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Random Goth Manor Photos (3/3)
Mar. 31st, 2019 12:55 pm.
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Ways to Make Money in The Sims 2
Jan. 20th, 2019 09:48 amUpdated 1/20/19 - Click here for downloadable version.
Writing/Computing |
Crafting/Creating |
Gardening/Outdoors |
Other |
Write a restaurant guide (IF the Pleasure Sim or Sim with Secondary Pleasure Aspiration choose the benefit from their Aspiration window for FT) Write articles on Monique's Hacked Computer Write and sell novels Give financial advice on computer (IF the Fortune Sim or Sim with Secondary Fortune Aspiration choose the benefit from their Aspiration win |
Paint and sell art (see royalties manager) Make and sell electronics (with crafting bench) Make and sell toys (with crafting bench) Make and sell flower bouquets Make and sell wood crafts (with DeeDee's crafting bench) Make and sell pottery Make and sell clothes on sewing machine Fix up and sell cars |
Buy and grow money tree Wishing well (gold level garden) Grow and sell crops Dig for treasure Go fishing and sell fish |
Use counterfeit money machine Wish for money from genie's lamp Play instrument and busk for tips Get a roommate (reduce rent in apartment, does not contribute to household funds) Freelance at Espresso Bar (community lot only) Go on a great or dream date with NPC (gifts can be sold for cash) |
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Country Style Kitchen
Jan. 12th, 2019 12:55 pm
Random kitchen from when I actually got my game to load...
Tumblr is ugh
Dec. 19th, 2018 06:37 pm
I’m completely confused how this is any different than Tumblr just deleting posts. Seriously.
Basic Dreamwidth for Tumblr users
Dec. 9th, 2018 03:15 pmvia https://ift.tt/2SzMx1B
scribblessims:
star-anise:
For people who want to use Dreamwidth, but are totally confused about how it works!
What is Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth is a social media platform founded in 2009 after Strikethrough
It’s made out of a heavily-modified version of Livejournal code
It’s based around producing your own original content, and seeing original content other people post
The site is owned and run by fans and aims to provide creative people with an Internet home
Getting around your account
Your journal is like your “home”. It’s where you keep your stuff. It’s got different parts:
Recent Entries: View your posts in chronological order
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org)
Profile: Your “about” page
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/profile)
Archive: See your posts as a calendar
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/archive)
Tags: See all the tags you’ve used and go to their posts
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/tag)
Memories: Like the “Likes” feature on Tumblr
You also have a “Reading” page (yourusername.dreamwidth.org/read)
This is like your Tumblr dash
It’s where you read entries from your “circle”, the people and communities you’re subscribed to
You can customize it a lot with filters and control who you see when
Finding new things
Listing an Interest in your profile is like getting listed in the phonebook. This is opt-in, choosing to say, “Yes! I’m really into this thing! Consider me a person who blogs about it!
Content Search is the more powerful way to search through the blog of everyone who’s opted into it, so you can look for everyone who’s posting about a certain thing right now. However, you’ll have to wade through a lot more junk.
Communities are Dreamwidth’s social hubs. They’re places where a lot of people can share content they’re interested in and talk to each other. Unlike Tumblr tags, they’re managed by specific people and have rules, so people behaving badly can get kicked out.
Paid members can see the Network page, which shows entries from everything everyone in your circle subscribes to. It’s a great way to discover new stuff and also learn what awful taste some of your circle members have
Latest Things is a direct firehose of EVERYTHING PUBLICLY POSTED TO THE SITE, HOMG
Privacy controls?! That’s a thing?!
You get to choose who sees your posts! You can make your posts public, private, or “locked”, which means only people you’ve added to your access list can read them
When you add a new person to your circle you can choose to subscribe to them, to make their posts show up on your Reading page, and/or to grant access, which lets them see your locked posts. You can do one, the other, or both!
Likewise, communities can make posts viewable to members only.
You can also create custom access filters, to allow only some of your access list to see a post.
Banning someone means they cannot leave you comments or send you messages. There are more advanced tweaks to make sure they never show up on your reading page if they post to a community you subscribe to, or remove them from the comments on a post.
Comments
The comments to a post are where the real fun happens.
