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Won’t somebody think of the children??

February 14th, 2005 Leave a comment Go to comments

My daughter’s favorite game to play is Sims 2. She loves to create the same families over and over, giving them identical appearances and names, and make insanely large houses for them, all in the same neighborhood. This leads to five identical people all visiting at one house, which is difficult to keep track of, to say the least.

She also likes to create swimming pools and make the Sims dive in repeatedly even when they really just want to lie the hell down and go to sleep. Pee on your own time, pal, you’re diving now!

But the thing she loves more than anything else is to make the little kids do “Miss Mary Mack” with each other. If kids could die in Sims 2, she would have Mary Macked some of them to death by now. This creates a problem, as they skip school to Mary Mack, they neglect their homework to Mary Mack, they don’t eat to Mary Mack. I keep having to find ways to thwart her so that I can stop the social worker from taking the kids away, which would be a bit upsetting, I think. It’s like she’s some capricious god, or that uber-powerful guy in that old Star Trek TOS episode – if you’re a geek, you know the one I mean.

Pity the poor population of Pleasantview, and their families of Starbucks employees, Madeleine replicants, Groovy Girl families, and ragged, Twilight-Zoned out kids. May God have mercy on their digital souls.

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  1. February 14th, 2005 at 22:07 | #1

    Blergh

    I so have Miss Mary Mack stuck in my head now…

  2. February 14th, 2005 at 22:07 | #2

    Blergh

    I so have Miss Mary Mack stuck in my head now…

  3. February 15th, 2005 at 02:30 | #3

    ::sings:: There’s a wee lass and her name is Mary Mack…

  4. February 15th, 2005 at 02:30 | #4

    ::sings:: There’s a wee lass and her name is Mary Mack…

  5. February 15th, 2005 at 02:41 | #5

    If you could make players Mary Mack each other to death, you’d do it. Admit it. You so would.

  6. February 15th, 2005 at 02:41 | #6

    If you could make players Mary Mack each other to death, you’d do it. Admit it. You so would.

  7. February 15th, 2005 at 03:28 | #7

    Mmmmaybe.

  8. February 15th, 2005 at 03:28 | #8

    Mmmmaybe.

  9. February 18th, 2005 at 06:42 | #9

    Spread the word! Join the fun!

  10. February 18th, 2005 at 06:42 | #10

    Spread the word! Join the fun!

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