u/DanceMeToTheEnd00

Hi, I wrote three songs last week and would appreciate any practical feedback.

Feel free to listen to one or all three. Even a note or two on what stands out would be helpful as I figure out what to focus on this week.

Hi, I wrote three demos last week and would appreciate practical feedback. Feel free to listen to one or all three. I’m mostly looking for what I should focus on improving this coming week.

Lyrics are here if helpful: https://youtu.be/l3PZRmsw8Co

Hello Community,

I am certainly new here. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to make a commitment, but, I just wanted you the reader to know that I will quit.

I'm ashamed of feeling powerless over my vices. Sometimes I feel as if I inherited this difficulty from my father -- who to this day suffers from addiction in the form of alcoholism -- and, just overall not so great parenting.

But I also know I can't spend my life blaming others. I know that deep down inside I have the power to overcome these things and the things that poison my mind. And, ... to overcome my problem.

I also can't help but feel it's the reason I've missed out on so much. Why, ... some of the people in your life sees the world in color, while you're stuck in B&W pretending like you too enjoy the scenery.

Do you ever feel that way sometimes? If this is the wrong place to post this, I apologize. All I am saying is I am quitting today and I am quitting for good. I deserve to be myself. But I can't be. Each time I fall, who I am crumbles, and my mind is left to rebuild this tower brick by brick, day by day.

I know maybe it's putting too much pressure on myself: but this will be the time I rebuild the entire thing. And it stands for good and never tumbles again.

Have a good Friday.

Hello, beautiful and glorious sim community.

Here at Sims 2, we're blessed with detail, obviously. This morning, though, it was kind of cool to imagine the detail we haven't seen yet.

Just for fun: what's a real-life detail you'd love to see modded into the game?

For me, I'd love to see walking parrots someday. As in, they're not strictly flying in the air all the time. I was reminded of this this morning when my parrot, Lorenzo, was walking on the floor and was making little click noises with his claws. I think it'd be cool if that was a mod, where, 1) sometimes parrots can also just walk around your home in-game (just think about it!), 2) they can fly around your sim in narrow hallways, 3) they can fly up and down stairs, 4) they can chew up house plants, or occasionally steal kitchen-counter food (haha) and can be taught not to do so, if wanted.

There's probably much more! I don't think those are impossible additions, though, certainly not easy.

This is the first time I've ever publicly shared my story.

I won't make this very long. It's 5:17 AM and I need to sleep.

I'm someone who's struggled a lot, with different kinds of trauma. A rainbow of trauma. And it's all been under my nose. No, not like an actual moustache. Just that it took me so long to realize something was wrong. And the more disappointing thing is, when you go through your daily life alone, in solitude, ... no one ever tells you 'Something's wrong' or, like, you know...

I just wish someone would help. To give you answers. I feel like I've had to teach myself everything growing up. I lacked a lot.

... I picture myself, typing this, as if I was sitting at the edge of a dock, gazing into the reflection in the pond below. Trying, still, to make sense of it all.

Enough with the suspense. Enough dilly-dallying. Sorry. I speak that way. I don't mean to... bore anyone.

When I was a child, say, in... hmm... 3rd. Or 4th grade, what, ... I must have been, what-- how old are we during those years? Gonna say around 9-10, right? (Don't laugh at me. )-:)

When I was that old, or young, rather, we were all (the entire grade) taking a picture... in the... gymnasium. I'm realizing now, that, that new gymnasium (it was recently expanded / built when I reached those grades) was the home to so many fun events and activities. But this oneee incident, unfortunately, will forever remind me of that. It makes me forget almost everything else.

And it's a shame. I live so close to the place. I'm a hometown boy. I love where I live and it'd be hard to imagine leaving.

So we were all taking the school yearbook photo for our grade. And we're all up there. Everyone's pressed together, all us kids. I was fine. I just did what I had to. Stood there. Faced the camera. Maybe I smiled. Maybe I didn't. I wasn't smiling, however, when a girl next to me groped my butt, so much so, that they twisted it with their hand and I could still recall it... now, 20 years later. Sometimes I wonder if it'd been more.

The girl was an autistic student. Thankfully this somehow didn't change my perception on autistic people. Please don't hate me for saying that. I say it like that because, in any situation, if something traumatizes you, you tend to associate the trauma with the memory and details of it, right? That's why. But it always left me with this wonder, and yet another question to the list: Why?

Why was I groped? ... Why then? I'd never spoken to them. What was I supposed to do? Was I supposed to shout when this happened, and have all the other... what, 50-60 of my class stare at me, wondering what was going on? Was I supposed to stress unprepared teachers who probably wouldn't have known what to do once they found out? Maybe one of them would have known / done something. Who knows.

I sometimes wonder if this incident affected the way I view sex. The way I view addiction. The way I view solitude. And this wasn't the only incident. There's still other memories and flashes in my life that I remember that I still don't understand but do more as the days go by.

An interesting thing to note, in that same elementary run of mine, 3 teachers were arrested. Gotta love the 2000s. One was arrested for choking a student. I was his friend and saw it. Another was a teacher for autistic students, who got caught showing them pornography in class. (Maybe that influenced the behavior of that one student?) They were fired. Another was a teacher who sexually assaulted a child. They were fired, too, and I believe, arrested? My memories kind of blurred about all the detail.

I could go on and on. Probably write a book about it. But it's 5:36 now. I really need sleep. So, goodnight. Or rather, good morning. I know that if I need to talk to someone, I could always rely on the National Sexual Assault Hotline. I've called into hotlines before. Sometimes it's really helpful. Obviously not everyone you're going to meet will be your best friend, like, some matches are better, but, if this is ever an option you explore, know that they are there to help. And they are trying. And I am still trying, too. Maybe not perfectly, but I am still here.

Hey! Long-time simmer here.

Does anyone have any pretty, warm in-game shaders / lighting they recommend? I've always played with the default global lighting anddd honestly, it feels kind of like an eyesore sometimes (heh-heh). Just so much contrast!

If anyone uses lighting that's warm, or that just looks more realistic / seasons-based, please let me know! I'd love to try it out.