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Disoriented writes "A Time article speculates on where the Sims Online is going.
Interesting and scary to see what America would be like without our inhibitions." I've played a lot of the playtest, and can't wait for the final
version to come out.
What happens with they pass the Sim Homeland Security Bill?
As if (we) geeks didn't have enough reason to have no appreciable social life to begin with, now they're programming a 24/7 online version of life that will keep us from every having to socialize outside of our screens.
Then again, maybe the bar scene will be a little less diluted with brave geeks, now that they have another place to hang...
Chaos, panic, disorder...my work here is done.
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Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others! - Kodos
Gee -- all we need now is a Sims sword-fighting routine and we have the Metaverse...
On the bright side, it gave her the courage to finally let go and bury him. Her house was starting to smell pretty bad.
Best Windows Freeware
some naked, shaved pussys in the game!
What happens when her virtual husband dumps the virtual her and shacks up with the virtual cheerleader? Do they get a virtual divorce and split the virtual possessions? Can she get virtual alimony to pay for her not so virtual psycho analyst bills?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
No falme taken.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
What happens when her virtual husband dumps the virtual her and shacks up with the virtual cheerleader?
Her sims kills his sim, then creates a sim to help deal with the grief of losing her virutal husband...
I won't dance in a club like this...All the girls are slags, and the beer tastes just like piss! -The Specials
... I'm gonna hold off until they come out with the Sims Online Pornographers expansion pack. Sex is the only reason people use the Internet anyway.....
Back in 2000 (when I was a Business Admin major, and had plenty of time. I'm now a Mech-E student, and I don't sleep.) I picked up the Sims and installed it on my computer, and I quickly got addicted.
I'd play 3-5 hours most nights, getting my character better jobs, improving the house, wooing neighborhood women and having my character make friends. Did pretty well, too.
Then one day, I got up from a session, and started walking down the hall to the bathroom.
I started thinking things like:
"My Bladder meter is getting pretty low. Hygene Bar could use a refresher too, maybe I should jump in the shower. And it would be nice to up my social meter."
Then I realized I was looking AT MY REAL LIFE through the metric of The Sims. Realizing how pathetic this was, I took said bathroom break and shower, went back to the room, and unistalled the Sims.
I now hang out with real people. When I'm not posting on slashdot anyway.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
You mean take out the showers, right?
and paying some shrink >150$ per hour to "cope" with the tradgey is any better?
Yes it is.
The article mentions that people can set up businesses such as a coffee shop or bakery, etc.
I want to join some find sim-Italians in setting up a business that deals in "protection", something that those other businesses clearly need.
Uncle Vito
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Let's call it EverSlashdot
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
Home invasion robberies. I join a home in the game, and all it is is a box with 7 weight sets while my housemates just sit and pump iron all day. I ask them why, and the answer is "if we build up our muscles we can raid other peoples houses and beat them up and rob them". Give the game a month, and you'll just have roving gangs of thugs. I can't wait.
It's called Los Angeles.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Come down South on a Saturday night after a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. You'll see what we're like!
I don't have a sig...Do you??
Going a bit offtopic. You know what would be neat at least for someone like me?
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Have the Sim Online game have a SimApple SimStore. Then people could hang around in line just waiting for the store to open
I wonder how long the line would be, and if it would compare with the actual Real Apple Store openings
Maybe you could get extra credit in the game for visiting an Apple Store or leading a "Switcher" life.
Anyone have any idea when us Mac users will get to try the play test? I haven't seen a version for mac users...
Can't wait to try this though...
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int main (void) {
"You start to see patterns you don't when you're living. It takes all the messy grayness of real life and makes it bright and shiny."
Soma! Get your Soma, here!
"Is there an acceptable level of role-playing?"
I wanna cast a spell!
" It's also one of the rare computer games played by more women than men."
I predict millions more geek males will start playing to find that special geek women already hooked. Welcome to the meat market of future.
What is the point? As one poster said, testing the boundaries of the local version = somewhat entertaining. But SIMS online? I can just imagine trying to explain this to my father:
"Well Dad, you can talk and interact with others, buy and sell fake stuff, live in a fake house, soon they'll even have virtual pets you can own."
[Looking at me like I have 2 heads]"So son, you're saying I go can online and play a simulated version of real life?"
"Yep, you got it."
"Son, wasn't that the really bad thing in that Matrix movie you made us watch?"
Operator, give me the number for 911!
Are there any girls there?
Cause if there are, I wanna do them!
I heard there are some cheating users who hack the Sim client to write bots to ... er ... watch TV and, um, get snacks? ... with superhuman efficiency...
Oh never mind.
They had a downloadable hamster ("Downloadable Hamster?" Sounds like a really bad college band) that, if not kept healthy, would infect its owners with a fatal virus.
The result? You guessed it: SimPlague. Just goes to show ya.
"Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more."
So what happens when her "husband" tries using the stove in the kitchen, starts a fire, and burns to death?
This actually happend to my first pair of Sims... The fire spread quickly and eventually destroyed the house and was threatening my sim-neighborhood!
I had to go build a wall in the middle of the fire with a telephone on it so one of my sims could "visit" the dead couple and call the fire department....
How to be a bitter loner of a sim:
1) Buy a Workbench.
2) While (money is needed)
3) Make gnomes.
4) Sell gnomes. (Eventually, they will be worth $100/head.)
5) Lather, rinse, repeat (from step 2. Don't buy another workbench, that's silly)
You can make over $1000 a day and don't have to make a single friend. After all, who needs friends when you've got Gnomes?
--AC, Sim Gnomesmith Extraordinaire
Now that playing computer games require social talent as well, we'll be excluded from that too!
Fascinating, but cut to the chase, man: who should I kill?
Yourself?
I mean, anyone who voluntarilly nests italics and bolds has serious issues.
Just kidding.
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann