<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://clantilyscad.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[scandalousmuffin]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://clantilyscad.com/author/scandalousmuffin/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Sims Social Addicts Anonymous or: How a Facebook Game Ate my&nbsp;Life]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Remember <a href="https://scandalousmuffin.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/i-wasted-my-holiday-weekend-with-facebooks-sims-social/">a couples weeks ago,</a> when I said I wasn&#8217;t going to talk about the Facebook Sims ever again? I lied.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;WooHoo!&#8221; 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&#8217;t stop.  I couldn&#8217;t stop the Sims cycle of addiction.</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m just confirming what we all already know.  Video games are <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_chatfield_7_ways_games_reward_the_brain.html">just as rewarding </a>to the brain, if not moreso than real life.</p>
<p>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&#8217;d be mowing my lawn everyday if that happened in real life.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m the only person among my friends to make <a href="https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/reginaldomarklein.png?w=171&amp;h=445">a black Sim</a>.  I don&#8217;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&#8217;s why his house has house has purple walls.</p>
<div data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_1309" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png"><img data-attachment-id="1309" data-permalink="https://clantilyscad.com/2011/09/24/the-sims-social-addicts-anonymous-or-how-a-facebook-game-ate-my-life/simshousepathetic/" data-orig-file="https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png?w=600&#038;h=319" data-orig-size="756,403" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="Pimp Sims House" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png?w=600&#038;h=319?w=300" data-large-file="https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png?w=600&#038;h=319?w=756" class="size-full wp-image-1309" title="Pimp Sims House" src="https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png?w=600&#038;h=319" alt="" width="600" height="319" srcset="https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png?w=598&amp;h=319 598w, https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png?w=150&amp;h=80 150w, https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png?w=300&amp;h=160 300w, https://scandalousmuffin.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/simshousepathetic.png 756w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Also, purple is the black power color.</p></div>
<p>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.</p>
<p>(Actually, I think I think I&#8217;ve run out of space to build stuff. This is like that time I ran out of levels in Angry Birds. Addiction over!)</p>
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