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[neon-danger]

I was so depressed the first few days I cleaned my entire room and rearranged it to not think about it anymore lmao. Now I'm thinking about it again and I'm just, trying to quantify exactly what the fuck I'd need to redo and I just feel demotivated so I just work on art instead. At least I was smart enough to keep all my art on a fucking flash drive years ago and I make a backup of that every couple weeks or so.

If I lost all that, I'd go on a rampage. I could find a specific scales overlay for mermaid Sims on page 17 of a Tumblr blog last updated in 2015 again, I couldn't redo even a day or two of art. I've updated mods so much that I learned patterns of what breaks the most. I basically gave up on custom careers, they break so much. Traits break a lot too. And outside of like WW and Basemental, small random niche adult mods are so fucking buggy and prone to just breaking everything and I suffer it all just for the sake of it, but also blame them first when things break, and I'm usually right.

I don’t actually have too many niche adult mods besides The Main Ones

I have the omegaverse mod 🫢 but it’s not necessarily Adult. They only just recently made it work with ww

I find that custom social events break everything every single update :/ not cool at all

I can usually pinpoint which mod is breaking my game using process of elimination. I don’t usually download script mods in bulk so it’s usually not too hard

Anything that changes or alters the ui pisses me off because it breaks even for minor updates

I cannot live without ui cheats tho

#I don’t care about the sims gameplay I care about the sims story telling #maybe I’d care about the gameplay if there was gameplay to care about #but there simply is not #🫠 #neon answers #lightning plays the sims #neon plays the sims

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God I'd say the same age but that means 12 years of wandering. Lets round it down to a nice even 10 years.

lmao, I appreciate it, but I do have older versions of everything. Of course I am constantly tweaking shit, generally outfits, I know I had spent a lot of time on outfits for Jack in between all the jewelry stuff and getting bugged by his parents, and I didn't even bother showing my friend all of them as I called them 'boring'. Well I liked them. It's my mod folder I'm most distressed by as I did a lot of organizing and updating and removing in two months. I could see myself spending a few days ingame fixing stuff and getting to mostly the same results. My mods folder tho, god, I had FINALLY got it to make my game a bit less laggy, I learned that my biggest lag issue was outdated moodlets usually from outdated traits, so I managed to figure out like one by one what traits were outdated or old that added moodlets and also which ones didn't have updates and I had to reluctantly pull the trigger on, and some took way too goddamned long to find, and not to mention sorting my entire Build/Buy folder too like 2 days before my SSD killed itself, and removing a lot of excess junk I did not need or want. Goddamnit, why didn't I just make a more recent backup. I know I can scroll through Discord servers, Patreon, and a few other websites and find most updates and new things again, but that's only like a third of it. Why do I do this to myself. Oh and the stuff I edited??? I'm pretty sure I didn't put all of it in my projects folder. The dumb thing is too, all the mods I was taking out, I put THEM in a folder in another drive. I have those. Oh boy. How helpful. I mean, they kinda are, but also, not at the same time. :^)

God I can���t imagine organizing my mod folder just for it to die on me

I think I’d throw myself in front of a bus tbh

Keeping mods updated is already such a nightmare and I already almost never update my mods

#I have so much broken cc it’s not even funny #and I just leave it like that #for why #neon answers #lightning plays the sims #neon plays the sims

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Wow, actual direction leads to good ideas and helpful references. I sound sarcastic but it is a good idea. You know in 3 months after I either get things restored or brute-force redo things ahaha. I've been messed up for a few weeks too so don't worry about it.

Tbh I’ve been going about my life with no directions since I turned 18 so ur not alone

#neon answers #if you can’t get ur jalex sims back I can always post mine on the gallery #I think I have All Time Low posted on the gallery #but it’s olde now #and I have too many slider mods downloaded #and some uhhh #niche mods #I love a good body blush for sims too ugh #I need to download my highlighters because tbh that one highlighter the sims added is SOOOOO good #I should just redo my all time low sims in their entirety tbh #that was like #at least a year ago #also I used mods for their eyebrows so when they download they have NO EYEBROWS #and by no eyebrows I mean regular sized eyebrows #it’s terrifying #lightning plays the sims #neon plays the sims

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I take way too fucking many screenshots, it's like a problem. My issue with building is that I stubbornly always want to start from scratch and the only references I have are my own head and my not very strong will to not make every house I build a gothic vampire haven. It's hard to get inspiration and ideas when the only references I have are fuzzy memories forged at 3 AM two Wednesdays ago while lying in bed half-asleep. That being said, it would probably do me some good to not make things harder for myself.

