Random Thought of the Day

[Nyctophilia]

Posie Parker is increasingly losing the plot lol. She just vaguely threatened to 'annihilate' every woman in her way. Transcribing this video clip:

Men don't have to march upon our necks. They don't have to put their hands around our throats. They get women to do it.

Like you try to get men to rock up to public bathrooms armed with guns lol?

And if women aren't doing it directly, they're not doing it directly. They're strangling us in other ways. They're trying to silence us - not quite the right message. Not working with the right people. Not talking to the right people. Each and every one of you women who stands in my way. Each and every one of you. Let me just tell you you will be annihilated. Because I genuinely don't lose. So if you want to stand in my way you better be ready, ready, ready, for watching the back of my [BEEP] as I walk away from you. As I walk ahead of you. As you are eclipsed. Every single last one of you. It's so absolutely ridiculous.

It is absolutely ridiculous isn't it lol?

It's no coincidence that today's groundhog day. Cause that's my life. Report to the police, interview, report to the police, interview. Some person who's either abusing her kids or is gaslighting their partners or dressing like a woman and invading women's spaces. They report us to the police and the police listen. Like Jesus.

I take victory in my stride it's something I come to expect and so everybody standing in my way you women, you autogynephiles, you police forces, whoever you are you want to stand in my way. Just be prepared. You might not like losing. Maybe it will be a first taste of it. But my god you will lose.

[composes herself]

Anyway if you'd like to help me fight the police force you can go to [some website.]

The personality disorder of it all lol. She's such a comic book villain. Also do you care about this issue or not? Seems like she sees this as a game she wants to win honestly.



Wanna make some kind of video remix of this. Why is nobody doing that like with Peterson? It's cause we actually take [BEEP] really seriously here lol which is probably sensible but still. Glitch art music remix of Posie's insanity.



Segues nicely into this tweet lol:

Britain we really need to talk - 30% of us been unfriended on social media and 25% don’t want our kids to play together because of way we vote. 15% of us think we will get into physical fights over it.

UK worst of all countries when comes to resenting our neighbours.
@EPO_lse

Wow she's so crazy that even Julie Bindel acknowledged that lol:

Julie Bindel, a self-described "gender-critical" feminist, criticised Keen's 2019 Heritage Foundation appearance in a now-deleted tweet: "Posie Parker is a thick feck who is a bigot and not a feminist. She has taken the Heritage Foundation coin. None of the actual feminists I work with can bear her... I despise the latest tactics of Posie Parker and disciples, and want no part in it. As far as I am concerned, they are motivated by narcissism, bigotry, and ego. They are causing harm." Keen stated in response that she supports LGB rights and is pro-choice, and denied that she was funded "by the right".[58]

And this is one of the only correct things Julie Bindel has ever said lol.

She's uh, going to be in Glasgow on the 5th lol. That's a choice. all things considered.

[Heelsbythebridge]

I haven't had sex in three years. Someone kill me.

[Nyctophilia]

So I'm not on tiktok but apparently there's a trend where people stitch several videos together so you'll have like some TV show clip, a gaming clip and a sensory clip, and you watch them all simultaneously. It's kind of funny because in the past few years YouTube has moved in the opposite direction and you now frequently get 1 hour+ long videos that are popular.

There's a TikTok trend of Family Guy clips stitched together with footage of people playing mobile games.

It started as a way to dodge DMCA takedowns, but turned into a multi-sensory dopamine drip that will take our collective attention span to zero.

https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/statu...27455514443776

I'll usually play Runescape while watching TV shows so it's a similar thing I guess.

Most of them only have one clip playing sound for obvious reasons but this one is just chaos lol:

https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/statu...29164479434752

[Nyctophilia]

I have a twitter account for Sims stuff, and another for politics (and others I don't really use.) And now that this recent Sims 4 patch has come out all the conservatives are freaking out about it so it's like the two sets of topics are colliding. It's also just very nostalgic '2000s conservatives freak out about GTA vibes.' There was a Fox News thing about it I think too. I think even Jordan Peterson tweeted about the game. I'm too lazy to scroll through to check.

