"Sigzy05;c-16989292" wrote:
"SilentKitty;c-16989283" wrote:
"Naus;c-16989211" wrote:
"MVWdeZT;c-16989146" wrote:
Just wanted to point out that there's a reason why the vaccine is thrown rather than administered in a shot. The Sims team has already delivered an animation of a Sim giving a shot, so they could have done that here. If you only played 2 hours, you might not have discovered the reason why the vaccine is thrown.
Excuses, excuses, excuses. First of all, as I explained in a separate thread it shouldn't be a vaccine. Vaccines don't work the way developers think they work. Second, there's almost no way to administer a vaccine through the dermis. You have to get to the subcutaneous tissue. The closest we've got to dermal vaccionation is through microneedles, but pores wouldn't be capable of absorbing a vaccine. To put it simply, throwing a glass of whatever at a person wouldn't do a plum thing (other than get them wet).
Whatever explanation you think they gave (I read every popup text and aspiration goals, I wasn't given any), it doesn't make sense from a scientific point of view. Unless you think science is a matter of opinion.
"MVWdeZT;c-16989146" wrote:
Also, the story is as cliched as the player makes it.
:D Most epic cop-out ever! Try harder next time. ;)
https://sims-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/vet-clinic-head.jpg
Hmm... For me this sounds so strange. Why would the sims medicine work the same way as it does for us, pets with glowing noses is a common occurrence at the vet for them? And why do you assume that developers do not understand how vaccines work in our world? This is a fictional game.
Personally I did wonder why it was thrown and not given by at shot but I do not tie that to understanding of real life medicine, just seems a bit odd to me.
@MVWdeZT I totally missed why it was thrown even when I was running round there for hours. If you feel like it I would love to know why :)
You know The Sims is suppose to be a life simulation right? All things considered. In GTW sims already give a form of injected shots so why didn't they use a similar animation with the same object? It's not consistent at all and it's jarring to see a vaccine as throwing a drink to your face.
I thought that there would be shots and would love to know why it was thrown. If MVWdeZT figured it out that would be fun to know. For me it is just a little bit strange to assume that the developers would not understand how vaccines work in our world. That it has to be done one way or it would not be valid from a scientific point of view. That bit just strikes me as odd. We have a set of steps that we can take to return ghosts to their living form and so forth, but a vaccine administered in a less preferred way and then the developers do not understand real life science.
I personally thought that it was a bit odd that it was thrown. But I do not directly assume that understanding of real world science is the reason. Also, I do not like how Naus replied to MVWdeZT when the poster pointed out that there apparently is a reason for the vaccine to be thrown rather than give as a shot. MVWdeZT simply points out that there seems to be some hidden tidbit of lore for why it looks like it does.
Naus then replies:
"Whatever explanation you think they gave (I read every popup text and aspiration goals, I wasn't given any), it doesn't make sense from a scientific point of view. Unless you think science is a matter of opinion."
Whatever explanation you think they gave. I don't know what happens but if there is something then the developers of the game placed it there. It is their world. They can do whatever they want. Then finishing off with "Unless you think science is a matter of opinion" as if MVWdeZT had walzed in happily announcing that the real world is flat and that gravity is a joke. It just feels like such a unnecessary way to speak to people on our forum.
Why not just say "The animation with the vaccine being thrown looks really odd to me". I could get behind that. I dislike it when you make the argument that someone is less understanding, that a person does not understand things. In that case then I really would like to see what you base that on.
