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This REALLY upset me last night (Sims fight)
Choxie77
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I don't know why, but I was in a goofy mood this week and had my wife Sim cheat on her husband. Just kissing, no woohoo'ing or anything. I don't usually do that, but I was bored or something. Anyway, days went by and the husband never accused her of cheating, which was weird so I figured nothing was going to come of it.
Last night when I was playing with one of the kids in town, and when I sent her home I got to the homelot just in time to see the husband accuse the wife of cheating and then he smacked her!
:shock: :shock: :shock:
I have only ever seen this happen when I purposely choose to 'fight.' It was pretty much out of nowhere and I was NOT HAPPY. It just gave me a sick feeling in my stomach. Something about seeing that kind of domestic violence, even though it's just a game, felt really ugly to me.
I promptly kicked him out of the house.
What do you think about this? Have you seen this happen before?
Last night when I was playing with one of the kids in town, and when I sent her home I got to the homelot just in time to see the husband accuse the wife of cheating and then he smacked her!
:shock: :shock: :shock:
I have only ever seen this happen when I purposely choose to 'fight.' It was pretty much out of nowhere and I was NOT HAPPY. It just gave me a sick feeling in my stomach. Something about seeing that kind of domestic violence, even though it's just a game, felt really ugly to me.
I promptly kicked him out of the house.
What do you think about this? Have you seen this happen before?
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I'd feel a tad sick too don't worry
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It doesn't seem odd to me. Happens all the time. I play female sims and I always have to level them up physically and with martial arts just to defend themselves. One game I started, I sent my Sim to the park to play chess the first day of the game. Xander Clavell came directly to my Sim and fought her with no warning. She lost of course and that was the last time I allowed my Sims out of the house with out at least a level 3 athletic ability.
I've seen Jared Frio beat up that poor Jocasta Bachelor, and she was just sitting on the bench in front of the book store. Slapping seems to be very accepted. Outright fighting not so much. I try to stay away from Sims with the "diva" trait as slapping is one of their prevalent socials. One game in Bridgeport, my sim was attacked by Emmy Starr, again no warning, she just approached with the "fight" command. My Sim didn't know her and it was early in the game.
As to your situation, I think the game got you. You thought you got away with something and the game waited just long enough for you to think that. The game made sure you saw it. How did the husband sim find out his wife was cheating? The game knows all. Sometimes it helps, other times it just adds a little something to keep you interested. It's just story progression. Don't let it control what you react to in the game.
I think it was the husband/wife thing that really got to me. I had my girl Sim purposely argue and fight when her date because he showed up in a towel. I definitely get my emotions involved, unintentionally, because I start thinking of the family as my own family. Maybe I need to stop playing so much!
As for the slapping, I know society thinks it's ok for women to beat up men, but not the other way around, but I've seen irl women nearly killing men because they were brought up not to hit a woman even if she's hitting him. That's just plain wrong. Neither should be slapping or punching each other.
I agree. It's comical at times
You have to look at it like a cartoon. I mean once a kid was watching a cartoon and an anvil fell on Daffy Duck and the mother says, "It's a cartoon you don't do that." I felt like saying, "Now where in the heck is a kid gonna get an anvil."
What they told us about Sims3 in the beginning, was that the AI was more advanced. Gossip comes into play more. In Sims2, a spouse or partner might never notice a betrayal, even if the female involved was preggars. (I know I experimented and was terribly disappointed.) I would wager that your husband Sim was informed "through the grapevine" as it's called and then chose to confront his wife. Slapping can be very disconcerting, no matter what end of it you're on. I don't approve at all of a male striking a female and try to avoid it in my game, too. Been on the wrong side of it in RL once and ONLY once. I will NEVER allow it again.
Just for the record, I would have tossed her unfaithful butt off the lot. And the first time I had a Sim cheat and divorce his wife it was just awful. The Sim kids all cried and I felt horrible. I don't purposefully have my Sims cheat and I've only had four divorces in my game since I began with Sims2 in 2005! I've had a few preemptive breaks ups, to be sure. And mostly due to her flirting (autonomously) with her boyfriend's brother-in-law! Oi!
I try not to play in a manner that is against my own convictions in life. You don't have to create this kind of "drama" simply to keep the game from getting boring.
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Then don't play the game. I have a friend who recently returned from Iraq, and he can't play Call of Duty with me anymore. Does he think the entire game should be changed for his convictions? No. Sims aren't slapping each other left and right- just don't have them fight and you're golden
She didn't say the whole game is against her convictions, nor did she ask anyone to change the game for her. She just doesn't use that part of the game.
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And to add on to what Brooke said, she only said that Choxie did not need to feel that she had to add the kind of drama she dislikes to the game in order to enjoy the game and offered up her own story as proof.
Playing in a way that aligns with her convictions is called integrity and your friend who returned from Iraq has a whole new way of looking at life. He has seen violence first hand and no longer thinks of it as entertainment.
It's fine that it doesn't bother you. I don't think it's fair to say that people just shouldn't 'play the game' because they have an preference on how to play it.
Lol! I hear you, I barely ever have my sims cheat either. Literally I've probably done it 3 times since I got the game back in '99. (actually, can't remember if you could even cheat in sims 1)
It is messy, and its sad for everyone, especially the children!
I had 2 lesbians who were married and one of them was definitely a cheater. Holly would roll romantic wishes with her fling and I let her fulfill her wishes. She had an affair going on the side and would meet her in the Ba Da Bling Casino (blewis' creation)that was also a hotel and woohooed with her several times. Her wife came storming down, on her own and had a knockdown dragout in the middle of the casino. I felt very bad about this and actually thought she could get away with it. :oops: In the end, after the divorce, they both did get back together and with the help of a mod, had a daughter. That took some work.
The end result is I don't knowingly have one partner cheat on the other because of the rep feature in the game, there's no forgiving for even the slightest misstep.
I guess I've never had the misfortune of being exposed to anything like that in rl, thank God. Maybe I'd have a different outlook and response.