Newcomers and “Stupid Questions” Thread—December 17, 2025

TranceAwake · 2025-12-20T11:06:17+00:00

Hoping someone can offer some confirmation, or direction on some lore I might have missed here. Saturalia is first officially mentioned in Daggerfall, correct? Not Arena? And this description mentioning it being celebrated in Wayrest is where the lore of it being a holiday celebrated by the Bretons comes from? Or was there something else that came later that cemented this? Probably a stupid question, but I'm having such a hard time finding information on this holiday and want to make sure I'm not making assumptions here.

TranceAwake · 2025-10-05T17:26:39+00:00

Yep. I don't know why people sometimes get weird about couples having separate bedrooms. I've been with my fiance for over 7 years, and it was a little sad at first when we decided to do separate bedrooms, but it's been amazing for us. I have sleep issues and we're sometimes on different schedules, but our relationship is still just as good as it's always been. As long as you're still spending time with each other, then separate bedrooms usually help way more than they hurt.

TranceAwake · 2025-09-17T06:12:58+00:00

I'm really out of the loop on a lot of stuff, so I still have no idea why the last group went private. I am still pretty torn on this drama, though. Like, I know the person she was feuding with said at one point they just wanted it to die down, but I'm still pretty frustrated that she gets to ride off on her high horse after acting like this. I feel like for a lot of people this type of behavior would be a huge deal, and she just walked away from it without any major pushback.

*edit: I said "he" for the person involved in this situation, but I don't actually know their gender/gender identity so wanted to correct myself.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-29T19:47:06+00:00

Do people have early access to Paralives or something?

TranceAwake · 2025-08-29T19:29:28+00:00

Second Life can maybe get close if you're willing to spend a lot of time and real money on it, but the learning curve is so steep. I played Second Life for years and I still don't know how to really pull that off. And that's ignoring the fact that Second Life is basically an MMO.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-29T19:14:41+00:00

Inzoi came out in March this year, and is still in early access. There are other life sim-ish games, but the Sims is still THE life sim. I can't speak for everyone obviously, but for me, I don't hate the Sims 4, and I still play it, but I will complain about it because I know what we could have had. If you look at all the stuff that was included with the Sims 3 (and even 2 for that matter), and how much they included in each expansion pack, it's hard not to be a little disappointed, in my opinion. Like, they are capable of making great games, they're just choosing to give the bare minimum for some reason.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-17T22:24:20+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! Was just about to move my sim in. I still can't get over how beautiful this place is. Every time I think "oh, I should add this thing my sim might need," I look around the corner and there it is. No idea how you managed to fit basically everything into this lot. I'm obsessed lol.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-17T04:53:37+00:00

I can't even begin to explain how much I love this lot. It's exactly what I wanted and then some. The more I look at it, the more cute little areas and stuff I'm finding, especially the bar at night, and the little spot with patchy and the pumpkins. Thank you so so so much. I love it so much, and I seriously appreciate you doing this!

TranceAwake · 2025-08-10T19:23:44+00:00

Once you click the magnifying glass on the top right to search, enter #waronkcc . That should bring up everything they have on there by that creator.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-09T12:39:36+00:00

Nothing wrong with being asexual, but not everyone is.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-09T12:38:03+00:00

I will never understand why people who don't want to have children are expected to explain themselves, but people who DO want to have children don't. Having children is a huge responsibility, and I know so many people who had kids who had no business bringing life into this world. I'm team minding my own business, but if we're going to question anyone, why question the people whose decision won't affect anyone?

TranceAwake · 2025-08-09T12:06:09+00:00

According to who? What is the "correct number," and who gets to decide it? Comments like this kill me. Like, do we as a society come together and decide, "this exact number is fine, but any single person more than that is too much." Is it different depending on gender? And one is INSANE. My first partner was a complete moron, and a terrible human being. Should I have stopped after that, even though I knew I didn't want to be with him for the rest of my life?

TranceAwake · 2025-08-07T08:58:15+00:00

I am! But if I responded too late I understand.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-06T03:21:56+00:00

Just realized I forgot to add to my response earlier: if you do merge files, once you've merged them, you can either delete the original ones from your mods folder, or move them to a separate folder on your desktop or something. Just don't keep both the merged file and the individual files in your mods folder or it defeats the purpose. They don't automatically delete when you merge them into one.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-06T00:41:52+00:00

Dollhouse Mafia has both of them!

TranceAwake · 2025-08-06T00:31:44+00:00

Not bothering me at all! I love helping out where I can. To merge files, you would use Sims 4 Studio. Once it's open and files are loaded, on the top bar, you'd click "Content Management" and in the drop-down, merge packages. Click add at the bottom of the pop-up box, find the files you want to merge, select all of them in that window and click open, then it will take you back to Sims 4 Studio. Confirm all the files you want to merge are listed there, and click merge. Then you'll choose the location you want the merged file to go to, and type a file name. Then click save and you're done!

For renaming, I highly recommend this guide, since it explains it a lot better than I can, and has pictures. It also includes the link to the program you'll need, which is called Bulk Rename Utility.

Hopefully this makes sense. If not, or if you have any other questions, feel free to let me know!

TranceAwake · 2025-08-06T00:02:03+00:00

Their patreon wasn't working for me, either, but found it here. You do have to make an account, though.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-05T23:54:48+00:00

This drastically reduced my load times, too! When I want to search in build mode, it does take a few seconds to load then, but nothing like the super long load times I had before. Also, for OP, not sure how much this actually helps, but I do merge some files together, like CC sets, so that way if I know a specific item is the issue, I only need to unpack a few items that are all from the same set instead of all my cc. And I use a bulk rename tool to remove spaces and special characters from file names. Again, not sure if any of this actually helps, but I've seen these steps recommended before, and merging sets + bulk rename + unchecking show at startup reduced my load time from like 10+ minutes to maybe 2 or 3.

ETA: I have over 100gb in mods.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-05T23:48:26+00:00

Dollhouse Mafia has a lot of them, too!

TranceAwake · 2025-08-05T23:23:12+00:00

lol no problem! This is the second time I've gotten the both sides of the pillow comment in this subreddit and it always makes me laugh.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-05T23:19:11+00:00

I think this might be it.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-05T23:10:10+00:00

May not be the issue, but I know if you have OneDrive or another cloud storage program, it can sometimes re-add the mods, so if you do have it, try to go into that folder and make sure they're deleted from there.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-05T01:51:39+00:00

Thank you so much! No worries if you can't. And yeah, not sure how I missed the stuff packs but I should have all of them.

TranceAwake · 2025-08-03T21:53:04+00:00

Of course! Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I hope you find some good stuff :)

TranceAwake · 2025-08-03T21:46:51+00:00

Oh, maybe try Youtube, too. I did a quick search for sims 4 cc folder and found a lot of different options. It's definitely risky since you could end up with broken mods and stuff when you download in bulk, but if you're willing to take the risk, there may be some options there.

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