#the Maldanos

[hiddengnomes]

The Maldano ranch in appaloosa plains.

#ts3 #sims 3 #the sims 3 #ts3 gameplay #ts3 legacy #the maldanos legacy #the maldanos #the maldanos 5 #did i spell that right?? xD

[poisonfireleafs]

7 makeovered townies!

Made for the 'Give me six townies to makeover' challenge

Feel free to ask about their cc!

TOU: Don’t change their facial features and don’t reupload. Please tag me if you use them.

Marigold Maldano | Argus Brown | Jon Lessen | Morrigan Hemlock | Lina Lancaster | Blair Wainwright | Lotta Greaves

#sim dl #s3cc #ts3cc #the sims 3 #townies makeover #marigold maldano #argus brown #jon lessen #morrigan hemlock #lina lancaster #blair wainwright #lotta greaves

[thepettymachine]

I was playing with Clyde's save and he fell for Marigold Maldano. I don't have intentions to continue playing his save but I really like Marigold's revamp.... soo Moonlight Falls revamps are underway..

#sims #sims 3 #ts3 #also don't ask me where that skirt is from #i don't know and i don't plan on looking for it #i just have it from like years ago cc merged file from 2014 so im really not looking for it #have i finished the bridgeport ones yes but haven't fully released all of them #the next ones is definitely twinbrook and moonlight falls though i dont know when though #ts3 gameplay #marigold maldano

[necile]

Theda met up with Marigold, and shockingly, wasn't attracted to her at all. Their "date" was incredibly short.

#necile plays ts3 #ts3 #the sims 3 #lepacy #cromwell legacy #cromwell gen 5 #moonlight falls #theda cromwell #marigold maldano

[simspaghetti]

Simblr Gratitude Day!

Hello! Sorry this is a day late because I was really busy with deadlines over the last few days - I didn't even know this event was going on until I was tagged! 😭😭

I still want to express my love for some wonderful simblrs, and hopefully give you some new recommendations on some great blogs you should be following!! 🥰🥰 rather than clogging up everyone's inboxes a day late, I thought I'd just tag you all here (in no particular order!) <3

@kevinvoncrastenburg - you're such a lovely positive light in this community, I also love your scenery posts, the architecture of your builds looks so realistic and is really inspiring to me!

@erasabledinosaur - you always have such beautiful screenshots, I'm so inspired by your gameplay! Thank you for the work you do on creating reshade presets as well they're always so gorgeous!

@llamaheart - I love how alive your sims feel, they all have really in-depth personalities, I recently read through the Halen lepacy from start to finish and it made me want to start my own!! I'm so inspired by the way that you play :)

@sushiikinsss - you're always so supportive of my blog, if you ever post simblr content i know i would love it, you're so creative!! love you lots 💞💞

@appellosimae - i love the style of your gameplay! it feels so cosy and cute, and i've been reading your lepacy recently and loving it! I really like the fact that you include the premades in your gameplay, it leads to so much drama which is so entertaining!

@hiddengnomes - I'm so so inspired by your gameplay and screenshots, your interior design skills specifically are so on point I'm always striving to make my interiors as good as yours! The way you take screenshots could be an ad for sims 3 honestly, reading through the Maldanos makes me want to play my own game!

@twinsimming - thank you for your hard work making mods they're always such great additions to my game!! I specifically really really loved the acne mod, it's a feature that I'd always wanted in sims 3, I used to roll the chance it would occur and manually place it on my sims before your mod came along, so it really revolutionised the way that I play in such a good way! haha

@thesweetsimmer111 - you have created some of my favourite mods for sims 3, I'm so grateful for the work that you do and I use all of them in my game!! I specifically love how fluid the animations are and how they all feel like a really natural addition to the base game <3

@horusmenhosetix - there's not many cc creators like you making maxis-match content for sims 3 anymore, and I use so much of your cc in my game because I LOVE the way it looks! I really appreciate the work that you do for the community!! thank you for your hard work and your beautiful creations <3

@nectar-cellar - thank you for your beautiful cc and tutorials, i've learned so much from your tutorials on how to take good looking screenshots and set up amazing looking lighting, I also love the way that you create sims! They always look like real people because of how unique and detailed their faces are, I'm so inspired by your style!

