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@staff @support what the heck, first @2fingerswhiskey and now I’m hearing about @amberdefault and @suratan-zir being deleted too?! what gives, bring them back, this is absurd

ANOTHER simblr deleted

First @2fingerswhiskey got deleted and now it looks like @suratan-zir too? She was just posting earlier today so I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t have deleted herself (I certainly hope not!).

@staff can you get it together and stop deleting people’s blogs? This is becoming ridiculous!

@2fingerswhiskeysims

Just saying, you're awesome ;)

Aww! Thank you!

Autonomous crafting for all teen+ Sims

I've never before been so happy to share a creation! Get ready to get crafting, because it's about to get autonomous! Released today in collaboration with the wonderful @joplayingthesims who has built a community lot for the mod, seen in the pictures below. Exciting!

In my game, I have a community lot with crafting stations for Sims who can't afford one, or don't have space for one. But as I visited it recently with one of my college students wanting to learn flower arrangement, I got a bit depressed by all the empty stations and the other visitors just standing around chatting. I wondered if anyone had added autonomy, and I came upon iCad's autonomy enabler. While neat, it only adds autonomy for the active household which is the opposite of what I wanted. So I made my own that enables it for visiting Sims as well, only to quickly realize how annoying that got. All these Sims asking me to pick a recolor for them, blergh! So I went on tweaking, fixing the annoyances as they came up, and here we are! Finally it is possible to have a lively crafting studio where all Sims participate, without being annoying for you the player! Are you excited? Because I am excited!

What does the mod do? - Enables autonomy on "make many" and "continue" (see readme for more info on why not make one) for all five original crafting types - Robots, toy making, flower arrangement, pottery and sewing - Does NOT charge your Sims money for background Sim crafting. Money sounds and visuals show for all Sims, but only your current households crafting charges household funds. - By default only autonomous on community lots. Has optional autonomy on residential/apartment lots, you can enable autonomy on those lot types by placing the Autonomy Toggler object somewhere on the lot (custom object made using parts of the FT crafting clutter, found in hobbies/misc for 1 simoleon). I set it up this way as residential autonomy sounds irritating to me, but I'm all about flexibility for the user. Perhaps you want to run arts classes at your residential playable school, or you simply like autonomy more than I do :) Please note that autonomy advertisement is tuned with community lot use in mind, so it might be higher than you'd want for residential. If there's interest I am happy to make a second version with lower advertising for those who primarily want residential use. If you are somewhat familiar with TTAB edits yourself, you can try changing attenuation code to low or medium to limit advertisement distance which will reduce appeal to Sims. - Fixes annoyances with background crafting, such as selecting recolors and pop ups about progress - Changes inventory mechanics to allow for owned studio-type use, in case you'd like a friendly owner Sim present to provide instruction. Crafting now only goes to business lot owner if done by an employee, otherwise crafting Sim gets the object. Includes home business, so if it bothered you that family members don't get to keep their work, this also fixes that. If that part annoys you, see readme for how to remove this feature.

Download mod on simfileshare

You might say "Okay well fun for you Gummi, but I don't have a community lot with crafting stations, so why would I need this?". Well fortunately Joandsarah has the solution for that problem! Check out the cute crafting studio she built to give all of you a place to start community crafting! Available on MTS

Conflicts: Only known conflict is iCad's original autonomy enabler, you have to pick if you want hers version of autonomy, or mine :) Readme contains breakdown of the functionality of all parts, to help you decide a load order should you encounter conflicts. It should be possible to resolve conflicts though if there are any others, so please report them to me :)

Credits: @joplayingthesims for collaborating with me and providing a lot that you can get started with if you don't have one, iCad at @dramallamadingdang for the original autonomy enabling mod, @cityof2morrow who helped playtest the mod

If anyone else builds a community lot intended for autonomous use, I hope you let me know somehow so I can add links to it in my post :) If any other modders see ways to improve on what I did, please feel free to do so :) I am hoping to eventually post an update that sends all crafting to inventory to fix the make one issue, and the station clogging that happens over time.

"Repo What You Bow" - Lama's AC Crossbow as a Repogun DR

This is a quick project that had been floating on my head on and off, but decided to tackle now as a bit of a palate cleanser from other projects I'm working on

This is Lady Lama's Assassin's Creed Crossbow conversion as a functional default replacement for the Repogun.

