NationStates Jolt Archive


Real Life simulator.

Imperial Forces
09-08-2004, 11:51
http://www.educationalsimulations.com/

This is a site which lets you live the random life of anyone in the world, it by the chances of it actually happening in real life chooses where you live, how many borthers and sisters you will have, how rich of poor will your parents etc, etc.

It's quite interesting since some wired stuff can happen to you(you can become homosexual, your country can get in a war among other things) .

Anyway, you have to buy the game to play it all, but they have great free trial of the their site to download(10 days). I rather sure that after the 10days are up, if you deleted the whole thing you can re-download it, but not 100% sure.

So download it can share some of your lifes!
Kanabia
09-08-2004, 12:36
Sounds cool.

But after 10 days, you'll probably have to clean registry if you want to play it again. Ah, its finished downloading :D
Sydia
09-08-2004, 14:09
I tell you, this game is damn good. Great find.
Kanabia
09-08-2004, 15:03
Yeah, its clever :)

In no other game can you be a corrupt North Korean bureaucrat :D
Raem
09-08-2004, 15:16
Tag.

Can't try it now, I'm on dialup and I can barely stand waiting for NS pages to load, but I'll try it as soon as I get broadband back.
Conceptualists
09-08-2004, 15:20
I've seen it before.

Although, it is a bit annoying that you cannot emigrate (or if you can, I don't know how).
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 15:29
I hope you can't die because I have a bad habit of doing that on other life sim games such as "The Sims"
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 15:32
You can call me "Ping Chow" from China :p


Never knew I was female :eek:
Conceptualists
09-08-2004, 16:05
I hope you can't die because I have a bad habit of doing that on other life sim games such as "The Sims"
You can, it loads of different ways. I have been run over when the person was 6, another time I was in a drive by.
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 16:15
You can, it loads of different ways. I have been run over when the person was 6, another time I was in a drive by.


I just got killed defending my country
:mad:
Kanabia
09-08-2004, 16:20
I've seen it before.

Although, it is a bit annoying that you cannot emigrate (or if you can, I don't know how).

Yeah, true.
Dementate
09-08-2004, 16:21
Looks cool, I plan to give it a try soon. Do you just randomly get a message that tells you that you've died? Or do you choose actions that determine what happens to you?
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 16:23
Looks cool, I plan to give it a try soon. Do you just randomly get a message that tells you that you've died? Or do you choose actions that determine what happens to you?


One day your happy, the next....your dead ;)
Conceptualists
09-08-2004, 16:27
I just got killed defending my country
:mad:
I've tried loads of times to die that way. By using the editing thing, never works though.

Looks cool, I plan to give it a try soon. Do you just randomly get a message that tells you that you've died? Or do you choose actions that determine what happens to you?

There are the occasional accidents which are random.

But some things like malnutrition and illnesses can be exacerbated by having a low quality of life.

Also if you start smoking then it increases the chances dying through respiratory complications. You can also get addicted to drugs and alcohol.

One of the best ways to die (after the drive by of course), is being executed by the states secret police. (Which generaly happens in third world countries if you get involved in human rights groups etc).
Conceptualists
09-08-2004, 16:28
What is the oldest anybody has ever got?

I got around 101 (in India of all places)
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 16:41
What is the oldest anybody has ever got?

I got around 101 (in India of all places)



95, I lived in Iraq and was not eating and was homeless
:eek:
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 16:44
Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(
Kryozerkia
09-08-2004, 16:45
It really gives you an idea of other lives... This is so awesome! All students should play this when learning about the world in social studies!
Blacklake
09-08-2004, 16:59
This is great.

I made a guy with 100 happiness, strength, endurance, and appearance, and with 0 intelligence, artistic, and musical. I made him unemployed, a smoker, an alcoholic, an illegal drug user, and a thief. He fell for every one of those "risky investment opportunities" and played the lottery every time.

WHEEE.
Kryozerkia
09-08-2004, 17:08
Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(
I wound up with 15 at one point... *snicker*
Kryozerkia
09-08-2004, 18:33
Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(
I wound up with 15 at one point... *snicker*
Colodia
09-08-2004, 19:05
tag!
New Foxxinnia
09-08-2004, 19:13
I live in Nigeria and my father has schistosomiasis.

Great...
New Foxxinnia
09-08-2004, 19:15
Now I have epilepsy.
Opal Isle
09-08-2004, 19:18
I am a female. My name is Yolanda Estrada. I live in Puno, Peru.
My mother, Luz, is 24 and my father, Emilio, is 24. I have a brother, Aureleo, who is 2.
Opal Isle
09-08-2004, 19:21
My mom found a job.
My growth is stunted from inadequate protein.
I have ascariasis (roundworms).
Colodia
09-08-2004, 19:21
I was born a girl in the city of Shahjahanpur in the state of Uttar in India

Mom, 24
Dad, 25
2 bros
1 sis


names are too long to type here.....-_-
CSW
09-08-2004, 19:21
This game is oddly addicting...I've gotten killed by the secret police in the US in California o.O. Not sure if they were wearing suede and demin.
Opal Isle
09-08-2004, 19:26
When my person becomes old enough, do I get to start doing things? ...or do I just keep clicking "Age a year"?
Nimzonia
09-08-2004, 19:29
Leprosy!! :eek:
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 19:29
I died yet again in the line of duty.
Cheese varieties
09-08-2004, 20:19
Maria Rono in Kilinabjaro Tanzania, My father has a goiter and a peptic ulcer, my mother has scistosomiasis and my 2 year old brother has malaria. This is not looking good.
New Foxxinnia
09-08-2004, 20:49
HOLY CRAP!
I was born in Northern Turkey, both my parents are 29, I have no brothers or sisters, and my father makes 440,000,000 Turkish Lira a month. I'm am freakin' lucky.
New Foxxinnia
09-08-2004, 20:52
Wait...My mother just got a job in temporary odd-jobs and is making 88,660,000 lira a year. Aww, man! The lira isn't worth the paper it's printed on, is it?
CSW
09-08-2004, 20:54
Wait...My mother just got a job in temporary odd-jobs and is making 88,660,000 lira a year. Aww, man! The lira isn't worth the paper it's printed on, is it?
Nope.
Colodia
09-08-2004, 21:08
mwahahaha...

I'm doing John Edwards from New York

I'm not doing bad...

of course, I'm doing a custom one

my next one's gonna be one of those random ones


(good luck to you Foxx, 86 million lira...ha)
Hamanistan
09-08-2004, 21:09
Wait...My mother just got a job in temporary odd-jobs and is making 88,660,000 lira a year. Aww, man! The lira isn't worth the paper it's printed on, is it?



