Morality & The Sims
cwieberdink:
Quote from: Ruann on 2005 September 26, 18:21:02
The game should always pull Social Worker Abductees before creating random CAS uglies for adoption purposes. Provided one is available for the appropriate age group, of course.
I did this for a while in my game. Had a single beautiful woman that I bred with Dustin Broke and the Grim Reaper. I then walled her off in her bedroom till the social worker came for the children. She wouldn't come while they were neglected babies though. Maybe I need to have her go to work or something to get them to take the babies. That way, I populated my adoption agency with pretty babies. I also used the twins/triplets/quads hack to get four at a time. It is DANG hard to ignore those little pixel babies though, let me tell you. The neighbors would keep wandering by and worrying over the toddlers playing in the garbage.
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Howabominable:
I want my sims to live their dreams. When one of my sims goes into aspirational failure it's depressing. I don't mind making romance sims, I just make them woohoo all the ugly townies that I don't want in my other sims' gene pools. Romance sims are the "janitors" of the neighborhood. They're always the sims that are simply ugly and have bad genetics, or if there are too many sims in that generation I "sacrifice" one so that the others can pass on their genes and have more children.
I don't have my sims cheat, unless they're romance sims. I don't see the point. When I choose a spouse for my sim, I choose it for life. Yeah, it sometimes gets boring when all my sims' dreams come true, but I'm happier that way. Seeing a sim treating a sack of flour like a baby is really depressing to me, it almost makes me want to cry lol.
Today I experimented with giving my sim a bad date, and I found it it wasn't too hard LOL. I had 5 boquets of roses around the house and I didn't know what to do with them all!
windy_moon:
Quote from: Niomi on 2005 September 26, 16:25:04
Some of my sims are monogamous, others are not. The only morality I keep them to is that I nearly always have them breed, because for some reason I can't stand having many sims with no family history. When I make CAS sims I usually make them toddlers and kill off the adult with them, then have one of my gay couples adopt them.
I'm big into the adoption story lines (probably because I'm adopted and my husband adopted my young children after my first husband died.) I hate killing off Sims, though, so for what it's worth, this is what I do:
I made a familly named Adoption-Pool with one adult and five CAS kids/babies. Moved them into a house and then immediately used Inge's shrub (love that shrub!!) to put the kids up for adoption. After Parental Unit (yes Parental Unit Adoption-Pool) was left childless, I moved him back into my Sims bin.
As I need children to adopt, my kids come up. When I run out, I'll make more that way...bloodless, fly-less. :)
Yay!
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P.S. I'm regretting my title for this thread. It should have been Your Values & The Sims. The word "morality" has more of a right/wrong connotation than I was going for.
Witches:
All very interesting perspectives ... I'm a newcomer and have been enjoying catching up on some of these threads.
I don't impose my own sense of morals on my sims. It's a game, and games should be fun. Fun for me means variety, so I let my sims decide their own moral codes.
For example: Sheldon the mailman is a player sim in my game, and a complete jerk. He's a meanie who taunted his stepson so his wife left him. He didn't even care, took up with Andrea Hogan, who is a bit of a slut, the next day. They're both fortune sims, crass, rude and obnoxious, with good taste in decorating. Contrast with my "player" money sim who is a fairly nice person, if a bit of an ice princess. Things just roll right off of her. She's permanent platinum, a good mom, on good terms with everyone, a very even keel person who is happy so long as her surroundings are lovely.
I had a romance sim couple who cheated on each other constantly and then suddenly got lovey-dovey in their old age. Their constant bickering scarred their oldest daughter for life. She's romance too but will never settle down ... yes, I'm projecting a bit, I know they're just little pixels, but what fun is that? Their son, on the other hand, got the benefit of the lovey-dovey years. They became elders when he was just a child. So he's very stable and wants to settle down with a nice girl ... and picked Dad's second wife, who's twice his age ... I never said he was normal.
And so on. Every sim has their own preferences. You just need to figure out what they are and have fun with it. I plan for a very tragic time in college for my next round of young adults ... mayhem, madness, possibly even murder ...
Just like to keep things interesting ... ;D
Jarsie:
Quote from: windy_moon on 2005 September 25, 08:50:17
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.
If you're Black, and making the above comments, then you're forgiven for what I would otherwise consider one of the most condescending racist comments I've seen in a long time. Because if you're Black and that's what you consider the epitome of what a successful Black person should wear, more power to you.
However, if you're White, and you can't see the stereotype you just put up there about how you feel a successful Black person should dress: namely like someone in one of those Black exploitation films that were so popular in the 70's and 80's....well, there's not much I can say except...get real! Your son called it like he saw it, and he was so right.
I attended Texas Southern University, an historically Black University in Houston, Texas. TSU's motto is "Excellence in Achievement." It has the best School of Pharmacy in the nation. The late Barbara Jordan was a graduate of TSU. So was the late Thurgood Marshall, which has a school of law named after him on the TSU campus. My professors may have worn corn rows and afros, but they were also required to wear a shirt and tie. Even the female profs wore nice dresses and business suits. Some of them may have worn dashikis, and other such traditional garb, but it was not an every day thing.
This is an inner city school, and they saw it as their job to prepare their young charges for the real world, namely Corporate America, where there was and still is a shortage of Black Americans. And in corporate America you wear suits and ties, and if you're female, you look professional and sharp....something that it looks like you consider to be a crime. That's not the way my profs saw it. They saw it as beating the White man at his own game. To succeed in this life you have to be ten times as good and ten times as smart. That's what they taught, and that's what the kids learned.
Having said that, I'll leave you with this question: Since you seem to have a clear idea of what a successful Black man should look like....how about telling me what a successful Black woman should dress like? Or a successful Hispanic man and woman? Or even...a successful Oriental man and woman?
Please enlighten me. After all, I wouldn't want to go around having all my successful ethnic Sims dressing like successful White folks. Heaven forbid! Let's keep the racial stereotypes coming, folks!
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