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The Sims Survivor
Bobby writes "Two great pop culture tastes that taste great together -- the TV show Survivor and the computer game Sims. The premise: eight virtual people trapped in a virtual house with limited resources. Instead of winning contests and voting people off, the characters are subjected to the whims of the Sims game -- but you'll still find the requisite scheming and sexual intrigue. Things really heat up in episode four, a robbery spoils the group's fun in a subsequent chapter, and catfights often liven up the action. Who will be the ultimate Sims Survivor? (Quote From Yahoo!)"
... I wonder which Sim will become a guest star on a sitcom.
"Derp de derp."
I'm starting to think there's something wrong with my life. I don't have NEARLY this much time on my hands. And I'm unemployed. And have no friends.....
These guys must *really* love the Sims.
"Moderate drinking can help prevent amputated limbs" -- Abigail Zuger, NYTimes, 12/31/02
Holy shit. I think putting these two over-hyped, lame peices of entertainment together has caused a singularity of lameness. An area so lame that it suck in and destroys all cool things with in its grasp. C'mon, Survivor? Fuck your corporate entertainment!
Michael Loves Me!
dammit, I've been trying to avoid these reality TV shows. I'm proud to say I've seen only 1/2 an episode of survivor and no other reality tv shows for one simple reason...they suck. Go ahead and watch some other people live their lives instead of living yours...it's easier that way. These shows are becoming harder and harder to avoid. They've already been penetrated most of primetime, and I'm running out of ripped episodes of GOOD shows like Futurama and Family Guy.
Seriously guys, why do you keep posting stories that link to little cracker jack servers that explode at the first mention of Slashdot? At the very least, post the Google cache with the story!
...and who will be the first character to wake up on a flaming couch in a room not big enough to turn around in that has been constructed sans doors or windows?
Yes, I love The Sims!
...they survived the webserver explosion ok.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
The French Version of Big Brother is called Loft Story and here is a page with the big house and the people playing the French Big Brother.
Reality TV is almost as evil as the thought of caffeine being outlawed as a dangerous drug... I do however see a bit of potential... Afterall who hasn't wanted to take the characters and either run them into walls, off cliffs, have them make wild love to a tree, or other mildly twisted things.. besides, I wonder how long it will be before the "unauthorized" mods start popping up...
Eh, is it just me or am I really confused now? First of all the TV show is suppose to be a show about reality, hence, the whole genere of 'reality TV.' Then here we have the Sims, which is a virtual simulation of reality in a semi-controlled environment... Combine the two together, where in one aspect is a show about reality, and the game that is suppose to simulate reality. Is it just me or am I just confused, disturbed, entertained, and disgusted all at the same time? :-)
Welcome to the new fronteir of Simulation Reality TV.
Or do most geeks dislike the "fuck your buddy" so called reality game shows?
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
When I used to play Sims, I'd have 2 girls and 1 guy living in the same house. One girl would always stay in the house. The other girl had a day job, and the guy had a night job. During the day I'd make the guy and girl have sex, and at night I'd make the two girls do it. On the weekends, they'd get jealous and fight because they'd see each other getting it on.
Now THAT would make some great TV.
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Any sufficiently simple magic can be passed off as mere advanced technology.
I personally believe the less TV watching, the better. that's why I'm online of course... Who the hell would want to watch that crap anyway? I don't understand why people watch TV in the first place. What are you getting out of it? When I'm online I'm at least searching for information that I want... reading. A little mental activity. Don't you use like 40% of your brain when you watch TV?
You need to get out more...
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
here's a link to some mirrors
don't call me a whore, just treat me like one.
Just turn off the goddamn TV.
I own one. In all it's 12" of glory. It's 6-7 years old, and was free at work when I got it.
I watch 2 hours of 60minutes a week. And I watch the news in the morning, and in the evening if I remember. Once in awhile I'll watch CSI.
It's really not difficult at all to avoid "reality" TV. Just avoid TV.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
You missed the part where the "reality TV" program is actually not reality either[0].
And yes, it is just you. The rest of us have been equipped by long experience in the postmodern age to comprehend, interpret, and enjoy concepts like this.
[0] It's actually a "real people in unreal situations" sort of program. Kinda like the canonical "reality" show, MTV's The Real World.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
I had a couple, the guy tried to make dinner on the bar-b-q and he started a fire which killed the wife. Funniest thing I've ever seen . I think that it was because the flowerbed caught on fire and she tried to put it out. Sad day for the sims.
