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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
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                      March 13, 2000</font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm playing 
                this game and I'm thinking about stuff that has names like <i>biology, 
                sociology, </i>and<i> psychology.</i> About what elements of similarity 
                in two personalities make people compatible, and what differences 
                make them interesting. And race relations. And what, exactly, 
                is <i>my</i> stand on same-sex marriage? Y'know, I don't think 
                about these things when I play other games.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Polygamy, 
                Death by Fire, and Why the Swedes are so Ornery</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>The 
                von Prangs of the Prussian nobility immigrated to Sweden after 
                the war, where they established a banking and legal empire in 
                <b>SimCity</b>. Unfortunately the family fortune was squandered 
                on bad laetrile investments in the 1960s, and now young Otto von 
                Prang must make his own way in the world as a security guard on 
                the graveyard shift.</i></font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ultimately, 
                <b>The Sims</b> is about ego. Not those of the little doll-people 
                on the monitor - they don't have any - but about the self-perception 
                of the player. If you're a power freak, it's a god-game, and your 
                sims will rarely exercise their &quot;free will&quot; mode. If 
                you're a builder person, you'll see the lives of the sims as a 
                revenue producing process that lets you build bigger and buy better. 
                So it's an economic/building game. If you're a tyrant sicko you'll 
                build a house with no doors, and move the 'fridge out into the 
                front yard every other day. While sims have a handful of &quot;personality 
                traits&quot; that define their behavior, <i>The Sims</i> has more 
                to say about <i>your </i>personality by placing these fragile 
                virtual lives in your care. How you deal with it says a lot.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">At first 
                I identified with the game's animated denizens. They do the same 
                things I do. They go to work, they pay bills, they make dinner, 
                they clean up, they sleep and use the bathroom. And they make 
                and lose friends, fall in love, have fun and get depressed. Tough 
                not to see a bit of ourselves in all this. Okay, I don't go to 
                the bathroom eighteen times a day, nor do I have &quot;accidents&quot; 
                on the living room carpet. And I work a bit more than six hours 
                a day, and if I took every other day off I would definitely get 
                fired. And polygamy is illegal. And I have a car. And I have political 
                and spiritual opinions. And then there's sex - sims don't get 
                any. They hug and kiss and give each other back-rubs a lot. Like 
                the nice part of an EST seminar before they lock you in the little 
                room for two days. It's as if life has been reduced to physical 
                existence, where interaction with objects takes precedence over 
                interaction with people. Sims live their lives in a sort-of valium 
                haze always partially disconnected from their environment. Like 
                the other night Otto had a little problem in the kitchen when 
                the stove caught fire. At one point Otto caught fire. Not only 
                were several visitors completely unaware of Otto's predicament, 
                Otto himself seemed fairly disinterested in the fact that he was 
                consumed in roaring flames. I like to think that if I were doing 
                an impromptu impersonation of the Human Torch, my pals might snag 
                a rug to roll me in.</font></p>
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