What are things you wouldn't do in real life (but could), but find yourself doing a lot in-game?

Write, paint and play music... also battle evil but mostly write, paint and play music.

Honestly, as a wish fulfillment fantasy, SIMS let's me play out my desire to be a best-seller author, to create beautiful art and music, to cook great food and to spend time with people I like and to be able to live a nice life while doing it all. Yes, there is also a lot of romance and free love going on in my games... I'm a romantic... but the real win for me is being able to do art.