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DID WE FINALLY GET A DIFFERENT OUTFIT FROM LUMINE AND PAIMON I NEED THAT AS A PLAYABLE SKIN PLS HOYOVERSE
are you deranged like me?
Hello all Grian fans.
Here is a comprehensive, public Google Drive file made of Grian’s Minecraft skins and their links on NameMc. Feel free to download and share the link with others.
Review: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Rating: 9.0 of 10
First and foremost, I might be the only person in the world who were torn between Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road. You see, I loved Pitch Perfect. I had been waiting for the sequel for a while and Anna Kendrick is kind of my spirit animal. I have never even seen any of the Mad Max movies and know practically nothing about it except the broadest overview (I know, I'm a bad geek) and the trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road didn't quite move me. BUT then everyone and their grandfather started raving about Fury Road up to the point where I can't ignore it. As you might have guessed, after a brief moment of soul searching, I decided on Fury Road.
And really, I basically dropped my jaw to floor for the whole 2 hours, it was insane. In a world where action movies (or even non action movies) are frequently big and loud, Fury Road was BIG and LOUD. Fury Road was non-stop—it was basically 2 hours of Max's (Tom Hardy) life, and that life ain't quiet. But most importantly, it was also beautiful. A lot of movies are beautifully shot (heck, if nothing else, even the Transformers movies are beautifully shot) but Fury Road brought everything to the next level. Every scene is like a painting. The movie didn't even have proper script for its shooting, it had a mountain of storyboards instead, and it shows. Basically, Fury Road was an artwork. It wasn't just pretty, it was poetry—if poetry can be made of gasoline, greased wheels, and dirt, that can only brought upon by George Miller, the original creator of Mad Max.
In Mad Max's world, the world had ended and the ones left were living under tyrant named Immortan Joe. I honestly don't know if he were supposed to have backstory in the previous movies or not, but I know jackshit about him and the War Boys, and I loved it. Fury Road has this enormous, enormously rich world where everything is crazy and nothing is explained, and actually I love that about the movie. It made me feel like we literally have only seen one second worth of glimpse at its madness—and looking at the amount of creativity in it, we definitely only have seen so little of its world. Every inch of its character designs told a story, and there were plenty of story to tell: Citadel, War Boys and War Pups, Breeders, Gas Town, Bullet Farm, Many Mothers, we really are just scratching the surface.
But the main spectacle were definitely the fights and chases, and boy, what a spectacle it was. Almost everything were done with practical effects instead of CGI and you just can see the effort and detail that went into it. The cars were rigged with spikes, poles, and grenades, and you have never seen anything more beautiful than them. The chases were batshit crazy and complicated, that it made Fast & Furious 7's scenes looked like they were made with your niece's toy LEGO cars. But honestly, as R-rated and artful as it is, we can't really deny that Fury Road is basically a 13 year old's wet dream in which cars explode randomly on contact, and rock music during battle is the pinnacle of coolness. In short, it was nothing but full-on gloriousness.
One thing, though: Charlize Theron was a capital-B, bold letter Badass. With a buzzcut and a warpaint, Charlizes Theron's Imperator Furiosa was a heroine worthy of Sigourney Weavers's Ripley status. Tom Hardy, who played the titular character, has always had enormous presence and he was perfect as the wild-but-strangely-rarely-speaking Max. But it was Imperator Furiosa who moved the story forward. Trapped within action sequence after sequences, Theron was able to bring depth to her character, just enough to make we love her and want her to succeed. I also need to have a little shoutout for Nicholas Hoult who played Nux. Being a fan from his Skins days, I was always delighted to see him taking on a new, interesting character and he did a marvellous job. We witness you, Nicholas Hoult, and we welcome you.
It was really hard for me to remind myself that the original Mad Max, a cult favorite, is a 36-year-old property. TL;DR Somehow, Mad Max: Fury Road felt so fresh, so breathtaking, and had eased itself to the cracks of today's filmmaking so completely that you know it wasn't a miracle, it wasn't luck; it was the work of a seasoned filmmaker who knew exactly what he's doing, doing what he does best.
Review: We Are The Freaks (2013)
Rating: 8.0 of 10
We Are The Freaks is an offbeat teen-ish movie set around 3 misfit friends on a crazy weekend: Jack (Jamie Blackley) who is bored to the core and wants to go to university, Parsons (Mike Bailey) who doesn't want to, and rich-kid Chunks (Sean Teale) who is just plain crazy. It is set right around the end Margaret Thatcher's reign, Brit to the core, and filled with off-color, smutty jokes.
