OPINION: “I remember rushing home from school to boot up my parents PC so I could transport myself into the world of the Sims. It felt like the only place I could truly be myself was in that world.”
accidentally put back in the same-sex relationship code after it was initially scrapped by developers. That code led to a very public same-sex kiss that made the game the talk of the town at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo, E3, in Los Angeles.The Sims 4
, in collaboration with GLAAD and the It Gets Better Project, to include a plethora of sexual orientation, pronoun and gender options.is a game that has so much meaning to me mainly because it became such an important early outlet for my own queer journey. That is why this new update that includes trans-inclusive options made me very emotional.
Honestly, it is pretty overwhelming to think about, but what really makes me emotional is that younger generations will now have a version ofwhere they can make a character that is the outward expression of who they truly are. It is something I wish I had growing up—maybe if I did my self-discovery journey would have been different.I remember rushing home from school to boot up my parents PC so I could transport myself into the world of the Sims.
, which released in 2004, that changed everything. I remember rushing home from school to boot up my parents PC so I could transport myself into the world ofI was closeted for a very long time,Then, it took me six more years to finally came out as non-binary in 2021. Let’s just say it was a long journey.
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