Sims 3 Store Content Skill Fix (Artisan/Violin/Etc)

Is your sim making a dancing glass gnome one minute, and then just standing in front of the glass blowing station awkwardly the next? What about the giant white cube that comes out of nowhere and englufs your sims's head? Or maybe you've had him/her skritching away at the Fit as a Fiddle for hours, but it still sounds like a cat being murdered, and all the threads about this problem say the skill doesn't improve until you stop playing, but yours just isn't improving period. Bottom line, your store content is malfunctioning.

Undoubtedly, you've been sent to Nona's ccmerged recovery page, you can probably recite the URL backwards, but the fact that everyone around you insists your problem is your out of date DCCacheBackup (or whatever it's called) doesn't seem to change the fact that "updating" ccmerged.package is not solving the problem. And no, uninstalling your mods probably isn't going to help either.

What most forums don't tell you up front and it took me forever to wade through the trolls to find is

YOUR CCMERGED.PACKAGE SHOULD BE IN BOTH YOUR CACHE BACKUP AND YOUR MODS>OVERRIDES FOLDER

Yes, this solved the problem for me. The icons for the artisan and violin skill aren't there, but when I go into master controller, under Advanced>Skill Level, I can adjust it just like any other now. And I highly suspect for the same reason, my sim can now smelt metals without a hitch. I don't know if this will fix the giant cube problem since I downloaded a different fix beforehand that got rid of the missing object but still had the interaction cancelling, but copying your ccmerged into your mods folder I think will probably fix that too. I always wondered how putting something in your backup folder would fix the actual gameplay; well there's your answer: maybe it does a little, but when in doubt, route through overrides.

Hoped this made this key bit of information more readily available. Happy Simming!

Second Creation before Photoshop Free Trial Expires

I still envy those who can actually draw, but it did take me two whole days of my summer vacation to make this, and I think it turned out very well. Unlike the last post, there actually is intent behind it further than "just weird for the sake of weird" which is the reason for so much effort. The piece is called Pomegranate Purity.

Dipping my toe into Dada

I think by now we've established this is just my art and random crap blog. So... here's my art that is also random and arguably complete crap.

This was really just as much about learning to use Photoshop as trying to make a piece of Dada art. I think if nothing else, the second was accomplished quite effectively as the pencil-sketch eagle was actually a photo when I copied it, and Jesus's hand was originally much further to the left. I even had to use spot healing to fill in where the hand was, and same goes for Pattinson's chin.

I don't advise trying to interpret it, because even I don't know why I thought of it, much less spent 3h+ making it, but I'm thinking of calling it "A Step in the right Direction"