I hereby officially pledge not to play The Sims for the next two days lest i go completely insane. I play it, i worry about them, i even dream about them FFS. I keep thinking about my life in terms of my room and hygeine factors. And why do they take a whole damn hour to eat anything?.
I really, really must stop playing.
Fran
When you try to start clicking on your friends and family and making them Move Here, it’s time to step away from the monitor…
I, too, am powerless over this addiction to The Sims. Its starting to leak out into my real life.
This spring break just so happened to fall so that my kids, my step-son, and my sorta-daughter were all home at the same time (that makes four kids, if you are keeping score). I was the only one not working, so it fell to me to mind the kids.
The only possible way I could think of to circumvent the whining, fighting, ‘I’m BORED!’ madness was to plan every minute of every day I would have them.
So I put them on a schedule, and on the schedule we stayed. For six days they ate when I planned, they made potty trips when I’d planned, and did fun things when I’d planned them.
Around the third day, BunnyPapa remarked, “You know, you’re playing the kids like little Sim people…”
Yeah, well… it’s working, ain’t it?
I’m just glad that I haven’t bought either expansion pack yet…because then my addiction would know no bounds. sigh
I have a family that represents a co-worker. I can’t stand this person…and so I make sure that bad things happen to this sim whenever possible, short of killing them. Is there a 12-step program for this?
See now this is where i go wrong - no matter who it is… i have to make them happy. They must be happy and comfortable, dammit! I break my back trying to get them to chill and eat and keep clean and go to the f**king toilet so they don’t start jumping up and down and tearing their hair out.
[plaintive voice]What do they want from me?[/plaintive voice]
I’m getting the “House Party” expansion pack in 4 weeks when the semester is over. I look forward to a summer filled with days poolside, sipping drinks and playing the Sims. I love life!
Zette
I just started loading the Sims onto my computer when I read this. Should I be afraid?
I want The Sims…
If the SIMS is anything like Roller Coaster Tycoon, I’m never gonna get it. No way… never.
Um - what are you all talking about?
Or do I really want to know?
I must have some mental block about the Sims, because I just can’t get into it. I’m a huge sim fan - I’ve played more Civilization, SimCity, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon, Transport Tycoon, Colonization and Master of Orion can I could ever possibly imagine. But The Sims just bores me. Weird.
Once I had this great couple going and then for some reason beyond my control, the lady died when the stove caught on fire. I WAS CRUSHED! I almost cried! I was so heartbroken when she died and i felt SO bad for the guy i made fall in love with her…
Then i realized it was ONLY a game! And i quit playing… and then one day i saw the expansion set…
addictions hurt.
Harumph. I was addicted until, one day, it stopped working on my computer. The intro would be playing and after a few seconds, it would just exit to Windows. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I deleted every related file, but I know next to nothing about computers and I was unable to fix the problem. I wonder if it’s worth formatting the hard drive for…
I’m not too into the sims, but I do have a game going, technically. See, I discovered you could make a mad-scientist-like person. Then I discovered he can actually become a mad scientist! So I spent a few days making a house that looked very much like a castle (the second floor is just 4 corner turrets). But, building the house is the main fun part, and once that’s over it’s a tad boring. Then I decided it would be fun to seduce the wife of the couple controlled by my brother, living across the little sim-street. Unfortunately, I had to come back here to college before I could steal her completely.
My mom gets really into the sims. She once had The Lot From Hell, because everything bad started happing there (glitchy bad, not just bad events). She was totally distraught when she noticed a sizeable number of neighbors were getting stuck at her lot, but just barely off their property. Because she couldn’t do anything about them, all she could do was watch them squirm, scream, and collapse where they were, until Death came in and took them away. She was left with a great big ol’ tombstone just off her property. When the people started getting stuck like that inside her house (and she was still unable to do anything about it), she bulldozed the lot and made sure no one ever built there again. After being practically emotionall scarred, of course.
In my opinion, if a game makes you skip meals, lose sleep, and neglect basic bodily functions, all while you’re telling the characters to do all of the above, it’s time to take up checkers.
Dirx
Hehe, I have Darth Maul, Wolverine, Wonderwoman, Superman, Mystique, Salior Moon, a Stormtrooper, and Vegita, all living together. It’s funny watching them, kinda like the superhero’s on Dexters lab.
I fully condone being addicted to The Sims (much a self-serving attitude, since I can’t seem to keep my ever-moving pointer out of their adorable leetle lives).
But I heartily discourage anyone who might have the urge to invite a friend to see it on one’s own computer. Those demanding Sims are much too complex to live in my ancient glorified-abacus, but I fell in love with them at a friend’s house.
FRIEND: So, how have you been?
MOTHRA’S PILOT CAR: Lead me to my SIMS!!
I knew it was bad when Friend gave me a framed printout of my sims’ snapshot for Christmas.
::hides face in shame::
Please, for the love of God, IF YOU VALUE YOUR RELATIONSHIP, KEEP YOUR SIMS OUT OF SIGHT!
After a year my husband has finally shown interest in my little game. Now, he won’t stop building houses! He builds beautiful houses way to expensive and then leaves them empty, so when you play the neighborhood there is nobody around to be friends with.
And, while searching for houses to download for myself, I actually found a Hatfield house! Too cool. Hubby installed it and then came to me laughing and telling me that I might not want it after all. You see, the house isnt finished and the bathroom is outside. Just what I expected. I have learned long ago that when people think of Hatfield they think hillbilly, and so I have gotten a sense of humor about it.
A couple of weeks ago, I woke my husband up laughing because while I was online posting here, he was sleeping after playing Sims all day. I swear he did the little “UhHa” thing they do when they are studying cooking or what not. Hilarious out of a man that for the past year could not see what I saw in this game.
I am a Goddess to these people. Without me they are nothing.
Man, there has to be some kind of Sims addiction hotline or something.
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hypergirl, be afraid. Be very afraid. This game is so incredibly addicting. I like to build enormous houses, big enough for 10 people even though I only have one person living there. I allow them to have one friend only for Social purposes and I build up all of their skills before I let them make more friends and/or fall in love with someone else. I know the cheat code to get more money and I usually make them a millionaire before I even start building. That way I don’t have to worry about them having a job and trying to make their carpool every morning.
I have the most fun when I creat three or four Sims and slowly kill them off one by one. I put one in the swimming pool and then removed the ladder… eventually he drown. I put one in the living room once and removed all the doors and then I put a refrigerator in there so he could eat. Since there was no bathroom he had to pee on the floor and there was no trash can so the old food and trash just went on the floor. He was too depressed to watch t.v. and kept complaining because he needed a bath and was tired, etc. Eventually I made the room the size of 4 squares and put chairs on three of the squares. I turned the chairs so he couldn’t sit on them so he had to sleep standing up and didn’t have any food and he had to pee on the same square. It was pretty funny. Eventually he died too but it took 2-3 days.
I just built a new house with a 2nd story build on columns and a huge balcony. I’m not going to put a fence up around the balcony and I’m going to try to get one of my Sims to walk off the edge!!
[sub]I don’t have a problem… do I?[/sub]
Go to http://www.thesims.ea.com and under “Get Cool Stuff” there’s the Sims File Cop. Download and run it - it’ll find bad files that are making your game crash.
And yes, I’m addicted. Current favorite family is one that I created to mirror myself and the house I grew up in… and I just bought the second expansion pack. I am SO addicted. 
My addiction reaches out to my three children and my SO.
Hey Falcon ~ are you experiencing any gliches with the new expansion? My pointer keeps disapearing! Ugh. this might just be the cure for me playing the game at all.
~t