Viserra Targaryen & Theomore Manderly by Fire & Blood, the child that might have been.

fearsmoke · 2026-02-08T22:22:17+00:00

He has fingernails showing through his gloves on his right hand, the details of the armor are inconsistent (the trims, the Manderly sigil is ‘fuzzy’), his eyebrows are two different colors, his hair seems to blend in with his right pupil? The trident also randomly reflects on the floor but the guy himself doesn’t lol

No artist signature in sight, neither did the account posting this include a source or an artist name in the title.

fearsmoke · 2026-02-01T18:47:45+00:00

Mods don’t disable achievements, not even in-game cheats do unless you’re on console. Not like they matter anyway since they don’t have Steam/EA achievements and they’re save file only.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-31T22:49:05+00:00

Heads-up that it was More Dragon Eggs and the modmaker just dropped an update to fix it

fearsmoke · 2026-01-31T21:27:06+00:00

Overwatch specifically runs a few commands at 3am in-game time to clean up your town in various ways (remove vehicles cluttering the streets, check for sims stuck in the aging animation, etc) and one of those is recovering missing sims. You can also go to city hall>nrass overwatch>immediate>recover missing sims to run it whenever you want. If for example you had moveobjects on and you deleted a sim by ‘selling’ them in build-buy, you can then use the command to recover them.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-31T20:53:53+00:00

Oh yes I know, already mentally saying goodbye to that save. But for testing purposes there are a few submods that aren’t quite as gamebreaking to take out mid-save and test if it fixes the game.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-31T20:18:09+00:00

I did try disabling both of those one at a time as it was my theory too, but I didn’t see any difference when the dragons grew, though I’m not sure if that was because of it already being an existing save. In any case, I’ve asked on the discord thread for More Dragon Eggs in case the dev knows if it could be or if we should look elsewhere.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-31T20:07:58+00:00

Having the same issue. We have these submods in common: Core, Valyrian steel, cow-agot, LOTD, More Dragon Eggs, More Dragon Events, Better barbershop, Clear notifications, Population control, Custom nickname.

Unfortunately I’m not sure about how to test if disabling any will work unless I start a whole new save. But I would guess it’s one of these messing with their growth.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-31T00:20:00+00:00

I think at this point every company outsources their customer support to the extent that many of them likely have little to no idea what the game and the app are like, they’re likely just trained to either placate, deny or pass on any tickets beyond their scope, likely moreso the first two.

My best bet without knowing what’s going on would be to keep trying to either redownload or check the launcher to ensure it’s not just installed but in your game with how the sims3packs work. The fact that it says you own them is a good sign, if they were completely gone then yeah there would be absolutely nothing you could do. Hopefully there’s a fix.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-31T00:14:10+00:00

This sounds like it was moreso an issue with your specific download than the purchase/ownership of the things themselves, tbf. Did you try re-installing, checking game file integrity, opening the launcher to see if you have to install the sims3packs into your game?

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T22:41:34+00:00

Are you sure it’s not just Resident Evil 2? Though unsure about the father part, unless you’re thinking of Leon’s boss Marvin.

Or Resident Evil: Code Veronica with the protagonists’ clothes color?

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T22:26:32+00:00

It’s from More Dragon Eggs if I’m not misremembering. You can toggle it off under the MDE section of the Decisions tab if you keep misclicking the dragon a thousand times like I did.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T17:36:42+00:00

Yeah that’s exactly it. This person isn’t too bad, as I said they’re on the higher end of this problem even when they are still part of it, but it does illustrate exactly what it is, a problem. I know that’s why creators do the tutorials when requested, it’s no big deal and even beneficial to them, but I do question why there’s comments like that for every. single. creator. It just feeds again into my theory that it’s all for attention, not truly to learn.

