David vs. Goliath! Is Paralives a potential new competitor for EA and the Sims?
Just maybe you have noticed that there is a thing going viral within the last 24 hrs in our sims community. I’m totally amazed, so hyped and hope so hard this will become a real thing! An upcoming life simulation indie game with an “OPEN WORLD”, created by the Community for the Community!
Imagine a simulation world where you can
build grid-free / add optional grid
snap walls to the grid and to a perpendicular angle
display wall-length when placing it
resize windows/curtains
build pools with stairs, ladders and more…
use a cool color/pattern system
build split-level / round walls
Basegame will provide a ton of cool features already and it will be available via Steam. One Time Payment + Free Updates + might they add later DLC’s but compared to Sims the Basegame it will provide a ton of features that Sims 4 would never provide! It will work for Low-End PCs, too and it will support mods via Steam-Workshop. Read what Paralives says:
You live and then you die. But at least do it in a nice house! Paralives is an upcoming life simulation indie game. Build your dream house, create some characters and manage their lives the way you want! The game is currently in development and will be released on Steam for PC and Mac.
What Paralives shows on Youtube is simply incredible. Simmers already talk about this “hot topic” because It’s insanely dope and what I was actually wishing Sims 4 or any other Sims Game would have!
Believe me, it’s beyond imagination for a Sandbox “Life-Simulation-Game”. But it seems to be possible and way more so EA is keeping us gamers on the short leash to deal with what they provide!
More Info including Link to this project and simmers who already talk about it you will find below the cut! Keep reading because this is hot stuff!
i swear to god, men raising their voice is the most terrifying thing in the whole world. they dont understand, like its an immediate panic response, game over
I actually had no idea women found this so scary
my downstairs neighbors fight on a regular basis, and every time he starts yelling i’m a little afraid he’s going to kill her. i have no reason to think this except that he is a man and he is angry
My math teacher has a loud voice and a temper and he scares the living shit out of me almost everyday. He’s made me and other kids cry more than once and he and his teacher buddies make a joke out of terrifying students.
this was women in general? i knew my gf didn’t like it but I was unaware if this affected most women
Yes, it does
As a woman, I had no idea it effected other women like this. I was too afraid to even talk about it. I thought I was weak. Thanks for bringing attention to this.
My dad thinks it’s funny that I used to cry when he raised his voice. I freak out whenever some one does. Once my director did, and I started crying I couldn’t stop. I’m glad to see I’m not alone…
This is so important– seeing how common this is– and I also want you all to know that this is not normal. It isn’t something instinctively ingrained into women, to be afraid of men. There is no natural state of men being a threat that women constantly have to be afraid of. This is cultural. So many women and girls here have a mutual understanding of this feeling, and I think it really shows an unsettling truth about our society, particularly about how men are raised to act and how so many women have this defensive reaction gradually develop. It’s so important that these people have their voices heard, because it teaches us about problems that we just can’t deny the existence of any longer.
I’m glad I’m not the only one
My fellow men, pay attention. I didn’t realize how scary this could be until one of my exes explained it to me, and it’s heartbreaking.
Also, when we move too much during an argument, or lean forward, it’s scary, and I never knew. I was even a little insulted at first, because surely she didn’t think I would hurt her. But see, that doesn’t matter. It wasn’t a sign that she mistrusted me specifically; it’s a conditioned response. (Although if you keep doing it once you realize it scares her, she SHOULDN’T trust you.)
Not every woman has been physically harmed by a man she trusted, but every woman KNOWS a woman who has.
I used to be horrible about this, because I didn’t realize how intimidating it was. I didn’t understand why the woman I was with clammed up or tried to tell me what she thought I wanted to hear, and I only got angrier, and acted even more like an asshole. It was wrong. It was abusive. It didn’t matter if I INTENDED it that way; it was still emotionally abusive. And it was inexcusable.
I get that when passions are high, and when you’re frustrated, it’s a natural tendency to let your voice get louder, to shout and gesture and lean forward. But you can train yourself to do better. You can train yourself to keep more of an even tone, to refrain from large and fast gestures, to not lean into her personal space. I did. I’m not perfect at it yet, but goddamn it, I WILL be.
