I just watched this episode again last night and was thinking the same thing.
Reigniting this cause I was pondering it in the shower.
It's hilarious how much overlap there is between being a degenerate idiot and virtue signaling about Free Palestine!!1!1
These are the types of people that cheered when they tore down statues of America's founding fathers in New York and replaced them with fat Shaniquas. They want to discard history while simultaneously claiming to still suffer because of it. Their opinions don't matter in the slightest, and I hope that creator keeps making historical builds. The little Nessie addition is cute.
It looks like literally any village in Africa and has African stuff in it.
Black simmers are so fucking bad at making CC that I can't even be Diverse(tm) if I want to, because every single textured hair is a crunchy-ass mess with 300k polys and 8mb textures. I get that curly hair necessitates some detail, but motherfucker you do not need to individually model every single ringlet and braid.
I feel like another part of the problem here is that a lot of Sims players don't actually play with their sims; they make/upload pretty sims and houses, download pose packs to take pictures for tumblr, etc etc. There's nothing wrong with that in a vacuum, but it does create a weird culture where people will still get praised for making CC that looks pretty enough in screenshots while being absolutely garbage for a normal ingame experience. Poor optimization can't hurt you if you're making a slideshow anyway...I frequent the Sims 4 community a lot (trying to get into the Sims 2) and I have serious black fatigue just in that area alone. I'm not even going to get into the whining and general ratchet behavior. How do those people even stand seeing those uncanny valley extreme-alpha sims next to the cartoonish Maxis NPCs/townies? The art style shift would bug me way too much. I play with a cartoon-ish Maxis-mix style and even then I'm considering deleting all my alpha hairs. Oh, and speaking of hairs...these people can't optimize texture file size for shit. It's an issue notorious for alpha CC in general, but it's absolutely ridiculous in the black creator space. I downloaded a few hairs by a CC creator named "Kikovanity" and they're all several dozen to almost a hundred MB. I thought they'd contain like, well over a hundred swatches like what you'd see in Second Life conversions and I can just delete the many swatches that I don't want or use. But no, I looked in Sims 4 Studio, and it was only twenty. That means this bitch made every texture nearly 5 MB for a game that you spend the majority of the time zoomed out to overview lots and such. Oh, and it's stupidly high-poly as well. Yeah, fuck you too. But like I said, it's an issue with alpha CC in general. Here's another funny thing, Maxis-match is coming back in style, a bunch of alpha creators are making Maxis-match content to capitalize off of it. The kick is, these creators genuinely don't give a fuck or don't know that the main point of Maxis-match is to remain simple and optimized for game performance, so these retards are making relatively simple looking CC have the same stupidly high file texture sizes and poly counts just like their previous alpha work. But hey, their Blender renders look pretty, I guess.
Most of them don't really play the game, oftentimes they will sit down, create a sim, build their house, take a few stylish screenshots of them, upload them everywhere, and then forget about that sim until they want to take more pictures of them. Then they move to the next sim, repeat, etc. There are some who go through the process of editing every single townie which baffles me how it doesn't tire them out. I always stuck with maxis match outside of the occasional alpha clothes that could fit with Maxis match.
I would always get so fucking mad at that as a kid. It'll look good in the front then when I looked at the back or the side, it would look fucked.
>Gay flag
How come Nouk's hairs are still some of the best when it comes to wavy/"ethnic" textures? Ancient, so lower polycounts, but they still hold pretty well.
Some of the first Sims 1 object mods I've downloaded were from there. Though I could nostalgia post about Sims CC for days. Like how all my favorite CC was shit like Simslice mods, Secret Society of Woobsha refrigerators that added custom food, Persimmon Grove farm mods, Around The Sims mods that added extra food to grill, all the OddSim mods like the computer that you could order stuff online, a teleporter item, a working water cooler, a working piggy bank or a Sim cloning machine, Simlogical's lockable doors, wardrobes that allowed you to change your outfit or those British bedroom segments with the folding single bed, C&C mods like the electric hob, cutting board, interesting toilet, A La Carte fridge, and all the other hacked objects they've had, some Pandora Sims stuff like the mobile phone, Somesimthings' Supersculpture and so much more. Sims 2 had less of those but still some bangers that are still on ModTheSims like the ZX Spectrum, essential oil burner, wood stove/oven, working ladders and so on.
there's some sims 2 communities that share lost mods/cc, mostly on tumblr so you have to wade through the retardation, but if you have some cool shit that has been lost you could share it somewhere. There's still lots of cool mods being made for the sims 2, i love all the medieval mods from "Sun and Moon Star factory", you can do so much with this old game.
I would love to get these from you. I still love the Sims 1, but when I went trawling through the archives of old shit on archive.org I couldn't find any of the old hacked stuff I used to have and it sounds like you've got a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I know pescado from the Booty/more awesome than you, I bet he'd be willing to host them if you'd be interested in sharing them. I hate that so much from the old days has been lost, both TS1 and TS2.
The bigger issue will be wading through my CC folders and cataloging everything so that I'd know what's been completely lost to time and what's still around. Not to mention I have fucked with my Sims 1 CC and it's not all original files, I've packaged them into one file at one point, and I modified the metadata with some third party tool so it's not super clean. Also a good chunk of the websites I've mentioned are still around, so it's worth archiving them. Though I remember I used to be a member of a site called CTO Sims that archived a ton of Sims 1 content, but that went under alongside Simblesse Oblige that had a similar goal. I got a bunch of those from Pescado's PMBD as well so lolI would love to get these from you. I still love the Sims 1, but when I went trawling through the archives of old shit on archive.org I couldn't find any of the old hacked stuff I used to have and it sounds like you've got a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I know pescado from the Booty/more awesome than you, I bet he'd be willing to host them if you'd be interested in sharing them. I hate that so much from the old days has been lost, both TS1 and TS2.
