Refreshed Main Menu: Homeview 🚗 Cars driving by ☁️... Animated clouds 🌅 Dynamic lighting featuring 6 unique time-of-day looks 🖥️ Full ultrawide screen support 🛠️ Extra quality-of-life improvements ⭐ Available in Early Access now 🌐 Public on May 6th #s4mods #thesims4show more

Refreshed Main Menu: Cherry Blossom 🌸 Animated main menu... with gently falling sakura petals. 🌟 Early Access available now! 🌐 Public release: June 10th, 2025 #TheSims4 #sims4mods #s4mods #s4ccshow more

The Immersive World Map is here! 🗺️ A complete... overhaul of the world selection screen, featuring a custom map design and a seamless layout that connects all Sims 4 worlds together. Available in early access on my Patreon!show more

With 60+ Challenges in my Challenge Gallery, it’s hard... to pick just one! That’s why, with the latest Challenge Tracker update, you can now have multiple Challenges installed at once! 👀 Challenge Tracker is coming out later this month, with early access available right now.show more

Well, there’s some stuff to fix and tweak, but... here’s the latest sneak peek of what I was working on before the new patch pulled my focus... #TheSims4show more

While playing and testing my Immersive World Map mod,... I realized I needed a solution for quicker navigation. So in the latest early access version, I've added a new feature: "Scroll to Open Global Map" When in the neighborhood map view, you can now scroll down to quickly transition to the global map view without needing to click the button in the upper-left corner!show more

One thing in Paralives I learned (the hard way)... is how foundations work. Maybe I missed smth but as far as I can tell, you basically turn the 1st floor of your house into a foundation by shrinking the walls and then you build the 2nd floor to act as your actual ground floor.show more

Real Benefits of Staying Overnight at Accor’s Mercure Ba... Na Hills 🏰☁️ Save Time • Save Money • Experience the REAL Ba Na Hills If Ba Na Hills, Vietnam 🇻🇳 is on your itinerary, do NOT do it as a day trip. An overnight stay at Mercure Ba Na Hills French Village completely changes the experience — and most people miss this 👇 ⸻ 🚡 World’s most unique hotel access — arrive by cable car with luggage This is the ONLY hotel where you reach your hotel room via cable car — with your luggage 🎒🧳 Your stay literally starts with a scenic cable car journey over the lush green forest, waterfalls and through the clouds ☁️ No roads. No buses. Just views and vibes. ⸻ ✨ Ba Na Hills at night = pure magic After sunset 🌄, it feels like you’re staying above the clouds ☁️ Silent streets, misty castles, and unreal vibes — something day visitors never see. 🚶‍♂️ Post 4:30 PM = Ba Na Hills becomes yours Once the day crowd leaves: • Empty streets • Quiet castles • Peaceful photo spots 📸 • Zero chaos ⸻ 🚡 VIP Cable Car access (Huge hidden benefit!) ✔️ Mercure guests get VIP / priority entry into cable cars ✔️ Private cable cars for your family only ✔️ No queues at all ⏳ Day visitors wait 60–90 minutes EACH side, and 10–15 people are packed into one cable car. This benefit alone saves hours. ⸻ 🎢 Fantasy Park with ZERO crowds 🗓️ Friday–Sunday: Open till 7 PM in the evening while day visitors leave by 4:30 PM. Unlimited FREE Rides, games, and 4D/5D shows — repeated multiple times 🎮🎠 No queues. No rush. Full fun mode 😍 ⸻ 🎿 Alpine Coaster Happy Hours = Double Win at this Gravity Based Roller Coasters 🎢, Most Popular at Ba Na 💰 Pay just VND 50k (instead of VND 80k) ⏰ 4:30–5:30 PM | 8:30–9:30 AM 🚫 Almost no waiting 🌫️ Evening mist rides on mountains = unforgettable ⸻ 🌉 Golden Hand Bridge — crowd-free access The iconic Golden Bridge is accessible ONLY to Mercure guests from 6 AM–8 AM Till ~9 AM, there are very few people — perfect for photos & serenity 📸 ⸻ 🚡 30% discount on Cable Car + ALL attractions if purchased at Mercure check-in, The two-way Cable Car tickets includes 👇following on all days on your Stay ✔️ All cable cars (up, down & internal) ✔️ All funiculars 🚆 ✔️ Unlimited Fantasy Park & Moon Castle games ✔️ 4D / 5D / 7D & 360° movies ✔️ Flying Eye Theatre ✔️ Indoor & outdoor bumper cars ✔️ All rides ✔️ Sun Castle & Moon/Lunar Castle ✔️ Le Jardin D’Amour, Pagoda & Love Garden 🌸 ✔️ Thác Thần Mặt Trời waterfall & Golden Horse Statue ✔️Except Alpine Coasters & 10D Show, everything is Free, unlimited times 🤩 Most day visitors don’t even realise what they miss. ⸻ 💡 Bottom Line: Ba Na Hills is NOT meant to be rushed. You need time to feel the vibe and explore peacefully. After staying there, I honestly wished I had booked 2 nights instead of 1. 🏰 A night stay at Mercure Ba Na Hills isn’t just about the hotel — it unlocks the best version of Ba Na Hills. 🔖 Save this post 🇻🇳 Stay tuned for more Vietnam travel & credit-card-optimised travel tips. 📘 Visit SpendWisely Blog: Detailed credit card reviews & guides 👉 Some links may be referral links in the above post. It supports the page without any cost to you. #creditcard #spendwisely #creditcardsshow more

