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These Sims logic memes are as hilarious as they are true. Who knew that the Sims series of games made so little sense?
The Sims is weird, right? Just super weird!
It’s an endless, repetitive game where you just control tiny computer people until death, not seeing the irony as you whittle away your own infinite time before the grave. But it’s also awesome!
We like to see it as a realistic portrayal of society and humanity. If you're anything like me, you’ll install every expansion pack in order to further your Sims' lives, downloading any custom content that adds a smidgen of reality to your world. Despite the werewolves, vampires, aliens, and stuff, it’s nice to imagine The Sims as a real-world scenario.
Except it’s not and never will be.
Not because of the vampires, plant-Sims, and ghosts that all too casually wander around. Not because of the fortune teller who’ll set you up with the person of your dreams for enough money, or the witches that’ll teach you the ways of magic if you socialize with them enough. Because Sims will never see the world in the same way we do. They see the world through the eyes of Sim Logic.
Sometimes things happen in the world of The Sims that have us disturbed and confused, but leaves the Sims unfazed like it’s the norm to them.
So, here’s 25 examples of pure Sim logic that will have you laughing in agreement.
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26 The Burglar Stole My Toilet!
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Unless you have a burglar or a car alarm, there is no protection from burglars! Your Sim can try to call the police when the crooked visitor sneaks in during the night, but they are unlikely to arrive on time. Once a burglar is in your house, there is no stopping them from stealing your stuff!
Burglar Sims will take the most expensive items in your Sim’s house. Even if those items include kitchen counters, beds, or even toilets! Burglars have to power to turn everything they touch into money during the first game (which must get annoying when handling your own stuff) and later are able to suck everything they want into their magical red sack. Leaving your poor Sim to weep for their toilet!
25 Living The Dream
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House prices have been rising steadily for the last few years, while minimum wage and jobs haven’t been catching up. Many millennials are now in a situation where they will be unable to afford their own house for many years to come.
But for some reason, in The Sims, wages are ever increasing, yet house prices remain ridiculously low! You can buy a house for as little as fifteen thousand Simoleons in some cases, while the biggest mansions cost around a hundred thousand Simoleons. This is why your Sims will always have better houses than you will!
So, if you want to experience what it would be like to own your own house, then play! Although I’m bitter so I usually make them live in apartments anyway.
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23 How To Improve Your Home
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With Freetime, Sims with the “tinkering” hobby were encouraged to play around with their household items, usually breaking them and repairing them again. Later, Sims were able to improve their household items more efficiently. While tinkering in The Sims 2 at least involved a Sim fiddling with a screwdriver in the same spot, later Sims just hit their possessions with a hammer!
If you came home and saw your flatmate repeatedly hitting your stove with a hammer, surely you’d intervene and ask what was going on. But, nope. Your Sims just accept that this is going to improve the stove and soon no one will ever have to clean it!
22 The Folding Car
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While this is technically a glitch, it’s become so common and so enjoyable for most players, that it just feels like part of the game at this point. Parking has always been a strange thing in Sim world. When Sims first got cars in Nightlife, I wondered why they always parked in the same spot next to the payphone when there were perfectly good parking lots made up that went unused. And what if someone else wanted to drive to the shops? Where would they park? Well, when later Sims games came along, I found out. They were simply putting their cars in their pockets.
I imagine a lot of drivers would kill for this ability. It would certainly save on parking fees and tickets.
21 But It Was Aliens!
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Maybe this is one of the slightly more realistic aspects of the game.
In The Sims bosses are reasonable and will only fire you from your job if you miss too many consecutive days. However, if on the eve of your last chance you get abducted by aliens and end up late or missing work, then your boss won’t be understanding. It’s understandable, surely? If you were late for work today and went up to your boss with the excuse that you were abducted by aliens, surely, they wouldn’t believe you and fire you for tediousness.
Although in The Sims your boss can be an alien themselves, so maybe they’re just being jerks!
20 Too Young
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I’ve never been able to understand why children aren’t allowed to do certain things in The Sims. They're too young to play certain instruments, but allowed to touch chemistry sets. They're too young to cook their own meals in the kitchen, but old enough to have access to the bar (even if they’re only getting a “juice box.”) Also, why are adult Sims excluded from kid things? They’re allowed to play with the dollhouse but not in the super cool play area! I’d play in the play area! Although my status as an adult is questionable.
Sims certainly are dubious parents, so maybe it’s just a set list they receive from the Sim government, where it’s illegal for children to do very specific things. Like make pottery or play guitar.
