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It is not to be understood for me... Why the hell is Maxis' team building beautiful garden gates with lanterns that have no light function?

Hello All 🤗 

In my opinion there are never enough bath rugs in the game. Sometimes the Sims have several bathrooms in the house. It does not always have to be the same mats in it, right? That’s why I brought some again. 🤪

The textures are not cut out of an online catalog, but made by myself, so please don’t steal them. I hope you like them. If it is desired that certain color swatches have a different colored flower, I can still make this. I just did not want to do a hundred swatches, I hope you understand that. ❤️

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You have the permission for recolor my objects, but don’t offer my meshes but rather set a link to my side. Don’t load up my meshes on other pages and give them as yours!

And SIMSDOM, if you become aware of me, don’t offer and hide my creations behind from paysites, ad.fly or what ever. My stuff is free and you doesn’t have the right to make money with that!

Okay, I’m sure a lot of you know about this already, but if you don’t here is a summary of everything that has been going on. There is a website out there called Simsdom.com that has been stealing Sims Content Creator’s work and uploading it WITHOUT the creators’ permission on their site. And to make it even worse, you have to go through ad-walls in order to view the cc on there, cc that they have plagued with adds even though it DOESN’T belong to them.

So essentially, the people behind this website are profiting from other people’s content. This is appalling, considering how much time and effort can be spent on Sims content, or content of any kind. And even if the content was quick to make, it’s still wrong because the content doesn’t belong to these scummy people. Not to mention the people behind Simsdom are ALSO committing copyright infringement and VIOLATING a whole bunch of creators’ terms of use.

To make matters even WORSE, Simsdom has been giving creators a hard time when they ask for their content to be removed from their site. They reply with arrogant comments and talk some shit. Look at @frost-rainbowcy‘s post here for example. You can also see more of the matter from @nolan-sims‘s post, found here. Creators should NOT have to ask nicely and beg and say “please” for their content to be removed. It’s the creator’s content. What the creators say goes. Here’s an example of a statement Simsdom has released as a failed attempt to cover themselves (here). This is completely false. I would also like to point out that I sent them a strongly worded message in the form of an ask, but they didn’t respond. But yet they have time to read and post things that cover themselves… interesting. They also posted a number of statements to their Tumblr trying to defend their unjust actions, but the post have since been deleted from their page… also interesting

As Simmers and as a community, we MUST come together and show Simsdom and any other person that stealing other people’s work is NOT okay, and it will definitely not be tolerated. So I encourage anyone who sees this to reblog this post in order to spread the word about this awful site, and to also warn other creators that their content might be on this horrid sight.

Make sure that your work isn’t on their website, found HERE

Check their Tumblr for your content HERE as well.

@sssvitlans @sccfinds 😇

I know, I’m late for an Advent Candle Arrangement, but hey it is for XMAS too. And our Sims can celebrate Christmas all 28 Days. So I’ve been not too late? 👼 

This arrangement has 4 slots for place 4 candles. So our Sims can celebrate advent. Every sunday a flame more. 😊

The arrangement you can find in Decor/Plants and cost 100§ and the candle in Table-lights and it costs 1§. I hope, you will like it.

I wish you all a Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎄 🎅🏽 🎁 🍾 💝

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It is so insanely tiring! What's wrong with the community? No sooner can you create a bevelled cube than you absolutely have to create a Patreon page. You can't support everything and everyone, nobody has that much money. Investing 1-3 euros once for a set you like is one thing. But with Patreon, you have to become a subscriber and pay regularly. The subscribers then also want to be supplied and rightly so. Of course, something can go wrong in real life and you can no longer devote yourself to this task, or only sporadically. But then you also communicate that to the donors, don't you?

There is such a fuss about alleged leakers. They only have the right to 3 weeks of 'Early Access' anyway, after that it should be freely accessible to everyone according to EA.

But you can also alienate donors with greed, ignorance and aggressiveness. Not to mention the fraud!

Patreon rant.

I wanted to have a little rant about a custom content creator i recently subscribed to on Patreon. This person has a reward setup where the subscriber has to message the creator to receive links to custom content sets. But what happens when this creator dosen't respond to messages: subscribers get fucked out of their money and receive nothing in return.

Even tried to message the creator on multiple platforms, to no avail.

If I ever become too big for my shoes and turn into an asshole like that, please call me out.

Occluder Fix for HomeChef Hustle Appliances.