My 'comfort building' is making aforementioned vampire havens, or really messy and dirty homes. Or a home that looks like someone died in it. I really like 'themes', it's just that all my themes are edgy.

Probably the biggest restaurant issue is just that I made it too big. I wanted to fill a space in Del Sol Valley and it's a huge space so I wanted a big fancy rich person restaurant. But it has a lot of empty space, and a pool, and my employees are often distracted by staring at the paintings on the walls or god forbid dancing to music. I am horrific at filling empty space or just allowing empty space to prosper. I prefer smaller lots so I don't go mad trying to fill every single tile. I don't play as a restaurant owner either. I just visit sometimes either from Sims asking for dates there or for fun.

I like to look at Pinterest photos for decor too because it’s so fucking hard to have good ideas

If my living room is too big I’ll add a conversation pit

For jalex houses I usually go with a mix of modern and contemporary styles with some neon lightning integrated in and always at least one lava lamp on the lot

I recommend the edit lights in build mode mod because it has changed my builds so much

Even just looking at different decor for inspiration is so so helpful to give you an idea of what to build towards

#neon answers #I’m at work rn so I can’t answer the whole ask #it’s been a rough week for me

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I keep EVERYTHING and it's probably why I keep running out of space to keep backups as my screenshots folder is about as big as mods folder and if not for me constantly taking out old saves to ALSO backup it would also be as massive. I really need to get like a massive drive that won't kill itself on me and put a million backups in there. I have no shame, I share shit with friends too and I have screenshots going back to my old crappy laptop in 2018. God I want bands so bad in Sims 4. I have modded drums but they are not the same, and they also broke pianos for me at the same time. I use Clubs as makeshift bands but it's not THE SAME and I've heard everyone sing and play guitar so many times I can just tell who is doing it despite all Sims having the same singing voice for some reason. I just KNOW who is more likely to just start singing or pull out a guitar and start doing it and who is more often distracted by flirting.

I'm inconsistent with building as it takes me forever to make a layout and it makes me doubt myself endlessly and I hate making roofs. But I like furnishing and doing layouts, I just try so hard to avoid making boxes that I give myself pain trying to make it 'interesting'. Which usually just means L shapes, how exciting and different. I think I've played too much Minecraft as I do the exact same fucking thing there.

I also can't build anything but houses. Every time I built anything else it failed spectacularly. I keep my awful restaurant because Alex works there and it's fun to sexually harass him at work and restaurants seem to work better without mods meant to fix them for some fucking reason for me, but I built a park once and it was so awful I deleted it from existence. WHY did that mod make restaurants break for me, chefs never showed up but waiters still did, so DUMB. It's supposed to make them work better, but it works better without it.

I feel like some of my friends would be chill with me sharing my save file screenshots but like,,, I don’t take that many

I use the in game camera so my sims can have memories and that’s usually what’s clogging my screenshot folder tbh

Anytime I use screenshots it’s more for story telling

I use a lot of Pinterest floor plans that I’ll usually modify to fit my needs. I have a comfort build that’s basically just My Happy Place with an entirely made up floor plan based on a maladaptive daydream universe I still can’t completely let go of. When life is really bad I put myself sim in with my para parents and just,,,, heal my inert child

Tbh even looking at architecture for inspiration can help in creating your own floor plans as well

A lot of ea floor plans are complete shit so I’ll go in and fix it without editing the ea shell

My only dine out issues are the constant resetting of my sims and the unreasonably long wait times so I haven’t ever really used any dine out fixes. I don’t normally play as a restaurant owner tho so maybe that’s why.