@faeriefrolic - your sims are SO cute omg, i'm loving reading the jam legacy and the way that you create so much drama with your sims, it's something I'm trying to incorporate more of in my gameplay because I feel like I stray away from having any conflict, but I love how there's deaths, romance and so many emotions flying around in your gameplay! It makes it feel so much more real, dynamic and entertaining to read! <3

@obscurus-noctem - every time a post of yours pops up it looks like a totally different game than sims 3, I'm so in awe of the way that you're able to create sims to be so detailed and compose screenshots to be so beautiful - i LOVE deb belinski as well she's such an icon

@sim-songs - thank you for your gorgeous maxis-match cc, i also love your gameplay style, the composition of colours on your screenshots makes them feel like a cosy warm hug and i love that your sims have such unique faces, it makes them feel like real people!

@magiclabs - i love the way that you take screenshots, they're always so colourful and cosy - I love the Fitch legacy, your gameplay is so maxis match and cute it always makes me wanna go on a cc shopping spree and then go play my own game! The way that you decorate lots is also so detailed and inspiring <3

@papermint-airplane - your scenery screenshots are just so incredibly beautiful, i also love the dialogue on your gameplay posts it feels so realistic and is always so funny! you're such a warm light in the community <3

@mosneakers - the Darling legacy will always be such a big inspiration behind my gameplay - the way that your sims look so eccentric and your screenshots feeling so magical has always been something that i strive for in my own gameplay - your incredible storytelling abilities are also unmatched, whenever i read through your stories they always manage to pull at every different emotion in me! <3

@frostedshore - i LOVE your sims style and your gameplay screenshots are always so well composed, i also really like how when you makeover sims you keep their original personalities shining through, your version of Bella Goth specifically is probably my favourite makeover I've ever seen of her - I love how you captured her essence as a femme fatale which is what I've always imagined her as!

@thepettymachine - your gameplay inspires me so much, the trout legacy and the day legacy are some of my favourite gameplays on simblr to sit and read through! Your sims are also always GORGEOUS and I love love love your sims style!

I'm really sorry if I left anyone out, I'm bad at remembering names! But I just wanted to say a really big thank you and send lots of love to anyone who has interacted with my blog at all this year, even though the sims 3 community is small, it has the support and love of so many people it feels so full of joy, I'm sending hugs to all the people who are a part of this wonderful community and am grateful for anyone who enjoys my gameplay / blog in whatever form that takes 💞💞💞

#simblr gratitude day #other peoples sims #sims rambling

[exhabigou]

he also met someone! his name is gladsten farmwell and his bio is ... a little funny. he is definitely tobias' type though!

Gladsten isn't a werewolf, but he kind of looks like one. And he's just as strong, virile and irresistible. He feels most at home on a long hike in the woods with fishing pole in hand, off to catch some yummy fish. He's not much of a cook though… so his catch of the day usually ends up as the charcoal of the day! Gladsten has some trouble settling down too. What might be a promising relationship usually ends before it gets started due to one superficial reason or another. The most recent casualty was Marigold Maldano, who burnt a big, beautiful salmon.

#ts3 #the sims 3 #ts3 gameplay #tobias martell. #he's non committal and loves outdoors #and looks like a pretty good cuddler iykyk sadjhsjkdg #tobias is in love

[teekapoa]

Noa found a 'more then friend' in Marigold Maldano

#noa poe vlahos #mini gaming challenge #poe vlahos #poe vlahos gen4 #ts3 #the sims 3

[mariacallous]

On a recent evening, Micaela Maldano unfurled a blanket in a public park in El Jagüel, a poor suburb of Buenos Aires. On it, the 28-year-old arranged used clothes, a mate tea gourd, and a backpack—secondhand household goods she hoped to trade directly for food. “It’s getting harder and harder to eat,” Maldano said. “There are tons of people who are hungry.” She called the taste of meat, an Argentine staple, a “distant memory.”

