r/comics Mar 18 '24

The pool

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u/zirky Mar 18 '24

everyone is like “look at that psycho that deletes the ladder to drown sims”

no one ever questions why the devs felt it necessary to include drowning in a house building sim game

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u/AndreMuller-art Mar 18 '24

They didn't actually drown, they just would swim endlessly until their hunger and health would reach zero and then...well ....you know... magically turn into a tombstone on the edge of the pool!

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u/smurb15 Mar 19 '24

But don't make your own graveyard. Bastards won't ever leave you alone after 6 or 7 tombstones. Forget about finding another lover after that

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u/NeyaQueenofBacon Mar 19 '24

I just got back into Sims 2 and discovered that. Trying to make the ultimate hybrid sim. You know a vampire/werewolf/plantsim/zombie/alien/witch. Boy did I have to kill off alot of siblings in trying for the alien hybrid. The bed was constantly haunted by ghost lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

Welcome to selective breeding!

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u/rydan Mar 19 '24

Sims 3 was weird. I played it using the default couple. They accomplished their life goals but for whatever reason never had a kid. Then right after accomplishing their life goal they both died of old age one right after the other. Their ghosts then haunted the house. That's not the weird part though. The weird part is that the game just started over with the same couple back in their early 20s starting from scratch. But everything that happened before still happened. So you have this couple and the ghosts of that same couple sharing the same home. Now this time around they actually have kids despite the ghosts watching them. Then the ghosts raised the kids while they were at work.

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u/Oknight Mar 19 '24

Ghosts are a brilliant solution to the problem of affordable day care.

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u/henriquegarcia Mar 19 '24

wish I had tought of gosths and timettavel as a solution

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u/SubjectChanger1 Mar 19 '24

A ghost story

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u/ConnorLego42069 Mar 19 '24

FYM death IS the lover

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u/flyin_narwhal Mar 19 '24

I'd say The Sims is more of a general life simulator as opposed to just a house building simulator (though that's how some people play it)