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xxxbilliexxx ([personal profile] xxxbilliexxx) wrote in [community profile] officialsimsecret2023-07-21 06:05 pm

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Next week's Submissions is here.





What about the official forums? I wasn't paying attention last week.

No unposted secrets this week.



(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
FURST

also whoever posted 12 doesn’t know the delete button exists what an idiot

(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Literally have not heard about the forum people escaping containment until now lol

(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
same and i’m too afraid to ask

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
1. I snickered. I appreciate bashing all the games a bit.
2. I like drama as long as I'm not directly involved in it. I don't want it to be in my own life where I can't avoid it, but it's fun to observe other people's drama or be indirectly involved.
3. Yeah.
5. ???
7. The official forums? Is someone digging up random ancient stuff, last week it was adfly, this week it's EA forum drama?
8. Yeah, they have to make everything as dramatic as possible. A normal, routine birth where both mother and baby are healthy isn't ~dramatic~ enough, apparently.
11. I don't get this one, either.
14. Hmm, isn't this the same text from a secret from last year, that drove everyone crazy becuase no one could find the source?
15. Agreed.
18. I snickered at this one too.
19. Honestly, I don't even know what to say this one. Have fun, I guess?
21. The Sim on the far right is horrifying.
22. No
23. I don't care what other people do with their games, but I do find that some people who prefer Maxis-match are kind of obnoxious about it and want to shit all over alpha players. I don't like the look of heavy alpha CC either, but some people do.
24. This is a whole new level of special.
25. Ooooh I like this idea!
27. I actually agree with secret maker about this. I have rosacea too and I hate these Sims and how the bright flush is used as some kind of cutesy fashion choice.

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
the projectionnn lmao it’s the other way around boo. no one cares about maxis match, in fact i’d even say it’s more popular. it’s the mm fans who won’t stop bitching about alpha players

(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
soyjak

(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
someone should make the FLDS in ts4

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
there are def people making "fundie sims" but idk if i have ever seen flds in particular. that would be fascinating actually

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Oooooh...sikoulettos!

(Anonymous) 2023-07-21 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
015 He oddly attractive, he's look like from the Sims 2
019 Good for you anon, and have fun! (even if I find the price/pleasure/pain ratio more interesting in a BDSM club...)
020 How are you doing, 2009?
023 I play maxis-match and I find Alpha godawful. But hey, your game, your rules, your aesthetic! I just don't watch/read your gameplay/story/whatever just because that not my taste.
026 Maybe anon, but it's still fugly. I'd put every Spore creature's name on it but "Unicorn".
024 I know some Simmers who use a real ancestry sites for their Sim families. It's was one of the most...puzzled thing I've seen on the community along with the one who made a sim story about kiddies who had adults behaviors...
027 Never understood this make-up thread. I suppose it's launched by the same braindead who found vilitigo "aesthetic", mental issues "beautiful and deep" or the worst serial killers on this planet "sexy"...

And someone can explain the thing with the raid on the official forum? Real or a anon fever dream?

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27: that blush style is from anime, not from any skin condition "inspo". And all these people ripped it off from the asian simmers.

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
OP you want Children of the Corn? Because that's how you get Children of the Corn.

go spend some time on a farm in Iowa then see how much you want this

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
A farm in iowa?? 😭😭😭 why do non farmers think the country is creepy. The only thing that has legit scared me on a farm is hearing coyotes at night.

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
4&7: i must have missed something last week when I didn't feel like dicking around in the comments. But y'all....y'all....this is embarassing. For you.

27: sounds like a skill issue tbh, if you can't make it cute then that's on you. I get compliments on my "rosy cheeks" and all I use is a lil concealer

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27. Fuck you dumb ass

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Sims 4 'grass' never fails to make me lol.

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https://64.media.tumblr.com/e30cc8778ab6a2fa8dfc1c066cb2480f/fc3f094651fc37cc-80/s1280x1920/f4e0f83c0a7d08f4db1270a0969a321932ece2bf.png

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Oh yikes. You know I do feel like some people bash "realistic" or alpha CC too much, then I see stuff like that and I completely get it 😬

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summary_anon: (RIP)

Summarized.