19 Well, It’s Closer
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It’s a classic phenomenon of the game's coding that was acknowledged by the creators in the first game guide. When a Sim puts a pizza down in the bathroom it's because it’s the nearest surface. Instead of choosing the most logical location for their activities, Sims just tend to go with whatever is closer. Whichever chair is closer, the closest table to put something down, and whichever surface can be used to prepare food. Even if it’s in the bathroom.
It’s a quirk of the game you really thought would have been fixed by The Sims 4. But maybe we’ve come to love it by this stage!
18 Who Needs Med School?
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My favourite Sims expansion pack is, without a doubt, University! Simply because it was a more realistic way for Sims to progress so quickly in their chosen careers. Even if there isn’t such a thing as med school yet in the Sim world, you at least feel a little bit better about your local doctor if they at least have a biology degree.
Not that choosing to skip college will limit your medical dreams! If you simply can’t be bothered with college (a silly thought considering that it’s free in the Sim world), just play chess, talk to yourself in the mirror, and read about cleaning until your boss is satisfied that you know how to operate on people.
17 Celebration Time
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Sims have an odd sense of celebration. In the moment, they love sharing joy with others, whether it’s cheering at their child’s A+ report card or clapping the happy couple at a wedding, your Sims will always be there to support others.
The trouble is that their joy, while passionate at the time, is often short-lived. After they’ve cheered their kid's report card, they’ll go back to doing what they were doing. After the wedding ceremony has finished, it’s time to get some food, go the bathroom, dance alone or with others, or start a fight with someone. And after you're happy for your daughter’s graduation, there is no point on dwelling on the matter, it’s time to go out there and build a snowman!
16 I Didn’t Mean To!
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Sims don’t really have a sense of personal space. If they’ve decided that an action needs to be done, then they’ll do it, regardless of who is around them. If they feel they need to stand somewhere, then they’ll go stand there, regardless if they’ll be standing uncomfortably close to someone or on occasion IN that other Sim!
And sometimes things like this happen.
It’s not the Sim’s fault. He fell over and needed to reach out. She was just standing in the way.
It’s not just the video game glitches that separate the Sims from our world, but how casual they all are about it. I guarantee this guy never apologized, but most of all that girl didn’t even notice. I guess Sims understand each other in a way we never can.
15 How To Cheat
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I’ve started to realise that the more The Sims progresses, the more Sims are willing to accept adultery. It’s very strange.
In the original game and in The Sims 2, other Sims were devastated if their beloved stepped out on them. They would slap and fight them, rejecting any positive social interaction that the cheating Sim would try to engage them in. That was, until Sims were able to learn “anger management," at which point nothing anyone did to them could ever annoy them! Which was really annoying!
In The Sims 4 I had a Sim who was terrified that her husband was cheating on her. So, I had her come home early to catch him! Because I’m evil. But she barely cared! She got upset, cried, then went over to tell him a joke! I guess I’ll just make them dance until they forget about everything.
14 So Much Left To Explore
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It actually really annoys me how easy it is to make money in The Sims. At some point during the game's progress, the money cheats became redundant. The bosses hand promotions out like candy and money builds up pretty quickly. Whenever I try to get a family broke, the game interferes (maybe thinking that I’m struggling), giving the Sims bonuses at work or making them discover new stars with their telescope!
The SimCity Astronomical Society really aren’t doing their job, because the way they spit money out at amateurs, you’d think they’d never looked at the sky before! I’ve had Sims discover two new planets in the same night. Planets!
13 The Birthday Fire
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I think it’s fair to say that Sims don’t learn from their mistakes. Especially when it comes to fire! They could be cooking dinner, start a fire, get saved from the fire, and start cooking again. Once, when two Sims were on vacation, they kept insisting that they wanted a fire lit in the fireplace, despite that fact that it set fire to the rug every time!
So, while it’s upsetting that this Sims birthday party was probably ruined by their candles setting fire to their entire house, it probably won’t stop them from enjoying many birthday parties for years to come. I don’t know how you’d really set fire to the house with birthday candles, though. That’s nearly impressive!
12 No Time Wasters
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Sims have a much, much shorter life span than the average human, but even by their standards relationships move fast! Sims fall in love quickly and they don’t like to waste time, particularly family Sims who can get a want to get engaged very quickly after meeting another Sim.