Comments are sent to the email of whoever you’re replying to. They’re a real conversation. You’re not shouting into the void–you’re talking back directly to the post’s originator and other commenters.
You can edit your comment so long as it hasn’t been replied to, and you can delete your own comments.
The originator of the post, and administrators if it’s a community, can delete threads, or “freeze” them, leaving them intact but preventing anyone from replying to them.
You will add new skills to your resume
Dreamwidth leaves a lot more “backend” open so you can customize your experience to a huge degree. However, this means learning or using coding languages like HTML and CSS
The comment box on entries does not have a built-in text editor, so you will have to add your own HTML if you want to add <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>, or <a href=“http://websiteurl.com”>links</a>.
There are lots of cheat sheets and informative guides around, like HTML on Dreamwidth and Dreamwidth-specific markup tags
Note: I have some experience with livejournal and dreamwidth, because that’s where the sims fandom lived before tumblr. Visit me at
scribblessims:
star-anise:
For people who want to use Dreamwidth, but are totally confused about how it works!
What is Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth is a social media platform founded in 2009 after Strikethrough
It’s made out of a heavily-modified version of Livejournal code
It’s based around producing your own original content, and seeing original content other people post
The site is owned and run by fans and aims to provide creative people with an Internet home
Getting around your account
Your journal is like your “home”. It’s where you keep your stuff. It’s got different parts:
Recent Entries: View your posts in chronological order
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org)
Profile: Your “about” page
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/profile)
Archive: See your posts as a calendar
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/archive)
Tags: See all the tags you’ve used and go to their posts
(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/tag)
Memories: Like the “Likes” feature on Tumblr
You also have a “Reading” page (yourusername.dreamwidth.org/read)
This is like your Tumblr dash
It’s where you read entries from your “circle”, the people and communities you’re subscribed to
You can customize it a lot with filters and control who you see when
Finding new things
Listing an Interest in your profile is like getting listed in the phonebook. This is opt-in, choosing to say, “Yes! I’m really into this thing! Consider me a person who blogs about it!
Content Search is the more powerful way to search through the blog of everyone who’s opted into it, so you can look for everyone who’s posting about a certain thing right now. However, you’ll have to wade through a lot more junk.
Communities are Dreamwidth’s social hubs. They’re places where a lot of people can share content they’re interested in and talk to each other. Unlike Tumblr tags, they’re managed by specific people and have rules, so people behaving badly can get kicked out.
Paid members can see the Network page, which shows entries from everything everyone in your circle subscribes to. It’s a great way to discover new stuff and also learn what awful taste some of your circle members have
Latest Things is a direct firehose of EVERYTHING PUBLICLY POSTED TO THE SITE, HOMG
Privacy controls?! That’s a thing?!
You get to choose who sees your posts! You can make your posts public, private, or “locked”, which means only people you’ve added to your access list can read them
When you add a new person to your circle you can choose to subscribe to them, to make their posts show up on your Reading page, and/or to grant access, which lets them see your locked posts. You can do one, the other, or both!
Likewise, communities can make posts viewable to members only.
You can also create custom access filters, to allow only some of your access list to see a post.
Banning someone means they cannot leave you comments or send you messages. There are more advanced tweaks to make sure they never show up on your reading page if they post to a community you subscribe to, or remove them from the comments on a post.
Comments
The comments to a post are where the real fun happens.
Comments are sent to the email of whoever you’re replying to. They’re a real conversation. You’re not shouting into the void–you’re talking back directly to the post’s originator and other commenters.
You can edit your comment so long as it hasn’t been replied to, and you can delete your own comments.
The originator of the post, and administrators if it’s a community, can delete threads, or “freeze” them, leaving them intact but preventing anyone from replying to them.
You will add new skills to your resume
Dreamwidth leaves a lot more “backend” open so you can customize your experience to a huge degree. However, this means learning or using coding languages like HTML and CSS
The comment box on entries does not have a built-in text editor, so you will have to add your own HTML if you want to add <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>, or <a href=“http://websiteurl.com”>links</a>.
