how to know you’ve been into the sims 2 too long

withlovefromsimtown:

evolo84:

celebkiriedhel:

twofingerswhiskey:

• [TESTERS WANTED!]
• 2-f0r-u
• no pictures just a download
• WCIF this?????????? pls respond
• EXTREME BUMP MAPPING
• pimpmysims
• simsurbania
• “talkies”
• CEP 1.0
• xmsims
• pleasantview high by katzombie on youtube.com
• jd-movies allmenus on cheat
• T$R drama
• “i crashed. brb reinstalling and wiping all my data”
• raonjena
• emo/edgy/goth sims
• face 1
• “leaving testingcheats on too long will crash your game!”
• simswardrobe
• pronupsims
• that one pearl necklace and bracelet
• noukiesims2/wicked nouk family
• photoskinned hairs 
• lianasims2/annamariasims 2
• the booty
• sims 2 exchange stories
• german sims exclusives
• BBS threads
• the ford download pack
• sims 2 store
• thehontry1 hacked kids drama
• numenor’s mods
• grunge phase
• adelevk
• the insimenator mod
• “weird things you noticed in your game” threads
• artsy photos taken ingame
• everyone using those loft windows from AL and nothing else
• belladonna high school from garden of shadows
• even older: american high school ii from modthesims
• neon recolours
• pescado
• anime hairs
• simbology inteenimator
• marvine
• hair recolours that don’t match any other known textures
• bodyshapes
• the launcher still fucking working
• “my disk got scratched”
• pre-pets or post-pets
• collection files having to go into the collections folder
• “joined union”
• uberhoods
• livejournal. everyone had a fucking livejournal. or dreamwidth
• rosesims2 centaur mesh

Before Livejournal existed – everyone had Yahoo groups.

No CEP

Paintings on wallpapers,

The joy which was the Sims 2 trailer with the boobies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9u1zMCos8w

rugs made out of carpets.

Paysites drama

The Good, the Bad and the Sims vs the Cellar or the Attic

When TSR was free and hosted other websites.

No palettes.

Janna

SimFreaks

8 Deadly Sims

The first recolour – and how exciting that was.

The time when TSR and MTS were friends.

The time when MTS and MATY wasn’t friends.

Well Dressed Sims – Brianna making the first custom Clothing mesh.

Having to redo everything when they changed the code for University.

running SimPE 19.0

Numenor – who was a hero for Sims 2. Not just mods, but everything else as well.

The first Kitchen set – Scarborough by RGiles.

The first Repository set – Grand Trianon.

The high Poly/vector drama

Not playing with smooth edges on because the graphics cards weren’t up to it.

There’s more… but it’s 1am.

Let’s not forget … Enayla. Extra points if you remember the so-called controversy about Enayla’s work. 

Wings … fairy wings, angel wings, dragon wings … and leading into that, Sapphire Sims

The first appearance of custom-made animals (much of it due to Rebecah’s wonderful imagination), and the later discovery that they’re NPCs, and removing them can cause Bad Things to happen in your hoods. (Not necessarily a bad thing at all … just something important to know.)

Kathy and Eric … and Walt.

Mootilda. I still miss her so much. Also Piggi. Two wonderful people, gone far, far too soon.

With celebkiriedhel

’s list, I remember about 60% of that. I came onto the Sims 2 scene in early 2006, so my earliest memories lean more toward 2006 – 2007. Still, many of the things I first remember happened a decade or so ago! I did include some later memories here, though.

TS2 released in September 2004, 2 different people bought me a copy of it for my birthday (Halloween) the same year, so I’ve been there since almost the beginning…minus like a month & a half. Mostly I lurked up until about 5-6 years ago, but I remember watching a lot of these dramas roll by.

On the one hand, I think lurking instead of actively participating stunted my growth a lot as a creator & member of this community.  There were a ton of really awesome people that I’d have loved to be friends with back in the day & I feel a little sad that I never made that connection.  I often wished that I had a bunch of other CC creators to bounce ideas off of & help me improve.
On the other hand… well… the community as a whole had a tendency to lean towards visible drama, & I let that scare me off from making connections.  I don’t think most people would have started things, but opening myself up to that possibility was not something I could easily do… to the point where I just didn’t. That’s on me, though.

Oh man, I avoided cc like the plague in my early days (partly bc talking about mods in the official bbs was like screaming VOLDEMORT, or at least where I went) but I remember a few gems like:

• Life Is A Sim-Coaster (that was my HECKIN JAM ok)
• “BUT SHE WAS TOO BOOTIFUL SO HER AUNT HATED HER >:(((”
• *Avril Lavigne title here* – A TEEN PREGNANCY AND DRUG AND ABUSE AND PEAR PRESSURE STORY
• That Rosemary’s Baby story
• “LOL SAMANTHA OTTOMAN CHEATED WITH A DOG”
• Turning teen sims and sometimes even child sims into adults
• twinzr2cute
• Some elaborate tutorial for the “hidden baby gender pick” method
• Giant babies
• “I saved with boolprop on!!! will i lose my sims??? :’(((((”