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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

You know....this deserves something profound.....but nothing comes to mind.
Happy Meals, Pentiums Coming to Video Game World

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.

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

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.

Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :

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.

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

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???

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

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.

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

mmmm, yeah, you are right there......

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

My simulation is a mack daddy. And he has a nicer figure than me.

Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :

But can he match your rep as the pompatus of love?

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

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. [Big Grin]

Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :

Size matters not. It's how you wield it that counts.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

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.

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

code:

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

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

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?

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

"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?"

Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

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.

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

If some bored CS student is purposely doing this to my life, I'm going to kick him in the ass multiple times with a steel-toed boot. The sadistic bastard.

Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :

I love the sims, I was hooked on it before I even played the game. The comercial was enough to get me goin. I can't wait untill the Sims Unleashed gets shipped up here. And later, Sims Online.

Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Mucus:
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.

Who the hell's Leo?

Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :

Neo, Leo ... there's only a Meo between them!

Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :

Who knows, all of this could be some elaborate device, sitting on someone's table...

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

A friend of mine wrote a story for school about a spacecraft that we sent sent out to explore the galaxy. The problem was when they ran in to the plane of cardboard. We are some kids school project in a box.....

Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :

Well it would explain why things have somewhat run amuck...

Posted by Nimpim (Member # 205) on :

Mucus, about the Sci-Fi existential questions, rent the movie "13th Floor". You'll love it.

If Dicaprio had been chosen as Neo it would've become Titanic. In the full sense of the word.