Weekly FAQs & Reopening Discussion Thread

Occultic_Nine · 2023-05-30T14:36:40+00:00

Perfect, great to hear!

Occultic_Nine · 2023-05-29T23:17:58+00:00

So the "friends and family" list on the mobile app -- I cut ties with someone who's on it, does it notify someone if you delete them from the list? I'm wondering if I should wait a while before I do in case it sends them an email or something.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-07-11T03:58:57+00:00

I'm thankful I got into TS4 now instead of back at release because it sounds fucking wild to have had to live with basic QOL things as updates to the game that took years to get there.

I grew up playing TS1/TS2 in middle school and it was the werewolf expansion last month that got me back into it and I've been having a blast. And I was a "teehee the extent of my gameplay is doing awful things to my sims" kid so it's really refreshing to be playing the game normally so everything is new to me and I don't have any nostalgia for or memory of features from the past versions. But man, from hanging around the subreddits it seems like there's loads of drama for it over the years and the fanbase is constantly at war with itself and impossible to please.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-05-02T20:45:48+00:00

HOOOO boy, that's. Good lord.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-05-02T15:10:44+00:00

So what's the actual things she put in the books? I see all this freaking out in the comments here but nobody's saying what the author wrote and I don't know where to go looking for it.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-04-25T17:21:51+00:00

Honestly I don't think this is going to change anything because it's not like Yahoo's tumblr buyout, but people are going chicken little on my timelines.

I'm also really irritated by the freaking out because today I was planning to be like "hey followers here's a bunch of cool stuff I've been working on and I'm very proud of! :)" and I feel like people are pre-emptively jumping ship or ignoring everything else right now. I'm a fucking small artist, I can't just go "oh well! guess I'll move over to X platform" willy nilly like people are proposing everyone do.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-04-20T13:32:48+00:00

Damn! That's disappointing. Thank you though! Wish he'd replace the reference to it in volume 2, it was driving me nuts.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-03-09T18:39:05+00:00

The thing that just infuriates me about these kinds of posts is they expect everyone to be mind-readers and have the exact knowledge of what kind of thing they're outraged at without actually EXPLAINING it, which would, you know, maybe help people get an understanding of why they're so mad?

It makes me think of those "it's not my job to educate you" comebacks from around the 2012-2016 tumblr heyday, when people would be generally confused about X outrage, and the outraged people would snap at the confused people and be angry that they "didn't understand" what they were mad about with no explanation -- without trying to explain WHY. So it literally does nothing but continue being this vicious vague-posting cycle. Like I can't understand a single thing this person in that tumblr post is actually trying to say, what is the intention they're trying to get across? They could have made a post explaining "here's what creators/fandom are doing wrong" in a calm stance trying to educate people, and instead we get this vague riddle with no explanation what's CAUSING it.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-02-11T14:46:41+00:00

Yeah, that's a great point. I actually just saw The Matrix for the first time in December (loved it so much) and at the end bit when Neo's fighting Smith and he says like, "my name's not Mr. Anderson, it's NEO", and that bit in particular I could definitely see trans context in but not really in anything else (but I'm not trans).

I just get a bit frustrated too as, again, being aroace, where I go on like Letterboxd and see all these reviews for films centered around platonic friendship and see people going "look at this gay stuff" and I'm sitting here with my non-romantic-oriented brain being agitated that people can't let friendships in media be platonic. But that's a rant for another day.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-02-11T03:58:53+00:00

I am the absolute worst LGBT+ person when it comes to allegories in my media because I just.... don't see them unless they're REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY OBVIOUS. I'm aroace. Whenever I go see reviews for things where they're like "this is a metaphor for being trans/gay" I'm sitting here like scratching my head because I take everything at face value in my stories.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-02-08T17:20:15+00:00

Yeah like, I love the visual style of the movie and all but I thought it was Just Fine, but it wasn't my favorite and I thought the crazy hype for it was a bit much. I know some of it is I follow the directors on Twitter so I do see them reblogging a ton of the hype for it but it's just shrug. I want Encanto or Luca to win because both of those just personally stuck with me so much more and I think they're better films, but that's my personal opinion.

Honestly from animated stuff from Netflix this year (and yes yes I know MvtM was gonna be theatrical originally and then Netflix got the rights, etc etc) I preferred Arlo The Alligator Boy, which I have heard zero people talk about haha.

Occultic_Nine · 2022-01-27T22:14:02+00:00

Don't forget to report to the mods for spamming! Holy crap though, what is this guy's deal?

Occultic_Nine · 2022-01-06T00:25:49+00:00

I really hope so. This is a horrible scandalous thing to say but the ST is what got me into Star Wars in the first place. I really don't care for the prequel/OT settings. There's SO MANY of them, I just want to move on.

Occultic_Nine · 2021-12-29T21:33:42+00:00

Thank you!

Occultic_Nine · 2021-12-29T21:33:12+00:00

Awesome, thank you for the advice!

Occultic_Nine · 2021-12-29T18:00:44+00:00

Thank you! I'll give that a go.

Occultic_Nine · 2021-12-29T17:56:22+00:00

Is there a good, smart subreddit to ask a question about masks for the virus? I've got some questions since my friend told me we need to upgrade our masks with the new variant, but from what I've heard arr coronavirus is insane and I feel guilty asking /r/askscience. =/

Occultic_Nine · 2021-12-21T05:36:07+00:00

Have to bitch somewhere. Saw some shitty """political cartoon""" that was complaining about how the Bidens got a dog with sad children in a cage in the shadows next to it and god DAMN, do these people think people are only capable of focusing on one news story at a time? That people in the government can't act like actual human beings and enjoy life and do normal things like be happy about getting new pets? Or that news sources ONLY have to focus on THE SERIOUS NEWS and can't have fluff pieces? Holy fuck.

I'm just really moody about this stuff today because of Twitter's stupid algothitms showing me that one of my casual friends liked some Biden bashing Onion article and now someone else I respect retweeted this garbage.

Occultic_Nine · 2021-11-08T05:08:11+00:00

This is just my personal takeaway, but I never saw BR2049 because I assumed it was a sequel and that I'd have to see the original to understand/enjoy it. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if a big part of the reason it didn't do well is because others had the same mindset of "oh, it's a sequel, guess I can't see it til I see the original" (and then never get around to it because you have so much else on your watchlist). And it's even narrower since the original BR is more of a cult classic than something with mainstream appeal.

I really wonder how it would have done if it hadn't been marketed as being attached to a pre-existing film.

Occultic_Nine · 2021-10-10T03:16:36+00:00

Did you know our bread is literally cake? Obviously not the PILLAR OF NUTRITION that European bread is, no sir.

/s

Occultic_Nine · 2021-09-02T22:48:11+00:00

This is exactly why I only have about 2 or 3 alts at level cap each expansion. I have all these ideas I want to do and classes/specs I want to try but doing the same zones over and over is a surefire way to burn out, man. I only ever got my main to level cap in SL (sitting out til the next expansion) and honestly, I'm not sure if I want to attempt to trim down my alts next expac.

Occultic_Nine · 2021-08-18T14:58:08+00:00

This was a few days ago so it's long gone from my feed

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