TYPES OF CC-USERS: Are you an alpha or a maxis match?

Your Sim is beautiful! I think using Alpha CC like that is a skill. I hate the wispier hairs but the thicker hairs like hers look great. I may have snuck a few into my 99% Maxis Match game. I also have a couple of dresses from Aviera and Colores Urbanos.

I have seen other posts with polls but, I have no idea how to do them.

"Bananas_45;c-16961659" wrote:
Your Sim is beautiful! I think using Alpha CC like that is a skill. I hate the wispier hairs but the thicker hairs like hers look great. I may have snuck a few into my 99% Maxis Match game. I also have a couple of dresses from Aviera and Colores Urbanos.

I have seen other posts with polls but, I have no idea how to do them.

@Bananas_45 thank you <3 I like the wispy hairs too I guess haha. But for hairs like hers I can really recommend Ebonix' CC - they did that hair and I just love their african hair textures, they're all stunning both ingame and in CAS. I like to use them in combination with Daerilia's baby hairs.

I think alphas mostly make my CAS extremely elaborate and can probably damage ingame function (I think it lags more than if I didn't use it) but I just can't help myself I love it so much, combining different details to make a sim look realistic, like hairs, accessories, baby hairs, body hair, skins, eyes, acne, scars, moles, face and body freckles, piercings, clothes, sliders, real genitalia and b.oobs (SERIOUSLY forums?? what the fluff?? why do you censor b.oobs????? what else am I supposed to call them, lady lumps? love cushions?), tattoos, makeup, I love the possibilities of putting them together in different ways to create sims that somehow look like real people.
It's probably also fueled by my anti-minimalist lifestyle (maximalist, I guess?), "more is more and less is a bore" or whatever Iris Apfel said

I really find some Alpha sims/cc to be too uncanny valley to me, it often ends up looking like the Polar Express! To be fair, I really didn't like how the Sims in 3 looked either, they were too realistic, while also being not realistic at all? I did use Alpha cc in Sims 2 back when I was 12-15, but thats because it was all I could ever find, and it didn't stand out as much in 2.

I really love MM, lots of nice stuff, and a lot of the hairs just improve the EA hairs, like making loads of curly styles from the 5 or so curly hairs we have in game, adding more swatches to nice clothes and even doing some nice makeup.

"munroele;c-16961706" wrote:
I really find some Alpha sims/cc to be too uncanny valley to me, it often ends up looking like the Polar Express! To be fair, I really didn't like how the Sims in 3 looked either, they were too realistic, while also being not realistic at all? I did use Alpha cc in Sims 2 back when I was 12-15, but thats because it was all I could ever find, and it didn't stand out as much in 2.

I really love MM, lots of nice stuff, and a lot of the hairs just improve the EA hairs, like making loads of curly styles from the 5 or so curly hairs we have in game, adding more swatches to nice clothes and even doing some nice makeup.

@munroele I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "uncanny valley" or the Polar Express? You mean white ppl stuff?
the game itself has too much white ppl stuff imo, we're still missing a hijab and african hair that doesn't look like a blob so it's nice that CC exists to make it more diverse, both maxis match and alpha can do that so nicely :)

"MaddyMcMoody;c-16961722" wrote:

"munroele;c-16961706" wrote:
I really find some Alpha sims/cc to be too uncanny valley to me, it often ends up looking like the Polar Express! To be fair, I really didn't like how the Sims in 3 looked either, they were too realistic, while also being not realistic at all? I did use Alpha cc in Sims 2 back when I was 12-15, but thats because it was all I could ever find, and it didn't stand out as much in 2.

I really love MM, lots of nice stuff, and a lot of the hairs just improve the EA hairs, like making loads of curly styles from the 5 or so curly hairs we have in game, adding more swatches to nice clothes and even doing some nice makeup.

@munroele I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by "uncanny valley" or the Polar Express? You mean white ppl stuff?
the game itself has too much white ppl stuff imo, we're still missing a hijab and african hair that doesn't look like a blob so it's nice that CC exists to make it more diverse, both maxis match and alpha can do that so nicely :)

I looked up uncanny valley and it appears to be a term referring to human-appearing robots that aren't quite realistic.
Picture examples:https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2013/11/25/10-creepy-examples-uncanny-valley/

and I think Polar Express refers to the movie which was kinda creepily animated.

@MaddyMcMoody No, not white people stuff, it refers to robots or things that are designed to look human, but just look wrong! Think like Sophia the Robot, or even movies like the Polar Express, Pixar's Tin Toy (god, that baby is SCARY AF) and 2009's a Christmas carol. The characters are MEANT to look realistic, and they do, but in a horrible, weird way. Alpha gives me the same uneasy feeling that Sophia robot, or those two movies do, so I stick to MM, seeing it's cartoony. It's too realistic, while also looking incredibly fake.

And yeah, I use cc to find better kinky hairstyles especially, and more curls like my own hair. Too much of the EA hair is straight or obviously heat done curls/waves, and I also find most of the EA clothing isn't the kind I like at all.

Thanks for explaining that for me @Bananas_45 :smile:

@munroele @Bananas_45 ahhhhh thank you for explaining that, I wasn't aware of the term. I thought it was refering to white people stuff because of valley girls and the polar express as in northpole, scandinavians and such :D

I prefer Maxis Match. I think Alpha doesn't just not fit in the game but it also looks tacky. Esepcially the hairs. And a lot of the skins too. And a lot of the clothes too. And I won't even talk about the furniture etc.

The only alpha I can do is something that looks very Maxis Matchy. But I do like the makeup. Especially lipsticks. It gives the lips a little texture. I like some Alpha eyeshadow too but not a lot can be used cause they require Alpha skins. Same for blushes and highlights.

And I use some Alpha necklaces and earrings. Also I have quite a few alpha clothes in my CAS that I will never actually use. They're all really sparkly. I just like to look at them lol. I like the sparkly, mutlicoloured, ombre clothes.

Wow, white people stuff?! Anyway, I prefer Maxis Match in S4 and alpha in S2...I find alpha too jarring in S4, it just doesn't fit.

I go through phases. I'm currently in an alpha phase. I typically go vanilla with my game after a new release. Then I slowly re-introduce CC but it's typically Maxis Match. Then I'll spot a cute alpha hair or outfit and it sets off a shopping spree. ?