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Organizing Sim Protests
Shadow Wrought writes "Alternet has an article about how to go about protesting McDonald's in the Sims Online universe. According to the story "A deal struck between Sims publisher Electronic Arts and the fastfood mega-corporation allows Sims players to open up their own McDonald's kiosk and improve their game stats by consuming McD's greasy goodies." This then tells how to vent any rage that such may conjure. Mayhaps a venue to protest other issues as well?"
Most Sims players are already fat from eating McDonalds and playing The Sims all day. They don't want the shame of having their Sim alter egos puffing up on SimBigMacs and SuperSizedSimFries.
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Whoa slow down. Common sense? Where did you find that?
/. crowd todo just that.
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I bet it didn't occur to any of the
Tom
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A simple workaround would be to go "dine" at the particular McDonalds restaurant, spill virtual coffee on player's lap and sue Maxis for damages.
I am outraged that they have found a way to keep themselves profitable without charging more. If we don't all get in our comfortable shoes and make protest signs out of recycled cardboard,then the next thing you know we will start seeing animated banners and huge blocky ads on slashdot!
Then they shouldn't hang out there. As it is, are these peoples lives so meaningless, that they have to get themselves worked up over a game?
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Hear me out.
So, McDonald's wants people to think their food is tasty and fulfilling. We all know that's not true (especially 60 minutes later when you're in the bathroom trying to get their filth out of your digestive system).
I say we organize anti-ad movements to pay the maker of The Sims to add the following code:
if(character.justAte(McDonalds)) {
wait(60, minutes);
character.CrapBrainsOut();
}
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Virtual women burning their virtual bras....oh...wait...it's a family game.
Maybe letting people die of heart attacks in at the kiosks and haunting them?
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Somebody needs to do something about these issues that are causing all this plaque. We all need to take a stand and brush our teeth god dammit!
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Just what we need - SimHippies stinking of SimPatchouli with hygeine meters redder than a baboon's ass sitting around in a SimDrumCircle outside SimMcDonald's because it's SimEvil. Please. Get me some SimTearGas and a SimTaser and I'll have them working the SimFry-o-Lator by SimTomorrowMorning.
Anyway, there are two problems with The Sims Online, given experience with the current play test: you can't fucking connect; and, when you can connect, it's boring as hell.
This then tells how to vent any rage that such may conjure.
Vent?! VENT?! How am I supposed to vent when I can't even GET TO THE ARTICLE?!
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hmm... all that rage made me hungry. I could sure go for a cheesebur... uh... I mean... ARRRRARGAHRHGRRHGHGGGA!
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McDonalds provides most of the few jobs that people without any qualifications at all can do legally. They provide employment in poorer countries, and provide food to the hungry.
A large portion of their profits goes to charities every year. They are a true symbol of the determinism and individuality of free America.
Anyone who wants to protest them is at the very least a fool. Most of them are simpyl jealous of the success of the company. A patriot has no need to feel bad about a fellow Americans success. This jealousy is the reason the USSR hated the west.
Just build a swimming pool around your local McDonald's, then include a diving board, but no ladder to get out. Problem solved! :)
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Besides, he's got FortKnox beat by at least 400.
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At subway, you get a sub prepared anyway you like, by the friendly, efficient staff. Choose from mouth-watering veggies, succulent meats and cheeses, and a variety of freshly-baked bread. Why not stop in today and pick up some subs for the whole family to enjoy. I suggest the Italian BMT, piled high with genoa salami, pepperoni, ham, and provolone cheese. Top it with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles, add a few spritzes of italian dressing and you've got a meal fit for king.
Subway: eat fresh!
Ironically, there are no fat Sims. Veterans of the original game will know this, and the same is true of the online game. There are various head and body skins that simulate different sexes, ethnic types .. even species.. but there are no various body sizes.
Maxis (EA) should really turn this into a profitable venture by allowing the Sims to gain weight from eating at the SimMcDonalds.. They could strike a deal with Ballys so that people can work their fat Sims out to loose weight at a virtual Ballys.
-gerbik
Rioting naked UO players? Please reconsider whether you want to be "enlightened" in this manner.
and have the characters in Sims sit around all day playing sims where their characters protest Mcdonalds?
