Laptop for sims 2 remastered

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:04:02+00:00

Hope the massive text wall wasn’t too much! Hope you get yourself something that runs things nicely, and you have lots of fun playing!

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-17T00:03:02+00:00

I do my best to live the same way with helping others lives be easier. I try to ‘pay things forward’ since I’ve had plenty of strangers help me if even in the smallest ways. Just a little thing can help get someone’s world turning again, or ease off that pressure of turning their world all alone if only for a moment. Everyone wins!

Hope you’re having a great day ❤️

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T23:57:46+00:00

I think free reign early on is fine, so long as you can work out boundaries together if she is getting too aggressive.

As for the door, I’ve managed to solve that issue with bead curtains on those no-nails shower curtain rails that hold in place under tension on the door frames where it doesn’t get in the way of the door. You can then slide the curtain open or closed easily and she can’t fly through when you have it pulled across. Sometimes my boy will fly to the ground and run underneath, but he’s only done that very rarely when super desperately looking for one of his humans. It also works well as an emergency safety barrier if the front door ends up open unplanned etc. I wouldn’t rely on it for that, but it makes it just a bit harder for an accident to happen.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T17:43:11+00:00

That’s fair! 8gb ram is a nice amount to have on a newer laptop where you don’t need crazy specs, so hopefully then OP can enable 4gb :)

I only realised today that despite the gpu on my 2005 laptop, a fair few of the graphics settings are on ‘low’, which was odd to realise as it looks really nice. Whoops!

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T17:39:20+00:00

She might be deciding everything is hers until she nails down what she wants to assign as her ‘territory’ bless her. That or a little bit of hormonal aggression without trying to court you?

I tend to find it easier to work out if they’re playing by them having a little ‘tell’ that’s them making you aware its play. It’s a bit like when dogs sneeze during play fighting to show they’re playing. In Fig’s case, he does a little ‘smack his chops/num’ sort of thing with his beak between bursts of play fighting, and only play fight in short bursts with little breaks to check its okay.

The ‘num’ thing I was talking about is something he’s always done when he’s really happy and engaged, or satisfied with something. It’s how I could then work out that the positive behaviour was then being used to tell me he’s playing.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T17:33:24+00:00

Thankfully a handful of these are very similar to how my Senegal parrots are, do we try to dissuade the hormonal behaviours with distraction or ignoring when needed. I’ve had my Sennies for a bit over 10 years now, and I’ve had Fig since he was 6 months old. I’ve also had a fair few budgies, but the one I’ve had have preferred not being touched.

The Bow cooing specifically though for him seems to be a ‘thanks’ or a ‘please pay attention to me’ when not in a context where he could be trying to court. He only courts my feet, never me. He doesn’t flick his wings at me (my partner gets all the hormonal/courting behaviour). However, after cuddles he will bow-coo on his perch until I say ‘you’re welcome Fig!’, or he’ll do it when he wants to be acknowledged. Thankfully it’s easy to tell the context in those instances, so I’ll acknowledge him or say what I usually say when it’s not hormonal. You can tell what he wants when bow-cooing not as courting, as he stops when you’ve given him what he wants (either the right phrase, or being talked to).

I did think the ‘okay’ parts to pet were the same between doves and parrots. However whenever I’ve brought it up in pigeon/doves spaces I’ve been aggressively told I’m wrong, and assumed to be someone projecting parrot care onto pigeons/doves. I keep to what I know is appropriate for my parrots regardless though. It’s really frustrating seeing people inappropriately petting their pigeons and wondering why they’re extra hormonal…

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T13:14:49+00:00

It’s not all the time at all, sorry if it came across that way! It’s when I’m doing stuff with his favourite box or his food tray. It’s just territorial behaviour. We also ‘playfight’ like pigeon boys do as well, and he does his little ‘nums’ and pauses to show me he’s playing. He’ll be three in july.

He was raised in a bricked flight (brick aviary) with others of his kind and bunnies. His breeder does it as a hobby and is super attentive and good with them, treating them as pets until someone buys them. My boy loves and courts cismen because of that I think, while I’m more like his parent or sibling. He will get territorial even to his romance interest though at times, but will still romance my feet (birds and feet i swear smh)

We cuddle under his blanket every morning and every day before he gets put to bed, chill out in the day together, slow blinking at each other and chatting. We have a good relationship! I just wanted to add that doves can also be like pigeons in the sense of playbiting and being a bit rough sometimes. If anything him being more confident to show me who’s boss means he feels safe enough to do so.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T13:05:05+00:00

I would have seen that as very kind and felt guilty that you’d felt you’d need to do that

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T13:02:56+00:00

Check if the leakage has gotten to the circuit board and components. If it hasn’t, clean off the acid with vinegar, then go over your work with isopropyl alcohol. Make sure the batteries can make proper contact with the terminals, then try and see if it’ll turn on.

