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Sims the New Dolls?
philgross writes "According to the New York Times, lots of girls and younger teens are abandoning their dolls for the Sims. Says one professor, "We leave most of the social work in our society to women and The Sims lets young girls, in particular, work out their desires and conflicts about those relationships." Says another, "Children generally want to create characters, but with girls we see them wanting to create a friend." Meanwhile, says Will Wright, boys will "do the same stupid thing over and over again and be happy," (and I wince looking at my vast collection of first-person shooters).
The article does quote one 10-year-old boy who plays with Sims, and has learned valuable life lessons. "I learned don't leave your baby crying or people will come take your baby away."" And I learned that if you lock Sims in your upstairs torture chamber, with no tiles to sit, they eventually cry themselves to death.
Right before the first Christmas after the Sims came out, I was having my haircut and discussing the holiday. My hairstylist said she still need another gift for her pre-teen daughter, and I suggested The Sims. Well, she loved it, and apparently she loved it too much, as the next time I visited for a haircut, I learned grounding now involved loss of The Sims.
So what you're trying to say, young man, is that The Sims helped your family line from becoming a victim of natural selection?
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The article does quote one 10-year-old boy who plays with Sims, and has learned valuable life lessons. "I learned don't leave your baby crying or people will come take your baby away."
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So if Sims are the new dolls, what are the new ponies?
Barbie Horse Adventures, it should be pointed out, doesn't have any ponies.
Hmmmm.... I learned some of those lessons from Little Computer People on my Commodore 64. If you don't feed the LCP he gets sad and turns green. If you leave the machine on overnight to watch him starve, your mother will decide that you probably shouldn't have a pet just yet, even though it turns out that you can't kill an LCP. Seriously, my mother was so moved by the suffering of my LCP that she made me give him food and water while she watched :)
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Also, pizza costs $40
So more than a decade after buying/destroying Origin they've recreated characters buying food and getting hungry.
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The only thing I ever did with either the Sims or The Sims 2 is have two chicks living in the house flirting as heavily as they could with each other until they finally did it. Then, no more interest. Took about 8-10 hours each time.
With Sims 2 I tried to get 3 girls to all simultaneously be in love with each other, but it was too tricky.
This game is still obviously addicting. One night my girlfriend went to bed a 9pm because she was tired. I had the sims running on my machine in my room. I came in there about midnight, 3 hours later, and she's laying awake in bed watching them. I'm like "what are you doing?" She says "I can't stop watching them, they just do things randomly, turn it off!"
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Anyway, I (a 27-year old man) still play with dolls...
Damn, your lucky. My girlfriend woul be pissed if she caught me playing with one of these.
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boys will "do the same stupid thing over and over again and be happy,"
It's true. The first thing any new Sim does under my control is get a girlfriend, and I never tire of it.
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