out of character

I was a huge fan of the original Sims games way back in the early 2000s and an avid, ravenous, savvy player. (I figured out how to effectively cheat the program without actually activating any cheats at all, it was pretty awesome.) I don't play it anymore because my games are all still at my parent's house and they're all the original CDs from back in the day and too old to work with my current laptop. I never played Sims 2 or Sims 3, either, due to never having had a computer really capable of handling the program. But I still really enjoy watching other people play it and laughing at whatever glitches or misadventures or bizarre scenarios happen in the little microcosm in the computer.

Of course, almost everyone who plays or ever played those games has made a family like their own or made Sim versions of their friends and tried to make them live an approximately accurate life. It never actually turns out that way because if there's one thing those little fuckers are good at, it's making sure nothing ever goes as you intended it to. The wrong people fall in love, babies are born from goodness-knows-where, they react inappropriately to death or disaster and do things that make zero sense here in the real world but are apparently completely normal in Simville. Like reading a cookbook in your underpants on the toilet. Hey, everyone needs a hobby, right?

The problem with knowing your friends have a Sim version of you is that you actually feel embarrassed or want to scold them (the Sims) for doing shit you personally would never do. My friend Damen found his Sim in a homosexual relationship with the guy who was supposed to be MY Sim's boyfriend while my Sim, clearly feeling a little desperate for affection and rejected and lonely after finding out the object of her affection preferred cock, went and had an affair with the burglar who came to rob her apartment. She got pregnant with his child even though one of her character traits was 'Hates Children', and was a predictably atrocious and neglectful mother who kept putting the baby on the floor and going off to surf the web or watch TV. Then the CPS lady came around and took the baby away because Sim me was neglecting it and then my Sim immediately went out and got pregnant AGAIN by someone Damen has never been able to identify. Again she was an atrocious mother and again CPS took the baby.

That dumb Sim is on baby four or five by now and can't stop fucking random guys and keeps getting pregnant and then leaving the baby to starve on the bathroom floor cos, fuck it, I didn't want that thing anyway!

I feel ashamed of her behaviour. Sim me, why are you giving the Sim universe absolutely the wrong impression of me??