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Playing God in The Sims 2
pgptag writes "From Daily News Tribune: 'If you could play God, would you be kind, cruel or just careless? The answer can reveal itself by the way you play "The Sims 2," the highly anticipated follow-up to the "real life" personal computer game "The Sims," which placed omnipotent players in control of the fates of digital people... What's funny is that we have a genetics feature now (which allows characters who mate to have children who share their looks and aspirations). So you can download some of the celebrities that the players have made, put them in the game and have them have kids.'"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/nematoddity/13371 1.html
How long can a neighborhood of sims go without urinating?
Help! I'm being repressed!
kind, cruel, or just careless
You forgot 'horny'.
My Brad Pitt/Jennifer Anniston family slowly evolved into higher primates.
this is a family i'd like to create and play god with. how funny would it be to see an army helicopter pick up bush and have him wear a suit, just like he did last year. "the war in iraq was a success!" ....
let me try and get the reaper to knock on his door. at least itll be real in the sims2.
If you could play God, would you be kind, cruel or just careless?
Let me think about this...
Kind: Here you go my Sim children. Play and enjoy life. Be fruitful and multiply. Please don't eat the fruit from that tree of knowledge because I'm saving it for a pie.
Cruel: How dare you eat my apples! {Godly voice} Locust Storm!!!! Aieeeeeeee!!!! (billions of puppy-dog sized locusts ravage village)
Careless: *sigh* I'm a n00b. What does this button with a pointy letter S do? Only one way to find out! {click} (lightning bolts fly from Heaven destroying entire village)
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
...I want to play The Sims 2 I am still missing the year and a half I lost to the the Sims and the Sims Online. I can't get that time back. :)
What I'd do when I played the original was to make a family of nothing but kids. I'd make a small room, get them all to go in, delete the door, and sit there laughing maniacally as they pissed themselves and started beating each other up. If I ever become a god, Earth is probably screwed... :P
I should find a girl and have a child. I wonder if the alien abduction messed with his DNA.
My favourite was the news story which would turn up in the 1990s in SimCity 2K, where the "Sims" in your city were getting nervous breakdowns after playing a new computer game released recently, wondering whether like the game, they too were only simulated cretins inside a computer game.
... :)
Man, love that recursion
I can't seem to find the "smite with righteous vengeance" option in my girlfriend's copy...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
My friend made his "family" after the iraqi dictator. Sims2 does a remarkable job of letting you create likelesses that really do look like their RL counterparts to some extent.
As for me, I spent a day playing the game the way it was meant to be played, then got bored and started the mass slaughter of my entire neighborhood, playing some sort of sims2 offshoot game where your success was measured by the number of graves.
needless to say, it quickly got boring.
Now I have to get this game, download Kerry and Bush, put them into the same house, and see what happens...
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
The main character looks like a strangely blue-eyed Gordon Liddy.
In Sims 2, you can have your Sims play Sims 1. Pictures here. Now, the true question of what lies hidden in your soul can be answered not by how you treat your creation, but how your creation treats its creations. Have you been able to teach your creature to be a good god, just as you have been a good god, or have you left it secretly vengeful and full of malice. Only through this sort of recursive investigation will you find out how clean your god slate is.
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Ah, making your Sims happy is for pansies. The real goal of The Sims, at least for those of us that have an evil gaming personality, is to make your Sims as miserable as possible or just plain knock 'em off. }:) OOO, look they're flammable.... Muhahaha!
If you're a Sim-ling and you resent your Slashdotting overlord, do you have the right, nay responsibility, to destory his Quicken files?
Ooo... feature for Sims 3? I THINK SO!
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Well, at least in the Sims you can Cntl F5 tornadoes.
or did everybody else use the sims bodyshop to make nude skins and outfits before you even started playing the game?
Do you still have to micromanage your sim's bathroom habits?
:P
I wish I had to! Just started playing Sims 1 again, and my current little guy is freaking addicted to taking baths, to the point where he spends more time in the tub than watching TV or eating
(It could be worse, she could have asked me to make them marry each other;)