Works on mine. Although my version crashes every time the Quality Feedback thing pops up, prompting the amusing error message "Firefox.exe has crashed. Would you like to tell Microsoft about this problem?"
True, it gets boring after a while because you need to make friends to progress but your sim just wants to sleep.
Personally after a while I just worked out new and interesting ways to kill the buggers. Deleting the steps out of the pool while they're in it is good to watch. They swim for days... and despite having washboard abs and buns of steel, they can't manage to haul themselves up three inches onto the poolside. Poor fools.
I don't think he needs any links to back his story up. If the Nazis can herd 6 million people into gas chambers and perform experiments involving putting people in pressurised chambers then it's safe to say that they may have given a few kids some mice to chop up. I'm not 'startled' by these 'claims'. Why are you?
I don't know if you played either game, but I assumed that when you read the comments about players torturing Sims you envisaged horrific acts of physical abuse.
However, torture in The Sims is limited to the kind of torture Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr Bean or Lee Evans experiences. You know: the phone rings, the toast sets on fire, the doorbell rings and the waste disposal spews week-old cabbage all over the kitchen, all at the same time. We'll call it Kitchen Sink Torture.
The Sims is a game about daily life, albeit a camp, kitschy, slapstick life. It's colourful. The people all speak in childlike babble-talk. It is in no way teaching children to enjoy torture. It's showing them that it's funny when your character tries to wash the dishes and floods the kitchen.
Kids think it's funny to 'torture' the characters because the Sims throw tantrums and stamp their feet when something goes wrong. They're not delighting in some sadistic massacre, they're laughing because the funny man tried to use the toilet and it broke. The Sims 2 sponsors Malcolm In The Middle on Sky One. They suit each other quite well, I think.
And yes, you can kill your characters, but it's very boring. The most popular method is to wall them in somewhere and starve them, but you have to put up with their (surprisingly upbeat) complaining about needing the toilet. And it's not half as fun as giving them a science kit and watching them create an evil clone which then chases them around the house. That kind of torture.
it's true! Whenever I see digital pickups and synths I think of cheesy 80's electro bands. Ibanez have started making guitars and basses out of Luthite now, but I haven't heard what they sound like. For now I'll stick with my Les Paul, and sneer in derision at Strats and Teles.
As for effects, I prefer analogue because there's more accuracy when you're tweaking the sound. Plus you get the nice 'sweep' effect when you move the knobs instead of the jerkiness of digital. I think the Electro Harmonix Small Stone phaser illustrates this point well!
it gave me the jibblies, that's for sure. although due to my laptop being minimum spec there would be a slight pause before anything jumped out at me which gave me a chance to steady my tattered nerves.
I think that the lapses in action were the most unnerving. like when the power goes out in the room in the first level and it's completely dark and silent, or when you hear someone whisper 'please help me' from the shadows.
As long as they make him sign a non-disclosure agreement or something similar before he leaves, there's no problem as I see it. Then they can sue his ass if he squeals.
Other than that, so what if he can't work for a rival for 2 years? If he's got enough experience and knowledge in the field that he poses a threat to his former company, he shouldn't have any trouble finding work elsewhere.
Ha! this story caught my attention because my laptop was stolen despite having one of those locks on it. Fortunately because it was locked down I got a nice widescreen Inspiron 8600 on the insurance. Still would be nice to get $1500 though. Curses.
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Works on mine. Although my version crashes every time the Quality Feedback thing pops up, prompting the amusing error message "Firefox.exe has crashed. Would you like to tell Microsoft about this problem?"
True, it gets boring after a while because you need to make friends to progress but your sim just wants to sleep.
Personally after a while I just worked out new and interesting ways to kill the buggers. Deleting the steps out of the pool while they're in it is good to watch. They swim for days... and despite having washboard abs and buns of steel, they can't manage to haul themselves up three inches onto the poolside. Poor fools.
I don't think he needs any links to back his story up. If the Nazis can herd 6 million people into gas chambers and perform experiments involving putting people in pressurised chambers then it's safe to say that they may have given a few kids some mice to chop up. I'm not 'startled' by these 'claims'. Why are you?
use the bodyshop? there were nude skins up on suprnova a week before it was out... your Game Pervert sense must be fading!
I don't know if you played either game, but I assumed that when you read the comments about players torturing Sims you envisaged horrific acts of physical abuse.
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However, torture in The Sims is limited to the kind of torture Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr Bean or Lee Evans experiences. You know: the phone rings, the toast sets on fire, the doorbell rings and the waste disposal spews week-old cabbage all over the kitchen, all at the same time. We'll call it Kitchen Sink Torture.
The Sims is a game about daily life, albeit a camp, kitschy, slapstick life. It's colourful. The people all speak in childlike babble-talk. It is in no way teaching children to enjoy torture. It's showing them that it's funny when your character tries to wash the dishes and floods the kitchen.
Kids think it's funny to 'torture' the characters because the Sims throw tantrums and stamp their feet when something goes wrong. They're not delighting in some sadistic massacre, they're laughing because the funny man tried to use the toilet and it broke. The Sims 2 sponsors Malcolm In The Middle on Sky One. They suit each other quite well, I think.
And yes, you can kill your characters, but it's very boring. The most popular method is to wall them in somewhere and starve them, but you have to put up with their (surprisingly upbeat) complaining about needing the toilet. And it's not half as fun as giving them a science kit and watching them create an evil clone which then chases them around the house. That kind of torture.
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it's true! Whenever I see digital pickups and synths I think of cheesy 80's electro bands. Ibanez have started making guitars and basses out of Luthite now, but I haven't heard what they sound like. For now I'll stick with my Les Paul, and sneer in derision at Strats and Teles. As for effects, I prefer analogue because there's more accuracy when you're tweaking the sound. Plus you get the nice 'sweep' effect when you move the knobs instead of the jerkiness of digital. I think the Electro Harmonix Small Stone phaser illustrates this point well!
it gave me the jibblies, that's for sure. although due to my laptop being minimum spec there would be a slight pause before anything jumped out at me which gave me a chance to steady my tattered nerves. I think that the lapses in action were the most unnerving. like when the power goes out in the room in the first level and it's completely dark and silent, or when you hear someone whisper 'please help me' from the shadows.
As long as they make him sign a non-disclosure agreement or something similar before he leaves, there's no problem as I see it. Then they can sue his ass if he squeals. Other than that, so what if he can't work for a rival for 2 years? If he's got enough experience and knowledge in the field that he poses a threat to his former company, he shouldn't have any trouble finding work elsewhere.
Ha! this story caught my attention because my laptop was stolen despite having one of those locks on it. Fortunately because it was locked down I got a nice widescreen Inspiron 8600 on the insurance. Still would be nice to get $1500 though. Curses.