Even Sims with other focuses in their lives can get caught up in romance and not want to move on from their first love. Unless your Sim has a Romance aspiration or the “Afraid of Commitment” trait, they’ll probably want their relationship to move fast.
When you meet the Sim of your dreams, don’t hang around! Let them know how you feel and start a family before it’s too late and it’s dark outside so you want to go home.
11 He’s Pregnant Again
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I’ve never understood the motivation of the aliens in The Sims games. They’ve abducted Sims from the beginning, warping their minds and taking control. Later in The Sims 2 they began to abduct more often, especially in Strangetown. They even started populating the world below by getting (male) Sims pregnant with their alien babies.
However why they do this has never really been explained.
Do they want to discover more about Sim lives? Do they want to slowly populate the Sim world with their offspring and take it over? These are both valid possibilities, although after over a decade of Simming, I’ve decided that they’re just doing it for the lolz!
10 I Hate You So Much!
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Another example of how Sims lack social skills.
Sims don’t really know where to draw the line at boundaries. Guests just sort of come over unannounced, then hang around until their told to leave, especially in apartment buildings. Once, in an apartment building, one of the residents decided that he hated my Sim. She had a smelly apartment and was constantly partying. He constantly came over to yell at her, and slapped her once or twice. Didn’t stop him from coming in whenever he pleased to watch her TV!
But maybe we can learn a thing or two from The Sims. After all, we all have calls of nature. Maybe if you let your enemy use your toilet, one day they’ll return the favour. Then you can get them back by stealing their shower gel or something.
9 Picture Of A Ghost
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Death does weird things to Sims. One time in Sims 2 a Sim of mine died while his daughter was off site, so when she returned home his ghost left declaring he’d died on another lot, even though the Sim himself had never left the house. I didn’t understand, either.
In the original, death was so profound that Sims would mourn the dead, even if they never knew them. This lead to me selling all the graves in the Goth's garden, as guests preferred to mourn them than spend time with the family!
It’s impressive that the Grim Reaper managed to move the body out of the photo booth before the pictures had finished, though.
8 How To Prevent Fires
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In the world of Sims, everything can catch fire. The fire alarm could probably burn down if it didn’t summon those pesky fire fighters.
Remember the genie in the original game? Well, if he made a mistake and summoned fire, he would always set fire to my goddamn hot tubs or baths! Possibly to create a sense of irony. Odds are that if your Sims' fireplace is next to the shower, then the shower itself would probably catch fire.
Truth be told, fires aren’t that hard to avoid. The fire brigade is incredibly efficient and will be there as soon as they can to deal with the situation. Just don’t expect water to be of any use.
7 How Did I Get Here?
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After a long Simathon, there is always that nagging thought in the back of my mind. What if we are all Sims? What if Will Wright was actually some kind of prophet?
I admit that it’s unlikely, but until someone can prove that it’s not true, the stupid part of me will always wonder.
So, when something like this happens, I feel like I’m a Sim. Especially when you forget something, sit down, remember it, get up, and then decide not to do it. I’ve done that to my Sims so many times! So maybe you’re not forgetful. Maybe that thing you were thinking of WAS important. Your Watcher just decided against it. It’s not your fault!
When you really give it some thought, The Sims series of games are based on a profoundly messed up concept. Obviously, these games are "life simulators" and allow the player to create a virtual version of themselves and live a life. You can be a doctor, an astronaut, whatever you want. You can build and customize a house and raise a family. In short, you can do all the stuff one generally does in real life, but from the comfort of your couch. Of course, it is also much easier, much quicker and if you catastrophically screw up your character's life, you can just start a new one.
What is the messed up concept, you might ask? Well, if you're binge playing a life in The Sims, you're literally guiding an imaginary friend through the activities that would make up your own life. Then again, similar arguments could be made for almost any game out there (why play Madden when you could make a few dozen phone calls and set up a game of football?). Regardless of this menial issue, the games can be wildly addictive.
As entertaining as this series of games can be, there are also absolutely ridiculous game elements that make us wonder what kind of drugs the developers were taking while working. Between the way the game works and the behavior of the Sims as they interact with each other and their world, there are plenty of meme-worthy aspects to this series. Here are fifteen The Sims memes that are too funny for words.
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15 Everyone Can Play God
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The goals of the games, if you play the way in which they are intended, are fairly positive. You're generally supposed to get a job and go to work, make your house beautiful, find a spouse and have some kids to raise, while maintaining an active social life. But that stuff gets boring, and anyone who has played these games knows that after a while, all you really want to do is mess around with your Sims and see how awful you can make their lives. On Reddit there are numerous threads in which players detail the worst things they have done to their characters, and whether it be trapping them in rooms without doors, haunting them with ghosts, it can be fun to be as monstrous as possible when the people aren't real.
