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Important - how do you pronounce 'Live mode'
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I do not live in the game
well yet anyway maybe in year 4000 when they hook me up to some machine and transfer my long dead brain over to the virtual world
Googling the question and reading the answers here makes me think that it's maybe a 60/40 split in favor of the long i among players. I wonder what Will Wright called it?
At any rate, I've been saying live (hive) for 23 years, too long to change it now. It sounds too weird to me.
This right here. For anyone who's actually well-grounded in English grammar (I know -- thing of the past, I guess), "live," that sounds like "alive," is an adjective. "Live," that sounds like "give," is a verb. Adjectives are descriptive modifiers for nouns, verbs describe some manner of action. So the natural (according to English grammar) word to modify/describe the "mode" would be "live," the adjective, which sounds like "alive."
I don't like Leave Mode
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I think of it like with being a director with the camera mode in that I’m “recording” my sims in a live studio. (Or like a live reality show, lol.)
(I pronounce it that same way in “livestream” as well.)
(She/her)
I say it like alive, live like hive sounds funny to me. Obviously YMMV
All the sims err'day
I clicked on that "live" by mistake in this vote, because I always think of it as though my little guys "are live" and playable, but this actually makes 100% sense. I'll still stick to how I say it naturally in my head though.
> I say "Live" - (rhymes with Hive" mode, as in you're Live and On the Air. Like you are the director of a movie production. I play characters and tell their story, I don't play simself, so I don't "live" in the game.
This - my sim isn't me, she's herself.
> Live as in five, not live as in give. Been that way since Sims 1, not gonna change it now lmao. Live (give) makes zero sense, grammatically speaking and otherwise - when we play, we are playing in live (five) mode, as the sims are doing their thing - they live (give) in a house, not on my screen! Pretty sure it was pronounced live (five) back then too, not this new live (give) thing. But that's a long time for me to remember back to lol.
And also this - Sims aren't self-aware, but even if they were, they probably still wouldn't be aware of living in a simulation.
I have one Sim that I've had for over three years that I'm attached to, but it has more to do with all the aspirations she's completed, all the money she has, and how her being over 500 days fits nicely into my story telling then that it's her. She's the Sim that helps all my other Sims when they need money or someone with a high skill to help them out.
Since Sims 1, the developers meant the three modes as to build, to buy, and to live. The parallelism makes this obvious. Moreover, live pronounced like alive doesn't make sense as it's NOT a live TV broadcast...you can pause and fast forward...definitely not live like alive!
Live like alive isn't an alternative, it's just incorrect.
... uh, what? Live like give only makes sense if you have a simself. So you're basically telling us that there's only one right way to play, and all of us who choose live like five/hive are playing the wrong way? Even though we're by far the majority??
1) I was being tongue-in-cheek. It's a silly, low-stakes debate.
2) The majority of people pronounce it the correct, official way as in "give." I notice that this small thread has an unusual amount of people who say it like "alive"
3) "there's only one right way to play" No, this is a silly ongoing debate on pronunciation, not about telling people how to play the game.
But within the game, I think there's wiggle room for us to all be correct, because the games are ours. You see build mode, buy mode, and live mode. I see build mode, buy mode, and live (as apposed to paused) mode.
Interestingly, the Sims on console art (for the one I had) says "Create your Sims", "Build their world", "Control their lives" instead.