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Are You Ashamed/ Embarrassed to Play The Sims?
BelloGoth
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I've heard a lot of talk about how certain simmers are "ashamed" to tell their gaming friends that they play The Sims, that the sims is for "teenage girls and gay guys," and that it isn't "serious gaming" (which is the silliest load of llama stuff I've ever heard). I'll admit, I game alone and, therefore, do not belong to the larger Call of Duty-like gaming community outside of my sister and me, but it is really odd and ridiculous that people think this way about a hobby.
As we know with gamer gate as well as through the lack of representation in the gaming industry, the larger gaming community seems to be characterized by misogyny, homophobia, and every other type of bigotry out there, so a lot of them are NOT the kind of people whose criticisms we should take to heart.
Are you ashamed to play or tell others that you play The Sims series? I absolutely am NOT, and never really have been, but I've always been kind of independently-minded that way. I was a little embarrassed to tell my partner, and to go on about my families and why it is a BIG deal when my male sims get abducted and stuff when we first started dating (he is cool and doesn't game), but now, a year later, he wants to play! And it had less to do with The Sims and more to do with gaming in general then.
As we know with gamer gate as well as through the lack of representation in the gaming industry, the larger gaming community seems to be characterized by misogyny, homophobia, and every other type of bigotry out there, so a lot of them are NOT the kind of people whose criticisms we should take to heart.
Are you ashamed to play or tell others that you play The Sims series? I absolutely am NOT, and never really have been, but I've always been kind of independently-minded that way. I was a little embarrassed to tell my partner, and to go on about my families and why it is a BIG deal when my male sims get abducted and stuff when we first started dating (he is cool and doesn't game), but now, a year later, he wants to play! And it had less to do with The Sims and more to do with gaming in general then.
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Gaming has taken off on an amazing scale, and people are actually making a LIVING from playing games. So, I'm not ashamed anymore.
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Don't remind me... And change your signature! That was the most cringe-worthy part of the whole presentation.
I've been a big fan since TS1 and I've never been ashamed to tell. I do also play other stuff like GTA, Minecraft, racing games and whatnot, I like a wide variety of games.
I've been laughed at a lot back in my school days, because I was never one of the pretty "girly-girls", but I just never liked those typical girl things.
I guess I'm a proud nerd, gamer and simmer, haha
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I don't judge people by the games they play in their free time.
Like Call of Duty, and GTA, when I'm presented with those, I'm like "ew no, beneath me." but do you. It has great graphics and stuff, but seems pointless and a waste of time.
Games like Sims 4, Minecraft, The Long Dark, Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Zelda, Mario, Rayman those games are/were my life.
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I never felt shame for playing the Sims. When I was still holding down a desk at the UN-HQ in Brussels, I had TS2 on my laptop and brought them along everywhere I went. I have shown the game on my travels to many people. The most fun show&tell I had that way was when I showed the game to a group of pakistani military officers. The most profound one was showing the game to children in an etheopian refugee camp. If only for a moment, they smiled.
I have seen some aweful stuff during my professional life, far removed from what the media shows in the news. Having the Sims with me made it possible to put my mind off things when in a lonely hotelroom in some conflictzone or another. I owe Maxis a lot in that respect. Even now, when memories come back to haunt me, playing the Sims helps me getting past those flash-memories.
So no. I'm not ashamed. I'm thankful.
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Now there are people I wouldn't bring up the sims too. It's not a conversation opener. It's almost on the par with discussing religion or politics with people that are not like-minded. I don't live to debate.
Now I mostly play single player games (with a match or two of Hearthstone here and there), and it's about unleashing my creative side. For example, I play Prison Architect (awesome, awesome game), Cities skylines, Life is strange and South Park the stick of truth, the fart jokes rpg. And honestly, I'm a happier person in general.
Ashamed? Never. And I will laugh in anyone's face who would tell me I should be.
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