Do NOT let your kids play The Sims 4. They went woke, now make them go broke.

People telling people not to play The Sims 4 is funny though imo it's the worst game in the series (though there are some positives/things it does better,) and I'm a long term Sims fan but that's because the gameplay is lacking (I also don't like how worlds function, you can't create new worlds, and the inability to place new lots,) and many packs are lacking content. Obviously it started in development as an online game and then they changed it all at the last minute leading to it being rushed at release. It's a shame because it has the best version of create a Sim and it's nice that you have so many customisation options.

All these sensible/frequently discussed reasons are not given though by these weird conservatives who only care about the politics of the game. In spite of my feelings about the gameplay being worse than previous titles it's the best selling game in the series (and an insanely priced game if you plan on buying every pack.)

I'm also genuinely amused by the idea that they think they're going to get many people to stop playing The Sims based on this new patch. The playerbase has always been mostly open minded/creative women and LGBT+ people. Conservatives and people who complain about wokeness and LGBT+ people exist in the community, but they're very rare (and usually atypical/trollish weird in some sense. Not trad cons like one account I can think of enjoys BL and homoerotic fanart of Kingdom Hearts characters, but is homophobic and transphobic? Repressed people from the same cultural milieu/psychological profile basically. You see this on 4chan too with Nazi femboys and whatever.) 60% of the fanbase of The Sims 4 are women aged 18-24 so their parents aren't going to be able to stop them playing the game lol.

I said this before but there's a popular drag queen YouTuber who got popular while making Sims 2 videos:



Many of the medium-large size LGBT+ YouTubers I'm subscribed to have uploaded Sims videos at some point (sometimes even when they don't make general gaming content) like:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvqFny9cLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djM_f6zBVIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCukYKRgo0Q

There is some research into what video game genres players prefer.

https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/1...mers-by-genre/

https://quanticfoundry.com/2017/01/1...mers-by-genre/

As a preliminary analysis, we decided to analyze all non-binary responses as a single category. We found that as a whole, the non-binary responses largely mirrored that of the female gamers. One consistent and pronounced difference though was the higher scores across all the Immersion and Creativity motivations (Design, Discovery, Fantasy, and Story).

The baseline of non-binary gender gamers in our full sample is 1.1%. In the current analysis, the genres that had the most non-binary gender gamers were Atmospheric Exploration (3.8% ), Family/Farm Sim (3.2% ), Casual Puzzle (2.7% ), and Sandbox games (2.3% ).

A bunch of gay men play The Sims and have YT channels... In terms of the culture/politics of the game the company is very much catering to it's main demographics.

Conservatives were never really a big part of the game/community. Mostly because they'd been complaining about it since day one. Jack Thompson described The Sims 2 as a 'pedophiles paradise' because of some nudity hacks floating around. It's always been progressing with culture in a way that many games don't since it's a life simulation game. So you had the option to have homosexual romances in the first Sims game, in The Sims 2 they brought in civil unions for gay Sims (there was a mod for gay marriage,) The Sims 3 released in 2009 had gay marriage straight away. For a while now The Sims 4 has had various gender options different options for feminine/masculine body language, voices, physical frame, clothing + hair etc in CAS and a pronoun update last year.

Conservatives have been against it every step of the way! But a lot of these conservatives responding now have only just noticed the recent patch because they don't play the game! They are inserting themselves into a fanbase they don't care about lol. I'm not as hateful as them though I've made a few conservative families in my game. Well, not bigoted conservatives just people who stfu and go live their modest trad life on some farm or something. Tweeting isn't trad btw.

There was a huge backlash on twitter after EA said they weren't going to release the wedding expansion in Russia because of some of the laws there involving the advertising of the game, they eventually changed their minds. Lots of people tweeting photos of their gay Sims etc and this was in Russia a very culturally conservative country. The Sims is 18+ rated there.

Finally atm there's really no competition or alternative to The Sims if you wanted to stop playing but like the genre. Eventually Paralives will be coming out and that looks very interesting but still minimal gameplay footage (I'm really hoping it will be good,) but that's also by the same kind of people politically/culturally speaking. So they have plans for eg: multiple pronouns options etc in the game.