Don’t tell me it’s too hard, that you just can’t do it, or that you “shouldn’t have to.” I’m 53 years old and just now getting the hang of it, and if this old dog can learn something new, so can you.
Note to guys: It really, REALLY doesn’t matter if you’re thinking, “but I would never…”
History is littered with the bodies of women who believed a man “would never.” This includes women killed by men who honestly, deeply, truly believed they “would never”… right up until she said that one thing or moved in just that way and he just got so mad, just that once, and pushed her or punched her or slashed her or shot her… just once, y’know, to shut her up, or because she was flinching and didn’t she know that HE’S NOT LIKE THAT and I’LL TEACH HER TO BE AFRAID OF ME…
We are trained, from infancy, that Men With Loud Voices are a source of pain from which we cannot escape, and attempts to escape may result in more pain. And as soon as we’re old enough to comprehend a world broader than our immediate circle, a world that extends into the past and will run into the future, we realize that there is no way, no way at all, to tell which men “would never” and which men “would never… except if.”
We live or die on that “if.” And any man who doesn’t like facing that hyper-vigilance can work on fixing OTHER MEN, not women’s fear.
The reaction shouldn’t be “not all men are like that;” it should be “no woman should have to live in fear.”
It’s telling that so many people will hear a story of long-term abuse and say, “why did she stay with him?” and not “why did he treat her like that?”
Look as a bi guy who has a ton of body image issues relating to the fact I can’t look like a Hemsworth you really need to stop with the memes about making fun of girls for dating dudes that don’t look like models.
I know you guys are probably making fun of people’s unconventionally attractive celebrity of the week but this shit needs to stop because seeing this kind of thing constantly is really grating on people with depression, body image issues or full on body dysmorphia.
You’re hitting people that aren’t your target.
Not everyone has the money or the time or even the fucking genetics to look like Chris Hemsworth. It’s a body built on years of 4+ hour gym reps, expensive personal trainers, an expensive and strict diet and a bunch of other shit you need to be on a completely different economic level to enjoy.
I’m not joking that before I got treated seeing shit like this used to send me into a crying fit.
Going off of this, stop fucking holding people to standards of what people look like in movies it’s all bullshit.
Movies aren’t real life and nobody looks like that unless they’re super dehydrated and eating a diet that is actually super unhealthy.
I know right? People need to understand that kind of body type is what a decent amount of gym time is gonna get you and most people don’t have the time or money to invest in that kind of body. Jason can take 3 months to get that kind of body on the studio dime. Your average Joe Shmo who works 8-12 hours a day, spends about an hour, hour and a half in traffic and has to take care of his place of living (maybe) his own cooking and do his own cleaning is not gonna have the time to spend the amount of time at the gym to earn that kind of “dad bod”.
There’s an underlying classist element to these kinds of arguements that favors the kind of people that get paid to maintain those kinds of bodies.
This, and honestly if you scratch these posts and memes just a little you’ll often find TERFs. Because a common TERF attack on bi wlw by them is “why would you choose an ugly man” and a VERY common TERF attack at trans people - whether trans womxn or trans men - is noting how “ugly” the person they’re hating on or their stereotype of us is.
There’s that creepy undercurrent as well. I’ve seen this kind of thing come from people that basically said “why chose your ugly partner when you could date me”. It’s projecting their own internal issues onto people and is a really unhealthy attitude to have.
It’s toxic as fuck and it makes bi and trans people feel unwelcome in the LGBTQ community.
Everyone really needs to knock that shit off.
It also really hurts disabled people. We have bodies regarded as broken and can’t ever achieve the looks from movies so why give us human rights, were ugly, right?
I get treated like shit and dirt and patronized like a child and I’m not even that visibly disabled when you don’t know I’m on wheelchair. So what are others to say? We need to realize the ableist classist undercurrent as well
^^^^^
Also a good point why you shouldn’t make fun of people for being unable to look like a supermodel. Some people might be disabled and are physically incapable of doing that kind of workout regimine.
Not a dude, but… I have visible abs. You know what that looks like on me?
Two visible muscle thingies that rapidly disappear into Undefined Belly.
Looking like that requires dehydration and misery. It’s not just being muscular, it’s putting every bit of your energy into your appearance.
