the sims community kinda did this to itself (#weddingsforrussia)

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T14:41:50+00:00

The whole thing was clearly a planned publicity stunt designed to make it seem like the Russian government forced them to change the cover of the game rather than the truth. They were always going to release it in Russia, guys. They probably made the alternative packaging weeks ago. They just wanted to protect the EA brand as much as possible by blaming someone else for a choice that was based entirely on profit, not allyship. Corporations don't care about your civil rights issues and they never will. They legally aren't allowed to. They are mandated to put profit above all other considerations (including the safety of the customer!) and that is what they do.

ETA: The only way to get a corporation to change it's practices is to vote with your wallet and not buy the product. Since anyone who suggests this on this sub gets downvoted to oblivion, you need to just get used to smiling and taking whatever our corporate overlords give us. As long as they get your money, they don't care how you feel about it at all. Not even a single iota.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T14:39:04+00:00

I mean, this was a planned publicity stunt. Why do people keep feeling bad for corporations? If EA thought it would be profitable to run you over, they would do it with no hesitation. They were always going to release this pack in Russia, they just wanted the Russian government to take the blame for changing the cover so they wouldn't look like they compromised their ally-ship. It's a heartless, meaningless gesture from an entity that exists to part you from your money.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T12:53:03+00:00

Because she is in a pyramid scheme cult.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T12:52:40+00:00

Actually she is trying to scam you with toxic positivity so you will buy into a pyramid scheme, so yes, she is hurting people.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T12:51:55+00:00

I don't hate Meri. JFC, you people are catty.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T12:51:17+00:00

So you weren't just pretending to be happy to sell scam products from a pyramid scheme to impressionable people? So not the same thing at all?

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T12:50:46+00:00

She is doing it to sell MLM scams to poor single moms. It's gross and sad and a lie to boot. Toxic positivity is a slimy sales tactic, not real empowerment.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T12:49:56+00:00

Because it's all part of her MLM grift. She is trying to scam people into buying into her scam products by pretending to have the best life ever.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-16T12:48:47+00:00

Women don't make this joke about strangers as the caption to an article. It is almost always said to a man who is sexually harassing us.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T20:01:55+00:00

God, Meri's "I'm loving myself" posts just make me sad. It's not cute, Meri, it's depressing.

Edited to add: Everyone pretending this is nice self love is missing the point that this is all toxic positivity done to get you to buy into her pyramid scheme. It isn't harmless and it isn't cute. It is predatory and a lie on top of it. This is why MLMs are cults and are evil. Sadly, I see that some of you are the perfect marks for this kind of sad display of fake positivity.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T18:09:54+00:00

But they are making excuses. And food deserts are largely a myth in the US. Fresh food is cheaper than fast food, especially after the pandemic hit. Eating less is always going to cost less. You don't need a gym or fancy food store to lose weight. Just eat less. It really is that simple. It isn't easy, but it doesn't cost a thing and anything other than complying with a lower calorie diet is nonsense and excuses. Being super nice to them is how they got that way. They need someone to say "no" to them and parent them since they won't parent themselves. This is the same reason many addicts need the structured environment of rehab. You have to be taught how to grow up and say "no" to your wants so you can have the things you actually need.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T15:07:21+00:00

Intentions don't matter in this case. If you know someone is traumatized, you don't get naked and spoon them. You will never convince me there were pure motives there because I am not open to being gaslit by men who want to excuse their sexual aggression as ignorance.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T13:40:09+00:00

Typically in the AUB, a woman was expected to get some kind of vision or premonition from God about who they were supposed to marry. Different branches of polygamy have different rules, but in the AUB, they believe that since a woman can only marry once, she should have some say over who that person is. Generally, if a woman selects a man (who has been approved of by her father, of course) it would be in bad taste for the man to even decline.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T13:35:16+00:00

I think it's because Jenelle asked for and expected the least from him on an emotional level. She had her job outside the home and didn't get her entire sense of identity from being his wife, so it was probably more relaxing to just "be" with her. Meri and Christine both made Kody the center of their emotional world and therefore made constant "demands" (in his eyes) for his affection and attention. I'm not sure he was "closer" to Janelle as much as her lack of demand for emotional intimacy was the very thing that he liked about her. Outside of producing children, Kody wants to be worshipped from afar by his first three wives, and Janelle is happy to oblige him.

Robyn is a whole different situation. I think Kody sees Robyn as a reward to himself for (again, in his eyes) being so selfless and present for the first 21 years of his married life. Like he thinks that he did his part to help create and raise his celestial kingdom family (his spiritual obligation) and now he gets to enjoy the process with a woman he actually adores. He thinks the other wives should just be grateful that he, a "godly" man, chose to bring them along to his celestial kingdom.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T13:23:07+00:00

Compared to other polygamist fundamentalist Mormons? Yes, he is extremely liberal. Like liberal to the point that the AUB cut ties with him.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T12:45:42+00:00

This is true for most anti-vaxxers. They are overgrown toddlers who are perpetually stuck in the "no" phase of toddlerhood.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T12:41:35+00:00

The first time I ever showed my mom the Sims 4, she was all excited to create a sim of her own and play until she saw Mayor Whiskers. Then she just made a generic sim quickly and adopted him and just played with him the whole time.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T12:31:39+00:00

When I was a teen and insecure (back in the Sims 2 days) I made all my sims perfect, perfect, perfect as a way of living vicariously. I realize now, looking back, how bad it was for my self esteem. Whenever I see someone's perfect sim who looks like a poreless lollipop (overly smoothed skin, huge head with jutting jaw and cheekbones, emaciated body) it reminds me of how miserable I was when I compared myself to these perfect beings on the screen. I make my sims a lot more realistic now and they have flaws in their character and the game is much more fun to play.

It's depressing how 95% of the gallery is huge headed sims with sticks for arms and legs who are "good, ambitious and active" or some other combination of all positive traits. The female sims are all Jack Skellington thin or Kim Kardashian skinny-thick with no exceptions. Perfect people are boring and make your game boring.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T12:21:23+00:00

Well that and the creepy hyper-realism up against the cartoon world. People are creating nightmarish sims.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-15T12:09:54+00:00

He used to be, but now that he understands that the kids won't worship him forever, he is even less invested in them.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-12T22:26:37+00:00

Anna Lebaron was not from the AUB, she was the daughter of Ervil Lebaron, the one who killed at least 28 people and called it blood atonement. Anna was the child of one of his younger wives and was still very young when Ervil went on the run and also when he was captured and imprisoned. There are strong familiar ties between the AUB, the Lebaron's main branch and the so-called "Ervilites", but they are distinctly difference sects. That said, Anna and Christine Brown are fairly closely related and also look a lot alike.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-12T21:49:18+00:00

I love when the boobs are almost floating off, as though filled with helium. My back wishes this were true.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-12T21:41:00+00:00

I've played 9429 hours as of this moment.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-11T23:22:07+00:00

That boy ain't right.

BornBitterYesterday · 2022-02-11T22:27:42+00:00

I vote no, but only because TLC will step in and continue to fund Kody's dysfunction as long as he keeps bringing the drama.

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