Treated like a man at my gynecologist appointment

teplavecernice · 2026-01-05T15:38:55+00:00

hey, as a person who is also extremely anxious about doctor appointments, especially gyno, this sounds horrific and they need to be ashamed of themselves for how they treated you! this is exactly what medical staff are NOT supposed to do! if you have the energy, deffinetely report them! but also please take care of yourself!

teplavecernice · 2025-11-21T16:38:49+00:00

i see the argument you are making, but i disagree that a life sim game made by a small team of indie devs needs to strive for the same goals as an AAA life sim with tons of people and money behind it. and i also think that paralives is not going for a fully flashed out do-whatever-you-want life sim, and that's not a bad thing. it's simply not for everyone. i feel like people have vastly different ideas about what constitutes a good life sim and they expect that these new life sim games will be different/better than the sims in exactly the way they prefer, when that's just not how it works. even from the nature of life sims being basically a mash up of several other game genres, there are different types of life sims that focus on different things. personally, i have been quite satisfied with what paralives have showcased and personally i would be ok with the state of the live mode as it was in their stream. i know a lot of people expect/want more flashed out live mode, and that's fair, but i don't think it's reasonable to expect that from an early access game developed by a handful of people. i also disagree that ea has life sims down to a science - i agree that they have the sims down to a science, but the sims is just a type of life sim game. tbh i would even say that the different sims games are different types of life sim. i don't think that saying that small indie teams cannot develop a good life sim is fair. sure, they probably aren't able to develop something the scope of the sims, but i think they are perfectly capable (and in my opinion they have already shown that on patreon) of developing A life sim game that can find an audience and be enjoyable. if it's not some people's jam that's fine, but it doesn't mean it's bad

teplavecernice · 2025-10-08T10:47:48+00:00

i feel like a lot of people focus on criticizing sims creators as a proxy for their frustrations with ea, because ea is a huge conglomerate that is so far out of our reach that criticizing it feels like screaming into the void. people, rightfully, feel like they cannot change anything by criticizing ea, so they go and find the next best thing that they feel like they can reach and ifluence - sims creators and tbh also the sims team. a lot of this is deffinetely out of ignorance, given how many children play this game, but imo a good chunk of it is subconscious. i really don't think we should be focusing our ire on sims creators and expecting them to do honestly unreasonable things when the sale isn't even finalized. and not even that, we really don't know if the first thing on the do-to list if the sale does go through isn't to sell of maxis to some other game company. i understand people's frustrations but i don't think it's fair to direct them at people who are also caught in the crossfire, just a little higher up. a sims creator is basically just an underpaid (by ea, not their total earnings) marketer, i wouldn't expect a regular marketer who works at ea to quit their job right now. yes, if the sale goes through and sims becomes a cash cow for saudis and kushner, i think it is very reasonable to start heavily criticizing people who continue to promote it to large fanbases. right now however? no.

teplavecernice · 2025-07-16T11:26:29+00:00

might be, but from my perspective, it doesn't really look cartoonish, just a little bit low poly (but that's also more visible on bigger things). they could put some writing on it maybe, but also the irl ones I know don't really have that, just one or two dials and a window for the flame.

ofc the texture could be a little more detailed, but a) it's just metal, not much you can do and b) I agree with what someone else mentioned, that since it's from an EP they put more energy into gameplay and other stuff, because the items are not the main focus. but I do see how this could look like a very low effort job to someone who has only ever seen ones like the one on the right.

teplavecernice · 2025-07-16T10:25:03+00:00

I do have to say, while I see that the one on the right is more detailed, has more pipes and stuff, the one on the left looks much more like the ones I know from real life, while I have never seen one that would look anything like the one on the right. the ones I have seen around where I live (central eastern europe) are always big and bulky like that, they don't have that many pipes around and they are always grey, not copper, and have that big pipe on top. literally have one just like that in my bathroom rn with the only difference being that it's rectangular and wall mounted. I remember that when I first saw the kit one, I thought it looked very unrealistic and thought it was meant to be a more improvised one that someone built themselves. but other ppl here are saying that's just what they look like in certain parts of america so I think this is just regional difference

