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IF YOU GREW up in the 00s, then the Sims was probably a big part of your childhood.
First released in 2000, the Sims revolutionized computer gaming by allowing you to create families and control every aspect of their live from their look to their career to their life skills.
Many of us spent hours upon hours designing every aspect of the outfits and the houses but the Sims also brought out a slightly evil side in us all.
Here are some things which remind us of the unhinged chaos that was playing the Sims.
1. The battle with social workers
In the Sims (as in life), you couldn’t leave a child alone without adult supervision. If you did commit this crime then the social workers came and took your kids away (I once lost triplets because of this and the family never recovered, it was terrible). Sometimes these kids would reappear when you adopted a child from the adoption service but otherwise they were lost in the Sims vortex never to be seen again.
Me: do you know if when a social worker takes your baby can you adopt it back?
2. When you tried to kill off your Sims but they refused to die.. Look, we’ve all been there, killing off Sims for no good reason. Some of us old schoolers used to just remove the ladder from the pool so the chosen Sim would get tired and eventually drown. Some of us tried more elaborate schemes where we built a small room filled with ovens and left toaster pastries in them all so they’d catch fire. We’re all normal people here… right?
3. When you were trying to make your Sims have an affair without getting caught and then just… kept getting caught?
Look making your Sims have affairs was one of the best part of Sims. I once created a house with 4 married couples and made them have affairs with each other and somehow none of them found out. However, other times your significant other would rudely walk in on you have WooHoo with their best friend or sibling and ruined the whole charade. So rude.
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good morning to everybody except my first boyfriend on the sims game i started last night who walked in and caught me cheating on him with my second boyfriend because he didn't respect my boundaries and walked into my house without a key and uninvited
4. When your Sim lives a better life than you Who among us hasn’t made a Sim that looks exactly like ourselves and goes on to achieve all our dreams only for us to get so mad that we delete them or ruin their life entirely? Just me? Ok..
good morning to everybody except my first boyfriend on the sims game i started last night who walked in and caught me cheating on him with my second boyfriend because he didn't respect my boundaries and walked into my house without a key and uninvited
Interviewer: Why would you like to work for us? Me: I really need money to buy The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs Expansion pack my sim family need a cat so bad you dont even understand please help me do it for the children please Linda
5. When you get a little too invested in your Sims life. Yes I’m aware they’re not really people but they’re also still all my children and I care about each and every one of them deeply.
My original Sims died of old age and now their children and grandchildren are very sad and it's making me sad
Me: I just don’t know what to do. The vet business isn’t what I thought it would be. I could sell the business but I dedicated my life to this clinic and I want it to be my legacy to my children 😩 But you only live once My boyfriend: Babe it’s the sims, idk what to tell you.
6. When life isn’t as easy as it was made out to be in Sims What do you mean I can’t just go to college without paying for it? What do you mean I can’t start any career without any skills for it? WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN’T BUY A HOUSE?
The most damaging part of playing the sims as a child is that it created an expectation of getting 20000 simileons (enough for a decent house) upon moving out of your parents house.
this house is in marino and costs this much jesus christ i wanna puke but anyway sharing this photo because this is the setup u have in the sims if u want ur neighbour to walk into your house, go up the stairs and slap u pic.twitter.com/iDNyb3EbKN
7. When the later versions began to get a little stranger I feel that the Sims 2 was peak Sims and had this confirmed to me when I observed how little I enjoyed the Sims 3 in comparison. The updates seemed to freak people out as well with some interesting advances in graphics.
I'm glad the sims 4 has toddlers now but I wish they didn't look like tiny creepy uncles pic.twitter.com/HbalFh1eTm
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7 things you can relate to if you played The Sims obsessively as a child
IF YOU GREW up in the 00s, then the Sims was probably a big part of your childhood.
First released in 2000, the Sims revolutionized computer gaming by allowing you to create families and control every aspect of their live from their look to their career to their life skills.
Many of us spent hours upon hours designing every aspect of the outfits and the houses but the Sims also brought out a slightly evil side in us all.
Here are some things which remind us of the unhinged chaos that was playing the Sims.
1. The battle with social workers
In the Sims (as in life), you couldn’t leave a child alone without adult supervision. If you did commit this crime then the social workers came and took your kids away (I once lost triplets because of this and the family never recovered, it was terrible). Sometimes these kids would reappear when you adopted a child from the adoption service but otherwise they were lost in the Sims vortex never to be seen again.
2. When you tried to kill off your Sims but they refused to die..
Look, we’ve all been there, killing off Sims for no good reason. Some of us old schoolers used to just remove the ladder from the pool so the chosen Sim would get tired and eventually drown. Some of us tried more elaborate schemes where we built a small room filled with ovens and left toaster pastries in them all so they’d catch fire. We’re all normal people here… right?
3. When you were trying to make your Sims have an affair without getting caught and then just… kept getting caught?
Look making your Sims have affairs was one of the best part of Sims. I once created a house with 4 married couples and made them have affairs with each other and somehow none of them found out. However, other times your significant other would rudely walk in on you have WooHoo with their best friend or sibling and ruined the whole charade. So rude.
4. When your Sim lives a better life than you
Who among us hasn’t made a Sim that looks exactly like ourselves and goes on to achieve all our dreams only for us to get so mad that we delete them or ruin their life entirely? Just me? Ok..
5. When you get a little too invested in your Sims life.
Yes I’m aware they’re not really people but they’re also still all my children and I care about each and every one of them deeply.
6. When life isn’t as easy as it was made out to be in Sims
What do you mean I can’t just go to college without paying for it? What do you mean I can’t start any career without any skills for it? WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN’T BUY A HOUSE?
7. When the later versions began to get a little stranger
I feel that the Sims 2 was peak Sims and had this confirmed to me when I observed how little I enjoyed the Sims 3 in comparison. The updates seemed to freak people out as well with some interesting advances in graphics.
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