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Players Dress As Their Sims For Convention

Posted by simoniker on from the including-blurred-areas? dept.

Thanks to Stratics for its messageboard post discussing the publicizing of a fan convention specifically for players of The Sims Online. The Michigan-based International SimCon, being staged from February 20th-22nd, has an agenda "to bring the game experience to real life", according to event director Troy Pruyt. The announcement explains: "For instance, Friday evening will be luau themed, which is a common home decorating theme used in the game. Players will dress as their sims, to compete for prizes, while dancing to a live DJ, which is also common in the game." However, it's not clear whether The Sims Online mafia will also be making a money-extorting appearance in real life.

32 comments

  1. What next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lord of the Rings fans dressing as tranny elves? Oh wait...

  2. Strange by acxr+is+wasted · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's like Puss 'n Boots...

    You have real people.. then they start pretending they're someone else... then they become that person!

    Does any one else think they're building an army?

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    1. Re:Strange by Fortunato_NC · · Score: 3, Funny

      Having an army that sits in front of a PC all days becoming more pasty and corpulent by the day is not a great way to build an army, unless your goal is to take a Ben and Jerry's franchise by force.

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    2. Re:Strange by AllUsernamesAreGone · · Score: 1

      Or you're investing in remote control aircraft and robot soldiers controlled by said pasty and corpulent mouse twiddlers...

  3. great, I wonder if they'll piss on the floor by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    as if furries weren't bad enough already\

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    1. Re:great, I wonder if they'll piss on the floor by Gothic_Walrus · · Score: 3, Funny
      Let's just hope that they don't let their Hygenie bars drop too low...

      /played original "Sims" too much

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    2. Re:great, I wonder if they'll piss on the floor by bandy · · Score: 1

      But did you d/l the guinea pig add-on, then not take care of it?

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  4. Two Words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh God

  5. this is just a little by gnudutch · · Score: 0

    too surrealistic.

  6. So basically... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    life, imitating art, imitating life...

  7. Well good by cmwck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least this will get the sim-addicts out of the house for a breath of fresh air.

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  8. sim addicts by MonkeysKickAss · · Score: 0

    That sounds like a great idea maybe this convention will bring all the sim addicts together and they can meet new people and possible find the love of their life

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  9. Now... by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if ANYONE every makes fun of RPGer (D&D/Gurps/Etc) I can point to a group even crazer than us, I me them.

    1. Re:Now... by bedessen · · Score: 0

      Well, Sims or no, you'll always have furries to look down on, so I think you'll be fine.

    2. Re:Now... by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 1

      Weren't we always more normal than the goths? And then the goths could always laugh at they guys doing LARP. The bane (pun intended) of the LARP guys was, IIRC, the Vampire: Masquerade wankers.

      Personally, I find my experiences as a RPGer to be quite useful. Almost everyone came to me to get help with their NWN and TOEE characters. And don't even get me started on that bastardized KOTOR thingy...

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  10. Would hate to be on the hotel staff that weekend. by zietlow · · Score: 5, Funny

    And come Sunday Night/monday morning the cleaning crew will be putting in overtime cleaning up the dead bodies and urine stains from people who were too busy standing at a chalk board to goto the bathroom.

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  11. Re:Would hate to be on the hotel staff that weeken by mrsmoonshine · · Score: 2, Funny

    I certainly hope the hotel staff included the requisite vibrating beds.

  12. Umm.. by jabberjaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    Isn't this essentially just cosplay? Individuals dressing as characters from a (video game)/(PC game)/(pencil & paper RPG) isn't exactly new.

    1. Re:Umm.. by h0mer · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I think the difference here is that it's *your* character. There could be 50 different girls dressed up as Yuna at any convention, but your Sims costume will be 100% unique.

      However, whoever organized this did so for one reason... to get laid.

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    2. Re:Umm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Simutronics has been doing the same thing as this since 1997. (Twice a year, lately).

  13. If I'm going... by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I'm going, I'm dressing up as the mime. :) If they ask me to leave, I'll hold up my donkey puppet and say "Nooooo!"

  14. Trans.... by cloudless.net · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What if you are a guy but you play as a gal in the Sims? Or the other way around?

    1. Re:Trans.... by sofakingl · · Score: 4, Funny

      You'd be surprised how often people do just that. And the results aren't pretty, to put it mildly.

  15. Re:Would hate to be on the hotel staff that weeken by d3kk · · Score: 1, Insightful

    WHAT

  16. Money making idea.... by ajservo · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you arrive at the con, setup an entrance hall called "#1 welcome"...

    Lock in the new arrivals till they pony up.

    My joke is funny... You just haven't realized it yet.

  17. YO by falcon5768 · · Score: 4, Funny
    DONT say that about the mafia yo, we'll kill ya WE'LL KILL YA YA HEAR......

    wait, my mom is calling to take out the trash... brb....

    K WE'll KILL YA!!!!!!!!

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  18. awesome! by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe I can meet Delux_247 if I go! :)

    1. Re:awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's Delux Supa Star Extraordinar to you, bub.

  19. Anime Cosplay by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
    Wow, finally a group of people dorkier than us anime geeks.

    Seriously....at least our costumes are cool to look at.

    What the hell does a person wear to be their Sim? Regular clothes? Aaaahhhhh, and one of their big audiences is girls. The same girls who used to mock me and my friends for doing anime cosplay. Revenge is so sweet and just.

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    1. Re:Anime Cosplay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      both of these groups are equally sad, but i imagine the anime cosplay geeks are somewhat easier to pick out on the street than the sims geeks, because you guys dress like elves, catpeople, and robots. to someone on the outside looking in, which of these groups is more pitiful?

    2. Re:Anime Cosplay by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
      While my comment was meant humorously, AC troll, I do not measure people by looks. I think seeing people dress up like elves, catpeople, and robots is a very creative thing. I'm mocking them for not really needing much creativity to create their Sims costumes, as opposed to the person at an AnimeCon who made a Transformers cosplay costume for himself that could actually transform from a car to a human.

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  20. Mafia? by SamSim · · Score: 1
    it's not clear whether The Sims Online mafia will also be making a money-extorting appearance in real life

    ...or whether there will be whores.

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