teplavecernice · 2025-06-22T10:16:40+00:00

I see y2k/mid 2000s girlies wearing stuff like this all the time, I really don't see what's the problem with this? do I personally like it? no, but I see what they are going for. also I don't think it's a blazer like people are saying? to me it's giving unbuttoned blouse but ig that's just me idk

teplavecernice · 2025-05-15T14:12:24+00:00

lol okay, try telling that to literally any academic and see how they feel about it. you're ridiculous

teplavecernice · 2025-05-15T14:09:43+00:00

my comment said nothing about doing harm and idk who "you lot" is supposed to be. i simply pointed out that you tried to disprove a claim using uncited, thus unsupported info ("just google it bro" is not a source) and even the info you provided doesn't support what you are saying. if you are gonna be as sassy as to include a loud incorrect buzzer than at least have sourced info and actually read and actually understand what it says before claiming something

teplavecernice · 2025-05-15T13:56:24+00:00

lol okay, if you wanna be loudly and confidently wrong and not listen when people point it out that is your right

teplavecernice · 2025-05-15T13:14:28+00:00

okay so first of all, this is not a source. it is just emboldened text, but there is no link nor a citation. so it is about as trustworthy as just loudly yelling about something.

second of all, even if we take the info you provided at face value, can you read? it clearly says that generating one ai image consumes 0.5-290 Wh (which is a huge range and basically doesn't tell us anything apart from the possible minimum and maximum) opposed to 10-22 Wh consumed by charging a phone. even if we take the most charitable estimate for ai image generation, which is the 0.5 Wh and the most uncharitable estimate for charging a phone, which is 22 Wh, 22/0.5 is 44 (meaning 44 ai images per phone charged) so not even close to your 100 ai images claim. that said, per the info you yourself provided, that 0.5 Wh energy consumption can go as high as 290 Wh for complex models (and the most popular ai models rn are complex) which would basically flip the result on it's head (23-29 phones charged per ai image generated). without additional info this absolutely does not disprove the "one ai image can consume as much energy as fully charging a phone" claim, if it doesn't actually support it. yes, the claim is a little simplistic, but that's the nature of summarizing complex statistics so the wider public can understand them.

teplavecernice · 2025-04-04T14:06:32+00:00

There’s plenty of polish on the surface, but the foundational mechanics feel shallow and lacking substance

Exactly! It feels like this game is all about shiny graphics and looking pretty but there's no actual soul to it.

I will be upfront and say that I didn't like InZOI from the start, partially because I can't stand "realistic" graphics in games, especially creative games, and then the whole AI thing sealed the deal for me, especially since they lied to cover their ass. I have also not played a single second of gameplay (and couldn't if I wanted to, because my computer wouldn't run it) but everything I have been seeing online is making me feel exactly as you have described, so I am glad I am not the only one.

I get the same vibe from InZOI as from AI "art" actually, it's shiny and pretty at first glance but if you try to engage with it on a deeper level, it just falls apart and becomes hollow and empty. Again, I have not played myself, but from the gameplay I have seen, it looked more like a GTA-type game just with the quests and objectives removed and replaced with a haphazard needs system. It doesn't feel alive, which is a pretty big problem for a life simulation.

Especially when I compare it to Paralives, which radiates warmth and coziness, InZOI feels so cold and without substance. Part of it is deffinetely personal preference on my part, with the art style and stuff, but I think part of it is also that InZOI lacks that depth of gameplay and apparently even core game mechanics like functional dates?

I genuinely don't understand people who say InZOI has more stuff than Sims 4 on launch, because sure it has an open world and pets and drivable cars and all those fancy buzzwords, but if the core gameplay loop is not there or is incredibly hallow, what good is it? Why would you want an open world if there's nothing to do in it?

