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I have a dream, Sims 3 Edition
Faerie197
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So, I came back to The Sims 3 from an extended break yesterday. Part of that break was due to the fact that towards the end of April I got myself an Oculus Quest VR headset. Then in early May I got a USB-C 3.0 cable that would let me use it for PCVR too. I've been playing many different types of VR games. From Escape Room/Puzzle Adventure games to Beat Saber, and a wide range in between. Shooters, oh gods are shooters great when it's actually you doing the aiming. Tetris, yeah Tetris Effect is just as amazing in VR as it is normally. Maybe more amazing. 3rd Person Platformers are so much more immersive. Strategy games? Again so immersive. Horror, farming, even just watching classic Doctor Who in VR is amazing... in part due to the fact you can watch it with other fans from around the world... without being at risk of infection. And playing 'pancake' games (as they are affectionately being called by VR enthusiasts) in VR by having it projected on a massive screen (I favor cinema screens) is great.
But my newfound love of VR has given me a Dream. It's unrealistic and I doubt it'll ever happen. But hear me out. Imagine, you start up The Sims 3, create your new sim, and select a town, and chose your initial home. Then instead of a 3rd party perspective as if you're some omnipotent being you are the sim. Instead of Simlish the sims speak English, or whatever your language of choice is. Instead of observing from the outside, you are experiencing your sim's life. You decide what to cook, and when. Sure the game has background mechanics that decide if you start a fire or burn your food, with such risks going down as your sim's skill at cooking increases. Or other sims are more likely to find you boorish and insulting when you stumble over words if your sim's Charisma skill is low. But it's you doing things, not an AI. You get to explore the world of The Sims 3, and not from a top down outside observer perspective. You get to chat up Bella Goth, not just watch your sim do so. Ever wonder what those funny stories or ghost stories sims tell actually are? Now you can hear them for yourself. If your sim becomes an international superspy, it's not just a rabbithole job title, you get to actually experience the thrilling adventures your sim is going through while on the clock because you are actually on the adventure. Of course, this would ideally be optional, so that if desired you could have things 'fade to black' and skip ahead to getting off work instead of going through the tedium of filing paperwork for eight hours.
I know this is unrealistic. I know it's never going to happen, at least not with The Sims 3. If a The Sims VR game like this did get made, you know I'd at least have to check it out. But still, I can dream. And I thought I'd share this dream with you, my fellow simmers.
But my newfound love of VR has given me a Dream. It's unrealistic and I doubt it'll ever happen. But hear me out. Imagine, you start up The Sims 3, create your new sim, and select a town, and chose your initial home. Then instead of a 3rd party perspective as if you're some omnipotent being you are the sim. Instead of Simlish the sims speak English, or whatever your language of choice is. Instead of observing from the outside, you are experiencing your sim's life. You decide what to cook, and when. Sure the game has background mechanics that decide if you start a fire or burn your food, with such risks going down as your sim's skill at cooking increases. Or other sims are more likely to find you boorish and insulting when you stumble over words if your sim's Charisma skill is low. But it's you doing things, not an AI. You get to explore the world of The Sims 3, and not from a top down outside observer perspective. You get to chat up Bella Goth, not just watch your sim do so. Ever wonder what those funny stories or ghost stories sims tell actually are? Now you can hear them for yourself. If your sim becomes an international superspy, it's not just a rabbithole job title, you get to actually experience the thrilling adventures your sim is going through while on the clock because you are actually on the adventure. Of course, this would ideally be optional, so that if desired you could have things 'fade to black' and skip ahead to getting off work instead of going through the tedium of filing paperwork for eight hours.
I know this is unrealistic. I know it's never going to happen, at least not with The Sims 3. If a The Sims VR game like this did get made, you know I'd at least have to check it out. But still, I can dream. And I thought I'd share this dream with you, my fellow simmers.
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...wait, what were we talking about again?
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Maybe one day VR will progress to the point where eating food in-game actually can provide nourishment to you out of the game. Doubtful, but who knows. It's an exciting technology. Games such as Dino Frontier show that it's possible to have a Sims style game in VR.As such I could see having a "be the sim" mode as well as an "outside observing power" mode. It'd be neat IMO for construction to take time, and require sims to work on the project. You know, instead of you just pay the cash and POOF the walls, floor, ceiling, and furniture appear as if by magic.
I shouldn't sound so closed-minded. Maybe this would be an opportunity to teach our digital friends that there is always a better way to nourish themselves, even if one is starving to death at the time.
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Hang on, are you saying the proper technique for fixing computer issues is to smack a person upside the head with a hammer, not the computer itself? I guess I've been doing it wrong this whole time.
Also, using a hammer rather than my hand would really save me some significant wear and tear.
With some people, yeah it could be. I use to know someone who thought you power cycle the modem by going outside, doing something (cable repairman had no idea what he was doing) to the cable where it enters the house, then coming inside and plugging the modem back in. According to him, if you didn't do that 'whatever' to the cable, the modem would break and be incapable of reconnecting to the internet. He'd had how to power cycle the modem explained to him many many times. He also would turn off Windows Update because he heard once back in the 90's that there's a computer virus that pretends to be a Windows Update. Oh, and anti-virus software would get uninstalled because it's advertising the paid version when it updates definitions. Thus 'clearly' a virus.
I knew someone else who managed to open Notepad for taking notes on something, and somehow killed Windows XP to the point where I had to do a clean install of his OS from disk.
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I have experimented with making 3D pics from screenshots.
In fairness, how often does it turn out that a computer issue really an issue with the user and not the computer? Some days it seems like all. the. time.
Also, the concept might be effectively indistinguishable if the person in question is a Simbot. Just saying.
I tried that with a baseball bat... it didn't work out too well...
...for the computer.
@igazor - I'd really miss making my ethnic dishes...without having to shell out money to get a teppanyaki grill. Heck, I can make teppanyaki on the stove.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
My son, who used to do computer repairs before he got his degree in software engineering and became an android programmer instead, would definitely agree with you about that. Even when he did actually have to fix something, it was often the result of the user's not knowing what they were doing.
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