Kats
@squeamishnerd.bsky.social
The Sims 1 and 4 storyteller, builder and modder | The Brights, story account: @thebrights.bsky.social | The Original Ahriman, story account: @theoriginalahriman.bsky.social | Linktree: https://linktr.ee/squeamishnerd | they
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Kats
@squeamishnerd.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Hi! I'm Kats. I'm a simmer who mainly plays The Sims 4, but occasionally The Sims 1. I tell stories, take scenery screenshots, make videos, create mods, and build.
This is my thread of threads 🧶
This is my thread of threads 🧶
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After the amazing shower woohoo Aatos really had to go to sleep, unlike Liberty and Zuleika, who decided to continue the date without Aatos.
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
After the amazing shower woohoo Aatos really had to go to sleep, unlike Liberty and Zuleika, who decided to continue the date without Aatos.
I wish this phone from Everyday Clutter Kit came in all the 67 colour options that we have for our sims' phones, because with only 9 colour options I can never use it
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I wish this phone from Everyday Clutter Kit came in all the 67 colour options that we have for our sims' phones, because with only 9 colour options I can never use it
I've decided to focus as exclusively as I can on gameplay, when I play Sims 4, because sometimes I fall into this hole of my sims just talking and I take pictures of it, which I don't find very fun. I can take pictures and write dialogue for when they engage in activities instead! 😌
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November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I've decided to focus as exclusively as I can on gameplay, when I play Sims 4, because sometimes I fall into this hole of my sims just talking and I take pictures of it, which I don't find very fun. I can take pictures and write dialogue for when they engage in activities instead! 😌
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Does anyone know if there's a way to make one of the hidden tenants in #TheSims4 For Rent to appear in the Household Manager, without playing in residential rentals?
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Does anyone know if there's a way to make one of the hidden tenants in #TheSims4 For Rent to appear in the Household Manager, without playing in residential rentals?
Does anyone know if there's a way to make one of the hidden tenants in #TheSims4 For Rent to appear in the Household Manager, without playing in residential rentals?
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Does anyone know if there's a way to make one of the hidden tenants in #TheSims4 For Rent to appear in the Household Manager, without playing in residential rentals?
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This is in one hour and to say I’m “unprepared” is an understatement. We’ll see how it goes!!!
I’ll be joining the shenanigans at 1pm to “stage” a “production” of The Importance of Being Earnest in The Sims 4, which is exactly as unhinged as it sounds.
Please join if that sounds fun! And please be kind and generous to all my participating co-workers as well!
Please join if that sounds fun! And please be kind and generous to all my participating co-workers as well!
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is in one hour and to say I’m “unprepared” is an understatement. We’ll see how it goes!!!
I'm already mentally preparing for this scream...
If I don't get, at least, this far during 2025 I will scream 🫠
The Brights story plans for 2025:
- Louise and Bill are introduced
- Beren gets a partner
- [REDACTED] gets a partner
- Graduation!
- Beren gets a job
- Beren discovers [REDACTED]
- Beren gets [REDACTED]
- Beren gets [REDACTED]
- Beren and [REDACTED] get [REDACTED]
- Beren [REDACTED]
Um... Sorry 😅
- Louise and Bill are introduced
- Beren gets a partner
- [REDACTED] gets a partner
- Graduation!
- Beren gets a job
- Beren discovers [REDACTED]
- Beren gets [REDACTED]
- Beren gets [REDACTED]
- Beren and [REDACTED] get [REDACTED]
- Beren [REDACTED]
Um... Sorry 😅
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'm already mentally preparing for this scream...
