WIKI: The Sims - Virtual Reality

I wasn't allowed to play the game The Sims when I was younger

The reason involved having the Sims "woohoo" and making a baby

All though it never showed anything, my mom still deemed the flying blankets and fireworks inappropriate.

 

So, it wasn't until college, actually that I ended up buying it.

I know, I'm a kid at heart.

After playing it for a while, I stopped and asked:

Why do I like this so much?

Which brought me to another question about role playing type games in general...

Aren't we getting away from the real world by involving ourselves in a fake world that is just like ours?

How does that even make sense?

As media advances more and more, we crave the virtual world.

I think, in a weird sense, and for lack of other words..

We like to play God.

We like to have control.. even if it is just in our own media.

We like to be 5'8" 120 pounds with a perfect hour glass figure if we really want...

Sigh.. if only...

Perhaps that is what draws us in  to this type of media.
For once, we can be who we want to be - which is usually what the media, ironically, is pressuring us subconsiously to look like..

Twisted, isn't it?