Writer's Block: Evil Thoughts

[tabular_rasa]

(The html fucked up, so: Have you ever thought about using your job for "evil?" What types of things could you do in your current role to cause chaos or destruction? Besides getting fired, what’s stopping you?)

I could teach more than half a thousand Japanese schoolchildren the type of slang which would actually get them shot in the US and disseminate completely fictitious and absurd information about American culture. The hilarious part is it's very likely they would all believe me-- and the native Japanese English teachers probably wouldn't even question it, either. I could also make racist statements and do awkward things like bring up Pearl Harbor and Japan's role in WWII at random opportunities and get everyone uncomfortable and angry.

I think about doing some of these things, like the slang-- I have an evil imagination-- but I'm far too committed to breaking the rampant stereotypes about my culture than making them worse. I'm also trying to discourage the racism that exists in Japanese culture, not reinforce it by demonstrating that it exists everywhere. It's far more of a challenge doing things the way I'm supposed to be doing them!

Also I love that this is inspired by Sims 3. Robert and I were discussing how evil I am to my Sims the other day. (I've only played 1 and 2, but same deal). Apparently there are actually people that only play Sims games straight, always trying to make their Sims happy and successful. I have a few happy families with all their ambitions being achieved, but working on that gets so boring after a while. Bring on the baby mamas, domestic abuse, incest, whorehouses, child mills, and social experiments in which I determine which I discover new and creative ways of killing Sims and see which takes them the longest to die. (See? Evil imagination. Lucky for the world, my evil ideas stay safely in the realm of the imaginary).

Comments

[invig.livejournal.com]

maybe the most wholesome people could also be the most evil, should they so choose? criminals and louts are often so boring and predictable. as are those who were popular in school. no imagination!!

i like the idea of sims being tortured, child mills etc. i'd love to see a u-tube of it all, actually :D

[jayyy.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun!

Evil, huh. I could write an ending.

[ascenseur.livejournal.com]

Haha, I always want to torture my Sims, but then I start to get all sympathetic and worried about them, and I convince myself that they might have some potential to be really great characters, and they didn't really do anything to deserve it, and I end up feeling pretty crappy about the whole thing. :( I, um, have some issues with guilt.

(But I am not above deleting a pool ladder or two if it fits into the story. It's for the good of the narrative, after all.)

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

and they didn't really do anything to deserve it
Lol, actually, when my Sims do stupid things I didn't want to happen like not make it to school when they're failing or have their kid taken away by the social worker because they're tired and whining about it or whatever-- things for which I usually end up quitting the game without saving-- I do have this tendency to turn free will off and speed up the game and let them just stand there and starve, to get out my frustration. It's kind of like a punishment, lol, except I don't save that, either.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to learn I'm not the only one completely evil to Sims. I used to waste hours killing Sims - my favourite was to remove the toilet and all the doors, but leave the fridge. They'd eventually "explode." Sometimes, I just put them in the pool and removed the ladder. Oh I am an evil Sim!God.

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

My favorite was in the original Sims; cover the entire room wall-to-wall with rugs (not carpet, actual Buy Mode-purchased rugs, like leopard or the big bearskin rug), and then either light a cheap fireplace or set off a firecracker, and the entire room instantly catches fire at once!

[just-you-wait.livejournal.com]

When I was in Spain 6 years ago, the then 20-something girl in my host family was telling me what American slang she knew. I don't remember the first thing she said, probably because she followed it with "Oh, when a black man walks into the room, you shout 'NIGGA IN DA HOUSE!'"

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

[just-you-wait.livejournal.com]

haha, I've seen that.

[just-you-wait.livejournal.com]