The sheer popularity of The Sims in all of its incarnations, the notable oddity of the concept of watching people live out "real" life...including sit on the couch and watch TV, signals something interesting.
Now I'm aware that advertising has long been in sports games, and I'm hardly going to run around and scream that the sky is falling, but one wonders how much more "realistic" The Sims will get when our grandchildren are walking around. Will Sims be able to work for the SimGovernment suing Intel for its virtual monopoly? Will Sims get virtual heart attacks from eating too much fastfood? Hmmm.
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I used to work with a guy who loved The Sims. We both worked the graveyard shift doing tech support. Once it hit 2am, he pulled out his laptop and played The Sims. His simulation was of our office with all of the employees. It was odd watching myself run around the server room.
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Well, that is interesting... now I can give my sims a heart attack. I guess I'll have to modify the McDonalds kiosks into Jack in the Box when I get the game.
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quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: I used to work with a guy who loved The Sims. We both worked the graveyard shift doing tech support. Once it hit 2am, he pulled out his laptop and played The Sims. His simulation was of our office with all of the employees. It was odd watching myself run around the server room.
Does this strike anyone else as sad??? Playing a game at work, of work???
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Not as sad as the fact that I asked him if my character was scoring any dates with the wonderful women in the simulated office. And he was.
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But can he match your rep as the pompatus of love?
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My coworker assures me that my simulation has a bigger lovesabre than me. How he does the dimensions of my lovesabre is what has always puzzled me.
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I wonder what would happen if someone wrote a program that simulated Flare. All the regular posters would be in it, and it would simulate conversations among them.
It might be funny. Or scary.
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IF topic == "midget" OR "lovesabre" THEN BEGIN flarePoster = "Siegfried"; writeln(flarePoster + "Where the midgets at, fool!?"); Function Random(flarePoster); writeln(flarePoster + "Always with the damn midget sex!"); END
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quote:Originally posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: I guess I'll have to modify the McDonalds kiosks into Jack in the Box when I get the game.
What?
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"These are Ambassador Colorge's quarters, this is Ambassador Colorge's table, this is Ambassador Colorge's styrofoam hamburger... what part of this progression escapes you?"
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On another note, one wonders how much more disturbing "The Matrix" would be, if Leo had found out that he was just a simulated construct, and really had no existence outside of the virtual world. How much more annoying would it be, if the personification of the Matrix was not Agent Smith, but simply a bored benevolent CS student playing a game?
Granted, this isn't a particularly creative idea, "Dark City" had a darker take on the same idea...but its an idea worth considering. How unique are our lives? Could they really be predicted with simple algorithms?
PS: Yes, I am aware that the aforementioned therotical scenario would have made for a very boring martial arts movie.....but thats not really the point.
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