Well what can I say? All the computer graphics businesses are assimilating.

Since when were gamers part of the MTV generation? When I was part of the MTV generation, I barely even played video games. I guess, for me, it sucked the character out of the gaming population, at least the part of it that was personal to me. In their attempt to maybe show the diversity of the Sims audience, they somehow reduced everyone to a shallow annoyance who all sound the same in the end. For a while, I thought that the Sims demographics was a group that broke out of the demographics of violent or nerdy young men. Instead, they get to be shallow. How did gaming culture fall into this depiction? Mass culture doesn’t depict movie-goers or theater buffs this way!

I guess the bottom line is, the MTV generation tends to lead to stereotypes that I just don’t want to be part of. As a female gamer, I already deal with stereotype and often feel strange playing certain video games. The conventional gaming audience, altogether, is one big stereotype! There is just so little out there to really give substance to the richer gaming population out there. This show is one of the only ones of its kind, and it is speaking for the Sims audience. Well, I am a Sims fan, and I resent that This Sims Life would choose a wishy-washy way of saying nothing about our culture and giving its fans no true substance. I’m glad that The Sims has more publicity now, but this show really shouldn’t have been made.