#killing sims

[shittyshitposts]

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To All The Sims I’ve Killed Before

The iconic computer game tasked users with keeping digital humans alive. Instead, we set fires in their houses and removed the doors. Why?

Mortimer Goth settles in to one of the 15 wicker chairs that have suddenly appeared by his lit fireplace. He feels strangely compelled to sit and remain seated, as if guided by an unseen hand, even as the room he’s in grows curiously hotter and hotter. Before he knows it, the chairs around him burst into pixelated flames. He’s on fire! He calls for help, but his wife, Bella, can’t hear him. She’s swimming in circles in their backyard pool, searching fruitlessly for a ladder that doesn’t exist. 

For the uninitiated fiddling around their family desktop, the original version of “The Sims” was mostly about nurturing humanlike characters through life’s minutiae. For everyone else, “The Sims” was and is a game about death, about wacky, inconsequential death, about fiery death and watery death, death by starvation and death by electric shock and death by skydiving malfunction ― Mortimer and Bella’s worst recurring nightmare. And as the game evolved over the years, a kind of meta-game has formed around it: a subtle relationship between creative, death-obsessed “Sims” players and the game’s ever-adapting designers, keen on raising the stakes of the simulated lives we so easily ended.

For more on the trend of killing Sims characters, head here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/killing-sims-death-murder-ea_us_5adf94dbe4b07be4d4c58fd4?cx

[its-leifr-for-now]

I'm going to build them in sims and drown them in the pool.

[ifdisorderwereaperson]

My sims are actively committing not alive. They keep going to swim when they have low energy. I used to have 8 sims in my household... I didn't even take the ladder.

[turflamicgaming420]

Sims 4 my pal the Grim Reaper

[positivelysimful]

Sims paparazzi, why are there so many? They were bothering my celebrity chef at his business so much I made a room out back and started luring them in there, then locked them in. They just keep coming though. 

[samtheflamingomain]

take away the ladder

I'm a huge Simmer, although I ONLY use the game to build houses etc. I RARELY make Sims, and I never, EVER play the game. I honestly don't even understand the appeal.

I've been around since 1, in which I did play the game a bit. Same with 2. But I got bored very easily.

But Sims 3 was when the YouTube fandom of building houses really took off. Also when I realized it was a great way to be creative.

So, to get to the damn point: I've never understood the seemingly-universal desire for people to play the game simply to kill Sims.

In 3, I did play one character to max his skills just for shitz n' gigs. It was hard, but it only took me about 2 months at 2h/day.

Now, in Sims 4, there are more than 30 skills, ranging from baking to whatever the fuck "Selvadoradian Culture" is. So I'm like 'yeah pass'.

But throughout all 4 games, there's always been this kind-of meme where people play just to torture/kill Sims in gameplay.

See, there's SO MANY people, I'd estimate somewhere between 50-75% of people who play the game for this end. But the percentage of the population who would actually kill a HUMAN is much, much lower. Obviously.

I've actually done a lot of reading on the subject, and ultimately what it seems to come down to is anger/frustration. Just as some kids vent their extra anger by killing Nazis in Call of Duty, many people do so in the Sims.

I came across one particular "answer" to this "question" that really got me thinking. The OP basically says, "Yeah, they're not real, but it's still a simulation of actual, voluntary, thought-out murder."

And I kinda agree. In a game like Call of Duty, for example, your only goal/quest/mission is to kill the enemy.

The ENEMY. Sims are nobody's enemy by default. Unless you name them after your elementary school bully. If not, you're literally simulating random murder.

Of course it doesn't have any actual consequences - and maybe that's why people do it.

Another article I read on the subject said it may be a form of curiosity. "What happens if I do *this* to my Sim?"

In reality? Nothing. No consequences whatsoever. 

In the game? Nothing. No consequences except losing a piece of the world you’ve created.

Maybe that’s it? Maybe we’re all trying to, on instinct, control our world? Curate it? 

Oh fuck if I know, I’m just a builder. Sorry I didn’t end up making a point here, just rambling I suppose.

Stay Greater.

[moybean-blog1]

right now im killing my child sim because he befriended the dog i wanted my teenager to be bffs with. YOU HAD THIS COMING LANCE