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I dropped in on Kyle and Willow's house, as part of my game testing

"I can't just ignore it until he gets home..."

Isn't this always the way it works out... sigh...

#ts3 #the sims 3 #richmondsims #sims 3 story

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Reblog/Like if your an active simblr for the The Sims 3 game! ✨

It's my second and final sims game that i play! 💟

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Special shout-out to Lily for standing in the dark and the rain and making the same phone call to book the same vacation, over and over again, in the name of troubleshooting my game!

I think I have found the solution. I still have to apply the solution to each linked hood and test them to see if it worked, so its still going to take some time, but at least I'm getting somewhere now (I hope!).

#richmondsims #ts3 #the sims 3

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Update on the 'move': Something has gone wrong. Of course.

Before I started blogging again, I moved 30+ households with NRAAS Traveler to new versions of Richmond/Redwood City. It went fine. So I thought moving my eight Bluewater Village households would be easy. Nope. As of now, I can only load up the old and new versions of Bluewater Village. My other linked worlds hang on the loading screen.

Am working through possible causes but its a slow and tedious process - load game (loading screen)/load whichever world I saved in (loading screen)/attempt travel (loading screen)/(wait reasonable length of time) travel fails/shut down game/change something/repeat (loading screen, loading screen, loading screen...).

I'm probably not going to have the time to sort this out properly until the weekend. At worse, I can go back to the save I made before I started moving anyone, although that really is a last resort because I've changed a lot in my new Bluewater Village, and I don't want to have to do it all again if I can avoid it.

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someone-elsa’s Days of our Lives prompts 📅

I made another list of prompts for all simmers to use! I tried to choose vague enough yet inspiring words/themes, fitting for various kind of stories, settings, and styles.

Rules - Use any Sims game - Choose a prompt and create a picture, a (short) story, a piece of CC etc. inspired by the prompt - Share your picture/story/cc/etc and use tag #days of our lives simblr (and tag me for a reblog) - Follow the tag and like/reblog/comment on others’ fantastic creations! - You can do any number of prompts in any order - Most importantly: have fun! ♥

No deadline so do whenever it floats your boat, no rush!

PS: For summery prompts, check this list from two years ago. Forever relevant! 🤗

Prompts list:

Payday Day Spa Birthday Leg Day Day off

Weekday Rainy Day Back in the Day Daydream First Day of [insert something here]

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I've haven't disappeared - I've just been doing a bit of 'maintenance' on my game, re-creating my Bluewater Village in a better world than the very basic one I used when I moved from TS2. The first version was closer to the TS2 original, its now pretty much Bluewater Village in name only, but I'm keeping the name for the sake of story continuity. And I'm really happy with the way version 3 is turning out.

All going well, back to story updates this weekend.

#richmondsims #ts3

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The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

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I don't play TS2 any more, but this is worth a reblog for the title alone - this has bugged me in multiple versions of the game

Nurses Are Not Doctors!

This is just a simple mod that changes strings rather than anything else. I was…bothered… by the fact the career implies you go from Paramedic (a career of its own) to Nursing (its own career…) to then a Doctor, when in reality they’re ALL SEPARATE PATHS IN LIFE.

Anyway, this mod just changes a few strings so instead of being a paramedic and a nurse, you go through basic medical school and then become a doctor.

This mod is purely cosmetic so it should be safe to whip in and out and do a jig with it as much as you like. It’s just a string alteration, nothing deeper than that.

I recommend pairing this against a Nursing Career. I like this one.

THIS IS A MOD FOR THE SIMS 2

[ Download on Patreon (Free) ]

#sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 mod

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The gym has become one of my favourite things to do in sims 3 thanks to the work of some amazing creators.

Once again thanks to @phoebejaysims social mod mod my sim now goes to the gym two times per week with a group of friends.

There, they either do some fitness thanks to @olomaya “get pumped”mod, yoga thanks to @twinsimming yoga mod or they have a spin class also crated by @twinsimming.

They always enjoy a post workout snack with @olomaya vending machines and then my favourite part… spa time! The sauna and the mud bath are from @aroundthesims

All the sims showed are pre-made sims made by creators, I should be able to link them or any other cc item showed in the pictures if someone is interested in downloading them :)

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i wish everyone who has lost their mothers, never had mothers, or had to be their own mothers throughout life a very kind and gentle day today. it's not easy.

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My main game is TS3. My "comfort Game" is Skyrim. I have a few other favorites (Cities:Skylines, Garden Paws, Stardew Valley and others), but TS3 and Skyrim are the two I always come back to.

hey simmers reblog this and tell me what's your main sims game AND what's your go-to non-sims comfort game? for example i'm a ts2 simmer but my absolute comfort game is batman: arkham asylum.

#reblog

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Salmon Woods was stunning. Andrew had forgotten how much he loved exploring a place he'd never seen before.

It'd be winter soon. In town they were already advertising the start of the ski season on Great Bear Mountain.

He wondered how Tracy would feel about learning to ski. They could teach the kids to snowboard on the beginner slopes.

