Sometimes I Wonder How Much Better The Sims 4 Experience Would Be As A Whole If Everyone Involved, EA

RIP Tina Turner 💔

TS3 Lighting Tutorial: Backlighting

A cool lighting setup I came up with for photo studio portraits!

Inspired by @rebouks and @tau1tvec TS4 CAS lighting mods ✨

You need:

Buhudain invisible lights (I always use the “wide spot” versions)

Murano photo backdrop

Pose Player & some poses of your choice

Reshade, Gshade, or a photo editor of your choice 

1. Build a closed rectangular room with a roof covering it. Pose your sim and put them in the center. (Use the moveobjects on cheat.)

2. Position the lights as shown in pic 3 and 4. You can adjust the light color and intensity in Live Mode by clicking on them, or Ctrl + Shift + left click on them in Buy Mode.  

3. Recolor the photo backdrop to pitch black, and put it around your sim to make sure the room’s walls are not visible. Use more than 1 if necessary, they seamlessly intersect. Murano’s photo backdrop is also technically a light, so make sure you either turn it off, or play around with the light’s color and intensity to create an effect you like.

4. Find a good angle, turn your Reshade/GShade on, and snap your pic. Adjust the contrast, brightness, exposure, and color settings in a photo editor to make it pop even more. You can download my Reshade preset on my downloads page if you want, it works in Gshade as well. 

What does each light do?

The white-colored lights are there to provide a general brightness to the sim and the room, and to offset the intense colored lights. Without the white lights, the sim would be completely lit in red & magenta. You can turn up the intensity, or add more white lights if more brightness is needed.

The red and magenta-colored lights are there to provide intense color on the side and outline of the sim, for a neon backlit effect.

Tips

- You can play around with each light’s position, intensity and color to create different effects. For example, you can remove some lights on one side of the sim to create more dramatic shadows. Or remove some white lights so that the colored lights are stronger.

- You can make the colored lights monochromatic, or you can pair them in analogous colors (i.e. red and orange, red and magenta), or you can pair them in complementary colors (i.e. red and green, blue and yellow). 

- In Buy mode, hold the Alt key, and click and drag your sim to rotate them in small increments, to make sure the light hits them exactly right.

I hope this tutorial gives you some fun ideas for taking pictures! 💗

🔥 Tariff Tug-of-War: China, Japan, South Korea Join Forces—And Trump’s Back at It Again

How China, Japan, and South Korea are teaming up against U.S. tariffs—what it means for global trade, your wallet, and Trump’s 2025 comeback agenda.

📌 Quick Summary for the Time-Starved:

China, Japan, and South Korea are aligning on a tariff response to U.S. trade moves.

Trump’s new “Liberation Day” tariffs are set to go live April 2, aiming to "level the playing field."

Critics say American consumers will foot the bill, while Trump supporters call it economic justice.

Bonus: We break down tariffs like you’re 10, so your kid could explain this at the dinner table.

🌏 What's Going On: The Asia-Pacific Alliance Strikes Back

In a rare show of economic coordination, China, Japan, and South Korea have announced they’ll team up to respond to U.S. tariffs. This comes after the first high-level economic dialogue in five years between the trio. The countries are mulling over a joint free trade agreement, supply chain cooperation, and—yes—a collective response to what they see as aggressive U.S. trade tactics.

And who’s poking the trade bear again?

🎯 Enter Donald J. Trump

Trump, now campaigning hard for the 2024–2025 comeback tour, is rolling out a new batch of tariffs on April 2, a date he’s dubbed “Liberation Day”. His targets? Automobiles, electronics, steel, aluminum—you name it, it’s probably on the list.

The goal, according to the Trump camp: “Fair and Reciprocal Trade.” The U.S. should no longer be the “world’s discount mall,” they argue.

🎭 Trump’s Tariff Playbook — With Commentary from Both Sides

Let’s decode the two main camps:

✅ The Right: Trump’s Supporters Say…

It’s about time someone called out the imbalance in global trade deals.

Other countries impose high tariffs on American goods while enjoying open U.S. markets.

Tariffs will protect American jobs, revive domestic manufacturing, and reduce the trade deficit.

“We’re being used,” Trump recently said. “These tariffs send a message: America isn’t for sale.”

👉 In their eyes, tariffs are economic nationalism done right.

❌ The Left: Critics Warn...

Tariffs act like taxes on American businesses and consumers.

They risk inflation by making imported goods more expensive.

Could destabilize global trade and lead to retaliatory measures—which is already starting with China, Japan, and South Korea.

U.S. allies aren’t fans either—even Japan and South Korea have pushed back, saying they're being unfairly targeted.

👉 In their view, tariffs are economic own-goals with political overtones.

🧮 The Real Impact: Who Feels It?

GroupImpactU.S. ConsumersHigher prices for cars, electronics, and even foodManufacturersMore expensive raw materials like steel and aluminumFarmers & ExportersRetaliatory tariffs abroad could reduce demandInvestorsMarket jitters due to geopolitical tension

According to the Tax Foundation, tariffs could cost the average U.S. household hundreds per year, with only marginal benefits for protected industries.

🧠 Explain Like I'm 10: What Are Tariffs and Why Do They Matter?

Okay, imagine this:

You have a lemonade stand, and your friend from Canada wants to sell you lemons for $1 each. But your neighbor across the street also sells lemons—but for $2.

To help your neighbor (because, hey, they live here!), your parents say: “If you buy lemons from Canada, you have to pay $1 extra per lemon.” That’s a tariff.

So now:

Canadian lemons cost $2 ($1 + $1 tariff).

