No.17729
>>17727>spending your sims' lifetimes and paychecks on aesthetics>not spending them on grinding your gardening skill, eventually attaining economic self-sufficiency and discovering the secret of immortality through the life fruitsmh fam
No.17730
Owning the means of production in Sims 2: Open for Business radicalized me
No.17731
>>17727What is the point of any game anon? That's why they call it a pastime anon. It helps you pass the time.
No.17732
>>17727The enjoyment of the game is that you can easily have a successful life and do a bunch of crazy shit and move into a mansion, unlike real life
No.17733
>>17731Pastime is for fun and play. Not watching your virtual avatar grinding their life away for virtual decorations.
No.17737
>>17735
>it's this autist again
No.17738
Sims hasn't been a chore simulator (aka difficult) since the first game. The rest really doesn't require you to spend that much on routine.
>begging the question
I dunno OP. You found it fun because your brain was less developed? Because there's plenty of people that find menial chores fun, Sims doesn't even begin to compare to a game like Animal Crossing New Horizons. 20 million sales or so.
No.17745
>>17735
>The Sims barely even qualifies as a game
Then what definition would fit it best according to you?
No.17747
>>17727I only play it for Wicked Whims
No.17748
>>17733sounds like fun and play to me
No.17749
>>17727>>17735/v/-tier thread but disguised as communist
No.17750
>>17749Just because this is leftypol does not mean that every thread has to be about roleplaying as communists, you know.
No.17751
>>17741
No point in arguing with some schizo who chooses one definition to arbitrarily elevate over all others.
No.17755
>>17727personally i just married a bunch of people, steal the wealth then murder then by starving them capitalist style
No.17756
>>17750it doesnt mean we need to make vacuous analyses about how media is "consoooooooomerist" or whatever either
No.17759
>>17748About as "fun and play" as following Instagram hucksters and then fantasizing about their lives.
No.17768
>>17727I like Sims for Wicked Whims
No.17769
>>17765
your definition of a video game is even more arbitrary actually
No.17770
whats up with channers wanting to pass their subjectivity as objectivity. do they need to cope with being losers that much. i consume better thing! just embrace it tbh, it will make it all much easier.
No.17771
>>17761didnt he almost hurt himself in one of his dollhouse streams ?
No.17784
>>17775
youre literally as fragile as ledditors, congrats
No.17796
TS1 is a better statement on consumerism than anything anyone on this site could cook up. Only when you find yourself, deliberately and "for fun", looking at a virtual representation of yourself enjoying itself playing a video game you yourself are not playing, will you truly understand. And then you yourself will stop playing and simply go consume something else, because no matter how many woke posts you make online, you are not free
No.17801
>>17727a lot of the fun of the sims imho is escaping capitalism with insane hijinks. sims 3 is most conducive for this since you can revert to barter economy and do anything from gardening to freelance gem cutting to alchemy. sims 2 is still my overall favorite sims though, cause it has just such a tight few systems with a lot of interactivity, whereas the later sims are mostly just fun but disconnected systems you can play with. of course that is mostly the fault of the DLC policy of EA - hard to make a game of integrated systems when there is like a hundred pieces of DLC between store stuff and expansions. easy to pirate now-a-days though.
oh, and shoutout to doing home decoration, especially with console commands and mods to allow for more items on surfaces. I love just the serenity that comes from gradually expanding a room both in function and form.
>>17768based
No.17823
>>17801Sims 3 would be cool if the sims themselves didn't look like bloated chinless potato faced abominations
No.17860
>>17736>Has anyone ever made a life on hard mode mode for the sims? That'd be pretty cool.There are loads of mods for like, more expensive bills, less wages, you having to manually go out and buy groceries, ect.
No.17979
>>17823Sims 3 game + CAStyle with Sims 4 CASim would be best game for me
No.22410
why do the girlies love sim
pls explain
No.22430
>>22410Propably because it's playing house but you can pretend it's not actually that
No.22431
>>22409neither really, cause especially with sims 2 onwards you can instead make a fucking garden commune and easily subsist off of it. in fact, in the sims 3 especially a lot of the "hobbies" you can do can end up being vastly more profitable than any job - a dipshit looking for rare rocks and metals in people's backyards will make more money than an army general with multiple raises who served all the way into retirement. likewise there is never any real "production" jobs when you think about it - your sims never get like, a job producing shit in any meaningful sense, so either they outsourced all of it to robots (which they very clearly have in abundance) or the games were never meant to make any kind of economical sense.
No.22476
>>17727Sims 5 is coming and it will have online multiplayer.
No.22478
>>22476Lmao can't wait to drown my friend in sims
No.22488
>>22410Is not that girls love Sims is just that Sims is probably the only game in the world with an equal representation of male and female players
No.22510
>>22431fair enough, i didn't think about that
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