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.

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They're hollow!!!

[SimHacker]

And another little known and totally supressed fact: Sims are hollow!!! That saves a lot of chocolate, which makes the product much cheaper to produce, and downloading Sims from the internet is much faster because you don't have to wait for all the guts and fillings.

But hollow Sims are not as evil as Chocolate Easter Bunnies and Chocolate Santa Clauses, which are really just a big Christian conspiracy to trick and mislead kids, and crush their hopes and dreams, by leading them on to think they're getting solid chocolate, but then disappointing them by giving them a thin waxy shell full of empty nothingness, instead of the promised chocolate core. That's actually a great lesson about the harsh cruelty of life, which teaches kids to expect more lies and disappointments later in life, but to associate broken promises and hollow chocolate and obviously fictitious fairy tales with Jesus's birth and crucifiction just strikes me as sick and demented. Why are Christians so surprized when their children lose their faith, after parents lie to kids about important things like chocolate?

-Don