Sim City

[mahogany]

Last night, a friend of ours who works for EA Sports, the gaming company that made the Sims was telling us according to a survery that they conducted, everyone tortures their Sims at one point. Apparently, people build rooms with no doors or windows, and then watch as the Sims go crazy, starve, and die. I thought this was quite bizarre behaviour, and said so.

I then mentioned that back in high school and university, I was totally hooked on Sim City, and then later, Sim City 2000. I also confessed to deliberately building ghettos. I would create a heavy industrial area along the waterfront, and then stick a medium sized high density residential area smack in the middle of it, to which my friend said “Ah, ha! You were torturing your Sims. You made ghettos. It’s the same thing!”

Oops. Busted!

Oh, and Happy New Year!!!

Comments

[lunaadmirer.livejournal.com]

hahaha.
i play the sims in my spare time, and i have to confess that i once had one of my guys play with the fireworks, just to see death come when he died.
and it worked, and i saw death on there...but since then i've felt really bad about it, and i can't find myself doing anything like that again.
call me too nice, even for pretend people.
hehehe...well, except for that one sims guy.

[mahogany.livejournal.com]

i can't find myself doing anything like that again.
call me too nice, even for pretend people.

I hear you! There's something really creepy about deliberating torturing/killing pretend people. I can't put my finger on it, but....yuck, just yuck.