Quicksilvermagpie - Magpie

Me: *scrolling through twitter/pinterest/tumblr and sees a clearly reposted piece of art*

Post Description: All credit and hardwork goes to the original artist o(*^▽^*)o

Me: *sees no water tag, signature, or url that even remotely indicates who made the art*

Me:

"company erases all evidence of children's cartoon as a tax write-off" "ten tv shows that will be removed from their streaming services right now, forever" "creative production on indefinite pause because the algorithm said so" "game developers forced to leave company they created due to made-up financial reasons" "fully completed film will never be released because their ceo will lose five dollars"

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

Not my usual content, but I’m from the UK and I feel like I should be speaking up on what’s going on right now. Idk how much of the news is getting out to the rest of the world other than general outrage but here’s a breakdown of what’s been going on in my country. Updated 21/09/2022. If anything is missing please send me an ask and I’ll add it after fact-checking. I’ll try to update when I can TW: racism, sexual assault, child abuse, rape, terminal illness, incest, murder, pedophilia. 

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If the number you got is an even number, vote EVEN, and if its not, vote ODD. If you by some chance got zero, vote ZERO. I'm very curious if this will turn out how I suspect it to.

The Sims 4: Get Famous - Tuxedo converted to The Sims 3 for men

I started this conversion in May of 2019............. what else is there to say

Details:

For YA to Adult males

1024px textures

recolorable | 4 channels for preset 1, 4 channels for preset 2 with the lapels, pockets and buttons in a black overlay, and 3 channels in a simplified preset 3

3 presets, shown above

Enabled for Formal and Career | Custom Thumbnail

 Compressorized | 2 MB

5030 poly at the highest LOD

TOU [Emphasis on NO REUPLOADING] Feel free to edit the textures or whatever as you like.

 Credit: mesh by EA, TSRW, Milkshape, Photoshop

Notes/Known Issues:

 As with all my s4 conversions, the textures are a little gross. I tried my best but I guess you can only do so much

Might be some normal clipping with certain tops or poses!

Preset preview below

Download (and ❤) at Sim File Share: https://simfileshare.net/download/3526230/

Mirror

Just like in martial arts, conveying power is a matter of chaining things together.

happy 4/13

the adhd mood when u should be doing Tasks but u can't force yourself to do any of them