Can we talk about the sims 4 rebrand vidio ?
Besides being cringey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVaEM0VfXU I feel like this video is manipulating.It feels like they took a bunch of people with self-esteem issues than put them on the cent...
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I don't think the video suggests playing the game as an alternative to therapy but as a supplement to traditional therapy. Also, this article from 2 years ago indicate that some had already discovered the game as a means of distraction, albeit temporary, from real life issues.
There is something about The Sims that is incredibly calming. It’s not the “living another life vicariously through pixel people” but more, you know, “this is something I can just concentrate on for hours, build and weave communities and stories and suddenly everything in my head that’s trying to tear me apart, constantly, just fizzles away.”
For a short period of time, every single day, I have no anxiety. My constant dysphoria and body image issues are forgotten and I’m playing my transgender self, in a highly detailed game, managing a gigantic family of vampires, moving them around and building a network of some kind of expansive family bloodline. It’s just everything I could have asked for from a game, and even more. No toxic global chat channel constantly butting into my experience, no high-stress competitive environment, nobody telling me how they think I should live my life, or how they think I shouldn’t live at all.
http://newnormative.com/2017/10/18/sims-isnt-just-game-therapy-tool/
There is something about The Sims that is incredibly calming. It’s not the “living another life vicariously through pixel people” but more, you know, “this is something I can just concentrate on for hours, build and weave communities and stories and suddenly everything in my head that’s trying to tear me apart, constantly, just fizzles away.”
For a short period of time, every single day, I have no anxiety. My constant dysphoria and body image issues are forgotten and I’m playing my transgender self, in a highly detailed game, managing a gigantic family of vampires, moving them around and building a network of some kind of expansive family bloodline. It’s just everything I could have asked for from a game, and even more. No toxic global chat channel constantly butting into my experience, no high-stress competitive environment, nobody telling me how they think I should live my life, or how they think I shouldn’t live at all.
http://newnormative.com/2017/10/18/sims-isnt-just-game-therapy-tool/
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