[personal profile] summary_anon 2023-07-22 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
1. [a Sims 2 Sim compared to Nicholas Cage]
[a Sims 3 Sim compared to a cartoon pudding]
[a Sims 4 Sim compared to a glass of soy milk]
2. "I used to hate drama. NOW I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, SIMSECRET."
3. "There's an awful lot of options for eyebrows in this game.
And I feel like 95% of them are terrible.
4. "YAAAAS EA forum drama is here and we are here to stay. Taking over SimSecret hunties. Stay mad. :)"
5. "Holy slut shaming, Batman!"
6. "This just in, SJW is a giant fucking hypocrite! Shocker."
7. "You fucking crybabies are coming here saying that the official forum people 'invaded' and shit.
Get the fuck over it!
No one gives two shits about your random simblr and CC shit. At least the official forum posts actually have merit and serves a real purpose. Like seriously stop complaining cause you can't find anything better in your life then complain about simblrs and others invading your 'blog' or whatever shit you keep complaining about.
Don't like it?
Fuck off and don't read it maybe?
Good plan!"
8. "A lot of 'writers' in the sims 3 community believe that it's more likely for your baby to have problems then pop out healthy lol. T here's ALWAYS a problem. Miscarriage, abortion, still born, respiratory issues, etc etc. I just always ask myself 'seriously?' It's like when they make their female characters go through rape to make them interesting. I think they just stoop to shock level for more attention but..."
9. [Toad's head {Toad from Mario} stickers on the Sims 4 box with "Sticker Star" underneath the Sims 4 logo]: "Say what you will about The Sims 4, but I'm totally grateful that Kensuke Tanabe isn't working on Maxis. GOD, THAT WOULD BE FUCKING SCARY..."
10. "It's time to reform work on our Sims website!
Hello everyone!
We are excited to announce that our Sims job returns on June 1st.
The adjudication is already closed, after inactivity for a few months I am being fired for health reasons and our Sims team will like it.
We have achieved that an agreement has been reached to work on our Sims website. We hope all goes well for our Sims website.
Ver. 4.1.0 with improving blogs, changing the look with the logo, improving texts and much more will be available in the months of June.
Thank you very much for collaboration!
-Sims and IF"
11. [Sims standing a Starbucks-like coffee counter]: "i fucking choked on my coffee, that's the best one this week"
12. "I wish CC creators would stop using overlays for additional colors.
There's nothing wrong with it, and the extra customization is nice, but I hate how it clogs up the catalog and restricts accessory usage."
13. "The people who think creators are their slaves and should do anything they demand, tho. Sure, people like that have been around since forever in the community, but after the release TS4 there seems to be even more of them."
14. [a long post about people in the Sims community being annoyed by someone who is racist, homophobic, etc and lying about their background and family]: "THIS IS FROM THE YEAR 2022"
15. "Hate saying it but that sim doesn't look that bad. He's almost cute, in a druggy, dirty hippie kind of way."
16. (ಠ_ಠ) [Wow, not sure how to describe this one. A meme with the top being a woman saying "I love secrets" with summary_anon above her head ,the bottom being Homer Simpson with a psycho face, a bunch of Sims Announcement secrets, and the caption "THIS IS A #SimsAnnouncement SECRET"]
17. [a YouTube thumbnail of a video by neecxle about Horse Ranch]: "THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE ONLY NORMAL THUMBNAIL IN THE TOP 5 SEARCH RESULTS]
18. [a list of YouTube videos about Horse Ranch made by various YouTubers (lilsimsie, James Turner, Deligracy, Plumbella, Vixella), all with the video creator's photo covered by a meme face]
19. [a photo of two EA gift cards]: "I bought these cards so I can get HORSES! I wasn't lying or trolling when I said that here! I want to play horses!"
20. "why would u want to ruin ur life by having a baby before ur even 18. abort it and at least give it til ur 20 at the earliest lol"
21. [three pictures of Sims with photoshopped faces]: "What in the world is going on with this simmer? It reminds me of when a serial killer has cut outs of different faces and puts it on the walls. Why is she photoshopping real faces on those bodies? It's a tutorial about how to be a serial killer."
22. "I miss weight gain fetish art secrets"
23. "I don't really get what's so wrong with wanting our games to be Maxis match? It's a choice some of us make, just like the choice some people make in wanting as much realism as possible. Each to their own."
24. [a Reddit post about someone who made Sims family trees on an ancestry app]: "How are you this fucking dumb?! WHY DID YOU ADD SIMS FAMILY TREES TO A REAL ANCESTRY SITE?????
Although ngl the childish troll part of me finds this extremely hilarious"
25. "The world that I want is a creepy rural world. I don't care where it's set. I'm picturing a large world with cornfields your Sim can get lost in. Scarecrows. Maybe an abandoned building or two. Lots that are isolated from other nearby lots, so your Sims are on their own. I am picturing it as being subtly creepy, not beat-you-over-the-head obvious creepy. One that you could potentially interpret as peaceful and secluded, BUT that definitely has creepy undertones if you look for them."
26. [Negative reactions on Tumblr to a tweet about unicorns in Horse Ranch]: "i hate how y'all bitches are whining about how ugly *every new thing* was made for ts4 and right after the *new shitty pack* comes out y'all are the first ones who buy and install this shit on your computer and then post your shitty screenshots on tumblr thinking: 'WOW THIS IS SO COOL OMG!' you're just like to be fed up with shit, admit it you play ts4 this already explains everything
indeed this horse is fucking ugly and it doesn't make such interest for me to play this donate dumpster"
27. [a CC download of some bright blush that goes across a Sim's cheeks and nose]: "as a person who suffers from rosacea i owe you to STOP cultivating this shit as something 'cute' and 'sweet' because it's not."

