How have you tortured your "little darlings"?

[ModClod]

I usually torture mine by making my sim marry the grim reaper, then have some grim reaper babys, have them all grow up, then set them on fire. How do you do yours? ;)

[Darby]

I usually torture mine by making my sim marry the grim reaper,

I hope you mean a CAS Grim Reaper look-alike and that you did not use cheats to make the actual Grim playable. The latter method ensures an impending neighborhood reset due to the corruption that causes, and we don't want to be promoting such reckless game behavior here.

As to the question, I'm not into torturing my sims, being a mostly-benevolent Sim-god. I'll kill some off for story purposes if necessary, and I've put many a sim through the Apocalypse Challenge, which makes them miserable (and a few actually died from starvation), but otherwise, my sims live pretty cushy lives. :)

[smorbie1]

Different infractions cause different punishments. If you want to bug me about being starving to death while standing in front of a fully-loaded refrigerator and a table full of food, you deserve whatever I can think of to do to you.

[dieKristina]

When my sloppy sims whine about doing simple tasks like putting a plate into the dishwasher, I somtimes send them to clean the ENTIRE house too :heyhey: . Unfortunately they don´t seem to learn from their misstake though...

[maxon]

My favourite, when spitting feathers of fury and frustration, is pulling down the bladder need and then cancelling the panic rush to the toilet. This is better done in public so other sims can point and laugh.

The other thing I like is the smite power.

In my opinion, the thing most missing from the game is the ability to slap the little s**s, a la Dungeon Keeper.

And, ugh, OP - I hope you realise marrying the real Grimmy is a game borker extraordinaire. As Darby said, I hope that's a clone.

[Darby]

When my sloppy sims whine about doing simple tasks like putting a plate into the dishwasher, I somtimes send them to clean the ENTIRE house too :heyhey: . Unfortunately they don´t seem to learn from their misstake though...

I've been known to do that. For one thing, I get a kick out of the grumping they do. The way they slump up or down stairs on their way to do a chore is especially giggle-inducing. :giggler:

[Peni Griffin]

I am the anti-sadist. I never torture them. If they frustrate me, I figure that's my fault for not training them right or for having unrealistic expectations, so I teach them to do better.

I hardly ever even smite cow mascots; only when I have a specific reason to keep them away. Like, they've already borked up all the relationships in both Greeks, the houses need time to recover. If you smite them as they come onto the lot they almost always slink away with the red toilet image above their heads; if not, a second smite will send them packing.

I have only ever done horrible things to one sim, and that was because I needed information and adoption toddlers. I made a guy and six toddlers in CAS, loaded them onto a lot, and conducted experiments to make sure I knew how to use the Tombstone of Life and Death. It took him forever to die, poor thing - long enough that the toddlers got taken away first. It was really tough and I didn't enjoy it at all. I still feel bad about poor John Thomas Orphan. And about accidentally killing poor Vidcund in my first experimental games. And it's totally my fault Spring Thyme burned to death, though once I realized this tree fire wasn't going out I did my level best to save her.

I did kill a bunch of sims in Sims1 once. I wanted a haunted churchyard, so I built the church, put in a swimming pool and some nice flammable items, moved in 8 new sims (named after politicians I didn't like), and went off and cleaned the house. When I checked back and found them all dead, I moved in a second set of eight and did the same thing. Then I arranged all the tombstones, took out the pool and the flaming things, and moved a sim into the abandoned Church of Starry Wisdom. But I sure didn't watch the mayhem. I'd have felt terrible and spared them.

[Sunbee]

By giving them what they want. Sure, Mr. Pleasant, have an affair with the maid. Whoops! you got caught! You didn't want to get caught? Too bad.
I try to keep my apocalypse sims as happy as possible, which often isn't very, but I do what I can.

[maxon]

Oh dear Peni. I am totally going to repost my Jack Thompson story so you can see it. Naming them after someone you don't like is a good idea.

