i-am-a-fish:

i know everything you need to know about cabbage:

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bluupxels:

me waiting for the 4 mods i actually use to be updated

wordsnstuff:

I think that, when it comes to creating well-rounded, imperfect characters, the main struggle you face is thinking of them as actual people. In real life, we are aware that the people around us are, no matter what, the following three things:

• Facing something we don’t know about and cannot understand
• Feeling things we aren’t aware of and, again, cannot understand
• Riddled with contradictory personality traits that they struggle to find balance between every single day

In order for your character to be perfect, they need to have imperfections. Contradictions. Unfavorable traits. Otherwise, they’re just cardboard cutouts of people and will a. bore your reader and b. bore you. 

One of the hardest parts of being a writer is creating characters that you love and you feel really, really close to, and then taking the massive hammer of pain and conflict and smacking them with it. But it’s part of the gig. In order to see what your character is really made of, you have to break them, and that’s where the “bad traits” come out. 

If you are a writer, you have to abandon the idea of perfection. Your stories, characters, technique, development, etc. will never, ever be perfect. You know you’re successful as a writer when you can just not ever find satisfaction with a story because you know it can always be better. 

So, in conclusion, in order to create rounded characters that embody good and bad characteristics, you must put them in real life situations and let them react as real people would. You have to give them depth through private, personal, and internal struggles that the reader can see but not understand. You must also give up your desire for perfection because it will never bear fruit, and will oftentimes lead you down disappointing paths. Be a good parent to your characters. Accept their imperfections, because they only make the “good traits” better.

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deaderpoolmc:

The newest public release for MCCC/MC Woohoo is 4.4.3.  This is a
hotfix for Season’s compatibility.  There may be other hotfixes needed
depending on specific commands or settings that may have issues.

Fixes for this hotfix:

• This hotfix allows Sims 4 to load into lots with MCCC installed.  There are no errors thrown by the initial loading.
• Fixed a problem with households with more than 8 Sims that prevented the lots from loading.
• Fixed an issue with Game Time Speed that was preventing it from working.
• Fixed an issue with Maximum Sims on Lot setting causing exceptions when Walkby situations were generated.

Keep in mind, if you’re getting Last Exception errors, these are not
caused by MCCC but by other mods/cc that have been broken by this
release.  I can’t fix those!

Installation instructions can be found here.

Troubleshooting can be found here.

Download Here:

MC Command Center – All Modules Version 4.4.3

MC Woohoo – Version 4.4.3  (optional if MC Woohoo features are wanted)

Compatibility:

This has been tested to be working with (but does not require) GTW, OR,
Get Together, Dine Out, City Life, Vampires, Parenthood, Cats &
Dogs, Jungle Adventures, Seasons and the patch released
June 19, 2018 PC 1.44.77.1020 / Mac 1.44.77.1220

. It will also work with anything after
that Sims 4 update unless otherwise specified on Tumblr/Patreon posts I
make after the update. Earlier Sims 4 versions may not be compatible so
we often do not support anything below the specified version here!