Life & CulturePop QuizTake our quiz: How would you die in The Sims?No Sims were harmed in the making of this quizShareLink copied ✔️February 7, 2020Life & CulturePop QuizTextGünseli Yalcinkaya Maybe you locked them in the kitchen with an open flame, or removed the ladder from the swimming pool until they cried “Neeshga! Neeshga!” at the top of their pixelated lungs. It could have been that you simply wanted a super goth house, kitted out with gravestones and a handful of satanic cats. Whatever your method or reason, admit it: we’ve all murdered our Sims in horrific ways. 20 years on from its original release, we’re thinking back on some of those extravagant lengths we went to slaughter our little virtual reality families and pals, and if you were shrunk down to all but 20 pixels, how would you be shoved off this digital mortal coil? <section><h2><p><strong></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How would you die in The Sims?</strong></p></h2><p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Maybe you locked them in the kitchen with an open flame, or removed the ladder from the swimming pool until they cried “</span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Neeshga! Neeshga</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">!” at the top of their pixelated lungs. It could have been that you simply wanted a super goth house, kitted out with gravestones and a handful of satanic cats. Whatever your method or reason, admit it: we’ve all murdered our Sims in horrific ways. 20 years on from its original release, we’re thinking back on some of those extravagant lengths we went to slaughter our little virtual reality families and pals, and if you were shrunk down to all but 20 pixels, how would you be shoved off this digital mortal coil?</span></p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So angry you become enraged and die</strong></h2></h2><p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There’s a glitch in the simulation and you’ve actually turned into your Sim. You’re dropped into a pixelated world where everyone speaks nonsense and can’t put out a stove fire without external help *from above*. You’re facing IRL death and – TBH – you’re kind of happy about it. Your Sim housemates are having a party for the 10th night in a row, and even the mice in your kitchen have moved out. You’re so angry that you welcome your death. Red faced, you angrily float into the Sim-ulated (get it?) sky.</span></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ladder disappears, you drown in the swimming pool</strong></h2></h3><p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It’s a nice day for a swim, until it’s not. It’s sunny and the gods above have just used ‘motherload’ to get some sweet cash for a BBQ. But there’s a problem, the ladder’s missing. You swim in circles, searching fruitlessly for a ladder that is no more. You die an inconsequential, watery death.</span></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Starvation</strong></h2></h3><p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Your hunger motive has become depleted, and you’re asking yourself, why isn’t there a goddamn kitchen in this four-story bachelor’s pad? Your basic needs aren’t being met, you scream “</span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Oh Feebee Lay! Shoo Flee</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">!” but to no avail. Your digital demise starts here.</span></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You’re locked in the kitchen and burn alive</strong></h2></h3><p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You’re at a party in your mate Dave’s kitchen (don’t ask). There’s some decks and some pretty banging speakers, not to mention a hot girl who’s just agreed to </span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Woohoo</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> with you – but wait, the kitchen door’s disappeared, and the oven’s on fire. Why are there so many wicker chairs?! And why is Dave’s cooking skills at level one?! Pure! Fiery! Destruction!</span></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong></strong><strong style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29);">You’re mortified and die of embarrassment</strong></h2></h3><p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Being a Sim is hard. Not only is your life completely dictated by the whims of what is most likely a pre-teen in their bedroom, but your day is basically an ongoing cringe fest. Maybe you walked in on someone Woohooing, or perhaps you’ve practised your guitar at a low skill level with other, better Sims in the room. You’re ashamed, you’re mortified. You cry and wet yourself.</span></p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong></strong><strong style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29);">You’re on a night out and you forget your ID, what do you do?</strong></h2></h2></section><section><h3><p><strong></strong><strong style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">You get ghosted, how do you react?</strong></p></h3></section><section><h3><p><strong></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Are you into horoscopes?</strong></p></h3></section><section><h3><p><strong></strong><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ah, van vesua. Cummuns nala?</strong></p></h3></section><section><h3><p><strong></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It’s the weekend, what do you do?</strong></p></h3></section>