The Sims Survivor

Bobby writes "Two great pop culture tastes that taste great together -- the TV show Survivor and the computer game Sims. The premise: eight virtual people trapped in a virtual house with limited resources. Instead of winning contests and voting people off, the characters are subjected to the whims of the Sims game -- but you'll still find the requisite scheming and sexual intrigue. Things really heat up in episode four, a robbery spoils the group's fun in a subsequent chapter, and catfights often liven up the action. Who will be the ultimate Sims Survivor? (Quote From Yahoo!)"

So...

... I wonder which Sim will become a guest star on a sitcom.

Well.

I'm starting to think there's something wrong with my life. I don't have NEARLY this much time on my hands. And I'm unemployed. And have no friends.....

These guys must *really* love the Sims.

Re:Well.

I had a friend on IRC that started using names of people she knew from the channel we visited. She'd give me daily gossip updates on what was happening. (The character named after me was the one that got all the chicks, so naturally I was intrigued.)

I haveta admit, that was the most interesting convo I had on IRC in ages. It sure beat the hell out of "HI ARE YOU A WOMAN?".

A singularity of lameness

Holy shit. I think putting these two over-hyped, lame peices of entertainment together has caused a singularity of lameness. An area so lame that it suck in and destroys all cool things with in its grasp. C'mon, Survivor? Fuck your corporate entertainment!

must...avoid...reality tv...

dammit, I've been trying to avoid these reality TV shows. I'm proud to say I've seen only 1/2 an episode of survivor and no other reality tv shows for one simple reason...they suck. Go ahead and watch some other people live their lives instead of living yours...it's easier that way. These shows are becoming harder and harder to avoid. They've already been penetrated most of primetime, and I'm running out of ripped episodes of GOOD shows like Futurama and Family Guy.

Re:must...avoid...reality tv...

instead you live your life on the Internet talking about /. related things to other people who are interested in /. related items.

It's a living soap opera led by Tim, Katz, and Rob.

We hate MS, Billy has gone and done it again, owning himself by allowing Windows to be taken over by Shatter.

OMFG, the world is coming to and end, Linux didn't make it as a desktop OS.

Re:must...avoid...reality tv...

Oh yeah, HBO is so great. I know so many people who swear by that puke fest of a show, Sex in the City. Here's a sample scene for those of you that haven't had the pleasure of watching it:

Girl 1: I love cock!
Girl 2: Really!? What a coincidence, I love cock!
Girl 1: I had cock on the way here..twice!
Girl 3: Quit talking about cock, you're making me want cock.
Girl 4: We're such strong, powerful women!
All: Agreed!

2 replies and alread slashdotted

Seriously guys, why do you keep posting stories that link to little cracker jack servers that explode at the first mention of Slashdot? At the very least, post the Google cache with the story!

I love The Sims!

...and who will be the first character to wake up on a flaming couch in a room not big enough to turn around in that has been constructed sans doors or windows?

Yes, I love The Sims!

I hope

...they survived the webserver explosion ok.

Big Brother

The French Version of Big Brother is called Loft Story and here [simsloft.fr.st] is a page with the big house and the people playing the French Big Brother.

Reality TV?! er?

Eh, is it just me or am I really confused now? First of all the TV show is suppose to be a show about reality, hence, the whole genere of 'reality TV.' Then here we have the Sims, which is a virtual simulation of reality in a semi-controlled environment... Combine the two together, where in one aspect is a show about reality, and the game that is suppose to simulate reality. Is it just me or am I just confused, disturbed, entertained, and disgusted all at the same time? :-)

Welcome to the new fronteir of Simulation Reality TV.

Is it just me?

Or do most geeks dislike the "fuck your buddy" so called reality game shows?

I used to

When I used to play Sims, I'd have 2 girls and 1 guy living in the same house. One girl would always stay in the house. The other girl had a day job, and the guy had a night job. During the day I'd make the guy and girl have sex, and at night I'd make the two girls do it. On the weekends, they'd get jealous and fight because they'd see each other getting it on.

Now THAT would make some great TV.

The ubiquitous ...

google cache [216.239.51.100].

Warning -- the page has a pop-up.

There will be no survivors

There will be no survivors, after their virtual "house" goes up in flames from a good 'ol fashioned slashdotting!

umm

i wasn't aware the show survivor was a great anything..

Phew...

Occasionally I am kinda glad sites get slashdotted. Otherwise, I would've spent a few minutes of my life looking at a site about some sick sims/survivor game.

