Grandmothers are cooler than trolls

This article was mostly about the author Gonzalo Frasca informing the reader of his dislike of fantasy centered video games. When The Sims came about he was looking forward to playing it because it had a more realistic kind of feeling. Babyz is another video game, or rather virtual human game that made more and more people get involved with what was really going on in the world. Frasca brings to our attention that some people were "concerned about the lack of handicapped virtual babyz" and others were worried about the "amount of time that people 'wasted' playing with virtual babies while real orphans were starving for affect." Something happens in The Sims that is not quite the way that neither Frasca, nor can I understand. The players in this game go out and do crazy things, such as "divorce a zillion different wives or husbands, modify variables such as age" and so on. These things are nothing like the things you can do in real life, and you can learn as much from them as you can from a fantasy game, because that is what it seems to be here. Not all humans are as "neat, outgoing, active, playful, and nice" as the characters in The Sims are. These characteristics are making the humans like robots, and not do anything like real people would do. Sure somethings in the game would make the characters be happy, but most of the time "it is hard to have fun unless you buy a lot of stuff." This is what a lot of people in our country seem to struggle with as well. If we could learn more from video games like Frasca would like us to about everyday life, just image how awesome everyone would be.