So with all that in mind good luck lol (you're going to need it.)

Also
>has a channel full of Sims videos
>writes long [BEEP] post about Sims
>doesn't post link to own channel anywhere.

Yeah I aint doing that here lol. I don't really make content for The Sims 4 anyway.

I'm mad I didn't post this tweet someone posted lol. Best response:

Did you know that in The Sims you can shag the grim reaper? Over and over again. Just days and days of hot grim reaper shagging. The grim reaper is of indeterminate gender. Worse than that, it’s not even got a face. Mmmm, all that hot faceless genderless grim reaper shagging.

[Nyctophilia]

Jordan Peterson doesn't really listen to himself lol. So recently Michael Knowles tweeted this insane thing:

Trump is calling to outlaw transgender ideology' not just for little kids, not just in classrooms or certain federal programs' at every level. This is an *excellent* development, and other potential 2024 candidates should follow suit! ������������������

And Jordan Peterson retweeted it saying 'I agree.' Much authoritarianism. He said once [paraphrasing] that when you buy a painting you let a bit of the artist/art into yourself. He's got a lot of Soviet paintings/propaganda in his home lol.

Meanwhile here are some other quotes from things he's said in videos in the past about creativity:

I mean the reason there are non creative people is creative people often die. They're out doing like screwy things. They attract attention from people they shouldn't attract attention from like the authorities. You know creative people are revolutionary well tyrants don't really like revolutionaries. There's lots of reasons not to be creative even now like creative people - it's hard to monetise your creativity. Artists have a hell of a time surviving. Creativity is a double edged blessing for sure.
[...]
Let's look at it from an evolutionary perspective it's a hell of a lot easier to not be decked out in bright colours when the predators come along. You want to stay camouflaged against the herd like a zebra. You don't want to stand out.

Open people have to be creative. They have to be because otherwise they die. They don't have any vitality and so they're cursed with the necessity of putting their foot out into the unknown and making sense of it and then they're also cursed with the necessity of trying to make a living while they're doing that which they can't because it's almost impossible to monetise creative action.

[...]

It's either France of Spain that's the most visited country in the world. It's one of those two I think there's more tourists in France than people most of the time. And part of the reason for that is it's just so damn beautiful. You just can't stand it. And you think. What's the economic value of that? It's absolutely incalculable and what's interesting too is that you build that beauty in and the further you get away from it in time the more valuable it becomes. Instead of decaying it has exactly the opposite effect it's value magnifies. And one of the things I'm deeply ashamed of as a Canadian is that our sense of beauty is so underdeveloped it's so primitive it's not even primitive that's the wrong word I don't know what it is. It's second rate. It's terror too because people are afraid of beauty.

The conservatives really have a problem with this in particular because conservative people tend not to be creative by temperament. And it's a mystery to me because they should be concerned with economic development and beauty is so unbelievably crucial to economic development it just yells out at you you know. So. Anyway so that's what artists are doing.

[...]

It opens your eyes to the domain of the transcendent. That's the right way of thinking about it. A real piece of art is a window into the transcendent. That's what it is and you need that in your life because you're finite and limited and bounded by your ignorance and lack of knowing and unless you can make a connection to the transcendent then you don't have the strength to prevail.

You look at these magnificent cathedrals that our civilisation built over the centuries. [...] They'd start building a cathedral and 'oh we'll be done in about 300 years' imagine the vision that it took to invest in something like that. We look at quarterly reports we can't think 300 years into the future to build something of that kind of remarkable [lol the video cuts off as he continues to talk about Cathedrals that's somewhat amusing. He's a fan of those.]

So give us an example of how to crush creativity.

Quit daydreaming. That's the same thing as saying quit being creative. That's the same thing. Quit daydreaming. It's like quit using your imagination. Yeah well schools do that all the time. Stop daydreaming and and you know pay attention to your work. It's like well what if my work is daydreaming well then we're gonna punish you because you're going to be a good worker in a factory. Oh yeah those disappeared 100 years ago. I guess we haven't noticed yet. Oh well too bad for us and our children right and our future for that matter because it's unbelievably bone headed. Once the system gets established it tends to persist and so that's how it is but it's pretty sad so.

