Is The Sims A Virtual Dollhouse?
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For me it is, but that's just because of how I play and how I payed with dolls. I was always giving them careers, friends, romance, they were traveling, having families, going shopping...just like my Sims. And that's not restricted to girls. Boys have and pay with dolls too. They aren't something I see as restrictive.
So for me it is the same, though my dolls did always give me personally a little more organic whimsy. My sister and I once strung yarn throughout our entire room, zigzagging from bedposts to drawer handles and chair frames to have a zip line for our Barbies to get to their different locations (it totally worked too). So in that sense, I'd say my dolls were better in that they didn't limit me and my imagination.
With a computer game I have to wait for things to be implemented, and even then they may never come. I'm almost... preemptively limited in what I can do. Not bashing the games, I love them. Just thinking.
So for me it is the same, though my dolls did always give me personally a little more organic whimsy. My sister and I once strung yarn throughout our entire room, zigzagging from bedposts to drawer handles and chair frames to have a zip line for our Barbies to get to their different locations (it totally worked too). So in that sense, I'd say my dolls were better in that they didn't limit me and my imagination.
With a computer game I have to wait for things to be implemented, and even then they may never come. I'm almost... preemptively limited in what I can do. Not bashing the games, I love them. Just thinking.
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