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The best Sims 2 download sites

As much as I like playing the Sims 2, I enjoy decorating the homes a lot more.
And one thing I noticed with the release of the second Sims game, is that the official website very rarely offers free object downloads, like it used to.

Fear not though, as there are plenty of fansites out there to supply endless supplies of clothing and furniture. Here’s the best of them:

The Sims Resource
Much of the content available on this site is for paid subscribers only, but if there are plenty of good free downloads too.
Everything is seperated into sections such as “Clothing”, “Accessories”, “Pets”, “Floors” etc, and the search criteria is very specific. If you only have one or two expansion packs but not the rest, you can filter the packs you don’t have out of the search, so all the downloads available are the ones you are able to use.
This site is not just for content, it also features a forum, online support, screenshots and stories.

Mod the Sims 2
Although the layout isn’t as easy to navigate as other sites, the content is there in abundance. And from what I can see, most of it is free. With a lot of the objects (and certainly sets) the creator has taken time out to provide a detailed summery of the dowloads in question, letting you know if there’s something specific you must also download.
The site also has some brilliant tutorials, to help you learn how to create your own homes, clothes or furniture.

Around the Sims 2
This site has got a very slick feel to it, which makes it nice to look at and easy to find your way around. As well as being able to download files individually, where available you can also download the whole set of furniture to save time. Although the objects themselves are good quality, there isn’t really much of it. Definatly worth a visit though, as the objects. clothes and looks they do have are of very high standard.

Parsimonious
A very professional site that’s been running for as long as I can remember. Everything on the site is “100% free” (they said so themselves) and is of brilliant quality.
You browse the objects by selecting a room, and then download the objects either individually or as a set. This is a very nice site to use, because of the content but also because of the layout and colours.

Me and James in the Lakes

Incase you haven’t seen them on his blog, here is the videos of me and James in the Lake District. Enjoy!

Part One:

Part Two:

Bullet Proof Jacket Demonstration

This guy demonstrates a bullet proof jacket by taking a 7.62 NATO round at point blank range.

The front fell off

Apparently this is glasscock. I’ve never seen it before though.

Oh….oh my God…

Bass guitar…Stereophonics artwork….*spluffs*

Religious bands

A few years ago I was talking to my friend Jess over MSN, when she was telling about some new music she’d heard. She told my download the song “Everything” by Lifehouse. At first I wasn’t really into it, but after hearing it a few times I grew to love it, and it became one of my favourite songs. I passed it on to many other people, asking them to listen to it. I really did think it was a truly beautiful song.

A few months later and the song popped into my head, I wanted to listen to it but as we’d had a lot of computer breakyness around that time, I no longer had the MP3. I went to Youtube to watch the music video that accompanied it. It was there that I found out that song wasn’t a traditional love song like i’d first thought, it was about God.

For some reason, even though I previously loved that song, I now can’t listen to it. Or at least, it doesn’t have the same affect on me as it used to, and it actually gets me a little annoyed.

A few years ago I first heard the album Mercury, by Longview. Their music is very similar to that of Lifehouse, very touching and passionate love songs, very nice to listen to.
Unfortunatly, it’s just dawned on me that they too might be delusional God-botherers.

It sounds very shallow to say this, but I really hope they arn’t. The Mercury album brings back a lot of happy memories for me, I don’t want it to be linked to relgion and Christianity and stuff like that.
I’m almost certain that if I found out that this was what their music is about, I probably won’t be able to listen to that either.

I quite fancy Badly Drawn Boy

I once worked in a Cafe down the road. Well, I say worked, if a customers order was more than a cup of tea and a sandwich I used to have to get someone else to make it.

Anyway, one day my Mum came home saying there had been a musician there that day (my Mum worked at the cafe too), but she couldn’t remember what he was called. The woman who owned the place got his autograph anyway.

A few days later my mum remembered that it was Badly Drawn Boy. The cafe is only about 5 minutes away from my house and yet she didn’t even bother to come and get me. I’m so disappointed.

Richard Herring

This is utterly fantastic