{"id":605,"date":"2004-09-21T20:03:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=605"},"modified":"2004-09-21T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T20:03:58","slug":"doll_house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Doll House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sims 2<\/a> was released earlier this week. I bought the first Sims game but never any of the roughly ten thousand add-on packs that were released subsequently. I could never get into the micromanagement aspects of the game. You can only watch your Sim take a dump so many times before it loses its charm. The game also raised some rather uncomfortable existential questions for me. My Sim, a single male, pretty much did the same things I did in real life. He got up, went to work, came home, maybe played on the computer or read for a bit, and then went off to bed. Other than the necessities of bathing and eating, that was pretty much it. Sometimes a female Sim would show up, but I could never convince her to stick around very long. I found myself getting really depressed while playing the game and soon I abandoned it completely. While I’m interested in picking up the sequel, I worry a little that it might cause another melancholic bout of self-reflecting on my own life. What if I start playing and this time my Sim has a more interesting life than I do? I’m not sure I can handle that kind of juxtaposition. I might be forced to start a kitchen fire and kill the bastard in a fit of jealous rage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sims 2 was released earlier this week. I bought the first Sims game but never any of the roughly ten thousand add-on packs that were released subsequently. I could never get into the micromanagement aspects of the game. You can only watch your Sim take a dump so many times before it loses its […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-9L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}