I think the point is that he’s giving bedroom eyes in a muppet photoshoot and the contrast between those two concepts is a bit amusing.

If you can afford it. Might be a better option, or least send the devs some support while using repacks.

Honestly, I think this is a case-by-case basis. I don't weep for EA losing money when people acquire The Sims for example. The people that did the heavy lifting already got paid, and the less money that's going into the Trump Empire and Saudi Arabian pockets the better.

That's almost besides the point, though. We're living in a time where if you buy something you for the most part don't own it. Buy an EV? Then the battery is rented. Buy an iPhone? You don't get to choose what software or hardware to put in it, only Apple batteries are acceptable else your screen/camera/faceID array will magically stop working. Android phones are barking down the same route.

Buy an eBook/Audiobook from Amazon? Well they can edit and redact it whenever they please. A film from iTunes? DRMed, bound to die whenever Apple decides to no longer support your platform. Video game? You get a license to run the software, nothing more.

There are studios I feel happy supporting, ones that treat their customers and their workers right. Don't think a single one of them is a AAA studio though. Like, why should I pay Bethesda when they don't pay their musicians?

Aww, poor baby. Taken too soon. He’d just gotten old enough to qualify for presidency too!

Toilets and papers to his families.

I don’t think Inzoi is going to be that big a competitor for many regular sims people. The usage of AI rubs some people the wrong way, they’ve had a shady creator’s programme, and their initial stance of “LGBTQ+ what’s that?” rubbed people the wrong way.

The unfortunate thing about this EA takeover is that The Sims, particularly in the past ~5 years or so has done great strides for representation and inclusivity. Like, the days of cauliflower afros are gone with EA bringing in black creators to the table, we have medical aids, there are various skin conditions, a pronoun and sexuality system. It’s far from the American-centric game it has traditionally been.

None of this seems likely with Trump and Saudi Arabia holding the reins however.

Oh nyooo but you can’t sue us uwu;; We said so in the new terms of service we forced you to agree to when you decided to keep using our gawbage pwoduct!!!! 👉👈

Gods, I hate discord so much.

I miss the days when machine learning was fun. Poking together useless RNN models with a small dataset to make a digital Trump that talked about banging his daughter, end endless nipples flowing into America. Exploring the latent space between concepts.

It’s never ever been about the children. Every time someone uses children as a meat shield for their arguments it’s because arguing against it is hard.

“We need to execute all criminals to protect the children!l”
“That doesn’t sound like a good idea.”
“What? You’d support a rapist pedophile over an innocent child? You support pedos??”

Wow. It even supports Kagi. That’s neat!

This subject is very clearly a sore point for you. It might behove you to figure out why that is, rather than spontaneously attacking people that are essentially siding with you.

I spent nearly three hours today between discord and matrix trying to figure out how to get these two pieces of software to talk using a certain protocol.

Imagine if there were online indexable platforms where people could publish this information so it’s easily accessible rather than having to scour through message logs hoping to find the right keywords. Such a technology surely doesn’t exist already, right?

I hate discord.

This is amazing, I hope you'll be really happy here! When it comes to learning the language, everyone here already speaks English (as you're definitely already aware) so you might have to push really hard to get some immersion learning going because people will switch to English to make things go smoother. Make some friends and insist on using Swedish when you feel comfortable doing so.

For the winter, you might want to make sure you get sufficient vitamin D. Sweden's southernmost point is further north than most of the populated areas in Canada. The cold isn't as big a problem here as people might think (particularly thanks to global warming), but the day lengths shift dramatically and even as someone who's lived his entire life here I still struggle with it. I get miserable and cranky in the winter, and then euphoric come spring, only to slip back to cranky when the sun goes up at 2AM in the summer. Not even exaggerating, I took this photo of my dog around 2AM back in June 2023.

I hope that this will be an amazing stage of your life! Make the most of it! :)

Edit: fix words.

Oh my heart. 😭