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
You spoil us 🙏

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Things seem to be.... going better

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
knock on wood

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
all of these secrets are stupid except for #1
got my hopes up and then dashed again

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
rly wish non indigenous simmers would stop talking about indigenous people for likes and only caring about us because of a fucking horse ranch pack

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
How are they supposed to virtue signal otherwise tho :/ Think of the poor simmers!

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
This is just a rant honestly because I feel my eye twitching at this point seeing sims players pretend to be native

I should preface saying obviously its like a roleplaying game, its not that serious to be making sims characters of different races and ethnicities, lots of people want it to reflect real life. BUT just seeing so much discussion from people and seeing how just oblivious the majority of people are to Indigenous peoples has driven my slightly insane the past couple weeks.

The Sims 4 is releasing an expansion pack today called Horse Ranch, the world being south-western, montana crossed with new mexico kind of vibe, and the main selling point being that horses are in the game. However, with this south western influence, they decided to include specifically native sims, and emphasize the 'inherent spiritual connection native americans have with horses'. (peace and love to the horse natives lmao but to me as a Mi'kmaq, water and fish, native lol, the Pocahontas looking characters, mythologizing and romanticization really makes my skin crawl). I definetely am probably more sensitive with being in Canada, hearing 'Native American' even just already makes me side eye because I'm conditioned to be prepared to hear the dumbest shit I've ever heard when a Canadian person starts talking about 'Native Americans' because its just so not the correct term up here lol.

But also, I've been in higher education for a WHILE, having graduated high school in 2015 I've been involved with Indigenous students associations and different EDI departments, pretendians is SUCH and massive issue and become a major trigger for me, I've even worked for people who were then outed as fake natives and had to deal with students claiming to be native and later finding out they aren't. So just seeing so many people SO excited to pretend to be us just really really makes my blood boil at this point its actually triggering lol

The sims apparently worked with one 'sensitivity training' person who is Indigenous but they literally only cite this one woman as informing their Indigenous content. They have multiple sage and smudging items, a sacred medicines bowl, a fertility jug, they introduced 3 'native inspired' hairs, which are just braids and long straight hair, the in game magic stuff relating to the native horse rider they added, like am I crazy for thinking this is kind of gross?

Idk I'd love to hear peoples thoughts on this post especially, I find it really gross how desperately people are to be native and the over-sexualization, mythologization and romanticization of our people: https://old.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/154013i/why_is_my_newest_sim_so_damn_hot_his_name_is/

And also reading some of the comments here, like how so many people made 'Native American werewolf characters' when the sims released werewolves 😭: https://old.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/1541p6p/am_i_going_crazy_or_are_these_new_basegame_hairs/

Idk I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more flack. All of the teachers I've had regarding medicines would be so grossed out by the fact theres a digital sacred medicines item in the sims that people use as decor lol and the fact that its basically a cowboys and indians pack? but they're trying to make it woke but end up just being super weird and cringe, emphasizing 'inherent spiritual connection native americans have with horses' 😭😭

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not here to argue about any of this, just wanted to say that you can probably blame Stefanie Meyer for the Natives = Werewolves thing. That's a collective disconnect you probably won't get rid of in the next 30 years.

