Morality & The Sims
Gus Smedstad:
Quote from: Kitiara on 2005 September 25, 01:07:45
I have my own somewhat less than conventional arrangement at home. But nevermind, I won't describe that here.
I'm assuming it involves Nuns.
- Gus
nothingbutsims:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2005 September 25, 01:16:49
Quote from: Kristalrose on 2005 September 24, 22:48:38
At one time, Remington the maid had fallen in love with Don the maid, so they were joined.
Well, shoot, anyone can tell that Remington is gay.
:D ROFL!!!
Kitiara:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2005 September 25, 01:17:37
Quote from: Kitiara on 2005 September 25, 01:07:45
I have my own somewhat less than conventional arrangement at home. But nevermind, I won't describe that here.
I'm assuming it involves Nuns.
- Gus
Actually, no. I just found the nun in short black rubber(?) vinyl(?) leather(?) amusing. Plus I rather approve of thigh-high stockings complete with garter belt. My husband does too, but I suppose that is quite another story.
SimsHost:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 September 24, 22:30:16
My sims, unless Romance sims, pretty much remain faithful until their partner dies. Then they're free to play the field, although they pretty much never remarry. Hey, like it says in the contract...
Yup, mine too. There are no really sane sims, but Romance sims seriously need professional help. Except in rare circumstances, I don't allow them in my game. (My solution to the mess that Maxis made with Pleasantview was 'deleteallcharacters.' Fixed all the problems in one simple command!)
I'm hoping against hope that some Truly Awesome Sims Maestro can invent a cure for the Turn-Ons/Turn-Offs thing in Nightlife. (Like maybe just make the whole furshlugginer thing go away!) That's one of many reasons that I uninstalled Nightlife.
If we must keep that Turn-On thing, it would be nice to add "Married to me" and "Not married to me" to the list of available options. And maybe "Romance" sims as a major turn-off.
Another hack I'd like to see: Only Romance sims, if anyone, does that wolf-whistle thing at Romance sims. It's totally out of character for most of my characters. Banal.
windy_moon:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2005 September 25, 01:16:49
Quote from: Kristalrose on 2005 September 24, 22:48:38
At one time, Remington the maid had fallen in love with Don the maid, so they were joined.
Well, shoot, anyone can tell that Remington is gay.
- Gus
Hello, and duh!
Thanks for the story line, Kristalrose! :D
I downloaded twoJeff's "gays get to marry like everybody else for pete's sake" hack two weeks ago, but I hadn't gotten to introducing any gay characters to my neighborhood...which has been bugging me. I'm living RL stuck in a South Jersey suburb that is like 97% white with only one known gay couple .... that's not what my Sims neighborhood is about!
I've been doing a decent job with ethnic diversity -- (Do you know how hard it is for an all thumbs non-artist to try to make Asian Sims? ) -- but I hadn't played any Sims as gay and didn't want to force the issue at this point. Donte and Remington! Perfect...and Donte is sitting as a playable character in my game, leftover from a time I had to have a live in maid. Yahoo!
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Can I tell you guys a story that kind of fits into this thread? Playing the Sms2 with my 11 and 13 year old has presented some interesting results. We play under different user names but the 11 year old and I especially compare notes on stories back and forth. (I've successfully kept some seedier behavior, like Mama Goth's, out of what he's seen. Nobody wants to see their mother woohoo in a hot tub!)
Anyway, one of my main families is African American (since I guess my Pleasantview is in the US). My son has been interested in following them because they have lots of kids. They are also my "rainbow" family, half natural born, and half adopted kids of different ethnicities. I was catching him up on everybody's doings yesterday when this happened.....
Maximus March is the oldest son, natural born therefore African American. He's an adult now, quite successful in Science, and married to a beautiful CAS with one child of his own. As a knowledge Sim, he'd never been about appearance...he wore polo shirts and pants, had close cropped hair and a very earnest expression.
When he became so successful, I gave him a makeover. He has nice cornrow hair, sharp sunglasses and a tan leather jacket outfit. He looks like a successful black man, not a successful black man dressed like a typical white man, if you know what I mean. The makeover matched his level of personal confidence, I thought.
So, my son was watching me play yesterday, and Maximus came over to the current Sims house. I start catching my son up on Maximus' story line when my son says....
"What did you do to him? He looks like somebody you wait to come out of the 7-11 before you go in!"
***faint*** (that sound of loud crashing was me, fainting on the floor. the cursing thereafter was me cursing at my husband that I told him raising these children in such a %$#^ homogenous neighborhood was going to cause us problems!)
After I recovered, this was a springboard for an excellent parent/child interaction where I encouraged (insert Sims "encouragement" animation) him to expand his thinking, for Pete's sake. He ended up with a mini history lesson on racial profiling in the US and why it is a pain in the ass to be a black man driving the Jersey turnpike in a BMW that you worked hard to pay for.
I also tracked down the source of his 7-11 line, which turned out to be a commerical for My Name Is Earl (a very funny show, btw, and nothing to do with racial anything).
Playing games with your children is one of the best parental defenses I know of.
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