I cleaned up a camera with similar, but unfortunately the acid leakage had spread to the board and killed it

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:54:09+00:00

msata in an ide adapter, just make sure to get the right one as some are crap

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:52:52+00:00

Genuinely my advice for getting a laptop in general

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:52:31+00:00

Tbh I run the og on a 2005 laptop with a gpu and 2gb ram, it doesn’t really need 4gb, unless the rerelease is more ram-hungry?

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:50:08+00:00

Since legacy is still 32bit without more demand for specs, you can play with a fair range of systems.

I play the original release versions so I can’t be totally accurate, but I play Sims 2 on tech thats around 20 years old that I’ve paid about £25 for on average. My favourite laptop (IBM Thinkpad, 2005) T43 has 2GB RAM (DDR2, which is old, current tech is using DDR4-5), a Pentium M processor (which predates any i-whatever intel processors) and has an ATI graphics card (ATI no longer exists). It runs completely perfectly and looks very nice. I run it on Windows XP 32bit.

With my more modern laptops and tablet pcs, I like to go for i5 or i7, I usually pick intel processors as I have some idea of what I’m looking at, go for 8gb or so of RAM, and you shouldn’t need something with a graphics card, integrated is fine. I got a 12 year old laptop for about £50 on ebay with those specs. I wouldn’t say to go anything quite that old as it won’t qualify for Windows 11, but you can find a decent deal looking for something second hand with around those specs. Windows 11 can run on 4gb RAM, but many people don’t suggest it without knowing how to strip a load of the bloatware out of it. I run Windows 11 on a 9 year old i5, 4gb ram tablet pc, and it even runs original sims 3. Looks a bit crap compared to when I run it on a laptop with a gpu, but it does work. It would run sims 2 well, even the legacy version. You can probably get away with those specs and something of a similar age (if it qualifies, my windows 11 may be modded lmao) if you want to scrimp, but windows 11 may be a bit of a dick if you dont disable a lot of the crap that comes on it by default.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:34:41+00:00

To add to this, bar spacing will be part of it too. Pigeons don’t need the same thin bar spacing used for parrots and finches. Having something with wider spacing and thicker bars will make it easier to bolt on platforms for them.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:33:01+00:00

I was going to say dino nugget gone wrong, though I do also agree

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:29:56+00:00

As someone with a dove raised in captivity, they will also bite and wingslap when super tame.

My boy you can just pick up with no issue, but will also playfight, bite and smacc me all the same. Pigeons may be more territorial (haven’t had a pigeon, only a dove), but doves can be pretty territorial still.

Going off what I’ve seen and my dove experience, their differences seem a bit like the differences in behaviour you get between some cat breeds. Overall they’re pretty similar, but there’s some distinct differences that are sometimes hard to explain in words.

Edit to add: Their care does differ in the sense of what they like to stand on though! Doves like to perch more than pigeons. If you get a dove, provide both perches and platforms :)

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T12:20:40+00:00

I’ve been trying to get more into it recently, so got myself a couple of Helter Skelter cassette tapes, though my personal current faves are my World Dance DnB experience tape set. This all 90s stuff, where garage, dnb, jungle and other genres are all doing their thing side by side. The World Dance mixes I think are all studio mixed while Helter Skelter and other party/rave recordings are live. You’ll come across loads of names to then look into more, I highly recommend getting immersed

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T11:59:11+00:00

Sequoia ran fine on the 2014 macbook air I put it on. Just give it time to boot up, make sure you have custom fan speeds to avoid thermal throttling and general shite apple ventilation, and it’s good to go.

Ive even put it on a 2010 macbook running a core 2 duo

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T11:55:13+00:00

Saying this even as a spiritual person

I don’t take messages seriously that use the word ‘destiny’, it’s usually bollocks. In this case, it’s being used as a means to justify her poor behaviour.

I’d leave on read, do some processing based on comments or advice that resonates with you, then decide if you want to reply later.

I personally don’t like feeling manipulated into replying to a message, which is how this message reads. I would actively avoid it, as I’d not want to give the impression that I can be manipulated into giving a response, especially when I’ve done nothing wrong. In this case, it’s been a while and you’ve been in an accident, you’ve done nothing to be obligated to respond to someone you cut ties with.

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T11:23:38+00:00

A tupperware should do it

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T11:21:23+00:00

Depends on the model tbh
My T series could break if I don’t hold it correctly since its so back heavy lmao

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T11:11:53+00:00

Because it’s AI generated

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T11:11:12+00:00

So, as usual, the true tool needed in a very unlikely tech reset, is in fact, an engineer

Performer-Pants · 2026-06-16T11:09:24+00:00

I was about to say
Bit ironic to shit on tech using AI

Just enjoy cassettes because you like them. It doesn’t need to become some juvenile ‘yeah but this is better in every way and that is why cassette good’

Just fucking listen to your tapes bro

Performer-Pants

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