#pixelade

[howdysims]

A sims 4 save file.

Hiya, everyone. Long time, no see. Over the past few months.... I have been working on a save file which is completely made up of your sims and builds from the gallery. I have credited each and everyone of your incredible builds and family's, which you will be able to find in the description of every lot. Sadly I have not completed the save.... I was just so rudely interrupted by my daughter being born.... hahaha, I'm just kidding I love her and she is an absolute dream. I still have many family's to place as well as needing to flesh them all out to ensure my save is full of drama, chaos and life. Also needing to complete the worlds of Selvadorada and Evergreen Harbor. I think I can have the save 100% completed by the end of the month as I will absolutely wanna update it for arrival infants and the growing together EP! On the topic of packs.... this save is by no means pack restricted, you will require every single pack apart from the Star Wars one (I refuse to buy it. Unless I can catch it on sale for at least half of its original price.) The save is completely cc free as well. Once I have completed the save I will do a post that also credits everyone!

#the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims #ts4 #ts4 simblr #ts4 save file #sims 4 save file #lilsimsie #aveline #pixelade #simlicy

[loudsilencesims]

HONESTLY SAME THO, MATT.

when I tell you him and I screamed the exact same way— I had to edit it 😭🤌🏽

#ts4 #simblr #sims4 #ts4story #s4 simblr #sims4story #simstory #sims 4 #simsstory #thesims4 #pixelade #sims #sims news #sims meme #meme #sims summit

[kailyano]

#my life #pixelade #drinks

[theeflowerofcarnage]

The only horses we’re getting r rocking horses they’d probably ripped off that idea from pandasama 😭

#even then it’s a big IF probably be decorational too 🤕 #nah I’m a pixelade hater #CANT STAND HIM

[seventytwoowls]

I'm getting the sneaking suspicion EA isn't extensive testing of new Sims releases because they're spending all their recourses on pushing out as much DLC as possible so they can shake all the money from the few fans they have left

#I'm obessed with the pronoun update but the aging glitch is upsetting #And other problems from Pixelade's video

[its-opheliasgarden]

Sharing this from video I saw from Pixelade. In summary, EA stays showing their ass with this pack....

#ts4 #the sims 4 #ts4 expansion pack #ts4 for rent

[genuinelyjustjd]

DO NOT GET THE SIMS 4 FREE RELEASE

For those of you who do not play the sims 4, there’s a massive scandal hiding under EA’s belt.

The company has been lying to all the active players in the game.

To say it simply, the game has been officially broken for a long time now. There’s reports of many game-breaking bugs, many disgusting items, and far too many cash grabs. 

They have been releasing new content left and right without even bothering to fix the broken content. You know who is fixing this content? Sims’ unpaid modding community.

These amazing individuals are doing all this work, for free, because they love the game. At this point, I wouldn’t imagine playing the game unmodded. These brilliant creators pour in time to fix things that the own developers haven’t even addressed. They are the best of the community, ESPECIALLY those who offer their services for free.

But EA? Maxis? They’re full of shit right now. There’s threats of a “battle pass” being added to a game. What do I mean, “Battle Pass”? You know, that thing in mobile games that won’t let you access the whole game unless you’ve paid money for it. THE SIMS 4 IS CONSIDERING PUTTING IT INTO THE GAME. Though you’ll be able to get the base game packs, chances are, there will be MORE locked in game that you can only get through money. Expansion packs cost 40$. And yet, MOST OF THEM ARE STILL BROKEN. They will not bother to fix their mistakes and instead keep offering cash grab after cash grab to boost money.

You don’t hear from outside the community how dangerously this game has broken. You all remember the legend of No Man’s Sky? That one supposedly amazing game that got rushed and ended up failing miserably because of bugs an the like? Imagine that, but on a bigger scale in an already established community. Base game is broken. You can see your toddlers morph into disgusting creatures before your eyes, with no semblance of continuity. Your game can take forever to load, up to five minutes to get into Create a Sim. Your sim will sometimes actively ignore you. These are the minor things. 

Other things that can happen in game is a whole shutdown of the game if it doesn’t like an action you made your sim do. It can and will corrupt your save. That cute family you spent 3 months grinding on? All gone.

Now, the company behind the game has made it a typical money grabber. They do not hire playtesters anymore, making content creators and us, the players, being the ones to say, “Hey! This is broken!” And they take weeks to fix it, if they ever do.

A good voice of complaint comes from Pixelade’s channel on youtube, as he has been very, VERY vocal in letting the community know that the sims 4 doesn’t care much about the players anymore. A comment under his video “MANIPULATION TACTICS?!...”, by user “You like Krabby Patties, don’t you, Squidward,” has brought a lot of weight into a true perspective into this argument. 

