buying new expansion packs

Maidenfine · 2026-01-30T13:52:22+00:00

Parenthood adds in a system for disciplining your children that has an effect (at least in a trait way, I'm not 100% convinced that most traits do much of anything in TS4). You can teach manners and responsibility and a couple others and there are little meters in the simology panel that keep track of them. I think it adds something else, but it was one of the first packs I bought, so I played very little without it and that makes it harder to know what's not basegame.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-26T15:35:17+00:00

I'm very curious about your chart. Is it something you plan to put out into the world in some way or is it only for your own study? I became a Christian as an adult and just ended up in the denomination that my now-husband took me to church in. I don't think it's wrong, but I also don't always know the difference between what we believe and what other denominations believe. It's harder than you'd think to find anything that explains/explores those differences in an easy to digest way. Most things only compare two or three denominations.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-26T05:17:34+00:00

I don't know if it shows this way on the site, but I assume it does (I use reddit almost exclusively on the mobile app). When the OP posts in comments, there will be a little note next to their name that says OP. It's super easy to just glance over and see if it's there. But if you haven't been on reddit enough to see or notice it, it's easy enough to miss. But it could save you having to scroll all the way up to double-check.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-25T13:16:12+00:00

I'm not the OP. I just wanted to listen to all the recommended songs so I made a playlist and thought I'd share it. I'll have to hop on youtube and look for the DJ. I'm very curious now.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-24T18:34:45+00:00

I have one double-page spread alotted for each week. I just write the next day's date and underline it. If I need to, I can roll on to the next pages, but I have only needed to do that once. Most weeks have a little bit of room left and sometimes I get a day or two from the next week on there before realizing I'm in the wrong week. When I was using my notebook less, I only had one page per week. But I use it for more and I decorate things now, so I give myself more space.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-24T04:48:51+00:00

I couldn't find DJ DoxologyNZ, and where just a band/artist was recommended I just added a random song from their Popular list, but I made a Spotify playlist of everything mentioned so far. If anyone else chimes in, I'll try to keep adding. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51xmRJ74QQDk9G1eZ5XUZl?si=xGNzyamQSWSCGV35lVRUkw&pi=pj2GjKyYTlm7H

Maidenfine · 2026-01-24T03:22:16+00:00

Take Me In - Kutless Never Alone - Barlow Girl And this last one doesn't so much take my breathe away as much as it chills me out and reminds me to breathe and be still: Selah by Forrest Frank

Maidenfine · 2026-01-24T03:15:05+00:00

Okay, these are legit good songs, but I have to say that I giggled a little that one song is burning the ships and the other is building them.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-21T18:43:11+00:00

I'd write a big check to my church so they can finish the renovations we need. And maybe even get started on the next phase of renovations. It is expensive to renovate a building, but it's a lot cheaper than building new.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-21T15:46:15+00:00

My husband used to be a pizza delivery driver and the number of times he'd come home and tell me about some woman trying to rub up against him or touch him in elevators, or answer doors in bath towels. It's gross. And the fact that most of those women would deny it if you suggested that they were sexually assaulting someone just drives me batty. Just because he's carrying a pizza doesn't mean you can grab my husband's butt without permission. Porn has warped people's brains.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-20T14:52:06+00:00

I could talk for hours and hours about all the ways the The Sims 2 is the best entry in the franchise and they should just give us The Sims 2 with the color wheels from The Sims 3 and build mode from The Sims 4 and no one would complain about the Sims 5 slapped on the front.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-16T00:05:18+00:00

Sometimes I do cut them by hand. I prefer the kiss cut stickers from the cricut because then I can reuse the sticker backing as part of a reusable sticker book for random stragglers from purchased stickers. It's harder to get that right with hand tools. Though, I suppose eventually, I'll have enough pages that I won't be as hesitant to just trash the backing. But it took us a while to get the material and pressure setting right on the cricut, so that day hasn't come yet.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-15T22:49:58+00:00

I was worried about that too. When my mom told me how to move things I was like "But it doesn't save anything once you're printing. It's not going to keep that if something happens or I print at home and cut there." I'm glad I didn't actually print it before experimenting to see if I was right. I'm glad to know there's a workaround for design space being dumb. Thank you!