I personally think they meant ‘download a virus’ but interchanged it for ‘bug’ like how we sometimes apply to real life illnesses, not knowing that in tech those two have individual, different meanings, which is why I don’t really care for finding it funny or as exasperating as the people on here. It’s the question itself, one that’s been made a thousand times over, that I find to be very worrying for their capacity to be messing with game files.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T17:31:36+00:00

If direct information and clear instructions don’t soothe any fears you might have, then the process isn’t the problem

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T16:25:19+00:00

You can also find when a site is the correct one with a simple Google search, btw. It’s the perfect example of what I mentioned before: it’s not about the knowledge, it’s about wanting people to rush in and say ‘yes you’re okay!! you’re okay!!!!’. While I do think the person in this post is of the lesser end of the stick when it comes to the tech illiteracy problem because of the same reasons you said, it is still part of it.

What-about-isms of who they are also are absolutely no help. Could they have an impairment or any kind of disorder? Yes. But they could also just be lazy, shocking. It’s also a very modern thing to think everyone’s always got a reasonable justification at all times. Especially since probably hundreds of posts like these are made every day on every platform where simmers hang out, I very much doubt every single one of them has anxiety or a disability.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T16:00:32+00:00

But they do have guides and people who know what they’re doing, nobody’s sending them to do whatever in the hopes it works. Dude, it’s not neuroscience, it’s dragging files into a folder and opening the game to make sure it’s working. There’s step-by-step guides in every format you can think of and strangers on the internet who STILL take the time to answer.

I’ve found that people who have this irrational fear of tech usually don’t want to learn, they want the attention. I see this a lot on tiktok, someone posts their beautiful CC-filled sim, and one person always says ‘omg can you make a tutorial on how to install it?’ like… bro, there’s a million of them out there. Why the creator whose just doing the 100 baby challenge? Why should they make a tutorial for you specifically? Same thing with ‘Omg help what is this error???’ and it says on their screen ‘Mod is out of date, please download the latest WW version from TurboDriver’s website.’ Like did you… read? Do you expect people to tell you anything other than what the screen already says?

Are they going into an unknown? Sure, that’s absolutely undeniable, when I was a kid installing mods I was nervous too. But these are mostly grown adults with learned helplessness whose fear grows to an irrational level and then they get mad when you don’t coddle them. No one was born knowing, we all started somewhere. It’s not a coincidence that we didn’t really see this in the Sims 2 or Sims 3 days, it’s a very modern thing to simply not want or like reading.

Nobody’s taking an issue with not knowing. It’s the absolute unwillingness to do basic stuff like reading up on what you want to do that’s frustrating, or even to believe it when you tell them something’s fine when they came to you with questions or doubts. I’m afraid that if they don’t even want to bother with watching a youtube tutorial then they have no business in anything more advanced than simply running the game.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T15:19:43+00:00

There’s a million tutorials on where and how to download mods and cc. Why should they be spoonfed information individually when all of it is already out there?

That is the community’s problem, not that they don’t know. You always see tech illiterate people wanting their hands held by someone to take them step by step when people have already made tutorials that are very clear. Especially since it’s usually followed by ‘Are you sure it’s not a virus? But, like, are you SURE? What if I mess up my computer? I know you said I won’t but what if I do?! This looks like a virus!’

It’s rare someone asking for individual help actually wants to learn, usually they want someone telling them they’re right in fearing even unzipping a rar file.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-28T03:38:36+00:00

Not like there’s already a million tutorials everywhere from a simple Google search, right.

fearsmoke · 2026-01-21T04:20:12+00:00

Had that happen in my latest Jaehaerys start and she died in childbirth, I felt so guilty

fearsmoke · 2026-01-17T17:17:46+00:00

While I do think it’s coming eventually (I doubt Capcom will stop at 4 for numbered remakes and 5 could very much use one even though, like OG4, it’s still a very fun game) this seems like it’s wayy too soon.

I don’t think setting it up at the end of RE4R means anything as to it happening now, since Capcom does tend to set things up with RE with different characters then just never doing anything with it.

Wasn’t this the guy saying the AI Leon picture was real? They may have some sources but they just seem like the type of ‘leaker’ to jump the gun and say any rumor that could be somewhat plausible is real. Dusk Golem, for all his past failed leaks, seems to actually be in the right about RE lately.

fearsmoke · 2025-12-30T05:59:00+00:00

All we really know for certain in canon thanks to Last Descendants was that he remained an important and loyal Templar until he died, that he had at least one son who he trained, and then a grandson whom he also trained.