> “ oh i absolutely agree that this is just a publicity stunt and distraction tactic. if they cared, they'd address the elephant in the room, which at this point isn't even us complaining about the bugged-to-hell, barely-playable-if-playable-AT-ALL mess of a game TS4 has become: it's literally just asking for any kind of acknowledgement of our problems. if a company won't give you something that should not only be the bare minimum, but is the single most important part of ANY company - transparency - then you know you can't trust them even the tiniest bit. this was just the last straw for me. i didn't trust them before. now, no matter what they do, they can never earn that trust back. 6+ weeks of some players unable to play the game at all, a game they could have paid hundreds or even over a thousand dollars for (and not even as a result of DLC they chose to purchase but from a free basegame patch!!) and SILENCE from EA...it's unacceptable. and if they think a free kit is going to make up for that (free basegame doesn't count for anything, because simmers experiencing problems with the game clearly already own that. this is them trying to dupe new players into thinking "wow, the basegame for free AND a free kit! what a great company!") then they're sorely fucking mistaken. and then, the cherry on top - some can't even download the free kit! “ 

I truly think that this game, something built with love in the beginning, has turned into a flaming pile of dogshit. They do not care about the players, anymore. The shareholders are the only thing keeping the game going. They have lied to us, bribed us, and to make matters worse, hurt a whole community whose main monetary source comes from making this game better. If I had knew this would be the fate of this game, I never would’ve bought it. Never. Please, those of you considering to get this free version, please reconsider. Look into the problems. If you decide that you can live with them, no fault to you. But do not expect the game it was back in 2018. Do not expect transparency. Let these companies, EA and Maxis, finally understand how they’ve fucked up. And if they don’t change it?

Let them burn.

#the sims 4 #ts4 #maxis #ea #capitalism #warning #ts4cc #modding community #cc #s4cc #sims 4 #eat the rich #neglect #manipulation #the sims 4 mods #sims 4 mods #sims #sims 4 custom content #petition included in 2nd reblog #modders

[silphwave]

Hi! That other anon that asked you if you've taken classes about pixel art made me wonder what other experience you have with art. Are you self taught? What kinds of art have you practiced before pixel art? I'm curious because your style of pixel art and use of color is so unique and striking.

Hey, I appreciate the interest. I studied Fine Art at university, although I learned zero knowledge about any traditional techniques such as colour theory, composition etc. The art school was sadly obsessed with conceptual art. They didn't care if you could draw, paint, sculpt or craft with skill and beauty; only the message mattered. In hindsight I should have expected this, I didn't really have a message, just a mood.

I still remember one of the senior lecturers looking at the work hanging up in my art studio and he sighed "Hmmmm, it's just a bit too nice isn't it?". Then he sat me down and began asking "What do you hate? You should make some art about that..." He then proceeded to try and get me to make social and political art, which has never been in my nature. Art is a relaxing hobby for me, a form of escapism, a happy place away from the world. So I continued what I was doing regardless, making surrealist collages from vintage magazines and old books and scraped a bare minimum pass.

I went under the online alias of "Dharma_Collage" from about 2014-18. Maybe there's still some remnants of work online (I'll see if I can find any to add to this post). It slowly transitioned into the work I'm doing now as I used the old collaging techniques to make my first Pokémon art. I don't think I learned anything practical from art school that's helped with the art I make now, it's just been purely led by following my own interests and making what excites and motivates me. The Internet has endless help and resources for anyone willing to learn on their own.

As for pixel art, I seen some pixel art online and just instantly thought to myself "Wow, I want to make that!". So I briefly studied and researched and then jumped head first into it and just kept putting in the hours. Started small, using pixel apps on my phone etc and gradually upped the scale and complexity. I had another page called "Pixelad" for about 6 months before Silphwave, I'll add a few of those earlier images here too for comparison.

When something doesn't look right, whether it be colours, composition, texture, font etc it really offends my brain. There's some kind of OCD factor that compels me to fix what I'm looking at. Most of my art is rearranging and recolouring things until it no longer annoys me. Almost like some feng shui process, especially for the cluttered album cover type designs I make.

I always liked drawing things as a kid, we didn't have much money for toys, game consoles or Pokémon cards etc; so I'd make my own. I filled a notebook with my own Pokémon gameboy experience, I drew locations on every page and made teams for dozens of trainers and gym leaders I'd fight along the way and had extensive stat tallies for all my Pokémon that were constantly getting erased and updated. It was basically a one man D&D adventure 😅 I'd make my own Harry Potter wands and Witches and Wizard cards or LotR weapons and maps. This kind of lore expanding, creating fan art was pretty much ingrained in me from an early age. Maybe that's why the nostalgic theme is ever present through my art as that's essentially what I'm doing, reliving and continuing my childhood.

(Sorry for the long convoluted answer, I found it helpful for organising my thoughts. You've prompted me to think of some things I hadn't considered before, thank you)

[andichoseyou]

philly night two!!! lets goooo! its almost time !