Maldano is not alone. More Argentines are resorting to desperate measures such as bartering to put food on their tables as the country weathers an economic crisis. Financial tumult has long been part of life in Argentina, which ended 2023 with an annual inflation rate of more than 200 percent. But humble households such as Maldano’s have fallen into deeper precarity since far-right libertarian President Javier Milei was inaugurated last December. Maldano rents an apartment with her boyfriend, and the two rely mostly on his salary and informal trades to get by.

Days after taking office, Milei devalued the Argentine peso by more than 50 percent, and already sky-high inflation rates ascended even further. Since then, the cost of gas in Argentina has roughly doubled. Food prices have risen by roughly 50 percent, according to official government data. Health care costs have increased at a similar clip. Around the two-month mark of Milei’s presidency, Argentina’s annual inflation rate topped 250 percent, surpassing that of Venezuela to become the highest in Latin America.

As the price hikes intensified, Milei slashed subsidies for services ranging from transportation to utilities, honoring his campaign pledge to take a metaphorical “chainsaw” to public spending. The move put even more pressure on Argentines’ pocketbooks.

On the campaign trail, Milei—a political outsider—suggested abolishing Argentina’s central bank and dollarizing its economy, outlandish proposals that raised eyebrows among observers. But in office, his strategy has so far been more conventional: a fiscal adjustment plan designed to reverse longstanding government deficits through budget cuts and tax hikes. The president has described his austerity package, a significant departure from the Argentine tradition of reckless government spending, as “shock therapy.”

“It’s a fairly traditional approach to stabilization,” said Benjamin Gedan, the director of the Latin America Program at the Wilson Center. “That doesn’t mean it’s not dramatic and high stakes. … It’s an act of either political courage or political suicide.”

For everyday citizens, Milei’s austerity has been devastating. Salaries and pensions have not come close to keeping up with inflation. Workers’ purchasing power fell by roughly 14 percent month-over-month at the end of 2023, a contraction not seen in decades. Demand for food at soup kitchens is surging. A study released earlier this month from the Catholic University of Argentina estimates that the country’s poverty rate surpassed 57 percent in January. According to the same group of researchers, 49.5 percent of Argentines lived in poverty in December 2023, when Milei took over. At the end of 2022, 43.1 percent were considered poor.

Sebastián Menescaldi, an economist and the director of the Buenos Aires-based EcoGo consultancy, forecasts that the most painful period of Milei’s economic shock is yet to come. Starting this month, utility price hikes will combine with back-to-school costs to wallop families’ bottom lines. (In Argentina, summer breaks run from Christmas through February.) In March and beyond, “people will feel like they are drowning,” Menescaldi said.

As average Argentines suffer, Milei’s strategy has yielded some positive macroeconomic indicators. The peso devaluation has made imports more expensive, slowing them down—and decreasing the amount of money flowing out of Argentina. As a result, the cash-strapped central bank has started replenishing some of its dwindling dollar reserves. Meanwhile, the government posted an elusive budget surplus in January. And although monthly inflation reached a crushing 20.6 percent that month, it was lower than December’s rate of 25.5 percent.

But experts agree that the fiscal adjustments that made those trends possible could provoke a looming recession; Milei’s spate of spending cuts, they argue, will choke economic growth. The Institute of International Finance, an association of global financial firms, is predicting that the Argentine economy will contract 7.8 percent in the first quarter of this year. The International Monetary Fund, meanwhile, forecasts a 2.8 percent annual contraction.