14 A Job? Is That Really Necessary?
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One of the biggest headaches in any Sims game can be going to work. Whether each Sim has a good one or not, it's time they spend away from the home and much like real life, jobs can be miserable and depressing. But for those people who just don't feel like working, there is a great "welfare" system in each of the games. There are different money cheats for different games, but for the most part, they work completely the same. "Kaching" is in a couple of the games, "Rosebud" is a cheat in the first game, and of course "Motherlode" is the cheat that gives the most, 50,000 Simoleons in The Sims 2 through The Sims 4.
13 We've All Thought This
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The language in the series is one of the first things many people will notice. In many cases, it does sound like it might be a foreign language or possibly derived from a foreign language, but this is not the case. English was not chosen as the main tongue of the series because the developers felt it would lead to absurdly repetitive dialogue. Creator Will Wright's early idea was to base the words on the Native American Navajo language, but this never came to be, with the developers just using gibberish and nonsense. There are some English words that are used throughout gameplay in the various games, but for the most part, Simlish is spoken and while it may sound like a foreign language, it is just babbling nonsense. In real life, if you hear someone speaking a language you don't understand, it may be impolite to ask "excuse me, is that Simlish?"
12 The Animations Can Be Pretty Funny
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There are tons of examples of screenshots online of poor animation and animation gone wrong in various video games. Prior to its release, Mass Effect: Andromeda was receiving criticism for some poor facial features, and there were some hilarious instances of terrible animation shortly after the release of Assassin's Creed: Unity. The Sims has been no different, and if you look closely, regardless of the game, sometimes the program has a glitch like the one pictured above. We aren't doctors, but we know that hands aren't supposed to move that way. It would be admirable if he had destroyed his hands and was still trying to get people to join him in the hot tub. Some people just need the party to go on.
11 They Are Very Dependent On The Player...
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Fire is a major threat in the series and may be more of a problem in the game than it is in real life. Most people have fire extinguishers in their homes these days (right?), and in the case of small fires, most have at least some aptitude to deal with them. While the dynamic of how Sims react to fire has changed over the years, it hasn't changed that much, and in some cases, these lovable morons will still just stand around a roaring blaze complaining and throwing their arms in the air until help arrives...or until they die. Obviously, we can't complain too much about a game that gives us total control, but it would be nice if "throw water at it" or "find and use fire extinguisher" were normal responses for Sims rather than needing us to give them the "go-ahead."
10 High Fives Cure All
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Sometimes in The Sims games, babies and toddlers will just catch fire, and there is really nothing one can do about it. It can happen, and unlike real life, the consequences are usually not too dire. For most of the games, babies do not die from being on fire, but a character's significant other will not be too happy. Who can blame them? You don't make a person together and then let it catch fire! But the great thing about these games is that —while time cures all wounds— the time frame of all events is sped up enough that even if a baby catches fire, a few high-fives usually do the trick of bringing you back into their good books. Wouldn't it be great if real life relationships were as easy to navigate as a few high fives and bad jokes?
9 Socially Awkward
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While the Sims may look somewhat like humans and in many ways, they act like humans, but when you get right down to it, they are just...off. This should go without saying, but if you're out for dinner with someone, whether it is a date or not, you generally should be sitting together. Even if you have a disagreement while ordering, or get into a fight, sitting at a different table does nothing for a relationship whether that relationship is platonic or otherwise. But in the world of The Sims, two people on a date may or may not sit together; the goal of the evening is to eat and whether they enjoy each other's company is irrelevant. It's weird, but this is just Sims logic at work. It's a different culture, and we just need to learn to accept it.
8 Damn It, Xzibit!
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Xzibit memes will never stop being funny...well, we certainly hope they don't stop being funny. In this shot, as you can see, there is a Sim, playing a game that looks an awful lot like a game from this series on her computer. This is a level of ridiculousness that is almost over the top. Think about it, while you're either sitting in front of the TV or computer screen, you've actually controlled an avatar and instructed them to sit down at a screen and play a game much like the one you are playing. So quite literally, like Xzibit putting a spoiler on top of a spoiler on top of a spoiler on Pimp My Ride (it never happened but was a hilarious meme), you're literally playing The Sims while you play The Sims.