Why a crossbow, you may ask, what are the logistics of a crossbow taking away your stuff? Magic I suppose, also, Rule of Cool, it looks really cool in action (well, it does have clipping going on, tried to mitigate it as much as I could, but I can live with it)

Credits: Lady Lama for the original conversion

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Mutha Fuckin' SOPA Is Back! (Aug. 23, 2013)

The Obama administration announced that it will be bringing back a piece of SOPA legislation that would make streaming copyrighted material a felony.

Can you believe this shit? When we finally get one off our backs, they try and bring up another bill AGAIN. We already said no to the first one, so why do they think that this is any better?

For those of you who don’t know what SOPA is, it was a bill back in 2011 that the govn’t tried to pass that said that posting any copyrighted music or even COVERS of said music would be considered a felony. A. FELONY.

Sign the petition below, and let’s keep our internet the way we like it.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-2013/LMzMVrQF

Apartment Life "PJ Tank Top" for Teens and Elders

In honor of Sims 2's twentieth anniversary I finally sat down and polished a Maxis conversion I'd done ages ago, which is the apartment life male pajamas for teen-elder. (They're my favorite pajamas in the whole game so...) They use Maxis feet and hands (I mean it's Maxis Match after all!), are repo'd to the adult txmts so any default replacement textures will work, and are pinned to the Apartment Life EP section. I also included a default for the adult male mesh that adds a pregnancy morph. All six swatches are included, though I could only get four of them in the screenshots. Second screenshot is the fat morph.

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Threaded History of Yore - TS1 to TS2 Tapestries

So, for a while now I’ve been doing some re-meshes for FreeSO and Simitone, and I’ve always had planned to convert some of these for at least Sims 2.

Well, these are the first two of said remeshes The “Black Tree Tapestry” and the “"Eruption of Decadence" Tapestry“ are now both oficially converted to Sims 2, for your castle decor needs.

Details:

-Both cost in game §8100 Simoleons and Add +9 to Environment;

- Names and Descriptions are lifted directly from The Sims;

- They are recolor enabled (although with only one subset);

Feel Free to do whatever with these, just don’t put them behind a paywall of any kind and claim as yours.

Files have been compressed.

Download: 

http://www.simfileshare.net/download/2069513/

And Now for Something Completely Different…

After coming back into contact with Stas, Sunni's widower, the plans for the Keep have changed. Disregard most of what was posted above.

We WILL be remaining open for the foreseeable future, accepting both new members and new content. The site will remain a historical- and fantasy-focused Sims 2 forum.

Going forward, the Keep will be managed by a "Regency Council" instead of just one Regent. This will consist of PBK moderators CelestialSpider, Davina Ojeda, and rugrat0ne, as well as Discord moderators Fire_flower and Sonikku3.

Fractured Moonlight will be stepping back into something of a "silent partner" role so she can focus on creating. We thank her for her years of service running the Keep all by herself, especially out of the blue. We know it was not easy.

We are already establishing better lines of communication with Stas in hopes of avoiding the annual early March panic, and reminders have been set for February fundraising.

There will be annual fundraisers on GoFundMe or similar sites to offset the cost, and to provide more transparency than we've been able to provide in the past.

Meanwhile, archiving efforts will continue until the site is fully backed up, as a failsafe. We will also periodically archive new content in the future.

Many, many thanks to those who pitched in on the archiving project, to those who donated, in this year and previous ones, and to everyone who supported and continues to support Plumb Bob Keep.

Plumb Bob Keep Birthday Screenshot Contest

Screenshot by Sunni from Front Page Slideshow

As part of the birthday festivities, we're having a screenshot contest! Our main page slideshow is both beautiful, and dated. We would like some new images to add to it, and that's where you come in. Put together your best screenshots of any sort of Plumb Bob Keep downloads, and then the community will vote for their top five!

Up to three entries per person

Multiple entries by the same person can be declared winners

Submit to rugrat0ne via PBK DM by April 15th, 11:59 ET

Must be in an aspect ratio of 5:3 (Actual size is 400px x 240px, so check how yours looks)

Must feature at least one item of PBK content conspicuously

May or may not include one or many Sims

Does not need to have any sort of birthday theme

Must be able to tell it is a screenshot of the game: no AI, fake backgrounds, etc.

Light editing with graphics programs, and use of shaders like Reshade are allowed

In-game lighting mods are allowed as well

The council will decide on any editing questions

Winners will be picked by popular vote starting April 16th and running until the 30th

Winning entries will be announced on May 5th

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and start styling those scenes. We want to see your very best efforts to show off what Keepers can do! Questions? Ask one of the mods or in this thread. Be sure to submit your entries to rugrat0ne at the Keep (don't post them here) by April 15th.