Yeah, we do keep getting more sadistic, but only because we're taught to hate the towelheads sitting on our oil and the monkeymen surrounding our precious metal mines.
The Day The Icicle Works Shut Down: Force all your middle-class Sims into brain-sucking jobs running painful undersea robotic machinery so you can make as much money as possible by selling time in their bodies to interestellar tourist Sims who want to fuck everything in sight and then go home to their own bodies--and try to keep them from learning those tourists aren't really interstellar.
The Sims Who Ate The World: Teach your Sims boy the importance of consumption until he's singlehandedly running and siphoning off the world's economy, which will overrun the entire planet with battle tractors in ten minutes if he ever stops buying them and driving them into recycling centers. See also J.G. Ballard's The Subliminal Sims.
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Fred Pohl may be more salient in today's political reality
Date: 2004-11-19 11:18 am (UTC)The Day The Icicle Works Shut Down: Force all your middle-class Sims into brain-sucking jobs running painful undersea robotic machinery so you can make as much money as possible by selling time in their bodies to interestellar tourist Sims who want to fuck everything in sight and then go home to their own bodies--and try to keep them from learning those tourists aren't really interstellar.
The Sims Who Ate The World: Teach your Sims boy the importance of consumption until he's singlehandedly running and siphoning off the world's economy, which will overrun the entire planet with battle tractors in ten minutes if he ever stops buying them and driving them into recycling centers. See also J.G. Ballard's The Subliminal Sims.
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Date: 2004-11-19 11:24 am (UTC)Sim's Run
The Running Sim