We all love The Sims, right? It’s a fun, addictive, experience that can give life long memories. Albeit with some creepy elements!

Sims 4 may have let down its fans, what with it removing more elements from previous games, rather than bringing in new features for people to enjoy, but sims fans remain loyal, playing their own preferred versions of the games over and over again. Whatever version of The Sims is your poison, every Simmer worth their salt is aware of “Sim Logic.”

You know, actions made by your Sims, or glitches or Easter eggs within your game, that don’t make any sense in our real, and at times more depressing world. Sure, your Sim owns an awesome house that you could only dream of living in, but we all know that they're likely to perish screaming in that house after setting fire to their toaster pastry, but refusing to abandon it to its fate.

We love our Sims despite their flaws and despite their stupidity. Despite the stupid glitches that have your Sims stuck in one facial expression for three days straight. The way that they miss their carpool that waited an hour for them because their kid left a toy in the doorway. The way that sometimes (and this actually happened to my sister’s Sim) they start glowing randomly and continue to glow until they finally age up. So here are some comics, created by fans of this bizarre game, that I’m sure we can all understand and relate to.

25 Fire Vs Pool

One of the most glorious introductions into The Sims 2 for me, was the Fire Safety skill, available in Apartment Life. Now, instead of standing next to a fire screaming, Sims would get the heck out of the house before burning!

Despite this, I was incredibly bitter about The Sims 3 allowing your Sims to get out of the pool without a ladder! While the pool may be the safest place to be in case of a fire, it certainly isn’t the safest place to be when my wrath comes down upon them! I don’t know what our Sims are saying when they’re standing there screaming at the fire, apart from “Oh god, the kitchen is on fire!” and frankly, I don’t want to.

24 Always Waiting

While The Sims itself maintains a loyal and devoted following, its creator, EA, gets more and more despised by gamers with every release. The company won the Consumerist’s “Worst Company in America” award in both 2012 and 2013, beating Wal-Mart in 2012! That and they insist that most of their games require Origin to play, which is like Steam but slow, expensive, and terrible!

A popular example of this was when EA insisted that the new Simcity, the franchise that started The Sims, had to be played online, meaning that you couldn’t always play it and the gameplay was restricted. Which was stupid! I guarantee that many Sims were messed with out of hatred for EA. If this is where Sims 5 is headed, I don’t want any part of it!

23 Not So Fond Memories

Firstly: The Sims 2 is fun and awesome, so screw you, comic!

Secondly, I recently experienced something like this. A little while ago I decided that I wanted to play the original The Sims. It was a deep craving that I just could not shake. I hunted through websites, called up friends and went through many charity shop boxes until I’d rebuild my collection. Then after a few short hours of playing, I was bored of it.

When you find the ieteration of Sims for you, whether it be two, three, or any of the console versions, there isn’t anything wrong with being happy with what you have. Sure, you’ll get a craving every now and again, but it probably won’t be worth it.

22 Fighting Friends

Isn’t it therapeutic to create someone who pissed you off in The Sims and kick their butt before killing them horribly?

But from a saner prospective, I’m not sure how relationships in The Sims really work. Just today, someone made my Sim cry, then immediately kissed her afterwards- something that she was very happy about. I’ve also had two brothers get into a fight, then happily play video games together a little while later. The bonds of family sure are complicated, especially for Sims!

Fights in Sims are meaningless as they can easily be recovered from. In fact, if you get furious at a sim, they’ll likely have a better relationship with them after they’ve calmed down, which I suppose is vaguely reminiscent of real life.

21 Perfect Housing Project

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Your Sim will always live in a better house than you. That’s just a fact. No matter how much money you make or how stable the market becomes (I know nothing about real estate), your Sim will always make more money, have access to cheaper materials and their house will be completed in a matter of minutes, rather than the two years it would take to make over your own house in the same manner.

In recent years, The Sims has become the easiest way to get your dream home, especially with the depressing financial crisis all millennials have found themselves in. Many millennials can only dream of buying their own single room flat, let alone custom designing their dream home from scratch on a giant plot of land they got for a tenth of their budget.

Have fun playing!

20 I Have A Sim Family!

Maybe this one is a tad depressing.

Sure, we all have loved ones, or at least most of us do, that we hope we can think of at times of crisis, but after a while it feels like you’ve spent more time with your Sims than any real people, so perhaps your emotional connection to them becomes stronger. After all, the original tagline for The Sims was: “Who needs friends when you have Sims.” It was, look it up. It’s almost as if EA knew what slacking, anti-social monsters they would eventually be creating.

