u/angeyberry

Yeah it's a big bummer. My advice is, if you still want to play the pack, is to use a mix of MCCC and UI Cheats (mods) to get the degree / remove suspension after doing the classes. You'll get an F anyway but pretend like your work matters lol.

Unfortunately, even using MCCC to change the way grades work doesn't fix the bug (I tried) so you kinda just have to go with it :(. I think maybe in theory downloading any education mods that change how university grades work might fix the bug? by virtue of whatever code is causing the bug not being used anymore. But that's just a theory.

This is a known bug. If you're doing everything right (good mood, going to class, doing assignments) and you're automatically getting F's and suspended, then it's this particular bug. Unsure why it happens but the only solution seems to just be making a brand new save or cheating the degree (you can't cheat to change the grade, because the bug is changing your grade to 0 right when the grades are due. So you go from 100 to 0, thus meaning an F). As far as I know, the bug persists throughout the save (so if you enroll a different sim, they will 100% have this bug happen to them, but I never tried that).

It's been happening since University released unfortunately so I doubt it's gonna be fixed. I think someone made a temp fix online but it's been a hot minute since I had to fix it myself so I don't remember.

People can tell you? I'd sure as shit be pissed if my friend knew someone was drawing porn of me and they didn't tell me so I could tell them off.

A real person's feelings and consent should not be sidelined because you want to get your rocks off to them.

If I knew someone was making porn of me even after I told them not to, despite not seeing the porn in question directly, then I would still be uncomfortable and feel like a major boundary has been crossed. Celebrity or not, we still have rights to certain aspects of privacy.

Adding fuel to this: Jaiden is asexual. They have explicitly come out and drawn this line. They have said the existence of it makes them uncomfortable and ask people to stop doing it. Just because she isn't looking and is well-known doesn't mean her own personal feelings don't matter anymore. Sure, it's impossible for it all to be gone or stopped because there'll always be people who don't see Jaiden as a person (or women in general) and thus have no rights. But if you have some sense of decorum or empathy, you'd stop drawing porn of someone who doesn't want porn to be made of them.

This too.

I am probably very biased, because everyone I know who likes RPF, has done this. I don't have the best sample size. Still, the thought of it makes me uncomfortable, but again, to each their own.

Oh you got a point there.

Had one of my PC's friends do this sort of thing: always saw them hanging out with a kid and thought "that's cute, they're related".

The DAY AFTER he became an adult, I notice there's a new wedding. Between him and the friend, who was 17 y/o.

So.

That was interesting. I wish I could fight people in this game.

I think there's a difference between "I think freedom of fiction should have no bar" and "That sort of fiction makes me wildly uncomfortable".

I don't like scat and vore. I despise it, actually, and get sick even briefly seeing it. However, just because I don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

I have the same opinion of RPF. I think it's really freaky and it makes me uncomfortable. I am personally against it and think some people take it way too far (sending their rpf to the other person in question, making rpf of non-famous people (like their sister or their friend)) but at the same time I don't think it necessarily needs to be censored completely. I think people just need decorum and/or therapy (the later @ the "i'm going to send smut i wrote of me and person fucking to person").

Jaiden isn't fictional. She's a real person.

That's okay; what you're describing was actually the second wave.

I hadn't actually talked in the discord for a hot second so I went looking: yeah, it seems like on the reddit they're very pro-AI especially with mods and on the discord they're very anti-AI.

Max-level HOH also looks quite different from base HOH.

It was very explicitly a comic about the use of AI in the modding community?? Like that was the whole point.

Yup.

i'm blind as fuck so i didn't realize you had a phone override and went through all the screenshots like "these are all apps for like 10 different mods how did you get this far"

Yeah this lol

Also I didn't think it had to be said, but: of fucking course I don't do this in my dailies? I just said I like to do it. Not that I'm forcing people to do it with me. I only subject my friends to that hell.

well shit nevermind

I'd only seen the gendered ones and I guess I only remembered them because I was annoyed I couldn't wear them (male chara).

Yeah. I was agreeing with you.

I am the weirdo who loves to stroll through dungeons, even ones I've done before. The set design and worldbuilding in this game is beautiful.

I do not extend this to Prae.

And heaven forbid a Tank mitigate damage.

I think it's "meant" to be a cosplay thing (a lot of the other collab clothing is gendered, i think only Cloud/Squall/the subscription time clothing are not gendered) but also it's annoying as fuck and confusing besides.

Oh ive been avoiding the orgasming ones damnit

Indeed. I like it! I downloaded a powerpole mod and because of EM, I do have to use it. Instead of just tossing down some underground wires, I have to think about where the power goes. I have to make my walls out of wood or stone because steel is much too valuable.

It is also annoying as fuck especially with a gravship start. I can't do much of anything because I don't have advanced materials. Currently I'm trying to build a gravship for my current group but I need a ton of aluminum for it. I also make it more difficult on myself by not using wood/stone for a gravship's walls because that doesn't make much sense in my mind (I've been using sky steel from the Alpha team because that's much more common in my game).

Somewhat of a resource sink, kind of: Expanded Metals. I both love and hate this. It makes steel extremely hard to come by - you have to refine it from iron.

Tell you what, it forces me to use wood and stone for a lot of things. I can't build a fancy sci-fi base in a day because I've bought out all of the steel from every single trader the past season and only one of my guys knows how to make steel. And somehow he keeps fucking failing at refining iron into it. With steel being required for so many things, it certainly slows things down a lot.

Alternatively, though I haven't used it in a hot minute, I know the whole point of Sparkling Worlds is end-game additions. It adds a lot of Glitterworld-type stuff and, subsequently, requires a fuckton of resources.

Non-mod wise: fuck it, make paradise. Make multiple gravships. Colonize space. Give each pawn a large mansion complete with several rooms. Make a museum of your acomplishments. Piss off the Empire. Destroy the Empire. Raze the planet. You'll certainly be needing supplies once you start eliminating pirates across the Rim.

Like everyone said, but I did want to point out that they eventually stopped having long plot cutscenes before a boss. I think the last time I ever saw smth like that was Heavensward? And the final boss of HW is really unique, so it makes sense.