Just saying, the "spicy mushroom" is indeed "spicy". IRL it is the iconic Toadstool, the one mushroom literally everyone in North America Europe and Russia knows Not. To. Eat.
So... curious: Why pick that color for an edible mushroom in a game a lot of kids play?
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It's more the fact that it's an odd choice for a spicy mushroom. There are plenty of IRL spicy mushrooms they could have picked, especially since their bog standard "Mushroom" mushroom looks exactly like the IRL one.
But it is a video game, so no harm no foul. I dare say kids would (and should) generally be told what I was growing up: "don't eat anything you find outside." So, at the very least, I don't think it is a problem.
What about wild berries? When I was a toddler my sister told me the red berries on our hedge tasted like ice cream. My mom had to give me the medicine that makes you vomit because they were toxic.
It’s just a video game, though. A T-rated game. Teens should know better than to eat things they can’t identify from the wild.
but tbh i don't really mind because sims treat many toxic things edible
like you also don't just make random something on chemistry table and be like hehe i drinks
+I think there is many poisonous mushrooms that resemble non poisonous ones so maybe not including poisonous mushroom is just a practical choice as i doubt devs are mushroom gurus to that level
as for berries... I'm mostly offended by those low effort harvestable bushes that do not resemble real berry bush
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I knew perfectly well not to eat anything I found on the ground, but one day I saw some lovely moist brown sugar lying there so enticingly, just waiting for me, clearly wanting to be tasted. And somewhere in my little mind I knew it was really just fine damp sand in the ditch where rain had caused it to settle, but I thought it could be brown sugar. It looked exactly like brown sugar. It might be brown sugar! So of course I tasted it. Yuck. I learned quickly that it wasn't any kind of sugar at all, but that didn't stop me from growing up healthy and a little wiser.
The world lost a tiny bit of its magic for me that day, but I'd hope that we can keep our adult selves from preemptively removing too much magic too soon just to keep kids safe from all the things that could happen but very likely never will.
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The same reason they never told players in TS2 that squash juice is toxic. I remember thinking I would like to try that..until a smarter person informed me not to try it at home.
True. The Sims shouldn’t confuse little children who are not allowed to play this game.
Just the other day I had a family visiting. One of the family members is a 5 year old. Cute as a button. Wanders into my backyard and starts picking the fruit of one of my Plasma trees. Just like that. It sorta teleported to her hand and she swallowed it whole.
I said: “NOO that was my din dins! Now I have to take a drink from your mother and your dad won’t like that, because it makes her all woozy and dazed and when your mother is all woozy and dazed she won’t be able to do anything for the next 12 hours. To make matters worse, your dad is useless and won’t be able to look after you right now because he too was dumb enough to eat from a mysterious fruit that he didn’t know anything about. It makes his face look all distorted and all he does now is run around like a lunatic or just stand there staring into nothingness with this gosh awful smirk. This is why they came to see me in the first place. To ask for help! They wanted me to find something in my garden to reverse the curse but I can’t help right now because it’s daytime and too sunny and sure look over here little cupcake, my skin is starting to sizzle!”
She kinda giggled at that but I didn’t think it was funny because me sizzling away in the sunshine ain’t good. It ain’t good at all.
I think her mother copped on and before I could do anything irresponsible she took her and her hubby and left. I remember the mother saying to the little girl:
“You can’t be picking fruit from that nice man’s trees. He’s a vegetarian and those trees are the only things keeping him in existence right now.”
She was right. Keep your kids and husbands away from things they don’t know anything about. It could not only cost their lives, it could even kill someone who’s already dead.
Anyway I’m fine now in case anyone got worried. I ran back inside, spent some time in my coffin and by the time I woke up from my slumber it was the next night and the fruit had grown back. Close call though. Close call.