I can't wait until they come out with a game in which you take control of a salaryman who plays The Sims.
Then I wouldn't play that, either.
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I'd think that proper brushing would get rid of most of those issues that plaque society.
I read the internet for the articles.
Thanks for stealing my comment! How am I going to be funny now?
Maxis has struck so many deals with corporations that players of The Sims discover that their Sims are being oversaturated with commercialism, thereby causing them to buy a copy of "The Sims for The Sims" so that their Sim Family can get away from it all.
Marketing genius, I say.
After all that pigging out at MacDonald's, do your Sims end up weighing a simulated 300 pounds each? Do they get simulated atherosclerosis? Sim diabetes? Sim strokes? Sim food poisoning? Do Sim children come down with simulated ADHD?
Not entirely accurate then, is it?
Umm, that's rationale and plague, folks. A plaque is a small sign. Rational means reasonable or relating to reason. A plague is a widespread disease (and metaphorically a lot of something unpleasant). A rationale is an excuse or reason for doing something.
If you played Everquest, you'd be well aware that half the fun of playing a persistent online game is paying them money while simultaneously complaining about how bad it is.
In fact, some people buy second or third accounts for the sole purpose of being able to say "I'm going to cancel any day now, watch out!" twice or three times as often.
Watch for upcoming world-shattering Sims Online events, such as the mass threatened cancellation following the first anchovie pizza nerf, or the mass threatened pizza making work slowdown when a customer service rep says something that isn't very nice.
Kiosk owners will find one of the business challenges is dealing with virtual nuts who form sit downs and disrupt the business for no good reason at all.
Maybe the owners will get to own virtual bazookas that fire burger patties...
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11/18/2002
Sony/Verant has announced their partnership with several companies to produce an extensive sponsorship program in their upcoming online RPG, EverQuest 2.
Players will now be able to interact with several name brands they can associate with in the World of Norrath.
Verant has released a preliminary list of the new features of EQ2 as follows:
All armor will be replaced with namebrand apparel. All towns in EQ2 will have an OLD NAVY store instead of local merchants, where players will be able to buy normal clothes. Additionally, apparel designed by several top fasion designers will appear in the game. Only the most uber players will be able to obtain Versace threads.
PEPSI products have replaced the mundane food and water of EQ1. Players will have to go to the in-game KFC, Taco Bell, or Pizza Hut locations to refill on rations. The in-game stores will also provide Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, and Mountain Dew rather than normal water.
Players can now earn extra experience by slaying monsters with brandname weapons.
There will be a distinct advantage using a CRAFTSMAN Power-Sword Deluxe, rather than a regular sword.
"We feel that these imrpovements add to the game," said a Verant spokesman. "In EQ1, players had a hard time identifing with the normal items in the game. In EQ2 we are bringing players into a world that is full of the brand names they can identify with. We hope to promote a lifestyle where players can consume high quality goods from companies like OLD NAVY, PEPSICO, and many others both online AND offline!"
EverQuest 2 is slated for release for fall of next year. Players will certainly be pleased to pay the full MSRP of $60.00 for the game on top of the monthy $17.99 fee with such improvements.
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Oh yeah smart guy? Well what about the plaques that plague society?
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
>> What exactly was Ultima Online's 1997 naked riot?
I wondered too.
I've seen ultima fans and find the concept disturbs me greatly.
This is a mental image I didn't need, though I imagine conceding anything to get even a half dozen UO players to put their pants back on.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
... it's going for Sim Realism.
Players who have Sim Protests will get their machines Sim Wiretapped.
Sim players who organize the protests of McVomit's will get slapped with Sim Product Libel suits.
Players who have too many Sim House Parties will be Sim Evicted from the Sim Neighborhood.
Players who set up affairs on Sim Hot Date will be Sim Sued for Sim Alienation of Affection.
Player who have too many Sim Vacations will be Sim Fired from their jobs for Sim Absenteeism.
Players who go on Sim Safari will get Sim Blood thrown on them by Sim PETA Protestors.
Then it'll get even worse:
The people who play "Crush, Crumble & Chomp" with their Sim world will get sent to the Sim Guantanamo Bay for Sim terrorism.
