I have always wanted to be ‘mod-free’ and not download anything from other sites. But to be fair: The Sims Resource has awesome free stuff to download from pretty cool artists. I downloaded the set Living Room Bruselas, mostly because I liked the curtains.But the whole set is great! I love the sofa, which comes in 4 parts. You can customise it any way you like. With pillows, or no pillows; it’s all good! Read the rest of this entry →

‘Back’ is a big word to describe going from ‘playing occasionally’ to ‘playing more regularly and updating my game again’. But I am back, in the sense that I am re-opening the blog about playing. I have been keeping a Guild Wars 2 blog for the past few months, but since we either burned out or just haven’t found the time to play it regularly, I don’t have a lot of new stuff to put there. And I do like to write about the games I play. Especially one that can give me fun images to share. Read the rest of this entry →

Well, after about 2 years, I got the urge to play The Sims 3 again. And so I started hunting down the stuff pack I didn’t buy: Townlife. I haven’t found it in the shops yet. The good news is, some of the stuff packs have come down in price. The bad news is, I am not sure how much in the ‘vanilla’ game (i.e. no mods from Twallen/Nraas) has been solved. I see that cars still get tucked away in sims inventories. I hope that doesnt clog things up.

I may install the Nraas mods sometime next week, after I have installed the stuff pack and Pets. I miss them already. So many nice shortcuts, so taken for granted, that I feel like I am playing a little bit of a clipped game. But so far, it only crashed to desktop twice. On loading. Because I forgot to disable the mods after updating.

Sims come in all shapes and sizes. I like to have a mix of sims in my game, but when reading stories and legacies I often see pictures of merely ‘pretty sims’,who bear a close resemblance in character to Mary-Sues. These sims, mostly female, are always ultra-skinny, with big heads and big eyes and big hair. And to me they all look the same. It is pure joy to find stories that stay away from cookie-cutter sims. Anyway, my point with this article is to show how great a sim can look, or how true to character, by sliding the skinny-slider more to the fat-side. Read the rest of this entry →

When did my game of The Sims 3 go bad? I had few of the issues that plagued players after installing World Adventures. Basically because after three ‘vacations’ I stopped using WA. I think some issues started after Ambitions, but most of my game’s problems must have started after installing Late Night. My town was swamped with celebrities, vampires and cars. It was laggy, it did the stop-motion thing when I added some objects from LN to lots and simply was no fun to play within weeks. When I sought help on TS3 forums, I was accussed of using ‘bad mods’. My game was mod free, and custom content free, up to that point. It was the game itself that was at fault, and no one seemed to get it.

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