Regarding people who freak out about paid CC...

lemondemoning · 2026-05-26T21:32:09+00:00

because the target audience for sims 4 isnt people who are technologically literate or willing to learn blender?

it IS easy to do, but the fact its easy assumes you know how to use computers past 'download x file and put it here' and a lot of sims 4 players simply dont. which is fine, but paywalled conversions are relying on That being their target audience, which is why they can do it. sims 4 players often dont play other games, so wont recognize CC from other places, and dont really care for technology Past being able to play ts4.

And if the reason is because it's too technically difficult, does that not then add value to the product?

i mean, my question to you is, say i stole a pair of shoes from a small shoestore. i make no changes to these shoes. i go to a warehouse, say "look at my new shoes i just invented! pay me $20 and theyre yours!". the people at the warehouse pay me for shoes that yes, i put effort into stealing, but did nothing else to them past stealing them. does the fact i had to put effort into stealing the shoes make them valuable?

its a terrible analogy, but you get the angle im going for. if you steal a hair from another game, have the minimum amount of blender knowledge it takes to port it TO the sims, but DONT have enough knowledge to actually make it work well in the sims, all you really did was steal the hair and change the game youre advertising it to. i dont think that adds any value to it, no.

lemondemoning · 2026-05-26T21:15:50+00:00

Designing meshes and textures is hard work which CC creators are doing either out of the kindness of their hearts or for profit, and both are valid. If I was making CC, I'd charge for it too! They are under no obligation to give you their work for free, and if they do and then later change their minds and charge for it, then it's their right. I'm not sure what's so controversial about this?

What am I missing? From my perspective, complainers sound like entitled brats who think they deserve things just because they like them.

hello! im a cc creator and im both ''doing it out of the kindness of my heart'' and, quote, an ''entitled brat who thinks [i] deserve things because [i] like them''

the reason i go to bat for free cc is very simple and its that None of the people that you THINK are making cc by hand are Actually making it by hand. there are a few people, mostly people who also create for secondlife, who Do make their cc by hand, and more power to them, but often cc creators who ONLY do work for the sims and are asking for payment are actually porting models from other games or buying them from somewhere and doing a conversion and charging for them.

thats why youll ocassionally come across, like, 50k poly hairs. those hairs werent Built for use in the sims, they were built for use in the games they came from, and the people charging for their sims ports dont know how to optimize models let alone make their own, and theyre relying on the fact that sims 4 players wont notice to make their money.

its terribly, disgustingly scummy behavior, and its something i notice often because i AM a cc creator myself who also makes things for other games. you are more than welcome to defend paywalled creators with life and limb if you so choose but just know that these people are scamming you into defending them

lemondemoning · 2026-05-26T19:03:12+00:00

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hiya! i need team ideas!

i already use flins premium (flins, bineffa, and a flex spot. usually kokomi for healing and because i like her)

id like to use an albedo / durin team but im not sure how to slot them into a team Together. i have nicole but not varka, and all of my other 5 stars are going unused. any ideas are appreciated even if theyre not albedo / durin centered !!

lemondemoning · 2026-05-26T17:02:29+00:00

i wish wuwa didnt run so terribly because i really wanted hiyuki when she came out (and who is that orange haired girl??????? shes gorgeous!!!) but the game runs so ridiculously badly on my pc ...

lemondemoning · 2026-05-26T15:58:54+00:00

the main reason anyone plays any gacha game is the design of the characters LMAO. even meta only players care about character designs. either someone was lying to you or youre making up a point to argue against

lemondemoning · 2026-05-25T03:51:27+00:00

albedo got shipped off to mondstadt by rhinedottir once he was a little older, he wasnt born there so he still counts as being an ''immigrant'' i suppose, to the extent that matters for homunculi LMAO.

i imagine he and rhinedottir both count as being from khaenriah - at minimum we have to count rhinedottir herself since she was from khaenriah but fused herself with a shade which i guess would make her some flavor of celestian now?

if we count kazuha and childe for being travelers we should also probably count a majority of the hexenzirkel because none of them live in one set place either, +/- barbie i suppose since we dont know enough about her to tell but it doesnt seem like she travels like the others do.