LMAO, My family had 5,675,323,000 Dinars :eek:
Colodia
09-08-2004, 21:20
John Edwards, 80, of New York City....senior government official

3 kids, ages 42, 38, 36

THEY STILL LIVE WITH ME!


Ahh well...I probably live in the White House :)

but at $19,500 a month?
Colodia
09-08-2004, 21:27
John Edwards, 106....just married

I STILL GOT IT BABY!

but man, I've been all over the job chart thanks to this guy's old age :D

crud, 109 and I died
Insane Troll
09-08-2004, 22:12
HOLY CRAP!
I was born in Northern Turkey, both my parents are 29, I have no brothers or sisters, and my father makes 440,000,000 Turkish Lira a month. I'm am freakin' lucky.

That's like, $400 a month.
Dementate
09-08-2004, 22:18
Right now I'm the 10th kid and my mom is only 18 :(

WTF??!! Does that mean your mom has been popping out a baby every year since she was 11? *head explodes*
Bodies Without Organs
09-08-2004, 22:23
WTF??!! Does that mean your mom has been popping out a baby every year since she was 11? *head explodes*

Ever heard of things called twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, octuplets, etc.?
Colodia
09-08-2004, 22:44
Ever heard of things called twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, octuplets, etc.?
heh...human gumball machine anyone?
Lunatic Goofballs
09-08-2004, 22:51
Frak! I'm Connecticut Clown. What are the odds?!? :confused:
Conceptualists
09-08-2004, 22:56
This game is oddly addicting...I've gotten killed by the secret police in the US in California o.O. Not sure if they were wearing suede and demin.
How did you manage that?
New Foxxinnia
09-08-2004, 23:13
Funny story:
I am a gay, jewish, writer.
New Foxxinnia
09-08-2004, 23:16
No, sorry. I'm a bisexual, jewish, writer.
_Susa_
09-08-2004, 23:40
Totally Awesome Game
Doomduckistan
10-08-2004, 01:29
I had the craziest one ever:

I was a subsistance farmer who hit it big on the stocks in South Korea. I couldn't get any decent job because I had no college education, but I was able to live it nice.

I died of diabetes at 73 after saving up money for a while and giving some to charity. I think I had about 200,000 dollars (converted from Won) left over for my Son to get.
New Genoa
10-08-2004, 01:37
My guy got raped once.
Colodia
10-08-2004, 02:07
I don't get it, I keep getting the same types of issues all the time....
Colodia
10-08-2004, 02:09
teehee...I'm a random Mexican from Baja California and I'm trying to get as many kids I can at a young age...

So far, I'm 19 with 4 kids
Colodia
10-08-2004, 02:18
update....9 kids, age 32


damn Mexican military requirements
Doomduckistan
10-08-2004, 02:18
The editer thing is funny for a couple times, too if you play as an Uberperson or some useless person.
Opal Isle
10-08-2004, 02:43
Ohh...this will be fun...I just started as a little French boy...


...with Measles..
CSW
10-08-2004, 02:56
The editer thing is funny for a couple times, too if you play as an Uberperson or some useless person.
I played as a super attractive redneck from texas...13 kids, 4 husbands and minimum wage all the way to death at 60.
Bodies Without Organs
10-08-2004, 03:41
I was most disappointed when my female bisexual Thai food processing worker was unable to select the 'Seek new romance' icon whilst incarcerated in a womens' prison.

However, this sadness was removed when my 52 year old school administrator in Austin Texas was informed that if she retired now and watched her money carefully she could support herself until she was 724 years old.
Imperial Forces
10-08-2004, 07:53
bump
New Foxxinnia
10-08-2004, 08:13
Totally Awesome GameSeconded.
Hamanistan
10-08-2004, 11:16
I was just born and my mom and dad are 98 :(
Kanabia
10-08-2004, 12:33
I was just born and my mom and dad are 98 :(

Ahh, the wonders of IVF.
Gigatron
10-08-2004, 13:19
0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Dresden in the state of Sachsen in Germany.

My parents have named me Andreas. My surname is Einstein. My mother, Anna, is 29 and my father, Uwe, is 34. I have a sister, Wilfreda, age 1 and a brother, Dietrich, who is 3.

From my parents I have been gifted with the potential for extraordinary intelligence.

1 year old
2 years old
My brother Dietrich began school.

3 years old
My mother has been cured of depression.

My father has been murdered at age 38.

4 years old
My sister Wilfreda began school.

5 years old
6 years old
Began school.

7 years old
8 years old
9 years old
10 years old
11 years old
12 years old
13 years old
Told the truth at the risk of offending a friend..

My mother has sexually abused me.

My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has graduated from secondary school.

My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has failed the tests for entrance into vocational school.

14 years old
My brother Dietrich has graduated from secondary school.

My brother Dietrich has failed the tests for entrance into vocational school.

15 years old
Sexually abused again.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Margareta Hintermeier.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Margareta Hintermeier.

16 years old
Sexually abused again.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Petra Bergen.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Petra Bergen.

My sister Wilfreda has graduated from secondary school.

My sister Wilfreda began vocational school.

17 years old
Sexually abused again.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Adriana Friedberg.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Adriana Friedberg.

My brother Dietrich has moved out on his own.

18 years old
Graduated from secondary school.

Began college.

Met a new girl I like very much, named Inga Liebenthal.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Inga Liebenthal.

My sister Wilfreda has graduated from vocational school with a certificate in Electronics .

19 years old
Met a new girl I like very much, named Silke Schuster.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Silke Schuster.

20 years old
21 years old
Avoided drinking alcohol.

Began work as a temporary odd jobs.

22 years old
Graduated from college with a degree in Government.

Began graduate school.

My sister Wilfreda has moved out on her own.

23 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

Met a new woman I like very much, named Brunhilde Ziege.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Brunhilde Ziege.

24 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Heidi Maier.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Heidi Maier.

25 years old
26 years old
Graduated from graduate school with an advanced degree in Economics.

Began alternative service in place of military service.

27 years old
My sister Wilfreda has been involved in a road traffic accident but fortunately suffered no permanent injuries.

28 years old
29 years old
30 years old
31 years old
32 years old
33 years old
Detlev Pfaff and my sister Wilfreda have married.

34 years old
Accepted in vocational school.

35 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Adriana Linden.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Adriana Linden.

36 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Ulrika Kegel.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Ulrika Kegel.

