What is particular about this method is that it requires multiple incidents of acute embarrassment within a period of time, which feels particularly cruel. Embarrassment can be a (often overwhelmingly) powerful emotion. Something with which I have a lot of personal experience.
Let some poor unsuspecting victim take a ride into space and BOOM. Get the Sim levelled up in the rocket science and mischief skills, build a rocket ship in your back garden and stuff the exhaust pipe with a piece of fruit. This first one is a little convoluted bear with because the set-up is a little ‘fun’ and ‘quirky’ (if you find Sim murder ‘fun’ and ‘quirky’). Most of all, I’ve tried to prioritise inventiveness setting fire to stuff or leaving your Sim to starve to death in a box room is just too mainstream. I will also stick to the base game without any expansion packs, so no explanation of ‘Rabid Rodent Fever’ will be given here, unfortunately. They will all be relevant to The Sims 4 in particular, where murder is notoriously more difficult to achieve than previous games. If you’re the sort of person who enjoys torturing a bunch of pixels on a screen in your spare time, then this list should hopefully serve you rather well. I, for one, reached a point last summer when I downloaded the ‘Get to University’ expansion pack for The Sims 4 just to remind myself what it was like to be able to walk around on a campus and go to classes…just writing that sentence out was a depressing exercise.īut above all, there is one distinctive feature to the game which people enjoy discussing more than anything else: death. As much of the world is shut down, we can but reminisce about a time when we had the freedom to do cool things such as get impregnated by aliens, eat 10 grilled cheeses in a row (tempting as it remains) and marry people we met 5 minutes ago. The Sims has taken on something of a special role in people’s lives during the pandemic. Image description: A cartoon illustration of a person in a swimming pool with a thought bubble of a ladder
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