Sometimes I Get Sad At The Lost Experiences I've Had Living In An Area With Less Resources

IM GOING FUCKING BESERK

okay i'm gonna start watching what we do in the shadows. here's what i already know before actually watching anything

there's vampires

one of them has hair that looks like cat ears

it's filmed like a reality show or something

there's a vampire hunter(?) dating one of the vampires(?)

all the vampires have titles in their names(?)

that's. i think that's it

Skewed results, no ravi

*im intentionally not including buck and eddie because i KNOW they would get the most votes because this fandom is obsessed with them (which isnt a bad thing or anything lol) often overlooking the other characters so i wanted to highlight my other faves <3

i dont hate buck and eddie at all lol in fact i love them a lot. it's just the other characters deserve just as much love that buck and eddie get.

Hello guys! First of all happy new year ! Hope you had a great time out there :) 🎆

Today I'm writing this to explain why decimation of Sims 4 meshes is paramount while converting stuff. You know me, I don't like to make statements as english isn't my first language and I find it difficult sometimes to actually write things down - even in italian I struggle sometimes lol. BUT I think this would be useful to all the cc converters and creators out there. So please, take this as an advice, for the sake of our oldie and beloved Sims 3.

Little backstory: I was casually browsing tumblr the other day and stumbled across a beautiful food set converted from Sims 4 - which I immediately saw was high quality. Just for curiosity I downloaded it, checked the polycount of a random object (if you're new here it's the total number of polygons found in a three-dimensional model) and it had way too many polys: 28k vertices - 34k faces + 4096x4096 textures.

Sims 3 is quite an old game now. Every player had experienced lag and glitches at some point so it's very, very important to make the stuff you create/convert from other games suitable for it! Here comes to the rescue a super useful tool in blender called decimation. It basically "allows you to reduce the vertex/face count of a mesh with minimal shape changes", as said on blender website. In just 2 minutes and with not so much effort I was able to reduce those polygons down to 8,4k vertices - 7,4k faces. Do you see any difference? I don't honestly.

Optimization is the key. Converting from sims 4 is not just taking the mesh and textures and putting them all in Sims 3. I wish it was tho!

You're free to put whatever you want in your game but you have to think about the game performance as well. There are people who still play the game and as an ex player I got really upset when I had laggy gaming sessions.

Having said that, here's a tut about blender and the decimation tool, done by @simaddix and which I think covers every important aspect of that useful tool.

If you read this all, thank you! Now I can go back to convert new stuff :D

-Marta

I feel like those characters in a glue trap everytime I think about buddie poker date.

I need to make one of them

I am painfully serious about being spec-less for the finale but I'll tell you what I do have. An extremely good fucking feeling

the 911 fandom in general, on all social media except maybe reddit, is really bad at taking other less popular’s people idea’s and not giving credit. Happened to me once back in s5, took my screenshot and everything.

Literally just saw a post someone popular on here posted and it very much verbatim my theory about where Buck’s gonna recover from the coma. Like, I know a lot of people are thinking the same thing… but they used the exact same things I said nearly exactly.

Anywayyy it was my theory first lol

This is funny because they were all confirmed as pansexual.

another day and another show that ISNT queerbaiting because it has MULTIPLE explicitly confirmed bisexual characters! y’all want to erase bi people so bad!

Not guilty!

This started as a tweet I made but grew I to my full feelings for Buck and his romantic relationships:

The writers likely didn't mean this, but Buck getting into relationships after a traumatic event is him regressing. It's him not dealing with his trauma. Not to mention he's always had a difficulties with relationships since s1. The most development we got was him being in a serious relationship after a direct trauma rather than hooking up with people because of a difficult upbringing.

Which is also why I think Ali is more liked as Buck's girlfriend, because from what I can remember, she was the only one who left after he got severely hurt and didn't start dating him after he went through a trauma. Abby started seriously talking to him after Buck couldn't save the man in the rollercoaster, Taylor got with him after Eddie was shot, and Natalia was first interested in Buck because he died and only came back after he got hurt again.

Not to mention Buck's obsession with sex in s1 and when we later learn he got attention from his parents through hurting himself. He's always been regressing.

The biggest reason there has been no change is because for Buck to see worth in himself is him not dating the girls he think will be the next to help him after a trauma; but that goes against the heterosexual nature some writers push for Buck, and if he sees that none of those girlfriends or hook-ups ever saw him for who he is, eventually he would realize that he always had someone who knew him head and heart. But because that someone is a man, people working on the show will never let that be the finale to Buck being with someone who fully understood and was content with him as him through and through.

MMMMHMMMMMM

Derek and Guillermo in whatever relationship they decide to put them in bc they will both be good for one another: 👌👍🤞

Derek purely a Nandermo plot point: 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️