Your neighbor’s lemons are the same price—no tariff.

You might just buy local now.

That’s how tariffs protect domestic sellers. But guess what? You—the buyer—are stuck with higher prices, no matter what.

🏛️ Why Governments Use Tariffs (and When They Backfire)

🛡️ To Protect Local Jobs

Keeps local factories open by making foreign goods more expensive.

💰 To Raise Money

Historically, tariffs were like toll booths. Less relevant today, but still a source of revenue.

⚖️ To Fight “Unfair” Trade

If another country is cheating (like selling goods too cheap), tariffs level the playing field.

💣 To Apply Pressure

It’s not just about money—sometimes tariffs are used to make countries change their policies.

But here’s the kicker: They can backfire—especially in a globalized economy. Companies rely on international supply chains, and disruption = cost.

🌐 Global Domino Effect: What’s the Risk?

China, Japan, and South Korea are signaling: "You tax us? We tax back."

If this spirals into a full-blown trade war, expect:

Even U.S. allies are wary. Tokyo and Seoul have publicly disputed parts of China’s statement, but everyone agrees: Trump’s tariffs are stirring the pot.

🤔 So... Are Tariffs “Fair”?

That depends on whom you ask.

📣 Fair According to:

Steelworkers in Ohio

Policy hawks who hate China’s subsidies

Nationalists who want to re-shore jobs

📉 Unfair According to:

Small businesses reliant on cheap imports

Families trying to stretch every dollar

Free trade economists who argue global markets drive innovation

📆 What’s Next?

With “Liberation Day” just around the corner, keep an eye on:

April 2 tariffs implementation

Market reactions—especially auto and tech stocks

China–Japan–South Korea coordination

Whether other allies—EU, Canada, Mexico—get dragged into the crossfire

🧩 Final Thoughts: Trade Is a Team Sport

Like any good game, international trade works best with rules, respect, and teamwork. Tariffs might offer a short-term score, but long-term? You need cooperation, not confrontation.

Whether Trump’s tariffs are a home run or a boomerang remains to be seen. But one thing’s for sure: the world’s watching.

🧠 TL;DR Takeaways

Trump’s tariffs are back, branded as “Fair and Reciprocal.”

China, Japan, and South Korea are coordinating a united front.

Tariffs help some industries but raise prices for consumers.

Trade wars risk global economic instability.

Understanding tariffs = understanding modern geopolitics.

Source: 🔥 Tariff Tug-of-War: China, Japan, South Korea Join Forces—And Trump’s Back at It Again

146 conversions from some of kativip’s legend series sets. In sculptures for §0.

They were made for my legacy so they’re lazy and a bit shit, the main issue being that half of them have a redundant menu for lighting options ingame 🤷 I figured someone might get some use of them so they’re being uploaded as is, feel free to change/edit what you need.

You can download everything merged or separately with shitty previews, or I’ve split them into two styles if you’re just into half.

eta: gamergirlbones has kindly made a collection file which has been added to the main downloads folder.

Download (SFS)

my favorite mashup emoji is this one and i wish it was real so bad

Another One

I know everybody and their wives have posted about the Inzoi Demo. And I normally don't post at all. It's been fun to mess around with... I've a lot to learn and get better at. Though I'm unsure about how well the hyper-realism works with my usual sim styles. (Apologies for the quality of pics).

#Sims3 #Inzoi

Functional Wells

These objects require Zoe22′s Functional Well mod to be installed.

They’re found in the catalogue under Plumbing/Misc.

The Dragon Valley well is now recolourable with Create a Style.

The ts2 well and the recolourable Dragon Valley well also come as a decorative variation, found under Decor/Sculptures.

The Dragon Valley well requires World Adventures, the waterhole Ambitions, and the pump Pets. The Fountain of Youth and the ts2 Wishing Well are basegame compatible.

Update May 19th 2020: I added some water-storage objects (lower picture). They’re included in the ‘Functional’ download. These are all basegame-compatible.

Download

Functional: SimFileShare | Dropbox

Decorative: SimFileShare | Dropbox

TF can use AF clothes neck sliders

Be warned, these sliders are NOT perfect, I have yet to find a way to do this. Using Master Controller you can enable AF clothing for TF. They have a very similar neck shape anyway (bottom pic). The remaining issue is the shading seam (which could only be fixed by making a default replacement teen head). However, I feel you can edit this out pretty easily in photoshop. The biggest issue was that the fat slider was very different (top left pic) so you got a massive gap. So I made a slider that kinda fixes this gap (top right), so for your slightly more curvy teens you can use AF clothes without a massive neck gap. Found under general head sliders.

Simfileshare

#ccforhayley This time featuring the “You Are A Free Cow + aminovas’s Brown Guernsey Dafult Cow Skin”; I decided to do two things, the first one was to Realize the wish of my friend mspoodle1 and the second one was to release my first item for this great simmer Hayley ♥ This has been a Beautiful campaign and I hope that she can reach the goal :]

As you see everywhere in this post, this is a Default Replacement of two things, the Milkin’ it Dairy Corral from the Store and its Cows! I could not have made it without the help of Ami, she’s GREAT!

I highly suggest you to visit my blog and download there, however if you’re an adventurous and want to take risks, go ahead and download here :] LOL

Donate to Hayley and feel the Power! Visit my Blogger — Details, Pictures, Mirror Downloads and Useful Links. Download: Milking’ it Dairy Corral Default Replacement Download: Aminova’s Brown Guernsey Dafult Cow Skin

Remember that you need the corral first! If the links do not work then you’ll have to go to blogger