Hi guys, an user pointed out to me that my alternative cabinet, which I had made as an add-on for the AIKE kitchen, creates strange shadows when you place a cabinet over the refrigerator. This is because I assigned the counter shader to the cabinets for a nicer, uniform view. It is common practice among creators. But the EA Appliances don't cooperate and thank us with ugly black shadows. I didn't immediately think that it could be a problem because I've been using this mod from @peacemaker-ic for years that fixes it until a new kitchen comes into the game through EA and the mod has not yet been updated. I have therefore created a fix that fixes the problem for the new AIKE refrigerator and for the food processor. But only for that! And the fix can only be used until peacemaker has updated its mod!

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Please reblog this just once to show your support wherever you are in the world. This is the 21st Century. Don’t say “this is not in my back yard”, or “not my problem”. This will affect us all in different ways….Stay strong Ukraine!

WIP

Hi guys, my Sim was out yesterday and got hungry. But why buy food or barbecue when he has delicious fruit in his inventory? However, he had to eat 4 apples, so that the hunger bar was a little more than half full. Uh, if I eat two apples, I'm stuffed. I remembered that I had downloaded a mod a long time ago. I can't find it again. My thoughts that I had the mod from LitteMsSam or Bienchen83 were wrong, but I don't remember where I got it from. So I apologize in advance to the actual creator that I made my own version of it. It is actually only meant for me, but maybe somebody can use it anyway. By default, an apple or other harvestables fill the hunger bar at 15%. In my version it is 40%. If you assume that you never wait until the bar reaches zero anyway, it's pretty realistic if a sim is sated after 2 apples.

Hope you can enjoy this mod. ☺️ 

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Just yesterday I was thinking about what dimensions it has assumed. As soon as they can create, texture and upload a simple cube, they already have "Buy me a coffee" or "Become my patron". But it does not bother me. You will not see any money from me or a monthly subscription? Never ever! I like to use good CC as long as it is free. I can also make objects myself if I feel like it and have time for it. And then I like to share it with the community. But for me it is a hobby and not a commerce. So I also offer it for free. I do not need patrons, I would enslave myself because I would always have to deliver content. But as already said, they should do it. But what really, really upset me is the users who use foreign content to beautify their Sims or their homes and either share it with the CC and / or even want get paid for it. That's where my tolerance stops! When I create a sim or build a house in the game, it's in my eyes the gameplay. So they want get money for playing the game? What's wrong in their heads?

Something Bothering Me - Message Addressed to Sims CC Patreons

I don’t have issues with Sims CC creators desiring to get some kind of payback for the work they do.

I’ve dealt with ad.fly (grudgingly–it’s an awful experience and could infect others for barely any return)

I have tolerated and reblogged in the past those who want donations (again, not a huge issue, can be annoying if spammed

I support those who want to put their items on TSR and earn income by those who either download cc from there or buy a monthly pass.

And now there is Patreon. Which has seen an upsurgence in the S3 and S4 community.

While I have no inherent issues with people allowing others to support their work via any of these formats, I do have issue when it comes to gatekeeping content by means of putting CC behind a paywall.

And before I hear “people can do what they like”, yes they can, this is my opinion as a Former/ Retired CC creator and converter.

It’s alienating to many of the community, many young teens and adults. That demographic can maybe afford to support one or two creators, cannot pay $1-3/ avg per creator. It’s not feasible for many.

It’s also manipulative because it’s waving usually very popular content in front of others faces (by those that can afford it) and pretty much saying that unless you buy Into me ($1-2 for maybe one or two pieces of content) you’re getting screwed.

There is no way I’d pay $1-3 for one piece of virtual clothing/skin/whatever for any game, let alone Sims. Yet in this community exclusive cc, particularly clothing shared between friends or ‘popular’ simblrs brings status and further rebloggability for the simblrs they bestow it unto. It’s manipulative.

I have no issue with Patreon or giving money to creators. I have issue when it’s abused.

So the question can be asked, well what do you do instead to get more money in a less gatekeeping/paywall manipulative manner?

I will not say names, but one Simblr in particular has a good idea of how to encourage others to engage and participate in their Patreon but also not gatekeeping the creme Brûlée of their content: Timed Exclusives

Timed exclusives allows those who are willing to give a bit of money upfront to get the content sooner and therefore a slight advantage – the Patron still gets benefit. While those who are unable to pay but want to enjoy the content can still participate and download the content from their favourite creators.

I’ve never believed for myself that I deserved money for my creations (whether original or conversions) but I have tolerated and supported those when I could and support the choice of being able to be paid When it’s fair.

This message is not meant to shame but as a means of saying, Hey maybe consider the alternative of Timed Exclusives instead of gated content.

The only other alternative other than that is others taking your gated content and reuploading somewhere else – I’m old enough to remember the pirate booty during the S2 era.

Instead of leading people to desperation, keep an open mind and maybe consider this point of view

- from a former S3CC creator