My mother has diabetes.

37 years old
Graduated from vocational school with a certificate in Business Administration.

Met a new woman I like very much, named Bertha Dietz.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Bertha Dietz.

Began work as a community leader.

38 years old
39 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Elke Auerbach.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Elke Auerbach.

Met a new woman I like very much, named Steffi Lieb.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Steffi Lieb.

40 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Elke Huber.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Elke Huber.

My sister Wilfreda has breast cancer.

41 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Uta Sondheim.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Uta Sondheim.

Moved away from home.

42 years old
43 years old
Met a new woman I like very much, named Uta Vollmer.

We've begun seeing each other.

My sister Wilfreda has died at age 45 from breast cancer.

44 years old
45 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

Uta and I are now engaged..

46 years old
47 years old
My mother has ischemic heart disease.

48 years old
Uta Vollmer and I got married this year.

49 years old
50 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

My mother has died at age 80 from a heart attack.

Inherited money from my parents.

51 years old
Invested 500000 euros in land.

52 years old
53 years old
54 years old
My sister Wilfreda's husband Detlev has died at age 60 from lung cancer.

55 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

56 years old
My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has ischemic heart disease.

My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has been cured of depression.

57 years old
My friend has survived a dangerous situation despite my unwillingness to help.

Invested 300000 euros in high-risk stock.

58 years old
59 years old
My brother's boyfriend Lorenz has died at age 64 from a heart attack.

60 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

61 years old
62 years old
63 years old
64 years old
My wife Uta has diabetes.

65 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

66 years old
67 years old
Received a 11% pay raise.

My brother Dietrich has suffered an epileptic seizure.

68 years old
69 years old
70 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

Cashed in 888640 euros from land.

Cashed in 146310 euros from high-risk stock.

Quit my job.

71 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.

Released by security police.

72 years old
73 years old
74 years old
My wife Uta has died at age 77 from diabetes.

75 years old
Decided not to give money to charity.

Retired.

76 years old
Died at age 76 from an accident caused by senile dementia.
L a L a Land
10-08-2004, 14:44
hehe, became 115 years old before I died because of prostata cancer. When I was about 110 years old I had assets woth 1 billion dollar. ;)
Brindisi Dorom
10-08-2004, 15:11
0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan's Eastern Region.

My parents have named me Mohammad. My surname is Jafari. My mother, Tara, is 19 and my father, Mahmood, is 19. I have no brothers or sisters.

From my parents I have been gifted with the potential for extraordinary intelligence, extraordinary artistic ability, extraordinary musical ability, extraordinary athletic ability, extraordinary physical strength, extraordinary physical endurance and extraordinary good looks.

1 year old
Growth stunted from inadequate protein.

A major earthquake has hit Afghanistan. 736 people have died and 62,000 others have been affected.

My family and I were not directly affected.

--

6 years old
Suffering from severe malnutrition.

I've developed goiter.

Civil war in North-central region.

Brother Esfandiar born.

Began school
Kanabia
10-08-2004, 15:17
I had a British bisexual female who was a drug addict, alcoholic and smoker as well as a senior government official. She died at 58 from lung cancer. Top that.
Brindisi Dorom
10-08-2004, 15:51
59 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.

Executed by government security police.

lmfao, I was married and had like 5 girlfriends, and I was a police captain.
Tewron
10-08-2004, 16:29
Download finished...
Kraytia
10-08-2004, 16:49
ARGH! I downloaded it but when I try to begin installation it stays in one block in "extracting files", gives error report and exits.
Dementate
10-08-2004, 17:19
Had a similar problem with my computer at home, but it works just fine here at work. My first "life" I was born a girl in Nicuragua....but died by age 4 of the measles.

So now I'm a girl again, this time in Afghanistan near Mazar Shariff (poor spelling, I know). I'm up to 10 years old and actually in school and my family has not been affected by about 4 major earthquakes already. Two brothers, one older, one younger. Father was a soldier for awhile, now both parents are farmers. This thing is pretty cool, love the map and night effect.
Colodia
10-08-2004, 18:12
hang on, how the heck do you get a bisexual character? I mean...I just don't get it...
New Foxxinnia
10-08-2004, 18:24
hang on, how the heck do you get a bisexual character? I mean...I just don't get it...It just sort of happens.
Kanabia
10-08-2004, 18:27
Out of all the games i've played so far...I haven't seen HIV/AIDS. Is it there? You can die from everything else. Well, I havent seen ebola either.
Hamanistan
10-08-2004, 21:51
I died of AIDS :p
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 00:59
It seems like a rather simplistic simulation: in my limited experience any character that begins with a reasonable intelligence rating can leave home at about age 12, and live off the streets, whilst still devoting all their spare time to reading and studying, and come out with exactly the same educational result as if they weren't living rough.
Generic empire
11-08-2004, 01:05
I found it to be quite inaccurate, the most humorous instance being when they located Richmond, Virginia on the west coast, in southern California. Also, it had a very anti-American bent to it. Most of the statistics shown when your avatar lived in the United States were highly inaccurate. I found it to be little more than a bleeding heart agenda to try to get people to worry about poverty, and I did not enjoy this manipulation in the least.
Generic empire
11-08-2004, 01:07
It seems like a rather simplistic simulation: in my limited experience any character that begins with a reasonable intelligence rating can leave home at about age 12, and live off the streets, whilst still devoting all their spare time to reading and studying, and come out with exactly the same educational result as if they weren't living rough.

Exactly. Also, even with a first class education in government, a rich family in America, and 100% statistics in every category it still would refuse open jobs to you with no explanation. This is not a 'real life' simulator in the least, as it is completely irrational.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 01:15
I found it to be quite inaccurate, the most humorous instance being when they located Richmond, Virginia on the west coast, in southern California.

It told me that my homeland Northern Ireland was still part of Great Britain. Nope. Great Britain is the landmass comprised of England, Scotland & Wales. It should have said that Northern Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom instead.

It also started running into errors once one character had more than 12 kids.
Amerigo
11-08-2004, 03:33
My guy got raped once.
53 years old.
I was raped...

My guy is male too... who would rape a 53 year old man? In China... Who is a police inspector of all things... Damn...
CSW
11-08-2004, 03:35
It told me that my homeland Northern Ireland was still part of Great Britain. Nope. Great Britain is the landmass comprised of England, Scotland & Wales. It should have said that Northern Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom instead.

It also started running into errors once one character had more than 12 kids.
I couldn't get over 8 kids.
Generic empire
11-08-2004, 03:37
I couldn't get over 8 kids.