I’ve been really into midcentury architecture lately so I built a 1970s diner the other day but yeah it was not cute

Anyone who can build a restaurant is talented fr

#I’ve found that room building is a lot easier if I just don’t make all the rooms perfect rectangles #I love a good accent wall #my issues is I usually put the big giant windows that cover the whole wall #and then I have to work around that with the interior walls #+ there’s no where to put large furniture pieces without blocking windows #I should build my comfort house again #maybe that will cure me #neon answers #lightning plays the sims #neon plays the sims

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realizing the reason im so unfazed but infamous fics like the milk fic because of ✨ medical trauma ✨

#repressed trauma who #I’ve never actually perceived it as traumatic until now #when I was 12 it was just an invasive procedure #ten years later I’m in tears realizing I never should’ve had to go through that #neon vented #neon speeks

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Tell me why I didn't make a more recent folder backup than March 10th for my SSD with all my Sims saves and mods to die on me randomly overnight about 12 days ago and only yesterday did I get a new drive.

Am I really gonna spend hundreds to recover data from it? Yes. Yes I am. Am I gonna figure out a system to automatically backup that folder every fucking night afterwards? Yes. March 10th isn't terrible but it also is. Telling you as who else is gonna understand this plight lmao. Explaining the importance of this on the phone to some guy working at a company for data recovery was something else. Yes Sims saves and mods and screenshots are that important to me. Why is my most recent screenshot in my backups of Alex and Jack fucking, why. I'm sorry data recovery people you're gonna see my Sims fucking 100 ways to Sunday. I guess I have excuses to write and work on art in the meantime. I seem to have Sims 2 and 3 and Castaway Stories backups that are up to date as I haven't played those in while but I have to reinstall them all again and I am so sick of setting up my graphics card in 20 different text files for every Sims 3 pack man. Maybe in half a year when I get bored enough.

Relevantly I've probably said this before as I repeat myself a lot but I use Sims builds for story references so much, I usually try to imagine a baseline in my head first and then build something based on it and fully flesh it out so I can better imagine rooms and shit in writing in something rigid versus it always shifting around based on fuzzy memory. Plus it gives me an excuse to use all the super specific CC I've made. It's even made good art refs as I am fucking terrible at architecture and perspective.

My guy I would choose DEATH before letting ANYBODY see my jalex sims fucking you are braver than any US marine fr

Like I started reading this like “dude I set up my apocalyptic save file the day before the last patch update so I feel you” but your WHOLE DRIVE??? I’d die. I’d start fresh. I am never getting that save back and that’s unfortunate but I will fr die before I let any tech people see my sims save

Tbf I start new saves all the time so like not as big a deal to me, but I also just,,, don’t hold onto my screenshots

Like I’m deleting that folder every three days because there’s no way in hell it’s getting seen

That and I take a lot of accidental screenshots

As for builds, there’s probably been a sims 4 build for every single building, house, apartment, dorm, or motel room for every fic I’ve ever written INCLUDING oneshots

My attention span is negative two so I will start a build, get an idea for another build and leave the first build unfinished until I get bored with the next three builds and that is entirely reflected in my writing as well

#I fr hope you get your save back #all those mods 💀💀💀💀 #I have a long running save file now which is CRAZY but all I really had to do was let my game become a little unhinged #rip sim Travis Barker you would’ve loved the sims 4 bands pack were never gonna get #I want a bands pack for the sims 4 SO FUCKING BAD #they’re gonna do bands so dirty and it’ll NEVER WORK #but I need drums in my sims four game #it’s not a want it’s a need #neon answers #lightning plays the sims

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thinking about the joker and moon knight ask

who sent that

#really? #on my jalex fanfic blog? #not in my lobby #I fr stopped my sims game to type out my whole response for why #I’m not mad obviously bc it was pretty silly but like #did they send it to the wrong person #is there more than one neondanger #that’s a stupid question because I know there is #neondanger was taken #so I’m actually neon.danger #I think #I wonder if the real neondanger runs a Batman blog #neon answers #sort of #neon speeks

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what do I make the last two (2) rooms in my sims’ house

#it’s like a modern style #I got a master bedroom #a guest bedroom #a game room #A Secret Room #An Office #neon asks

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#excuse me what #i’m crying actually #neon speeks #jalex