Players who allow the "incorrect" pairings on Sim Hot Date will be Sim Damned.
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Naked... riot...
Um, anyone have screenshots?
-T
McExecWithAClue: Quick! Post the story to Slashdot. That will take care of that protest site. Mu-ha-ha.
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It's fun and easy to kill your Sims. Make your point by targetting the corporate employees specifically.
In other new, cases of carpel tunnel syndrome are on the rise as millions of online participants move their Sims avatar back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and so on, in virtual picket lines
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Step One:
Create a lareg "sims" family and purchase a plot of sim land
Step Two:
Create a square house with no windows, no doors and a television facing a wall thats turned on so the family can never sleep. Contact EA and eplain that your holding a family hostage in your sim-house and are protesting their McDonalds add-in.
Step Three:
???????
Step Four:
Profit~!
Drop the soldering iron and mod this guy up.
Thankfully I don't have personal experience, but common sense tells me this isn't a very good idea.
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What if they made a game where you got a better score by shooting people? What happens is that people get densensitized to the concerns about murder. Oh wait, that already happened.
Nevermind.
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Or if you elected a Republican, the virtual world would get in SimWW3, you would be SimDrafted and SimKilled. SimWheee!
if nobody plays, then we won't have interesting articles for /. (e.g. some guy playing for 86hrs and collapsing in the washroom). then what we gonna talk about?
I eat at McDonalds every once in a while and enjoy it, don't get me wrong.
You had me falling for it untill you said that.
Ahh, well you see "not buying the game" actually violates the license agreement. You agreed to this license contract by "referring to the game in a sentence, reading an article about the game, or thinking about playing the game" (paragraph 2). None of those things would be possible without the hard work of the game writers.
... remain in full effect."
Also, watch your language. You're not allowed to disparage the product (paragraph 23).
Note also the survivability clause (paragraph 37), which stipulates that "even after termination [of this license], all terms and conditions
Thank you for your cooperation,
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PS: Every legal paper served by our firm will include a voucher for a FREE McDonalds(tm) cheeseburger. Time is running out, so get sued today!
By the way WHEN can I buy the SIMs add on that allows my SIMs to play SIMs? They already work, go on vacation, get dumped women, and kill their pets. Lets go full cirle. It's about time my SIM started spending this money on video games so I don't have to.
That The Sims would have a McDonalds in the Sims world is an absolutely abhorrent thing! The damage that it does to our children and our society, not to mention our lawns and bandwidth, is totally unacceptable. Something must be done!
That the U.S. might become an aggressor nation and attack a weak and irrelevant country like Iraq means nothing compared to this. The assault on privacy rights due to Ashcroft and his Homeland Security Act pales in comparison to the horror of a McDonalds in the Sims. Corporate corruption, billions of dollars being stolen from U.S. citizens, Dick Cheney's complicity in the Halliburton affair, the torturing of prisoners of war in a U.S. run prison camp in Cuba - Yawn! Only a moron would waste his time protesting about such trivial and meaningless issues.
NO MCDONALDS IN THE SIMS!
I guess you never bought the computer...
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
...provided the sims become obese, have to ride around in Rascals, and have virtual heart attacks. Maybe they should link the McD's chains to a mu-mu chain. Just waddle next door to pick the latest fashions for people who literally roll out of bed.
To prove this, I began eating nothing but McDonald's food for the past month. And had an increase in many statistics!
* Weight -- I went from weighing a pittly 175 to weighing a healthy 350! That's a stat increase of 200% go McDonalds!
* Running time -- Before I began the all McDonalds diet, I could run a mile in 6 minutes. The McDonalds diet increased my running time by well over 20 minutes!
* Cholesterol -- Eating McDonalds food dramatically increases your cholesterol intake!
So, for any of those nay-sayers, I think I have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that McDonalds food does INDEED increase your stats!
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I agree... GTA is highly disturbing. After beating a few random pedestrians to death with my bare hands outside the police station after being released and then dispatching some cops in the same manner I'm not able to pop open their skulls and eat their brains like a zombie. What's the point if games refuse to allow me to engage in the virtual cannibalism of my preference?