Lucky stiffs...I couldn't get one!
New Foxxinnia
11-08-2004, 03:39
This thing is a gold mine of hilarity.
Strensall
11-08-2004, 03:40
Meet Andreas Schmidt, from Vienna. He earnes €40100 a month, has 8(!) children, 3 of which were adopted.....

His wife died, his kids started to die, but Schmidt kept on working as a company president till he died lonely and familyless at the ripe age of 127, with over €4,000,000 in the bank.

What a loser.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 03:49
Exactly. Also, even with a first class education in government, a rich family in America, and 100% statistics in every category it still would refuse open jobs to you with no explanation.

It ain't what you know, it's whom you know.

***

Is it just me, or is this game trying to pass on the message "don't fuck with your government"? Judging by the results of committing any time to social activism it seems to be.
Tuesday Heights
11-08-2004, 03:55
I just downloaded it, installed it, and am now playing it. Wow, it's amazing!
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 03:57
Lucky stiffs...I couldn't get one!

Eeek! I have just tried to get pregnant at 14 and discovered that I'm infertile! I was going to try and break the 12 kid record.
Sydia
11-08-2004, 03:58
My wife keeps hitting me with a brick in Thailand!

This game is still damn cool. I've been a schizophrenic seaman in Angola who committed suicide after his wife kept getting preggers (even though he was infertile), a Chinese writer who got executed by the government at 85 (!), a senior government official in the UK with about 100 kids and a very unlucky Morrocan who gets himself in all sorts of accidents no matter what I do.
Doomduckistan
11-08-2004, 04:00
I got hit by a car 3 times in Kenya, but still lived to 92.

And I also had a 14 year old with about 100 Physical who busted out the Kung Fu after his mom hit him. Talk about crazy.

And an Indian woman who lived to 112 (!). I think I did _something_ right...
CSW
11-08-2004, 04:00
Meet Andreas Schmidt, from Vienna. He earnes €40100 a month, has 8(!) children, 3 of which were adopted.....

His wife died, his kids started to die, but Schmidt kept on working as a company president till he died lonely and familyless at the ripe age of 127, with over €4,000,000 in the bank.

What a loser.
I got one with 66,000,000 Euros in the bank and died at 103...
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 04:09
"Working as a soldier is typically a man's job. They will not accept a female. Would you like to find another job?"

"Working as a policeman is typically a man's job. They will not accept a female. Would you like to find another job?"

Go USA!
Generic empire
11-08-2004, 04:13
I was a 64 year old soldier, and i got mugged or burglarized once a year for 20 years. I didn't even qualify for my own job.
Colodia
11-08-2004, 04:15
I was robbed of over $44,000 dollars....in WISCONSIN! At age 11!

What kinda 11-yr old girl walks around with 44 grand in Wisconsin?
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 04:30
What kinda 11-yr old girl walks around with 44 grand in Wisconsin?

What kind of game gives you the option to try and get your 14 year old wife pregnant?
CSW
11-08-2004, 04:31
What kind of game gives you the option to try and get your 14 year old wife pregnant?
Ever lived in the south?
Generic empire
11-08-2004, 04:32
What kind of game gives you the option to try and get your 14 year old wife pregnant?

The same kind of sick game that would tell you that Virginia is on the West Coast. Sick bastards...
Amerigo
11-08-2004, 04:37
0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Okara in Pakistan's Punjab Province.

My parents have named me Shah. My surname is Khalid Wazir. My mother, Najmah, is 38 and my father, Qabir, is 39. I have a sister, Rezeya, age 2, a brother, Rashid, age 3, a brother, Kadir, age 6, a brother, Latif, age 9, a sister, Mirvat, age 11, a brother, Zia, age 12 and a sister, Daliyah, who is 13.

1 year old
Been murdered at age 1.


Whodunnit?
Generic empire
11-08-2004, 04:39
0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Okara in Pakistan's Punjab Province.

My parents have named me Shah. My surname is Khalid Wazir. My mother, Najmah, is 38 and my father, Qabir, is 39. I have a sister, Rezeya, age 2, a brother, Rashid, age 3, a brother, Kadir, age 6, a brother, Latif, age 9, a sister, Mirvat, age 11, a brother, Zia, age 12 and a sister, Daliyah, who is 13.

1 year old
Been murdered at age 1.


Whodunnit?

The Butler!
Colodia
11-08-2004, 04:41
Ever lived in the south?
I see no option that lets me get my sister pregneants.....


yay for morals

boo for realism
Colodia
11-08-2004, 04:51
anyone else noticed a bug that doesn't allow you to have a child if your wife/girlfriend becomes pregneant by chance?
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 04:54
I managed 13 kids that time, sireing them between the ages of 15 and 30. After that despite repeated attempts, no further seeds sprang from my loins, until at age 36 my wife became unexpectedly pregnant: we decided to keep the child... and got an 'ACCESS VIOLATION'.

Anybody managed to beat 13 kids yet?

Oh, hang on, she has actually been born, but isn't showing up in the family window.

Anybody beat 14 kids?

Dear God, I just retired at age 40 with 14 kids, one wife, an ex-wife and enough money to live on till I'm 113 after working as a soldier for 20 years.
Generic empire
11-08-2004, 04:55
anyone else noticed a bug that doesn't allow you to have a child if your wife/girlfriend becomes pregneant by chance?

I got that one.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 05:14
Is this game produced by incompetents?

If you try to visit their website via the link it installs on your taskbar your browser is directed to the URL:

http://www.educationalsimulatons.com/

instead of ...

http://www.educationalsimulations.com/

Note the spelling mistake and thus faulty link in the one they give you.
Padmasa
11-08-2004, 06:23
Can anyone beat living 154 years in russia? (admittedly a slightly uber-character)

Or 126 in the same setting without any uberness at all?
Nianacio
11-08-2004, 07:03
Thanks for posting the link.

My second character (this one had all-100 stats) died at 75 with a net worth of $37,371,804. He had an interesting life. :D
Eeptopia
11-08-2004, 08:04
0 years old
I was born a boy in the town of Naryn in Kyrgyzstan.

My parents have named me Mikhail. My surname is Yagudin. My mother, Natalya, is 22 and my father, Ilya, is 18. I have a sister, Karolina, who is 1.

My father began college.

1 year old
Growth stunted from inadequate protein.