"Take a fungus wash in bathroom"...... 😐
Well, that's how I read it until I realised that it says "Take a sponge wash in bathroom"
The word for fungus, mushroom and sponge are the same in Swedish, "svamp"
If you want to be specific, sponge is called "tvättsvamp", where "tvätt" means "wash"
Well, that's how I read it until I realised that it says "Take a sponge wash in bathroom"
The word for fungus, mushroom and sponge are the same in Swedish, "svamp"
If you want to be specific, sponge is called "tvättsvamp", where "tvätt" means "wash"
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Take a fungus wash in bathroom"...... 😐
Well, that's how I read it until I realised that it says "Take a sponge wash in bathroom"
The word for fungus, mushroom and sponge are the same in Swedish, "svamp"
If you want to be specific, sponge is called "tvättsvamp", where "tvätt" means "wash"
Well, that's how I read it until I realised that it says "Take a sponge wash in bathroom"
The word for fungus, mushroom and sponge are the same in Swedish, "svamp"
If you want to be specific, sponge is called "tvättsvamp", where "tvätt" means "wash"
I wish I could turn off Romantic Satisfaction. For some sims there aren't any problems, while for others, even if they're attracted to each other and engage in Romantic interactions, the Romantic Satisfaction just suddenly decides to plummet and it's absolutely impossible to get it to neutral even.
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I wish I could turn off Romantic Satisfaction. For some sims there aren't any problems, while for others, even if they're attracted to each other and engage in Romantic interactions, the Romantic Satisfaction just suddenly decides to plummet and it's absolutely impossible to get it to neutral even.
I want to change my profile picture on The Brights' account, to Beren's Cupid's Corner selfie, but my current picture has both Beren and Melon in it and I literally said yesterday that both Beren AND Melon are main characters... 😅 I also already had another idea of a picture with only Beren in it 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I want to change my profile picture on The Brights' account, to Beren's Cupid's Corner selfie, but my current picture has both Beren and Melon in it and I literally said yesterday that both Beren AND Melon are main characters... 😅 I also already had another idea of a picture with only Beren in it 🤣
Yesterday I finished posting Chapter 45: Main Character Winterlude, and while I have played much more than this, I haven't prepared any more chapters yet
My plan for the rest of this year is to post one more chapter of Brights and one more of Original Ahriman, more if I have time and feel like it
My plan for the rest of this year is to post one more chapter of Brights and one more of Original Ahriman, more if I have time and feel like it
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yesterday I finished posting Chapter 45: Main Character Winterlude, and while I have played much more than this, I haven't prepared any more chapters yet
My plan for the rest of this year is to post one more chapter of Brights and one more of Original Ahriman, more if I have time and feel like it
My plan for the rest of this year is to post one more chapter of Brights and one more of Original Ahriman, more if I have time and feel like it
The best thing about this site is that most simmers who hang out here use logical thinking
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The best thing about this site is that most simmers who hang out here use logical thinking
And, yes, I've already seen one
Well... it's not a disaster townie, but...
(Danny doesn't have Cupid's Corner in the story, so this isn't a spoiler or anything. Plus, Danny is like 12 years older than Beren, so it's a no either way.)
(Danny doesn't have Cupid's Corner in the story, so this isn't a spoiler or anything. Plus, Danny is like 12 years older than Beren, so it's a no either way.)
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
And, yes, I've already seen one
There's definitely a risk for that... 🫠 I'm quite sure that Beren, who's vegetarian, wouldn't want to date someone who decides to pose with a dead fish
what if it’s only fashion disaster townies with fishing pictures 😭😭😭
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
There's definitely a risk for that... 🫠 I'm quite sure that Beren, who's vegetarian, wouldn't want to date someone who decides to pose with a dead fish
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I accidentally gave her too much power
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I accidentally gave her too much power
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Seems nothing major has newly blown up so far (and yes, I'm aware I just jinxed it). Black photos with filters might still be the issue why it's happening. Paintings by ref are just entirely broken. Don't bother making any :D
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Seems nothing major has newly blown up so far (and yes, I'm aware I just jinxed it). Black photos with filters might still be the issue why it's happening. Paintings by ref are just entirely broken. Don't bother making any :D
Okay, it's the Shadow map doing this. I took a shot and made it blank just to test, and now it looks fine in live mode.
Now I need help to figure out why the shadow map is doing weird stuff. I made it in Gimp and it's saved as .dds BC3/DXT5, which is what all guides tell me that it should be.