I doubt that this defence would actual defeat a mad gunperson, but give it a go! There’s always a change that they might be a Simmer too.

19 Happy (Stupid) Family

Every now and then, Simmers set up a family to be destroyed. Don’t even try to deny it, you’ll only be kidding yourself! While members of those families get the wants and whims, asking for toilets, beds and bookcases, they carry on living in the house, and even starting fires! There’s just some other worldly force commanding them to do it, for whatever reason.

If you try and imagine the conversations that go in Sim’s household, particularly doomed Sim households, they probably sound something along these lines. Hopefully oblivious to their ultimate doom. I certainly hope Sims don’t feel pain. After watching Black Mirror I’m no longer completely certain, but I’m probably just being paranoid. I hope so anyway. Not that discovering they did would stop most Simmers…

18 What’s A Computer For?

When I expressed my desire to become a writer, I was sweetly gifted my own computer by a relative. The first thing I did after receiving the computer was checked to see if it could support The Sims. The second thing I did was install the games and have a marathon session.

While I do spend most of my time on my computer working, as I spent a lot of my student days working on my essays and studying, a large portion of my time has and does go onto The Sims. During university, I was given around a month off to work to study for my dissertation and I think I spent about a week of that Simming. I’ve taken my laptop on long bus journeys, thinking I can at least get some work done during the ride, and started to play The Sims.

It can’t be helped. They call for me!

17 Who Needs Dishes?

I quite like how creative Sims can be sometimes!

Neat Sims always need to clean their plates as soon as they’re done eating. Most Sims, unless they're very sloppy, will take their dishes to the dishwasher or sink the moment they finish with them. If someone is using the facility or blocking it, the Sim will most likely stomp, curse, and leave the plate on a nearby surface or table, surely meaning to come back to it later, usually cleaning it up the next time a dish is used.

But neat Sims can’t handle that! It’s rare to see a Sim put that plates in the bin, often happening outside the household where there are no sinks, but it’s always glorious to see a simple aspect of their simple lives.

16 Sims 4 Doom

One of the things that disappointed fans when Sims 4 came out was the lack of features it had compared to its predecessors, most notably toddlers and pools. Although I highly doubt that pleasing fans ever entered the minds of the EA monsters, this probably could have come out if we didn’t eventually get pools and toddlers in updates.

Even if you can’t take away the ladder and drown them in Sims 4, the swimming pool in the game is still iconic for its association with passing away, something that doesn’t really coincide with the cuteness of the toddlers. Mind you, I am curious to know at what point the toddler would develop its pool head. Would the babies be born with it and then lose it when entering childhood? Or would the pool head develop around their first birthday? The mind boggles!

15 Simulated Trolling

I imagine that this is the face Sim-loving trolls made when they realized that their Sims could now troll themselves!

Giving Sims the power to troll probably raised a few giggles in the EA board room, but it turned out to be a rather disturbing element of the game. Especially when Sims, even good Sims, started to do it autonomously. It felt like a backhand to the new generation, saying that all youths troll deliberately and they know it.

Perhaps it could serve as a therapy for self-aware trolls. Maybe in Sims 5 the player could do the trolling with their Sims, and get hateful responses from others around them. It’s certainly worth a shot, right? Feel free to troll me if you disagree.

14 What If They Knew…

Maybe the reason why our Sims speak in Simlish is so we can’t find out when they become self-aware. Sure, sometimes it feels like your Sim is looking at you with confusion, disgust, or happiness, but they can’t possibly know…

But if they did, what would you do with them?

It’s probably best to imagine that your Sims don’t question it too much when they get a ridiculous amount of money for no reason. I certainly wouldn’t try to question it too much! Sims surely know nothing of our world, so such things must be the norm with them, like reading books to get promoted and getting a big bonus every time. Your Sims should probably just carry on and not worry about anything. Everything is fine.

13 Animal Sims

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Although I never played Farmville, I did have this thought while playing Zoo Tycoon. If a tiger, for example, starts playing Zoo Tycoon is it like The Sims to them? Not that they can play video games; they’re tigers. But if they did would they take the walls down, run out and eat all the people? Or would they put the people in the cages and let the tigers run free?