Died at age 1 from a road traffic accident

holy blajesus those darn Kyrgyzstani cars
The Island of Rose
11-08-2004, 08:05
Is this easy on old computers? It seems interesante...
Opal Isle
11-08-2004, 08:06
Is this easy on old computers? It seems interesante...
Uh...it has to be...it's not really a "game" per se...it's just basically clicking "Age A Year" over and over. I found it to be boring quite quickly.
The Island of Rose
11-08-2004, 08:09
So it downloads fast then?
Opal Isle
11-08-2004, 08:13
So it downloads fast then?
Yea.
Eeptopia
11-08-2004, 08:32
My uber Russian comrade doctor was murdered at the age of 47. I think it was the same person that drove that Kyrgyzstani automobile of death!
The Island of Rose
11-08-2004, 08:41
DAMN YOU KYRZIGSTAN! DAMN YOU!!!!

Ironically, that's the flag of nation...
Jello Biafra
11-08-2004, 08:44
This game is oddly addicting...I've gotten killed by the secret police in the US in California o.O. Not sure if they were wearing suede and demin.California uber Alles!
Kanabia
11-08-2004, 09:42
Most of the statistics shown when your avatar lived in the United States were highly inaccurate. I found it to be little more than a bleeding heart agenda to try to get people to worry about poverty, and I did not enjoy this manipulation in the least.

Bullshit. Play in Cuba and get randomly arrested for no reason at all or get executed for refusing to join the army in India. I can't see any particular anti-american agenda or bias in it.

The fact is, most of the worlds people do live like this game describes...

Even if the game's mechanics are flawed somewhat.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 09:51
Play in Cuba and get randomly arrested for no reason at all or get executed for refusing to join the army in India.

The draft seems pretty buggy too: I was playing a Mexican that was serving as a military sargeant before being drafted. He accepted the draft and was reduced to soldier, so I applied to change job back to military sargeant, and was accepted. Fair enough - they promoted me during the period of compulsoiry service (or so I though). Age a year. Get drafted again... so it seems that rising in rank whilst serving compulsory service counts as refusing to serve your compulsory service...

Even if the game's mechanics are flawed somewhat.

Mind you, it is trying to simulate a life lived during the 20th/21st Century on Earth, and describing our own real life game mechanics as "flamed somewhat" is porbably putting it lightly.
Insane Troll
11-08-2004, 09:54
If you don't spend any money on food or shelter, you can still live into your 80's without any major problems.
Kanabia
11-08-2004, 09:56
The draft seems pretty buggy too: I was playing a Mexican that was serving as a military sargeant before being drafted. He accepted the draft and was reduced to soldier, so I applied to change job back to military sargeant, and was accepted. Fair enough - they promoted me during the period of compulsoiry service (or so I though). Age a year. Get drafted again... so it seems that rising in rank whilst serving compulsory service counts as refusing to serve your compulsory service...

Yeah, happened to me as well. I guess you have to cope with 3 years of cruddy wage before you can start earning money.

Mind you, it is trying to simulate a life lived during the 20th/21st Century on Earth, and describing our own real life game mechanics as "flamed somewhat" is porbably putting it lightly.

Well, I mean, I've never gotten an access error or illegal operation while applying for a job in real life. Yet.
Kanabia
11-08-2004, 09:57
If you don't spend any money on food or shelter, you can still live into your 80's without any major problems.

Substinance farmers in the mountains of Azerbaijan have been known to live until 120, so...
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 10:01
It seems to me that what we have here is a very interesting idea for a simulation/game, but one which has been implemented incredibly poorly. Basic central functions don't seem to work correctly (for example accidental pregnancies are always phantom pregnancies), and the options it provides to with don't seem to map onto the real world at all (for example men cannot become nurses), and it seems that we have spotted some glaring geographical errors in those areas with which we are familiar. This would be fair enough if it was a freeware or a shareware game, but when the guy has the nerve to try and aim it at the educational market, then that worries me greatly.
Insane Troll
11-08-2004, 10:03
It seems to me that what we have here is a very interesting idea for a simulation/game, but one which has been implemented incredibly poorly. Basic central functions don't seem to work correctly (for example accidental pregnancies are always phantom pregnancies), and the options it provides to with don't seem to map onto the real world at all (for example men cannot become nurses), and it seems that we have spotted some glaring geographical errors in those areas with which we are familiar. This would be fair enough if it was a freeware or a shareware game, but when the guy has the nerve to try and aim it at the educational market, then that worries me greatly.

Still, there's an incredible amount of data he would have had to of gathered.

Must just be a crappy programmer.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 10:07
Still, there's an incredible amount of data he would have had to of gathered.

I wouldn't be surprised if all it took was a list of population centres, a summary of UN/WHO/Amnesty reports, and the CIA world factbook.

Must just be a crappy programmer.

A neat idea, though.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 10:14
Kewl.

Gary Jones (age 14) of the UK has just got married to Deborah Green (age 14).


Minimum legal age to wed in the UK: 16 years old.
The Island of Rose
11-08-2004, 10:29
Kewl.

Gary Jones (age 14) of the UK has just got married to Deborah Green (age 14).


Minimum legal age to wed in the UK: 16 years old.

Obviously they were married under some hippie New Age church :D
Goed
11-08-2004, 10:35
It's not so much that this game is fun...it's just that it's hilarious

I was murdered at age ZERO in India. Which means either a) I'm NEVER moving there, or b) that's some pretty heavy anti-abortion propaganda :p
Eeptopia
11-08-2004, 10:38
Sri Adjeng, the Indonesian soldier. Had 13 (12 if you count the ones that live)children and two wives (he accidently clicked "End Marraige"). Was outlived by his mother by twenty years (he died at the age of 52 from lung cancer). Became a father at age 16, smoking, doing drugs and battling on and off alcoholism. Had 5 siblings, three that were younger and two that were older. Ended his life living with his new wife and mother, with a net worth of 93,856,064 (an exchange rate of rupiahs per US dollar - 8,577.13 (2003))... So basically not as much as it appears.

Such an amazing story.

I also had a 13 year old Pakistani girl that got kicked out of her house for having a relationship with a boy the parents didn't like. Had to get a job as a farmer, the same boy that got her kicked out left her... Met another man, got married in the early teen's, had a child shortly after, and lived into her early 40's. She ended her life as a caretaker and had amassed a small fortune that amounted to about 200k in US dollars.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 10:49
Has anybody found a way to have an extra-marital affair or more than one boyfriend/girlfriend simultaneously? The closest report we have had of this kind of thing was the infertile man's wife who kept 'mysteriously' becoming pregnant. There must be a way to have a bit on the side - surely serial monogamy isn't as universal as this game portrays?
Conceptualists
11-08-2004, 11:50
Sri Adjeng, the Indonesian soldier. Had 13 (12 if you count the ones that live)children and two wives (he accidently clicked "End Marraige").
If only that could happen in real life.
Colodia
11-08-2004, 17:51
Erm, anyone notice that you pwn the game if you make it past graduate school by studying Government in college and in graduate school?

