# Random thoughts about THE SIMS (computer game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-the-sims-computer-game/62058 "2001-04-15T13:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MIKE\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MIKE\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MIKE_P)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-the-sims-computer-game/62058/41 "2001-04-25T02:57:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeremy’s Evil Twin \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Nimue \* > > \*\*(N.b. I caught the whole episode in a most amusing photo album, and then later stupidly went and deleted the husband, so I guess it’s gone.) \*\* > > Check the UserData/PhotoAlbum directory, the jpegs are probably still there, at least I still have photos there from obsolete families. You can’t check them in-game but any graphics utility should be able to view them. > > So far I’ve only plead with the Grim Reaper twice, first one was successful in a test game where I burned Bella Goth alive (didn’t save it), but for the second one, the Reaper refused to even listen to me. I finally polished off the “Human Slave” family, who are now a collection of tombstones evenly split between the Pleasant & Soprano families. (And both families are haunted now, so I’m reluctant to make more to kill off…) One of the Slaves was imprisoned by Livia Soprano a la **Scylla’s** Marquis de Sade method above, although I was nicer, I gave her a microwave and even a small cheap bench to sleep on. The last Slave actually got married and moved in with Chris Roomie, which I suppose itself is a fate worse than death. 🙂 > > I spent all day playing the Goth family for the first time, and my GOD, what an architectural nightmare of a house!! Didn’t they play-test this thing first? I can’t have more than 2 visitors at once or they’ll all form a traffic jam in the bathroom door – my “daughter” wound up pissing herself, in fact, because she couldn’t get inside. ☹ I also found that visitors get bored VERY quickly if you don’t have a TV or stereo… \*\* If you dont want your family to be haunted,then go into buy mode and sell the urn/tombstone. You even get $5 for it:D ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-the-sims-computer-game/62058/42 "2001-04-25T22:05:55Z")
Dang it, how many times does it take to have a baby using the vibromatic bed??? So far Chris has used it 2 dozen times (3 times in one day alone, with 3 different guys) and so far no kids. The Goths adopted a baby, though. But then Belle caught Mortimer fooling around with Chris and tried to burn the house down. The kitchen was gutted, and Belle wound up dying and being resurrected by the Grim Reaper (love that “rock paper scissors” game…) Apparently, baby cradles don’t burn, as it was the only thing left, but social services did immediately come and take it away… I’m also starting to send off kids from the white trash family to military school. Just too damn many to keep track of… ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-the-sims-computer-game/62058/43 "2001-04-26T10:54:18Z")
Hmm, is it cheating to use “rosebud” when something important and expensive burns up (my grill set the hot tub on fire, I wonder what would have happened if there were people in it…) and you can’t afford to replace it? I’m sure that sims would be smart enough to have insurance… I’m also trying to infect the Pleasant kids with the guinea pig virus…well, I’m a wimp since I’m using the “vaccinated” gerbil from KillerSims, supposedly it still makes you sick but won’t kill you. Maybe later I’ll be brave enough to try the real one… ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-the-sims-computer-game/62058/44 "2001-04-28T05:47:51Z")
Heh, well the “vaccinated” gerbil was not much better than the real one, the whole family got sick and one of them died (which I didn’t save) – they did get healthy in just a couple days, by keeping them home and rested. Everyone but the dad lost their jobs, though. Here’s a trick – if someone is sick and dying, save the game and have them move in with another family…it completely heals them!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-the-sims-computer-game/62058.md?page=2)