SIMulated sex

I'm just looking over my computer games, and I saw a duo which I love, the Sims series. I was twelve when I started playing the games, and haven't played either for quite a while now. Unfortunately, I know of an eight year old girl whom just bought the second one, and this unnerves me. The second game is much more explicit, especially on the theme of sex.

In The Sims one can have recreational love by using the love bed with a partner in the Livin' Large expansion pack. With a cheat, the user can see the Sims "doing it", though if memory serves, the image is hardly pornographic. However, in The Sims 2, a cut scene initiates, complete with suggestive whispers and beds bouncing. Personally, I find this much too explicit. Being a teenager, I feel obligated to want the sexuality, but for the sake of younger kids, I think there should be an option of disabling these scenes. To be fair, the games were given a higher rating, bumping it from an E for everyone to a T for teen in Australia. But why should younger gamers with conservative parents miss out on spending time simulating the lives of others?

After searching Youtube: I could not find a video of a sims one love or "do you want to have a baby" scene. Yes, the porn addicted internet does not find this scene sexual enough to host, yet "Sims 2" brings up scores of videos of Sims "gettin' it on!"



A "woo-hoo" in Sims 2


There are many forms of this woo-hoo.One's simulated humans can fornicate in a bed, a hot tub, even a changing room.

Chain Emails

I'm not usually one for chain mail. I usually delete it on sight, I scarcely open it, let alone pass it on. However, one caught my eye. It was sent to me by a friend whom I trusted not to send me such things. Thankfully, he passed the mail on to me and I found it so clever that I had to pass the buck too.



HELL EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry midterm.

The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:








Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is moe than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will dop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.'


THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

The Tomb Raider's crypt not so untouched...

Ahh... Lara Croft, one of the most prominent female characters of the video gaming universe and certainly one of the only characters to recieve as many breast augmentations as Dolly Parton. With her new game Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: Underworld, comes a new wave of critism.

Foremost, and fundamental to myself, is the possibly fatal "missing lever" glitch in the Wii adaption of the title. more on that here.

Secondly, has anyone else noticed the simmilarities between the new game and 2003's vampire movie, Underworld?

Here's an example:




The image is a room on Lara's midriff, and she hold's her guns at a slighlty different degree. How far she has fallen...

Music: Downloading, playing and listening

I like music in most, if not all, of it's forms. I do prefer "oldies" as that was the music I was weaned on. As of October 2008, I've found myself listening to more and more modern pop music, though I've always enjoyed a few songs. I've got a relatively small CD collection, but if I see something for cheap enough I'll invest in it. Currently being in want of an Mp3 player, I'm finding my only outlet to hearing new music is through either youtube or music television, the latter of which I watched sporadically this morning.

In recent musical news, British pop star Lily Allen is set to release a new album. I like miss Allen's work, it has a nice rhythm as well as being fairly funny at times, plus she's the best ecstasy dealer turn singer on the market today. The best female, that is. The Kings of Leon are coming down for a tour in early March next year. All of my friends are excited, though I'm at odds to care. Firstly, tickets are ninety dollars, which is relatively cheap but still out of my price range. I'm not too big a fan of the Kings, I've heard some of their songs, I didn't like Charmer but I enjoy Sex on Fire.

When in comes to downloading music, I rarely do it. I only download out of necessity, such as hearing a song in a movie and it not being on a soundtrack, or specifically, that soundtrack not being released here (Drawn Together). If I do download a song, I'll usually end up falling for the band and buying their albums if fiscals approve.

To really simplify my tastes, I like acoustic songs, covers that take a song in a new direction and parodies. As for youtube musicians, I recommend David Choi and James At War.