Ultimate Play The Game (A Sims 3 Tribute To The Isometric Pioneers)
To commemorate the greatest pioneers of computer gaming of all time, Tim and Chris Stamper, whose Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd (better known as Ultimate: Play The Game) revolutionised home computer games, in particular setting the standard for all future isometric game and thus ultimately (excuse the pun!) the Sims series.
A collection of nine t-shirts, twelve poster pictures, twelve murals, twelve large CB rugs and twelve ‘legacy’ rugs featuring various motifs from their artwork over the years, all available to enjoy in your Sims 3 game.
T-shirts will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, the large rugs use a mesh created with many thanks from Baufive at b5 Studio, and the smaller ‘legacy’ rugs use a mesh by Cliosims3, soyou do not need any stuff packs for any of these to work – it’s all base game friendly.
Finally, please also find some arcade games done in the liveries of Ultimate’s classic games (as the Stamper brothers came from the arcade game programming industry to revolutionise home computer gaming, it’s sort of apt). Remember that you must have the Late Night Expansion Pack for these to work!
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Happy Birthday To Jazz-Hands – Year Two Complete
There’s been a lot of talk about people leaving the Sims community, blogs and websites like Missing Studios or Jud Hudson from Sims Programs moving onto other games because the game is ‘boring’, ‘old hat’, or ‘not what it used to be’, all that crap.
The same stuff you will remember hearing from Aarin and her disciples Chyla, Subucni, Sabsyrina, Mcrashlee, Livebybooks, VintageLydia, and all of the rest of that lot who ‘moved on’ to other things in 2010 leaving our namesake to sink…
…and came sneaking back in various guises in 2011 or 2012, when their latest ‘this is where it is at’ proved just another fad.
(Which they failed to stick out either)
If you don’t stick at anything, and have to follow whatever the leader or the herd says is ‘in’ for your kicks, you’ll always spend your life growing quickly bored.
Better to be disciplined than a disciple.
When will Jazz-Hands give up on Simming?
Haily Farber’s Search For Spiritual Truth With Foamy The Squirrel As Part Of A Nutritious Breakfast
‘Good evening. It has come to my attention that tonight’s download concerns items pertaining to that most marvellous creation of 21st century, the comic strip and cartoon Neurotically Yours by Jonathan Ian Mathers.’
‘I know what some of you out there are thinking already, yeah so wut, anuthur load of t-shirts, posters, murals and shiz from those Jazz-Hands wackjobs. Well this isn’t just another download for your game. This is important. So important, it may just save your life.’
‘Foamy is the greatest living being in the history of civilisation. Without Foamy, you are nothing! Since you’re not Foamy, you ARE nothing! The only way for you to atone for your lack of Foaminess is to sign over all your worldly possessions and your body to the Foamy Card Cult and agree to allow him to do whatever unspeakable things your Lord and Squirrely Master deems fit to do with your unworthy carcass.’
‘Every ideology, philosophy and religion in the history of the world has brought ultimately nothing but ignorance, regression and misery to all lifeforms with their empty promises and false teachings. This is the inevitable failing of any system of belief that does not have centre to its core the signing over of yourself body, mind, soul and especially bank account and all real estate to Foamy.’
‘Only through Foamy can you be saved. Only through Foamy can you find everlasting bliss in the catharsis of his Squirrely Wrath. Foamy rants for you daily about the f**king stupidity, lame-assery and nut-suckery of everyone and why a nuclear holocaust and a billion pandemics are too good for us, so you may know his Will and be at peace. Only through Foamy can you be taken to a creamy-cheese-cheesy cream paradise for all eternity. Or at least he can, with all your money and the profits from your real estate and selling your carcasses for scientific experiments after pimping them to Anchovie for ten bucks for whatever deprativity he sees fit (five bucks surcharge if an ultra-depravity).’
‘Anyone who fails to accept Foamy as their Lord and Master will incur his Squirrely wrath, and furthurmore I will come round to your house and fist-f**k you in your f**king f**kface with your own severed limbs! Got that?’