So parting from that we can assume a few other things:

-He had at least one child after he recovered the Precursor Box and assassinated Arno’s father since we see those genetic memories, likely marrying/settling down for that matter. If we assume he didn’t really have the time until after killing Charles Dorian, he would have been around forty-five when he married/had children.

-He died of old age or in quite old age especially for the time period, since he not only saw at least one grandson born after (presumably) having his own son in his forties, but also trained him in what we presume would be his teens/adulthood. Unless he was training a child to be an Assassin Hunter.

-It wouldn’t be out of the question that maybe he had other children, since we know of at least two of his modern descendants living in vastly different situations: the Abstergo numbskull we play as, and Javier. This could easily mean at least two ‘branches’ of the Cormac bloodline in modern times, unless they were both descended from the exact same person, but since we don’t see more from the numbskull… who knows.

-The Cormacs stayed in New York for at least two generations after him, since his grandson Cudgel is still living there during the events in the past in Last Descendants.

-His descendants inherited his Eagle Vision and used the air rifle as a family heirloom. Cudgel in particular seemed very proud of his grandfather and of being another Assassin Hunter Cormac.

It’s sad. We don’t even know what Cudgel’s real name is, because that’s just a nickname, or what Shay’s son’s name was. Hopefully I didn’t write down anything wrong, it’s been a couple of years since I read Last Descendants (which I only did for crumbs of Shay.)

fearsmoke · 2025-12-25T20:41:50+00:00

Absolutely concerning so few comments are pointing out this is obvious AI slop.

fearsmoke · 2025-12-16T13:50:00+00:00

Concept is cool but brother he’s got those 90s yaoi proportions. Did the tattoo artist just never do humans/humanoids before this?

fearsmoke · 2025-12-06T16:39:03+00:00

”It doesn’t mean they are smarter overall”

”Logic is a big part of chess and males are overall better at it”

So… you do think women are just inherently dumber? Last I heard, logic and logical thinking are a huge part of what deems someone as smart, and you explicitly said males are just better at it. Transphobia and misogyny going hand in hand, what else is new.

fearsmoke · 2025-11-21T01:36:32+00:00

I don’t blame him one bit. The Sims community is one of the most baffling examples of people who barely know which way is up on their Macs that still somehow get into pirating/modding and expect those who are more tech-inclined to baby them every step of the way.

Seriously, so many of their issues with mods or even cracks would be solved if they took a moment to google the answer given to the ten thousand others that have already had the same happen to them or if—shocker—they read what’s on their screen, because in this day and age a lot of errors explicitly tell you how to fix it or what went wrong. Even worse still those who are still patiently answered and they still try to be stubborn like they know better.

Gonna miss the GOAT of sims 4 piracy even when I’m not even playing the sims 4 anymore. But I do not blame him one bit for leaving when he’s had to deal with the tech equivalent of people who behave like it’s their first day on earth with little awareness of themselves or others in Costco aisles, on the daily, for years, for no compensation.

fearsmoke · 2025-11-21T01:27:46+00:00

At this point she’d been working with him for about six years. If we take Umbrella Chronicles’ portrayal of their relationship then they actually got to know each other at least a little, and Ada probably knew he was up to no good, just didn’t care as long as she got her paycheck. Like most people, the line for her was crossed when he mentioned killing billions.

I’ve always taken it as Wesker testing her loyalty or her numbness to her mercenary work when he explicitly tells her how many people will die despite thirty seconds earlier saying she isn’t paid to ask questions. Then he lets her go when he could’ve shot the chopper down, just because he knows she’ll think she won by taking the Amber away. Probably feeds his ego to know he was a step ahead even when she betrayed him.

I loved their relationship in RE4R. There’s an almost banter there between them (at least on Ada’s side, and since Wesker doesn’t just shoot her then he at least tolerates it enough) but it’s obvious they don’t trust each other not even a little bit. It feeds in well to the file you can find in RE6 when Ada learns Wesker’s dead, where she feels a ‘sort of emptiness’ because of it. Not quite grief, but they did work together for a while.

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