"Why Are We Sadistic Towards Our Sims?" (New Statesman article)

I completely understand the author saying this.....

I understand Adam’s motivations. After purchasing a copy of Sims 4 last week, I played for an hour, found an in-game boyfriend, engaged in some titillating WooHoo and then grew bored with the traditional way of playing the game.

Oh man, I love sims torture. It's like the game even encouraged it to begin with. Especially after you just got that one sims that you're really attached to get electrocuted from repairing stuff (sims 3, sims 4 one is kind of unaffected by electrocution) I usually just go ham and try to burn all the npc, or drown them, or starve them in a room.


Hmm, I think I have issue.

Oh my, I'm depressed when my sim is sad, can't imagine torturing them! :D That's why I don't like pets in the sims - I always feel guilty when sim is not playing with his dog or cat.

I vacillate between being a helpful god that will help sims clean up the mess and being a vengeful god who will set the kitchen on fire with the sims in it and then delete the door. I'd say that I'm a fickle deity.

Personally speaking, I feel like I play Sims in a way of reality to keep a progressive storyline. The Sims do have limited amount of ways of dying in comparison to the real world and death (at least in ts4) is not autonomous or frequent as it was in other series. So I have to kill a Sim or two so that my story could go "oh, they lost this family member or this person died and now love is lost or whatever the case me be".

In ts2, I killed Sims just for the fun of it and maybe that was because I was younger. In ts3, I killed Sims but it wasn't as fun as doing it in ts2. Buy now that I'm growing in my young adult life, my game play has not been about killing or torturing sims, but about progressing on into adulthood (marriage, children, working, etc.) because that's where I'm at now in life and want my Sims to experience it too. (I may be too attached to this game and playing it as a reality).

I'm not sadistic or a psychopath. It's just a game where my imagination of storytelling goes. It's where I would create a cheating Sim to marry and then see how he or her ruin the lives of those around them. Do I condone this is real life? No, but it's like my alternative world as I like to refer it to.

Sims has been a game that I use to distress after a long day at work or school or when real life is just too overwhelming and I have no one to talk to. So I'll vent and take my frustrations out on my Sims sometimes. It's great at just taking your mind off things.

Eta: autocorrect corrections

So interesting!! Honestly everyone does that. It's so difficult for me to play a game where I don't have my sims cheat on each other. It's just so easy to get bored with the traditional way of playing you know?

They seem to be thinking about it too deeply; Sims is like watching a TV show following a persons life, you want drama to happen, death, scandal; or you wouldn't be watching. It's also an opportunity to try things we never would in real life. I do think the anonymity and God-power have an effect, though.

Myself, I get attached to some of my sims, but the others I'd happily let die, or be tortured; sometimes I put the ones I like through hard times as well, but I know it will turn out good for them in the end. If anything, that's more psychological; that we can attach to some things, but consider other equal things unimportant and expendable.

"Uzone27;15438020" wrote:
Some people beocme immersed and emotionally attached , other people don't
In most cases it's probably just boredom.

I get emotionally attached to my sim but I also get very annoyed at them when they refuse to follow my orders so I tend to try to kill them. LOL

"Uzone27;15438231" wrote:

"pepperjax1230;15438219" wrote:

"Uzone27;15438020" wrote:
Some people beocme immersed and emotionally attached , other people don't
In most cases it's probably just boredom.

I get emotionally attached to my sim but I also get very annoyed at them when they refuse to follow my orders so I tend to try to kill them. LOL

How is that even possible? My Sims are extremely obedient. You must let the game play it'self if they keep cutting the leash.

Does that mean everyones game should be like yours?

"Uzone27;15438211" wrote:

"pandaslayer08;15438192" wrote:
So interesting!! Honestly everyone does that. It's so difficult for me to play a game where I don't have my sims cheat on each other. It's just so easy to get bored with the traditional way of playing you know?

Not everyone.

Totally agree. I have never tortured a Sim and frankly, I don't understand the motivation to do so.