#mode globals

[picknmixsims]

Story Telling Mod Updates

My story telling mods now require Mode Globals

Mode Globals contains one new global BHAV (0x0810) to ascertain if the lot is being used for story telling / picture taking.  If there is a Freezer Clock or a Sim Turner or a Bubble Controller on the lot, it is in story telling mode.

The following story telling mods have been updated

Desperation Actions

Electrocute Me 

No Overhead Meters 

Teen Run Away

Tip Anyone

#download #gameplay #storytelling #picture taking #mode globals #desperation actions #electrocute me #no overhead meters #teen run away #tip anyone #update #simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #the sims 2

[kindahoping4forever]

my ultimate wish for this next era is they finally let Ryan go like they did Andy. I'm so sick of not getting the content we deserve. All the gatekeeping of tour diaries and now the crumbs of concert footage in that "documentary" yesterday. he was working for months on that? that's why we didn't get tour diaries? all that footage just goes in his vault now? Please.

Hello! I'm sorry to hear you felt disappointed by yesterday's special. However, I feel compelled to comment on a few objective points in your ask.

- "Live & Backstage in Amsterdam" was directed by James Tonkin, the same director (and production team, Hangman) they worked with on "The Feeling of Falling Upwards" (and the unreleased "Live in Brixton" special). Ryan was credited as director of the documentary footage and as a contributing editor (1 of 3) but the live footage and overall final program was not his work.

- Regardless of the particular creatives involved here (or in any given project for that matter), the fact remains that any directors, producers, photographers, etc are all hired hands operating with full input and specific direction from the band. The band chose to make this a hybrid concert film/documentary. The band chose to condense the setlist the way they did. The band chose this format over the traditional tour diaries. What happens to the unused footage will be determined by the band. Ryan is a friend but he is first and foremost an employee and the band owns that footage. (Likewise, the MYT diaries are not sitting on Andy Deluca's hard drive because he's "gatekeeping" or too lazy to edit it. If the band wanted them released, they'd be released.) All this to say, of course you don't have to agree with the decisions but it's important to clarify who your complaint is with.

- This concept of the band or their collaborators "gatekeeping" and fans not getting what we "deserve" is, to be blunt, entitled and immature. Being a fan does not make an artist indebted to you. They make music, if you feel so inclined, you listen. That's it. That's the extent of the contract. Anything beyond that is optional for both parties. Any content an artist chooses to release is not out of obligation or generosity, it's part business strategy, part artistic vision. Artists do not owe you anything. This band does not owe you anything.

#apologies for the long answer but clearly i had a lot to say (still do tbh) #i didn't link it bc it hit a lot of the same points but i answered an ask with similar sentiments last year about the CM promo era aesthetic #bottom line is at the end of the day these dudes are not our friends shit posting they are professional artists #artists trying to fulfill not just a creative vision but also business obligations #the people they work with are tools in the toolbox hired to help accomplish those goals #they don't get raw footage and do whatever they want with it - the band will always get final say #the hate their collaborators get is always so bizarre to me-whether it be their signature style or the manner in which they deliver content #the band hired these people for a reason 🤷🏻‍♀️ #also just bc I have the time: Andy was not 'let go' #thru their work with 5sos andy & sarah have become quite prolific mv directors both individually and as a team #as well as continuing to be in demand live music photographers - andy literally shot depeche mode last week #ryan has also had a number of high profile ad campaigns he's shot this year #what I'm saying is they don't need 5sos lol #the band likes their work and is lucky to have access to collaborators that make them feel understood #i just... can't reconcile this 'we deserve' bit #this was the third concert special in as many years... we only had to pay for one... bc it was a global livestream #it's ok to be disappointed if it wasn't what you expected and i don't mean to invalidate that #but this concept of 'deserving' is a different thing especially in the context of this fandom where entitlement is an ongoing issue #so that's where this long ass answer is coming from lol #anyways that's my rant for the year - just in under the wire! #ask #anon

[dashes-and-letters]

#Depeche Mode #Dave Gahan #so much love #2017 #gif #lyrics #global spirit tour #london

[clove-pinks]

Eighteen-Forties Friday: The Railway Dragon

An illustration by George Cruikshank in The Table Book, 1845 (The British Museum). The commentary in Richard A. Vogler's book Graphic Works of George Cruikshank adds that the accompanying text signed by Angus B. Reach and titled "The Natural History of the Panic" details "the way this monster has destroyed Englishmen by gobbling up their money."

