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welcome to my DW account!
What you will find here, are mostly my sims, my picspam and things like that. My new CC will be to the greatest part posted on [community profile] paranoid_creations  from now on. That's a community that me and [personal profile] lavaya use to share our stuff with you.

my old LJ account will serve as a dump an archive from now on. I will still log in from time to time to check if there are any messages... also I'll try to move stuff from there. Most of it is outdated, especially old hair recolors, which I will try to update with new textures and new colors
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My stuff is widely spread over the internet. Almost everything is on one single mediafire account, but the links are not available everywhere.

THE LIST )
For policy clicky here )

People I usually steal the stuff of )

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I try to make sure you guys don't miss an update. I still have much more subscribers here, than [community profile] paranoid_creations has.
Oh, and - yes, I recently caught the Tori-Amos-infection ... again ^_^
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I hope I can terrorize you with my daily update pictures for a while longer.
Now I have to decide: Do I edit the Veronaville pics I just found or do I start the game?

btw, we don't really have Halloween here. Some kids use this day to get free candy, but all in all it's a pretty normal day here in boring Germany.
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Finally uploaded some sets. If you're interested, you can grab 'em HERE.
Some stuff that is more fun will be uploaded soon. I guess you're all sick of hair recolors by now :P
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Yeah, instead of doing proper things I am doing - guess what - any possible crap. One of them is getting myself a twitter account for anything I would like to share with the sims community - YOU!

TWEEEET!

No, I don't pretend like I discovered it, but I suddenly felt like opening an extra account for my biggest hobby of all. Anything (sims related) will now be broadcasted as if it was special news - hooray for senseless publicity!


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Just completed the updated swatches for our paranoid!-haircolors. Recently I have decided to edit two neons: I darkened "flamingo" down to make it more a neon pink than a "my little pony-pink", which was highly unsuitable for males. Also "fluorescent" was edited so that it became even more agressive. It's an acid green after all. My actual reason for editing fluo was to give the texture more contrast in the end.


And now I'm sitting here with SimPE, Photoshop and an open excel sheet and I'm replacing the old textures, editing preview pics, packing complete sets... hell, this is a chaos!
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Me is not dead. Neither is the Teashop, nor paranoid!, nor my interest for TS2. The little break I took was necessary to get away from the unhealthy interest when I was spending more time with my sims than with my family and friends. This is the time when you have to stop.

So here I am, back again, just in time to prepare for the winter holidays, crafting some gifts for you guys. I must say though, that the problem is not about creating, the problem is about the "bringing". I have far more preview pictures to take, than I can handle. Also I need my time to arrange the files... this is the most annoying process.
But me and Lavaya have decided to take better care of our little child, paranoid!, and we hope to come up with some creative ideas soon...
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I have to apologize agian and again. But real life came creeping from behind my back and tore me apart. I had planned an updade a whole month ago, but I can't seem to get it done. I know it makes me look like an self-centered idiot, that I anounced the new actions with incredible pomp and now there are no updates coming. I can assure you, asap I'll upload all the sets on my HDD that are actually worth uploading.

Right now I'm in my exam phase and I also had a few job interviews for the internship I should do next semester. If I can't make it now, I'll look for a vacancy in the US, I swear!

And yesterday I came to see MCR live again! Their attitude is what makes them awesome. There were not sooo many people, around 2 000 I guess. And the show, as it was a sponsored special event, was also a bit short. But they made it as if it was a 10 000 people stadium show! ... Now I have to tell it to the whole world! xD


I guess it was "Teenagers". About a half of the songs were from Black Parade (which was awesome!)

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I started a neighborhood that will be used for anything else but generation-to-generation breeding puposes. So I downloaded this nehgborhood replacement for the "dirt" texture that I found cute, it gives the neighborhood a more rural look. And what else to call such a neighborhood other than... Farmville? (I don't play it myself btw).
On Truffle Street you will find smaller homes for a single sim or a couple without children.


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I saw some codes on other people's DWs, so I looked at my account and guess what I found? Yeah, big surprise - codes to share.
So before they expire, here they are:

2EQZ4G4AFNN7JAAAFV3X
M9TFVEG6GJEC7AAAFV3Y
6K2R3W63HW22AAAAFV32
D7CBM2N6DMZDBAAAFV33

just drop an (anonymous) comment, which one you took.

Another issue of the day:
I finally feel at home here. Yet not completely, but it feels "warmer" and it's all because of you guys! Every single comment lights up my day and I can never say thanks enough to really express how much I appreciate every single letter you take your time to type in.
Yesterday I did what I never did before: I browsed through the sim-secrets postings. I noticed quite a few secrets complaining about exactly this sort of problem: people downloading, but noone bothers to comment.
Even before I read those secrets, I decided to change my attitude. Now I try to go out of my comfort zone and actually comment almost as often as I download, even if it's just a simple "Thank you!", because I know it will make the person feel better...

btw, though I officially do not have time to do this, I will still participate in the GoS sim challenge for this month (for the first time, yay!). Being such an asshole towards my obligations, that's so... me. But hey, I need time to relax ;)

P.S.: The "Music" field reminded me that I actually do not have anything turned on right now (late mornig quietness and birds singing in the trees is so comforting!) ...
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I started this project way back in September. My motivation was that it is one of the meshes I totally love AND it has a pregnancy morph. I collected some ideas and finally extracted a maxis basegame shirt for reference and started from scratch.But now I'm not all too happy with the design and the amount and placement of creases and folds got me into a dead end again. I think it's too much, it's overdone!

would you mind having a look? )
I'm mad at myself that I can't get it done! *rant*
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First hair dump with new palette. I got so into recoloring and enjoying these new colors that I totally lost track of how many sets I already recolored. Counting them I realized that with about 25 of them it's finally time to upload some. Taking preview pics is maybe the hardest part of it. Actions will come later this month.

