hey

Been playing a lot of "psychological horror" games lately, and man

thinking about when i was a kid and a little stupid and i saw screenshots of then-upcoming The Sims 1 in a magazine and i thought "Cancer" on the create-a-sim screen meant you could give your characters illnesses and i was so hyped because wow how detailed is this thing? and then it turned out to be cancer as in the zodiac sign

thinking about when i found SimEarth in a bargain bin in 2000 and thought this screen with the bird picture on the back of the box meant you could fully adjust what every species looks like and then it turned out it's really just a static picture

thinking about when Spore was being announced and it seemed like it had an infinite level of detail from microorganisms to galaxies so with endless faith in my heart i somehow convinced myself it could eventually simulate anything and would be the last video game i'd ever need