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
So…can we have horses on lots outside of the new world?

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I skimmed a few let's plays and you can have horses anywhere, including San Myshuno. Part of me is wondering if Maxis knew there was going to be a horse/ranch expansion pack when they were making Cottage living because of how well the packs work together and the world in Cottage Living is particularly suitable for horses.

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008. It's called "I don't have any skill as a writer, have experienced literally zero of those events (and don't know anybody who has), and I rip off other sim stories or telenovelas".

010. Don't know, don't care, didn't ask.

014. Give names or fuck off.

018. Thumbnail Face works, that's why they do it. Yes it's annoying as fuck.

023. Stop whining, no one cares about your MM game.

024. Smells like fake.

025. Secret maker, you are a (wo)man after my own heart.

026. Why are we surprised anymore when this shit's been going on for almost ten years?? I mean people whining and then opening their wallets. Too chickenshit to admit they want something, so they whine about it.

027. Not everything's about you hun, that blush style is inspired by anime.

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There’s a soap down here in Australia called Home and Away that suffers from this. Every pregnancy/new baby storyline has some kind of complication. Ranging from prematurity, the dad getting a brain tumour at the home, right down to a surrogacy storyline where the surrogate became pregnant with twins and the surviving baby is actually biologically the surrogates and her husband’s baby, and not her foster sister’s/the woman.

After another surrogacy attempt with a friend, the surrogate/friend develops feelings for her husband and kisses him. After the baby is born, the surrogate doesn’t want to hand the baby over. The father develops skin cancer, dies. The baby gets hit by a ute and develops mitochondrial disease.

I swear, Summer Bay must by a nuclear waste dumping zone because of all the baby/pregnancy drama.

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15. Agreed, he is rather cute. He almost looks like a sims 2 sim.
27. I agree with the secret maker. But then I hate everything people find "cutesy" with the fire of a thousand suns. That goes double for adult sims with ridiculously childlike faces - in any game. I find that so gross.

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3. What baffles me is why has no one made default replacements of them? Sure there are Kijiko's ones but those are the only ones available I think? And I just don't love them. Better than maxis ones sure, but still not great. I know I could just make my own defaults but I'd just replace them all with pretty brows and then people would complain because I erased their favorite hairy caterpillars or unibrows from the game if I shared them... 😑
8. If I wrote a sim story I'd want to write at least once about post birth depression. Still drama but not as overused as premature babies or miscarriage etc.
12. I hate clothing and hair overlays so much. If one thing worked for everything it would be fine but nah, everything needs it's own file that won't work with anything else in the whole fucking world. And due to that I delete them all without any hesitation. I have too many things anyway. And if the thing the overlay came with looks like shit without the overlays then I delete them too.
19. Good for you. I'll probably get it when it's 40-50% in sale hopefully in black Friday. It just doesn't look worth the whole price at all.
21. First time encountering faceapp eh? It gives them the awful joker smile.
As a side note, alpha clothes are so weird to me, shit ton of polys for "realistic" folds and details (they are not realistic though, they look like crumbled wet paper somebody squeezed in shape) and then they have just blank color or pattern for the "texture" like on those skirts on the little girls, that texture looks like shit you'd see in Sims 2 exchange, created by a literal 8-year-olds and frankly, it looks like utter shit. (No offense to any 8-year-olds who used to post their creations to Sims 2 exchange, you were kids and didn't know better) and then people act like that stuff is good and realistic 🤣
22. I don't, gross.
23. Maxis mix is the ultimate way to go.
27. Doesn't Sims 3 have color sliders though? Just turn the color less bright, no big deal. It makes sense to use bright color in preview pictures so that it actually shows up and people see what they're downloading in my opinion.

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Re: alpha clothes

My god, nowhere will this be more relevant than with Venus Princess's TS3 content. All her meshes look like they're made of cardboard with how they fit on sims and with those awful textures. It's a pity because no one else seems to do trans and more "out there" content.

27: OP is a decade too late with her whining lol, this shit's been going on forever and it won't stop now. It's not a rosacea thing, it's an animeish thing on simblrs that think that hiking up the saturation to the maximum is "editing skills".

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SOOO...how's Horse Ranch shit pack?
I know here are dumbasses, who already bought it.

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
from what i've read it's mediocre and overpriced but not a wedding stories tier disaster

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello Anon,

Are you bitter or angry? Frustrated? Feeling defeated?

