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EA recommends drowning your Sims

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WTF is this

I’ve obviously woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning as one of the first emails I saw this morning had the subject “Rejoice! Pools are Now in The Sims 4!” and that just irritated the hell out of me.

Pools have been in The Sims for years so adding them into The Sims 4 weeks after release just feels like a cheap marketing ploy to get extra media attention. And yes that is exactly what it is doing but for entirely different reasons.

First up we have this new trailer:

The trailer is rated M for Violence and Sexual References. I dare you to find a sexual reference in the video. And don’t tell me that two people having a quick kiss at the end is sexual reference. That’s just life, people. The overly sexually conservative Americans are really getting on my nerves with their moral police. They’d have an absolute heart attack if you actually saw real nudity in this game but building a wall around a pool and watching everyone die only to have a little girl laugh and dance in delight is okay? How absolutely psychotic is that?

Then the ghosts come back to life and everyone dances and has a great time. Why don’t we see any public backlash against The Sims from Fox news and the rest of the moral outrage brigade. You know why? Because it is bright and colourful. The same way that people loved the rave scene while hating on the metal scene. Because the ravers wear bright coloured clothes and seemed all nice and polite while chugging down the illegal drugs by the handful.

Metalheads, Goths and the like looked scary but in reality were more focused on drinking than anything else. I’d much rather see my kids playing Call of Duty than The Sims.

Bah humbug, and with that, my grumpy old man morning rant is over.

Last Updated: November 5, 2014

52 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    November 5, 2014 at 09:04

    Erm… no sexual references? YOU CAN SEE THEIR ANKLES! I need to go lay down, I feel faint.

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    • aj_nator

      November 5, 2014 at 09:24

      A-a-ankles?? *nosebleed*

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    • Bjorn

      November 5, 2014 at 09:52

      HNNNNNGGGG

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  2. Captain JJ the pout

    November 5, 2014 at 09:07

    Yes. Gavin, flip, I agree 100%.

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  3. Victor "Vicky" Moolman

    November 5, 2014 at 09:10

    Some of those ghosts have some nice curves…..am I really that weird?

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    • Kensei Seraph Forget Terra

      November 5, 2014 at 09:11

      You were an intern at LazyGamer, of course you are weird.

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      • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

        November 5, 2014 at 09:17

        I’ve been trying to get the strange that funk off of me but it just keeps crawling back when I go to sleep. -_-

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        • Kensei Seraph Forget Terra

          November 5, 2014 at 09:18

          Try loud repetitive noises.
          It’s how Spider-Man got rid of it.

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          • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

            November 5, 2014 at 09:21

            I tried that with “Let It Go” but for some reason it just made me think of Gavin, the Funk also started dancing in some very scary ways.

    • wwilliam275

      November 5, 2014 at 09:17

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    • OVG

      November 5, 2014 at 09:19

      You must have Japanese blood in your family 😛

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      • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

        November 5, 2014 at 09:22

        It is a possible that somewhere along the line one of my ancestors got a little frisky…

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        • OVG

          November 5, 2014 at 09:26

          After 200 000 years of Human evolution I would guess that everybody alive today owes their existence to a million crazy rapist ancestors lol

          Or you can believe that Adam and Eve were the first people not to read Apples T&Cs…

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          • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

            November 5, 2014 at 09:34

            There’s always some fine print somewhere: You get a new phone, but we will monitor you. Get a R1000, but only after one month. Invade Russia, but you have to be Hitlers man whore. Get a new car, but you have to drive around with this sticker.

          • OVG

            November 5, 2014 at 09:35

            Tee hee hee,
            coffee time 🙂

    • OVG

      November 5, 2014 at 09:44

      I must admit. I did have the hots for the Robotech girls when I was a kid :)… still do…

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      • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

        November 5, 2014 at 09:46

        They were nice, however Misty was my first crush and her leaving is the entire reason I stopped watching Pokemon…

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        • OVG

          November 5, 2014 at 09:49

          lol you need to move up to Neon Genesis Evangelion. I heard its very popular in America.

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          • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

            November 5, 2014 at 09:49

            I bet it’s not as popular as Ghost in the Shell…

          • OVG

            November 5, 2014 at 09:51

            Ghost in a shell owns the Matrix. The Japanese have always been a thousand years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to story telling and it never dates.

          • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

            November 5, 2014 at 09:53

            I whole heartedly agree, the only thing I really demand from them is to make the virtual reality that is in SAO a reality….we would all most likely die after a week but it would a helluva lot of fun

          • OVG

            November 5, 2014 at 09:56

            I think I remember watching Sword Art Online back when DSTV was cool and had the Sci Fi / Anime Channel before they replaced it with the cooking channel.

            They moved to another part of the MMORPG every time they died if I remember.