Of course, you may have to hold the "enter" button a few seconds to get the job...
Colodia
11-08-2004, 18:02
Wait a ****ing second...I'm infertile and the thing just told me my wife is pregneant!


!!!!!!!


Ahh well, I got an Acess Violation of course
Conceptualists
11-08-2004, 18:07
Erm, anyone notice that you pwn the game if you make it past graduate school by studying Government in college and in graduate school?

Of course, you may have to hold the "enter" button a few seconds to get the job...
IIRC, you pwn the game if you finish tertiary education.

Moral of the game is: Study hard and don't get involved in human rights groups.
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 18:28
Moral of the game is: Study hard and don't get involved in human rights groups.

Pretty much. Whom do we suspect is actually behind the game? CIA? MI5? Mossad?
Colodia
11-08-2004, 22:22
Pretty much. Whom do we suspect is actually behind the game? CIA? MI5? Mossad?
The Illuminati


or am I ahead of everyone here?
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 22:28
The Illuminati

Quite possibly - you will have noticed that there doesn't appear to be anyway to become a priest, yes? Interesting.

So based on the emphasis on tertiary education, are they planning to immanitize the eschaton through knowledge rather than violence?


Is it mere coincidence that Bill Drummond (ex-of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu) sets up a sit called My Death (http://www.mydeath.net:8080/), and then the facelss masters of the Illuminati retaliate by promoting a game called Real Lives?
Colodia
11-08-2004, 22:32
Quite possibly - you will have noticed that there doesn't appear to be anyway to become a priest, yes? Interesting.

So based on the emphasis on tertiary education, are they planning to immanitize the eschaton through knowledge rather than violence?
*8th grade American knowledge cannot comprehend the words: tertiary, immanitize, and eschaton*

Erm....yes, of course!
Buechoria
11-08-2004, 22:36
An Tong
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married, one child
Age of Death: 67
Cause of death: Accident involving Dementia.

Made hundreds of thousands of Yuan without working and renlisted 10 years in a row. Arrested for 18 years because of human rights activies.

Holay Shaite
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 22:37
*8th grade American knowledge cannot comprehend the words: tertiary, immanitize, and eschaton*

Erm....yes, of course!

tertiary = third level

immanitize = make immanent, bring into being

eschaton = the final stage of things, or possibly the end of the current stage of things and the beginning of the new world order
Colodia
11-08-2004, 22:39
tertiary = third level

immanitize = make immanent, bring into being

eschaton = the final stage of things, or possibly the end of the current stage of things and the beginning of the new world order
Ahh...I gotcha


I suppose that's why the highest military rank you can get is Sargeant (sp), right?

I mean....where's the General?
Bodies Without Organs
11-08-2004, 22:55
Here's soemthing else shagged in the programme:

Age 20...
"Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in a bank account.
Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in land.
Invested 50000 Pakistan rupees in high-risk stock."

No messages indicating anything has happened to any of the investments.

Age 24, and they have all disappeared, not just lost their value, but disappeared. Revert to age 20, just after they were made, and they no longer exist.
Amerigo
11-08-2004, 23:13
Here's soemthing else shagged in the programme:

Age 20...
"Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in a bank account.
Invested 100000 Pakistan rupees in land.
Invested 50000 Pakistan rupees in high-risk stock."

No messages indicating anything has happened to any of the investments.

Age 24, and they have all disappeared, not just lost their value, but disappeared. Revert to age 20, just after they were made, and they no longer exist.
It's so in your real life you will get used to mysterious disappearances of money.
Hamanistan
11-08-2004, 23:56
I'm 90 with 56 kids just had my 57th :p
Bodies Without Organs
12-08-2004, 00:02
It's so in your real life you will get used to mysterious disappearances of money.

Yes, I experience it frequently when drinking, but the game seems to be structured so that it will tell you when an investment is wiped out.
Amerigo
12-08-2004, 00:06
...but the game seems to be structured so that it will tell you when an investment is wiped out.
Only when its not your fault.
Bodies Without Organs
12-08-2004, 00:09
Only when its not your fault.

How exactly could it be a 20 year old factory working woman's fault that a bank collapsed, a piece of land disappeared into space and some stock disappeared from all records?
Amerigo
12-08-2004, 00:12
How exactly could it be a 20 year old factory working woman's fault that a bank collapsed, a piece of land disappeared into space and some stock disappeared from all records?

She knew too much!!!
New Genoa
12-08-2004, 00:18
The game has potential, it just needs alot of bug fixes...

and for once, I wanna choose to beat my children! well, not really. but you get the point. :headbang:
Bodies Without Organs
12-08-2004, 00:21
...and another thing, does nobody else find it odd that if you get raped you do not have any choices like going to the authorities or the law about it, bearing in mind the statistics which claim that anywhere from 50-75% of all rapists are known to their victims? The game seems to be perpetuating the myth here that rape is just another of those unavoidable things that happens and must be accepted as such, ho-hum, time to get on with life as normal immediately afterwards.


Hmm, another thought on the subject - obviously somebody is doing all the raping in this game: has anybody seen an info box that says "You have raped someone"?
Amerigo
12-08-2004, 00:21
The game has potential, it just needs alot of bug fixes...

and for once, I wanna choose to beat my children! well, not really. but you get the point. :headbang:
Yeah....Too few options on what to do with family...
Amerigo
12-08-2004, 00:22
...and another thing, does nobody else find it odd that if you get raped you do not have any choices like going to the authorities or the law about it, bearing in mind the statistics which claim that anywhere from 50-75% of all rapists are known to their victims? The game seems to be perpetuating the myth here that rape is just another of those unavoidable things that happens and must be accepted as such, ho-hum, time to get on with life as normal immediately afterwards.
I was a 53 year old man when I got raped... :(
Bodies Without Organs
12-08-2004, 00:24
I was a 53 year old man when I got raped... :(

I spent 3 years in a Northern Irish prison before I met someone that smoked...
Insane Troll
12-08-2004, 00:29
For some reason, after I exit the game, it puts my monitor refresh rate as low as it will go.