Milei’s administration hopes that a recession will prove short-lived, but Menescaldi said that is unlikely. The economist is forecasting a “strong” upswing in unemployment and a further rise in the poverty rate. Because a gap persists between the official peso-dollar exchange rate and the black-market rate used by most Argentines, Milei might institute another inflationary currency devaluation in the future. Contributing to Argentina’s uncertainty are the governance challenges facing Milei, whose fledgling libertarian party occupies a minority of seats in Congress and holds no provincial governorships.

So far, the president has not displayed the political savvy needed to navigate that difficult political terrain. When a sweeping bill that would have deregulated swaths of the economy failed to become law due to congressional pushback, Milei inveighed against opposition lawmakers as “traitors” who “voted against the people.” Meanwhile, an attempt to pass labor law reforms via executive order was blocked by the courts. Enacting structural reforms as ambitious as the ones proposed by Milei “takes enormous patience, skill, and willingness to compromise,” Gedan said. “It’s not clear that [Milei] has those.”

Milei has drawn criticism for his apparent lack of focus on the nation’s woes. Recent headlines in Argentina have fixated on an ongoing feud between the president and a leftist pop star, who criticized cuts to public funding for the arts and described Milei’s rise as “dangerous.” And at the end of February, Milei flew to the United States to speak at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference alongside other far-right Trumpian acolytes.

Still, recent public opinion surveys show a majority of Argentines continue to support Milei. A poll released at the end of February pegged his approval rating at 52 percent, higher than any other national politician. The president has placed responsibility for households’ mounting economic difficulties on his “inheritance” from Peronist predecessors, and the blame game seems to be working. “He still retains a very robust amount of support,” said Federico Zapata, a political scientist and the director general of the polling firm Escenarios. Menescaldi added, “Argentine society largely agrees that this fiscal adjustment is something that we had to do.”

Time will tell whether the public will remain on board with Milei’s reforms as the standard of living deteriorates. Resistance is already building: It took Argentina’s largest labor union just seven weeks to call for a general strike in opposition to Milei’s government, which took place in January. Rail service workers, health care workers, and government employees walked off the job for additional work stoppages in February. Teachers’ strikes have already disrupted the beginning of the school year.

Some experts worry that anti-Milei mobilization could escalate into full-blown social upheaval if economic conditions fail to turn around. On the street, everyday Argentines have begun making concerned references to the 2001 debt crisis, which led to civil unrest and bloody riots. “I think there are going to be lootings, and just really tough times coming up,” Maldano said.

In Gedan’s view, Argentina is currently “teetering on the edge of a cliff.” If the Milei experiment ends in failure, it is difficult to envision Argentines giving another pro-market candidate a chance. “Most people agree that … everything is either going to collapse or, somehow, [Milei is] going to survive politically long enough to show the benefits of his policies,” Gedan said. “But just sputtering along on the verge of a crisis doesn’t seem to be possible anymore.”

[echoweaver]

At least I got a really big, nifty fire to fight at work.

The homeowner has the most amazing taste in clothes I've ever seen.

Oh, and hey, Ms. Maldano! Funny running into her here!

#echoweaver #sims 3 #sims story #ISBI challenge #sims prettacy #sims uglacy #sims 3 wonderland weirdacy

[moyokeansimblr]

Oh, also Antony Maldano aged into a young adult and I just have two questions...

Why does Dresser hate Antony?

What store content set does that hat come from because I've never seen it in my life 😂

I'm gonna leave him like that.

#moyokean #pritchard household #sims 3 #the sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 gameplay #sims 3 pictures #sims 3 screenshots #ts3 gameplay #ts3 pictures #ts3 screenshots #the sims 3 gameplay #the sims 3 pictures #the sims 3 screenshots

[silverjansims]

Sims 3: Wild Darlings

Update #2: Wild Travels

Dr. Kory Darling is here to welcome you once again to the Darling home in Moonlight Falls with a quick update on the recent family news. While my lovely wife, Ana and our eldest daughter Dana entertain you with guitar and bass music, let me queue up the recent digital photos to show on our big screen TV. Please excuse the wild looks of my son, Korbin and me since it's a full moon night and we are both in our werewolf forms. Don't worry we don't bite.