When the trans teenagers came after me when I opposed bill c-16 in Canada on compelled speech grounds I spent quite a bit of time watching them. Now I already kind of knew about that fluid identity crowd. So when I was at Harvard piercing and tattooing started to become a cultural rage. And I was interested in well who's doing this. Because I knew it was a practice limited to criminal subtypes and outcasts for a long time. So for example if you worked in the circus you were likely to be tattooed. And you know you toured round the circus and that was a kind of carny life and it was an outsider life and if you were a prisoner same thing. But then all of a sudden it started to make it's inroads into the popular culture. So we studied a group of early adopters of tatooing and piercing from the perspective of personality like who are these people? And they were all highly creative people. And creativity is a trait and all people aren't creative that's wrong. In fact most people aren't creative at all. [...] The tatooed types they were high in creativity and a lot of these people who are fluid in their identity are actually high in trait openness and they do have fluid identities. [...] OK well you see people the blue haired crowd. Well they're the same people who were doing tatooing and piercing and they are literally often the same people because they have piercings. It's like well they have mutable identities. They're not stable in their identities. That's they're- they're creative. Creative people by definition aren't stable in their identities that's what makes them creative.

I listen to him though lol. I laugh in the face of people who are like 'EvErY OnE WhO DiSlIkEs PeTeRsOn has never listened to him.'

In a study of people in the United States who thought themselves to be members of a third gender, Ingrid M. Sell found that they typically felt different from the age of 5.[22] Because of both peer and parental pressure, those growing up with the most ambiguous appearances had the most troubled childhoods and difficulties later in life. Sell also discovered similarities between the third genders of the East and those of the West. Nearly half of those interviewed were healers or in the medical profession. Many of them, again like their Eastern counterparts, were artistic, and several were able to make a living from their artistic abilities. The capacity to mediate between men and women was a common skill, and third genders were oftentimes thought to possess an unusually wide perspective and the ability to understand both sides.[22] A notable result of Sell's study is that 93% of the third genders interviewed, again like their Eastern counterparts, reported 'paranormal-type abilities.'[23]

Well (I said this before but it's still funny to me.) I wrote the word chaos everywhere as a teenager and next to some plants I was doodling in a notebook. 10+ years later a wild Jordan Peterson appeared. Nobody's combined all the times he says chaos into a single video lol missed opportunity. Lol I mean if you listen to him for 2 minutes he'll use the word chaos so don't really need to link an example but this one has a Slaanesh image in so and Tzeentch who is second best, and the other chaos Gods who are of less interest. One is getting in the way of my Isha/Slaanesh ship concept and the other is just chaos war god and I'm not masc enough for that one to interest me particularly. But. Not sure if he even used the word chaos in the video lol oh well.

Alan Moore also spoke about that though when you write you often experience these coincidences. It's more of a creativity thing than a gender thing.

Aristophanes, [not that one lol,] a comic playwright, tells a story of creation in which 'original human nature' includes a third sex. this sex 'was a distinct kind, with a bodily shape and a name of its own, constituted by the union of the male and the female: but now only the word 'androgynous' is preserved.

I Am GoInG To ReMoVe ThE GenDeR 'IdEoLoGy.'

OK. Good luck again. Doesn't really seem in his interest given how often he's lamented about how society crushes creativity. 'No not like that.' most recently they're freaking out about Sam Smith's music video. It's not something that resonates with me either but I don't consider that to be the point. Again not everything is for me/you.

You have your 300 year cathedrals well we've been working on this 'project' for thousands of years now lol collectively. It's not completed yet technologically. We don't even have access to artificial wombs yet.

Same. I am a conservative 26yr old, and her music just speaks to me. Can't explain it.

i'm extremely left wing and what people would call a terf these days (i don't believe men are women just because they say they 'feel' like one). ethel's music is superb though, they're very talented. they really are reaching across demographics haha

Makes you miss 'I'm a metal head but' really lol. But they like it because she's syncretising her Southern Baptist upbringing into her work. King Princess uses religious/conservative themes in her work too. But it's also very [BEEP] and she's from NYC and that's also very present, and not the right tone for that kind of audience imo.

