# SIM Life.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 11, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962 "2000-03-11T03:20:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/1 "2000-03-11T03:20:00Z")
I saw the new SIM game today.
The basic idea? You get to simulate people. You create virtual people and send them through virtual lives. It looked like fun.
Then, it hit me. Wouldn’t that be the ultimate escape for people who don’t have a life of their own? I mean, you’re pretty much God. You get to mess with other people’s lives.
The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was kinda sick. . . what do you think?
– Sylence
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“Excuse me, are you reading Torah and eating crayons?”
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### Author:  [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/2 "2000-03-11T04:14:00Z")
Sylence, I guess it depends on the way you look at it. My son Billy loves Sim Town, he has to practice what makes a town work. Evening out where business may be, and how to keep pollution down. It seems like it isn’t a mindless exercise, it takes logic, and patience too, to see what works, and what doesn’t. Have fun!! 🙂
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Judy
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“Subconsciously there are many people you hate.” “Consciously,sir, consciously.” Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. “I hate them consciously.”
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/3 "2000-03-11T04:16:00Z")
Anti Pro, I think Sylence is talking about the game “The Sims”.
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### Author:  [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/4 "2000-03-11T05:04:00Z")
Yeah, that’s the one. I couldn’t think of the name. Thanks Louie.
I guess I could have visited Maxis’ web site, but I was busy. . .
Anyway, here’s the website:
[www.thesims.com](http://www.thesims.com)
– Sylence
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“Excuse me, are you reading Torah and eating crayons?”
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### Author:  [@2SexyForMyComputer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2SexyForMyComputer)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/5 "2000-03-11T05:12:00Z")
My brother is addicted to the game, he even had a letter published about his experience
here’s the link [http://www.dailyradar.com/letters/index\_pc\_2000-03-06.html](http://www.dailyradar.com/letters/index_pc_2000-03-06.html)
scroll down to you see the title **Sad, Sad Little Man**
what a punk loser that guy is, brb the kid is giving me some lip right now…
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### Author:  [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/6 "2000-03-11T06:03:00Z")
Whoops, sorry 'bout that!! Thanks for the link though! 🙂
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### Author:  [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/7 "2000-03-11T08:54:00Z")
I just got the Sims on Thursday, and I am heavily hooked on it.This is the first game that has kept me awake for 27 hours straight in years.
And, yes, it is a great game for people with no life 😛 .I’m neglecting my mundane daily tasks and hygiene in order to ensure my sims keep up theirs.
Ironic, no?
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everybunny needs somebunny, sometime…
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### Author:  [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/8 "2000-03-11T14:15:00Z")
**Sylence** writes:
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> Wouldn’t that be the ultimate escape for people who don’t have a life of their own? I mean, you’re pretty much God. You get to mess with other people’s lives.
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> The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was kinda sick. . . what do you think?
Actually, I think Maxis _did_ come out with a _SimAfterlife_ game a few years ago, although I never played it.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Armageddon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Armageddon)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sim-life/14962/9 "2000-03-21T01:42:00Z")
Lucasarts came out with a Sim-type game called Afterlife, which is basically Sim City set in heaven and hell (you manage both at the same time.) Not nearly as good as most of Maxis’s Sim games, but it was okay.
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Mr. Armageddon
“Just when you thought you had all the answers, I went and changed the questions!”–Roddy Piper