts this sweet little bulldog pup named Porkchop. :P”

Awww, what a cutie :3

I love him! ❤ I’ve been having Evelyn spend a lot of time with him (since there’s no one else in the household to worry about). I think pets in TS2 are so cute. :3

getmygameon replied to your photoset “ZYNLOS NOOOOO”

Oops? ^_^;;;;

deedee-sims
replied to your photo “smh”

*cries*

deedee-sims
replied to your photoset “ZYNLOS NOOOOO”

*screams in terror*

prettybabo
replied to your photoset “ZYNLOS NOOOOO”

DDDD:

alienpod replied to your photoset “ZYNLOS NOOOOO”

whyyy ;_;

MY SIMS INSIST ON BREAKING MY HEART. T_T I think everyone in this neighborhood is having an affair with everyone

mikexx2
replied to your photo “Graham Dunne meets Sunny at the pet shop. :3 (He better not be…”

do you have the noautopetbuy hack? It stops neighbours from adopting pets while unplayable

I don’t think I do? I didn’t even know unplayable Sims could adopt pets! Maybe I should look into that hack just in case. 😛  

lilakartoffelbrei
replied to your photo “When you’re Simming but you gotta watch the Yanks take on Boston :D”

Haha, your desktop icons are nearly the same than my own. And is this RCT? One of the best games ever! 😀

Nope, it’s good old TS2. 🙂 But I agree, RCT is also great!

twofee
replied to your photo “The gaming faces are so cute. :3”

all of us when we play sims 🙂

Oh yes! Except my face was D: yesterday when one of my Sims caught the jump bug! Took a bunch of googling to figure out the culprit. 

getmygameon
replied to your photo “When you’re Simming but you gotta watch the Yanks take on Boston :D”

8Da Priorities, priorites..you has them Fi babe ^_~* *giggles*

You know it! 😀 

dramallamadingdang
replied to your photo “Exhibit A of my failed posed portraits, lols. I DON’T KNOW HOW…”

You are much braver than me. I totally don’t have the patience to do posing. Kudos to you. Also…PRETTY! 🙂

alienpod
replied to your photo “Exhibit A of my failed posed portraits, lols. I DON’T KNOW HOW…”

BUT IT TURNED OUT SO PRETTY ;_;

getmygameon
replied to your photo “Exhibit A of my failed posed portraits, lols. I DON’T KNOW HOW…”

It looks pretty Fi D: What’s wrong with it babe? and community lots? Eh…only if you have the sim own it then there shouldn’t be a problem; just teleport everyone there that you need and FIREEEEE! 😛 lol

Awww, thank you. ❤ :’D I mean, I guess it’s not terrible – I think my dislike stems from a combination of it taking me so long to achieve those fairly generic poses, and some general frustration at trying to do it on a community lot where unfortunately a lot of poseboxes wouldn’t work D: (even after teleporting Sims there and making them selectable and all). 

I would have liked to use the Smile for the Camera posebox to get them all looking straight ahead, but as you can see that didn’t work. 😛

amonsimmies replied to your post“Nilou’s lumberjack outfit”

Wheeeeeee, thank you! 😀 ❤

pistxl-sims, thank you as well – there was no rush on it, but Amon already got to it so no worries. :3

alienpod, I was actually going through my male defaults when I came across that outfit. I contemplated using your replacement, but I actually kinda like the Maxis boots on the original outfit…which prompted the search for the custom version. :3 Thank you, though! (and thank you for the 69245920 billion other defaults I currently use <3)