On April 26th, 2026, the Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8... satellite captured a full day of Earth. Every ten minutes, for twenty-four hours, it photographed a complete hemisphere of the planet. One hundred forty-four individual photographs. No editing for content. No compositing. No CGI. No green screen. No hologram. No drawings. These are photographs, assembled into video. Himawari-8 is a geostationary weather satellite operated by Japan. It orbits at roughly twenty-two thousand miles above the equator, remaining fixed over one spot on the planet, orbiting at the same rate Earth rotates. It was launched in 2014. It takes photographs of Earth in visible light and infrared. It does this every ten minutes, every single day, year after year. These images are available to the public. Meteorologists worldwide use them for weather forecasting. News organizations use them. Scientists use them. You can access them yourself right now. What you're seeing over that twenty-four hour period is the terminator line moving -- the day-night boundary shifting as the planet's rotation carries different regions into and out of sunlight, all viewed from a fixed point in space. It is not a composite. It is not a trick. The curvature you see is not distortion. It is not perspective compression. It is the actual shape of the Earth as photographed by an independent satellite operated by a nation with no interest in perpetuating a NASA conspiracy. This is what Earth looks like from space. This is the globe holding atmosphere in place with gravity as you witness weather patterns moving across its surface. This is reality. (No fisheye lens was harmed in the making of this video.)show more

The camera in Paralives on macOS is still jittery... and jumpy. 😕 It's been like this since the release.show more

