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EA Considering Sims TV Show
Reuters is carrying the news that Electronic Arts is considering creating a television show based on 'The Sims'. The show would allow viewers to vote on what the avatars in the show would do. From the article: "One idea could be that you're controlling a family, telling them when to go to the kitchen and when to go to the bedroom, and with this mechanism you have gamers all over the world 'playing the show."
Viewers could tell the Sims when to work 80 hr weeks with no overtime pay!
Why can't Reality TV just die already? Plus, it's not reality, waking up at 3am to get first post on Slashdot is what the TRUTH is.
"One idea could be that you're controlling a family, telling them when to go to the kitchen and when to go to the bedroom,
If they leave the bedroom option in there, I think I can see the future of this show already.
The coolest voice ever.
It won't get past the FCC, especially if they let them buy the vibrating bed...
EA has signed an exclusive contract with humans stating that only EA is able to makes games involving such.
The coolest voice ever.
If people get to "vote" on what the sims do, they might end up playing like me and just force feed them coffee and never let them sleep or go to the bathroom.
Wow! With this new TV show, I can turn on the TV and watch the Sims watch TV!
(Apologies to Penny Arcade)
Omnes stulti sunt.
A "virtual" reality TV show? How desperate for entertainment are we?
-- Nic
I think what people really need is interactive Discovery Channel
Now THAT would be news...
Will the audience be able to decide if the Sim takes a toilet break or soils himself? If the option is there we all know what will be chosen...
---- Take the Space Quiz!
Complete with a beat the "perp" button ? or is that a california only option ?
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How can they run this show without getting into trouble from the censors?
It seems pretty obvious to me that people will be voting for the protagonist to screw the pooch rather than bake a cake or read a book.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm watching him watch his Sims watch TV."
Now it's going to be:
"I'm watching him watch TV to watch the Sims so he can vote for what the Sims watch on TV."
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
...I joked long before Sims came out that one day they would make a game on the PC that required people to do laundry or dishes, tasks that no one likes doing in real life and people would love it. Then it became a reality.
Most reality television shows have been awful, this one appears to be the next step in the de-evolution of the human species. This show just perpetuates my theory: Most humans do not want to think, they just want to be told what to do. This removes their need for personal responsibility and accountability.
Fellow slashdotters excluded, of course....
I think what people really need is interactive Discovery Channel
Interactive Steve Irwin! I like it!
We could tell him which dangerous animals to poke (and then declare "grumpy"), and which poisonous snakes to put on his head!
I'd even watch THAT on pay-per-view!
You can't take the sky from me...
The Sims, sponsored Juan Valdez and Toto Toilets.
Why I don't give a fuck...
1.) All the characters will wear EA branded clothes.
2.) All the thiefs will wear ESPN/sega clothes.
3.) The sims character will only watch EA sportcenter.
4.) The only profession available in the sims world is programmer for EA.
5.) All the commercials between the show will be Madden commercials.
6.) When the characters are in the shower, they'll sing EA slogans.
7.) The sim dating service will give each other EA sports games only.
8.) There will be a EA monopoly holiday that requires all the sim characters to work even more overtime.