Of course Ethel Cain has stuff like that too like the lyrics here are all about a guy but then whoever is in the video with her is either afab/trans masc or transfem or you know otherwise someone who has been on estrogen. That's part of why I like the video haha (I'm pretending they're non-binary tho. I'm sure that's not the point people don't usually share my headcanonons lol) Vibes. But again it's the overall image that people are paying attention to. King Princess is purposefully trying to be a little transgressive and they can't abide that lol (+centring lesbians.)

Oh man this song (it's pretty good,)



reminds me of The Cranberries song Dreams Lol this is me with other people's music. But someone else has always beat me to the mashup lol what.

I focus on Jordan Peterson the most of the popular North American bigots because the others are quite boring besides their bigotry imo. I've not stumbled on anything about them that's of any real interest to me. Matt Walsh won't even let himself watch anime for instance. Like this really (why is CJ so often relatable? And they're non-binary. Terrifying,) except I'm not a Christian I stopped being Christian when I was like 11? I dunno. Gradually grew out of it and my immediate family didn't encourage that (extended family mostly Catholic, primary school here encourages Christianity you have to have mandatory worship or something in school, but we're the groomers lol.) So my interest mostly came from the symbolism which I have mirroring views about lol.

[Doseone]

Today is officially a month since my girlfriend of 14 years and I separated. I'm still not sure if I made the right choice.

[Otherside]

House sale completed today., after 7 months.

I am a homeowner. (Well, flatowner.)

[Heelsbythebridge]

Today is officially a month since my girlfriend of 14 years and I separated. I'm still not sure if I made the right choice.

That's a long time to date someone, and lifechanging to end - What led to you breaking up?

[Doseone]

That's a long time to date someone, and lifechanging to end - What led to you breaking up?

Basically she met a guy online. But there were other reasons as well. I was her caregiver as she's disabled. I was working 24/7 and was getting massive burnout, especially since I have severe depression. It was getting too hard for me and her disease is progressing, so things we're only going to get worse. We just had to go out separate ways. But yeah, it was life-changing as I had to move back to my home state as well. We pretty much spent every day together for all of the time that we were together.

[Heelsbythebridge]

@Doseone
Oh... well that's ungrateful of her, to say the least. Why are you having second guesses? That sounds like a situation most people would feel relieved to be leaving.

[Nyctophilia]

Doja Cat reveals to Variety that she wants to explore punk:

'I want to explore punk. But not pop-punk. I want to explore more of a raw, unfiltered, hardcore punk sort of thing.'

🤔 Are we talking hardcore punk like Bad Religion and Minor Threat or like early Distillers?

or 'hardcore' and 'punk'

Hoping for horror punk tbh (if not something new that hopefully ends up good):





I knew I picked the best/worst time to jump on this train.

In the responses to the tweet people are bringing up this which isn't hardcore punk so really this could go in any direction:

Oooou that means she?s coming for sounds like this then a lot of Rico Nasty influences.

That's pop punk-adj heavy rap with quite a bit of autotune. 'I want to explore more of a raw, unfiltered,' doesn't meet the requirements there. Also Lil Wayne and the autotune are ruining 3/4 the track tbh. Just to be honest. (His vocals pick up for a short time towards the end where he decides to sing, but even then the autotune is ruining it.) And apparently it was his track lol. I listen to the Monster verse without the rest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9gkv2XVXuc

For a while I didn't realise there was more to that track lol because uploads were just her verse cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS6HRKZQLFA

Fun fact : Kayne actually was thinking about removing Nicki?s verse because he thought she had the best verse .

As I say.

