LoveStruck Negative Thread 2.0
This is a 2.0 from the other thread
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I don't think you can like/dislike a sim based on weight, if they have piercings or tattoos, eye color, or body hair.
I noticed that too. I think that has to do with wanting to be inclusive and being afraid of insulting anyone (a part of this anxious time we live in), but I do believe it's a mistake. I can sort of get why when it comes to weight, but the rest shouldn't be that controversial.
They had all the negative things you can think of in the past game of Sims 2 turn on and turn off and I don't believe that people back in the day complain about it. Now I guess they have to be careful what they do.
The world has changed a lot since then, and people are more easily offended, by everything. Just look at movies that each movie needs to start with a disclaimer that views expressed are not the company's. EA is clearly reacting to this, but forgets that the result leaves us with safe but uninteresting and in this case plain stupid alternatives (like being turned off by a color of a shirt while not caring about if the person is covered in tattoos or not).
I get skin color and weight, I do, but the options suggested above (tattoos, body hair and so on) should have been safe. Also:
- Short, long or medium hair? Updos or not? Afro-textured, wavy or straight?
- Body hair where? on the legs? back? arms? torso? (I might like one but not the other)
- Wrinkles, freckles, braces, pimples, birthmarks...
Basically, the more detailed the better in this case.
Irrespective of what a political nightmare skin color would have been, given the sheer VARIETY in-game I think it would be impossible to implement!
