maria's boredom blog

One of my favorite challenges I've ever done is the Super Sim Challenge. It is basically a challenge where you max and complete everything; careers, aspirations, skills, etcetera. I believe there are some official or semiofficial rules somewhere if you want to check it out. I want to do my own thing. I started this challenge about a year ago. I had aging off for played sims and it was just my sim in the Bargain Bend lot in Willow Creek for the most part. I wanted to restart, 1, because I began to worry my sim would die and I would loose everything on the lot after they were eaten by a cowplant, and 2, I realized I could have had aging on and just keep drinking potions of youth to stay a young adult. I felt as though I had cheated the whole time. It was hard to let go of that save because of all the progress I made, but I did it anyway. I think the reason I loved it so much is because, when it comes to sandbox games, I like to have an in-game goal. For example in Minecraft, I like d...

I made these about a year ago while I was testing gradients and I ended up making a bunch of pride flags that could be used a phone wallpapers.  I realized as I was making the portfolio page that I didn't make a rainbow flag one, so I made it, though I was out of practice. I do want to work on remaking all of these on my desktop instead of my phone to make them higher quality. If you have any other pride flags you would like me to make, let me know. (I'm already planning to make lesbian, mlm, agender, demiromantic, and abrosexual flags) List of the flags in order (left to right, top to bottom): Genderfluid, Omnisexual, Bisexual, Pansexual, Polysexual, Nonbinary, Asexual, Aromantic, Bigender, Pangender, Transgender, Demigender, Demiboy, Demigirl, Demisexual, Intersex, Rainbow. Added to portfolio 12/02/2021

I was having a conversation with my dad about my sexual orientation. My sexuality is something I've struggled with for a few years, and I always pressured myself to label it. I told him that, "It's like a puzzle with some of the pieces missing, but the picture's still there." He told me, "With all the billions of people in the world and just a few labels, there couldn't possibly be a label that fits everyone." I always worried that if someone asked what my sexual orientation was, I wouldn't have an answer, and if I labeled myself as something that isn't that well known, I'd have to tell them what it means.  I understand that it's perfectly fine for my sexuality to be unlabeled. And now that I've gone so many months not really identifying as anything, I'm kind of used to it. I still wish I could have a clear answer. But not everyone gets a clear answer. The flags (in order from left to right, top to bottom) are the rainbow flag...

Okay if my former geometry teacher is seeing this, I do know that this is a circle. I was just testing out circular gradients in Krita, so I would know how to make the intersex flag phone background. I thought it looked pretty, so I tweeted it and put it here. Original Portfolio Post 12/02/2021

Here is my CAS background. If you've seen the show, M*A*S*H, you know exactly what it is The painting of Charles Emerson Winchester III with all the umber Colonel Potter needed. At first I made it as a joke, because me and my dad have watched M*A*S*H for years, and we really like it. I didn't intend to keep it but I didn't have any better backgrounds, and I kinda just kept it. I have used it for so long that I have gotten used to it, so I will not acknowledge it. If have no idea what this is and haven't seen M*A*S*H, it is a show that takes place d uring the Korean War at a mobile army surgical hospital. This was taken from season 6 episode 6, The Winchester Tapes. Some people on the M*A*S*H subreddit made me make it public a few months ago. Thanks Reddit... The Tutorial I Used Download CC  

This resource pack makes budding amethyst blocks more obvious to make it harder to accidentally break. The amethyst clusters are also made to help differentiate them from large amethyst buds. This pack is obviously not meant to be used for regular use given how hideous it is, but I do find it very useful when mining out a geode The json files used for the 3d model of the amethyst clusters are from the Vanilla Tweaks 3d Amethyst Crystals pack. I removed the small, medium, and large buds and changed the texture of the cluster and budding amethyst block. I also realized after making this that Vanilla Tweaks has a tweak for adding a border around the budding amethyst that was made for the exact same reason. However I think this one is easier to see as the colors are completely different. The main downside is you are meant to turn it on an off (unless you like the look of bright orange and lime green amethyst, then that's fine). Download Vanilla Tweaks Resource Packs Here: htt...

My dad wanted a pack to make scaffolding completely invisible. Something he could turn on temporarily so he could see his build without removing his scaffolding. I tried to find a way to make the scaffolding only invisible in the world and not in your inventory, but I never figured it out. Nevertheless, this pack is obviously not meant to be used all the time. Just turn it on when you need to look at your build, then turn it off when you play.  Download for 1.19 Original Portfolio Post 12/03/2021