Doja covered Hole before though so I'm thinking she's going to end up going down a similar route to the 90s alt-rock/punk/riot grrrl crossover bands. This would be good too though

Also Rico Nasty isn't hardcore punk either but prob more what she meant + they're friends. Her music is like experimental and alt hip-hop mostly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stq_rg5DYWI

trap metal (close enough but when I think trap metal I think of this which is heavier):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xMWIgmJgA

Fairy trap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNOQjIgKT9o

Lol that's just a genre Zheani came up with for her music. (Rico Nasty is calling that Sugar Trap.) I think it's mostly like hyperpop. And honestly hyperpop (the comments on this video are hilarious lol,) is kind of like someone took nightcore and thought 'but what if we made original songs?' Skrillex and his consequences. Also at what cost Cher This 4s4ki track is one of the only things I've stumbled on and liked. Zheani's parts I don't care for. the 100 Gecs song isn't that bad lol I'm mostly shitposting but the genre is still a noisy chaotic autotuned mess. And supposedly it started in the UK haha but yeah I listened to early Charlie XCX and while I see vague similarities I suppose it's still pretty different to the other hyperpop stuff and some of her other older music is witch house.

To be uncharitable I'm old so a lot of new music to me is like poor man's Grimes which is often poor man's Bjork (I like some of Grimes music though.) And then some zoomers have the audacity to say Grimes ripped off trans women's aesthetic. Where did you think they got it from? When me and Grimes were young trans women in media were Chandler's dad on Friends. Grimes got her aesthetic the same place every other zoomer girl (incl. trans women,) seems to have. Anime, Japanese Street Fashion trends, and 2000s pop punk/numetal/cyberpunk aesthetics also probably kpop factors in for them. Doing it in 2012. Some weebs in anime club died for you. Literally in many cases because they're trans men and women now because anime makes you trans and that means you spiritually die I heard. And by anime club I mean art school and by you I mean catgirls. (This video is so funny actually because that's exactly how I feel about eyeliner lol. Clearly it's a torture instrument.) I was wearing 'programmer socks' in the early 2000s before you learnt to code. And there were those toe sock versions too designed by some sadist. Show some respect for your geriatric elders in their 30s. Get off my lawn lol. Also talk about like reducing everyone to one aesthetic. Ethel Cain is thee trans woman aesthetic imo. And this is the internet so everything I say is clearly fact so. Especially the I don't like Monday girl's glasses. I'm going to steal this from her no I'm not lol. It's a look though.

Funnily enough Grimes got her stage name by filling in grimes as the genre for her music on myspace before realising the British genre already existed. and that's fucking hilarious when Grimes was like. Also with Zheani I prefer this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xI2VBjMrqk

and some of her recent work like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkotW0pe55c

But yeah anyway so that's why I say it could go in literally any direction these days.

[Doseone]

@Doseone
Oh... well that's ungrateful of her, to say the least. Why are you having second guesses? That sounds like a situation most people would feel relieved to be leaving.

I guess because she's all I've known. She's the only person I've been able to fully open up to. I'm wondering if maybe we could have worked things out. We're not even talking anymore. I don't know; it's just hard for me to let her go.

[Nyctophilia]

Dave Rubin on Fox News: I played Sim City once in the late 90s. They're coming for our entertainment.

I'm sorry whose entertainment? Sim City isn't The Sims the former is a city building simulator you haven't played for over two decades, the latter is a series of life simulation games. Why do they cart this guy out lol? Basically he's their token gay. He's such a spineless grifter. And it's kind of pathetic because all the conservatives around him openly tell him they won't tolerate him or his marriage to his husband and freaked out when he had kids by surrogacy but he still caters to them. Very sad.

Meanwhile Dan Hopkins programmer on the first Sims game back in 1998:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210308...DonsReview.pdf





Obviously this doesn't account for asexuality or trans people but for it's time these notes are surprisingly progressive. Like think about how most media treated bisexuality in the 90s/early 2000s for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu0fxuaa4-A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjPelgGZRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsc4p_D8jYM

It was really bad.

