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The Sims Overtake Myst
krugdm writes "Gamespot is reporting that The Sims has now sold 6.3 million copies and has overtaken Myst as the best-selling PC game ever." My Sims lie dormant awaiting a wine that
can breath life into them once again. I just have been too busy to reboot.
Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
sulli
RTFJ.
Wait a second, Taco! You don't have time to reboot, but you would have time to put into the massive time-sucking vortex called The Sims?
Something's wrong here.
The most valuable commodity I know of is information. - Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
This game has also produced 6.3 million examples of why humans shouldn't be God.
Time scale always annoyed me. Click on the sink and it takes 20min (game time) to put away the dishes. Click on the radio and it takes 15 min to walk across the room to turn it on. You have to wake up 2 hrs before work for enough time to shit, shower and shave and then eat breakfast. Where do they get these lazy fucks?
It's always fun to invite your neighbors over to your house and then as they get confortable and think you're nice, suddenly invest in some walls and keep them there hostage! MUAHAHAH =)
Says something about human nature, eh?
Or does that just speak volumes about me?
Perhaps I should keep these observances to myself.
for a mod to put my Sims on the Myst island.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with all your metadata.
I'm waiting for a plug-in that lets me go house to house and frag my Sims at leisure. Then I'll feel like a God...
"Goodness, how did you people ever live long enough to invent tools?"
-Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher)
"Goodness, how did you people live long enough to invent tools?" -Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher)
I'M NOT PRONE TO VIOLENCE! *crushes the chair against the wall*
DO YOU HEAR ME? *whacks the keyboard as he types*
DAMNIT! I'M NOT PRONE TO VIOLENCE YOU FRIGGING ROTOR! GRRRR!
:o)
Gender repression denial is a hugely untapped market.
It gets disqualified from the official tally because MS has a monopoly in the windows card gaming market.
Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.
Non-violent? I have to say one of the most disturbing (yet mildly amusing) comments about a video game on Slashdot came from CmdrTaco last year:
Referring to the possibility of a Sims TV show:
"This sounds pretty lame... unless they use my Sim Neighborhood: I used skins from 20 Female Television stars ranging from the girls of Friends, Xena, Buffy, and beyond. I made many households and played the game normally for awhile. After the ladies all fell in love with each other, purchased everything available in the game, and had successfull careers, I started luring neighbors over and trapping them in my attic, or drowning them in my pool. You haven't lived until you've seen Xena Warrior Princess die in a terrible grill fire while Sculley flails her arms in terror. Now that would be good TV. Especially with anatomically correct skins."
I play the Sims to unwind after work.
Of course, my job is being an elite commander of a mutli-national elite counter-terrorist squad dedicated to the destruction of contraband nanotech viruses and eliminating cults of unspeakable extradimensional entities.
I just have been too busy to reboot.
I guess that's better than too busy rebooting, like the rest of us working under Windows. *sighs*
Hm, Myst was the #1 game for a long time, and now The Sims is the #1 game? That's two for two games that I can't stand...
You obviously haven't seen my kitchen sink recently. Those chore-loving Sims are high fantasy, far as I'm concerned. =)
My girlfriend and I started doing the same thing - "my hunger bar is turning red," "just let me finish maxing my fun bar, then I'll work on the social bar." The most frightening Sims moment is when she stood behind my chair waiting to talk to me while I was playing Sims, in which the Sims character was playing a computer game while his partner waited to talk to him.
It's a scary sight - believe me
Someone above posted that they'd pay to be able to put their sims on Myst island. That got me thinking, wouldn't it be cool if you could put the sims in other games as well.
You could get your sim to work out and become a football player and play him in the next Madden.
They could join STAR and be in the next Resident Evil game.
They could become drug lords and be in next GTA
The possibilities abound!
Me, I'm waiting for the iPod version, so I can upload my sim onto some computers at CompUSA, it would then lounge around with other uploaded sims, acting as an itelligent agent looking for kewl software for me to later download.
Becuase, if you're a geek, in the sims you occasionally get laid. For some of us, that's as unrealistic as running around with a BFG, and being able to get shot with a rocket launcher 7 times before dieing.
Key to financial independence: Spend less than you earn. Save and invest the difference. Do it for a long time.
I prefer mindsweeper. I spend my entire ninth grade year of highschool playing that game. Come to think of it, that was my last year...
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!
Yes that's correct your honour.... Solitaire is 'Integrated' with Windows. We can't possibly remove it without breaking the operating system.
hummer
If they're in that advanced stage of alcoholism to not even be able to move, they shouldn't be picking and choosing the type of wine. pick any alcoholic beverage and run with it. i guess the sims have a 1 step AA program: step 1 -- just don't run on wine. ;)
Somebody who can actually justify posting as an AC!
I remember when "Zork" followed the words "best selling computer game."
Sigh. I must be getting old.
Say what you want about the Simms - it's definatly an involved game.
Yeah, but it's kinda out-dated. The Dimms is more advanced. :)
Mozilla's a nice operating system, but it needs a better browser.
You can do magic....its called catching your Sim on fire and turning it into an Urn.
Well, I do have quite a few haunted houses on my blocks. On my Win machine (the one with House Party) there are at least five houses.
One is a Black Widow - she's very charming, but there are many urns and gravestones on her tiny plot.
Another is a surfer dude and his boardbabe. They have a surf shrine and a few have died at their cookouts cause it was too crowded. That's why they sleep on the second floor of their bamboo shack.
Another is a family of ghouls. There's just a couple of them, but their plot has a moving pool that has claimed many a victim in its meandering path.
And the last is a couple who are continually building stuff - they seem to have a habit of walling in their guests, forgetting about not having any doors, and then changing the layout.
I wish we could get the expansions working in WINE - but until then I'll have to be satisfied with The Sims at least working on my Linux boxen.
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--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?