"Bloosmoo;c-17407703" wrote:
Until attitudes get back to normal and people learn to laugh at the silly and stupid things in life again, we're stuck in a pc nightmare where everyone is offended. I know when my kids walked in on the opening scene to whoohoo in Sims2 they were shocked and a bit Oh no they aren't! Then they laughed about it because lets face it that's the reaction it was probably meant to have. That ewww why did I ever press that button it's gross! To no that's actually kinda funny. Now that scene is considered raunchy and must be hidden, pretty much like table legs in the Victorian Era. In this incarnation of the Sims we don't need a proper trait, because we already have it. A sim farts and someone is offended. A gender patch is added and everyone is offended. Something so everyday causes offence what chance is there of returning to an era of humour in a game. Come to think of it, that offends me. (Just kidding)
I get what you're saying. Even our Comedians in RL are suggesting humor is dead. They can't mock ordinary things, because let's face it, humor is only funny if it's based on a truth. And some of the things used in the past are now verboten. There is a very well-written situation comedy TV show called M*A*S*H. That show couldn't be produced these days. Too many things we found hysterically funny in the 70s when it first aired are now deemed offensive, or insensitive or racist. (When they mean bigoted.) There is so much you just don't dare make fun of these days. I'm offended that others are offended, but that gets us nowhere.
I didn't begin to play Sims until 2005 and it was Sims2. I'll be 65 years old very soon. I loved the quirkiness of the game. I'd like to think of myself as having a very good sense of humor. What I don't like is how dumbed down the game has gotten starting with Sims3. Ghosts should be ghosts and not simply deceased Sims whose only real difference is that they are transparent in look, yet they have the very same needs as a Sim who is 'living'. I want them to frighten any Sim who happens to 'see' them, as in Sims2. Not be something benevolent and only scare a Sim for fun.
(As for the gender patch, it was promised that would be by the player's choice, only, yet it has morphed over time.) I don't play that way in my game, it's against my Core Values. I was very happy that we have to set it up in CAS if that's what we want. I won't tell anybody else how to play their game, I don't expect others to tell me how to play
my game. I don't like it when my male Sim ages up from toddler to child and is in attire that could easily be feminine. Or, that my first-time Actor Sim is getting parts where he has to hug, bite or flat out kiss another guy. Those gigs should have a little asterisk* beside it so we'll have a clue. Otherwise, it's no longer my choice. As easily as we can turn off lightning and blizzards, so should our choices be. And, yes, I wouldn't mind if EA were to branch out a bit. If need be, why not make two versions of the game? T and M. Now, I'm not asking for raunchy as some have put it and nor am I not asking for R-rated. There is and should be a happy-medium.
