Do you play as your Simself?
What it says in the title, do you play as your Simself? Feel free to comment why you do or don't.
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My simself was among the first things I created every time I started playing a new Sims game. It's not my most played sim, but the most reused one, because there is some version of me running around in almost every save. The amount of realism varies, as my simself looks and acts like me most of the time, but usually has a much more interesting life. (And as an introvert with a boring day job who spends her free time writing novels and playing video games, I don't have to try very hard to come up with something more interesting than that.)
The most extreme thing I ever did with my simself was in TS2. The plan was to create my ideal life in a new save, but my conflicting interests and ideas about what that life should look like made it difficult to decide on one specific direction. So I made something that must come across as super narcissistic, but was really just an experiment to figure out what I wanted: An entire town filled with different versions of me. One was a reclusive and somewhat creepy witch practising magic by herself in an old-fashioned cabin in the forest, another was a secret agent saving the world by day and exploring the stars by night, yet another was a famous writer living with the man of her dreams, then there was the crazy cat lady living with four cats representing the four elements, an evil version aspiring to rule the world, etc.
What came out of the experiment? Well, nothing I didn't already know. The real me is a mixture of all those things, and I think my newest simself in TS4 reconciles them quite effectively: A magically gifted writer and leader of the astronomy club living in the forest of Glimmerbrook with a cat familiar and an angelic boyfriend who is a secret agent. I haven't played with her in a while, though, since she has achieved everything I wanted for her, and that's usually the point where I move on to other sims.
The most extreme thing I ever did with my simself was in TS2. The plan was to create my ideal life in a new save, but my conflicting interests and ideas about what that life should look like made it difficult to decide on one specific direction. So I made something that must come across as super narcissistic, but was really just an experiment to figure out what I wanted: An entire town filled with different versions of me. One was a reclusive and somewhat creepy witch practising magic by herself in an old-fashioned cabin in the forest, another was a secret agent saving the world by day and exploring the stars by night, yet another was a famous writer living with the man of her dreams, then there was the crazy cat lady living with four cats representing the four elements, an evil version aspiring to rule the world, etc.
What came out of the experiment? Well, nothing I didn't already know. The real me is a mixture of all those things, and I think my newest simself in TS4 reconciles them quite effectively: A magically gifted writer and leader of the astronomy club living in the forest of Glimmerbrook with a cat familiar and an angelic boyfriend who is a secret agent. I haven't played with her in a while, though, since she has achieved everything I wanted for her, and that's usually the point where I move on to other sims.
