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Comment Re:What happens... (Score 1) 484

by conJunk on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @07:45PM (#22399812) Attached to: Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label

dude, your UID is Look at Apple - if not for the PC vs Mac ads, they'd still be known pretty much only for the iPod/iPhone. where were you for apple ][?

the 1984 ad alone makes that statement ridiculous; i've got dollars to doughnuts you bought that low UID

Sexuality And The Sims 91

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @07:17PM from the two-great-tastes dept.

Jim Rossignol writes "An article on a new blog I'm contributing to discusses how The Sims (mostly the original, but also the sequel) gets used for sexual purposes, and also examines how this kind of response is essential to the appeal of the game. Here's an extract: 'On sites like Simulated, Eight Deadly Sims, Pandora's Sims and Strange Sims we see increasingly bizarre uses of the modding tools. While mainstream sites are for all ages, these have reached such a level of risqué or alternative content that the majority hide behind pay-for-access barriers to ensure that the users at least have a credit card (i.e. aren't minors), and to earn a little cash. Of all the mod cultures online — and virtually every PC game has users making their own additional content either in publisher-supported or unofficial ways — it's only The Sims which has such an obvious number of sites which demand money for access. This is particularly unusual: there's a clause in EA's tool license that they can only be used 'on your personal non-commercial website'. That Electronic Arts hasn't gone after such a sizeable community is interesting in and of itself.'" Jim Rossignol is a well-respected games journalist in the industry, and his new blog (Rock, Paper, Shotgun) is well worth checking out.

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