🦄 Tumblr is probably the worst for modding, from my limited experience. -- ⚡ California love! Wee-u-wee-u-wee-u! I expanded my "NexusMods" section just a smidge. You gon' love it.

I'm responding to things a bit out of order because I just woke up. Sorry. 😹 ─ "I went to subscribe to donate for a month and realized you didn't have one and I was like holy shit this girl is legit like you really don't care about money." What?! Wait! GIF ME DA MONEYS! 😹 I don't not care about money. I don't have subscription tiers because only (2) banks in my country support any type of service like Patreon and I have to jump through a bunch of hoops, not just with the bank. Right now I am not employed, so if I had regular Patrons I could at least sort out the internet woes and eliminate some other "SKULLS" (💀). The SKULL (💀) on my "Announcements" post is a status indicator. It means I can go M.I.A. at any time due to "technical difficulties". Before those "technical difficulties" manifested, there was a kitty face emoji there to signify that all was good. It ain't been a kitty face emoji for a while. The thing is though, for me to paywall something, it would have to be something I think is really groundbreaking, but something that's I also don't consider "critical", e.g. I consider my SGFX Overrides and Patches that remove UI effects "critical" because it's a health and well-being thing for some folks, so I'd never put them behind any kind of paywall even if I had subscriptions. ─ "Anyways I might have to make a new patreon because [...]" Just know that if you delete your old Patreon account, all of your old comments are automatically deleted. I will backup your Community comments because even though I haven't gotten around to addressing all of your questions, they're really good questions and I want to address them. If you intend to make a new Patreon to use Elsweyr and keep using this one here then that's fine. We won't have to worry about comments disappearing. ─ "So might have to use my other account because I don't want to be targeted it here and it's just wild to me." Yeah... That's unfortunately how a fair number of people in the community behaves. Everyone got all upset about those creators who were doxxing their Patrons and passing around names, but a fair number of people in the community appear to be one step away from doing the same kinda thing. It's the reason why when I posted that long, scathing rant directed at the modding community and members of [X], that I prefaced it by telling folks not to comment on the post even in agreement. I'm already me. I know the consequences of the things I "say" and do. You're welcomed to live vicariously through me when I go on a rant without publicly agreeing with anything I say. There's also never a need to defend me or my actions to anyone. If I can't rationally defend my own actions, then I've really !@#$ed up. I put a lot of thought into my rants. I don't do them on a whim, and I try to never be irrational. Which is why I never delete any of them. That doesn't mean that I'm above being corrected or put in my place if I completely lost the plot. This is also part of the reason why I'm so transparent with everything I do, like with "My Beautiful Squishy". I never want to be in a position where I feel like I'm misleading anyone or where someone else has to reveal to any of you that "Sejian didn't even ask permission to rebuild that mod!" or "Sejian was asked not to do that and they didn't listen!" like with my SGFX Patch for More Traits in CAS. Whether or not my justifications for why I cross some lines are valid, you don't have to wait to hear it through the grapevine, because I'll tell you myself that I did something that I maybe shouldn't have done, or that I was expressly asked not to do. That doesn't make my actions right or defensible, it just means it won't be a surprise to you when someone else tells you about it. ─ "I hate patreon they suck at finding certain posts or posts that were in fact published in that month but for some reason you select the filter for that month and it doesn't show then if you fkn type the one word oh look there it is." Patreon's tags/filters are kinda hopeless. Patreon is not really made for this kinda thing. Collections are the most useful thing Patreon has done and then they went and complicated it with pointless new features. I assume those new features benefit mobile users since Patreon's changes usually seem to be directed at mobile users. ─ "I loved using this for my more dominant men and I'll leave it at that." Mhm, "more dominant men". *hint* *hint* *wink* *wink* 😹 ─ "People forget that other games don't permit this early access bullshit to mods and many will be heavily targeted for it by fans if they did. It's weird Sims is excluded from that opinion not to mention they use a lot of EA's stuff." The only thing I'd argue is that folks sometimes stick to their corner of the watering hole and don't venture out, so they may not know about "the great beyond". I understand it, but also, it can be disastrous. If I remember correctly, about (6) months before we were targeted with malware, the Minecraft community on CurseForge was hit was a massive malware attack that infected numerous people. But instead of it being a cautionary tale, some folks saw it as "Well that's Minecraft! Our mods are different! We have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to worry about!". Nothing at all! No siree! Now every few months someone is trying to infect all of us with darkweb malware. 😹😿😾👹 ─ "I'm glad we can have discussion even after disagreeing" We've had disagreements?! 😹 I only feel like I've ever had disagreements with one individual and that was the individual who came from [X] to tell me about what I was told that I could and couldn't do, and the only reason I banned them was because they attacked the other person who joined the discussion and replied to them calmly (unless I missed an obvious insult or attack). Had they been able to "shift gears" and respond to that person calmly while continuing to have heated disagreements with me, we'd probably still be at it. If the other person had entered the discussion with "an attitude" and directed it at the person I was disagreeing with, I myself would have told them to back off. I'm not going to encourage or foster that mentality where just because you like what I'm doing, we all gang up on anyone who criticizes me... unless it's like a super duper irrational criticism like something about 🐌 or 🐸, or 🍍 on 🍕, I dunno! 😹 Everything else has just been discussions to me. I wonder if anyone else feels like I've had disagreements with them? 🙀 Unless you mean about you deleting questions because you think you're bothering me. If so then yes, we have all the disagreements and all the 🥩 and all the 🦴!!!!!!11111 😹 ─ Did you perhaps get into a heated discussion with someone over me or one of my mods? 🐱

I know the feeling. Even before I really started modding, I couldn't play more than a couple hours max before the frustration piled on and I scraped all my "progress" and restarted my save. After I started modding it became -ENCOUNTERS GLITCH- "!@#$ this !@#$" -EXIT WITHOUT SAVING- "I can fix it." -RESUME SAVE AND ENCOUNTER ANOTHER GLITCH OR ANNOYANCE- "!@#$ this !@#$" -EXIT WITHOUT SAVING- "I can fix it!" and the cycle repeats. Fast-forward to today and the only significant amount of time I've played since February 2024 has been on the last day of each Live Event in order to complete it, then it's back to "!@#$ DIS !@#$, I WILL TEAR APART THIS WRETCHED GAME TIL I FIX EVERY STUPID AND/OR BROKEN THING!" It wasn't like this with Sims 2. I use to build and decorate and play pre-made households. The Greenman family was my favorite. As you can imagine, I was extremely disappointed when I found out PlantSims are temporary states in Sims 4. I know there are mods for this, but one of these fine days I will poke around and maybe do my own. As for the oversaturation of both mods and bugs? I agree. As for the malware? We continue to half-arse the response to every malware incident. I don't think we even know what exactly happened this time - if SFS was compromised or something else - not that we ever found out what happened with MTS the last time. Not to mention that everyone can do banners for all types of !@#$ except to notify folks about !@#$ that can ruin their lives. It shows where everyone's priorities are. Credit where it's due, at least the latest malware incident has been re-blogged all over Tumblr. INB4 I get invited to join ModCo and I go FullExclusive for all the business partners who totes exist and are all real people!!!11 😹