Hey! It's PuddingYeah!
soozelwoozel:
HY, you're a known 12 - why on earth did you make yourself a YA?
Tsarina:
In meatspace books and stuff marketed towards people in their late 12s are labelled "for young adults". Were I a little older 12, I'd probably make my selfsim a YA as well.
I'm not sure about TS3, but TS2's 12s looked like young 12s, and making an accurate sim that'd grow older in a tolerable fashion was difficult. If you tried to stick a face on that looked older than how old the game intended sims that age to look, the result would be kinda fugly once the sim levelled up to Adult.
J. M. Pescado:
That is because 12s don't like being 12, and reading material allegedly intended for 18s makes them feel smart. But they are STUPID and 12.
soozelwoozel:
Quote from: Tsarina on 2009 June 28, 20:08:43
In meatspace books and stuff marketed towards people in their late 12s are labelled "for young adults". Were I a little older 12, I'd probably make my selfsim a YA as well.
Eh? That seems really wierd to me. If late 12s are suddenly Young Adults then what the hell are teenagers? As an 18 I guess I saw myself as a YA more than a teen, but by then I could drink, drive and was on my way to uni. 12s are definately not young adults, despite what marketing departments might try and tell you. Just because they label teen lit as Young Adult in order to make 12s feel all grown up doens't mean the 12s actually are.
Tsarina:
Quote from: soozelwoozel on 2009 June 28, 20:21:32
Eh? That seems really wierd to me. If late 12s are suddenly Young Adults then what the hell are teenagers? As an 18 I guess I saw myself as a YA more than a teen, but by then I could drink, drive and was on my way to uni. 12s are definately not young adults, despite what marketing departments might try and tell you. Just because they label teen lit as Young Adult in order to make 12s feel all grown up doens't mean the 12s actually are.
It was simply my understanding of the reasoning behind HeyYeah choosing to make her sim a YA. I'm don't know precisely how old she is, but I could see why a 17-year old would make a YA instead of a teen, at least in TS2.
My arguments about the game's limitations and quirks are more or less invalid anyway - I have no experience with TS3, so I guess you guys can continue flaming now :P
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