Sims2-this isn't about gaming.

Have you ever played Sims2? I ask because you can have babies on the game and they grow up to be toddlers then to be kids, teenagers and then into adults. Well, as a parent/adult you can put them in a crib, feed them, read to them, love them, teach them how to walk, teach them how to talk, give them baths and train them to use the potty.
I don't have kids of my own so I thought this was really cool- until- until they started crying out of control, throwing tantrums and wouldn't do what I told them to do to make everybody's life easier.
You see, I would tell the kid to go potty but the kid would just sit there and not go but then he'd pee in his pants a little later on while crawling around and get all stinky and then I'd have to bathe him or otherwise he/she would REALLY start throwing a tantrum because apparently, they don't like to stink. Or I would tell the kid to eat and he'd just throw the bottle and lay on the floor and cry because he was tired but I'd put him to bed and he'd want a bottle.
Okay, so why am I writing about this? Well, I've noticed I'm not too patient with the poor kids. I'm really nice as a mother until they started throwing the tantrums and not listening to me. If they wouldn't go in the potty and then later on stink their pants, I would let them walk around with their urine stink and watch them tantrums. I saw the stink they didn't like to have as punishment for not going potty when I told them to a hundred and eight times. I know how mean this is and I know it's just a game but is this something anyone else can relate to?
I feel like a horrible person because I really enjoy watching them throwing a stink tantrum and I let them go for days with the stink. (They got green smoke coming off of them in the graphics to show the stink.)
Then I'll finally bathe them and kiss them silly when they use the potty like I tell them to.
How demented do you think this is. I love being mean to them when they're being bratty.
(Good thing I don't have kids.)

Yeah I have heard of it and watched people play but never reallly did. I heard it is not the best. I prefer Nancy Drew and Roller Coaster Tycoon, Fast food Tycoon 2 and Dinner Dash it is addicting! )

I tried playing Rollercoaster but constructing the coasters got to be too confusing for me. I've never tried the other ones.

Wow, Jax, you take me back. I haven't played video games since about 1978! Back pre-PC/Web, games were all text-based, you typed commands like "Left" and your "character" moved left. You were literally "blind," had to use your imagination and they were pretty much adventure games as there weren't any graphics yet and played on mainframe computers (yes, I'm pretty old :-) Anyway, I played a game and couldn't figure out how to get my character to get across a chasm and I got so angry that I told him to "jump," instant suicide/death. I was so appalled at my cavalier behavior, it felt so "real" that I haven't played many real video games since, almost have an adversion to/fear of them.

I don't think though that games necessarily depict how we'd behave in real life. Yes, it's true kids get the wrong ideas and try things they see in games, books, TV, etc. but when I have a "real" problem, I keep working at it until I solve it. And in real life, we don't have the same situation/control as we do in games where we're like "gods" I don't think. Parents don't say to infants, "go" and expect to be "obeyed" anymore than I'd have command over someone on a mission and get angry I couldn't figure out how to get across a chasm and tell him to jump. Games are not reality and how we'd react and the "conditions" aren't the same either I don't believe. Games let us "try out" things we wouldn't do in reality. We can drive cars fast, crash them and not get hurt; relieve frustrations in our lives or be vindictive and not hurt anyone. I don't think you're a horrible person for letting the toy children stay in their dirty diapers; you wouldn't do that in "real" life because the smell would literally affect you, wouldn't be a nice green (my favorite color :-) smoke graphic. Hopefully there would be a mate or grandparents/others to help with difficult times and it would be your child -- you would "feel" different about your literal child.

I decided not to have children in part because my stepmother was so controlling/abusive with me and I had a lot of anger and impatience that I was afraid I'd take out on any child of my own. An adult (my husband :-) might be able to handle such behavior but a child would be likely to both feel badly and make it worse (I was wonderful at passive resistance, was liable to cut off my nose to spite my face at any time :-) I didn't want to go through the pain I remember my stepmother and me going through because we couldn't understand one another, could not give one another what the other needed.

Hi Perna,
What you wrote is what I had thought about it but I was feeling kinda bad about being so mean to these little temper tantrum brats- animated didn't matter. It's one of those guilty pleasures, I guess.
Thanks.

Jax..... we have all of the Sims2 games......i can be a very demented game if you choose to mke it that way.... i love playing it.... if i dont watch it i would waste the whole weekend playing the sims2

Yup I play it from time to time at a friends house. I have no problem taking care of the kids. I end up taking such good care of the kids that the adults end up neglected and die of sorrow and a fire in the kitchen.

I love the game because it is so real life. those temper tantrums and potty problems on the game happen in real life only in real life they are called the terrible twos and even more rerrible threes. Welcome to the world of parenting.

Hi Myself and Mrb,
I've been there myself, Mrb-so has 2 of my sisters. I could start playing and next thing I know, it's been 6 hours.
It can be a very demented game and I do get into my moods when I choose to be a very mean "god" to those poor sims people. (muahahahaha) But 90% I'm a nice "god".

Myself, you must be a very patient mother-save the children at all costs! I do that on most occasions but then something snaps the 20th time the kid starts acting like a brat although, I am learning to just call the nanny when it becomes too much for me to handle.
The kids temper tantrums crack me up though.

Yea I am patient and put children first. though I have to admit there have been times where I have lost it with my own child which is why while he was in foster care due to my becoming depressed and suicidal I had to complete parenting classes and I also added on top of that anger management classes. and when my child came home I actually was able to put up with his hurting me and not do a thing other than report him to the police and his therapist months.

Im the first to admit Im not a perfect mom but yea I do put my child before my needs when he is home.

And yea those game temper tantrums are comical at times.

*warning - this is really mean and sort of demented, but funny.

Create pond.

Create island of one square.

get cheat to be able to move your sim manually.

place sim on island.

build walls all around sim.

Watch sim squirm.
(optional - after building walls, set a square directly beside it and place a gas stove on it.

Wait for the comedy.

PLEASE NOTE guys i would NEVER do anything of this sort in real life.

For me thats what video games are - a way to do silly nonsensical and even "evil demigod muahaha" type things.

ever have a sim get trapped at your house, like a visiting one? they cry and whine and complain and pee themselves and starve.

cool idea.

Hi Myself,
I really don't think I'd have the patience for my own "real" kids. I don't know-it may be different when they are yours instead of someone elses.
I admire and have a lot of respect for mothers because I know it's a job you can't clock out of and it drains you of all your energies.
These Sim babies are really cute but demanding. Like I said, anymore, I just call the Nanny.
Hi Rainbowz,
lol, It's too much fun torturing them, sometimes. You can always not save the game and they'll be fine-right?
I especially like annoying/torturing the Sims that came with the game and were Maxis made 'cause I have no attachment to them and some of them really annoy me.