There are lots of cheat sheets and informative guides around, like HTML on Dreamwidth and Dreamwidth-specific markup tags
Note: I have some experience with livejournal and dreamwidth, because that’s where the sims fandom lived before tumblr. Visit me at
Tumblr Backup with Tags
Dec. 9th, 2018 09:57 amSo while using the Tumblr Utils python script to backup my Tumblr, I noticed that the method it uses to back things up is pretty linear – good for, say, storytellers, but it’s much slower to navigate all the html files it generates if (like me!) you’ve relied on Tumblr tags to do much of your sorting.
So I did some googling and saw that the creator of the script uploaded new code a few days ago, which generates a tag index when you backup your blog. I am in no way familiar with python script; all I did was copy and paste the code provided by the original creator over the code in the original file.
I tested it last night and it seems to work fine. If you look at my picture below, you will see a folder here named “tags”:
And inside the folder are subfolders labeled with all the different tags it pulled from my tumblr:
And inside these folders now are all the html versions of my posts with that tag, grouped by month:
Which is exactly what I wanted. Yay!
Directions:
1. Go into your bbolli-tumblr-utils-f234953 folder (wherever you put it on your computer, I recommend Downloads) and back it up. Give it a different extension name. I called mine tumblr_backup.old. Just in case.
2. Download the new tumblr_backup.py file here. Plop it in your bbolli-tumblr-utils-f234953 folder.
3. Open up your command prompt and change the directory to wherever the bbolli-tumblr-utils-f234953 folder is (again, I recommend Downloads)
4. Type the following: tumblr_backup.py –tag-index InsertYourBlogNameHere
So for me, I typed this:
5. Hit enter and let it run. This will backup all posts, including reblogs, meaning some of the tags that will show up in your Tag Index are the original tags from things you reblogged. If you only want original posts by you, you should be able to add the words –no-reblog after –tag-index, though I haven’t tried that.
6. You can ask me questions, but I cannot promise I will be able to answer them. I am not all that familiar with python script and only learned how to do this to backup my Tumblr. You may be better off trying to reach out to the creator, bbolli.
And of course, a big thank you to bbolli, the creator of this script!
So I did some googling and saw that the creator of the script uploaded new code a few days ago, which generates a tag index when you backup your blog. I am in no way familiar with python script; all I did was copy and paste the code provided by the original creator over the code in the original file.
I tested it last night and it seems to work fine. If you look at my picture below, you will see a folder here named “tags”:
And inside the folder are subfolders labeled with all the different tags it pulled from my tumblr:
And inside these folders now are all the html versions of my posts with that tag, grouped by month:
Which is exactly what I wanted. Yay!
Directions:
1. Go into your bbolli-tumblr-utils-f234953 folder (wherever you put it on your computer, I recommend Downloads) and back it up. Give it a different extension name. I called mine tumblr_backup.old. Just in case.
2. Download the new tumblr_backup.py file here. Plop it in your bbolli-tumblr-utils-f234953 folder.
3. Open up your command prompt and change the directory to wherever the bbolli-tumblr-utils-f234953 folder is (again, I recommend Downloads)
4. Type the following: tumblr_backup.py –tag-index InsertYourBlogNameHere
So for me, I typed this:
5. Hit enter and let it run. This will backup all posts, including reblogs, meaning some of the tags that will show up in your Tag Index are the original tags from things you reblogged. If you only want original posts by you, you should be able to add the words –no-reblog after –tag-index, though I haven’t tried that.
6. You can ask me questions, but I cannot promise I will be able to answer them. I am not all that familiar with python script and only learned how to do this to backup my Tumblr. You may be better off trying to reach out to the creator, bbolli.
And of course, a big thank you to bbolli, the creator of this script!
In case anybody else is wondering this (I know I was), here’s a good overview: https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=124.
I will say Dreamwidth seems to have a lot more finely-tuned controls about who can see what you post, which is kind of cool. I’ll still probably always have everything I post as public since I know I enjoy stalking other people’s simblrs even when we’re not friends, haha.
I will say Dreamwidth seems to have a lot more finely-tuned controls about who can see what you post, which is kind of cool. I’ll still probably always have everything I post as public since I know I enjoy stalking other people’s simblrs even when we’re not friends, haha.