I have to reset it every time.
Ruissia
12-08-2004, 00:47
i hope they make a crack for this so i dont have to pay
Colodia
12-08-2004, 00:52
Hmm, another thought on the subject - obviously somebody is doing all the raping in this game: has anybody seen an info box that says "You have raped someone"?
That would be my character

53 year old men
70 year old women
2 year old boys


it's all good

erm....that was a joke
_Susa_
12-08-2004, 00:56
I downloaded the game, but then deleted it the next day cause it gets old REALLY quick.
Kanabia
12-08-2004, 15:01
Yeah, it does. A fairly worthwhile diversion though.
L a L a Land
12-08-2004, 15:06
I got one with 66,000,000 Euros in the bank and died at 103...

I had 7,5 billion SEKs at the age of 110 or so. died 5 years later withg a lill less cash.
Kanabia
12-08-2004, 15:09
I havent got past 95. Should probably lay off the drugs, ciggies and booze.
Kasaru
12-08-2004, 15:30
-Whoa, I'm not reading through 11 pages O_o
-Man, I only got to actually RETIRE twice, once I had enough to live to age...137!!!!!, and the other time I had enoughto get to age 97.
-QuitstartingmeinChinadammit. I'm sick of China.
-Weird...I got NEGATIVE expenses once(when I was 10 & both my parents had died), along with NEGATIVE money.

Random diary:
0 years old
I was born a girl in a small town in Poland's Nowy Sacz Province, not far from the city of Nowy Sacz.

My parents have named me Inga. My surname is Zelinska. My mother, Marika, is 27 and my father, Leon, is 25. I have no brothers or sisters.

1 year old
2 years old
3 years old
I suffered a case of food poisoning.

My father has asthma.

4 years old
5 years old
6 years old
Began school.

7 years old
8 years old
9 years old
10 years old
11 years old
12 years old
13 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

14 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

Met a new boy I like very much, named Jaroslaw Grabowski.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Jaroslaw Grabowski.

15 years old
Decided not to smoke cigarettes.

16 years old
17 years old
Met a new boy I like very much, named Eduard Grabowski.

Decided not to pursue a relationship with Eduard Grabowski.

My mother has taken a dangerous fall and suffered a broken femur. The injury has resulted in permanent limp.

18 years old
Graduated from secondary school.

Need to look for a job.

Began work as a farm worker.

Passed the entrance examinations and began college.

19 years old
20 years old
21 years old
My father has tuberculosis.

22 years old
Cleaned up someone else's mess.

23 years old
Volunteered in a local humanitarian effort.

Graduated from college with a degree in Computer Science.

Failed the graduate school entrance examination.

Moved away from home.

Moved to Poznan.

My mother has been cured of depression.

My father has been cured of tuberculosis.

24 years old
Moved to Pila.

Began work as a factory worker.

25 years old
Decided to give some money to charity.

Received a 3% pay raise.

Moved to Zamosc.

26 years old
My mother has diabetes.

27 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Szymon Borzecki.

Rejected by Szymon Borzecki.

28 years old
29 years old
30 years old
31 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Alfons Wojcik.

We've begun seeing each other.

My mother has arthritis of the knee.

My boyfriend Alfons has suffered an epileptic seizure.

32 years old
Invested 42 zlotych in a bank account.

33 years old
My parents don't approve of my engagement to Alfons Wojcik.

My boyfriend Alfons and I are now engaged..

Alfons Wojcik broke off our relationship.

Met a new man I like very much, named Juliusz Lewinski.

Rejected by Juliusz Lewinski.

34 years old
35 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Zbigniew Slowacki.

Rejected by Zbigniew Slowacki.

Received a 3% pay raise.

Met a new man I like very much, named Flawiusz Grabowski.

We've begun seeing each other.

Began work as a computer technician.

36 years old
Ended relationship with Flawiusz Grabowski.

37 years old
Met a new man I like very much, named Stefan Plazewski.

We've begun seeing each other.

38 years old
39 years old
40 years old
My parents don't approve of my engagement to Stefan Plazewski.

My boyfriend Stefan and I are now engaged..

41 years old
My father has been involved in a road traffic accident but fortunately suffered no permanent injuries.

42 years old
My father has died at age 68 from a stroke.

43 years old
44 years old
45 years old
I have arthritis of the knee.

My boyfriend Stefan and I are now engaged..

Stefan Plazewski and I got married this year.

46 years old
Daughter Cela born.

47 years old
48 years old
49 years old
My daughter Cela began school.

50 years old
I was raped.

51 years old
Drowned at age 51.
Bodies Without Organs
12-08-2004, 15:38
I was able to make 15 different girlfriends pregnant in one year at age 16 before terminal boredom got the better of me. It certainly brings out the bastard in you, so it does.
Bodies Without Organs
12-08-2004, 15:40
Cleaned up someone else's mess.

How dull must the author's life be that he considers this a noteworthy event in a life?
Kasaru
12-08-2004, 16:25
How dull must the author's life be that he considers this a noteworthy event in a life?
Hey, with all those years with nothing in the diary...

Notes about my most recent game:
-I got my first "too old to continue working as a doctor" notice at age 81, I died at age 131 after several years of being annoyed with the "you're too old to continue working as..." thing. WHY DIDN'T IT LET ME RETIRE?! There really needs to be a "retire" option, instead of hoping the game will be kind and let you retire.(you could just "quit job", but when you RETIRE, your occupation is "retired" instead of there being nothing there)
-I had 186,058,720 yen(that's $1,673,641.56). RICHES! HURRAH!
-My daughter is 81 YEARS OLD and STILL LIVING WITH ME. And she's MARRIED. I want to kick her out already!!!
-Oh wait, she died at the age of 94...WHILE STILL LIVING WITH ME!!!
-Hmm...I was infertle...then my wife got pregnant(I aborted that one)...several years later, the "infertle" vanished from my list of health problems... but when I tried to get my wife pregnent again, it said that I was still infertle. HMMMM...
-Weird...my health would deterioate to 37 or so, then jump back up to 70-ish, then it'd deterioate again, then it'd jump back up to 70-ish...
L a L a Land
12-08-2004, 18:05
when I make a random start, I always starts as a girl...
Colodia
12-08-2004, 18:11
Anyone else also notice that when the pay rate of a job goes up or down, your income stays the same?

You could be a Senior Gov. Official and be making the same as a Community Leader or something, unless you reapply for the job
Brindisi Dorom
12-08-2004, 18:36
Yay. I just started a new character and died at birth from asphyxia.

I started another character after that, and was murdered at age 16.
Bodies Without Organs
12-08-2004, 20:02
Anyone else also notice that when the pay rate of a job goes up or down, your income stays the same?