More recent comments from Dan Hopkins:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30145646

This is an interesting anecdote lol about SimCopter:

The game gained controversy when it was discovered that designer Jacques Servin inserted an Easter egg that generated shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other and appear in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. The egg was caught shortly after release and removed from future copies of the game. He cited his actions as a response to the intolerable working conditions he allegedly suffered at Maxis, particularly working 60-hour weeks and being denied time off.[1][2] He also reported that he added the "studs", as he called them, after a heterosexual programmer programmed "bimbo" female characters into the game, and that he wanted to highlight the "implicit heterosexuality" of many games.[3][4] Although he had initially planned for the characters to appear only occasionally, the random number generator he had created malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently.[4] Servin was fired as a result, with Maxis reporting that his dismissal was due only to his addition of unauthorized content.[4] This caused a member of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a gay AIDS organization, to call for a boycott of all of Maxis' products, a measure which Servin rejected.[5] Some months later, a group named RTMark announced its existence and claimed responsibility for the Easter egg being inserted into the game, along with 16 other acts of "creative subversion."[3] Servin stated that he had received a money order of $5,000 from RTMark for the prank.[3] It was revealed later on that Servin was a cofounder of RTMark.[6]

Jacques Severn is the "homosexual programmer at Maxis" who was responsible for the easter egg. The term he used for the buff dudes in speedos was "himbos" (male bimbos).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Servin

Jacques was actually dismissed for inserting unapproved content into the game, not because there was a bug in the code, nor because he was gay.

One consequence of the bug was that it delayed the release of SimCopter so it missed the Christmas season, which lost Maxis a lot of money.

The people at Maxis were not anti-gay or close minded or homophobic bigots, like Brendan Eich and his ilk who want to cancel gay marriages because they hate the idea of treating gays equally and don't believe in human rights for everyone regardless of sexual preference, or I would not have hired on there in January 1997 to work on The Sims.

It might have gone a lot differently (and been better QA'ed, tested, and debugged) if Jacques had told Will and others about his objections to the unbalanced bimbos, and his ideas about including gay characters, which I know because that's what I did on The Sims, and my suggestions made it into the game. (Will loves weird easter eggs! In fact SimCopter even had some officially sanctioned cannibalistic behaviors, which is more controversial and illegal than himbos.)

After EA bought Maxis, I made a point of bringing up the "SimCopter fiasco" in my reviews of the early Sims design documents (before it was called The Sims). The original implementation was Heterosexist and Monosexist, but that was only because it was rapidly prototyped by straight people who didn't think things through, but who were fortunately open to constructive criticism, not because anybody involved was homophobic and actively anti-gay like Brendan Eich.

And that is exactly why game development teams (and all other teams) need to be inclusive (but not include bigots), and open to all different points of view (that aren't hateful). Because people without particular life experiences and outlooks simply aren't aware of everyone else's perspective, and don't take them into consideration by default, so they need to be reminded, not because they're bigots who would do something as crass and hateful as donating money to a campaign to cancel gay marriages, and then hypocritically whine about cancel culture themselves.

I think it happens if you kill somebody, and after a while other characters will eventually kneel down by them and eat their corpse.
It's just something dark and funny I remember hearing Will mention in passing once, but I never saw it documented anywhere or tried it out myself. Maybe he was joking, but that's just the kind of easter egg he would lay.

Determining if it's true would be a fun software archeology task! You could disassemble the behavior tree code (it used a predecessor to the SimAntics visual programming language in The Sims, which is well documented online), or you could just go around killing people and watching what happened.

And as you probably discovered, the easiest way to kill someone was with your helicopter blades. And then the game rewards you by paying you to bring their mangled bodies to the hospital.

That was especially problematic when the himbo easter egg was active, since there were so many hundreds of himbos swarming around your helicopter, it was practically impossible not to slaughter many of them.

SimCopter Swarming Himbos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL3LtSsYd8

[Heelsbythebridge]

I guess because she's all I've known. She's the only person I've been able to fully open up to. I'm wondering if maybe we could have worked things out. We're not even talking anymore. I don't know; it's just hard for me to let her go.

Yeah it's understandable, it was a long time. You sound like a really kind and loving person.

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I felt unbearably sleepy throughout most of Friday while at work despite drinking multiple cups of coffee, and it wasn't until the next day that I realized I had been using decaf by accident. Guess the caffeine really does something because there was no placebo effect.

[Heelsbythebridge]

The pain comes in waves. He doesn't belong there, he belongs here with us. We waited a decade for him.

I'm going to cry, this didn't just fucking happen. [BEEP] this piece of [BEEP] organization