The Sims 2, Underground™
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Published 2022-05-12
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Music:
The Sims, The Sims 2, Simcity 4, The Sims: Bustin Out, and The Urbz: Sims in the City Soundtracks (by Maxis and EA)
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Portrait of George Washington (1796) by Gilbert Stuart
All Comments (21)
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This really seems like a Victorian-era Existentiall novel, where you work all your life to achieve the goal of financial freedom, and once you reach it you are old and near death. The final staircase might as well have continued onto the staircase to heaven. True happiness comes from the holes dug along the way friends.
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I am convinced this man writes poetry then figures out how to fit it into gameplay. And you know what, it works
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When you remember Sims 4, now an 8 year old game, doesn't have spiral stair cases but Sims 2, an 18 year old game, does
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“Conventional wisdom states that when one hits rock bottom, the only way to go is up. This is foolish. Humans can’t fly, but they can dig.” -Brad Pit, A Guide to Living in a Hole
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"How does AA weave such horrifying existentialism into these seemingly simple video games?" I hear you asking. He does not. The horrifying existentialism is already there, in everything. You just have to look for it, or in this case, you just have to be shown.
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The Sims 2 is absolutely the best in the series. This was existentially horrific. Thank you.
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The moral of the story is that if you spend your youth alone and underground your youth will have been spent alone and underground. No backsies.
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I can't believe burglars are not a thing in the newer Sims.
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This man clearly went insane to aquire the eldritch knowledge needed to install Sims 2 on modern hardware.
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Alternate title ~ Notes from Underground: The Rise of Brad Pit. Also to folks wondering about Zomboid/Rimworld/Kenshi/name title here, yes, there will be more - just having my nostalgic bout with games of my youth lately. There will be more :)
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"I subversively removed my shovel from my pants" has to be one of the most unpleasantly pleasant sentences I've heard in my life.
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Missed opportunity for Johnny Depth.
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Brad Pit's desperate desire for wealth taints all of his works of art, truly a man crushed by the weight of his circumstances
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From Kenshi to The Sims while keeping the same good quality. That's one of a kind.
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Finally, amphibian has admitted to his goblin ways
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so he dug hundreds of metres below ground and found nothing, but thinks that by digging an extra metre down he’ll find treasure? Brad is truly special.
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Omg you need to try the Sims 2 Asylum Challenge...designing your very own Panopticon Prison and you can only select and control a single Sim....who will fall in love? Who will fight? Who will die? The narrative unpredictability is exciting when you unleash the primitive AI of such feeble, digital creatures.
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I would really like to see Will Wrights reaction to these sim videos, given the fact he designed it so we can tell our own stories, no matter how ambigously silly it is.
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The one about vigor of youth coursing through your veins before succumbing to being old and frail was insanely poetic and made me think for real
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plenty are commenting on the conclusion of this epic but I'm finding the opening action the most Victorian gothic of the whole thing if you stitch it together a little: businessman, going bankrupt, begins to capitalize on his one remaining resource the only way he can, digs for treasure until his physical and metaphorical pit is so deep that he can no longer escape it
