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

i can never bring myself to be deliberately mean to anything in the sims or other games but i am retaliatory, they do something poopy, i will punish them.

"PHOEBESMOM601;15443507" wrote:
Maybe I'm the odd one out but I never wonder about the player who occasionally does mean things to a Sim, kills them off or builds a jail in their basement. I do wonder about the ones who make the whole game into a virtual torture chamber and nothing else. Then again maybe it means that the small animals in their neighborhood are safe.

No you're not the odd one out. I wonder about this too. What makes it more disturbing for me is when those types of players put Sims of real life people into their "nothing but torture" game.

I am with @Cinebar when it comes to self sims and / or sims of people I know. I find the very idea of self sims and playing a self sim somewhat creepy. I've handed out Pary sim in the past for folks to toss into their games, but she is a representative of me, she is not meant to BE me.

I couldn't ever imagine playing sims just to torture any sims, let alone sims of people I know.

Edit - What I also found disturbing about that article is that the author seems to equate unconventional play styles as only killing and torture, without noting that playing outside of convention can also include a range of other ways to play.

"DevilNDisguise;15446023" wrote:
I may be a bit sadistic, but I love my Sims like they're my children. :D I have never, in all my years of playing The Sims, killed a Sim out of utter boredom. I only ever do it to make their lives progress and to tell their stories.

Exactly this. The only time I killed a Sim (or rather, tried to - I couldn't endure in the end :D ) was when I tried to play a REALLY evil Sim, who would (this was the plan) make everyone pregnant and then leave the mother once the child would be born, and sometimes even lure people into his house and kill them there. "Hates Children" trait included.
But as I said, I couldn't even get past the first victim - and pretty quickly deleted that save (and the Sim) as well.

I do sometimes add emotions that are more fitting and such things though. For example when a teen daughter was rejected by the handsome (but pretty snobby) neighbour boy, I made her Very Sad for the next few days. Or I'd have a divorced former couple fight eachother at the peak of their hate relationship, then have the attacker leave the house and move somewhere else.
But then I'd have the teen girl find a new and much nicer boyfriend whom she'll marry in the end, and the mother who was left alone adopted a child, got a job and has an awesome life without her former husband now.

This game brings out our true colors tbh. What we want to do irl but we can't. I don't kill my sims I don't like to, but to those that do y'all need some saving

For the same reason people love to see Daff Duck and Goof geting hurt and scream.

Its funny.

It also gives a sense of power.

UNLIMITED POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

"Pary;15447179" wrote:

"PHOEBESMOM601;15443507" wrote:
Maybe I'm the odd one out but I never wonder about the player who occasionally does mean things to a Sim, kills them off or builds a jail in their basement. I do wonder about the ones who make the whole game into a virtual torture chamber and nothing else. Then again maybe it means that the small animals in their neighborhood are safe.

No you're not the odd one out. I wonder about this too. What makes it more disturbing for me is when those types of players put Sims of real life people into their "nothing but torture" game.

I am with @Cinebar when it comes to self sims and / or sims of people I know. I find the very idea of self sims and playing a self sim somewhat creepy. I've handed out Pary sim in the past for folks to toss into their games, but she is a representative of me, she is not meant to BE me.

I couldn't ever imagine playing sims just to torture any sims, let alone sims of people I know.

Edit - What I also found disturbing about that article is that the author seems to equate unconventional play styles as only killing and torture, without noting that playing outside of convention can also include a range of other ways to play.

When playing TS3 I once filled a town with just friends and family. I'd never done a Sim self or people I actually knew. I played with it for about an hour and it all just felt too creepy and voyeuristic to me. I just deleted the game.

"PHOEBESMOM601;15472633" wrote:

"Pary;15447179" wrote:

"PHOEBESMOM601;15443507" wrote:
Maybe I'm the odd one out but I never wonder about the player who occasionally does mean things to a Sim, kills them off or builds a jail in their basement. I do wonder about the ones who make the whole game into a virtual torture chamber and nothing else. Then again maybe it means that the small animals in their neighborhood are safe.

No you're not the odd one out. I wonder about this too. What makes it more disturbing for me is when those types of players put Sims of real life people into their "nothing but torture" game.

I am with @Cinebar when it comes to self sims and / or sims of people I know. I find the very idea of self sims and playing a self sim somewhat creepy. I've handed out Pary sim in the past for folks to toss into their games, but she is a representative of me, she is not meant to BE me.

I couldn't ever imagine playing sims just to torture any sims, let alone sims of people I know.

Edit - What I also found disturbing about that article is that the author seems to equate unconventional play styles as only killing and torture, without noting that playing outside of convention can also include a range of other ways to play.

When playing TS3 I once filled a town with just friends and family. I'd never done a Sim self or people I actually knew. I played with it for about an hour and it all just felt too creepy and voyeuristic to me. I just deleted the game.

IKR, but if we kill Sims by meteor or starvation or something we are evil...I don't know I think playing someone you know is beyond what I do. lol

"sweetbluekiana1;15472577" wrote:
This game brings out our true colors tbh. What we want to do irl but we can't. I don't kill my sims I don't like to, but to those that do y'all need some saving

I don't see a huge difference in preference between what can be done in the game and the genre of movies and shows we like to watch. Just because I watch a murder mystery or set one up in my game and kill Sims off doesn't mean I need 'saving'.

"PHOEBESMOM601;15472653" wrote:

"sweetbluekiana1;15472577" wrote:
This game brings out our true colors tbh. What we want to do irl but we can't. I don't kill my sims I don't like to, but to those that do y'all need some saving

I don't see a huge difference in preference between what can be done in the game and the genre of movies and shows we like to watch. Just because I watch a murder mystery or set one up in my game and kill Sims off doesn't mean I need 'saving'.

Right ? Its just a cartoony videogame.

The only Sim I've ever killed was a throwaway Sim so one of my other Sims could meet the Reaper so she can unlock the Grilled Cheese aspiration.

I've never killed any Sim I've ever made in any of the 4 games, because I've made them and don't want them to die, ever.