He understood why Tracy loved Bluewater Village so much. She'd grown up in Brooklyn Heights and her family had visited her grandparents in the village every summer. To a kid used to the city, the small town by the sea must have seemed magical. 

Then, when she'd moved there to get away from a bad relationship with Tanya's father, it was a safe haven, and an opportunity to raise her child in a place where she had so many happy memories.

But you can make memories anywhere.

He found himself imagining a different future for their family. Moving from base to base, to different towns, even different countries. The army paid all the relocation costs, and they'd never have to worry about building on extra bedrooms because the army would provide a house to suit their family. 

They could keep the Bluewater cottage, maybe rent it out. Maybe it would be a good place to retire some day in the future.

But for now, there was so much more to discover. He just had to find a way to make Tracy see that.

From Tracy

This is all driven by Andrew's midlife crisis wants - along with the want to change career, he's rolled some little, easy to fulfill ones like changing his clothes, and some big ones like travelling to all three World Adventures destinations. So, yeah, the travel bug has bitten.

I've based his career plans off this mod. In TS2, I imagined the military base was in Bluewater Village, and my military sims could only live there. I put a small base in the TS3 version of the village, and later added a bigger one to Salmon Woods, to give me another reason to move some playable sims there. 

We'll catch up with these guys again in a few more story-months.

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Andrew felt like the weeks at the Three Lakes army base were going by almost too quickly.

The training was hard, but he found he loved the challenge.

He'd never been to Three Lakes before so when he finally had some time off, he spent it hiking and exploring the area.

The place was stunning. He'd forgotten how much he loved exploring a new place he'd never seen before

From Tracy

#richmondsims #ts3 #the sims 3 #sims 3 story

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A good few years over 30 and slightly surprised that I'm not the eldest here by far!

calling out all the 30+ yr old simmers..

no shade to the teens and early twenties bloggers but it’s hard finding people within my age group that are active and continue to contribute here in the community. 

also idk if anyone else experiences this but sometimes it can be difficult relating to the younger population due to generational differences, pop culture, etc. 

please reblog or comment if you fall into the 30+ age simblr category.

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It wasn't going quickly.

Not with articles to write and deadlines to keep, and three kids to take care of. 

Sure, she'd been a single mother before, but that had been to just one toddler. 

And that had been without the constant worry about the future that wouldn't go away until Andrew was back home, in the promised office job at the Bluewater base, and everything felt a bit normal again.

If she looked at it objectively, he was right - assuming it all worked out, it would be a great opportunity for them. The pay was good, the benefits were good. 

They wouldn't have to live on base because there was no on-base family accommodation - he'd be paid an allowance to live in their own home. It sounded too good to be true, and that was what worried her the most.

That, and the possibility of Andrew getting a taste of adventure again, and deciding that the quiet family life just wasn't for him. 

She should trust him more, she told herself. But the nagging doubt just wouldn't go away.

From Tracy

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Updated the "Nap in living chairs" mod with a "Set table" option, thanks to @bietjie once again who was able to edit the CC from the wonderfull creators, in an Override (original CC still needed). There are 6 different tablesets and some of them have different presets.

DOWNLOAD at ModTheSims

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"I can't do basic training here. Like I told you, Bluewater base is really just support services. For basic training I have to go to Three Lakes."

"Oh, you are kidding me!" 

"Tracy, it's only three months. Three months, then I'm back home. I work out of the base here. I don't like it either, but it's three months' sacrifice for a better salary, a better future... "

"Do you have any of this confirmed beyond basic training? Do you 100% know that you'll be accepted for support services? That you will be able to come back here and stay here? Do you really know its going to work out or are you just gambling on everything falling in place the way you want it?"

"No, I don't have any of it confirmed. But I went through it with them when they interviewed me. They know I have a home and a family here. They know I'm suited to admin work and I want to be based here. Given that most recruits don't want to be here, they felt there would be no barriers to me doing that. That's the best I could get. So, yeah, maybe it is gambling, but it feels like a fairly sure bet."

"I don't think that's - "

"Where am I going to get another chance like this, Tracy? I'm 30 years old, I'm not qualified to do anything but sell books, and before you say it, yes, it was enough - before. I've got kids now, I've got responsibilities. You're doing great in your job. You'll probably be making more than me in a couple of years, but it shouldn't all be on you. I need to do my bit, too. I had the chance to go to college on a scholarship and I didn't. I've wasted other chances. I don't want to waste this one."

"I don't want to have to choose between living here and us being together. I don't want to have to move halfway across the country just because someone else tells us to. And I don't want you going off somewhere and getting blown up... "

"I'm not going to get blown up."

"You can't promise that."

"Look at me... look... I'm going away for three months. Then I'm coming back. Then I'm working in an office at the army base here in Bluewater Village. It's going to work out. And I'm not going to get blown up."

"How are we going to explain this to the kids?"

"We tell them I'm going away to school, to learn my new job. That's basically the truth. We tell them I'll be back before Christmas... I will be back before Christmas.."

"Christmas is a long way away."

"It'll go quickly. You'll see."

From Tracy

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