So my choices are limited. Not that I mind.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
This is harder than it "sims".
:-)
If you took "Six Feet Under" (cool) and crossed it with Junkyard Wars (cool), you get what? Undertakers who take pieces from several corpses and create something new. Ah! Frankenstein! It's been done.
Okay, flame away.
To me, the thing that makes Survivor watchable is that it's a laboratory of power dynamics. Who has power resources (strength, attractiveness, skill at catching food, skill at not pissing people off) this week? Who's working on acquiring some, how are they doing it, and did it work? Who's made mistakes that cost them power?
Any laboratory is a contrived situation; in fact, in science you TRY to put controls on the situation so that you can better study the subject without too many variables. Just think of Survivor as "power lab 101".
Having said that, I much prefer another Mark Barnett production, Eco-Challenge: The Expedition Race.
Putting a fresh, unique idea (Sims) together with a weekly soap-opera-cum-SI-survival-attire special (Survivor) is a travesty of insults to our collective intelligence.
There - I said it...and I feel better.
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I make a singular exception for the Osbournes (I'd watch the old candid camera, if it was on). The problem with reality TV is not that there's something inherently wrong with the prospect - after all, documentaries are reality TV, fundamentally. The problem is that most "reality TV" is:
1) Despicable. (Mean-spirited, materialistic, what have you.)
2) Stupid.
3) Boring.
4) Fake.
Now, the Osbournes is positively humanistic. Uplifting, even. Ozzie's little family is also authentically funny, not to mention smarter than the people on the reality TV shows. I suspect that the osbournes show is substantially faked, as well, but I'll let that pass.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Censorship...This comment was great, you mods are faggots just like Rick Austenson
He tried to punch a baby, but now he's gotta punch a baby... in jail.
He was speeding while tying his shoes, but now he has to tie his shoes... in jail.
Well, maybe not the shoe-tying part.
A winner is you!
Based on the replies to my message, I seem to have struck a 'self-righteousness' nerve! : )
You gotta admit, being PROUD of not watching a show is at least as asinine as anything you might read into my original response.
Beware, ye who mention couches which art burnt asunder.....
I used to be addicted to The Sims, but as of late I have gotten distracted by other things.....
such as setting couches, chairs, sofas, futons, assorted lawn furniture, hammocks, recliners, love seats, and beanbags on FIRE!!!!!!!!!
Not noteable, IMO a rubbish article.
this is also how I spent most of my time 'simming
Err..Simcon not Sitcom
If you don't think "The Osbournes" is mean-spirited, you're in the serious minority.
t ernoon old geezer.
The humor comes largely at the expense of the cast- especially the permanently impaired Ozzy himself. At his most lucid- during the "Black Sabbath / Blizzard of Ozz" period - he was a living prototype of Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap.
Only he wasn't the product of Christopher Guest's imagination- he was simply himself.
Watching the Osbournes, the laughter comes from the deconstruction of one of the most notorious figures in the history of music. The humor comes from seeing yesteryear's version of Marilyn Manson revealed- courtesy of lots of drugs and alcohol and the progession of time - a stammering, domesticated, Adidas-sweat-pants-in-the-middle-of-the-bloody-af
It's sad. It's cruel. And the only thing that would currently score bigger ratings in the reality television world right now would be a reality show built around David Lee Roth. Who, as anyone can tell from the above interview (or any interview in the last decade) is in the early stages of schizophrenia. Which, when coming upon a textbook Narcissist, would- in this deteriorating culture- make for the sort of soundbytes and antics that would guarantee a 10-share rating.
Next reality-tv stop: "The Lions Den!" - where people are dressed in the skins of animals and thrown to fight for their lives in a den of lions for entertainment purposes...
aww, c'mon. It was *slightly* amusing :)
jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
I think that your post might be the first slashdot post that I would legitimately mod funny (if I had points). My girlfriend would rather you crossed Six Feet Under with Trading Spaces - you know where one dead person's family gets to prepare the body of their friend's dead family member and vice versa. Imagine the pink tootoo that they would have Uncle Fred in.
That rules out "TRL" and "Queer as Folk", perhaps "The Sopranos" and "History's Mysteries" would make a good combo...So where is Jimmy Hoffa?
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The "classic" 60min is on Sundays. And now on Wednesdays, there's 60 Minutes II.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
*yawn* You anti-TV dopes are a dime a dozen.