7 Woohoo!
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It's a life simulator series, and what is probably the best part of life? The horizontal mambo, bumping uglies, the four-legged foxtrot. The euphemisms for the activity are endless, and in The Sims, it's called WooHoo, but we don't recommend ever saying that in real life, before, after or of course, during the deed.
While the game's version of this event is nowhere near as awesome as the real thing, it is far, far easier (literally high five until the object of your digital desire says "yes") and it is risk-free. No potential for burning, or any of the dreaded infections and of course, if you have a baby in the game, it's you Sim's responsibility, and there is no real penalty for neglect.
6 Just Step Around It, Stupid!
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This is just the way the game is built, but it could not be more frustrating. In real life, humans are incredibly adaptable. If there is something in our way and we need to pass it, we'll either move the object, step over it, step around it or otherwise find some other way to accomplish our goal. The ability to problem solve is one of the reasons we've lasted so long. Sims, on the other hand, are catastrophically useless, and as this meme implies, if something is in their way, they're probably just going to get angry and yell at it rather than attacking the problem head-on. Whether it is a book, a plate of food or something else, if it is in their way, the player has to get them to deal with it. "Scumbag Sim" should just figure it out rather than having to be carefully instructed through every step in life.
5 It Can Be Hard To Stop
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These games, like any other series, can be incredibly addictive. Depending on how many Sims (adults, elderly, kids, toddlers) are in your house at any time, and how many activities you want each to do, the game can be time-consuming and ridiculously difficult. While there are games that can be played for a finite amount of time, this franchise has no such games. An hour is not enough time to get much done...but six hours is.
In this case, Boromir is right, and if you want to try to play a Sims game for just an hour, you'll be disappointed. It is a testament to how well EA has done making these games that six or eight hours can fly by when you're doing something as simple as trying to build a house.
4 Terrifying Thought?
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If you periodically ingest certain substances that expand or change the workings of your mind, you may have had this thought before. If you don't take drugs, you still may have had this thought before. It seems fairly paranoid, and there is not (at this point anyway) any way to determine the validity of a statement like this one, but for our purposes, it is interesting but also terrifying to imagine, hence the look on Conspiracy Keanu's face. What if we are living in a video game, playing this series of video games and using avatars to play games within games within games. This is like The Matrix and Inception put together, and thinking about it too much might change your worldview. If that happens, it may be time to stop thinking so much about the metaphysical possibilities of video games and take a walk outside and talk to some real humans.
3 Relationships Move Quickly
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Given that it's a video game and isn't supposed to exactly mimic real life, relationships move hilariously quickly in The Sims. You can meet someone in the morning, flirt, high five, and woohoo for a while, and by the evening (or even later that morning) you can be engaged to be married. It's ridiculous, but as we're starting to show, many aspects of the series are downright ludicrous. In the exact same way, you can become best friends with someone in a matter of an hour or two, or earn an enemy hilariously quickly. In the real world, these are all possibilities, but instantaneous love, friendship, and even becoming enemies with someone takes some time, but The Sims has nothing to do with real life. The real world is overrated anyway.
2 Never Forget The Ladder!
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While this is much less of a problem for Sims in The Sims 3 and 4, as they can actually climb out of pools in the absence of a ladder. The first two games did not have this option, and if there was no ladder for a Sim to use to exit the pool, they would likely drown in there. As we mentioned earlier, playing God and killing off Sims as one wishes is a dark and popular reason for playing the game, and luring many Sims into a pool and then deleting the ladder is a sick and disturbing (also hilarious because they are just video game characters) idea. In the recent games, there are still ways to get Sims to drown (such as the use of walls within a pool), but the absence of a ladder is no longer a death sentence, much to the dismay of the countless players who enjoyed killing their characters in this manner.
1 Can't We Just Eat Breakfast?
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This has to be one of the funniest Sims memes out there, and that's why it makes the final spot on the list. This was a screenshot taken for promotional purposes prior to the release of The Sims 4. The look on the male character's face and the captions are priceless, as he sits at the breakfast table, just trying to enjoy his pancakes while the woman sits next to him and rants on in Simlish.
While it is the male being complained to in this image, it would work the other way around, or even if there was a kid or older Sim at the table. Everyone can empathize with this poor guy, sometimes, we just want to enjoy a cup of coffee and eat some pancakes without anyone yelling at us. If it's breakfast time, we're likely headed off to work afterward, and the day may well not get any better from there.
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