The first time a Sim died on me, my surviving Sims circled the body and cried their eyes out. Personally, I didn't feel the need to mourn. I was far too fascinated by the fact that the Grim Reaper had turned up to take the Sim away.
Until this week, I'd never played The Sims.
As everyone who plays it knows, The Sims is a virtual life simulator that doesn't officially have a set end-goal, but, like, the goal is to make your Sim have sex with every single person in their neighborhood. What you may not know, is that the game may have never come into existence at all had not it been for an…
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This may not be as illuminating a dip into architecture as some of you may have hoped for, but it is interesting in a Sims kind of way. Haven't you always wanted to know exactly how much space your favorite (or least favorite) sitcom characters occupied? Didn't you always want to have a better idea of just how far…
If you are not yet familiar with the world of Sims patch notes, please allow us to make your day.
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Mothers, beware: there's a new way your children are being exposed to online pornography — and they don't even have to seek it out themselves! My Fox DC brings us a story of a mother who was doing the responsible thing by monitoring her kids' computer usage, and found a vile suprise in the place she least expected, …
Someone has done a frame-by-frame Sims version of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" video. It's actually less odd than the real thing. [YouTube via Mediaite]
