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MASS DEATH IS IMMINENT IN GAZA
The U.N. warns that 1.1 million Palestinians are at imminent risk of death, as the crushing toll of the siege reaches its lethal and final stages. In North Gaza particularly, there is little time left before hundreds of thousands of people will die of hunger.
Time is almost up for over a million people. The US and its allies bear full responsibility for what can only be described as an impending holocaust. Without an immediate change of course that includes the provision of mass amounts of aid into Gaza and sanctioning Israel, mass death from starvation is a guarantee.
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♈︎ - Is everything a game to you? Well of course it is, you’re an Aries. First sign in the zodiac that also might be banned from playing simopoly. We admire a courageous spirit that knows what it wants, is driven, and is bluntly honest with us but can you let some of us, you know….win?! Not everything has to be a competition. Geez
name: daphne potts lifetime wish: become a superstar athlete traits: athletic, hopeless romantic, hot-headed, slob, workaholic likes: color red, lobster thermidor, beach party music, winning
- Excel and reach the top of their career
- Fall In love and marry their first love fast
- Has to do something athletic once a week
- Master the athletic and handiness traits
- Have them battle someone once a week
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their wedding day, except they had it later in the day after miram got back from school
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having a very heated conversation with her friend at the bar over how to properly garden. as IF she knows more than someone who garden's with her father on a daily basis.
elaine likes to make it a point to help her father out in the garden when fall hits...things start wilting extra fast because of the chill. she helps him move as many plants as possible into the home for the winter!
i hopped in and played the joy family in riverview. it was a rainy, fall day; so, elaine practiced her cello, while norman listened and read the paper!
a beautiful day to make friends in strawberry acres!
im throwin' myself a party because i finally got ts3 to work again. i said i was gonna make this a ts2 only blog, but now that ts3 is working, we shall post that as well. also because ts2 is being a pain and crashing on me in the build/buy catalog. i'm gonna be working on figuring out what is making it crash but it's gonna take me some time!!
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.
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.
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The family now have a cat-shaped hole in their hearts, so Omari heads down to Pawesome! Pet Shop to see if there are any furry friends that catch his eye.