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me when I wrote 1000 words last night, but tired me decided they weren’t good enough, and now those words are all gone

#if I remember correctly it was a thousand words of me just #not getting to the point #unreliable narrator who #neon speeks #neon cries on main

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sims build anon wya

#me trying not to be like GIVE ME THE BUILD #because I’ve yet to give yall an update #and that would be very hypocritical of me #that being said #I WANT TO SEE THE BUILD #on time I turned in a sims 4 build for a set building project in my tech theater class #in my defense #it was 2020 #and my teacher gave me full credit #and probably added it to her examples #neon answers #sort of

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Idea:

Joker meets Moon Knight, the only person who is, arguably, even crazier than he is.

Joker decides to fuck around, and he finds out way too quickly for his liking.

For context; Taskmaster won't fight him because MK fucking 9-11'ed him in order to kill him. Also, he will just tank a punch or a bullet rather than block it if it means he can shoot you faster.

This is not an exaggeration, Moon Knight really did hit the tower Taskmaster was in with a plane to try to kill him. He teaches his students that if they see MK, to fucking book it instead of engaging him, because he's functionally immortal due to a God not letting him die, and has absolutely zero self-preservation skills. Also multiple personality disorder.

Moon Knight has dissociative identity disorder and spends the entire season learning to function with it, and ultimately decides that he needs all of his personalities in his life???

Moon Knight is also not in the same insanity boat as Joker. Joker’s insanity is very hard to pinpoint because he knows right from wrong, he just likes to do bad things. The Joker is the ultimate wild card, he has no real perceived motive except to oppose Batman. He’s themed after a clown, is not suspected to have an identity outside of the Joker, and it’s mostly unknown if he was really a normal guy before he “fell” into a vat of acid.

Moon Knight has a trauma based disorder that he learns to manage. His motive is to serve his god or whatever and to protect others (I actually wasn’t paying that much attention to the show) he’s functionally less “crazy” than the Joker in that he has perceived morals

Calling Moon Knight “crazy” is also a wild take because you can clearly see why and how he developed his disorder. If we’re using “crazy” to define “insanity” then I’m not sure Moon Knight is at all crazy, or if he even meets the criteria for insanity.

All of Moon Knights Personality function as “normal” people, there’s just more than one of them in the body.

Joker can only be described as “insane” because it’s impossible to navigate what disorders he has, or if he’s made up his behavior for his perceived villain persona.

That being said, I’m not quite understanding what the idea here is, or why it’s relevant to my page, which is where I post Jalex fanfiction

#like it’s fine we can talk about joker and moon knight #I don’t actually know a whole lot about the comics for either of them #but call Moon Knight crazier than joker again and I’ll ban you #this is 2024 we’re accepting people’s disorders #and allowing them to exist in the same spaces as the rest of us #joker is also a supervillain and moon knight is a uh #I’m gonna go with good aligned vigilante #joker actually isn’t even super #he’s just a villain #moon knight is super though #neon answers #but fr are you on the right page #I think you got the wrong guy

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What do you think will be the next thing you post?

Dude it could be anything from the one I started yesterday to a fic I haven’t updated in over a year

#I can’t see the future bro #I don’t even remember what the last update was #my ability to plan my writing updates is so bad #that I start a chapter thinking it’ll take me a week at most #and then I get writers block and don’t update for a year #I have the attention span of a goldfish on acid #like the goldfish cracker #and joker acid #like a vat of joker acid #neon answers

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When you are writing a one shot how long does it normally take you to finish it?

Bro I’ve had some of these in the works since January i think

#like it could take anywhere from three hours to three months #I do not have a writing schedule or an update schedule #I write for free so I write when I feel like it #it do be like that sometimes #neon answers

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@ Motown anon I fucking love you so much right now

#ur my new best friend #ily anon #neon answers #sort of

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I’d tell you the world I’m building in but it would give it away! I finally got the shell somewhere I’m happy with, trying to find the balance between lore and playability.

I wanna know so bad 😭😭😭

#I’m so excited 😭😭😭😭 #I love sims builds sm #I can’t tell you how many vampire castles I’ve built #neon answers