You're bitter.

You're angry.

You're working your tail to the bone and things are STILL not working?

When will this ever end?
Is there a solution?
Why is nothing working?

You're trying SO hard but not really getting anywhere. You've tried so many things, and nothing "clicks".

Surely there is an answer somewhere...

Everyone is working so hard just to survive right now. And it affects EVERYONE.

Sometimes you can feel like there's no end in sight. You want to give up hope. You ask yourself if things will ever change. Will things get better?

I get it. We're all working harder than ever to pay our bills. To get through this mess.

But each day, because of that fight, we tend to lose sight of what REALLY matters. 😮

We get so caught up in the daily grind of things, we forget about God, or worse, we get mad at Him that He's allowing all this.

Why is He allowing His people to suffer? "I can understand letting the world suffer, they are in sin, but ME, Lord?" you ask.

I may not have all the answers, but here's what I DO know.

God IS sovereign and we are seeing that right now. We cannot save ourselves. We need a God who will. We are all admitting, that God IS sovereign (without realizing it). And that's a GOOD thing to acknowledge He alone is sovereign! 🎉 It glorifies Him, it honors Him. We are being humbled. The power does not come from us or within us, it comes from the blood of Jesus Christ.

Second, this IS just a season. It won't last forever. Ecclesiastes 3 talks about seasons. We can understand there is ebb and flow in life. This is the ebb.

God is still with us in the ebb parts of life and no matter what, we need to praise Him in the good times AND in the tough times (song to encourage you)(when we lose everything post to encourage you).

We mustn't grow weary of fighting for Him, for our families, for the life we want to have (Galatians 6:9).

We mustn't fall asleep and just let everything go, giving up, or living in a stupor.

The world, now more than ever, needs Christians to make some NOISE! 🎉🔥🌎

My question to you (and myself) this week is this:

👉 Are we fighting for God or have we fallen asleep, given up, and thrown in the towel?

If you have fallen asleep or given up, pray for God to forgive you, wake up, and do whatever it is you can do for God each and every day. Pray for His strength and be willing to fight.

Because the truth is...that I see many people who aren't even Christian, doing many GOOD things for the world, and they are all putting us CHRISTIANS to shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAKE UP, my friends.

Unbelievers should never be doing more good in the world than a godly, true believer! 😳 And if they are (and that's what I'm seeing), it's a massive shame to us.

Let us wake up, let us know that OUR God is POWERFUL. That HE alone can do ANYTHING, if we believe (James 1:6-8).

To help cement this idea in our minds and raise us all up to a more biblical standard, I created a kids activities pack for you and your kids to do TOGETHER (God is Powerful). You can download this brand new, hot off the press product in the shop fa FREE!

Let it remind you that God alone is in control of ALL things. He loves us, He's there for us, and He brings with Him all the power in the universe!

We CAN get through this, and we can get through it WELL, with God at our side.

Also, a lot of people are looking for VBS printables right now, the ones that I have are here. ❤️

Love always,
Sarah Titus

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Sarah Titus looks like she'd jump me and tear off my face with her teeth the second I turned my back on her

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
2) i mean tbh i assumed that's why we're all here
3) did i read that they added more with the patch lol
8) most of those types of stories make me laugh when they are so over the top dramatic
10) wtf is this shit
15) he's hot
18) they all do it because it increases the appeal of their thumbnail to children so they get more views
19) that's pathetic. the fact that you had to buy those instead of using a card like a grown up makes me think you must be about 12
20) because they've all been told that abortion is murder. so instead of having an abortion they ruin their own lives and the lives of their baby
24) lmfaoooooooo this is fucking hilarious
25) idk to me that doesn't sound subtle lol the corn fields sound terrifying
26) they all always do this. THIS IS SHIT I HATE THIS WOW THIS IS TRASH and then they have it on day 1 anyway. this has been going on since the game came out in 2014

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
19 geez u are cracked for freaking out that ppl didn't believe u..we all know that there are plenty of suckers who buy it day 1. so idk why you felt the need to make this secret to defend urself 🙄

(Anonymous) 2023-07-22 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't apologize to the progressives. Even if your tastes change, even if you wouldn't do that thing again, you still shouldn't apologize to progressives, because fuck 'em. They're not actually interested in your redemption, they're only interested in your submission.

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