Wednesday, May 04, 2005

virtual suicide

I admit I love Sims 2 and just got the University expansion pack, which is a riot. So far I've managed to keep my 2 kids A students while beating up the cow mascot on a regular basis and earning money by rapping.

In Sims 2, there is a non-playing character called The Grim Reaper who appears whenever one of your Sims dies in a kitchen fire or in some other manner. "Some other manner" is a euphemism for sticking Sims you don't like in a swimming pool and removing all the ladders, or planning other tawdry but darkly humorous demises.

This is a comment from a walkthrough:

"In case you were wondering, and you probably were not, the game itself says that the Grim Reaper graduated from the University of Hawaii and his favorite band is naturally Styx."