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Diablo Meets The Sims

Fervent writes "There is a hilarious parody over at CNET called Diablo meets the Sims. What happens when someone imports a Diablo skin into the quaint Sims universe? All hell breaks loose."

43 comments

  1. Re:Don't bother, it's not funny by MeowMeow+Jones · · Score: 1

    I can't find the link right now, but you've obviously never heard his "dead hooker and that damn midget!" routine.

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  2. Re:A better idea... by rommi · · Score: 1

    How about MPAA & RIAA meet The Sims?

  3. Sucks by kingdork · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, someone actually thought this was amusing? Wow, maybe when I was 14.

  4. Ya know what? It WAS funny... by lowe0 · · Score: 2

    I found this damn funny. I like Harms's writing, have since he worked at PC Gamer, and I'm glad they pointed this out. So to everyone who thinks this wasn't funny - guess what... it was. But that's all subjective anyway. Get a sense of HUMOR. Just because it was worth a few quick clicks and a couple laughs and nothing more doesn't mean it's not good enough for Slashdot. Then again, I was drunk when I read it, so I may be totally off-base. But who really cares? Thanks to Slashdot for the link, and for making my day a bit more humorous. Some people should really lighten up and appreciate them doing the same for them as well.

  5. Re:Score Zero, Troll by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1
    YES!

    I WON!

    (l4men3ss f1t3r encountered dudez)

  6. Re:Combine This With Doom System Administration To by |bazop| · · Score: 1

    It's also fun to watch the 17 Xterm's you've got open shoot the X-Server. Very amusing

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  7. Re:Can't resist... by ThymePuns · · Score: 1
    I didn't know you could get mod up "funny" with puns. This really makes my day. It's a cold day in hell when someone actually likes puns. I hope someone will Baal me out if people don't like this punishment.

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  8. More intelligent Responses? by elijahao · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I even qualify for my own subject, but It's surprising that there aren't more witty comments about this hilarious little story.
    Then again, it's probably not likely that most of you even play The Sims. Maybe wives and children are interested in it. I played it a bit, and it makes it funnier, the more you know about Sims.
    My wife plays it quite a bit, and we thought it was hilarious.

  9. Re:A better idea... by ectizen · · Score: 1

    you know, i think i'd prefer "MPAA & RIAA meet Diablo"...

  10. Re:Can't resist... by cougio · · Score: 1

    Bonuses on magical wepons can't be more than +5, dumbass.

  11. who would have figured by DoorFrame · · Score: 1

    that this would count as news.

    oh well, welcome to the 21st century i suppose.

  12. HAHA MARK THIS UP!!! by pen · · Score: 2

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  13. Re:Great! by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 1
    It makes me think about a Diablo scenario for CounterStrike.

    terrorist - One that engages in the use of terror to achieve one's goals.

    I think that that would apply to Diablo...

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  14. Re:Score Zero, Troll by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1

    I hate you all.

  15. Suggestions for more game crossovers by zpengo · · Score: 2
    • Tribes meets Final Fantasy ("Our materia is not in the base!")
    • Tomb Raider meets Metal Gear (We found out how Solid Snake got his name)
    • Wolfenstein meets Windows maze screensaver (Oh, wait, they already did that).
    • SimCity meets Driver (Bored of San Francisco and New York? Try delivering a getaway car in some of the sample Sim cities).

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  16. The Sims Die! by CmrdTaco · · Score: 3
    Don't forget The Sims Die!

    It's always funny when some omnipotent being rearranges your habitat when you aren't looking :)

  17. Look who's coming for dinner... by Geccoman · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to a full 16 player deathmatch version of The Sims. You deck out your bot for deathmatch in the local neighborhood and let 'em loose.

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  18. Re:Can't resist... by Rei · · Score: 1

    If puns were deli meat, yours would have been the wurst.

    - Rei

    (P.s.: People who make puns should be drawn and quoted.)

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  19. Re:Please read! by Suburban+Shaman · · Score: 1

    As Kyle said in South Park :

    "We're all for civil rights, but dude, you FUCK children!"

  20. Remember at school... by King+of+the+World · · Score: 4
    and some kid would get up in front of the school and lip-sync to a song of different gender. It was funny seeing the toughest kid in school sing Tiffany, but only for ten seconds.

    This is like that.