‘If you realise that deep down you are unworthy to bring Foamy into your life and should probably just go and fling yourself in the bathtub with the toaster plugged in (unless you’ve some other weird plans with the toaster in the bathtub if you’re Anchovie), you can still atone for your biological deformity that makes you unable to comprehend his awesomecreamycheeseness by buying his cereal.’
‘Here is Hazel Tyneham to demonstrate why Neurotically Cereals is the cornerstone of a nutritious breakfast.’
‘Sorry? Haily, did you say something?’
‘You’re going to demonstrate why Neurotically Cereals is the cornerstone of a nutritious breakfast.’
‘Am I?’
‘It takes the milk and bowl out from the fridge. It puts the cereal in the bowl, or it gets the hose again!’
‘Hmmph! It takes the bowl of Figwit and goes elsewhere to have one’s breakfast in peace whilst Haily’s having one of her funny turns!’
‘Bitch! You wait until I get you in the showers later!’
‘Oh wait, here’s Willow who is going to help instead. ‘It takes the milk and bowl out from the fridge. It puts the cereal in the bowl…’
‘No it doesn’t, you giglet!’
‘Put the cereal in the f**king bowl! Wait! Come back! It’s got nine essential drugs and medicated babies heads, and there’s a free Porn Tart inside every box!’
‘Cease your vexations, for even if I wanted to eat that kibble there’s nothing left in any of the boxes as you use them for midnight snacks whilst watching The Snuff Channel, you uerteþ pipkin!’
‘Er, which is proof why Neurotically Cereals should be part of your daily diet as it’s made me the Simmie I am today!’
‘If that doesn’t put them off, nothing will!’
‘Can it, Willow – or you’ll be farting Figwit flakes and milk for the rest of the week!’
‘So dear Simmers, please download the Neurotically Yours Sims 3 custom content pack of t-shirts, hooded tops, poster pictures, murals and breakfast cereal and give your Simmies a treat they will love and cherish forever. Or be unable to walk properly and sit down at all for a month. Remember, I only do it because I love you!’
Neurotically Yours (Foamy The Squirrel)
A collection of twenty T-shirts and a set of hooded tops featuring various motifs from the comic and webcartoon (plus some fan created ones) over the years.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
There’s no Teen Male hooded top with the basic pack, and there’s no Teen Male Tracksuit top instead this time – it looked stupid.
Okay, more stupid than usual.
Please also find a collection of twenty five poster pictures and ten murals available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli and the wall sized murals use a mesh which comes once again with many thanks from Helen-Sims, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
Please also find a Neurotically Cereals breakfast cereal box as decor for your Sims 3 game. This uses a mesh by RainNCandy and Charmaine from the now sadly defunct Sweet Ambrosia blog (folded February 2011)
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Or else Foamy will come and get you! Remember, it’s only 119 days to Ninja Christmas.
Alesko Exitman (T-Shirts, Picture Posters, Murals And Rugs)
A collection of ten t-shirts, twenty-five poster pictures, twelve murals and ten rugs featuring various motifs from his artwork over the years, all available to enjoy in your Sims 3 game.
The t-shirts will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults. All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli and the wall sized murals use a mesh which comes once again with many thanks from Helen-Sims.
The rugs use a mesh created with many thanks from Baufive at b5 Studio.
You do not need any expansion or stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should all show up.
Enjoy!
If anyone would like to have any of this very talented artist’s real life t-shirts, pictures, greetings cards, iPhone/iPod skins or whatever, you can do so at his boutique here. Treat yourself and help keep an artist to do what he loves best.
‘Rah-Rah-Rah, We’re Going To Smash The Oiks!’
Three t-shirts for those of you still celebrating Great Britain’s good fortune in what you will only have missed if you were living on Mars the last fortnight.
For Young Adult and Adult (if there’s enough interest will do them for teens), both sexes of course (duh!).