🚨SCIENCE🚨: Time just got a remix — and exotic... quantum matter started showing up uninvited 🧨 Scientists at California Polytechnic State University just dropped a bombshell on May 4, 2026: by periodically driving magnetic fields in graphene over time, they created entirely new quantum states of matter that flat-out do not exist under any static conditions. These driven phases are dramatically more stable and error-resistant — exactly the kind of breakthrough quantum computing has been starving for. Standard models are left asking why time itself seems to be the missing ingredient. Uniphics sees this as inevitable once you accept the three pillars. Time flow (t_flow) is not a universal constant — it is strictly t_flow = k / E_d, where k = 4.64159 × 10^18 J/m³ is the fixed reference density set by the electron Gyrotron volume. When researchers vary the magnetic field periodically, they are rhythmically modulating local energy density (E_d) in time. That creates transient windows where t_flow itself shifts, opening entirely new minima in the ξM-field potential that negentropy (the drive toward lowest energy, J_neg ≈ −5.66 × 10^{-21} J/K) can lock into stable spin configurations. The Gyrotrons — each a 3D gyroscope of three orthogonal spin quanta (xy, xz, yz planes), every quantum a tempest of whirling energy spinning CW or CCW — access driven phases that static E_d simply cannot sustain. The result: exotic states with no static counterpart, far more resistant to decoherence because they are continuously refreshed by the same negentropy that condensed the first bound matter at the Amorphics-to-Physics transition. No new particles, no extra dimensions, no patches — just the pillars doing what they do best: turning dynamic E_d into order. This is why the new states are so robust. The time-dependent drive keeps the system dancing exactly where unbound energy repels unbound energy just enough to hold the new lock without collapse. How might deliberately engineering time flow gradients in real materials accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computers — or even let us replay the driven phases that built the early universe? A Theory of Everything should be able to answer everything. #Uniphics #QuantumStates #TimeFlow #EnergyDensity #SpinQuanta Grok xAI Uniphics Explained Simply PDF: Chapters 1–10 free: Grokipediashow more

Just finished a one-week trip to China. I've now... "survived" all the major (~20) L2 self-driving and robotaxi vehicles in both the US and China. Some thoughts & observations: ▶️L2 self-driving I tested major brands like $Huawei, $Li, $NIO, $Xpeng, and $Xiaomi. Overall, they exceeded my expectations. The rides were not overly cautious and handled complex situations (yes, road conditions in China are very challenging!) quite well. Nothing compares to $Tsla's approach. I see imitation learning/end-to-end as the only effective approach for self-driving. While Chinese peers perform well on main roads, they struggle on frontage roads due to reliance on high-precision maps and rule-based methods (e.g. cars stopped in the middle of the road where there was no clear white lining). Chinese EVs' self-driving capabilities are far ahead of those from US and EU brands. I doubt any Chinese players can profit from L2 self-driving, not because it’s not useful, but because it’s hard to differentiate, and price wars dominate the market in China. Chinese consumers and regulators seem much more receptive to self-driving. Even with a 5/10 self-driving capability, cars are practically *hands-free(!)* Insurance-wise, for L3+ cars, OEMs bear responsibility for incidents, so OEMs avoid labeling cars as L3+. ▶️Robotaxi I tested major brands like $Didi, and $Bidu. I'd rate equal to $Waymo, and it's ahead of other peers. However, the same issue applies here: user experience is nearly perfect (in Yizhuang, Beijing), but expansion is the real question. Chinese robotaxi companies are very sophisticated. While the rest of the world focuses on technology, Chinese peers treat it as a product, considering unit economics, operations, mass production, etc. Interestingly, most companies expressed a preference NOT to operate fleets themselves. They aim to be asset-light and let fleet managers handle operations. Policy Support: China has a very clear approval process, driven by data (autonomous driving distance, fully driverless distance, intervention rate, passenger ratings, etc.). ▶️Chinese EVs In major cities like Beijing or Shanghai, EV adoption (green license plates vs. gas cars with blue license plates) seems to be 40%+. If 40% of cars on the road are EVs, then EV penetration (defined as the % of new car sales) must already be over 50%. In shopping malls, the ground floor is filled with EV showrooms—easily 10+ brands, many of which are unfamiliar Chinese brands. It appears almost too easy to make an electric car, which is a stark contrast to the US. $Xiaomi, for example, can achieve a 10% gross profit margin in its first year of operation, compared to $RIVN's -45%. Additionally, $Xiaomi cars are priced at 30% of $RIVN's price. It's fascinating to see how China transitioned from "couldn't make their own gas cars at all (only JVs)" to "dominating EVs globally." The government deserves credit for setting the direction and executing effectively. China now controls the entire supply chain, with $CATL holding 40% of the global market share. 🔹How did it happen? The success of the industry Incentives were set just right: the government provided incentives early on to make EVs and gas cars have comparable MSRPs, allowing consumers to choose based on functionality. This approach differs from how the IRA offers incentives... Perfectly competitive market: $TSLA was brought in, and competition was welcomed, unlike the US, which has a 100% import tax on Chinese EVs. Strategic regulations: License plate restrictions were used effectively; for example, taxis and minivans are required to be EVs. 🔹The challenges Despite the success, the industry faces challenges with low-margin companies and struggling stocks. The intense competition shows no sign of ending. Well-funded global OEMs and Chinese state-owned car companies continue to subsidize, leading to new EV brands emerging annually. The natural tendency in China is to race to the bottom. I think this ties back to China's history as the "world’s factory," where manufacturers price products at "cost plus" versus the US and developing countries, which price based on "affordability/value creation." 🔹The wow EV feature >Software features that surprised me the most: - Everything in the car can be voice-controlled. Not just simple tasks like playing music; users can adjust the height of the steering wheel and set the temperature easily. - Self-parking, which $Tsla has yet to release to all FSD users, is already a table stake in China (I'd rate the quality as 10/10). >Other fun hardware features: - Mini fridges in the car - Infotainment systems - IoT: remote access the car/home via cellphone - all connected together - Heads-up displays - UV-protected glass roofs: $Xiaomi took $Tsla's design, but the glass roof of the $Xiaomi car is made of double layers with silver, blocking 99.9% of UV and infrared rays...as a result, heat is no longer a problem inside the carshow more