  21. Combine This With Doom System Administration Tools by namespan · · Score: 4

    Oooo! Oooo! What I'd like to see is this combined with the Doom System Administration Tool (where you can REALLY kill processes -- with a shotgun!). Never again while your routine system maintenance tasks be the same... will the httpd and sendmail demons devour the smaller user tasks? Can you find you keep PINE from running away with the system without shooting? Will find and grep get and stay together? What about the career of rcs?

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  22. Re:mfp by merato7 · · Score: 1

    Big deal. I got User #6969 on OSDN (of Slashdot Cruiser fame), and there's only one of those.

  23. You know its a slow weekend when...... by _ECC_ · · Score: 2

    the fruits of someone's first attempt at using photoshop makes slashdot headlines.

    cheers,
    ecc

    1. Re:You know its a slow weekend when...... by Fervent · · Score: 1

      It's not Photoshop. It's a skin you can install.

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  24. The first link is broken... by kubrick · · Score: 2

    it has two spaces in it, near the end.

    This link should work just as well...

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    1. Re:The first link is broken... by gravis777 · · Score: 1

      Um, no its not. Even though it has a space in it, it still works.

    2. Re:The first link is broken... by kubrick · · Score: 1

      Not in Netscape 4.75/Linux here it doesn't. "The document contained no data. Try again or contact the server's administrator."

      Spaces are not legal characters in URLs anyway; they should be escaped as %20.

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    3. Re:The first link is broken... by kubrick · · Score: 1

      Replying to myself...

      Spaces are not legal characters in URLs anyway; they should be escaped as %20.

      When I replace the two spaces in the URL with %20%20, the link works. Shouldn't Slashdot be doing some checking of the text they put up? Can't GameCenter use a legal URL for their pages? The net's going to hell in a handbasket, I tell ya. :)

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  25. Was it really all done in paintshop? by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 1

    It was hard to tell, some of the pictures seemed as if skins (or voxels, or gifs or whatever the hell The Sims uses) really had been modified - then again, I've never played the game. In any case, if this was really all done in paintshop, you'd think it'd have been classed as a humour article, or just thrown in as a quickie.

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  26. This article sucks. by pb · · Score: 1

    "Look, honey, I've got the Prince of Darkness across the street from me! And he doesn't want my soul, he just has this bridge to sell me. It looks like a good deal..."

    Suburbia already is hell; they just don't know it yet. (watch Face/Off, they say it well there; and, for anyone else from the RTP area: it's Cary. 'Nuff said.)
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    1. Re:This article sucks. by Tower · · Score: 1

      > for anyone else from the RTP area: it's Cary.

      Hehe - been there, know people there... sad... of course, I'm in downtown Roch, MN now... where even 'downtown' is practically suburbia... all these doctors and engineers...

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  27. Re:Don't bother, it's not funny by Fervent · · Score: 2

    If you're a geek, you'll laugh at the disparity. I'm a geek. :)

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  28. so... by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 1

    besides keeping windows around for dvds (supporting the mpaa) and diablo ii, you keep it around for the sims as well? (cause if you don't like the sims, then why would that gamecenter article be funny?)
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  29. Re:Combine This With Doom System Administration To by Tower · · Score: 1

    it's fun - the only problem is when you kill the shell you are running Doom from... or (if you are root) just about anything critical... I killed swapd once, and my box has never been the same...
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  30. Re:Can't resist... by Tower · · Score: 1

    Stop it now, I mean it!

    Anybody want a peanut?

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  31. 16 September 2000: The day Slashdot stopped caring by The_Messenger · · Score: 2
    Wow. This must be a really slow day at Slashdot HQ. I wouldn't have thought this crap even qualified as a Quickie.

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  32. Re:Shit by chocobo · · Score: 1

    racist moron

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  33. Actually, by webslacker · · Score: 1

    Now that I think about what happened to John Henson once he moved to ABC, I think you may be right.

  34. This sounds as cool as... by animallogic · · Score: 1

    Lesuire suit Larry!

  35. Great! by ericdano · · Score: 1

    When are we going to see the Sim's meet Quake?
    Or maybe the Sims meet Everquest. Now that would be neat! Maxis should think about it.........

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  36. Don't bother, it's not funny by webslacker · · Score: 2

    Was it written by Bob Saget? Damn, that was incredibly lame.

  37. Can't resist... by Cerlyn · · Score: 2

    This sounds like it would be a really hot game, doesn't it? I'm just boiling in anticpation of getting it. My neighbor got his copy already, and I'm red with envy.

  38. A better idea... by d-ude · · Score: 5

    How about Ron Jeremy meets the Sims? It's would be hot tub parties 'a plenty for sure.
    Shawn