Just a question, anyone else ever feel really tire or hungry and think...man, my bar has to be in the red by now, time to get back up to green! That seems to happen to me... That, and sometimes when I'm doing mundane tasks, such as cleaning the bathroom, I really wish I had a fast forward button, but sometimes I wish for that pause!
LMAO yeah but you really know you got it bad when you sit there playing the game until your bladder goes infra-red but pause between standing up to run for the loo and actually running there to do a comedy clutch at crotch routine first ...
I use the sims to explain stuff to my daughter, like my patience is in the red right now so don't push it, missy ... or, never mind him he's probably got no playful points.
i haven't checked the list yet but I always liked the name Eileen... also was thinking of adding the sherwood forest gang to my favorite sim world starting with Robbing Hood (with criminal intent) and Mademerryon Mead. Fryer Cluck.... John Little...(ick) any other punsters out there?
LOL Yes, I've been there! Sometimes I wish real life had the hacked rejuvinator... could you imagine, "Green me up, Scotty!!" Mirelly: LMAO! Kristal: Only in a perfect world... ah well, we can dream, right? Hi, my name is John. I've been a contented Sims addict since March, 2003.
Man dies after 50 hours of computer games I read this article on MSN.com about a 28 year old South Korean man who died after playing a war game at a cyber cafe for 50 hours. Apparently he only stopped for toilet breaks or brief naps on a makeshift bed. Here's a link to the article: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8888579 I found it sort of relevant to this discussion. This guy was dedicated!
Dedicated? I saw this while back. You know what I thought? Man, what a wimp. He DIED after a piddly 50 hours? What a loser. I've gone for MONTHS at a time. People attempt to claim that there's no way I could actually do this, because people go insane after 3-4 days without sleep. To this, I respond, "And your point is....?". This usually forces them to concede that one.
Okay, so dedicated wasn't the proper word. I was thinking that or addicted. Obviously addicted, but chose dedicated instead for whatever reason. I did ponder for a moment and thought it odd that he died after 2 full days. Maybe there was an underlying problem. Who knows. I've played for numerous hours only going to bed because if the husband wakes up and I'm still playing, he gets a bit agitated . . . been there, done that, I'd rather save myself the aggrivation. I wonder what game he was playing? It doesn't specifically mention.
World of Warcraft ... Blizzard's version of EA's money making machine ... and this time you pay for a game AND you pay monthly ... what COULD be better? Free money?
I read somewhere recently about the massive worldwide market in trading MMORPG "currency" ... I really have no interest in playing any kind of game that costs me money just to play and then more money on top of that in the vain and pointless and unfulfillable hope of being able to compete at anything remotely resembling an interesting level. I must say that I don't seriously hold great hopes for Spore in this respect. The online element would need to be seriously more complicated than anything likley to be achievable in the next decade if it isn't just to degenerate into a tedious drunkards walk around a virual universe that is mostly inhabited by amoebas except for the odd star system populated by a Pescado-style super player who vaporises your entire exploration fleet 1 nanosecond after you arrive (and before you even know where you are) ... then using a FFS rivaltracker.hack the Pescado-style player identifies your home system and nukes it. G A M E O V E R ... (As ya'll can tell I am not much of a fan of MMORPGs )
But with the general MMORPG take on PVP (check out the TLAs!) ... You can just come back and get your stuff at the point where you "died".
Oh, come on, Mirelly, give me some credit here. I wouldn't vaporize your ENTIRE exploration fleet. I'd vaporize all of it but ONE, sending the last one fleeing home to deliver the tales of my fearsome race of cute, fuzzy, genocidal warlords. However, I seriously, seriously doubt that the game would play out like that. Just looking at the propaganda shots, it strongly suggests this is not how the game works at all. As far as I can tell, the game APPEARS to be single player, and the creations of other players are downloaded to your computer "automagically" by a process akin to the TS2 exchange. Certainly something to be leery of due to its potential for virii and spyware, but I really don't believe Spore is a MMO wargame. Otherwise my race would be hunting yours for exotic foodstuffs to serve in their chain of galactic restaurants because you wouldn't have acquired sentience yet, let alone civilization, because you're a Mirelly and I'm far more awesome than you. That said, I don't exactly have high expectations for it either, because I anticipate that there will be little in the way of challenge, just as there were few obstacles to success in TS2. I note Will Wright never mentioned anything about EXTINCTION.
er yeah, you taking a pop a me, Gary you TLA using, FAQ writin', RSA person you ... *wonders* is TS2 a TLA?
This old geezer had to ask her son what MMORPG meant. LMAO, I've played computer games for years and years (going back to King's Quest and Thexder,) but never on line, never role playing. I like the little battles in Age of Empires, though, and in Baldur's Gate for a little while. No question, Sims is more my speed--walking talking dolls. I like playing with dolls best. I'm anxious to get Spore, too, but I'd worry about the downloads. I'm hoping that part can be disabled or that it's an option you don't have to choose. An empty universe to play in is OK with me. My name is Lynet, and oh, brother! am I ever addicted.
So this thread isn't TOO old. It started in August, after all. I decided that my census figures are really a Sims Anonymous subject. My six neighborhoods are Rocky Town, Ghost Town, Miseria. Baltimore, Fate and New Adventure (OK, the names are silly. I live with it.) Spread out through those six neighborhoods I have 200 sim people in 51 families. Some of them are NPCs that married into families or moved in with families I created. Some are kids away at college, including some NPC teenagers, like Meadow Thayer who is engaged to a Kennedy Cox offspring named Cleve. But I'm NOT counting the store clerks, mailmen and women, firemen, burglers, maids, gardeners, and so on. So, am I crazy? Should I just say no? :shocked: Turn off the computer and walk away for a week? The prospect of no Sims for a week gives me chills. Please, tell me I'm not alone! Has anyone else counted Sim heads and found a couple hundred?
my hubbie is going to be gone for 3 or 4 days... and the computer is staying home........... I'm going to be so sim-sated.
My hubby has had a couple of months of always being at home.......no footy to go to and his table tennis league is on summer break......so not many chances to sneak away for some Simming. He very kindly worked last Saturday and wanted to chill infront of the TV all of Sunday so I was in Sim heaven for 48 hours (no....I did stop to sleep, but not much else). Anyway footie season has started and he tells me he will be going to warm up sessions for table tennis very soon so watch this space!!!!
I have more than 100 sims in my old neighborhood, Lynet, if that makes you feel any better ... but I started over because I just wasn't that interested in some of them and it was getting to be unplayable. My new 'hood has around 20 sims but is slowly growing ... I'm going to have to stop playing for a while and work on my novel but life has been sooooo stressful lately that creativity just ain't coming, and well, the sims are always calling. Hello, my name is SBW and I'm a sims addict.
