who's playing this game?
reggikko:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 01, 00:25:37
Well, I know that this doesn't actually work, because sims are actually crippled and cannot perform most actions autonomously at all. Plus, do you really want me to suffer a fatal brain hemorrhage and die in the process?
Well of course I don't want you to suffer a fatal brain hemorrhage and die, silly. Where would I get my hacks then? It's precisely the fact that the Sims cannot perform most actions autonomousy very well that makes it a challenge. Of course, you have to be comfortable with them going to sleep at 6AM when they need to get up for work at 7. Then they come home and pass out. It's great fun! It forces you to think outside your comfort zone. That's why I like your Email challenge so much. It made me strategize and come up with a new way to play. And I will have a perfect score before I die. I simply will not give up until I do!
reggikko:
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 July 31, 22:58:44
Reg, I'm curious. Is there actually a challenge that you refuse to take on? I see you all over the place (and I am, of course, rooting for you), and you not only take on all the challenges, but actually successfully tackle them all. I knew you'd be one of the first one to take on the e-mail challenge before it was even posted.
If the challenge is well done and it catches my fancy, I'm in. I have one waiting in the wings which I think is by TreyNutz. The AntFarm challenge. The Sims can never leave the house in that one.
I'm one of those people who needs constant challenge and brain stimulation. The game on its own is quite easy so to keep myself from being bored, I like to take on new things with it.
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My what many talents you have:
If you want a very nice and playable house = see reggikko
If you want a funny story that makes you laugh = see reggikko
If you want to test-drive a challenge to see if it is doable = see reggikko
Hm... I seem to detect a pattern here ;D
G.
Gabi, you are too kind. Thank-you. :)
Tina G:
I am just your average, everyday dumbass who enjoys playing The Sims, as is my sixteen year old daughter. She frequently runs me off my computer so that she can play. It all started a few years ago when my seventeen year old daughter (then fourteen) insisted on getting The Sims for her playstation 2 console. She got frustrated the first time she tried to play so I decided to give it a whirl. I wound up playing more than she did.
From there, it progressed into The Sims for PC when my husband (who happens to be highly entertained by flight simulator games) decided to bring me home a disk while he was buying a game for himself. Since then, I've been pretty much 'hooked' on a game that seems to take up way more of my time than anything should...lol. I didn't get The Sims 2 until March and then Uni a few weeks later. For a while all I wanted to do was play the damned game. Until... bugs began filtering in. ::) Now for the past couple of months, I've spent most of my free time searching for and reading information about the game and all its glorious 'surprises'! Though my daughter still bugs me until I have to stop and let her play the game.
I'm not particularly artistic, scientific, nor computer savy. Just a regular sort of gal who's managed to become addicted to controlling the lives of tiny pixelated people on a computer screen. :P
reggikko:
Quote from: Marvin Kosh on 2005 August 01, 00:36:25
See I would make the challenge null and void by sending all the free-range Sims to repair broken computers. Or maybe I could use the death field on the APO to get rid of them.... it's not my fault if it happens to be in the kitchen ;)
See, but you can't send them to do *anything*. Influence maybe, but I don't think influence works on electrical repairs. I'll have to check on that. The only time I was really tempted to kill one of them was when he inexplicably lost his ability to cook for himself. I had to buy pizzas and hide them under the foundation to use when he got hungry so he wouldn't starve. You could buy some fire and burninate them, though. ;)
SimsHost:
Quote from: bluecatvon on 2005 July 30, 06:20:00
...normally is it true that most business or science people hate this game and art and design people love this game? ...
Wellllll... I suppose I'm another data point that runs contrary to that assertion, being both a business and a science people. I'm president of my own company and in my day job I design spacecraft. The Sims is one of my favorite computer games. I like to play the game and make things for it and play with other Sims fans and even host sites for a bazillion Sims artists.
On the other hand, I'm also a Photoshop junkie and I enjoy designing things more than just about anything else, so maybe I'm an art and design people, too, and that's why I enjoy The Sims so much.
On the third hand, without the mods, hacks, and enhancements created by J. M. Pescado, Inge Jones, and TwoJeffs, I would have given up in frustration and stopped playing The Sims 2 long ago; so we might not even be talking about the same game. ;D
I think the lesson that we've really learned from this exercise is that trying to force-fit people into pigeonholes is a generally fruitless exercise. Business and science and art and design are things people do, not classifications of human beings. Specialization is for insects.
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