The SIMS

The article on the sims was absolutely hilarious for me, yet at the same time a bit scary to think that there's actually people who carry their experiences in a game into reality. I can understand why someone would play the sims, I've played the sims, but i would never want to reenact my life to make it better or what not. the whole point of games is to detach yourself from reality and be able to relax and have fun from a hectic day, in the comfort of your living room. The game can be fun, because you create a new reality, but i have issues when people do things like the example in the article, where they recreate their actual reality. That's a given route to failure in your actual life. Like the article said, 9 out of 10 times where you recreate your personal life in the sims, you have problems in your real life because of the game, since in real life you cannot control every single thing, but in the game you can. This can be an even bigger problem, when a person is a control freak to begin with, you may have the virtue world in the palm of your hand, but there's only one who really has full control of everyone else's life.