I dunno but this is disturbing on one level. Mainly due to the author wanting to make more out of the game than there is. I'm sure there are ill individuals out there that may use the game in a truly real life deviant way but that does not reflect the simming community as a whole at all.
If a townie annoys me I actually just go into manage worlds and delete them. I can't be bothered to go through the tedious process of trapping and drowning or whatever. Isn't my cup of tea at all. I've played through a Black Widow challenge and although I obvs killed the 8 spouses I didn't find it amusing to do, rather more annoying and tedious as killing sims in TS4 is such a long drawn out boring thing to have to do.
Fire in TS3 is actually amusing to watch mainly because it was so well... fiery! I love it when a fire accidentally breaks out at a party but more because of the mayhem and chaos that ensues not actually because sims might die.
At the end of the day they are simply pixels. It's the thoughts of the simmer as they play in whatever manner they choose to do that counts.
