Revisiting another old video game

Anyone ever hear of a computer game called “The Sims”?  I know, it’s pretty darn obscure.  I bought the first version back in… oh… let’s check Wikipedia again…

2000.

I remember I was reading about what a different kind of game it was.  I found it appealing because I liked to design, build, and decorate the houses.  The game never had much replay value to me, because I really couldn’t care less about what those dumb twit little sims do after I made the house.

Except for the maid.


There’s something about maids that lends itself easily to my fembot fantasies.  And I discovered that if I paused the game while the maid was in the house, then built walls around her without any door… she’d robotically strut back and forth in sim-confusion… not knowing how to get out.  It looked like a robot maid malfunction to me.

But that got old too.  The game was slow and hard to play on my first PC, but on the newest one I have, there are no problems at all.  Hooray for modern hardware.  And I noticed something too.  I play this game so infrequently that usually each time I play it, I’ve reinstalled it some time after a re-installation of Windows.  Today is the first time I’ve played it since the last time I’ve reinstalled Windows on that fast machine.  And before that it was the same situation.

My guess is that the next time I play it, I will have reinstalled Windows XP again and hence the game as well.  Actually, I’m certain of this because I need to get Windows XP SP2 back on that machine instead of SP3.  I can’t install the driver for my video capture device under SP3.

Well, screw all of that because I’m going to bed now.  I have another god damned week of work ahead of me.  And I have to do all the work because the people I work with:

a) don’t care about their job any more
b) are epically lazy
c) are lazy, stupid, arrogant and in dire need of being fired
d) new and untrained

Yay.

Oh, and the monitor for that computer is dying.  Fuck.