Now I need help to figure out why the shadow map is doing weird stuff. I made it in Gimp and it's saved as .dds BC3/DXT5, which is what all guides tell me that it should be.
If I make an edit of a Maxis CAS item by changing the mesh and adjusting the diffuse and shadow map accordingly. What did I do wrong if it looks good in CAS but in live mode you can see the mesh lines in black?
#TheSims4
#TheSims4
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Okay, it's the Shadow map doing this. I took a shot and made it blank just to test, and now it looks fine in live mode.
Now I need help to figure out why the shadow map is doing weird stuff. I made it in Gimp and it's saved as .dds BC3/DXT5, which is what all guides tell me that it should be.
Now I need help to figure out why the shadow map is doing weird stuff. I made it in Gimp and it's saved as .dds BC3/DXT5, which is what all guides tell me that it should be.
I read that playing the "Woo Who!?" game that came with Lovestruck can increase the Romance Bar with the sims you play with. Is this always the case? I wanted to have six sims play it together, because it seemed like a fun game, but now I worry that it will end with crushes and jealousy
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I read that playing the "Woo Who!?" game that came with Lovestruck can increase the Romance Bar with the sims you play with. Is this always the case? I wanted to have six sims play it together, because it seemed like a fun game, but now I worry that it will end with crushes and jealousy
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Bonnie wants that cookie and she's not giving up
November 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Bonnie wants that cookie and she's not giving up
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Pixel has found where they belong, and they're now Pixel the Happy Bear.
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵
November 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Pixel has found where they belong, and they're now Pixel the Happy Bear.
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵
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Penguin: Sim kids can't be trusted. They are your best friend only for a while and then they get tired of you. Sometimes they get a cooler toy, and sometimes they just grow up.
November 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Penguin: Sim kids can't be trusted. They are your best friend only for a while and then they get tired of you. Sometimes they get a cooler toy, and sometimes they just grow up.
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Bunny: Hey there! Do you want to join our tea party?
November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Bunny: Hey there! Do you want to join our tea party?
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𝓮𝓹𝓲𝓵𝓸𝓰𝓾𝓮
Pixel felt really lonely, but they have also lost their faith in sim children, so maybe it's better to be left alone in this weirdly pink place. But wait, what's that?
Pixel felt really lonely, but they have also lost their faith in sim children, so maybe it's better to be left alone in this weirdly pink place. But wait, what's that?
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
𝓮𝓹𝓲𝓵𝓸𝓰𝓾𝓮
Pixel felt really lonely, but they have also lost their faith in sim children, so maybe it's better to be left alone in this weirdly pink place. But wait, what's that?
Pixel felt really lonely, but they have also lost their faith in sim children, so maybe it's better to be left alone in this weirdly pink place. But wait, what's that?
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Pixel the Sad Bear was left all alone in this strange place waiting for someone to find them and play with them.
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Pixel the Sad Bear was left all alone in this strange place waiting for someone to find them and play with them.
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭
𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭
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Pixel: Oh no, I don't like this.
Smash: Hähähää, we are going to only play with the New Cool Toy from now on. Stupid Pixel Bear, why are you so sad?
Bash: This is the last hug you'll ever get! No one's going to find you from here!
Smash: Come on sis, let's go.
Smash: Hähähää, we are going to only play with the New Cool Toy from now on. Stupid Pixel Bear, why are you so sad?
Bash: This is the last hug you'll ever get! No one's going to find you from here!
Smash: Come on sis, let's go.
November 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Pixel: Oh no, I don't like this.
Smash: Hähähää, we are going to only play with the New Cool Toy from now on. Stupid Pixel Bear, why are you so sad?
Bash: This is the last hug you'll ever get! No one's going to find you from here!
Smash: Come on sis, let's go.
Smash: Hähähää, we are going to only play with the New Cool Toy from now on. Stupid Pixel Bear, why are you so sad?
Bash: This is the last hug you'll ever get! No one's going to find you from here!
Smash: Come on sis, let's go.