Conveniently, another book from 1845 addresses the crises driven by financial speculation in railroads: The Railway Panic: Hints to Railroad Speculators, Together with the Influence Railroads Will Have Upon Society, Together with the Laws on the Subject, by Henry Wilson (Google Books). Although Wilson denounces "modern schemers" and speculation, he's very pro-railroad, and he even thinks that railway travel will break down class barriers:

In former times, each class of persons had their modes of travelling. There was for the rich, the post chaise; for the country gentleman, the mail; for the tradesman, the stage coach; and for the poor, the waggon; a man's respectability was established by the mode in which he travelled. The difference between railway and stage coach travelling is nearly all the difference between civilization and barbarism. The railways will, ultimately, reverse the picture; and the rich will be brought in contact and converse with the poor, sympathies are engendered between the various classes, and the manners of the higher class descend to the lower.

Karl Marx evidently thought something similar in 1848, according to William Scheuerman in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition): "Despite their ills as instruments of capitalist exploitation, Marx argued, new technologies that increased possibilities for human interaction across borders ultimately represented a progressive force in history."

It was Scheuerman's article on globalization that made me reflect on "the compression of territoriality," as he puts it, with new modes of travel making the world seem more accessible and smaller in the 1840s.

Writing in 1839, an English journalist commented on the implications of rail travel by anxiously postulating that as distance was “annihilated, the surface of our country would, as it were, shrivel in size until it became not much bigger than one immense city” (Harvey 1996, 242). A few years later, Heinrich Heine, the émigré German-Jewish poet, captured this same experience when he noted: “space is killed by the railways. I feel as if the mountains and forests of all countries were advancing on Paris. Even now, I can smell the German linden trees; the North Sea’s breakers are rolling against my door” (Schivelbusch 1978, 34)

Or maybe just a train monster in your kitchen

#Eighteen-Forties Friday #1840s #railways #railroads #age of steam #early victorian era #victorian #karl marx #george cruikshank #the railway panic #globalization #'in former times each class of persons had their modes of travelling'...imagine going backwards from 1845

[dnangelic]

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT. #icb its this hot in feb i hate global warming- #for the multi charas btw itd beee- probably. riku/rokuto/sagami for sure #some secondary/potential ones would be like. snow queen/fukami/POSSIBLY my own martyrboy hiwatari...? #there's a good handful of satos already though and i kno im sole dai. dw. i would never give up my hamster #the satos would have to start cannibalizing each other i cant have that. #dais top priority 💥💥💥 #IVE BEEN RLLY ITCHING TO WRITE SOME OF THESE CHARAS AT LEAST ONCEEEEE THOUGH #just yknow. someplace else than on dai n dark's blog #this is their house #🧍‍♂️ #*in march sorry my brains still in feb mode fr LOOOL

[mothmouth]

Splatoon 3 hero mode spoilers past this point!

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Am I the only one who feels really fucked up by like, log four's lore? It's really horrifying how it's described. Like, imagine being the scientists, so desperate to see the sky, that your ambitions end up snuffing out humanity for good. But that's not all! The log goes absolutely out of the way to let us know that anyone who survived the initial disaster died soon after.

Imagine being a child during all this. Perhaps your name is Rhea, and you don't exactly know what the sky is like, but you're excited for the big day of the rocket launch because your parents are. But then everything goes wrong. There's so much screaming and fear, then silence. You emerge from the rubble not knowing what happened or where your family is. And now you can't do anything but wander the ruins of humanity, scared, alone, and soon to be very hungry.

Or maybe you're Marcus - somehow, you got out unscathed say for some scratches when your apartment collapsed. But, you've got a problem; you're trapped. The walls caved in in such a way that you have plenty of air, but no hope of escape. You can only scream for help, struggle, pace and eventual lay down in what you realize is your tomb.

