Kats

Kats

@squeamishnerd.bsky.social

The Sims 1 and 4 storyteller, builder, and modder | Writer of The Brights and The Original Ahriman | they

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Hi! I'm Kats. I'm a simmer who mainly plays The Sims 4, but occasionally The Sims 1. I tell stories, take scenery screenshots, make videos, create mods, and build. This is my thread of threads ๐Ÿงถ

As you may notice, it's the 8th of June here. Last time we saw Beren was the 17th of May, where he said that he graduates in two weeks. This means that we're still hopping back and forth in time, as Beren has already graduated when Andrew goes on his second date with Denzel.

The Brights@thebrights.bsky.social

Sunday, 8th of June Louise: Hi! Andrew: Hi, you work here today? Louise: I do! Andrew: This is Louise, a friend from school. This is Denzel, who I'm on a sightseeing date with. Denzel: Nice to meet you. Louise: Likewise.

You'll get a full recap of all this jumping when I'm done with it. It's just the rest of this chapter, then two chapters more, after that we should be back to normal time order ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

I feel so bad for not having introduced Cole and Marcus yet, who are in Beren's class! Story-wise I've just had so much else going on with Beren and a bunch of others, but for me Cole and Marcus have always been there. But you'll finally get to meet them in the chapter after the next!

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TFW you've played a lot in a save file with the new Calientes and Don in it and then stumble upon the old Calientes and Don in another save file

In case anyone's wondering what happened here, he panicked because he accidentally offended Melon ๐Ÿ˜… He gave Melon a compliment, but I guess it wasn't a compliment from Melon's perspective or Melon misunderstood him

Kats@squeamishnerd.bsky.social

This expression is sending me ๐Ÿ˜‚

Me: *Creates a spellcaster in CAS* Spellcaster: Sulius beshne obleet swaybius bas Me: Spellcaster: Etheri secabra, ta bonkus Me: Spellcaster: Secabra flopa, oh, heh, sulius! Me: Spellcaster: Scubafata, bonkus sulius! Me: Oh my god just stand still for two seconds!

Not sure if I should keep builder in my bio, I've only posted two of my builds on here, I just never bother to take screenshots of the things I build lol

Could someone remind me where I find the high five interaction is in Sims 4? I've been looking everywhere, starting to wonder if the two sims need a specific trait or relationship

I can find two official animations, a2a_soc_foosballTable_T_highFive and t2t_friendly_T_highFive_succeed My sims didn't do first one after playing foosball, and if I pose them it looks more like a fist bump anyway What's the interaction for the other one? It says t2t, but I've seen non-teens do it

Renovating FutureSim Labs is interesting... Some findings: - To get to the reception you need to walk through a boiler room - No changing room - A food fridge in one of the labs - To get to the lunch room you need to walk through one of the labs - The centrifuge is in the middle of one of the labs

After wrestling with lamps for a while, not understanding why my sim is too bright and the room too dark, I removed all lamps and windows and my sim is still bright, I'm so confused ๐Ÿซ 

Oh. My. God. It's the lights from the first floor coming up the stairs. There isn't even that bright on the first floor, but if I turn those lamps off it looks fine on the second floor

I have some objects that were created by one of my sims and when I hover over the objects it says that they were indeed created by my sim. But when I hover over the greyed out option to put them in my sims inventory it says that my sim doesn't own the objects. Is there a mod to fix this? #TheSims4

A little reminder before today's update

The Brights@thebrights.bsky.social

Andrew: Um... May I have a fork instead? Louise: All the forks are dirty, and you always complain about getting stomach aches from eating too fast. Andrew: I've gotten better at eating slowly. Louise: Hey, I got a text saying that they've found me a roommate! They'll move in in a few weeks.

Any suggestions on how to make smooth slowmotion in CapCut? Search results only says I can get it with their ai features, but I'm absolutely not going to use that Maybe I should just go back to Shotcut and try to live with all the freezing and crashing ๐Ÿซ 

Before the next update I want to remind you of where we were before we got to see Andrew's second dates with Beren and Garrett

The Brights@thebrights.bsky.social

Louise: You also had your second date with Garrett recently. Andrew: And with Beren. Louise: Sounds like you have a lot to tell me. Andrew: For sure, I didn't expect the turn of events on either of those two dates.

9 games that shaped who I am Make your own at: my9games.net/en

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My criteria for which games to include was mostly a) games that I put a lot of hours into and b) games that I still think about. Shelter is by far the most stressful game on here ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ I HATE those foxes!! The link to make your own: my9games.net/en

I tried to put them in some kind of order of how much they shaped me, but it was really difficult The Sims 4 absolutely shaped me the most, I've learnt so many things about myself, about storytelling, about worldbuilding, about other people's perception of the world, and so much more.

I played Chants of Sennaar very recently, so I don't know how much it actually shaped me, but I loved it. I highly recommend to play together with someone! Take turns controlling the character and discuss the tasks. You'll have more fun that way and you'll learn about how the other person thinks

Have you also noticed that when it comes to couple poses that were made with one female sim and one male sim, the male sim often looks kinda angry or aggressive? Btw, assertive is not the same as aggressive, they're often mixed up but connected to different types of actions and facial expressions

I just wanted to say that what I said in the quoted post is not the reason to why I haven't posted the rest of the date despite it being two weeks since the last update, my self-confidence is back to normal levels, I just had a lot to do last week

Kats@squeamishnerd.bsky.social

I have trouble writing the next part of Beren and Andrew's date ๐Ÿ˜• Feeling misunderstood in the past few updates has made me feel a bit insecure tbh