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I wasted my holiday weekend with Facebook’s Sims Social
Happy Labor Day! I celebrated the economic and social contributions of workers everywhere by playing Facebook games including the Words for Friends (generic Scrabble) and Sims Social.
Let me tell you something about the Sims on Facebook. It’s terrible! It’s technically buggy, functionally limited, they are constantly harassing to spend real money to buy Sim Money, and I can’t stop playing. But you can grow plants! Which I guess makes it kinda like Farmville except you need to pee more. I’m not sure what happens if you sell your toilet and don’t let your Sim pee. Maybe it’ll die. I don’t know.
Sims Social tag line is “Build a home. Build a relationship. Build a life.” Because we’re all incapable of doing that in the real world.
This is Reginald Omar Klein.
He’s a Villain and probably a hipster. He’s dating Tina, but there’s a technical error that’s preventing Reginald and Tina to go from “Dating” to “Going Steady.”
Will Reginald ever get laid? Will he find 3 friends to help him build another room to his insanely tiny house? Will his pumpkins ever not wither and die? Find out next time on… no, this probably not worth blogging about ever again.
Follow-up post: How a Facebook Game Ate my Life
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The Sims Social Addicts Anonymous or: How a Facebook Game Ate my Life
Remember a couples weeks ago, when I said I wasn’t going to talk about the Facebook Sims ever again? I lied.
I was going to stop playing once I made a fourth room to my house. I was going to stop once I built the double bed, so my Sim could “WooHoo!” with his girlfriend. I was going to stop after the BigScreen TV, the Writer skill-up to Level 10, and the Pink Lawn Flamingos. But I couldn’t stop. I couldn’t stop the Sims cycle of addiction.
Now, I’m just confirming what we all already know. Video games are just as rewarding to the brain, if not moreso than real life.
I mean, when you mow your Sim lawn, money pops out! Money! And it makes a poppy noise! And then a jingly money noise when you collect it. I’d be mowing my lawn everyday if that happened in real life.
I’m the only person among my friends to make a black Sim. I don’t understand why everyone else tried to make a close-approximation real life version of themselves. How boring. Reginald Omar Klein is a pimp and that’s why his house has house has purple walls.
Also, purple is the black power color.
Reginald Omar Klein wants you to come over and visit, subvert the government, smoke a doobie (not a real Sim option), and WooHoo! in his shower. Come. Come join us at Sims Social. And you too can have an addiction to purchasing pink lawn flamingos.
(Actually, I think I think I’ve run out of space to build stuff. This is like that time I ran out of levels in Angry Birds. Addiction over!)