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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.
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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
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.
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??
Better yet, open a simBestBuy and sell simSims. This way, you could control your Sim playing his simSims, for even more thrills!
"Is there an acceptable level of role-playing?"
I wanna cast a spell!
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!
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.
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