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FranH
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#376 Old 16th Feb 2025 at 10:44 PM
Quote: Originally posted by HarVee
I remember that when TS1 was showed to the public and there was the accidental lesbian kissing scene. There was mix of positive and negative reactions. Personally, I've got no problem with homosexuality so in retrospect it's a positive thing that they kissed from me.



Does the name Jack Thompson ring any bells?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/...a-doom-attorney

He had major issues with video games from the start. The Sims was one of them.
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Yinepu
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#377 Old 16th Feb 2025 at 11:21 PM
Quote: Originally posted by FranH
Does the name Jack Thompson ring any bells?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/...a-doom-attorney

He had major issues with video games from the start. The Sims was one of them.

I stopped reading when he was going on about Politics and Biden/Trump. Why does politics have to get shoved into everything, including a simple interview. Ugh.
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Charity
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#378 Old 17th Feb 2025 at 2:53 PM
Quote: Originally posted by bnefriends
The question isn't what they think of the game, it is whether or not they will act if EA sends an abuse report about IPs uploading their intellectual property via bittorrent. Generally speaking, Russian ISPs are good about acting on abuse reports pertaining to spam or phishing, but I've heard they care screw all about copyright complaints. Sending any kind of abuse report to a Chinese ISP is as useless as screaming at a wall.

I used to run spam/phishing honeypots (traps) as a hobby, just because it was fun to do. Most of the western ISPs and eastern European ISPs seem to act in some way on spam reports (especially CenturyLink, Comcast, TELUS, Cox, Bell CA, BT, OCN, AT&T, and Yandex), but not all of them.


I was just being sarcastic. XD

You used to make spam?

Quote: Originally posted by HarVee
I remember that when TS1 was showed to the public and there was the accidental lesbian kissing scene. There was mix of positive and negative reactions. Personally, I've got no problem with homosexuality so in retrospect it's a positive thing that they kissed from me.


I don't know for sure that it's true, but the story I heard was that they had decided to take gay romance out of The Sims because it was too controversial, but they neglected to inform the guy who was working on it and he was working off an old brief. The lesbian kissing scene made them keep it in because a lot of people cheered them for it.

Quote: Originally posted by FranH
Does the name Jack Thompson ring any bells?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/...a-doom-attorney

He had major issues with video games from the start. The Sims was one of them.


Unfortunately, yes. Wouldn't have thought that The Sims was violent enough to get his attention though.

Quote: Originally posted by HarVee
I stopped reading when he was going on about Politics and Biden/Trump. Why does politics have to get shoved into everything, including a simple interview. Ugh.


I think they were trying to say he'd mellowed in his old age/he wasn't all bad, because he admitted that voting for Trump was a mistake.
Yinepu
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#379 Old 17th Feb 2025 at 4:38 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
I think they were trying to say he'd mellowed in his old age/he wasn't all bad, because he admitted that voting for Trump was a mistake.

I'm not going to comment much on this and I'm not going into detail to avoid this thread turning into a political shitshow. But implying someone is good because they regretted voting for a candidate you don't support is 1) Very childish. 2) Displays the journalistic bias of the interviewer and invalidates the whole interview.
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Sokisims
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#380 Old 17th Feb 2025 at 4:41 PM
I only read video game addiction and I was too lazy to read the rest... xD The media always talks about the things people use to escape from problems as if it were the real problem. xD

Quote: Originally posted by Charity

You used to make spam?


I didn't understand that very well either. xD
simsfreq
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#381 Old 17th Feb 2025 at 4:49 PM
You know, that's very perceptive. I follow a lot of parenting content because I have three kids, and something I recently saw was about considering if your child/teen is using screens to escape or avoid something IRL, just removing access to the screen doesn't solve the problem, and it will probably help to figure out what they're avoiding and why, and help them with that rather than going crazy on the screen use.

It definitely made me think. Because a lot of the parenting advice is very black and white like "Restrict screen time!! It's too addictive and it's your job to be in charge!!" or it's like "Screens aren't the devil... look at all the cool, creative/problem solving benefits to video games!" and while I obviously know screen time isn't just dead, wasted time rotting their individual brain cells one by one, I do also think that sometimes screen use can be unhealthy, I know my own screen use can be unhealthy, especially doom scrolling.
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Charity
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#382 Old 18th Feb 2025 at 5:06 PM
Quote: Originally posted by HarVee
I'm not going to comment much on this and I'm not going into detail to avoid this thread turning into a political shitshow. But implying someone is good because they regretted voting for a candidate you don't support is 1) Very childish. 2) Displays the journalistic bias of the interviewer and invalidates the whole interview.


Well, I'd disagree with that, but yeah, no politics.

Quote: Originally posted by simsfreq
You know, that's very perceptive. I follow a lot of parenting content because I have three kids, and something I recently saw was about considering if your child/teen is using screens to escape or avoid something IRL, just removing access to the screen doesn't solve the problem, and it will probably help to figure out what they're avoiding and why, and help them with that rather than going crazy on the screen use.

It definitely made me think. Because a lot of the parenting advice is very black and white like "Restrict screen time!! It's too addictive and it's your job to be in charge!!" or it's like "Screens aren't the devil... look at all the cool, creative/problem solving benefits to video games!" and while I obviously know screen time isn't just dead, wasted time rotting their individual brain cells one by one, I do also think that sometimes screen use can be unhealthy, I know my own screen use can be unhealthy, especially doom scrolling.


Anything can be bad. It depends how/why you use it.
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