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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.
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?
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)
Gender repression denial is a hugely untapped market.
Then you could have little people following around a guy in a white suit exclaiming "Smiles everyone, smiles!"
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*
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.
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
Somebody who can actually justify posting as an AC!
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.