[Aegagropilon]

I routinely play Olive and the Beakers, so there has been some sim torment, but they've mellowed out considerably over time. Olive stopped her marry-then-bury black widow/unfortunate townie disappearance business once her long-time love (now husband) went on vacation, though she acts as a consultant to eternal bride-to-be Sarah Love. The Beakers were forced on hiatus by their first test subject running away, followed by the birth of their sons (who they initially planned on experimenting on, but didn't due to actually loving the little monsters), and their later experiments on their second experimental subject Guinea Pig being closely monitored by their now-grown sons. Guinea benefits by being not as interesting to them as Nervous was -- since Guinea was created by them in the lab, there's no mystery to her DNA -- and her daughter-by-alien-abduction Igor benefits further by growing up alongside the Beakers' grandchildren.

The only sim I actively torment is Elwood Valley, who disturbed the hell out of me. He spontaneously combusted a while back (translation: I killed him off with the Cursed Fire Vase, and called it a supernatural hit by the Grim Reaper himself for storyline purposes), but was brought back by mistake when the Grim Reaper got a little overzealous resurrecting the dead to celebrate his second child's birth. Currently he's in the care of Sarah Love, so he's not much longer for this world.

[Bwinney43]

I don't torture my sims. There's no reason to and I don't want a bunch of dead sims clogging up my game files. I don't really see the point in "torturing" them anyway since they just complain a bunch about their motives. Unless you mean torturing as in making a Romance sim commit to marriage or something. Don't really see that as torture, though.

[belamancer]

In sims 1 I used to regularly build swimming pools without ladders, or lock them into rooms without doors, or "accidentally" put a bearskin rug right next to the fireplace (if it can't go near the fire, why is it there?!). Generally because I wanted to see what happened when they died, or I wanted the tombstones, or because people running around waving their arms in the air is kind of funny even when they're on fire.
I'm much more attached to my individual sims in Sims2, though, so I haven't tortured anysim. Unless you count making a family live in doorless huts in midwinter, but that was plot-related.

Oh man, now I miss Dungeon Keeper. I loved that game, especially the ability to slap the lazy little critters. Sims should definitely have a "hand of God" slap option.

[smorbie1]

Sims should definitely have a "hand of God" slap option.


How cool would that be? Think of the pixelated lives that could be saved if we could just hit them instead of devising other ways to punish stupidity. :rofl:

[LuvSims2011]

I don't do it very much...but if that stupid matchmaker shows up when I don't want her I zap her with lightning. And watch her die. I am evil (and some kids call me weird and creepy).

[smellincoffee]

In my Sims 1 days -- when I was much younger, and much more easily amused -- I constructed a maze on my Sims' lot, with an espresso machine in one corner and a toilet in another. After they drank to the point of having a full bladder, I would then gleefully watch them run through all the corners in the maze trying to get to the toilet -- and once they were there, I cackled and moved the toilet to another corner.

I could do that for hours. :lol:

[AlexandraSpears]

My favourite, when spitting feathers of fury and frustration, is pulling down the bladder need and then cancelling the panic rush to the toilet. This is better done in public so other sims can point and laugh.



I've done that to Jessica Peterson in Belladonna Cove. I just had her chug the espresso. Hilarity ensued!

[perihelion]

Ha ha ha... oh my gods, the things I did to my Sims in my early days of TS2 were horrifyingly sadistic, especially after I got Seasons. I built death camps and Soviet-style prisons to house perfectly innocent CAS Sims who froze in the sleet and snow, pissed themselves so often weeds grew around them, died every week or so from starvation, languished in solitary and fought the Social Bunny or just stood there and wept bitterly at their miserable situation, occasionally having a nervous breakdown.


And I found it all wonderfully entertaining.


Yes, I AM mental, you don't need to look at me like that.

[AlexandraSpears]

I get Romance Sims married off and make them stay faithful.