I'm uploading them here, because atm I don't really know what will happen to paranoid... As much as I like Lavaya, I'm more of a single cat.
double posted at [community profile] paranoid_creations  in this entry

Full color palette - see this entry. Two colors (honey and cafe au lait) were slightly changed to be also used with darker skinned sims.

IMPORTANT: Please reload the natural colors  of the set "behind my eyelids" (peggy3777), if you downloaded it before May 28th. Two colors were replaced in the process of making the sets, but the update included the old colors. In order to have the same colors as in all the other sets - reload.

btw, I'm so sorry, I'm really stupiddistracted at times! It's not 21, it's 22 colors. Won't happen again.

*buzzes off to finish term paper*
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I promised picspam, now there is some. This is a maxismatch neighborhood I started after lurking around some LJs, especially nilou's. Her Monty Ranch inspired me to do something similar with mine, too... well, at least the exterior.
Also [personal profile] poettchen  asked me to show some maxismatch pics, as she felt like noone in our forum is playing that style ^^



+40 )

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I somehow totally lag behind when it comes to updates. I mean not my updates or those on paranoid!, but updates all around the community. Just a few hours ago I stumbled upon the entry where [personal profile] pooklet introduced a new color palette. It's awesome how the reasoning totally matched mine. I was getting tired of recoloring an renaming 40+ files each time I wanted ONE hairstyle.

Aaaand because I'm such a selfish little bastard who wants to have everything of her own, I suggested to my paranoid!-partner [personal profile] lavaya to make some brand new color actions, totally from scratch! And so... we did. We decided to have one darker and one lighter color per bin as well as one black (yeah, we just drop it all in one family. Makes absolutely no difference unless you're extracting the hairs in BS. But we make them for playing, not for extracting).
For the custom colors we had a shit ton of ideas, reaching from metallics to duo-colored neons. But then I stumbled upon the palette of "Directions", a German dye brand,  and knew - this is it! Some colors do not match 100%, but that's jut so that they look better on sims' heads. One of the colors was still kept in metallic flavor - for the lovely alien sims!

But now the question is - does anyone give a damn?
We have a load of retextures and recolors already, for testing reasons, but does it make sense to upload them, because people would  prefer pooklet's colors (which I honestly wouldn't mind!)?
I don't have many ingame screenshots yet, but I'll try to make some proper ones over the weekend. So far only the palette with an overview of the colors.


mandarin is the color "flame" from some of the recent sets
spring is "grass", but now I made this color to an action
and also there's no iris or unicorn in the "Directions" palette. We just put them in there, as we missed something.

So far... well for me it's good night! Tomorrow again recoloring, renaming and binning...

BTW: All recolors which might be uploaded in the future, will be uploaded at [community profile] paranoid_creations, not here.
 

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[personal profile] nett recolored my evanescent skintone half a dozen times! How amazing is that? *weee*
and exactly at the time I was desperately looking for new alien skintones! nett, your timing is awesome, too xD

here's the link: GET 'EM!!!

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My maybe most awesome sim of all times! I love him to bits! Who doesn't? Somehow there's a problem with him on GoS (thread gone?), so I'm reuploading him here. Yay for centralization *harhar*


for CREDITS go here )
older file, no geneticized/towniefied content at all!

DOWNLOAD


If you know of other lost files which you think are too awesome to not to have - tell me! I have created such a ton of crap, I can hardly keep track of everything.
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I've been inactive without any explicit forewarning. I'm sorry.

[community profile] paranoid_creations  has been inactive, too. Me and Lavaya just don't find any time to feed the blog with new postings. We both study at our universities and sometimes this is more time consuming than we both wish it would be. And as creating stuff is a hobby that usually kills several precious hours, we rather chill and play our legacies (where we are competing right now, betting who will be the first one to reach generation 70!).
btw, if you're interested, I can show you my Hougham legacy (which is not a true legacy, only legacy styled gameplay). I love my pretty pixel people!!!

Right now I have a break, but this semester mostly went down the drain, so I have to study at least a little bit to catch up the next semester. I also need to get a job to save some money for my trip to Italy (internship inquiries, not vacation)... I need to get my motivation back from its vacation trip!

I wanted to show I'm still alive! For my "creator anniversary" on the 23rd (8 years ago I created my first sims skin!) I think I'll have something more than a simple hair recolor finished!... I have a bigger set in an almost-finished stage, but I'm simply too lazy and it's much too big

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I'm into male hair lately. This has got something to do with my game, as it spawns almost only male kids. From 15 descendants of my current family so far only 3 were girls, I really need male hair! Title is from that awesome 3 doors down-song ^.^

Note: Natural elder stage removed, so don't remove the elder package. If you download both natural and neon colors, remove ONE of the elder packages. Neon elder stage can be turned on again with SimPE.

mesh - peggy | textures - me | colors - pooklet, me (flame, grass and elder grey)




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