Monday, July 9, 2007

The Sim-plistic life.

I played a great deal of The Sims as a kid. I enjoyed designing houses and making people fall in love. However, until recently I hadn't thought about the Sims. It was when I bought a cheap copy for Gamecube (I don't have a gamecube) off ebay did it start coming back into my everyday life. The other day I was at work listening to some people speak. One of these people being someone I knew pretty well and the other I barely knew. But while I watching them talk I pictured the little man and women cards popping up above thier heads with minus' behind them. These two people were clearly clashing. I pictured the hand movements and the shaking of the head. It was a perfect real life instance of the Sims in my head. I sold the Sims last week and traded it in for another simulation game: The main characters are lost on an Island, you must help them survive. This game also has noises and plus and minus'. But maybe, just maybe everyone will be peaceful while eating thier coconut.