So here’s the tea.
I don’t complain publicly about people “leaving sims 3 for sims 4″.
All in all, I do understand people moving on, and just because I don’t personally like the game or the graphics, I have no problem grasping the fact that other may like it, or that we all sooner or later move forwards in life.
Personally I prefer to see sims 3 and sims 2 on my dash, and as such I tend to unfollow most people who switch to sims 4.
It’s nothing personal towards you, at all.
It is simply that I don’t like my dashboard to be cluttered with stuff that are not my interest.
I feel it’s a pity that many people once again have to start the bashing train, based on the fact that some people simply disagree.
We are all adults… or at the very least I assume most people around here are older than 12.
*Cough*.
There’s shaming on both sides.
There are rights and wrongs on both sides.
Either you get shamed for leaving for another game, or you get shamed for not liking another game, and thus unfollow people who start playing it regularly.
And then there’s the 3rd bach, who think they get shamed when there’s no shaming going around.
Personally, I couldn’t give a crap what people play.
Am I sad to see some of my favorite blogs switch? Certainly?
Does it affect my life on a personal level?
Not by any chance.
If I like the way your manage to make sims 4 look, or I like you as a person, chance is I will keep following you, and sometimes like some of your posts.
But in general I don’t follow sims 4 blogs.
It’s just not my style, I really do not like the game, I have no problem speaking my opinion about my dislike for it, and you shouldn’t have a problem either, unless you literally created the game.
I don’t come into your home and shit on a piece of art you made in kindergarten.
Nor will I trash talk your sims 4 posts.
If I don’t like them, I will simply unfollow or not put a like on them.
It is not a personal attack towards you or your friends or your great aunt Lydia.
It’s just that I do not like the game, and I should be allowed to say that out loud.
I mean, to me, the clayified hair looks like…. Lego hair.
The graphics makes me feel like I am looking at a never ending Pixar movie, and I absolutely can’t stand the nature.
It all looks plastic to me.
Yes that gif was a lowblow. No I don’t care if anyone sees it as a personal attack. It’s an attack towards the game, not you. So if you get offended, by all means, have a blast with that.
But hey this post, is my opinion.
And again, nothing against you as a person, you switching game or your freedom to enjoy something I do not like.
I love eating blue cheese and licorice (not mixed tho) am I gonna get sour tits if people I follow don’t like it? Fuck no!
What is the point of that?
I follow a few sims 3 blogs that has switched to sims 4… one of them even use the clayfied hair…. and you know what? I like it!
I like it on their sims… for some reason they make it work, so I genuinely enjoy their pics.
If I like a specific character, chance are, I will enjoy them in sims 4 too.
But as a standard, my dash is blocked from sims 4. On purpose.
If I like a persons sims 4 posts, I will click on them, so they become visible and I can place a like.
But in general, I prefer my dash to be as free of sims 4 as possible.
This will never change, I will never like the game, I tried to switch to sims 4.
It wasn’t for me at all.
I simply cannot get used to the graphics, so why would I want to keep following 400+ sims 3 blogs switching to a game that I literally do not like the sight of?
I also wouldn’t hang 400 posters on my walls I didn’t like and look at them every day.
Just because you disagree, doesn’t make it so a whole community is toxic.
Disagreeing doesn’t equal toxicity.
And to call a whole community toxic based on the fact that someone disagreed with you, is a tad over the edge.
And even if half a community bullied you or did in fact try to group pressure you to stick with the game THEY like, it still doens’t make a whole community toxic.
There’s still so many wonderful people in the sims 3 community.
But as always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If you only focus on the negative, then that’s all you will ever see.
It’s so easy to shout bullying, shout wolf or shout racist these days.
But just because you shout it, doesn’t make it so.
Truth is, in general Tumblr as a whole, is becoming more and more sensitive by the minute.
And if we don’t chill the fuck down, a year from now, everyone will be wrapped in cotton, and no one can speak their mind any longer, cause the list of phrases, meme’s or words we can no longer use, have become so long that we no longer have a language to speak. A way to communicate.
So before you raise a war, take a deep breath and ask yourself, am I being too sensitive today, or is this really a personal attack?
(This is not meant towards anyone specific, it’s towards everyone, myself included, we all need to chill the fuck down peeps, and just have some fun!)
I dunno? I think that makes sense, even in the boiling summer heat.
I wish Tumblr would stop being so easily offended, stop believing everything is a witch hunt, and just have some damn fun with the game YOU enjoy playing. And fuck if you lose followers on that!
It should be about YOU having fun with YOUR game, whatever game that may be.
And not about what your followers enjoy seeing on their dash, cause then you will always play for everyone else, and not yourself.