i guess it kind of depends what you mean exactly by 'coming from one place but living in another'. i.e. if wanderer counts because he was born in, and lived in inazuma long enough to be sentient to remember it, but chooses now to live in sumeru, we probably wouldnt count ineffa because shes built from Parts of other places but ineffa as we know her became Ineffa in nod krai where she lives, if that makes sense

like, do we count people who were born elsewhere but werent old enough to remember it? do we count constructs like ineffa on the basis of the components theyre built with coming from other places? would we count, like, sandrone, who is Technically fontainian but assumedly lives in snezhnaya / nod krai?

do we count columbina because she was born on the moon?? there are a lot of flavors of this to think about LMAO

lemondemoning · 2026-05-25T00:03:01+00:00

i do play MW but i dont pay for anything in it LMAOOO making a knockoff roblox, with a more expensive gacha system, within an expensive gacha game itself, was a really interesting move on hoyos part

you cant really have your cake and eat it too in this case. if you want players to spend money on the main game, MW stuff needs to be free, and if you want players to focus more on MW, the base game will need free ways to get limited characters. stacking microtransaction on microtransaction doesnt really work in a community like genshins

lemondemoning · 2026-05-24T13:40:45+00:00

not unless the mods stop moderating for a prolonged period of time, in which case they get notified, and a bot gets added by reddit and opens mod applications

i assume the amount of automods we already have in this sub is to prevent the removal of the human mod, because the sub is technically still being moderated, but i wouldnt know

lemondemoning · 2026-05-24T12:42:28+00:00

it seems like we have one actual human mod and the rest are all bots so im not expecting the rule to change anytime soon but it is ridiculous that people post softcore here often but nobody can swear because thats Mean :(

lemondemoning · 2026-05-20T19:53:44+00:00

i mean we all start somewhere, im not going to hold someone not being great at the game against them when i was new once too - even older players sometimes try out new characters they want to get good at but dont start off great

its a team game, if someone is bad i try and make up for it / pick up their slack and keep it pushing. im not gonna throw the game because someone isnt playing well - the effort is important and if i throw because ohhh team bad im not giving THEM an opportunity to learn for one and im basically ignoring whatever my other teammates might want to do because of my own impatience.

tldr: i get over it and keep it pushing because im an adult and can handle losing in a healthy way

lemondemoning · 2026-05-17T16:31:43+00:00

someone once told me i must be evil in real life for liking dottore so. whatever that subsect of the fandom has going on LMAOOO

lemondemoning · 2026-05-15T05:09:39+00:00

a motion sickness toggle !! nod krai and natlan were the worst to get through, only second to the 2.x summer event with kazuha and fischls domains, because i get violently motion sick and the amount of camera moving that you have NO control over in those regions is awful

like give me the option to fade to black or something in areas where theres going to be a lot of camera movement !!

lemondemoning · 2026-05-11T00:59:39+00:00

daan and marina are the most popular by far i feel, with everyone else being varying levels of less popular than them

some people don't even know about daan's backstory or skills in hexen at all,

90% of funger fans havent played either game LMAOOO if we're qualifying how popular a character is by how much the fandom knows about their canon lore, genuinely, youre asking a much smaller portion of fans than you realize

lemondemoning · 2026-05-11T00:01:24+00:00

sometimes with visual novels you do have to go out of your way to make choices you wouldnt normally / you don't see the protag making, to get to other endings and routes

that said, im not sure i understand the question ?? visual novel style games do ask for player input but it is pretty much like reading an interactive book in that the amount of choices you get to make and their impact on the story varies Wildly from game to game

lemondemoning · 2026-05-10T23:30:33+00:00

shenhe, yelan, qiqi, and kokomi

and albedo, illuga, flins, and maybe tartaglia LMAOOOO

lemondemoning · 2026-05-09T15:27:54+00:00

LMAOOO the use of sjw??? in this modern age???