Thank god.

Survivor

Well, apparently, no one told the web server that it had to survive as well... seems that it's been voted off the Internet.

Survivor Simulator

A friend of mine created a similer project with all the same cast from the second survivor. He tried to emulate the personalities. In a few days, everyone was gone exept for five people, the same final five people on the real thing!

Google Cache

As the site is loading quite slowly, here's the google cache: main site [216.239.37.100], house [216.239.37.100], people [216.239.37.100].

There are a few other Sims tv based websites out there: Sims Survivor [geocities.com], Sims Survivor 2 [geocities.com], Sims Survivor 3 [geocities.com], and Sims Survivor Javna [geocities.com].

William Gibson

Hopefully this doesn't reach full maturity by allowing people to have bio-mechanical eyes that broadcast their lives to others, sort of like Simstars in Gibson's novels

In Episode 5

Things grind to a halt as the virtual world is /.ed into oblivion and nerds everywhere sigh as another Survivor spin-off dissapears in a puff of smoke :)

This show will be cool.....

.... as long as I can apply the "Make Your Sims Nekkid" patch that works on the game.

What's next?

What's next? The Slashdot Sims where you can become a member of a simulated slashdot community.

Oh boy! I can hardly wait to sign up and start my new life as first poster then slowly work my way up to a full blown troll.

Well

As lame as this is, it's makes a clever point.

Artifical Intelligence has developed far enough to be un-predictable and to a certain extent can emulate human-like qualities.

Ponder that for a second.

I imagine that it would be hard

I imagine that it would be hard to tell the difference between the real show and this show. I mean the characters are about as shallow and painful.

It's nothing like Survivor...

...but it is like Big Brother. Survivor takes place outdoors (that's a huge part of the game), while BB contestants are confined to a house.

reality tv sucks, but...

shouldn't it be "Sim Big Brother?" I mean, the sims, for the most part, takes part in a house, not an island. unless you're running the vacation pack. irregardless, its still a very stupid idea.

I wonder...

how much Playboy will offer for one of the sims to pose nude in their magazine.

Sims Big Brother

My GF built the entire house and cast from this year's season of Big Brother (.au version) in the Sims. She even fiddled with Sims traits so that their star signs were right, and added the cast bios from the web-site into their descriptions.

Xix.

Haha Funny, not Weird Funny

The 'Foot' icon is supposed to mean Ha-ha funny, not weird creepy sad 'funny'. Ha-ha good, weird creepy sad, bad. It isn't hard really. If /. wants to have a 'funny stuff of web' where 'funny' means pathetic and yet in some way vaguely apealing to some nerdy minority, they could at least invent a new icon.

I propose a ban

I propose a ban on all slashdot articles that have anything to do with TV. The reason? Im damn tired of listening to self righteous pricks that need to tell everyone they don't own/watch TV. Does not watching TV make you a better person? no. Does watching TV make you a better person? nope. Noone cares. TV is one of many forms of entertainment available to you. If you do not like it, go do something else you like. I dont drink, but that doesnt mean I have the need to go into a bar and shout "I'm glad I don't drink so I can be so much better then the rest of you!".

BORING

Wow... It's like a combination of the Sims and Big Brother. Outside of having macrame contests in the household, I can't possibly think of something even more boring.

worst. thing.

ever.

redundant? probably. that doesn't make the "article" any better though.

Just a thought...

This is the whole point of games like this, taken to an intriguingly silly extreme. I say enjoy the idea; let's just admit we all like twisted simulator scenarios (or we wouldn't have The Sims: Hot Date, now, would we?).

Me, I'm waiting for someone to get me a copy of the Sims for MacOS X... /Brian

Ten times cooler...

The Sims: Battle Royale extention kit!! [battleroyalethemovie.com]

The Sims host a Lan party

The Sims host a Lan party [lamerkatz.com]

"Spork Phatt just wanted to host a LAN party for all his sims friends, but he got a lot more than he bargained for. Witness the dizzying highs and horrible lows in this amazing tale."

Can't Wait

I can't wait to see this with the hot date expansion pack.

Oh wait, isn't that called big brother?

Site down.. funny message

"We're sorry. Due to high volume, access is limited. Check back later."== "We've just been ./ed"

Awesome

This was a pretty awesome site. Not only did I enjoy the Sims Survivor but I thought the rest of the site was cool too.