The film begins with Jack talking straight to the camera and talks how "this is not an average teen movie" and how "he hates it when people talking to the camera" all the while doing exactly that. We Are The Freaks is definitely not your regular movie, and one that's very self aware—probably borders on being too self aware for its own good. It breaks the 4th wall constantly, filled with dreamlike sequences and nonsensical cuts. It is a bit glorious, really, to see a movie that embraces its unique style so wholly and so quickly. It might be an acquired taste for some people but I believe there's a space for movies like this.
Aside from being very stylistic, it also has amazing amount of attitude—in the sense that yes it's full of crass and black comedy. It reminds me a lot of the Skins UK series, none the least because it features 2 Skins alum ("Sid" and "Nick" of 1st and 3rd generation Skins respectively), but also because it features the same brand of humor, complete with hijinks with drug dealer and a trip to the ER. Directed by newcomer Justin Edgar, it might suffer a bit from style over substance disease, but buried beneath its attitude and craziness there's an interesting classical subtext especially between Jack who wants to go to university but can't afford to, and Chunks who has money to burn and maybe literally burns them too.
We Are The Freaks, while not being your run-of-the-mill teen movie, is definitely, quintessentially teenager. TL;DR Like true teenage-hood, We Are The Freaks is just a little bit anarchic, a little bit chaotic, a little bit futile, but a little bit perfect: you don't know where you're going and everything feels meaningless, but you know there's a long road ahead.
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argentine skinheads would be one of my favorite genres
(btw not supporting them, I just think they look cool lol)
Merry Christmas!
Hard to believe it's already that time of the year again!🎄🎁 As my usual tradition, I'll be sharing last year's Advent gifts from TerraLuna.
Everything is included in a single file:
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/4354421/
A Halloween Gift
Happy Spooky Season!
🎃🎃🎃🎃
Lately, I've been getting back into one of my old fandoms -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And, whenever I get into a fandom, Sims skins usually follow.
So, I decided to make four of my favorite characters from the show -- Buffy, Oz, Tara, and Dawn. They each have 20 different outfits, all with pictures in the .7z files.
Some of their outfits aren't exact recreations, but instead the best I could do within the limitations of Sims 1. Some of them are also recreations of very old skins others had made, redone to look cleaner and use better meshes.
It's probably not what you typically expect from me, but it's something I wanted to make, and I think it fits the occasion. How can you get more Halloween than a vampire slayer, a werewolf, and a witch?🔪🐺🧙♀️
Buffy:
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5095591/
Oz:
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5095598/
Tara:
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5095603/
Dawn:
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5095606/
As a bonus, I'm also sharing this excellent werewolf skin I downloaded from the CTO archives years ago -- use it when Oz has his time of the month!
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5095746/
Also, let me say that while I may do other characters from the show down the road, I'm not open to requests. I'm also not doing any characters I dislike (ie. Willow, Xander, Spike), so don't expect skins of them.
Merry Christmas!
Per tradition, here's last year's TerraLuna advent gifts as my Christmas gift to you.🎁
T-Shirt Dresses
Sweaters & Leggings
Plaid Skirts
Skirts & Boots
Overalls
Neon Skirts
Floral Dresses
Crop Tops
Bodysuits & Jeans
Hey, I'm finally posting something!😸 It's not the most exciting update, though... I decided to do another fine-tuning to the Chris and Layne skins I made last year. So, I recommend re-downloading these:
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/4203444/
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/4203445/
Hopefully, this is the last time I redo these, lol. Enjoy!
Some Skins
Merry Christmas... your Sims are getting underwear!!🎁🩲
No, I’m just kidding! I’ll have more for you to unwrap tomorrow.😄😋
But, I’ve decided to focus more on creating skins than objects for now, and what better place to start than what your Sims are wearing under their clothes!
Plus, I think there’s an unfortunate lack of “basic” underwear available for the Sims vs fancy lingerie and stuff like that. Hope this fills the void.
Available in all three skin tones and body types.
(Note: If you’ve previously downloaded the make skinny mesh, please re-download it from these sets, as I’ve fixed some minor flaws in it.)
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3619084/
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3619085/
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3619086/
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3619087/
http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3619089/