Good News!! Killing Sims does not mean you are insane!

I think it is amazing how people have fun torturing sims in The Sims game series. I myself even enjoy killing a few sims in a variety of ways.

But, this topic came to mind because i stumbled upon an article that shows that it has been studied that people seem to torture Sim just out of plain curiosity and not because people are insane. http://www.pcgamer.com/torturing-the-sims/

I personally do not think I am insane, I just get rather bored after creating a dream home. building homes in the games is most exciting because while you insert the sims you created, after a while things need to happen in order to make the game entertaining.

For example, the classic normal ways of killing a sim tend to be from a fire (if your sim sucks at cooking) or drowning in a pool (because you happen to "forget" to put a ladder in... though newer sim games made sims smarter to know how to get out of a pool without a ladder) and also starving to death (when you forget to put a kitchen in your home.)

To spice things up a bit, I make my sims have a house party, then i remove all the doors and insert about 20 fireplaces or rocket launcher stuff and have them all turn on. This kills most of the sims and those who survive tend to just starve to death eventually. 

In a way, doing this also creates a haunted house due to all the newly homed ghosts on your land, therefore I can easily put a new house on the land for a sim to live in and be constantly annoyed and spooked from ghosts.

Basically, after all this, it is mainly for fun and games and not out of curiosity for me. I prefer my sims dying from fire because they are a less messy ghost (sims who drown tend to spray water everywhere when they are a ghost). It is also fun to try to befriend death for that one sim who is allowed to live.