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Strawberry Planters V2

Hello! After being dissatisfied with the originals, I created a more Maxis Match version of my Strawberry Planters. This set of planters is bgc & comes in 3 versions: 1 floor planter & 2 hanging planters. Lastly, each planter comes with 3 plant varieties & lots of fun colors. P.S. They don't conflict with the originals—Enjoy!

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Rant: The early access model has kind of creatively bankrupted CC, actually.

Longer Rant: The early access model has sucked the heart & soul out of the CC scene by encouraging creators to crank out the blandest, safest, most low effort content possible as fast as possible, and it's caused CC as a whole to stagnate as the same three overused ideas and Maxis meshes get rehashed over and over and over again ad nauseum while creators continually push the boundaries of how little creativity/effort they can get away with expending while still making a buck. Creators are concerned about how much money they can make vs. if their content is actually good or if it even works in-game. And of course they are--this is just a job to them, not a creative endeavor or passion project. This isn't a community to them or even a fun game to play; it's just another market to capitalize on.

Tried to keep this all in the tags but it was getting a little ridiculous and I'm feeling long winded today so lets talk about it. First, I have some very dear friends that make EA CC as well as some very dear friends that make free CC. Either way you cut it, it's a ton of work to make original content, and I completely understand wanting to monetize the hours you spent on a set. It's a hobby that's a massive time sink.

Second, You're right. And I think everyone knows it. Besides the time commitment behind making CC, there's also a massive emotional and creative commitment. Having the creative spark or drive to make something that inspired you is fantastic, and can lead to a lot of very fun ideas. But strapping yourself to a monthly patreon model and forcing yourself to recreate that spark month after month is gonna wear on you. And when you know you have a guaranteed amount of money coming in each month, and you know you HAVE to produce, you get tired, you cut corners, you play it safe.

And the community eats it up, -oh but i never//oh i only reblog//- shh shh. You aren't who I'm talking about. The added price tag and two week exclusivity creates this facade of scarcity and luxury, (even if it's not that good!!) and it gets reblogged, it get saved, it gets stolen.

And this environment is especially oppressive for free creators. The people with that spark that maybe don't create as often but when they do release something they feel passionate and excited about they feel immediately passed over. Because the community downloads, tosses a like and moves on. - oh but i always//- shh shh, I'm not talking about you.

This game was released 10 years ago by a company that shot it in the knees and told it to run. The landscape of the community has changed over the years and there's no foreseeable end for TS4 in sight. A lot of older interesting creators have dropped off because of this, but there's still a lot of people out there making things that make them happy. @lumenniveus, @hamsterbellbelle, @nucrests, @laeska, @xldkx-cc, @myshunosun, @nolan-sims to name only a small number.

I know it sucks when you spend a lot of time on something you want to share with the community and you feel swept under the rug. But we can always tell when something is made with love. And conversely the community will always call out when something is made poorly with greed.

So if you sit there complaining about how all cc is boring and rehashed now, (not calling out anyone, just the general you) maybe open up S4S, make yourself a little recolor. Try a blender tutorial. Maybe you'll find yourself becoming the next interesting person making fun things for everyone to play with. (Just maybe don't monetize your learning process)

Enthusiasm is infectious. And as @symerr said in the tags, why not get a little silly with it?

Nolan-Sims Here.

Following EA’s rebranding of the Sims 4, almost all existing images or graphics of the series are no longer supported. This, in turn, affects the wonderful blog icons @ohmysims404​ made for use around Simblr. So, I ended up updating the existing code & replacing the old images with the new icons. I plan on keeping them up to date, so feel free to revisit this post when a new pack releases!

(via the original post) HOW TO USE: Click here to see the code. Copy the code and delete the line which has the name of EPs/GPs/SPs/Kits you don’t have & paste it into your theme/website HTML. If you own all of the EPs/GPs/SPs/Kits, etc. you do not need to edit the code. Since every theme has a different layout, paste it where it is applicable to you. In most cases, pasting the code into the description section of your theme via edit mode works best.

If the code above isn’t shown in your browser, click this link.

***Update 3/17/2024:

Reminder to hit that heart button on your fave creators posts to show your appreciation ✨

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Why is the Sims community boycotting Curseforge?

I've seen a lot of posts going around calling on Simmers to stop using Curseforge, a modding platform that enables creators to monetize their downloads, with plenty of outrage directed toward modders and CC-makers who are still on the platform. But I've also seen a lot of people who are confused about why there are calls for a boycott.

Curseforge is owned by Overwolf, a company that is donating money to the IDF in support of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

In late October/early November, Overwolf posted a graphic on their social media asking followers to "defend our defenders" by contributing financially to a fundraising drive for the IDF. They were met with backlash and quickly took the graphic down, replacing it with one that used language about raising money for "those affected by the violence in Gaza" (my phrasing may be inexact) but the money is still going to the IDF and not to any agency actually supporting civilians or doing humanitarian work.

You can see the original graphic on this change.org petition, which provides some additional context.

If you are using Curseforge in any way -- by hosting your content there or downloading from it -- you are giving money to a company that is raising funds for an ongoing military campaign against a civilian population.

This is why people are calling for a boycott. If you are a modder or CC maker for the Sims, you should remove all of your content from the website and redirect people to other DL sources. If you are a consumer of mods and CC, you should stop clicking curseforge links and send (polite!) messages to modders and CC makers to urge them to pull their content from the site.

ETA: Here's another link with more images of the original Overwolf Tweet!

So Curseforge/Overwatch put out a statement about this, addressed specifically to simmers.

Even if we decide to take them 100% at face value (which I don't think we should) and accept their claim that none of their corprate revenue goes to "defend our defenders," (their original claim) and only to help "terror-affected families" with housing...is any of this funding going to support the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians? I'd say people living in refugee camps because their homes were bombed to matchsticks because some of their neighbors were maybe allegedly supposedly aligned in some vague with Hamas are pretty "terror-affected." Are they eligible to receive any of this aid, or just Israelis?

There's no word on the website, but considering that the other major donor listed on equal footing with Overwolf is the Israeli Leadership Forum, which states on its English-language "About Us" page that it is a platform for those who consider "the advancement of Israeli society....as their mission," it seems fair to say that this group and donation drive have broadly settler-colonialist aims.

So. My original post was not 100% accurate in all the details, I'm willing to own that. Mea culpa, I'm a random guy on the internet who tried to make a post to summarize a lot of discussion that had been happening in a lot of different places, and I didn't do any investigative journalism to verify those claims (see above: random guy n the internet).

I still think that boycotting Overwolf and their products is a good, simple step to oppose Zionism. Using Curseforge (and other Overwolf products) still fuels the bottom line of a Zionism organization which aligns itself with other Zionism organizations. Vote with your feet and don't use these products.

If they're releasing corporate statements to try to dispel concerns over a consumer boycott, it means it's working.

p.s. Do not harass people. I think my original post was pretty clear in terms of calls to action, but I'll say it explicitly: sending hateful messages, spamming people's inboxes, etc. is not an effective tactic here. Polite communication to register your objections, followed by withdrawing your financial support is a much better strategy for effecting change.

Keeping the answers simple to get the best results, but feel free to elaborate your answer in the replies/tags.

Reblogs would be appreciated.