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Just this once, there’s a Sims3Pack format included as well.
Enjoy!
Trio And Stephan Remmler (‘Da Da Da’)
A collection of Trio and Stephan Remmler t-shirts featuring various motifs from their artwork over the years.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find a collection of five poster pictures available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
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Trio were a fun little oddball part of pop music history, formed by Stephan Remmler, probably better known today as the narrator of the famous John Williams recording of Peter And The Wolf played to many young children in school in music lessons.
In the early 1980s, synthesisers, lavish 48-track studio production records and bombastic stadium rock concerts ruled supreme. But over in Germany, three citizens of the small town of Großenkneten decided to blow an enormous raspberry to the likes of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and The Scorpions with what they called Neue Deutsche Fröhlichkeit (New German Happiness).
Trio felt the new tech had resulted in pop music and musicians taking themselves far too seriously. There was nothing wrong with innovations, but there was also nothing wrong with using it to make simple tunes anyone could play at home or in their local beerhall.
In 1982, they scored a surprise worldwide smash with the song ‘Da Da Da’ – and proved their point.
Much of the song used the beatbox and basic notes from a Casio VLT-1 mini synthesiser, really a child’s toy cheap enough for anyone to buy.
To give you an idea of the impact of the song, on Thursday 7th July 1982, Trio debuted on Top Of The Pops (at that time the biggest music programme on British TV), as their song had crept up to No.30 in the chart.
By the time most British high street shops had closed on Saturday, most had sold out of whatever Casio mini-synths they had in stock. ‘Da Da Da’ peaked at No.2 (kept off No.1 by the theme tune of that year’s major fad, Fame – a sort of demo version of Glee ). Similar stories happened across the globe.
Being native German speakers, most of their major hits after were confined to the German, Austrian and Swiss charts, ‘Anna – Let Me In, Let Me Out’, ‘Boom Boom’, ‘Hearts Are Trump’, and the Christmas song ‘Tooraaloora (Is It Old And Is It New?)’, although their cover of ‘Tutti Frutti’ gave them another hit in other nations.
After only two years, after an ill-advised foray in a comedy movie, the band split feeling Trio had run its course.
Stephan Remmler continued to have success as a solo artist, his biggest hits being ‘Alles hat ein Ende (nur die Wurst hat zwei)’ – which translated means ‘Everything Has An End (But Only The Sausage Has Two)’! – ‘Drei weiße Birrrken’ (with Status Quo), and the biggest of all, ‘Keine Sterne in Athen’ (No Stars In Athens) – about a man refusing to go on holiday to Greece because of smog!
Re-recorded in English as ‘I Don’t Go To U.S.A.’ for one last hit in a few English speaking countries (in this version he’s refusing to go on holiday there because ‘too many cars, too many people’ ), and included a reprise of the famous drumbeat from ‘Da Da Da’ at the middle eight break.
Stephan Remmler has refused to ever reform Trio, not wanting to spoil the good memories of those who still remembered them. Quite right too.
During the 1990s, Remmler disappeared from public view as he took a break from the music world to bring up his three children full time. Rumours abounded as to the real reason for his break. Upon the release of the film Saving Private Ryan in 1998, during the internet bulletin board debates over whether the character ‘Steamboat Willie’ (Joerg Stadler) was also the soldier who killed Mellish in the knife fight because Upham was too cowardly to stop him, one joker began the rumour that it had been that man that sang ‘Da Da Da’. The internet being the internet, some fell for it! Stephan Remmler would no doubt have approved.
Nicht nicht nicht und nicht nicht nicht – a-ha!
Sunset Murals
A collection of six murals available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The wall sized murals use a mesh which comes with many thanks from Helen-Sims, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Game Of Thrones: House Banner Tapestries
Please find a collection of twenty tapestries using motifs from Game Of Thrones available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
They use a mesh with many thanks by TheNinthWave so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Two t-shirt motifs for all those with an unquenchable love for a certain SimGuru.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find three poster pictures available for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
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