I am sorry, but your understanding of supplements for... hair and skin health is quite wrong. 1/ Multivitamins for health promotion is the biggest myth there is. A multivitamin a day improves health is a promotional gimmick from the wellness industry, health-illiterate influencers and poorly informed doctors. Daily multivitamins give you high-colored expensive urine and long term use increases risk of cancer. See here: 2/ Probiotics are sham treatments except in specific situations. See the WGO 2023 guidelines here: Its use is specific to: ➡️Prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhea. ➡️Shortening duration of acute infectious diarrhea in children by 1 day when given early during course of disease. ➡️Useful for treating "pouchitis" of inflammatory bowel disease. ➡️Reduction in risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm babies. ➡️Using probiotics outside these indications is a waste of your money and time. 3/ Ginseng has no known benefits on the prevention or treatment of any disease condition known to humans. Many of the published randomized controlled trials on Asian ginseng may not be high-quality studies. Ginseng can also interact with your standard medicines and increase toxicity or reduce benefits. See here please: 4/ Omega-3 fatty acids. The only use identified from large quality studies and metanalysis is for treatment of high triglycerides and lowering of non-HDL lipid fractions. Please see this highest quality of evidence: Omega-3 does nothing as mentioned in the video. 5/ Collagen for wrinkles and fine lines, prevention of "aging" and improving "skin health" is actually a myth. Large metanalysis from 2021 showed improvement in skin elasticity and reduction in wrinkles. This one here: But, this metanalysis was done poorly. A rebuttal letter showed that conclusive benefits of collagen on skin health did not actually exist when reanalysed from proper statistical methodology - see here: Collagen will waste your money. 6/ Biotin for hair and nails. I am sorry to burst your bubble, because I know many of you are on this supplement, but it does not work. It is a waste of money. The American Academy of Dermatology Association states that biotin supplementation has no benefits on hair growth/loss or nail health. See here: Moreover, a recent review does not even mention biotin being useful in hair loss. See here: Instagram is full of these overgrown Amul-babies who have absolutely no idea about the science of healthcare or value the role of empirical evidence in advising healthcare options. Do not fall for such people or their garbage handles. And frankly, I think the guy in the video has just about average hair and skin. Not worthy of second-looks even with all that bottled stuff going in.show more

Here's a video showing how it works in-game!

