These Guys Have Always Been Super Kind And Answered All Kinds Of Dumbass Questions/pleas For Support

These guys have always been super kind and answered all kinds of dumbass questions/pleas for support from me. Be kind and appreciate them damnit!

Sims 4, Mods/CC, & Our Support Efforts

I’m disappointed to have found out someone doing YT streams said they got “bad support” during a visit to MCCC’s Support Discord.  

For help with lastExceptions, which at least 95% of the time have nothing to do with MCCC, but are almost always either mod, cc, or even EA related, we consistently give players the same (50/50) advice as is outlined by Deaderpool here:    https://deaderpoolmc.tumblr.com/help/troubleshooting

I guess the Real issue is probably that the only way to turn off the orange error messages is to go through all your /Mods folder and either update, verify, or delete (now bad) mods and cc files.  

Or, you can choose not to install MC Command Center, or WickedWhims, which also has error catching.  You’ll still GET plenty of errors if you don’t weed out your stuff, you just won’t know it, unless your game locks up, until you actually look for those text files in /Sims 4.  

It amuses me that people have plenty of time to FIND mods and cc, but they don’t also TAKE time to read the directions/descriptions, or to check either file dates/versions or comments, before installing a possibly-already-broken file.  And that when they later have problems, and come to us for help, if we tell them, “go thru your files,” they say they don’t have time to 50/50 so many.  That is not OUR fault.  The “fix it” process is the same, whether you have 2 files in /Mods, or 20,000.

EA changes something every time they patch, and every patch is a new chance for them to destroy your favorite piece of cc or mod.  That’s just how it is.  

If you aren’t willing to do the ongoing upkeep on your mods and cc, and take the initiative to check for updates following any EA patch, you should not use them.  Although playing vanilla is also not guaranteed to be exception-free.  EA has broken several of their own things, recently.  

We on the Support Team are all volunteers, and the only scripting expert on the server I’m aware of is Deaderpool.  The rest of us are being nice enough to offer our time to help with various other not-MCCC errors in the #general_support channel.  https://discord.gg/BSmzBdQ

Sometimes we get lucky, and a mod or cc file is listed by name in an error message.  Sometimes we’ve seen the same error before, and just know what causes it.  Mostly, it’s a little more guesswork, trial and error, and requires the player to do some testing.  How is our not being able to wave a magic wand and instantly fix YOUR issues “bad support”??  

Don’t disrespect my Team.  Not on the server, and not anywhere else.  

We really don’t mind to help anybody who can be decent to us, it’s people who are disrespectful or downright hateful to us, or who trash us elsewhere, that I have a problem with.  If you’re willing to accept our advice and suggestions, stop by anytime.  If you aren’t… don’t.  It’s that simple.

I’d like to wish all players Good Luck with the pets patch.  I have a feeling we’ll ALL have a lot of broken things to deal with when that comes out.  If you don’t know how to maintain your files, I’d start Googling now for more info on that.  

Knowledge is power.

Once more for old time’s sake

🔥 With your help, we passed Title II net neutrality protections. Now we need to defend it.🔥

On December 14 the FCC will vote on Commissioner Pai’s plan to repeal Title II rules. This week he tried to justify that decision with a “myth busting” explainer where he makes a lot of sweeping claims he doesn’t think you’ll fact check. 

So let’s go through his big points:

❌ Mr. Pai claims ISPs won’t block access or throttle content

These are the real facts. Before Title II, the internet was so “free and open” that… 

Comcast blocked P2P file sharing services (EFF).

AT&T blocked Skype from iPhones (Fortune) and, later, wanted FaceTime users to pay for a more expensive plan (Freepress).

MetroPCS blocked all streaming video except YouTube (Wired).

In today’s media market where the same huge companies make and deliver content, Commissioner Pai wants us to trust that corporations won’t use their dominance to bury competitive content or services. 

❌ Mr. Pai claims Title II keeps ISPs from building new networks

Here’s another claim Commissioner Pai doesn’t want you to fact check, but:

AT&T’s own CEO told investors that the company would deploy more fiber optic networks in 2016 than 2015 when the FCC passed Title II protections (Investor call transcript). 

Charter’s CEO said “Title II, it didn’t really hurt us; it hasn’t hurt us” (Ars Technica).  

And Comcast actually increased investment in their network by 10% in Q1 of this year (Ars). 

❌ Mr. Pai claims repealing Title II won’t hurt competition

As we mentioned above, ISPs tried to interfere with the services their customers could access and courts had to step in to stop them.

The FCC tried to craft net neutrality rules in 2010 called the Open Internet Order but the ISPs sued and won. The courts told the FCC that the only way to guarantee a free and open internet was using their Title II authority. Without those protections, any of these things would be legal:

Your ISP launches a streaming video service and starts throttling other streaming services until they’re unusable.

Your phone company cuts a deal with a popular music streaming service so it doesn’t count towards your data cap but lowers your overall data limit. If a better service comes along (or your favorite artist releases new tracks somewhere else) you can’t use it without incurring huge data fees.

A billionaire buys your ISP and blocks access to news sites that challenge their ideology. 

Repealing Title II would be like letting a car company own the roads and banning a competitor from the highways.

❌ Mr. Pai claims there won’t be fast lanes and slow lanes

Let’s break this down: We won’t have fast lanes and slow lanes, we’ll have “priority access” and…non-priority access? Well gosh.

🚨 Please help us protect Title II one more time! 🚨

This week we co-signed a letter with more than 300 other companies—businesses Mr. Pai gleefully ignores—urging the FCC to retain the Title II internet protections. Now we need you.

Go to 👉 Battle For The Net 👈  to start a call with your representatives in Congress. Tell them to publicly support Title II protections. 

The FCC votes on December 14.

We’re only powerful when we work together.

Oh, also: that post about automatically unfollowing the #net neutrality tag—it’s not true. It’s really not. That’s not who we are. Whatever happened, we haven’t been able to reproduce it. We tried. A lot.

But if it were true—which it’s not, we feel compelled to say again—THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and demand a free, open, and neutral internet.

We can do this one more time, guys! ❤️

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Spread the word and #GetCovered.

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Hypocrisy in the Sims Community

I know basically only porn accounts follow me, but I have to write my frustration out somewhere. As any simblr knows, stealing and crediting creators is a hot button issue in the community. There’s long detailed posts about why stealing is bad, how it hurts creators, blah blah blah. But then there’s this huge glaring issue none of them seem too bothered about. Many creators steal artists work and don’t bother crediting them, and put it behind pay walls, which is illegal. I see so many artists work from society6 on here with no credit, or credit given to “society6″.

 Society6 is just a marketplace for individual artists to sell their work. The artist holds the copyright, not society6 or any other type of website. And if you’re putting their work behind adfly, or on patreon, that is illegal. It just blows my mind how many in the sims community can feel such righteous indignation when their work ends up somewhere else, and feel so blase using artists work in recolors, meshes, and edits. I guess my point to everyone is, before you throw stones, make sure you don’t live in a glass house.