Since animals exist as pets in The Sims world, surely any animal equivalent of the game is Sims to the animal. Right? It’s purely speculation of course, as no animal is playing any video game. At least I think not, surely animals wouldn’t understand the complexity of Simming. Although, I am often being told that certain animals are smarter than they seem.

12 Death Outstays Their Welcome

Ah, the Grim Reaper!

The Grim Reaper is one of the most iconic Sims in the history of the game, appearing whenever someone passes away. Most of the time, he’ll greet the deceased Sim and pull their spirit from their body. He’ll often stop to greet the spirit with Hula Zombies, or make a few calls on his cell phone, but after he has what he came for he’ll be on his way.

Usually.

Sometimes due to a glitch, and usually in The Sims 2, he’ll hang around your house afterwards, use your toilet, eat your food, and maybe watch your television. If this happens it’s recommended that you don’t save your game as this can corrupt it. Maybe out of frustration for the poor Sims, unable to mourn their loss!

11 True Happiness

Okay, so sometimes our lives can seem a little lonely next to our Sims. After all, they have the dream house, the successful career, and maybe even the person of your dreams. They’re just a phone call away from all their old school friends and no one ever changes their numbers. Therefore, our real lives may look… a little drab next to our Sims. But there is nothing wrong with finding comfort in living your life through your Sims. After all, you can just look at it like setting yourself goals! You can achieve everything your Sim has achieved!

Well, you probably can’t. Especially if they’re a werewolf, a vampire, a witch/warlock, or a successful musician. And you’ll probably never earn as much as them. But you know, you can dream.

10 The Oblivious Sim

As we’ve already established, Sims are more likely to run towards a dangerous out of control fire and repeatedly scream at it, than to try and save themselves. If you cancel the interaction, they’ll likely just start screaming at the fire again before they have a chance to call the fire brigade.

Sims in the other room however, a good distance from the fire, will likely carry on with their daily activities, oblivious to the blaze until it ends a member of their family (and which point they’ll go towards the fire to mourn and likely get burned themselves). You can tell the oblivious Sim to call the fire brigade and save the rest of the household, but as with most Sim interactions, they’ll likely carry on standing still without the intervention of their divine watcher.

9 A Simulated Romance

Romance can be a tricky business in The Sims. While Sims move much faster than us in the marriage and baby departments, getting to the actual romance stage can seem difficult. While if you keep on and keep on persisting, your charms will eventually wear down your potential love interest, one wrong move on the way there can send you right back to the start. Some Sims can be prudish, and flirting with them before they're ready can cause an explosion of negative relationship scores.

One of my Sims was desperate to have her first kiss with the paper boy, but despite telling him plenty of jokes, gossiping with him, and busting moves for his benefit, he just kept on rejecting her! After his last rejection though, he did hold her hands, which I thought was sweet.

8 The Truth…

Do you ever walk into a room and forget what you came in for? Halfway through an activity, do you ever stop and start doing something else, with no idea why? Why do these things happen? Because we’re Sims! And our creator may not be trapping us in pools or having us start fires, but they are constantly toying with our heads, making us uncertain of ourselves and our minds.

While we all change our minds sometimes, as I’m sure Sims do too, forgetting what you were literally in the middle of doing feels too much like a major failure of humanity for there to be any other reputation. That’s why I hope the events of the last few years are just one long joke from our watcher!

7 Different Paths

We all play Sims in very different ways, and it proves just how nonsensical and statistic the games truly are. While I have clear, thought through plans for each of my Sims and try to play through them as closely as possible, I know other Simmers who’ll just spend hours designing families and houses, rather than actually playing them. In the same way that some people who spend their time fulfilling their sims wishes and dreams, while others will just use the game as an excuse to end, annoy, or just generally make their Sims' lives miserable.

I like a healthy mix of fulfilling the dreams of my favourite Sims, while sadistically messing with those who annoy me. I can’t speak for everybody, but I feel that's how that game's supposed to be!

6 If We Could Understand

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I think it’s a good think that Sims speak Simlish, rather than any human language, because I don’t want to know what they’re talking about. Mostly, because I’m sure they’re conversations would go something like this! What if in the real world a more expensive bed stopped you getting tired so quickly? I’m sure you’ll sleep better, but surely, you’ll still get tired after a long day at work! And I know that game has to motivate us somehow to buy a really expensive toilet, but there has never been a correlation between what toilet we have and the amount we pee!

Sims converse a lot about very random things, so this conversation could happen in the game world, while discussing the same repetitive programs that are shown on Sim television. What a life!