Hell, maybe you're even one of the luckier ones. You're Salem, and you don't really care that much about the launch. You were having a wonderful afternoon nap when you were awoken by a horrible noise - and following soon after it, a cacophony of screaming and crashing. You scramble to your window to be met with the sight of the sky falling in on itself into darkness. As your freeze response hits, you have just enough time to comprehend what's happening and despair over the loss of humanity before your house is hit and you die instantly.

There are theoretically infinite scenarios to describe the last humans of splatoon's earth and their experiences. Those pinned under rubble, realizing everyone they know is dead, or those injured horribly but still struggling to live. Something about the way that they specifically described the disaster really makes it real to me. It's upsetting in a very compelling way. Like - all that was left of humanity died! And given the time span of the event, there were almost certainly children and elders and others who were even more helpless than everyone else. That's fucked up.

#splatoon spoilers #hero mode spoilers #splatoon 3 spoilers #splatoon #splatoon 3 #tag your own alternan who died horrible in the notes #there's so much writing potential its horrible i love it #PLUS LIKE OK #log five makes me emotional in an entirely different way #how sentimental yet sad that sealife eventually fulfilled humanity's wish and carries it with them to this day #AND MR GRIZZ TOO!! he is so fucked up and sad #he wanted things to go back to what he understood #i think we all know that impulse #before the pandemic and global warming ramping up and political extremeism #i wish things could be simpler but i also understand its not like the before times were perfect either #and its ultimately a futile desire #in the end his search for the past made him no longer a mammal himself #and i just noticed that since the ooze acts on peoples thoughts its only natural it turns into furry ooze in his hands #he wanted mammals so it replicated human life #but just like the sky it's only a facsimile #it's just goopy crystal. it's not the same #this game feels so poingant to what a lot of us have been feeling i think

[madamemarmot]

As Lessenich, the vocal critic of the Global North as externalization society, puts it, the primary condition making our rich lifestyles possible is the passing of these burdens onto the people and natural resources of "some faraway place" so that the true cost is never paid by the end consumer. Slow Down by Kohei Saito

#quotes #21st century #nonfiction #japanese #slow down #kohei saito #degrowth #externalization #global north #climate change #imperial mode of living #someone else pays the price

[ondigitalwings]

I always get freezy about what the right things of my own content to post are. But it’s my Tumblr! Wtf?

Anyway, have Atheliel (also my u/n, she was the first/main of my characters in the account) dressed up for pride in bi (and some genderqueer) colors and doing some literal unicorn hunting for the current event.

#life makeover #life makeover global #life makeover game #oc: atheliel #my ocs #my screencaps #photo mode #dyed outfits

[daily-coloring]

Best of 2023 - Albums

Unbelievable year ... Fallen pop stars are returning, long time not seen artists are turning up in a best possible shape, producers making music under their own names, ... First of all I really enjoyed a few soundtracks this year especially Anthony Willis's Saltburn and Arnaud Rebotini's L'lle Rouge. Surprisingly I listened again on repeat a few DJ mixes too. Danny Tenaglia's new Global Underground was a pure treasure, James Zabiela's home session just made me dance for an hour in the living room, as well as Andy Butler's energetic set did too.

01. Roisin Murphy - Hit Parade - "If Hit Parade isn’t Murphy’s best album, it’s certainly her wildest and weirdest. Nowhere else is the scale of her ambition more evident than on the percussive and atmospheric “Free Will.” Murphy says she doesn’t believe in free will but that you should “just make believe that you can write the play” anyway. It’s yet another indelible statement that couldn’t come from anyone else." - Slant Magazine

02. Rebecca Black - Let Her Burn - "An acceptable stretch of Let Her Burn gives Black a chance to reform a persona she had never had any control over until now. As fundamental a shift as perhaps expected, Black warrants this change of pace but there is something inevitable about how these perspectives are formed and how retaliation to reactionary dogpiling a decade ago comes to the forefront. Working hard and pushing through with this half-hour debut LP is exceptional, with spotty highs and consistently solid mixes that give those electronic undercurrents a beat-worthy working. Destroy Me is a crucial highlight in getting to the core of reinvention but also in engaging with how buoyed Let Her Burn is by how much of an opposition it takes to the early works. Black has let her burn, whatever “her” was. Let Her Burn razes and destroys as much as it can, and it works as a successful, credible debut." - Cult Following

03. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Hana

04. Clark - Sus Dog

05. Everything But The Girl - Fuse

06. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori

07. Mermaidens - Mermaidens

08. Kesha - Gag Order

09. Anna B Savage - in|FLUX - "So as a follow up to A Common Turn, this does feel like an album where, lyrically and thematically, we are dealing with an artist who has battled some of the previous demons, accepted the daily flux of life, and found a way to focus on the moments when life feels most complete. But in a musical context – Anna also seems to have taken that feeling, that love of contradiction, into the songs. At moments explosively ecstatic, at others wrought with emotion – and filled with influences and sounds from areas not explored on the previous LP – the album brings a bunch of disparate sounds and feelings together to create a powerful and impressive whole. Most impressive of all is the fact that, after an album that sent Picky Bastards into a spin for the whole of 2021, Anna has released something as good if not better." - Picky Bastards

10. HMLTD - The Worm

11. JMSN - Soft Spot

12. Orbital - Optical Delusion - "It’s an album of unlikely collaborations. Day One features the operatic talents of Dina Ipavic, while Are You Alive, sung by Lily Wolter of Penelope Isles, floats into moodier, more analog territory. Best of all are The New Abnormal (Golden Girls’ Kinetic turned inside out) and the anti-gammon state of the nation rant of Dirty Rats." - Record Collector

13. Spelling - SPELLLING & The Mystery School

14. Future Utopia - We Were We Still Are

15. CLT DRP - Nothing Clever, Just Feelings

16. Joy Wellboy - The Ones That Got Away

17. Pierre Rousseau - Twenty - Music for Etudes N°20 - Spring Summer 2022

18. Joyce Muniz - Zeitkapsel

19. Emiliana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra - Racing The Storm

20. Thomas Azier - The Inventory Of Our Desire

21. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

22. Not Waving - The Place I've Been Missing

23. Restive Plaggona - Ignis

24. Deichkind - Neues Vom Dauerzustand

25. Daughter - Stereo Mind Game

26. Daði Freyr - I Made an Album

27. Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

28. Surgeon - Crash Recoil - "Crash Recoil is probably about as close to a live Surgeon record as we’re ever going to get. Child views producing and performing as two disparate disciplines, which they are, and he goes about each in a very different way. This also means it’s about as close to a traditional pop/rock approach to writing and recording as you’re likely to find from an electronic producer, woodshedding tracks on the road and sharpening them to a diamond sheen. More bands and producers should think of adopting the approach as it clearly can yield stunning results, as evidenced by this glorious offering." - Spectrum Culture

29. Duran Duran - DANSE MACABRE

30. When Saints Go Machine - Rosy

31. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

32. Maps - Counter Melodies

33. Laurent Garnier - 33 tours et puis s'en vont

34. Benedikt Frey - Fastlane

35. ANOUK - Deena and Jim

36. Anthony Naples - Orbs - "The New York producer once known for muscular house and techno continues to drift into the ether, channeling ’90s chillout and dub techno into his singular vision." - Pitchfork

37. James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities

38. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont - Happy Ending

39. Tirzah - trip9love...???

40. Kelela - Raven

#best of #best music 2023 #best of 2023 #best albums #hifi sean #anouk #surgeon #kesha #rebecca black #roisin murphy #saltburn #danny tenaglia #global undergound #laurent garnier #sophie ellis bextor #depeche mode #duran duran #hmltd #thomas azier #jmsn #james holden #tirzah #mermaidens #everything but the girl #tracey thorn #joy wellboy

[farsight-the-char]

I don’t think Cass would use social media actually, or severely limit the amount of time she spent on it, plus use heavy filters/blacklists.

I think Cass would go “Doomscrolling” mode easily?

Like, this is a woman who tried to intervene in an execution after learning about it, now imagine her learning about dozens, hundreds, of such things across the globe.

