Missing Emotion
Just an observation, but I've noticed an oddly missing emotional state. Fear. There's a Decoration item called "Don't Fear the Reagnomper" though, for some reason, when the Grim Reaper shows up, no on...
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> Well, I don't think I'd want fear to add to the discrimination against aliens that is already going on in the game. It's weird how every sim, independent of their traits, reacts negatively to finding out that someone else is an alien. So if fear (either as a new emotion or some kind of trait) ever becomes a thing, I'd like to decide for myself who or what my sims are afraid of.
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> @GrumpyGlowfish I do agree with you on the alien discrimination. My doctor sim (who is a hybrid alien himself) was giving one of his patients (incidentally, they were an uncle or cousin or something) an X-ray scan. The patient was an alien and the scan showed this. Then, a horrible notification popped up saying something along the lines of “Alek has discovered that X is an alien. I don’t know what it (the game’s italics, not mine) expects from this visit, but let’s pretend as if we haven’t noticed”. It - the game called an alien it. To me that was just too close to speciesism and made me uncomfortable. I love my aliens.
I think the discimination against aliens is valuable in so far that it reflects our society, where there is a lot of debate regarding migration. I use it in my plays where I got two politicians competing for power, where the migration from Xisam is the most important topic. One is pro the other one wants to send them all back to Xisam.
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> Well, I don't think I'd want fear to add to the discrimination against aliens that is already going on in the game. It's weird how every sim, independent of their traits, reacts negatively to finding out that someone else is an alien. So if fear (either as a new emotion or some kind of trait) ever becomes a thing, I'd like to decide for myself who or what my sims are afraid of.
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> @GrumpyGlowfish I do agree with you on the alien discrimination. My doctor sim (who is a hybrid alien himself) was giving one of his patients (incidentally, they were an uncle or cousin or something) an X-ray scan. The patient was an alien and the scan showed this. Then, a horrible notification popped up saying something along the lines of “Alek has discovered that X is an alien. I don’t know what it (the game’s italics, not mine) expects from this visit, but let’s pretend as if we haven’t noticed”. It - the game called an alien it. To me that was just too close to speciesism and made me uncomfortable. I love my aliens.
I think the discimination against aliens is valuable in so far that it reflects our society, where there is a lot of debate regarding migration. I use it in my plays where I got two politicians competing for power, where the migration from Xisam is the most important topic. One is pro the other one wants to send them all back to Xisam.