You could be a Senior Gov. Official and be making the same as a Community Leader or something, unless you reapply for the job

I had suspected that that might have something to do with relocating from one region to another, and still being paid at the usual rates for the other region, but you suggest otherwise. Certianly it seemed to me that quitting jobs frequently and seeking greener employment pastures was a much more lucrative path to follow instead of working overtime and continually hammering the 'ASK FOR A RAISE' option.


***

I now live with the constant fear that in 10 years I will be arguing with young kids on the internet who have formed their geopolitical opinions and knowledge of the world on the basis of this programme. I'm sure that you'll agree that in the name of all that is right, this game must be stopped.
Keruvalia
12-08-2004, 20:12
Great ... thanks a lot ... that game depressed me ... now I need Paxil ...
Colodia
12-08-2004, 23:22
I had suspected that that might have something to do with relocating from one region to another, and still being paid at the usual rates for the other region, but you suggest otherwise. Certianly it seemed to me that quitting jobs frequently and seeking greener employment pastures was a much more lucrative path to follow instead of working overtime and continually hammering the 'ASK FOR A RAISE' option.


***

I now live with the constant fear that in 10 years I will be arguing with young kids on the internet who have formed their geopolitical opinions and knowledge of the world on the basis of this programme. I'm sure that you'll agree that in the name of all that is right, this game must be stopped.
You work overtime, and ask for raises?

HA!


It also works vice-versa. When the job income on the list goes down, yours stays the same. heheh
Demented Hamsters
13-08-2004, 13:06
I found a strange 'bug';
I cheated and made a man with 100% in everything - so of course I was infertile and got severe Depression (I guess being beautiful, strong, artistic and intelligent was just too much for one person to bear). Then I found no woman wanted me til I was 32 (and a high-paid judge) and she turned out to be schizophrenic, who commited suicide! Finally at age 48 I married - to a drug addict who beat me b4 she died of senility at age 62.
Finally, I kept dying age 70 of congential Heart failure. That is until I packed in my job at age 69, took up scavenging, became homeless, lived on a starvation diet and gave nothing to charity. When I did this, I lived til I was 101. And stopped being depressed. And I had $2Mill Euros in the bank.
I notice in another thread someone else who was a beggar lived til he was 102.
I wonder whether the makers of this aren't in fact socio-eco-anarchists who are trying to subtly influence us as to the way we should be living? If this game/sim takes off, maybe in a generation we'll have hordes of well-educated and well=paid ppl around the western world suddenly giving up their jobs and living on the streets. The very fabric of society will crumble and the anarchists will have won!
Good luck to them, I say! :p
Bodies Without Organs
13-08-2004, 17:03
I wonder whether the makers of this aren't in fact socio-eco-anarchists who are trying to subtly influence us as to the way we should be living? If this game/sim takes off, maybe in a generation we'll have hordes of well-educated and well=paid ppl around the western world suddenly giving up their jobs and living on the streets. The very fabric of society will crumble and the anarchists will have won!
Good luck to them, I say! :p

Nah: I think the agenda behind it isn't that one: try actually taking part in social activism for any length of time, and you will see that you get slapped down hard, imprisoned, sentenced to death and the like. Political activism outside your job is strongly discouraged in the 'simulation'... and I use that term loosely.
Conceptualists
13-08-2004, 18:13
when I make a random start, I always starts as a girl...
And usually in a third world country.


EDIT. I forgot there are more third world contries then first
Colodia
13-08-2004, 18:17
And usually in a third world country.


EDIT. I forgot there are more third world contries then first
Actually, the area your born in depends on the birthrate of a nation.

Naturally, China and India are highest I suppose
Bodies Without Organs
13-08-2004, 18:38
when I make a random start, I always starts as a girl...

'Always' seems a bit strong, but being a girl should be more common than being a boy - 52% compared to 48% (provided that infant mortality rates between the two are equal).
Conceptualists
13-08-2004, 18:38
Actually, the area your born in depends on the birthrate of a nation.

Naturally, China and India are highest I suppose
>sound of penny dropping<

Everything is so obvious once explained.
Bodies Without Organs
02-10-2006, 02:52
A bump and a gravedig in light of the This Is Your Life (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=501714) thread.
Wilgrove
02-10-2006, 03:03
Why the hell would I want to play a game that simulates real life?
Gyrobot
02-10-2006, 03:32
59 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.

Executed by government security police.

lmfao, I was married and had like 5 girlfriends, and I was a police captain.

You must have slept with a G-man's wife...
Druidville
02-10-2006, 06:17
this is hysterical.
Dontgonearthere
02-10-2006, 07:07
My mother has syphilis, my father died when I was nine, and now my little brother has syphilis inherited from my mom.
Oh, and mom is insane :)

Ah, Nigeria, land of hope ;)

YES! I caught syphilis at age 15!
And my mother caught on fire >_>

And now my brother has a boyfriend...I wonder how many homosexuals there are in Nigeria O_o
Dontgonearthere
02-10-2006, 07:28
Wow, my mother lived to be 80 in Nigeria, that deserves some kind of award :P


Aaaaand now I have prostate cancer! Yay!

Damn, I almost made it to 90. Died of an 'oppurtunistic infection' >_>
Pure Metal
03-10-2006, 10:59
http://www.educationalsimulations.com/

This is a site which lets you live the random life of anyone in the world, it by the chances of it actually happening in real life chooses where you live, how many borthers and sisters you will have, how rich of poor will your parents etc, etc.

It's quite interesting since some wired stuff can happen to you(you can become homosexual, your country can get in a war among other things) .

Anyway, you have to buy the game to play it all, but they have great free trial of the their site to download(10 days). I rather sure that after the 10days are up, if you deleted the whole thing you can re-download it, but not 100% sure.

So download it can share some of your lifes!

this is pretty cool! and surprisingly addictive... couldn't stop 'playing' it for hours last night :p

i was a japanese bloke, with lower-than-average intelligence, couldn't get a decent job or get into college, but i did live damn meagerly and save up a shitload of money in bonds and land! :D

then i was a guy named Charles living in Winchester, UK (where i grew up), with 100 intelligence and 100 concience. i worked as a company president for a large number of years, made some good money (but of course the UK is horrendously expensive to live in...), and lived a long and boring life before dying of cancer at 70-something. heh.
Big Jim P
03-10-2006, 11:03
Why the hell would I want to play a game that simulates real life?

To make up for a severe lack of a real life?