#eras tour

[iplaysims4]

Y’ALL!!!

And is that a birth mark on her arm!!!

Via: Pixelade

#The baby carrier #the drinking water #the birth mark on arm #the EVERYTHING!!! #TS4 #THESIMS4 #GROWING TOGETHER

[mosneakers]

Which g-shade do you recommend?

Hello <3 So I tend to change up presets so much that I'm not sure it even counts as the original base preset anymore, but I just used these as a base, by pixelade :)

I just like to keep my settings minimal. Just enough to add a little AO, DOF, clarity, some saturation, and a little brightness. (careful when turning up brightness though, we don't want to lighten those beautiful dark-skinned simmies!)

#ask #anon #wcif

[marsmerizing-sims]

Can We Talk?

Warning: this is gonna be a long post.

I just want to let out some of my thoughts today. I thought my day couldn’t be worse when I found out that the Indonesian government blocks so many websites and one of them is Paypal. They blocked Paypal right in the moment when I need to withdraw some money. And this also means the payouts from my Patreon is stuck on the website too, since I can’t find other e-wallet that is supported by the web. AND THEN, I watched Pixelade’s video this morning, informing us that The Sims has new policy regarding mods and cc. Based on the information, I am not sure if they still allow early access or not. If not.... I just don’t know what to do with my life anymore. Looking for office job is hard, and I have anxiety issue when I am in a professional situation (like in working situation with other professionals), I had talk with a psychologist, they said I might had traumatized, but I still don’t know for sure. So, being able to make something from working--literally by myself, alone in my room, is a safe place for me. And I’m loving it!

Okay, that’s enough about my mental. Next, I want to say, I am sorry. I didn’t know that in TS4 2017′s policy, creators are allowed to set ‘early access’ cc but only for 2-3 weeks. You may already know that I have “early access” and “instant access” system on my Patreon page. The “early access” one is 3 to 4 weeks locked for public dl and “instant access” can be 2 months locked for tier 1&2, and 4 months locked for public audience. This maybe will sound like excuses, but hear me out.

At first I just have 2 accesses on my Patreon page, right? public download and 2 other tiers with the same benefit. Everyone has 1 new downloadable cc post every once a week. And then on the other hand, I never stop making CC from monday to sunday, so I had so many unpublished CC on hand. I wanted to stick to my original plan which was new cc every Saturday, but I am very impatient to share (or I lowkey want to show off (///>__<///)) my creations! LOL. So,  that’s why the tier 3 was created. It was created to not mess up with my original schedule. Why do I persist to stick with the plan, you asked? Because I want to make sure tier 1&2, and the public audience have something new to download every weekend.

I’m so confuse. What if I keep uploading instant contents for my tier 3 Patreon supporters without telling you and the world (by not publishing any promotion post regarding the new instant contents)? LOL. When there are only 3 people in my tier 3 Patreon (lol again)--would you still find it somewhat unfair, upsetting, and abusing the policy?

I promise, *crossed my heart* I’m gonna make a change about the 4 weeks locked content for public audience. and make it 2 to 3 weeks locked. And also, public audience will have the full access to the swatches for the future downloads. Because apparently, CC creators have to give our creations for free, in full, eventually. That’s what I understand. Anyways, I hope that “early access” is still allowed. AAAANNNDDD... those pictures above, none of the CC is released yet. Thank you so much for wasting your time reading this. Please DM me or leave a comment to cheer me up, or may be a word of advice. Peace and love! <3

#the sims 4 #lets talk #lets chat #sims 4 #s4 #thesims4cc #s4cc #sims4cc #sims 4 cc creator #s4 cc creator

[ophernelia]

are you gonna watch the horse livestream tomorrow??

I didn't even know it was tomorrow! Hmm probably won't watch it live, but if Pixelade streams his reaction, then I'll rewatch his stream. If I miss it though, tell me if they mention the ceilings! And if the horses are buggy and every other glitch lol.

#pls feel free to use my ask box as a public forum. whether u hate it or love it i wanna know!!! #asks

[bobapplesimblr]

Finally trying out GShade! So far I love it!!

I’m currently using Pixelade’s presets, and these pictures haven’t been altered in any way after being taken! (not even cropped, sorry)

#gshade #cute photos #I also got a selfie replacement!!

[chickawah23]

Any good link chick?

Here are some.

#anons #tswizzle on tourizzle

[thefoxburyinstitute]

hello i have a question:

i’ve seen some simmers talking about something named gshade i was wondering if you know the link to the gshade that’s compatible for the sims 4? and maybe a tutorial? bc i tried looking it up for the sims 4 and i’ve only seen videos about the regular reshade.

pixelade made a video and it has a tutorial on how to install it for sims 4