Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Will Wright after seeing everything he owned in ashes after a series of major wildfires in the Palisades: “what if I made a virtual dollhouse for people to explore sexual and violent fantasies that would make Freud say, ‘no, that’s too much.’”

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  • Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get the tone is jokey but I wasn’t sure if that was a hypothetical alternate universe proposition with a different Will Wright, or something that happened in real life, so I looked up the wildfire thing.

    Wright’s house was caught in the Oakland Hills firestorm.

    Rebuilding his life, and having to reacquire so many of his basic possessions, fed into the idea for The Sims.

    —www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/…/ar-AA1yqxwx

    Yep, real life and not just hypothetical, ouch.

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