>Despite all this freedom, Black gamers still found themselves left wanting. In the latest Sims, Sims 4, some Black players across message boards and social media criticized the darker skin tones in the game as unflattering, grey, or ashy. They lacked the cartoonish vibrancy of the lighter skins available. The base game’s hairstyles -- an important point of creativity or expression for Black girl ‘simmers’ -- were few and far between, and those that were available lacked nuanced details. The Sims 4 is meant to be a life simulator, but feedback from the community pointed to the overwhelming reception that Black girl gamers weren’t seeing their life reflected.
>So Black girl gamers decided to take matters into their own hands and began to create in-game items and mods on their own. SheSpeaksSimlish, EbonixSims, and Xmiramira are notable Sims modders that gained popularity because they decided to fill the community’s need. Xmiramira’s creations have ranged from the celebrated “Melanin Pack” offering vibrant skin tones to behavior mods and traits that take a page from Black slang and pop culture. Xmiramira’s “petty” trait takes the “petty” concept -- which she describes as “truly, the definition of a hot mess” -- and makes it a playable option.
>Black girls make The Sims their own >Have a fantasy world at their fingertips >Immediately pair themselves up with rich, handsome white men who are present fathers and loving Really makes you think.
Ethan Long
>NIGGER MAKE TEXTURE MOD >THIS GOOD ok why should anyone care though
David Gutierrez
those niggers can keep that gay shit
Jeremiah Myers
Do you go out of your way to find things that upset you?
Tyler Russell
Because niggers and other non whites are held to piss poor standards so anything more complicated than blinking is an accomplishment to the soilent left
And if you're not part of an important voting block to them, libs literally don't care about you and make jokes behind your back anyway.
HABBIDA HABBADA, SIMS EN SHWAZIT
Camden Howard
Fpbp
Gavin Ortiz
COLONIZED
Adrian Johnson
The real question is, why should this upset anyone?
Landon Evans
The upsetting thing is not the activity itself, but why "monkey ate a banana" is newsworthy material
Grayson Jenkins
Why? It's a human interest story. You wouldn't complain if it didn't involve black women.
Jaxon Collins
>black traits >petty lol
Andrew Stewart
If i had to take a wild guess it's because the author of that 'article' describes herself a a "black culture columnist" so she has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get something for her weekly article..
>Yea Forums wouldnt complain the audacity of this bitch
Seriously, why the fuck is "people playing Sims" news
Jackson Powell
>comment section restrcited to moderator approval >half of the comment section mentions and complains about a ton of deleted comments Oh boy i wonder what happened there.
>Yea Forums wouldnt complain It wouldn't even be posted to Yea Forums. Yes, you can maintain that Yea Forums complains about "everything" but that's only because there are people supplying Yea Forums with a constant stream of articles about blacks and gays and women doing things and basically existing for Yea Forums to get angry at.
Joseph Scott
>why the fuck is "people playing Sims" news the bar on black people's achievements is quite low so the fact that some of them are capable of installing a game and even make mods for said game is something that should be shared and celebrated
Owen Edwards
Find a news story about people playing the sims that isn't race bait.
Nobody is genuinely upset about black people playing The Sims. That's the kind of thing met with complete apathy. The derision is because "games" "journalists" are wasting their own time and everyone else's by shining a light on this complete nothing event. It extends further because these are the same kind of people who tout themselves as diversity celebrating anti-racists when it's plain to everyone else that making THIS the news of the day is just a touch racist. "Aren't black people so cool for doing this thing that everybody else has been doing for as long as The Sims has had modding support? Wow!" It's patronising as fuck.
tl;dr the problem is with the journalists, not the black people. Secret: The problem with black people is a whole other thread. Bonus Secret: Fuck journalists.
Jack Reed
>article amazed at how black people have the mental capacity to make mods
Wow IGN, not cool
Camden Hall
>Dad's gonna buy me a new game console, so I don't tell mom about what I saw him doing with my big sister.