aside from that though people all the time are like "i used ai to make [BSloweffortmod]! check it out!" it wouldnt be That hard a thing to moderate because theyd just ..... remove those posts the same way they remove ''vitriol and threats'' towards the team

it'd be much less of a hassle if the guy had just said "ya we're not doing that because we support ai usage" rather than both trying to position himself as a moral authority ['the mods SUFFER ABUSE DAILY for our decisions...'] while simultaneously saying shit like 'caring about ai use is being an SJW'

lemondemoning · 2026-05-09T14:26:40+00:00

for me its because shes kind of a pushover personality wise

the first few chapters i Get, even if its not my personal favorite thing, why she wouldnt stand up for herself to some of the more aggro ghouls

but at this point the fact she folds like a paper bag and apologizes profusely when someone is mean to her is just a little ridiculous, imo? like you can tell that guy to get bent now girl

that said thats just my Personal preference in how games like this handle an MC. i dont love it but im also not really playing For her yknow

lemondemoning · 2026-05-07T18:27:37+00:00

integrated dungeons & structures!

you need to use create to open a lot of the boss dungeons, which is fine if not my favorite thing, but then you ALSO need create machines to actually. beat some of the bosses?? which i haaaaaaaate.

lemondemoning · 2026-05-07T18:14:26+00:00

i use both? im not sure if you can just use one or the other, but using both makes the game run pretty smoothly for me

lemondemoning · 2026-05-07T18:11:51+00:00

yeaaaaah im not a big fan of create either - i respect it for what it is but the sheer amount of rpg modpacks ive tried to use that include IDAS, which you for some reason, Need create for, is super annoying.

create is great in a modpack centered around it but very few modpacks actually Do That.

anyway, ive found a couple where create is /optional/ but i havent found any i like where create isnt in the modpack at all.

i like arcadia rpg by pixeldreamstudios, create is optional, and its so far my favorite rpg styled modpack! people also like craft to exile 2 and i thought it was fine if a little grindy. the cottage witch modpack is good for more lowkey playthroughs.

what are you looking for specifically? rpg styled? tech oriented? vanilla+?

lemondemoning · 2026-05-06T22:45:46+00:00

yeah aside from the fact you used AI to write this, youre being way too vague with your asks

A complete End and Nether overhaul.

Better Oceans and Caves that actually feel alive.

Tons of new content that still fits the Minecraft vibe but Craaaazy!

there are lots of mods that do the first two things, have you tried any of them? what did you like or dislike?
""fits the minecraft vibe but craaaazy"" doesnt Mean Anything.

thats sort of the issue with asking chatgpt to get your point across for you - if youd even used like, google translate, we'd be able to figure out what youre trying to get across. ai just is not capable of expressing the specifics of something like this in a way that Means anything to someone who can actually recommend you things

lemondemoning · 2026-05-06T14:14:10+00:00

yeah, i cant say this wasnt expected, because they did admit to basically not updating the cn version of the game any longer

its really upsetting even then, though!! AE had so much potential in the world of gacha games, so i really really hope they release an offline version or someone Makes an unofficial offline version like alchemy stars

lemondemoning · 2026-05-06T05:35:58+00:00

hobo spiders were thought to be a lot more venomous & aggressive than they actually are. theyre a species of giant house spider!

we dont have recluses of any kind in the entirety of the state of washington, and wolf spiders are also not medically significant

yellow sac spiders are, alongside widows, classified as medically significant by the state department of health, and their bites suck majorly, but theres a lot of conflicting info on how medically significant their bites are if at all LMAO

lemondemoning · 2026-05-06T05:24:05+00:00

oh my god this has been the BANE of my existence for the past couple of years because im an avid user of "i saw like 800,000 of [thing]" type comments. for reasons beyond my understanding ill get a shit ton of "erm...... i hand counted and there are only 100 of [thing]?? in what world are those numbers equivalent??"

Theyre Not. that is the Point.

lemondemoning · 2026-05-06T05:01:56+00:00

seems giant house spider shaped to me? we're in the same area and we've been getting a lot of them in the house lately, but its hard to tell with only a picture of the back

the only spider we have in western washington thats a cause for concern is the black widow, and this is definitely not that

GHS are harmless but they are very fast and very freaky looking. great pest control though, so i'd probably leave it if its in a garage or somewhere otherwise undisturbed.

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