First of all let's begin the visit by wishing our lovely young daughter, Koralee a very Happy Birthday as she models her new school clothes. She's a 'genius' with a very 'good sense of humor' and a light sleeper.

Here are a couple photos of some of the work I do as a World Renown Surgeon in the community by hosting vaccination clinics. These are usually done at the local graveyard which is just up the road from our home. In the photo below, I'm holding a 'free health clinic' to treat the various minor ailments of the town folk. In this case, I'm treating Marigold Maldano with a poke here and pinch there for her minor cold.

My wife, Ana and myself each took separate trips to China, however I forgot to take photos during my relatively uneventful stay. I was asked by someone in town to travel to China to solve three Chinese riddles while Ana went at the request of her music career boss to learn some of China's music history. In the photo above, Ana is reading before getting on with her day while Sopdu Hawas from Simhara is doing something serious on his laptop.

While she was there, Ana helped the local Relic Merchant create a miniature replica of the First Emperor's tomb by finding some lapis lazuli gems, pieces of mercury and some assassin beetles. She later had the opportunity to visit the Martial Arts Academy and with some practiced earned her first belt and defeated on of the new locals in a friendly spar. On her next trip to China, Ana will be visiting the Temple of Heaven to look for Pangu's Axe for the head of a new local family, Manchu Wan.

A few days after she returned from China, Ana was challenged by one of Moonlight Falls to run in the desert of Egypt for 4 hours . Ana has been the main traveler in the family especially to Simhara where she completed all of the MorcuCorp and Finding Love adventures on previous trips so she was looking forward to seeing her old friends. In between helping the local food merchant, Shadia Rashid with a supply of pomegranates, photographing a couple of mummies and a floor trap, Ana completed her 'desert run' while on her way to explore Abu Simbel where she also completed both the Egyptian Canopic Jars and Gold Figurines collections. She also saw an Simhara townie practicing his magic skills near the base camp while she played her guitar to relax at the end of a long day.

That's all the news for now and Ana and I hope that you all have a great week and we wish to congratulate and readers who have recently graduated from school, college and/or university.

Take care,

Kory & Ana Darling

#sims 3 gameplay #sims 3 world adventures #simblr #moonlight falls #the sims 3 #reblog

[hiddengnomes]

#ts3 #sims 3 #the sims 3 #ts3 gameplay #ts3 legacy #the maldanos legacy #the maldanos #the maldanos 5

[poisonfireleafs]

Give Me Six Townies to Makeover + Bonus

Thank you @dragonplumbobs, @amixofpixels, @rockelfe, @polaesimss, @glamourousvomit, @bellakenobi and @victoriasadventureblog for suggesting the townies. These were some great suggestions and I had a lot of fun makeovering them. See the seventh suggested townie under the cut:

Here's Lotta Greaves

#dragonplumbobs #amixofpixels #rockelfe #polaesimss #glamourousvomit #bellakenobi #victoriasadventureblog #lotta greaves #blair wainwright #lina lancaster #morrigan hemlock #jon lessen #argus brown #marigold maldano #ts3 #sims 3 #the sims 3

[bearsimz]

you look absolutely stunning, sir

and Marigold has finished her ltw

#marigold maldano #anjali gen1 #anjali random legacy #ts3 #ts3 legacy

[necile]

Guess how many of these ladies Theda was actually attracted to? I haven't had this hard of a time with attraction since Damian Moonracer, and that was years ago at this point.

#necile plays ts3 #ts3 #the sims 3 #lepacy #cromwell legacy #cromwell gen 5 #moonlight falls #theda cromwell #alice fitzgerald #fancy molasses #drusilla vanian #miriam hoppcraft #marigold maldano

[wannabecatwriter]

At some point, this happened. I didn’t know any of those women played guitars, but from the looks of them, they are probably playing something beachy.

#Sims3 #Harper Bishop #Monica Niers #Marigold Maldano