I'm about to play The Sims 2 again and I wanted to give a try creating a custom neighborhood as I always like creating things. The only thing I got idea of is just the sort of community lots I want to make as well as which the few I want as Sim-owned business.

How do you planned out your Sims to make them feel like an individual in the way that they don't feel like a same person. Anytime I create a Sim, they feel generic or a Mary-Sue.

At best, I have toyed around with it and it's mostly messing around with effects plugin on Soundtrap mostly for fun. Other than that, I don't know how to exactly make a good beat.

Also does people still use LMMS as I mostly use Linux instead of Windows?

I set myself a goal this year to try head to therapy as well as go to more social events. So far, so good. I did notice that I feel much happier and less depressed but for some reasons, it feels strange. Either I shouldn't be happy as the world is still a mess or that my happiness is only going to last for so long until I go back being mostly depressed and unoptimistic.

I just want to feel alive and not having my mental health restrict me from wanting to do various stuff. For the past month, I repaired a iPod, did couple sewing project and slowly become more sociable where I'm otherwise too scared to say anything. I'm still have social anxiety but it's not as terrible as it used to be and I'm slowly facing my fears.

Maybe I'm just scared that I'm putting a lot of effort to try improve my wellbeing that if I slip back, I feel like it's a wasted effort that I had put in.

I will confess, I'm not that great at grammar. Mainly, I'm the sort of person that write/type stuff as I am thinking it and barely look back at what I have wrote. I see it as that it's online and it's as informal as it gets. As long as it is readable, it shouldn't matter if it not 100% perfect.

With that said: majority of the time, I swear that they can just make out roughly what I am trying to saying. I will understand it more if my grammar for a message was so bad that they can't make out what I'm trying to say. Otherwise, I just felt kinda bullied and mocked for having bad grammar skills.

As ridiculous as it sounds, it makes me so self-conscious and paranoid to post anything and it can even be as simple as making a reply on a post. Internet is a brutal place but so is real-life. The only difference is that I would just block them which I know is little petty but I think that it would be better than me snapping at strangers online. My patience is thin and I just get sick of having people in my life just getting angry at me as well as I feel like a punchline to a joke.

One of the things I want to do is try make art prints and learn to sew. Another thing I got is trying to learn Graphics Design software for Linux like Scribus and GIMP which I know there's always a video tutorial online for them.

It's a late "Happy New Year" post but I hope the new year goes well for everyone, or at the very least, you done something you wanted to achieve!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55526923

They told me student interest in college radio has dramatically increased in recent years. Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now turning people away, shortening shows, alternating time slots, and running training programs just to keep up with the demand from aspiring student DJs.

[..]

“I’m 21. I grew up in the age of algorithms. The way music is right now scares me because of the rise of AI. Not even AI made music (I hate it) but even just ‘Daily Mix, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5.’ It’s not made by someone. It’s made by an algorithm. I wish more of that stuff was person curated.”—Mari McLaughlin, WHRW (Binghamton)

This really spoke to me. I feel like a product with the algorithm suggestion which even on Spotify, it's so hit and miss. It feels like it suggest me to listen to an aleardy popular music or music that's optimise to be used on a TikTok video.

I brought an MP3 Player like an year ago as:

• to conserve battery life on my phone
• Google Pixel didn't have MircoSD slot or headphone jack without use of headphone USB-C dongle

So I look around for any good second-hand MP3 players which I did look at the iPods because of DankPod's video which he often mods the iPod. I did tried to mod it but it was annoying to do and I have ended up damaging it which is easy to do when you are trying to mod the iPod to use an SD-Card adapter instead of the hard drive which no longer works. Instead of doing a second try and buying another iPod which can cost around £30-60 depending on the model in question, I just brought a SanDisk's Sansa Clip Zip which has MircoSD slot and also can have Rockbox flashed. I mainly have Rockbox just for the themes and last.fm Scrobble plugin. It's bit clunky the menus but you do get used to it and it has a lot of options in the settings which I recommend reading the manuals on their website about it.

My experience with it is that I used my phone less for listening to music has I have more storage for my .flac music library. It hasn't replaced any of the music streaming services for me as I used two of them for different purposes. For my MP3 Player, it's music I already owned and at least liked the song so I got an album if I have already got it and streaming services to discover music I hadn't listen to or got just yet.

For contexts, I have sensory issues with foods where I find it difficult to encourage myself eating as much of the variety. My diet isn't exactly healthy and it tends to be processed food I eat which is often my 'Safe Food' as it doesn't have a terrible taste and textures for me. Not the best but it's okay-ish where I at least I have ate something rather than have nothing at all.

I want to try break that habit so I can try to be healthier as well as not worried about eating food with other people beside my family. Hoping it means I will reduce spending money on takeaways as it does eats my money as well.

