"NoName123;c-16737382" wrote:
Maybe people want disabled sims because they themselves are disabled and don't think of their lives as being a pity party. A wheelchair is not a limitation of who you are, nor does it have to be depressing. Maybe the most important to them isn't being able to walk but to live a life being accepted for who they are. So when they try to engage in a game of fantasy their fantasy might just be to be who they are , physical limitations and all, and live a full life. Not be told that they have to be physically able to enjoy those things.
Pity Party?
The point is, for this to be done right, then no, we shouldn't see Sims in chairs who just magically teleport from A to B. That's an insult. Because anyone who had to use a chair before knows
their muscles become atrophied and they may not have the strength after time to roll that chair. So, just seeing a Sim teleport magically from here to there is an insult to the person who had to make that struggle.
But players don't have the patience to sit and wait for a Sim to struggle to get from A to B. You know that is the truth. The animations would portray things as hunky dory, all rainbows, and that is not the facts. You think people who live in chairs all have access to rehabilitation centers? Or battery powered chairs? Or eveyrone has someone to help them? So, are you expecting this all to be sugar and spice and be really positive? If Maxis wants to the right thing, they would build in every disadvantage, ever daily struggle, and the long periods of time it takes to even sew a button or punch a cell phone / and all struggles a person lives with. No rainbows.
You really don't want to play a real game about those struggles do you? I doubt it. Because we already have people complaining about how much time it takes with the bugged AI recently of Sims just standing there. Well, that's all part of it, too. Don't tell me what a pity party is, when you have invisible walls and your muscles fail to move when your brain is saying move. Nor that it's a pity party to watch your muslces become atrophied.
ETA: Maxis shouldn't be in the teaching (socially acceptable) business. Because if they are, then they need to portray the whole truth.
