u/HomeSweepingBroom

I've been trying to get employed for months, unsuccessfully. I am all out of money (I'm talking I have like 34 cents in my account).

I've been "trying" to manifest some money to keep me afloat until I find a job. I just cannot do it. Tomorrow I'd really like to make dinner for my friends but I literally have nothing in the pantry and 34 cents can't even buy me a pet rock from the street. The deadline is super fast, in what way can one keep themselves in state of "I got it" when I've been struggling for months and there's always something waiting to jump at me. Moreover, I have like less than 24 hours on Saturday/Sunday to expect a bigger amount of cash to help me buy groceries.

What would you do in my place? I know it's beginner question, but I've been trying to do this unsuccessfully for YEARS even though I went through every book and read many posts. I'm trying to put it into practice but the more time has passed, the more I am too disappointed and wavering when it has never worked, not even for something I don't gaf about, much less something that's spanking my arse this heavily.

Like, my younger brother wants me to buy him some groceries too. How the hell do I go to the grocery store and pretend I got more than 34 cents in that place and have the card decline over there? What amount of actual faith I have to have and how do I get out of this loop I am trying months to get out of?

I've been working on personal file full of hair default replacements. In the past I would grab any hair that resembles one I want to make replacement for and just make it, but this turned out to be a disaster as some of the hairs looked terrible/out of place (due to textures) and/or I'd realise I used same hair to replace 10 different hairs (khm, male Sims and their lack of proper hair CC, khm) and I would always lose myself with no proper tracking of what I'd done.

Since I cannot play the game until I've replaced all the godawful hair as I have personal beef just seeing vanilla hair in the wild, I'm taking a break (by playing Sims 2) and documenting every single hair I replace and what I replace it with. Moreover, I am planning to retexture hairs I don't like using same textures Agnelid and Mary Jane use to match their style and replace hairs that were basically left untouched (where the hell are Master Suite hair default replacements? Pets?)

I'd really like to share the work I do with the community, but this has made me be extra careful of polycount levels. My laptop was fine and dandy 5 years ago when I got it, but now it cannot run a calculator. It's actually lagging my Stardew Valley and League of Legends games, both of which can be played on my microwave. Yet, my Sims 3 game had no issues (capped FPS at 30) even with so many hairs I kept putting in to replace (all while even putting them to be eligible for randomisation). Still, who knows if I just got lucky or if I would've bricked my laptop by playing towns like Bridgeport namely.

That being said, what is YOUR acceptable polycount level for the hair default replacement? How many ''high'' polycount hairs would you accept in your game? Most of hairs of Mary Jane and Agnelid go from 3k to 8k, some can go as far as 16k (rarely). I have been having a fight with Blender and its decimate option, even with Mary Jane's tutorial, and for now am thinking of just retexturing and replacing, without necessarily decimating over-the-top poly hairs. But it's super hard to find male hair that aren't going for such high numbers (or actually just any male hair). CC hair for black Sims goes up to 40k and I must say, even when I download them at lower polycount levels, I hate the way they look on such small count. On average, male hairs that actually look nice go for 25k-32k polys.

That being said, do you know any low poly male sims hair CC makers + black sims hair CC makers that aren't such huge numbers but hair still looks beautiful? I'm aware of big name creators, I really could use some niche ones or someone who compiles all these. Or at least if there is anyone specifically converting female to male hairs and propery resizing them.

Thank you all in advance!