~ chatting with the locals ~

IT'S GONNA BE (MER)MAY

alright let's talk about Apple and Tumblr's current predicament. If you don't know already, I used to work at Tumblr as an iOS engineer. Though I keep in touch with current staff at Tumblr (what little that are left that I know) I do not have picture of what's going on internally. The banned word list is absolutely perplexing and I can only theorize why tags like 'long post' are banned from appearing on iOS. What I can do is give you a peek into how the Apple App Store review process works, so you have an idea of the hell that Tumblr staff is dealing with right now.

The Sims 3 Smooth Patch 1.0

Yeah, you read correctly, I said Sims 3 :)

This mod makes the game’s logic threads run faster, speeding up loading of Buy/Build and CASt, smoother UI elements, smoother CAS, fixes CAS music randomly stopping, among other things.

This mod should work on Steam, Retail and No-CD versions of the game. Not on Origin versions unfortunately as it blocks this kind of hack, so 1.69 won’t work.

Download: SFS / Dropbox

Simply unzip the file into your “The Sims 3/Game/Bin” folder.

You can configure the mod by editing the TS3Patch.txt file with notepad. I left comments in that file on how to set it up for lower end computers or in case it’s too demanding on your game.

The changes are most noticeable in CAS: Smoother body sliders, Sim rotation and quicker loading of clothes.

I’ve made an album with some GIFs showcasing the mod (Tumblr is not letting me embed Imgur so click on the link…):

Imgur Album

@xiasimla made some very useful comparison videos as well:

Tumblr Post

An old tweet from thepancake1 made me give this a shot, as he hadn’t released any downloads or information on how to achieve it.

A little update, should now run better and can be configured to work on weaker systems.

Also doesn’t require EXE patching anymore. Yay!