            Now the internet is here I must start looking for these gems.

          • Victor "Vicky" Moolman

            November 5, 2014 at 09:59

            I actually downloaded and watched SAO for the first time last year….that HD quality on a big screen made it all worth the wait.

            Did you know you it’s actually legal to download Anime through Torrentz??? They really don’t give a damn.

          • OVG

            November 5, 2014 at 10:03

            I am just a little worried that my expensive PS4 is not getting much love now that I have discovered these NIS America Atlus games that are hiding in the dark corners of the PS VITA store. I am having a BLAST of a time playing Conception 2, Akibas trip, Senran Kagura, danganronpa…

            Is disgaea 3, 4 the same as Persona 4?

          • Kensei Seraph Forget Terra

            November 5, 2014 at 09:59

            That was./HACK

      • Dutch Matrix

        November 5, 2014 at 10:00

        Just not Minmay. Why they never shot her out of the first conveniently located airlock is beyond me…

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  4. OVG

    November 5, 2014 at 09:13

    More DLC FOR YOU PUMPKIN BRAINS.
    EA know the main target market for SIMS are females, and we all know how females love to shop.

    Give it a decade before the concept of a game is putting it together like a puzzle to make it work via episodic DLC.

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    • Kensei Seraph Forget Terra

      November 5, 2014 at 09:15

      Didn’t we already have the (short) rise and fall of episodic content?

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      • OVG

        November 5, 2014 at 09:18

        They just rename these things. It is now called DLC.
        24hour check ins is now called on-line only games.

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        • Kensei Seraph Forget Terra

          November 5, 2014 at 09:28

          Well they also upped the frequency of those check-ins.
          “Oh you lost connection for 1 second? Let me just spend the next 3 minutes making sure that the connection is restored.”

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          • OVG

            November 5, 2014 at 09:28

            Said the devs at Drive Club 😛

  5. Kensei Seraph Forget Terra

    November 5, 2014 at 09:13

    Well they obviously know their target market.

    The Sims, a game where people indulge in their god complexes and destroy the lives and souls of their creations.

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  6. Mossel

    November 5, 2014 at 09:16

    Yes! Metal! m/><m/

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  7. Admiral Chief 0

    November 5, 2014 at 09:16

    Ag Gavin, its not that bad…just LET IT GOOOOOOO

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    • RinceThis

      November 5, 2014 at 09:27

      He is pissed off that people are having a go about people who want to set off fireworks, he’s grumpy today.

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      • Gavin Mannion

        November 5, 2014 at 09:42

        just a bit, and I’m having a go at people who complain about fireworks.. not the other way around

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        • RinceThis

          November 5, 2014 at 09:47

          I can see both happening 😛 And I am with you on this, so shutz the facez rockstar singga!

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        • OVG

          November 5, 2014 at 10:25

          The one night in the year the Jozzie gunfire is disguised by fireworks 😛

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    • Alex Hicks

      November 5, 2014 at 09:53

      The responses to this comment make me sad. Oh well,

      Let it goooo, let it gooooooooooooo! The cold never bothered me anyway.

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  8. Reid

    November 5, 2014 at 09:18

    EA does this way too often. It’s impossible. It cannot be done. It won’t work with the engine. It won’t work offline. Then people complain and eventually EA just goes, “Ok here. It’s done. Now shut up and buy more stuff”

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  9. Hammersteyn

    November 5, 2014 at 09:18

    Someone should make a mock movie. The EA execs wakes up in a pool surrounded by walls and then Jigsaw appears and tells them “Do you want to play a game?”

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    • aj_nator

      November 5, 2014 at 10:40

      I can picture Jigsaw saying, “Do you want to play a game…with micro-transactions? “

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  10. Hammersteyn

    November 5, 2014 at 09:27

    That kid looks really a little too happy at the sight of her parents drowning.

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  11. Ghost In The Rift

    November 5, 2014 at 09:30

    Yeah you ravers,stop hating on metal and go get a pool with walls on the sides??that correct?
    Damn you!

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  12. Hammersteyn

    November 5, 2014 at 09:36

    The trailer features murder and death but an uplifting soundtrack, kinda like this.

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    • OVG

      November 5, 2014 at 09:40

      Bwhahahahahahahaha

      It typical episode of The Big Bang Theory.

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    • RinceThis

      November 5, 2014 at 09:49

      HAHAHAHA! How have I not seen this before?!

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  13. Treezle

    November 5, 2014 at 13:25

    Yeah, Gavin, if you had actually checked the source of the video, it comes from EA Australia & NZ. Their M rating is more like 15+. So it’s not the Americans as you were ranting and raving, but the bloody aussies (who are just as bad)

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  14. Graeme Selvan

    November 5, 2014 at 15:28

    Boobs, it was the covered boobs!

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