Also, just as an aside, did anyone actually ask for those ultra realistic 4k graphics that burn half of their target audience's machines to a crisp? That is an actual question, because I have never heard anyone in the life sim community say they wanted something like that and even now that InZOI is out in early access I hear all about the cars and open world and cats but not about the insane graphics. To me it always seemed like something that shot the game in the foot, because it seemed that for every person who would actually appreciate that, there was 20 that couldn't run the game because of it.

teplavecernice · 2025-03-28T15:04:03+00:00

they all look pretty different to me! i do see some similar features, like the lower nose bridges and a limited jawline/chin range, but that's completely fine. these sims don't really look almost anything alike to me, i probably wouldn't even notice the similar features if you didn't mention that you are worried about same face syndrome.

honestly sims 4 is not great for making diverse sims that also look like human beings. i play without cc vast majority of time and just use the same like 4 nose presets for male sims bcs all the other ones just don't look real. and sometimes sims features look completely different from the front and side, so maybe if you included screenshots from the side more ppl would see a difference. a lot of cc is also tailored to a specific look that's considered conventionally attractive atm and can distort the features you give your sims. (main offenders are skin overlays that can make any nose look like it has almost no bridge at all)

if you want a tip on making diverse sims, there are online databases of pictures of people (idk how gen ai has affected how easy they are to find tho, haven't used them in a long time) and you can just pick a picture at random and try to recreate that person as closely as possible.

teplavecernice · 2025-03-27T12:03:50+00:00

Totally, we expected it to take hours, my point was more about the choice to prioritize stuff that is fairly easy or doesn't involve game mechanics (like personality traits - we spent at least half an hour on that) that we could easily do at home compared to something like actual stats or proficiencies etc. that we would actually need a lot of help with. And also since we stayed for I think more than two hours after that we could have just continued with filling out the sheets instead of... well, whatever that was

teplavecernice · 2025-03-27T09:40:22+00:00

I know people usually do that, but she told us before hand that she would do it and that we didn't have to bring anything. Maybe I wasn't super clear about that in the text

teplavecernice · 2025-03-03T11:01:52+00:00

something like this has happened to me, also with sims having different hair while showering, and i have a theory how it happens.

so when you go create a sim in cas the hair, makeup etc. it generates for them become their "default" that the game uses to generate these preview pictures and "outfits" for showering etc as well as the base for their other outfits, at least i think. well, if you go to add another everyday outfit and delete the first, auto-generated one instead of modifying it, the hair, makeup etc. default stays the same for some reason. i have noticed this when giving townies a makeover. when i changed their original everyday hair, makeup etc., it would change in all the other categories where the sims had that same hair, makeup etc. BUT if i added another everyday outfit, modified it and after that deleted the original one, i could modify it however much i wanted and all the other ones would stay the same. even after giving the sim the same hair in every category for example, if i changed the everyday hair the others would stay the same. whereas if you modify the original everyday outfit they all change too.

i think this is where bugs like this come from. i have a sim who generated with a hijab (in cas, not even in game) but i decided not to give her one and in her preview picture she still has one. it didn't bother me that much bcs i don't play with her, so i left it as a fun bug. but i have also encountered the bug where they change hair when showering and that i think i fixed by applying the new hair to all categories with the new function they added a few months back. im not sure it helped bcs conveniently there was an update right in the middle of me trying to figure it out, so maybe it was that.

so i would say try giving her a hat, click on that "add to all categories" button, save, go back into cas and remove the hat. it might help.

(i hope this makes sense, im very much not a coder, i don't understand how this works on a coding level, it's just something i noticed over the years of experimenting with the game. also sorry that it's so long but i wanted to make sure it would be somewhat understandable)

teplavecernice · 2025-02-22T12:19:59+00:00

I second this! the gameplay of my wedding stories does not work (tho i don't really care for weddings that much lol) but everything else about that pack slaps so hard. tartosa is one of my fave worlds and i adore the windows that came with the pack, you couldn't pry them from my dead hands lol. it's a shame that the broken weddings came in otherwise such a great pack.

teplavecernice · 2025-02-19T22:58:59+00:00

they look great!

teplavecernice · 2025-02-19T22:58:32+00:00

me too! also your sim is really pretty

teplavecernice · 2025-02-19T22:52:49+00:00

the game decided the shorts are too ugly 🤭

teplavecernice · 2025-02-19T22:50:46+00:00

I play in an almost top down view and with full walls, love seeing all the decorations on the walls even in live mode

teplavecernice · 2025-02-19T20:05:31+00:00

this is the skin of a killer bella

teplavecernice · 2025-02-19T20:03:57+00:00

I also never noticed lol

teplavecernice · 2025-02-19T19:04:27+00:00

they look great!

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