World Adventures Hits the Interwebs
guardianpegasus:
Quote from: rufio on 2009 November 19, 01:58:37
I like how everyone assumes that women in headscarves = sexism. There are women who choose to wear headscarves for their own reasons, you know, and even women who choose to convert to Islam and then wear headscarves of their own free will. Of course, I don't actually have WA, so for all I know the male Egypt townies beat the women in headscarves and don't let them drive cars, either. Given that this is EA, I wouldn't really be surprised.
Yes, there are women who choose to wear headscarves. There are also women who choose to be in abusive relationships, so it really proves nothing. The only thing we know for sure is that progressive muslim countries like Turkey and Egypt are trying to ban the scarf, while oppressive radical militant islamist countries like Iran, and... well... the rest of them, are trying to enforce it. There is nothing in the quran about headscarves. All it says is to dress modestly. Dressing in radical islamist fascist garments both in their own countries as well as living in the west is not following islam - it's how a cult movement behaves. So anyway, in conclusion, yeah, the headscarf is offensive, both to True(tm) muslims and non-muslims and women alike. It's a symbol of violent islamic revolution.
But yeah, no beatings, just a lot of poking, shoving, mean interactions... though if any of them catch fire I will be suspicious ::)
chann:
Quote from: guardianpegasus on 2009 November 19, 01:51:19
I also wish they had left the names of the countries out of it, because I feel like it ruins the suspension of disbelief. The only two countries we had ever heard of were Sim Nation and their enemy, the Red State or something like that.
Al Simhara, Champs Les Sims and Shang Simla would have been plenty. I don't mind the cultural similarities, the symbols etc. but calling them Egypt, China and France really kind of irritates me. I look at that text and go "NOOO! This is the Sims! It shouldn't say that!" Those destination names they came up with for both Bon Voyage and those I mentioned above are fine. We didn't need to bring religious sexism and real world grief into this game!
It was an idiotic marketing ploy. When I get the game it will be one of the first things I mod out (it's just text anyway).
Moryrie:
Even if the women in Sim Egypt are wearing headscarves, at least they are not enforced on every female tourist who visits Sim Egypt like they are in /some/ Muslim countries.
That would piss me off.
guardianpegasus:
lol good point.
Anyway... I hope to request that every reference to China, France and Egypt be removed in awesomemod as well, as an option. It just totally screws up the Sims universe which, the entire point of the game being, that it is a distinct, seperate, yet similar, nonsenical world... and yeah it was probably a marketing ploy, but it's amazing how the people who took over after Maxis missed so badly when it came to the "soul" of the franchise. It just really shows that a lot of people who work at Redwood Shores and on The Sims 3 don't really "Get" The Sims, but rather approach it as they would any other game. I think that's obvious from how goal-oriented both Sims 3 and especially World Adventures now also is. World Adventures as an addon is sort of like adding a new game onto the existing one, which is fine, if it were truly optional, but with World Adventures it's sort of the majority point of the entire expansion...
I don't like EAxis. And I don't like Redwood Shores (I'm going to have to think about a pun name for them, shouldn't be too hard, it has potential).
Moryrie:
Failhard bores? It rhymes at least.
I'm not offended so much by the real diestinations thing, but TS3 is my first sims game, so I suppose I missed the 'Great' period. I do not find completing checklists to be very fun though, and unless you use epic lifespans, or rig immortality, you will never have a character who has finished everything. This irritates me.
By the way, there's a new 1.7 patch out. It's supposed to combat the save issues.
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