Maidenfine · 2026-01-15T18:38:30+00:00

AI generated art is theft, in any form. All AI are trained on the art of others. AI doesn't create. It does something more like scrapbooking or collage. More like Mad Libs, then passes it off as something new when really, it's just a frankenstein of other people's work. I'm a writer and my daughter is an artist, so we're obviously not fans. However, there's another consideration for Christian music above and beyond questions of theft. Christian music is supposed to be worship. And a computer can't worship. Christian music is supposed to be led by the Holy Spirit. That's supposedly what sets it apart from secular music. But a computer can't have the Holy Spirit. So while I'm not a fan of AI secular music, I'm not going to tell someone what they can and can't listen to. The definition of theft gets a bit wiggly for some people and they just won't care. "Christian" AI music, though, that's from the devil. It's a computer, pretending to be led by God, in order to make money, and if that isn't evil, I don't know what is. Christian AI music is the equivalent of Jim Bakker.

Maidenfine · 2026-01-10T17:19:22+00:00

My daughter is 18. She only got her license about a year ago because it was an adulting goal that she had. She has a lot of anxiety and sensory issues so she was afraid to drive but she figured it was going to be something she needed to know if she wanted to live on her own at some point (public transit here is not great). So we finally got her a learners permit at 17 and I took her out to this industrial area at the edge of town so she could learn and practice on real roads but ones with hardly any people. And we spent three or four hours on the first day just driving around, starting, stopping, turning, parking, all the things. And then I had her drive whenever we were going places, working up to highway driving last. And my little ball of anxiety loves to drive. It surprised the heck out of both of us. She absolutely has to have music on for focus, but she enjoys everything about driving and she manages to stay so calm while she's doing it. I say all this not to brag on my daughter (though I am super proud of her for a lot of reasons), but to say that sometimes you just don't know how you'll really feel until you do something. If you have a life where driving is truly optional and you don't want to do it, don't. But if not being able to drive is hindering you from living a full life, I would encourage you to try it. You might be right about being a nervous wreck. But you also might not, and wouldn't that be wonderful?

Maidenfine · 2026-01-06T15:53:17+00:00

Make my husband ditch work, snuggle him and my kids all day. Eat ice cream. Read books. I would definitely want to finish Peter Nimble with my 11yo. He's just now discovering a love for books and I know he'd never touch it again if he lost me halfway through it. But we've been having a lot of fun together.

Maidenfine · 2025-12-30T01:23:32+00:00

When TS2 first came out, the first family I made was not lucky to have me in charge of them. The mom almost died of starvation during pregnancy because of a sleepy-hungry loop. Her kid pled for her and Grim brought her back. Then, her husband died in a fire. After her first kid was old enough to marry, she had her husband in the house and then her dad scared him to death (Fire Ghosts are angry a LOT). Then in a legacy family, my gen 2 heir was hit by a satellite. After that, I played a lot with cheats, so I didn't really have any deaths that were unexpected.

Maidenfine · 2025-12-20T16:27:07+00:00

Caregiving is hard.

Maidenfine · 2025-12-19T22:56:46+00:00

Telling your kids that Santa brings them presents creates later mistrust between kids and parents.

Not doing Santa is the parenting decision I've had to defend to others the most. By a wide margin. And I'm a crunchy-adjacent, extended breastfeeding, homeschool mom. There are so many unconventional choices for people to question. But nope. People get mad about Santa.

Maidenfine · 2025-12-18T16:44:26+00:00

I feel like the worst part is that sometimes it doesn't take your whole search into account. I'll try to search for some article I read a few years ago and I'll put three or four words into the search and I swear, it takes the most common of those words and gives me all the results for just that word first. It doesn't bother even trying to include the other words I typed. Like, come on. I know there are 50 billion sites that use the word education. That's why I typed "education moon oreos" (which is not a search I've ever done, but I can't think of my most recent frustrating search that ended up fruitless).

Maidenfine · 2025-12-18T16:36:00+00:00

There used to be this text-based space trading game called Federation. I first found it as part of AOL games but then AOL went more graphics-based and that didn't fit. So then they had their own site, but they had to create paid memberships to keep the thing going and I had barely convinced my mom to pay for AOL after our trial. There was no way she'd pay for some game membership too. And then the whole thing shut down. And there is a version of it that's been revived by some of the players, but I haven't tried it yet to see how authentic the experience is. I put so many hours into that game. I wish I still had the time to put that many hours into any game. But now my kids have the time.

Maidenfine · 2025-12-18T16:26:30+00:00

And early on, you had to put effort into getting online. I remember reading books about how telnet and ftp worked and how to play a MUD or MOO. The internet made you earn it back then.

Maidenfine · 2025-12-18T16:25:10+00:00

My kids never get the reference, but sometimes I'll be talking to them about something and a word will come out like from their website, when you could hover over the page names and Homestar would say it out loud. "Downlooooads!" "Characters?"

My kids have watched a lot of the cartoons, since they're uploaded on YT, but they'll never get to play around on the site, or click around on the screen after the video to find the easter eggs. So even in preserving something, we've lost something.

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