As college football coaches, due to our new annual... college football schedule, there aren’t consecutive “Days Off” like we used to have in the past, thus the reason I’m taking advantage of these next few days off — starting today. Context: this is the first time the Atuaia family has been together as one unit since 2020 Covid Christmas. We got up this morning (11am😂) to ready ourselves for a FAMILY PHOTOSHOOT that hasn’t happened since 2017 due to 3 LDS missions, 3 job changes, 3 moves to 3 different states, and mostly the multiple excuses I’ve given NOT to be available for this event. After the Photoshoot, our kids wanted to go to Savage Fish in Millcreek for Pokē. My kids know a little about it, but we (Liz and I) have a Christmas story concerning the owners of Savage Fish. 16 years to the day, we were at BYU struggling financially as I was a full time graduate student and Liz a stay-at-home Mom with our 6 young kids to look after. Literally, every penny went to pay for our daily survival. On this day (23rd) these angels on earth came to our 2 bed/1 bath Wymount Terrace apartment to save Christmas for 6 little kids and 2 thankful parents. Today, as I watched each of my kids order their pokē bowl, the same who were blessed by the owners of Savage Fish years ago, I tugged at Liz’s sweater to reminder her of that day. She smiled and simply said “Tender mercies.” Right now, I’m typing this and drinking my kava while listening to all 7 of my kids, led by the oldest child in our family, putting together over a hundred “GIFT PACKAGES” to personally handout to less fortunate folks outside homeless shelters, multiple public parks, and other areas frequented by this demographic in Salt Lake City area. My kids, not prompted by me in anyway, have done this everywhere we’ve lived in the past: Charlottesville Virginia, Pullman Washington, and now Salt Lake City, Utah. We have been the beneficiaries of other people’s kindness all our lives (including recently with a stranger saving my wife’s life—a stranger we have not found yet), paying it forward is simply just the right thing to do. If we have any juice left tonight, we’ll likely do our annual Christmas Song for the online masses. Or, we’ll just mixx as a family and enjoy laughing like crazy. Either way, it’s been an awesome day.show more

MY COUNTRY (POLAND) GOT OFFICIAL SIMS 2 MERCH IN... PHYSICAL CLOTHING STORES ‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨 via: dominika.ilysmshow more

How a 22-year-old developer built a full 3D Jet... Ski racing game in just 40 minutes with zero manual coding He used Claude Opus 5 to generate physics, WebGL 3D graphics, HUD, and audio in a single prompt and turned single-prompt gamedev into a high-margin income stream. Costs: $423 He launched a single-prompt generation workflow that built the entire HTML5 project from scratch: Top layer: A Three.js and WebGL rendering pipeline dynamically creates 3D water physics, real-time wave dynamics, dynamic lighting, and jet ski fluid mechanics, all written autonomously inside one output file without external frameworks. Bottom layer: The Claude Opus 5 engine processed a massive 690-million-token context window to generate the complete gameplay logic, collision handling, dynamic sound generation, controls, and UI layout directly from a detailed initial system prompt. The trend of single-prompt 3D game creation is rapidly exploding across media and indie development. The author monetizes this tech stack through three main channels: 1. Viral Content & Media Systems: Short-form breakdown videos driving massive reach, monetized via promo placements, prompt-pack access, and private developer communities. 2. Rapid Hypercasual Prototyping: Testing 10+ WebGL mechanics per day, flipping fully functional browser games on itch io or CodeCanyon, and licensing prototypes directly to casual game portals. 3. Interactive WebGL Client Solutions: Delivering custom 3D promotional browser games and interactive brand experiences for clients in 48 hours instead of weeks. First month results: > WebGL games generated: 24 > Viral impressions generated: 3.8M+ > Total revenue across licensing & content: $21,400 The AI completely automated the core development lifecycle: Claude Opus 5 built the physics engine, rendered 3D graphics in WebGL, hooked up audio controllers, and generated interactive browser logic with zero manual line-by-line coding. Bookmark it and check article 👇show more