After a certain point, I think she and Barbara would work out a system of how Cass can safely navigate social media, or avoid it all together.

Not purposeful ignorance, more limiting the amount of depressing info absorbed.

#cassandra cain #barbara gordon #dc #angst cw #batgirl #maybe me projecting but like #I don't think having a newsfeed of global collapse is healthy #and Cass tends not to be mentally healthy #in the first place #writing mode

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

ok looking at artfight is literally giving me a headache i think i should be done for today

#went thru and updated. all of my characters #separated them by story/universe #updated a few of the descriptions (i HATE writing those though so. only some of them) #and drew new things for a handful of them #but . god damn i am so tired but i still have soooo much to do #gagaughhhhg #i always do this every year im like oog ive got plany off time and then its 3 days before the event and im SCRAMBLING #sigh #I JUST WANT THEM TO OPEN EARLY TEAM REGISTRATION ALREADY. GUH #sorry guys im gonna be sooooo annnooying about my ocs for the next month. get ready #ill go back to drawing trigun when artfight is over #danny devito voice hold on im shifting into oc mode #god. i also updated my global permissions and added links to all my pinterest boards and character tags on my sideblog... #AND playlists for those that have them... fuck dude #i think this year im gonna focus on like. jus doing headshots. #bc i get into this slump of like. the mindset that Everything i make for artfight has to be perfect and #make it a huge massive piece with a background and shading and everything #but that takes sooooo much energy out of me. im gonna focus on doing a lot of little things. #i wanna draw somthing for every character i have bookmarked i think. as long as theyre on the other team #i also think i wanna try drawign more anthro/furry characters. for practice. i like drawing animals its fun #which is. fitting. for the werewolf year lmao #so. hey. if u or a friend are on team werewolf this year and want me 2 draw one of ur little guys. #no guarantee bc my energy gets soooo spotty and i want to save it for the ones i rlly wanna do #but like. im always open 2 suggestions. especially for artfight #send me ur little guys if i think theyre cool i gotchu. #man. ive been looking at my computer all day i think i am going 2 go read my book. catkiss goodnight i love you #(<< i will still be on tumblr probably. but that felt fitting.) #blahblahblah

[evanatsuhi]

me when i exclusively play turf war and c rank splat zones and have no idea what i’m talking about

#‘just dodge them’ dodge this eliter shot then #no one on earth is saying that the problem with missiles is that they’re impossible to dodge it’s that they’re stupidly unhealthy as a #displacement special that has global range and reveals the entire enemy teams location without you having to compromise yourself to do it #like. if missiles are so healthy and easy to deal with them why did the weapons that had them get nerfed to the point you basically don’t #see reeflux anymore 💀 #.txt #again nothing wrong if you exclusively play lower ranks and turf war but you can’t expect things that work in those modes to be a universal #experience considering those modes have the highest amount of beginners

[dashes-and-letters]

#Dublin #1993 #Dave Gahan #2017 #Depeche Mode #gif #The Exciter Tour #Halo #lyrics #one night in paris #Devotional Tour #2001 #global spirit tour #Christian Eigner

[thebendsbyradiohead]

sorry that i couldn’t catch up to the latest yellowjackets, i was busy healing my own fraught lifelong female friendship instead of canibalizing each other 😔

#turns out not being in survival mode 24/7 during a global traumatizing event helps #lina laments.txt

[toyboxfriends]

“The only thing I need to know about illusions is if you can play Doom on them.”

#Global Chat | dash comm #Combo Streak | ic #Peaceful Mode | non-despair verse

[ondigitalwings]

I got the rainbow face paint! So some more Pride fun with Jade. Yes, those are trans flag boots. (I tried nonbinary bc Jade in whatever you can call canon has approached the idea of counting as trans backwards, sideways and on tiptoe, but these look better.)

Their boyfriend in current iterations is a photographer so some playing with light and film seemed apropos.

A bonus:

Atheliel gets flower crown unicorn, Jade gets glowing pentagram unicorn and this is perfect tbh

#life makeover game #life makeover global #life makeover #life makeover photo mode #life makeover outfits #life makeover pride #oc: jade #my ocs