I have been trying to think of some stuff to post and also how to keep the momentum going to make it remain active. One of the things I do want to say as it's a rough idea and this has not been fully thought out as I want to know IF there's enough people that do want to do it either weekly/monthly basis, what the sort of topics they want to discuss or be more a causal drop-in chat.

If you interested in any of the two, please let me know which one you prefer. Any feedback and suggestion, as long as it is constructive, is welcome! I want to make this community not just what I want to see but also other people want to see on the Gen-Z Community as well.

That being said, I want to thanks everyone who joined this community, even ones that interact with post and leaving a comment. It's less then a week that I made this community and already, I'm seeing it being quite active. I hope that I can keep the momentum going and see it grow to be so much more beautiful!

::: spoiler Tangent on trying to make a poll post
I tried making the Poll post and selected Sticky assuming it would pin the post. Half-hour later, I checked on my phone for any updates but oddly didn't show the post on my app. I removed the post and just remade it but in a text format instead of poll and leave Sticky option alone. I have a feeling it might be that but I need to read PieFed's wiki instead of assuming just because I tried Lemmy.
:::

I tried to watched the video last night but it was very hard-hitting as someone with depression and who's occasionally suicidal, I had to stop around 10 minutes as it was getting too much that ChatGPT kept encouraging people to be self-destructive.

It's been awhile since I last brought a CD and it was Meteora by Linkin Park. I'm very late when it comes with listening to music, flim and TV-Shows in general but I did really enjoy that album so much and need to listen more to their music. Feel free to suggest me some music from theirs to check out. There's something nice about actually owning the physical media instead on hoping various streaming services wouldn't have them removed. I tend to rip my CDs and store them in .flac format which is little overkill but I see it as if I want to play it on my phone, I can convert it to .mp3 to save storage on my phone which I can hear the difference if I'm focusing on the drums but otherwise, it's does the job done and sound alright.

One of my favourite things about collecting physical media in general is bonus content, even if it meh at best. For example, 'Oops... I Did It Again' is 'enhanced CD' which has wallpaper, crappy Flash screensaver for Windows and highly compressed Lucky music video. For DVD version of Tomb Raider, there's demo for Tomb Raider Chronicles.

I been looking for a decent PS2 Controller for a while as I brought the cheap third-party controller which wasn't nice. Red is one of my favourite colour so seeing it on eBay made me really happy and I know I wanted it.

One of the Mac computer is my favourite looking transparent tech which screams Y2K

Gen-Z Commuity's link
![email protected]

Threadverse community for GenZ where we talk about our nostalgia and anything related to our generation. It's an alternative to r/GenZ which:

1. It's on Reddit
2. The subreddit in question is badly moderated and full of bigots and assholes

So instead of me trying to tolerate it, I will try "be the change that I want to see" and try run the community that's both friendly and also is on a decentralised network to avoid any Enshittification.

I have only just made the community today and these are the rules. Any feedback is welcome as long as it is constructive.

Rules

1. No bigotry

This includes queerphobia, racism, sexism, ableism etc.

2. Be Kind

Try to be friendly as possible. If that person you believe is breaking the rule or just being rude, please report them and we will handle it.

3. No Generation-Bashing/Superiority

Anything that says a specific generation is better or bad is not welcome. It's a weird thing to be elitist about anyway.

4. No schadenfreude

Schadenfreude means taking happiness from the misfortune of people. People who are bigots or a total asshole also counts.

5. No NSFW subject/post

Anything sexual in nature, gore is off-limits.

Gen-Z Commuity's link
![email protected]

Threadverse community for GenZ where we talk about our nostalgia and anything related to our generation. It's an alternative to r/GenZ which:

1. It's on Reddit
2. The subreddit in question is badly moderated and full of bigots and assholes

So instead of me trying to tolerate it, I will try "be the change that I want to see" and try run the community that's both friendly and also is on a decentralised network to avoid any Enshittification.

I have only just made the community today and these are the rules. Any feedback is welcome as long as it is constructive.

Rules

1. No bigotry

This includes queerphobia, racism, sexism, ableism etc.

2. Be Kind

Try to be friendly as possible. If that person you believe is breaking the rule or just being rude, please report them and we will handle it.

3. No Generation-Bashing/Superiority

Anything that says a specific generation is better or bad is not welcome. It's a weird thing to be elitist about anyway.

4. No schadenfreude

Schadenfreude means taking happiness from the misfortune of people. People who are bigots or a total asshole also counts.

5. No NSFW subject/post

Anything sexual in nature, gore is off-limits.

I used to play alot on the PlayStation 3 which I love playing Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. One of my favourite character is BD Joe which I love how happy he is and wish I could be like him. My parent notice I love playing as him and brought Crazy Taxi on PS3 which not the best port ever but it made me into bit of retro-gaming as well as have music taste in some rock/punk music.