There are two types of Sims players: ones who create maniacal fantasies, and those who painstakingly recreate people and situations from real life and then run bizarre social experiments with them.
So, there I was, in the utility cupboard that for some reason housed our family PC , watching a tiny on- screen version of my boyfriend’s dad pretend to paddle a bathtub like a canoe as the Sims-clone of my brother looked on in bemusement.
At this moment my actual, flesh-and-blood dad walked in, presumably to turn the central heating down, as all Scottish dads are constantly doing. I turned around to see him staring at the little virtual versions of himself and all his loved ones, their smiling headshots and happiness meters lining the edges of the screen, an expression of horror spreading across his face.
“What... what are you doing?!” he asked. I had no answer. I just sort of sat there with my mouth open until he backed out of the room. What could I have said? “Don’t worry, Dad, I’m only creating virtual robot-versions of you without consent and messing with them to see what will happen.” It was never mentioned again, but he couldn’t quite look me in the eye for several days afterwards. He was right to be disturbed, thinking about it. There is something deeply megalomaniacal about The Sims. It feeds every human’s innate god complex, enables extreme control- freakery, and lets you manipulate tiny people for entertainment. This is one of the reasons for its extreme popularity, but another is that it’s also a powerful engine for wish-fulfilment.
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