Samuel Ramirez
>Nobody is genuinely upset about black people playing The Sims. That's the kind of thing met with complete apathy. >The derision is because "games" "journalists" are wasting their own time and everyone else's by shining a light on this complete nothing event. No, fuck off, I'm not falling for your bullshit. >"Aren't black people so cool for doing this thing that everybody else has been doing for as long as The Sims has had modding support? Wow!" It's patronising as fuck. That's not the point, you retard, it's highlighting a part of the modding scene that may be unknown to most people and may be of interest to people. You're trying to pull some real mental gymnastics to make this about how "liberals are the REAL racists" and then you go on and be a racist anyway. This is blatantly and transparently about all your irrational biases and nothing else.
Isaac Evans
You telling me black bros don't want hugs and high fives?
>black person does something normal children have been doing for years >makes news lmfao do real black people not feel foolish being treated like invalids?
>it's highlighting a part of the modding scene that may be unknown to most people and may be of interest to people Why is that part of the scene worth reporting on when there are endless other equivalent movements in the modding scene? If the point -isn't- to unconsciously patronise, then what is it?
Elijah Nelson
>no no no this can't be you're racist not even him,but come on dude a journalist with a soul would start his own website and ytube channel,not go write for a soulless click factory
Thomas Myers
>That's not the point, you retard, it's highlighting a part of the modding scene that may be unknown to most people and may be of interest to people. Then they're even more tech-illiterate than the journalists apparently are. There are like three and only websites dedicated to modding, with easily accessible search functions. This isn't difficult. >You're trying to pull some real mental gymnastics to make this about how "liberals are the REAL racists" That was an aside for a reason, but okay. If I need to spell it out for you, the reason it's an aside is because people are being racist in the thread, and I'm telling them they're wasting their energy. Which gets back to my main point, which is that the energy should be focused on the garbage journalism. >and then you go on and be a racist anyway. >a bloo bloo bloo Maybe you should get into journalism. Other anons above also have good points.
James Miller
>That's not the point, you retard, it's highlighting a part of the modding scene that may be unknown to most people and may be of interest to people >DUDE IM ONLY INTERESTED IN TEXTURE MODS IF THEYRE MADE BY BLACK GIRLS I hope people aren’t this retarded
Christian Walker
I'm not going to expend the energy arguing with you dishonest retards. Get off of Yea Forums once in a while.
Charles Edwards
Fuck off with your disguised pseudo-identity amerishart politics thread you retarded /pol/ nigger.
>to behavior mods and traits that take a page from Black slang and pop culture
So a mod where everyone deals drugs and kill each other?
Austin Myers
HOLY FUCK BLACK WYMEN MADE A TEXTURE MOD CALL THE LOVERSLAB
Camden Diaz
>dumb ape gets btfo >quits the argument Lmfao nigger
Ethan Hall
I'll just assume you were trolling then if you aren't going to offer an alternative explanation that justifies the article.
Clickbait journalists write such sensationalist bullshit because they don't have enough knowledge of the actual field. And then probably half of the clicks supporting such bad journalism are /pol/ morons who don't even agree with the writers but similarly care more about the politics than the games.
it was far more entertaining than a simple texture mod
Aiden Hughes
Seriously, why are you ALL so terminally dishonest? Is it a conscious decision to be a garbage human being, or is it like some faulty machine learning algorithm that's interprets getting the last word in as winning a debate and hence taught itself to annoy people into not bothering any more by being the most insufferably disingenuous shitposter imaginable?
Elijah Rivera
my 11 old brother probably couldnt swap a battery on a mobile device, desu
John Edwards
didn't even read your 1st post baited lol
Anthony Powell
I mean, thats like great for them, but why should i care?
Jason Hill
Perverts have made a bunch of loli and shota sex mods for the game too. An article about that would be much more interesting.
