Nightlife: Censor Blur won't die!!!
Ancient Sim:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 September 14, 17:41:31
I, too, find it insulting that we apparently have to be shielded from barbie doll (or *gasp!* anatomically correct) nudity. Especially on the babies. What sicko thought we needed that?
Glad I'm not the only one who feels like that. When I first saw the censor blur on the babies, or toddlers in the bath, it just looked unnatural to me. It's as if it's saying "This is dirty, filthy, obscene, how can you possibly want to look at this, you unnatural excuse for a human being" and I find that offensive. Was I supposed to cover the private parts of my 5 kids when I bathed them and changed their nappies then? Well, would you believe nobody ever told me I had to do that. If they must leave the censor blur on the adults fair enough, but they really should remove it from the babies and toddlers. It's incredibly insulting to the vast majority of people.
And I still hold by what I said before that I doubt there are any paedophiles or whatever getting their kicks from a game like this. Even without the censor blur, the word "tame" is too ... well, tame.
Baddmark:
My beef with the censor blur was that it made taking screenshots a pain - the blasted thing showed through walls and floors.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Hairfish on 2005 September 14, 02:58:43
I don't hate Maxis/EA. I don't even hate Wal*Mart. But I do vehemently HATE that censor blur!
All discussions of Jack Thompson aside, you should try seeing that blur through the eyes of someone with...shall we say, certain "perceptual limitations" (I'm using that euphemism because some people don't believe attention deficit disorder exists, especially in adults). It's like a giant insect on the screen, twitching and vibrating its wings and drawing your already challenged attention to it and holding it like a glue-trap.
Since I simply CANNOT play the game with the censor blur activated, I will not be buying Nightlife until there is a way to deactivate it. And since I can't see helping a company profit that will not help me, I've shut down the Sims2 areas of my website until there's a way to deactivate the blur, so I can buy and play Nightlife.
~Hairfish
Mermaid Cove
www.mercosims2.com
I agree with your description of the blur, Hairfish. I played Sims 1 again the other day, and I was surprised that the censor blur really wasn't as bothersome as it is in Sims 2. For one thing, the sims aren't as big, they were only 2-dimensional, and they aren't as detailed. The blur wasn't "in your face" so much. For someone with ADD tendencies, it is extremely distracting. And it irritates the heck out of me when people say that ADD doesn't really exist or that you aren't trying hard enough or you're just lazy. How can I try any harder???
Zeljka:
Lazy?
You'd have to be blind to miss that blaring flickering blur. If anything, it actually drew my attention to the area.
It's so big it actually ruined many of the cutest baby/toddler animations in the game.
RainbowTigress:
I agree, Zeljka. Some of the cutest animations are with the babies and toddlers, especially on the potty. When the toddler pats the potty, it's so cute my heart melts. Also with the sim parent poofing powder on the baby's bottom. Someone went to the trouble of programming those animations, and with the blur on, we wouldn't even be able to see them. There is nothing sexual about it. If someone is sick enough to get some kind of sexual gratification from that, I don't think they would be looking for it playing The Sims, they would be looking elsewhere.
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